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due to civil war, poverty and/or economic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) AAS instability. AAS 547: Directed Reading in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Asian & Asian American Contemporary Asian and Asian Studies AAS 534: English in Asia American Studies Study of the expanding roles of English in This course provides an opportunity for AAS 500: Intellectual History of East South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. graduate students in Contemporary Asian and Asia With more non-native speakers than native Asian American Studies to pursue readings This course examines the major intellectual speakers, and more in Asia than elsewhere, in an area of their interest as part of their traditions of East Asia with an idea that English has acquired new identities. We graduate program studies. Independent intellectual movements not only reflect but will study functions of English in colonial readings in graduate topics in Contemporary also influence historical developments. It and post-colonial times; how it competes Asian and Asian American studies. May be is designed to help students enhance their with, and complements local languages in repeated. Prerequisites: Approval by Director understanding of East Asian thoughts, history, business, advertising, media, education, of Graduate Studies and culture. Topics will cover the intellectual research, administration, judiciary, creative 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) movements in China, Japan, and Korea from literature, call centers, and on the Internet; the May be repeated for credit. ancient times to the early 20th century. evolution of dynamic new Asian Englishes, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) such as Indian English, and their social and AAS 555: Heritage Languages of Asian cultural contexts; controversies regarding Americans AAS 501: Proseminar: Topics & English medium education and its impact English has long been the dominant language Methods in Contemporary Asian and on local languages, relevance of native used in the United States, while the languages Asian American Studies English standards, and implications for of numerous indigenous and immigrant This course introduces students to qualitative theory, description, and method in diverse communities have declined and many and quantitative research methods disciplines, such as, business communication, have died. At the same time, the United commonly used in social sciences and cultural studies, English, lexicography, States¿ extensive global role, the rising humanities, including narrative research, speech recognition, journalism, media studies, geopolitical rise of Asian powers, such as phenomenological research, ethnographic sociolinguistics, teaching English as a second China, India, Japan, South Korean, and others research, case study research, correlational language, and Asian Studies. has highlighted the need to foster greater research, and survey research. Students are 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Asian language and cultural skills among expected to identify a topic of interest of their Americans. In that context, maintaining own choosing within Contemporary Asian AAS 540: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies the existing diversity of languages spoken and Asian American Students and develop a This course is an examination of the critical among American immigrant populations pilot research project. The instructor plays the theory on Inter-Asia cultures and phenomena. becomes as important and effective as role of a facilitator by leading methodological Emphasis is placed on the role of culture teaching the languages to new populations. as well as thematic discussions on research within the writing, documentation, and There is an increasing recognition that the topics initiated by students. This course takes evidencing of history. Attention may be advantages of such multilingualism are not the formats of lectures, workshops, student focused on a particular era, group, institution, only cultural, but also cognitive, diplomatic, presentations, peer critique, and one-on-one type of object, or event. security, commercial, social, and political as well. Retaining knowledge of the home instructor-student conferences. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) language is found to promote the minority AAS 545: Acquisition of Asian individuals¿ psychological well-being, AAS 505: The Pacific, Travel and Languages facilitate communication and bonding across generations, and ease the process of adjusting Empire This course will analyze the cognitive to life away from the home country, while This cultural studies course examines the processes involved in the acquisition of Asian promoting a pluralistic outlook and providing cultures of travel (i.e. fiction, memoirs, languages as second or foreign languages. globally valuable job skills. Still, the brunt photography , and filmmaking) in narratives We will start with discussion of first language of the actual effort to foster multilingualism by and about the Pacific, South and Southeast acquisition and compare it with second has been left to individual families despite the Asia. We will student ¿empire¿ by analyzing language acquisition (SLA). Methodologies known fact that parental effort at maintenance narratives about the former colonies of Spain, such as contrastive analysis and error analysis, alone are not enough to prevent an eventual France, Britain and the United States. As we and concepts such as interlanguage, native and shift to English. This new course is a critical discuss the metaphors or tropes of empire, non-native competence, bilingual competence, examination of the nature and extent of we will also examine the concept of empire acceptability, correctness, standard language available support (institutional, social, family, as a historical and contemporary formation, will be critically examined. We will also and other) for maintaining this valuable or what an empire meant in the 19th century consider the variables that affect SLA, resource of Asian immigrants languages. and what is means today in the early 21st including age, context, exposure, attitude, Students learn through through in-depth century. The course begins with the premise cognition, attention and motivation. Special readings, class lectures and discusssions, and that travel narratives and modern visual attention will be given to the applicability of directed research in language communities of culture illuminate the relationship between the current research paradigms and findings to their choice. violence and romance of travel. The course the acquisition of languages such as Chinese, includes modern travel narratives (i.e. novels Japanese, Korean, and Hindi, both in terms 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) by Asian Americans) that focus on the lives of their structural characteristics and in their of those who are forced to travel or migrate socio-cultural context.

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AAS 560: Empire, Memory and East lies within the Asian continent, and the multilingualism; functional distribution of Narratives of Asian America vast majority of Muslims over the centuries languages in education, media, social media, Asian American literary scholars have focused have been non-Arabic speakers, living across and business; diglossia, code-switching on the tropes of immigration and settlement as south and central Asia into India, China, and and code-mixing, psycholinguistic and major paradigms for mapping the landscape Indonesia. We will survey the importance of neurolinguistic models of multiple language of Asian American writing. The late 1990s, Island as the todays¿ largest Asian religion representation and processing in the brain; however, witnessed the emergence of novels , (numerically speaking) and look at some of synchronic and diachronic dimensions of memoirs, narrative and experimental films the distinctive features of its local variants. language contact and interaction in the the departed from current notions of Asian We will pay special attention to the manner individual and society: accents, interference, American literature and films. A distinct in which teachings were presented in the transfer on various linguistic levels; cohort of writers and filmmakers, who languages besides Arabic that became Islam¿s borrowing, linguistic convergence, emergence are first-generation immigrants, created vehicles, in particular Chines, which witnessed of pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, styles, cultural forms that focus on the heimat or the a remarkable synthesis of the Islamic and and non-native varieties; multilingualism homeland, narrating history, the legacies of Confucian worldviews. as a pragmatic and stylistic literary device war, violence, personal and national memory. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) speech acts and multilingual creativity; socio- The seminar considers how these fictional political dimensions of multilingualism: and non-fictional narratives engage with new AAS 572: Topics in Asian Philosophy I multilingualism and identity; accommodation aesthetic and political questions regarding This course presents in-depth student of and assimilation; language maintenance and Asian American writing, filmmaking and the specific topic in an Asian philosophical shift; language rivalry and conflict; spread limits and the possibilities of memory in the tradition. Students are expected to demonstrate of languages of wider communication and digital age. knowledge through mastery of native terms minority languages¿ anxiety about hegemony and endangerment; cross-cultural case students 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and concepts from that tradition. May be repeated as the topics changes. of pluralistic models of synergistic co- existence. AAS 565: Food, Labor and Asian 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) America May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ¿An authentic taste of Asia¿ is a marketing AAS 585: Translation Studies of Asian phrase haunted by the violent histories of AAS 573: Orientalism Languages Orientalism, Western expansion and wars in Edward Said¿s Orientalism, written in 1978, Asia. In truth, the success and popularity of was a polemical attack on the discipline Inquiry into issues in the translation of Asian some Asian food is more than the celebration of Orientalism and the representations of languages into/from English. This course of the immigrant work ethic. Behind the the ¿orient¿ in western thought. Almost introduces the recent theories and concepts popularity are geopolitical and labor issues. thirty years later, the debate still rages: are of translation studies and applies them to the The consumption of beef and poultry in the all western scholars writings¿ about Asia analysis of a variety of Asian texts as source U.S., for example, is intimately connected complicit in imperialism? Is there such a texts or target texts. Students are expected to to the exploitation of immigrants from the thing as objective scholarship, or are power gain insights into the lexical, grammatical, global south. Undocumented immigrants and knowledge so deeply intertwined that all cognitive, pragmatic, and socio-cultural and refugees from Southeast Asia, East intellectual activity is inherently political? characteristics of Asian languages as well Africa and the Americas perform the dirty Taking our start from Said¿s ideas, we will as social and political issues that surround task of slaughtering millions of animals: look at authors who extended Said¿s critique translation of Asian texts. Texts to be analyzed chickens, turkeys, pigs, ducks, sheep, lamb, to the fields of South Asian and East Asian include, but are not limited to, literary works, calves. In 2009 alone, 33,300,000 cattle were Studies, and also examine some of Said¿s most newspaper articles, advertisements, brochures, killed for their meat in the United States. outspoken critics. In investigating these issues, and business letters. Advanced skills in one of Immigrant laborers of American industrial students will learn about some of the major the Asian languages are required. slaughterhouses carry out dirty and dangerous figures in the history of Asian students. We 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) work, killing and dismembering animals even will conclude the semester by exploring the as the laborers themselves live in crowded, possibilities for ¿post-orientalist¿ approaches AAS 587: Supervised Research unsanitary quarters. Similarly, the cooks of to the study of Asian cultures and religions, in Contemporary Asian and Asian America¿s kitchens are immigrants from Asia and by examining the pervasiveness of American Studies and other parts of the world. This new MA orientalist themes in popular culture. This course provides thesis credit for students course focuses on the emerging field known 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in the graduate program, Contemporary Asian as ¿food studies,¿ in particular the politics and and Asian American Studies. Thesis credit. histories of Asian food and its popularity in the AAS 575: Multilingualism & Independent graduate research under the United States. If the old adage is ¿we are what Communication in Asia supervision of a faculty member. May be we eat,¿ what does it mean that Asian food in Survey of multilingualism as a cognitive repeated to a limit of 6 credits. Prerequisites: the U.S. is intimately connected to the histories phenomenon and communication strategy with Approval of Director of Graduate Studies of wars in Asia, undocumented labor, and the special reference to traditionally multilingual 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) exploitation of immigrant food workers? societies. Structural, sociolinguistic, cultural, May be repeated 6 times FOR credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and cognitive models are evaluated for their adequacy in representing multilingualism AAS 571: Islamic Thought in Asia in Western and especially non-Western ACC Islam is commonly considered a Middle- (Asian and African cultures. Topics include Accounting Eastern religion, but most of the Middle concepts of multilingualism, typology of

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ACC 529: Managerial Accounting and reorganization and dissolution of C and will learn through case studies, classroom Decision Making S corporations. Topics associated with discussions, and projects. The course will also This course covers cost accounting concepts partnerships and LLCs entities are also cover contemporary issues in auditing. and theories and the implementation of an reviewed. Students will be exposed to other 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) accounting system as a source of information areas of our Federal tax system, including for decision making, planning, control, and U.S. multi-national, gift, estate, and fiduciary ACC 591: Internal Auditing the evaluation of organizational performance income tax topics. State nexus and financial This course is designed to introduce the by management. Other topics include cost- accounting for income taxes concepts are also student to the goal of internal auditor, i.e., volume-profit analysis, overhead rates, introduced. to understand, audit and report on an entity's budgeting and statement of cash flows. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) financial, compliance and operational control 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) systems. The course will discuss how the ACC 562: Accounting Information internal auditor accomplishes this goal through ACC 542: Accounting for the Small Systems professional standards and the best industry Business Entrepeneur A managerial approach to the concepts, issues practices. This course will present information This course is designed to introduce the and techniques used to successfully manage that will enable the student to understand how student to accounting and other financial and maintain an "Accounting Information the internal audit process improves ethical concepts that the small business entrepreneur System." Topics will include business behavior and operational efficiencies within needs to know in order to be successful. The processes such as the revenue and expenditure the business environment. These sessions course will reinforce accounting concepts cycles; business transactions including include discussions about the history of the already introduced in the Financial Accounting replenishment procedures and customer internal audit function. Other topics discussed course with an emphasis on the small business. loyalty programs; general ledger output and will be application in the banking industry, the Other business/financial concerns such as bank compliance requirements as well as interfaces Enron fraud and the resulting Sarbanes-Oxley reconciliations, payroll preparation, payroll to OLAP environments. legislation and application to local government and sales tax compliance, maintenance of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) environments. Finally, there will be discussion installment debt, and utilization of sales and about the audit committee and how it relates to purchase discounts will be reviewed. Since ACC 580: Contemporary Issues in the internal audit. most small business entrepreneurs need to Financial Accounting, Auditing and Prerequisite: MBA 590 either do their own bookkeeping or at least be Regulation Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, intimately involved in the process this course The focus of this course is on contemporary etc.) requires the student to become familiar with issues facing the accounting profession. two different accounting software packages It serves as an academic culmination that ACC 594: Governmental and Not for (Quickbook and Peachtree). draws upon other courses in the accounting Profit Accounting and Reporting Prerequisite: G-1 Standing curriculum. In exploring contemporary This course is designed to introduce the Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, issues, students will more deeply consider student to generally accepted accounting etc.) the theoretical underpinnings and practical practices (GAAP) for both governmental and application of accounting principles generally not-for-profit entities. The different accounting ACC 543: Corporate Governance accepted in the United States (GAAP); rules for each type of entity will be explored This course aims to enable students to auditing procedures and auditing standards and compared to typical corporate accounting understand legal arrangement and social generally accepted in the United States practices. The course will examine standards economic theories that are necessary for (GAAS); federal taxation guidelines; and and issued by the two rule making bodies, i.e. analyzing core issues of modern corporate the profession's ethical, professional and the Financial Accounting Standards Board governance. The role of accounting in legal responsibilities. Pedagogy includes (FASB) and the Governmental Accounting corporate governance is emphasized. extensive use of newsworthy accounting Standards Board (GASB) and how they affect issues and the Financial Accounting Standards the accounting and financial reporting for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Codification, American Institute of Certified the two types of entities. These sessions will ACC 544: Financial Statement Analysis Public Accountants Auditing Standards, and include explanation of typical accounting the IRS Tax Code, Regulation, and Guidelines. transactions and the resulting financial Financial statement analysis is central to Course is team taught by three accounting statements. There will also be discussions fundamental analysis of business. This course instructors. about current financial events affecting both is about the analysis of financial statements environments. for making investment decisions. It integrates 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) key elements from accounting, finance, and Prerequisite: MBA 562, MBA 590, MBA 591 ACC 590: Advanced Auditing and business strategy and applies them to financial Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Assurance decision-making. The course will be taught ACC 596: Financial Accounting Theory using a combination of lectures, case analyses, This course builds on the foundation from class discussions, and student presentations. an undergraduate Auditing and Assurance This course explores the historical course, using case studies to motivate and development and refinement of the conceptual 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) develop a thorough understanding of how audit framework of accounting theory as it relates ACC 545: Entity Taxation standards (GAAS), processes, and techniques to financial reporting. The implications of facilitate the auditor's role of validating that the convergence of International Accounting Introduces fundamental income taxation financial statements are presented fairly Standards, and Generally Accepted concepts for business entities. Coverage and in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in a global includes the formation, operation, Accounting Principles (GAAP). Students environment are discussed. Current accounting

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 3 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 practices are analyzed and evaluated in the texts will be read in conjunction with each Specialized in-depth exploration of topics context of the conceptual framework of other. So for example, Fanon's seminal test related to Africana Studies core themes GAAP along with the discussion of research Black Skin White Masks, a text that seeks based on a contractual relationship between methodologies. to explain the racialization of society, the individual student and faculty. Student must Offered double consciousness of black people, and the gain permission of selected faculty to enroll in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) superiority complex of white people will be their section of this course. The course can be read against Paul Gilroy's Against Race, a text taken only twice in fulfillment of requirements ACC 597: Advanced Accounting arguing for the deconstruction and recognition for the M.A. This course provides the students with an of race as a cultural construct. Other topics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in-depth, up-to-date coverage of accounting for discussion focus on how "newer" writers for consolidations, governmental, not-for- delve into questions of sexuality from a fresh AFH 599: Thesis profit entities, and other key advanced topics. perspective. Comparing Morrison's Sula with This course is intended to prepare students in The course links theory and practice with Cheryl West's play Before it Hits Home, for developing a sustained and mature (nuanced) constant emphasis on the logic of procedures. example, demonstrates that writers are now argument for their M.A. thesis. The class is for Prerequisite: MBA 594, MBA 596 exploring questions of sexuality in more credit with flexible attendance requirements. provocative ways. West's uncovering of the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The student must have an AFS faculty sponsor "downlow" life-style lived by Black men, and (thesis director) who will be responsible for ACC 598: Forensic Accounting the health concerns related and the dangers assigning a course grade. The class is available of sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/ beginning in the second term of a student's The aim of this course is to explore and master AIDS. Permission from advisor required. the professional skills necessary to detect, enrollment in the M.A. program and in the investigate and prevent fraud. Students will 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) summer upon approval of the Director of learn how and why fraudulent activities are Graduate Studies. AFH 528: Contemporary Black committed, and how allegations of fraud 6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Literature and Cultural Criticism should be investigated and resolved. The use of technology to proactively detect fraud will This course introduces students to some of be discussed. The following areas such as the major contemporary literary and cultural AFS theorists from the twentieth and twenty- financial investigations, financial statement Africana Studies/Social and fraud, tax fraud, business valuation, resolution first centuries (Fanon, Baker, Christian, and litigation services will be covered. Gilroy, Mercer, Morrison, Gates, Patterson, Behavioral Sciences CLR James, etc). Earlier scholars from Prerequisites: MBA 585, MBA 590, MBA 591 the nineteenth century such as Anna Julia AFS 500: Foundations in Africana Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Cooper or Du Bois will also be referenced. Studies, I etc.) Through an examination of major literary Core course required of all students pursuing and cultural movements such as Negritude, a master's degree in Africana Studies. The AFH the Caribbean Artists Movement, The Black two-semester foundations sequence will Arts Movement, and the Post- Black Artists introduce students to the theoretical issues Africana Studies/Humanities Movement, students will gain insight into how and historiography of the Africana Diaspora. black scholars both critique and contribute The parameters of African Diaspora studies AFH 520: The Caribbean and the to the artistic, political, and social discourse and will cover the historical, literary, socio- Literary Imagination of the day. An application of Postcolonial, political, cultural, and economic themes of An examination of the literary representation Feminist/Womanist, and Cultural Criticism the black experience. The course will provide of the Caribbean through an extensive study of will aid the students in their reading of the critical examination of the global experience selected fictional and theoretical writings. This critical materials. and promote an understanding of the Black seminar will include an examination of the Offered Diaspora. Students will read the works of representations of the Caribbean by African Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded scholars who shaped the broad intellectual American as well as Caribbean writers. (A, A-, B+, etc.) world. The required readings will emphasize 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the canons of Diaspora literature, including AFH 564: Seminar in Francophone works by and about W.E.B. Du Bois, George AFH 524: Contemporary African Literature Padmore, C.L.R. James, Marcus Garvey, and Diasporic Literature and Film Close examination of the literature written in others. Contemporary African American Diasporic French of the Francophone world outside of Permission of advisor required. Literature and Film offers a comparative France, with special emphasis on the literature Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) analysis of twentieth and twenty-first century of the Caribbean and Africa. This course will African Diasporic writers and filmmakers pose and explore questions such as: What AFS 501: Foundations in Africana and their explorations of race, class, and is Francophone literature and what are the Studies, II gender. To establish the shifting nature of implications of a literature considered as Core course required of all students pursuing African Diasporic intellectual thought, we "Francophone"? What are the functions of a Master's degree in Africana Studies. The shall consider how each successive generation writing in French in a "postcolonial" context? two-semester foundations courses will of writers and filmmakers builds upon Permission of advisor required. introduce students to the theoretical issues discussions of racial identity, black sexuality, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and historiography of the Africana Diaspora. and social mobility. To demonstrate how The parameters of Africana Diaspora studies discussions of race have evolved over time AFH 585: Independent Studies will cover the historical, literary, socio-

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 4 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 political, cultural, and economic themes of This is a selective introduction to African and global political and economic forces the black experience. The course will provide music, and the music of the African Diaspora. for emerging African social formation, the critical examination of the global experience We will read from major scholars in the viability of African states and societies, new and promote an understanding of the Black field of African music studies such as Simha migration patterns, transnationalism, and Diaspora focusing on scholarly works by Paul Arom, Christopher Waterman, Gerhard Kubik, diasporic connections especially since the Gilroy, Chinua Achebe, Henry Louis Gates, Michele Kisliuk, Ruth Stone, Kofi Agawu, and decolonization process in the 1950's. Angela Davis, Walter Rodney, and others. others. Students will get a broad overview of Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Permission of advisor required. the music of the major regional subdivisions etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, of Africa (for instance North Africa, Central etc.) Africa, South Africa, etc.), as well as a AFS 540: The Black Power Movement historical perspective on the musicological This course examines the Black Power AFS 502: Research Methods in issues that have been central to Africanist Movement. Stokely Carmichael's call for Africana Studies musicology and ethno musicology. There will "Black Power!" broke through the commotion This course introduces students to basic be regular reading, listening, and short writing of everyday politics during 1966's Meredith concepts of research methodology, specifically assignments, occasional quizzes, a book March Against Fear. Soon after, and for as they pertain to studies of the African review, and a final research project of 16-18 the next decade, Black Power galvanized diaspora. Students will be exposed to a variety pp. For the book review, students will write African American politics, engendering radical of critical approaches across such disciplines about a monograph on African Music such movements for social, political, and cultural as history, literature, political science, and as John Miller Chernoff's African Rhythm transformation that impacted blacks in the sociology in the context of Africana studies. and African Sensibility or Paul Berliner's The United States and beyond. An emerging Students will examine the ways in which Soul of Mbira. Students will present their historiography traces the roots of Black Power theoretical, ideological, and philosophical research to class towards the end of the term. in the postwar black freedom movement, assumptions about race, class, and gender Permission from course instructor required. finding cultural and political touchstones shape the kinds of research questions we 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) for future Black Power activism among ask and the types of instruments we use to civil rights renegade, trade unionists, and investigate and evaluate the experiences and AFS 530: Slavery and the Atlantic black nationalists. We will examine works contributions of people from the African World produced during the Black Power era and diaspora. This course will examine the experiences of new scholarship to analyze the Black Power Permission of advisor required. people of African descent as participants in Movement's legacy in the politics and culture Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a coerced migration that created the African of African Americans. Permission of advisor Diaspora. The transatlantic slave trade led to is required. This course is offered as both HIS AFS 504: Racialized Oppressions and an enduring image of black men and women 540 and AFS 540. the Idea of Humanity as transported commodities. Therefore, it has 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) When one reads accounts of slavery, genocide, had the greatest impact on the construction the systematic denial of rights to a group of the African Diaspora giving rise to new AFS 541: Music and Race: Black Music because of a racial identity, the question communities of people across the globe. (Cross Cultural Study of Music) always arises whether the oppressors view the Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This seminar will examine how certain widely racialized other as fully human? This course held conceptualizations about race (and in will explore this question and what it means to AFS 533: Race, Gender, and some instances ethnicity) are articulated, view an individual or group as "fully human." Globalization reinforced, or challenged in music making How have philosophical understandings of the This seminar explores current issues and and consumption, on the one hand, and in moral importance and the moral meaning of debates relating to the racialized and gendered scholarship about music on the other. Writings "humanity" served to exacerbate, moderate effects of globalization. Topics include an on race and music have tended to be about or fight against racial oppression? How does overview of the sociology of globalization "black" culture(s). In this course we will racial and gender oppression compare in this and theories of globalism/the global system, critique this focus and the construct of black respect? Is there a comparison to be made transnational classes and a transnational state, music in great detail. The course requires between racial oppression and the treatment global culture and ideology, transnational extensive readings on these topics; listening accorded to disabled people with respect to the migrations and the new global labor market, to musical examples (in-depth knowledge of understanding of what it is to be human? Does globalization and race/ethnicity, women music theory is not necessary); vigorous class shifting the ground from a biologically-based and globalization, local-global linkages, and discussion and written reaction papers; a final concept such as "humanity" to a philosophical resistance to globalization. research paper and class presentation. Students concept of "personhood" serve to justify or Offered may choose to explore other aspects of music serve as a tool against these identity-based Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, and race besides black music in their final oppressions? Does shifting the ground justify B+, etc.) papers (for example, how Orientalism has been the analogy of racism with the abuse of constituted in music and musical criticism and animals, as in the idea of "speciesism"? We AFS 536: Africa and Globalization scholarship). Permission of advisor required. will explore as many of these questions as This seminar will discuss the interconnection 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) interest dictates and time permits. Permission between this enduring crisis of the modern from advisor required. African state and the impact of globalization, AFS 542: Caribbean Transnational Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) especially after thecallpase of communism Identity in the US in Eastern Europe. We will critically explore This course seeks to examine the strategies AFS 507: African Music the implications of these complex regional some immigrants from the Caribbean utilize to

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To do so, it sheds light neo-colonies. of colonial rule in the late nineteenth century. on the ways in which the US construction of Offered Drawing from monographs and journal articles race and ethnicity influences the immigrants' Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, on twentieth century African social and search for an identity in the United States. etc.) political history, and the recent scholarship on Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Graduate state/society relations, the seminar will explore Certificate Program AFS 570: The Black Radical Tradition the interactions between state institutions Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course examines the black radical and structures of society in colonial and tradition from slavery to the present, paying post-colonial Africa. The seminar is broadly AFS 550: Women of Color in The particular attention of twentieth-century social structured around key themes which are Modern World: Shifting Identities and movements and the intersection between trade presented in chronological order. These themes Feminist Visions unionism, black nationalism, internationalism, are divided into three major sections. The first This course explores the various ways in and Marxism. Black radicalism has a long section which deals with the colonial period which gender, race, and class, along with history in the United States and beyond. At will examine the following themes: partition other aspects of identity, shape the lives and its core, this tradition has housed diverse, and conquest; African resistance to early experiences of women of color in the United at times conflicting, ideological strains, colonialism; the historical processes of state States and globally. It presents the ongoing personalities, and organizations ranging from formation in Africa; the colonial economy; debates concerning the interconnections black feminists, Marxists, socialists, liberals, and the interaction between the world religion of gender, race, and shifting identities. It trade unionists, artists, and intellectuals. In (Christianity and Islam) and colonial rule. will examine the relationships between the the process this tradition has run afoul of The second section on the postcolonial era construction of personal identities, identity more mainstream expressions of Black protest examines the following themes: the historical statuses, cultural and ideological meaning (although in certain eras, such as during the processes of state formation in Africa; systems, and the search for alternative images. Black Power Movement, it has represented communal identities and social change since Permission from advisor required. the mainstream), and black radicals are often decolonization; the patriarchal society and the crisis of the state; and the new debates on 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) marginalized as wild-eye dreamers, naive to the ways of the world. democratization and civil society in the post- Cold War era. The final section examines the AFS 555: Sociology of Gender and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Development international politics of African states from AFS 585: Independent Studies both theoretically and historical perspectives. The 1960's marked a transition in global The relevant themes here include the impact economic relations from one characterized Specialized in-depth exploration of topics of the major powers on African subregions by colonial extraction and exploitation, related to Africana Studies core themes in the Cold War and post-containment eras; to sustainable development emphasizing based on a contractual relationship between the impact of multilateral agencies on African economic growth and the alleviation of individual student and faculty. Student must political, economic and social developments; poverty. It was quickly discovered, however, gain permission of selected faculty to enroll in regional organizations and African states. that the effects of development were beneficial their section of this course. The course can be The structure of the course is intended to for some but devastating for others, especially taken only twice in fulfillment of requirements be coherent but flexible, so that we can poor women. The discovery led many scholars for the M.A. identify some basic trends in the reading and practitioners, especially those who 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) assignments and construct consistent themes embrace feminist ideologies, to demand that May be repeated for credit. on the interplay of political transformation in development agencies and policies be sensitive the twentieth century. Permission of advisor is to gender issues. This seminar will focus AFS 599: Thesis required. on gender and development, in theory and This course is intended to prepare students in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) practice, in the global South. It will promote developing a sustained and mature (nuanced) students' argument for their M.A. thesis. The class is for understanding of the central role that gender credit with flexible attendance requirements. AMS plays in the success and assessment of The student must have an AFS faculty sponsor development strategies. (thesis director) who will be responsible for Applied Mathematics and Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, assigning a course grade. The class is available Statistics Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) beginning in the second term of a student's enrollment in the M.A. program and in the AMS 500: Responsible Conduct of AFS 560: Sexualities: African and summer upon approval of the Director of Research and Scholarship (RCRS) Caribbean Perspectives Graduate Studies. Fall and Spring This course is designed to introduce students This seminar is designed to introduce students 3-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to the major issues in the ethics of science and to the complexities of human sexuality May be repeated for credit. research. Using a combination of readings- from a perspective that places subaltern written and web-based-videos, and case individuals at the center of the analysis. It AFS 616: Twentieth Century African discussion, students will investigate the moral locates these individuals, and their sexual Political History values intrinsic to science and the professional practices, in the Tropics (particularly in Africa This seminar is an extensive exploration of and social values with which scientists and the Caribbean) first in those man-made African political history in the twentieth- must comply. Each class will begin with an communities where sexuality was one of century. It examines the major themes that introductory lecture or video followed by the (unspoken) exigencies of the slave and have shaped the formation and the decline of colonial economies, and later in the modern

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 6 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 discipline-based, small group discussions with Review of matrix operations. Elementary and to problems in public finance. Whenever the participation of an AMS faculty member. matrices and reduction of general matrices by practical, examples will use real market data. S/U grading elementary operations, canonical forms, and Numerical exercises and projects in a high- May be repeated for credit. inverses. Applications to physical problems. level programming environment will also be Offered as AMS 505 or HPH 695. assigned. AMS 501: Differential Equations and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Boundary Value Problems I Examples of initial and boundary value AMS 507: Introduction to Probability AMS 513: Financial Derivatives and problems in which differential equations The topics include sample spaces, axioms Stochastic Calculus arise. Existence and uniqueness of solutions, of probability, conditional probability and Further development of derivative pricing systems of linear differential equations, and independence, discrete and continuos random theory including the use of equivalent the fundamental solution matrix. Power variables, jointly distributed random variables, martingale measures, the Girsanov Theorem, series solutions. Sturm-Liouville theory and characteristics of random variables, law of the Radon-Nikodym Derivative, and a eigenfunction expansion. Green's functions. large numbers and central limit theorem, deeper, more general understanding of the Spring Markov chains. Arbitrage Theorem. Numerical approaches 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to solving stochastic PDE's will be further developed. Applications involving interest AMS 502: Differential Equations and AMS 510: Analytical Methods for rate sensitive securities and more complex Boundary Value Problems II Applied Mathematics and Statistics options will be introduced. Whenever Analytic solution techniques for, and Review of techniques of multivariate calculus, practical examples will use real market data. properties of solutions of, partial differential convergence and limits, matrix analysis, vector Numerical exercises and projects in a high- equations, with concentration on second order space basics, and Lagrange multipliers. level programming environment will also be assigned. Prerequisite: AMS 511. 3 Credits PDEs. Techniques covered include: method Prerequisite: A course in linear algebra and in of characteristics, separation of variables, multivariate calculus 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) eigenfunction expansions, spherical means. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Green's functions and fundamental solutions, AMS 514: Computational Finance and Fourier transforms. Solution properties AMS 511: Foundations of Quantitative Review of foundations: stochastic calculus, include: energy conservation, dispersion, Finance martingales, pricing, and arbitrage. Basic dissipation, existence and uniqueness, Introduction to capital markets, securities principles of Monte Carlo and the efficiency maximum and mean value principles. pricing and modern portfolio theory, including and effectiveness of simulation estimators. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the organization and operation of securities Generation of pseudo- and quasi-random market, the Efficient Market Hypothesis and numbers with sampling methods and AMS 503: Applications of Complex its implications, the Capital Asset Pricing distributions. Variance reduction techniques Analysis Model, the Arbitrage Pricing Theory and such as control variates, antithetic variates, A study of those concepts and techniques in more general factor models. Common stocks stratified and Latin hypercube sampling, complex function theory that are of interest for and their valuation, statistical analysis, and and importance sampling. Discretization their applications. Pertinent material is selected portfolio selection in a single-period, mean- methods including first and second order from the following topics: harmonic functions, variance context will be explored along methods, trees, jumps, and barrier crossings. calculus of residues, conformal mapping, and with its solution as a quadratic program. Applications in pricing American options, the argument principle. Application is made to Fixed income securities and their valuation, interest rate sensitive derivatives, mortgage- problems in heat conduction, potential theory, statistical analysis, and portfolio selection. backed securities and risk management. fluid dynamics, and feedback systems. Discussion of the development and use of Whenever practical examples will use real market data. Extensive numerical exercises Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, financial derivatives. Introduction to risk and projects in a general programming etc.) neutral pricing, stochastic calculus and the Black-Scholes Formula. Whenever environment will also be assigned. AMS 504: Foundations of Applied practical examples will use real market data. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Mathematics Numerical exercises and projects in a high- AMS 515: Case Studies in An introductory course for the purpose of level programming environment will also be Computational Finance developing certain concepts and techniques assigned. that are fundamental in modern approaches 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Actual applications of Quantitative Finance to to the solution of applied problems. An problems of risk assessment, product design, appropriate selection of topics is based on AMS 512: Capital Markets and Portfolio portfolio management and securities pricing the concepts of metric spaces, compactness, Theory will be covered. Particular attention will be sequences and convergence, continuity, Development of capital markets and paid to data collection and analysis, the design differentiation and integration, function portfolio theory in both continuous time and implementation of software, and, most sequences, contraction mapping theorem. and multi-period settings. Utility theory importantly, to differences the occur between Strong emphasis on proofs. and its application to the determination of "theory and practice" in model application, and to the development of practical strategies Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) optimal consumption and investment policies. Asymptotic growth under conditions of for handling cases in which "model failure" AMS 505: Applied Linear Algebra uncertainty. Applications to problems in makes the naive use of quantitative techniques strategic asset allocation over finite horizons dangerous. Extensive use of guest lecturers drawn from the industry will be made.

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3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course will merge ML and traditional whether or not the student has completed AMS quantitative finance techniques employed 526. AMS 516: Statistical Methods in at investment banks, asset management, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Finance and securities trading firms. It will provide etc.) The course introduces statistical methods in a systematic introduction to statistical quantitative finance. Financial applications and learning and machine learning methods AMS 528: Numerical Analysis III statistical methodologies are intertwined in applied in Quantitative Finance. The topics An introduction to scientific computation, all lectures. The course will cover regression discussed in the course fall broadly into four this course considers the basic numerical analysis and applications to the Capital categories which (as time permits) will be techniques designed to solve problems of Asset Pricing Model and multifactor pricing discussed in this order: Probabilistic Modeling, physical and engineering interest. Finite models, principal components and multivariate Feedforward neural networks, Sequential difference methods are covered for the three analysis, statistical methods for financial time Learning, and Reinforcement Learning. major classes of partial differential equations: series; value at risk, smoothing techniques and Prerequisite: AMS 572& AMS 595 (or AMS parabolic, elliptic, and hyperbolic. Practical estimation of yield curves, and estimation and 561 or based on Python knowledge per implementation will be discussed. The student modeling volatilities. Instructor Consent) is also introduced to the important packages Prerequisite: AMS 586 or permission of the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of scientific software algorithms. AMS 528 instructor may be taken whether or not the student has Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, AMS 522: Bayesian Methods in completed AMS 526 or AMS 527. Finance etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, The course explores in depth the fundamentals etc.) AMS 517: Quantitative Risk of the Bayesian methodology and the use Management of the Bayesian theory in portfolio and risk AMS 530: Principles in Parallel Quantitative Methods for risk management management. It focuses on, among other Computing problems including market risk, credit topics, incorporating the prior views of This course is designed for both academic risk, operational risk and Basel II accord. analysts and investors into the asset allocation and industrial scientists interested in parallel Multivariable models; extreme value theory; process, estimating and predicting volatility, computing and its applications to large- structure and reduced-form models of default; improving risk forecasts, and combining the scale scientific and engineering problems. It and copula-based models. conclusions of different models. Numerical focuses on the three main issues in parallel 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) exercises and projects in a high-level computing: analysis of parallel hardware and programming environment will be assigned. software systems, design and implementation AMS 518: Advanced Stochastic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of parallel algorithms, and applications of Models, Risk Assessment, and parallel computing to selected problems Portfolio Optimization AMS 523: Mathematics of High in physical science and engineering. The The course provides a thorough treatment Frequency Finance course emphasizes hands-on practice and of advanced risk measurement and portfolio Elements of real and complex linear spaces. understanding of algorithmic concepts of optimization, extending the traditional Fourier series and transforms, the Laplance parallel computing. approaches to these topics by combining transform and z-transform. Elements of Prerequisite: A course in basic computer distributional models with risk or performance complex analysis including Cauchy theory, science such as operating systems or measures into one framework. It focuses on, residue calculus, conformal mapping and architectures or some programming among others, the fundamentals of probability Mobius transformations. Introduction to experience. metrics and optimization, new approaches convex sets and analysis in finite dimensions, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, to portfolio optimization, and a variety of the Legendre transform and duality. Examples etc.) essential risk measures. Numerical exercises are given in terms of applications to high and projects in a high-level programming frequency finance. AMS 531: Laboratory Rotations in environment will be assigned. Offered Computational Biology 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This is a two semester course in which first year Ph.D. students spend at least 8 weeks in AMS 519: Internship in Quantitative AMS 526: Numerical Analysis I each of three different laboratories actively Finance Direct and indirect methods for solving participating in the research of participating Supervised internship in financial institution. simultaneous linear equations and matrix Computational Biology Faculty. At the end of Students will typically work at a trading inversion, conditioning, and round-off errors. each rotation, students give a presentation of desk, in an asset management group, or in Computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors. their lab activates and accomplishments. The a risk management group. Students will be Corequisite: AMS 510 and AMS 595 primary goal of rotations is to help students supervised by a faculty member and a manager Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) choose a research advisor and to help faculty at their internship site. Written and oral reports members choose students. Students register will be made to both supervisors. AMS 527: Numerical Analysis II for AMS 531 in both the Fall and Spring 3-6 credits, Numerical methods based upon functional semesters of the first year. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. approximation: polynomial interpolation and 0-3 credits, S/U grading approximation; and numerical differentiation May be repeated for credit. AMS 520: Machine Learning in and integration. Solution methods for ordinary Quantitative Finance differential equations. AMS 527 may be taken AMS 532: Journal Club in Computational Biology

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The goal of this course is for students to presentations, participation in class discussion, models for neurons, multiple channels and hone critical reading and analytic skills attendance, quizzes, and a final exam. calcium dynamics, spike-train analysis and through discussions of literature in the area 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) modeling small neuron networks. of Computational Biology. Participants 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) take turn being a "discussion leader" who AMS 536: Molecular Modeling of May be repeated for credit. informally guides the group through a peer- Biological Molecules reviewed manuscript for which all Journal This computer-based lab course is designed for AMS 539: Introduction to Physical and Club members will have to read in advance students who wish to gain hands an experience Quantitative Biology of the meeting. Meetings in the Spring modeling biological molecules at the atomic This course is a seminar series organized semester will include in Person Training level. In conjunction with individual interests, by the Laufer Center for Physical and (IPT) in Responsible conduct of Research and Molecular Mechanics, Molecular dynamics, Quantitative Biology and is aimed at any Scholarship (RCRS) on topics that comprise Monte Carlo, Docking (virtual screening), incoming graduate students who might be (1) Integrity in Scholarship, (2) Scientific or Quantum Mechanics software packages interested in doing research in computational, Misconduct, (3) Mentoring, (4) Ownership can be used to study relevant biological mathematical or physical biology. Each and Authorship, (5) Plagiarism, (6) Data systems (s). Projects will include setup, seminar will be given by a different faculty Management, (7) Journalism and Science, (8) execution, and analysis. Course participants member about their research and will span a Human Subjects, and (9) Laboratory Animals. will give literature presentations relevant to range of topics including computational cell 0-1 credits, S/U grading the simulations being performed and a final biology and evolutionary models. May be repeated for credit. project report will be required. Familiarity with 0-1 credits, S/U grading Unix (Linux) is desirable but not mandatory. AMS 533: Numerical Methods and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) AMS 540: Linear Programming Algorithms in Computational Biology Formulation of linear programming An in-depth survey of many of the key AMS 537: Biological Dynamics and problems and solutions by simplex method. techniques used in diverse aspects of Networks Duality, sensitivity analysis, dual simplex computational biology. A major focus of this This course will provide a solid foundation algorithm, decomposition. Applications to the class is on how to successfully formulate a in key theoretical concepts for the study of transportation problem, two-person games, statement of the problem to be solved, and dynamics in biological systems and networks assignment problem, and introduction to how that formulation can guide in selecting at different scales ranging from the molecular integer and nonlinear programming. the most suitable computational approach. level to metabolic and gene regulatory 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Examples will be drawn from a wide range networks. Topics of this course include of problems in biology, including molecular but are not limited to: Physical kinetics; AMS 542: Analysis of Algorithms modeling, biochemical reaction networks, Diffusion/Smoluchowskii; Random flights; Techniques for designing efficient algorithms, microscopy and systems biology. No prior Waiting times; Poisson; Brownian ratchets; knowledge of biology is required. including choice of data structures, recursion, Chemical kinetics; Transition states; Stability, branch and bound, divide and conquer, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) bifurcations, pattern development; Noise dynamic programming. Complexity analysis in cells: intrinsic and Extrinsic; Feedback; of searching, sorting, matrix multiplication, AMS 534: Introduction to Systems Biological Osciillators; Recurrence, period and graph algorithms. Standard NP-complete Biology doubling, chaos; Networks; Topologies; problems and polynomial transformation This course is geared towards teaching Degree distribution, betweenness; Models of techniques. This course is offered as both essential concepts and computational skills in nets: Erdos-Renyi, scale-free, social, Watts- AMS 542 and CSE 548. Systems Biology. The course is centered upon Strogatz, agents; Robustness, highly-optimized Prerequisite for CSE 548: CSE 373 two key programming languages: Matlab for tolerance, bowties, epidemics; Biological recommended modeling applications and the R language for networks: Protein-protein nets, regulatory and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, statistical analysis and sequence manipulation. metabolic nets; Known biological circuits etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and their behaviors; How networks evolve: etc.) Preferential attachment, rewiring; Power AMS 544: Discrete and Nonlinear laws; Fluxed through networks; Information Optimization AMS 535: Introduction to and communication, entropy; Metabolic flux Theoretical and computational properties of Computational Structural Biology and analysis; Artificial and Natural selection discrete and nonlinear optimization problems: Drug Design for traits; Darwinian evolution; Population dynamics. integer programming, including cutting plane This course will provide an introduction and branch and bound algorithms, necessary to Computational Structural Biology with Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and sufficient conditions for optimality of application to Drug Design. Methods and etc.) nonlinear programs, and performance of applications that use computation to model selected nonlinear programming algorithms. biological systems involved in human disease AMS 538: Methods in Neuronal 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will be emphasized. The course aims to foster Modeling collaborative learning and will consist of Presentation of the mathematical modeling AMS 545: Computational Geometry presentations by the instructor, guest lecturers, approach to information processing in nervous and by course participants with the goal systems, from the level of individual ionic Study of the fundamental algorithmic problems of summarizing key, methods, topics, and channels to large-scale neuronal networks. associated with geometric computations, papers relevant to Computational Structural The course covers kinetic models of synaptic including convex hulls, Voronoi diagrams, Biology. Grades are based on the quality of the transmission, cable theory and compartment triangulation, intersection, range queries,

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 9 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 visibility, arrangements, and motion solve them. Primary topics will include DNA inventory control, maintenance, inspection, planning for robotics. Algorithmic methods sequence assembly, DNA/protein sequence and replacement problems. include plane sweep, incremental insertion, comparison, hybridization array analysis, RNA 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) randomization, divide-and-conquer, etc. This and protein folding, and phylogenic trees. course is offered as both AMS 545 and CSE 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) AMS 559: Smart Energy in the 555. Information Age Prerequisite for CSE 555: CSE 373 or CSE AMS 550: Operations Research: Energy and sustainability have become critical 548 Stochastic Models issues of our generation. While the abundant Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Includes Poisson processes, renewal theory, potential of renewable energy sources, such etc.) discrete-time and continuous-time Markov as solar and wind, provides a real opportunity processes, Brownian motion, applications for sustainability, their intermittency and AMS 546: Network Flows to queues, statistics, and other problems of uncertainty present a daunting operational Theory of flows in capacity-constrained engineering and social sciences. Prerequisite: challenge. This course studies how to use networks. Topics include maximum flow, AMS 507 or equivalent Information Technology (IT) to improve feasibility criteria, scheduling problems, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) sustainability in our energy-hungry society. matching and covering problems, minimum- In particular, topics include the applications length paths, minimum-cost flows, and AMS 552: Game Theory I of mathematical modeling, algorithm design, associated combinatorial problems. Elements of cooperative and non-cooperative optimization, game theory, and control theory 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) games. Matrix games, pure and mixed in real systems. The goal of the course is to strategies, and equilibria. Solution concepts provide rigorous foundations for the study of AMS 547: Discrete Mathematics such as core, stable sets, and bargaining sets. smart energy management for sustainability. This course introduces such mathematical Voting games, and the Shapley and Banzhaff Offered in the Spring Semester tools as summations, number theory, binomial power indices. This course is offered as both 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) coefficients, generating functions, recurrence ECO 604 and AMS 552. Prerequisite for ECO relations, discrete probability, asymptotics, 604: Graduate standing in the Economics AMS 560: Big Data Systems, combinatorics, and graph theory for use in Department or permission of the Graduate Algorithms and Networks algorithmic and combinatorial analysis. This Director. Recent progress on big data systems, course is offered as both CSE 547 and AMS 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) algorithms and networks. Topics include 547. the web graph, search engines, targeted Prerequisite for CSE 547: AMS 301 AMS 553: Simulation and Modeling advertisements, online algorithms and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, A comprehensive course in formulation, competitive analysis, and analytics, storage, etc.) implementation, and application of simulation resource allocation, and security in big data models. Topics include data structures, systems. Offered in the Spring Semester AMS 548: Optimization techniques in simulation languages, statistical analysis, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) biomolecular simulations pseudo-random number generation, and design This practical hands-on course will teach basic of simulation experiments. Students apply AMS 561: Introduction to techniques for building mathematical models, simulation modeling methods to problems of Computational Science algorithms, and software for biomolecular their own design. This course is offered as This course provides a foundation of simulations of macromolecular interactions. CSE 529, AMS 553 and MBA 553. knowledge and basic skills for the successful The topics of this course include, but are not 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) application in graduate research of modern limited to: the basics of statistical mechanics techniques in computational and data science and its connection to the sampling algorithms; AMS 555: Game Theory II relevant to engineering, the humanities, and the origin of and approximations for the Refinements of strategic equilibrium, games the physical, life and social sciences. It is computation of molecular forces; geometry with incomplete information, repeated games consciously crafted to provide a rich, project- of the molecular configuration search space with and without complete information, and oriented, multidisciplinary experience that and multidimensional optimization; basics stochastic games. The Shapley value of games establishes a common vocabulary and skill of software development and programming with many players, and NTU-values. This set. Centered around the popular programming for high performance computing (HPC). course is offered as both ECO 605 and AMS language Python, the course will serve as an During the course, the students will develop 555. introduction to programming including data a multiscale approach for modeling protein- structures, algorithms, numerical methods, Prerequisite for AMS 555: AMS 552/ECO 604. protein interactions from the ground up. No basic concepts in computer architecture, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, special background is required. Offered in the and elements of object-oriented design. etc.) Spring Semester Also introduced will be important concepts 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) AMS 556: Dynamic Programming and tools associated with the analysis and management of data, both big and small, Stochastic and deterministic multistage AMS 549: Computational Biology including basic statistical modeling in R, optimization problems. Stochastic path This course focuses on current problems in aspects of machine learning and data mining, problems. Principle of optimality. Recursive data management, and visualization. No computational biology and bioinformatics. and functional equations. Method of Our emphasis will be algorithmic, on previous computing experience is assumed. successive approximations and policy Students are assumed to have taken some discovering appropriate combinatorial iteration. Applications to finance, economics, algorithm problems and the techniques to introductory courses in two of these three

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 10 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 math subjects: linear algebra, calculus, and confidence intervals; sufficient statistics; Canonical correlation. Principal components. probability. Bayesian estimation; maximum likelihood Factor analysis. Cluster analysis. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) estimation; statistical tests. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) AMS 562: Introduction to Scientific AMS 578: Regression Theory Programming in C++ AMS 571: Mathematical Statistics Classical least-squares theory for regression This course provides students with Sampling distribution; convergence concepts; including the Gauss-Markov theorem foundational skills and knowledge in practical classes of statistical models; sufficient and classical normal statistical theory. scientific programming relevant for scientists statistics; likelihood principle; point An introduction to stepwise regression, and engineers. The primary language is C+ estimation; Bayes estimators; consistence; procedures, and exploratory data analysis + since it is a widely-used, object-oriented Neyman-Pearson Lemma; UMP tests; UMPU techniques. Analysis of variance problems as language, includes C as a subset, and is a tests; Likelihood ratio tests; large sample a subject of regression. Brief discussions of powerful tool for writing robust, complex, theory. Offered as HPH 697 or AMS 571. robustness of estimation and robustness of high-performance software. Elements of Prerequisite: AMS 570 design. Prerequisite: AMS 572 Python, Bash, and other languages will be 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) introduced to complement the capabilities of C++, and essential tools for software AMS 572: Data Analysis I AMS 580: Statistical Learning development and engineering will be Introduction to basic statistical procedures. This course will first review classical linear employed throughout the course (e.g., Survey of elementary statistical procedures and generalized linear models such as Linear makefiles, version control, online code such as the t-test and chi-square test. Regression, and Linear Discriminant Analysis. repositories, debugging, etc.). Procedures to verify that assumptions are We shall then study modern Resampling Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) satisfied. Extensions of simple procedures Methods such as Bootstrapping, and modern to more complex situations and introduction variable selection methods such as the AMS 565: Wave Propagation to one-way analysis of variance. Basic Shrinkage Method. Finally, we shall introduce Theory of propagation of vector and scalar exploratory data analysis procedures (stem modern non-linear statistical learning methods waves in bounded and unbounded regions. and leaf plots, straightening regression lines, such as the Generalized Additive Models, Development of methods of geometrical and techniques to establish equal variance). Decision Trees, Random Forest, Boosting, optics. Propagation in homogeneous and Offered as AMS 572 or HPH 698. Bagging, and, Support Vector Machines. anisotropic media. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) AMS 573: Categorical Data Analysis AMS 581: Analysis of Variance AMS 566: Compressible Fluid Measuring the strength of association between Analysis of models with fixed effects. The Dynamics pairs of categorical variables. Methods for Gauss-Markov theorem; construction of Physical, mathematical, and computational evaluating classification procedures and inter- confidence ellipsoids and tests with Gaussian description in compressible fluid flows. rater agreement. Analysis of the associations observations. Problems of multiple tests of Integral and differential forms of the among three or more categorical variables hypotheses. One-way, two-way, and higher- conservation equations, one-dimensional using log linear models. Logistic regression. way layouts. Analysis of incomplete designs flow, shocks and expansion waves in two Prerequisite: AMS 572 such as Latin squares and incomplete blocks. and three dimensions, quasi-one-dimensional Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Analysis of covariance problems. flow, transient flow, numerical methods for etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) steady supersonic flow, numerical methods for transient flow. AMS 575: Internship in Statistical AMS 582: Design of Experiments Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Consulting Discussion of the accuracy of experiments, etc.) Directed quantitative research problem in partitioning sums of squares, randomized conjunction with currently existing research designs, factorial experiments, Latin squares, AMS 569: Probability Theory I programs outside the department. Students confounding and fractional replication, Probability spaces and sigma-algebras. specializing in a particular area work on response surface experiments, and incomplete Random variables as measurable mappings. a problem from that area; others work on block designs. Offered as AMS 582 or HPH Borel-Cantelli lemmas. Expectation using problems related to their interests, if possible. 699. Prerequisite: AMS 572 simple functions. Monotone and dominated Efficient and effective use of computers. Each 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) convergence theorems. Inequalities. Stochastic student gives at least one informal lecture to convergence. Characteristic functions. Laws of his or her colleagues on a research problem AMS 583: Applied Longitudinal Data large numbers and the central limit theorem. and its statistical aspects. Analysis 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Longitudinal data takes the form of repeated May be repeated for credit. measurements of the same subject (humans, AMS 570: Introduction to Mathematical animals, plants, samples, etc) over time (or Statistics AMS 577: Multivariate Analysis other conditions). This type of data has a Probability and distributions; multivariate The multivariate distribution. Estimation of broad range of applications, including public distributions; distributions of functions of the mean vector and covariance matrix of the health, medical research, pharmaceutical random variables; sampling distributions; multivariate normal. Discriminant analysis. studies, life sciences, agriculture, engineering limiting distributions; point estimation; and physical sciences. Longitudinal data

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 11 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 analysis allows one to study the changes This course introduces both parametric Introduction to most commonly used interest in mean response over time and answer and non-parametric statistical models for rate models: Heath-Jarrow-Morton, Brace- other scientific questions pertaining to the analysis of the failure and survival data Gatareck-Musiela, etc. Cap, Floor, European relationship between the response and time. ¿ a critical topic in quantitative finance, and Bermudian option pricing. Credit This course aims to introduce statistical econometrics, and biostatistics. Different Modeling: Merton structural approach vs. models and methods for the analysis of censoring mechanisms will be discussed. Intensity approach. Corporate bonds, CDS, longitudinal data. Both the classical (univariate The course will mainly cover Kaplan-Meier securitized products (CDO, CLO, mortages), and multivariate repeated analysis of variance) estimator for characterizing the distribution of Credit value adjustment (CVA, XVA). and more recent approaches (1) general linear the failure and survival data, non-parametric 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) models for correlation, random coefficient log-rank test for comparing multiple groups, models, linear mixed effect models for normal and the accelerated failure time model and AMS 594: Mathematical Methods of repeated measurements; (2) generalized Cox regression model uncovering various Finance and Investments II linear models for non-normal response and predictor/explanatory variables to survival/ This course employs the techniques of population-averaged models (generalized failure. Applications to finance, economics mathematical statistics and empirical finance, estimating equations) for non-normal repeated and biomedicine will be illustrated. We have e.g., estimation theory, linear and nonlinear measurements, of analyzing longitudinal data revised the course title and content to better regression, time series analysis, modeling will be covered in this course. Offered in the suit our current graduate programs in Applied and simulation to examine critically various Spring Semester Mathematics and Statistics that have evolved models of prediction for asset-pricing, pricing 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) substantially from our old forms. In our of derivative products and term-structure of current program, students from many tracks, interest rates assuming stochastic volatility. AMS 585: Internship in Data Science especially in statistics and in quantitative Statistics necessary for analysis is incorporated Directed data science problem in conjunction finance, need this updated course as a highly in the course. relevant and important elective. This same with currently existing research programs Prerequisite: AMS 592 subject is generally referred to as `Survival outside the department. Students specializing Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in a particular area work on a problem from data analysis¿ in biostatistics, but `Failure data that area; others work on problems related analysis¿ in finance. This updated title will AMS 595: Fundamentals of Computing to their interests, if possible. Efficient and reflect the content of the course clearly for students from all tracks. Introduction to UNIX operating system, effective use of computers. Each student C language, graphics, and parallel gives at least one informal lecture to his or 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) supercomputing. her colleagues on a research problem and its Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) statistical aspects. AMS 589: Quantitative Genetics 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Definition of relevant terminology. Statistical AMS 596: Fundamentals of Large- May be repeated for credit. and genetic models for inheritance of Scale Computing quantitative traits. Estimation of effects of Overview of the design and maintenance AMS 586: Time Series selection, dominance polygenes, epistatis, and of large scale computer projects in Analysis in the frequency domain. environment. Linkage studies and threshold characteristics. applied mathematics, including basic Periodograms, approximate tests, relation to programming techniques for massively parallel regression theory. Pre-whitening and digital Spring, odd years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, supercomputers. fibers. Common data windows. Fast Fourier A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: AMS 595 or permission of transforms. Complex demodulation, Gibbs' instructor phenomenon issues. Time-domain analysis. AMS 591: Topics for M.S. Students Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Various topics of current interest in applied mathematics will be offered if sufficient AMS 597: Statistical Computing AMS 587: Nonparametric Statistics interest is shown. Several topics may be taught concurrently in different sections. Introduction to statistical computing using This course covers the applied nonparametric SAS and S plus. statistical procedures: one-sample Wilcoxon 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) tests, two-sample Wilcoxon tests, runs May be repeated for credit. test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Kendall's tau, AMS 598: Big Data Analysis Spearman's rho, Hodges-Lehman estimation, AMS 592: Mathematical Methods of Friedman analysis of variance on ranks. The Finance and Investments I The rapid advancement of modern course gives the theoretical underpinnings A broad-based course in mathematical technologies in all walks of research and to these procedures, showing how existing modeling and quantitative analysis of financial business has introduced tremendous amount techniques may be extended and new transactions and investment management of data and the related big data mining tasks techniques developed. An excursion into the issues such as debt and equity, measures of such as real-time credit card processing and new problems of multivariate nonparametric risk and returns, efficient markets and efficient fraud detection, high dimensional RNA inference is made. set mathematics, asset pricing, one-factor and sequencing analysis, and risk management of high frequency trading data measured in Prerequisites: AMS 312 and AMS 572 or multiple-factor models, portfolio selection, futures and options. milliseconds. Traditional data processing and equivalents analysis techniques are no longer adequate Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) -- they have to be revised and customized to parallel computing paradigms, at the same AMS 588: Failure and Survival Data AMS 593: Interest Rate and Credit time, modern data mining tools are being Analysis Modeling

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 12 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 created and evolved, at their own fast pace, guarantees sustainability, in environmental and stability; solutions of linear, nonlinear steady- to accommodate the analysis of various big humanitarian sense, and providing a company's state, and dynamic problems; implicit and data problems. This course is subsequently long term potential to compete and succeed. explicit time integration; equivalence of finite- created to enable the timely education of a Offered in Fall. element and finite-difference methods. new generation of competent data analysts. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course introduces the application of the supercomputing to statistical data analyses, AMS 601: Risk Management and AMS 641: Special Topics in particularly on big data. Implementations Business Risk Control in BRIC Mathematical Programming of various statistical methodologies Countries The course is designed for second- and within parallel computing framework are Introduction to the challenges and third-year graduate students with a strong demonstrated through all lectures. The course opportunities in investing in the BRIC foundation in linear algebra and analysis will cover (1) parallel computing basics, countries Brazil, Russia, India, and China, who wish to pursue research in applied including architecture on interconnection with emphasis in the risk assessment, control mathematics. Varying topics from nonlinear networks, communications methodologies, and management. Opportunities in investing programming and optimization to applied algorithm and performance measurements, in BRIC: growth in infrastructure, middle graph theory and applied combinatorics may and (2) their applications to modern data class demand, educated cheap workforce, be offered concurrently. mining techniques, including modern variable potential for outsourcing work, high risk/ 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) selection/Dimension reduction, linear/logistical high reward. Risks facing investors in BRIC: May be repeated for credit. regression, tree-based classification methods, strategic, operational, political, market risk, Kernel-based methods, non-linear statistical credit risks. Cultural barriers: family owned AMS 644: Special Topics in Applied models, and model inference/Resampling businesses, lack of business professionalism, Probability methods. Prerequisites: AMS 572, AMS 573 poor transparency and disclosures of business and AMS 578 The course is designed for second- and third- practices, shallow and volatile markets, year graduate students with a background Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) unstable macro-economics policies, tardy in probability and stochastic modeling who legal system. Responsibilities of investors wish to pursue research in applications of AMS 599: Research in the BRIC countries: helping the BRIC the probability theory. Several topics may be Thesis research for Doctoral students who governments and corporations in smooth taught concurrently in different sections. have not yet advanced to candidacy. Master's transition to global markets and to developed Prerequisites: AMS 550 and permission of students may also enroll, but must have status, providing co-ordination and transfer instructor approval from a faculty advisor before of business knowledge and technology from Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) registering. Pre-requisite: Student must obtain risk professionals in developed countries to May be repeated for credit. consent from individual faculty advisor in emerging markets. Offered in Fall. order to register for AMS 599 under his/her 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) AMS 651: Nonlinear Analysis and section. 1-12 credits, S/U grading, may be Optimization repeated for credit. AMS 603: Risk Measures For Finance Iterative methods for solving nonlinear & Data Analysis 1-12 credits, S/U grading operator equations. Frechet differentials. The May be repeated for credit. Risk analysis is important to quantitative Newton-Raphson method in function space finance, insurance, commercial credit and and nonlinear boundary value problems. The AMS 600: Socially Responsible many areas of data analysis. We emphasize Courant penalty concept and constrained Investing risk analysis methods that capture observed optimization. General multiplier rules. Introduction to a scope of investments features of risk, such as heavy tails, and Variable metric gradient projection for which are socially responsible because of validation of risk models against observed nonlinear least-square methods, with the nature of the business the company data. Students will be graded on the basis of applications. conducts, including but not limited to: projects drawn from multiple asset classes 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) avoiding investment in companies that considered in the course work, including fixed produce or sell addictive substances (like income, options, portfolio optimization and AMS 652: Special Topics in Game alcohol, gambling, and tobacco) and seeking foreign exchange. Professional standards for Theory out companies engaged in environmental software development will be followed. Guest sustainability. The course includes analysis lectures by industry leaders will be included. The course is designed for second- and third- of investments strategies maximizing Participation via conferencing software will year graduate students who wish to specialize financial return as well as social goods, be available. The course is open to all AMS in the mathematical theory of games. such as: (i) Negative Screening: excluding graduate students and, with the instructor's 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) securities with potentially social and/or permission, to CEAS graduate students. May be repeated for credit. environmental harmful characteristics; (ii) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) AMS 670: Special Topics in Probability Shareholder activism: activities steering the May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. management towards enhancing the well being and Mathematical Statistics of the stockholders, customers, employees, AMS 621: Finite Element Methods for The course is designed for second- and vendors, and communities. (iii) Positive Partial Differential Equations third-year graduate students with a strong investing: making investments in activities Variational form of the problem, Ritz foundation in analysis and statistics who wish and companies believed to have a positive Galerkins, collocation, and mixed methods; to pursue research in mathematical statistics. impact on issues such as social justice and triangular, rectangular (2-D), and tetrahedral Several topics may be taught concurrently in the environment through stock selection, that (3-D) elements; accuracy, convergence, and different sections.

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3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Applied Mathematics Approximate Methods U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the May be repeated for credit. in Boundary Value Problems in Applied option of the health plan and may also enroll Mathematics Control Theory and Optimization in MEDEX. International students who are AMS 675: Special Topics in Applied Foundations of Passive Systems Theory Game in their home country are not covered by Statistics Theory Mixed Boundary Value Problems mandatory health plan and must contact the The course is designed for second- and third- in Elasticity Partial Differential Equations Insurance Office for the insurance charge to year students with a strong foundation in Quantitative Genetics Stochastic Modeling be removed. International students who are statistical analysis who wish to pursue research 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) not in their home country are charged for the in applied statistics. May be repeated for credit. mandatory health insurance. If they are to be 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) covered by another insurance plan they must May be repeated for credit. AMS 695: Special Topics in Numerical file a waiver be second week of classes. The Analysis and Scientific Computing charge will only be removed if other plan is AMS 676: Internship in Applied Analysis and Scientific Computing deemed comparable. Mathematics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) All international students must received Directed research and/or practical experience May be repeated for credit. clearance from an International Advisor. in industry, financial and consulting firms, Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading and research institutions. Students are required AMS 696: Applied Mathematics May be repeated for credit. to have a department faculty adviser who Seminar AMS 800: SUMMER RESEARCH coordinates and supervises the internship. 0-3 Credits, S/U Grading, May be repeated for Submission of the final report is required. credit. May be repeated for credit. 1-9 credits, S/U grading 0-3 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. ANT AMS 683: Biological Physics & AMS 698: Practicum in Teaching Biophysical Chemistry: Theoretical Anthropology, Cultural and Undergraduate teaching to be supervised by a Perspectives Archaeology faculty member of the Applied Mathematics This course will survey a selected number and Statistics program. Course to be identified of topics in biological physics and ANT 501: Development of by the student and Graduate Program Director. Anthropological Theory biophysical chemistry. The emphasis is on May be repeated for credit the understanding of physical organization Survey of the development of anthropological 3 credits, S/U grading principles and fundamental mechanisms theory from the 19th century to the present. May be repeated for credit. involved in the biological process. The This course is offered as both ANT 501 and DPA 501. potential topics include: Protein Folding, AMS 699: Dissertation Research on Protein Dynamics, Biomolecular Interactions Campus Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and Recognition, Electron and Proton Transfer, etc.) Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Motors, Membranes, Single Molecules and (G5). Major portion of research must take Single Cells, Cellular Networks, Development ANT 502: Social Ecology place on SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, and Differentiation, Brains and Neural or at the Brookhaven National Lab. This course explores theoretical and Systems, Evolution. There will be no methodological issues in the study of homework or exams. The grades will be Fall, Spring, and Summer, 0-9 credits, S/U human social activity and its relationship based on the performance of the term projects. grading to ecological systems and the environment. Crosslisted with PHY 680 and CHE 683. May be repeated for credit. Readings include both classic studies as well as contemporary research, with particular 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) AMS 700: Dissertation Research off emphasis placed on the various dimensions Campus - Domestic AMS 690: Special Topics in Differential and scales of social organization and activity, Equations and Applied Analysis Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy and on the role of cultural, religious, and (G5). Major portion of research will take place The course is designed for second- and political institutions in shaping ecological off-campus, but in the United States and/ third-year graduate students with a strong relationship as well as economic behavior. or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven foundation in analysis who wish to pursue 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab research in applied mathematics. Several are considered on-campus. All international topics may be taught concurrently in different ANT 503: Social Organization students must enroll in one of the graduate sections. student insurance plans and should be advised This course explores theoretical models 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) by an International Advisor. and empirical observations of human social May be repeated for credit. organization in a comparative perspective, Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading including such topics as demography and AMS 691: Topics in Applied May be repeated for credit. behavioral ecology, kinship and marriage, Mathematics reciprocal exchange, and political dimensions AMS 701: Dissertation Research off of resource mobilization in small-scale as Varying topics selected from the list below Campus - International if sufficient interest is shown. Several topics well as complex societies. Organized around Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy may be taught concurrently in different different layers of human sociality, the (G5). Major portion of research will take sections: Advanced Operational Methods in course examines social dependence among place outside of the United States and/or

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 14 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 humans and nonhuman primates, evolutionary Components- laboratory, lecture, and ANT 508: Paleoanthropological Field explanations for human mating strategies, recitation. Methods in the Turkana Basin cooperation in child-rearing, paradigms of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course is one of three that constitutes the descent and affinity, and the dynamics of Turkana Basin Institute Summer Field School, hierarchy and alliance in egalitarian cultures as ANT 506: Human Evolution the an opportunity to participate in all aspects well as stratified states. Turkana Basin of a paleoanthropological research project, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The Turkana Basin is home to many focusing on practical aspects of vertebrate paleoanthropological discoveries that paleontology, geology, zooarchaeology ANT 504: Ecology of the Turkana Basin fundamentally reshape ideas about human and taphonomy. Students are trained in This course introduces students to the evolution. Important finds from the Turkana field reconnaissance, fossil survey, plotting, fundamental principles and techniques of Basin, including Nariokotome ("Turkana preservation, and collection, analysis and field ecology in the context of the modern Boy") and KNM-WT 17000 (the "Black interpretation. Hands-on examination of fossils East African Lake Turkana environment. Skull") will be highlighted in lectures and lab from Plio-Pleistocene or Holocene sites around The course includes a mixture of fieldwork, activities, and their relevance to the larger Lake Turkana will teach students how human lectures, seminars, readings, presentations, and picture of human evolution will be explored. ancestors and other animals adapted to the independent research and writing assignments. Lectures and readings for each discovery environments around them. Experts from TBI, Emphasis will be on identification of common will cover: 1) the research questions and Stony Brook, and other institutions provide and important species around and near the strategies that led to the find; 2) the kinds of instruction in lectures, labs, and via fieldwork Turkana Basin Institute (TBI) at Turkwel analyses that have yielded the most important within the context of on-going projects. as well as the recognition of important interpretive conclusions about the find; 3) how 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) evolutionary and ecological patterns and this discovery reshaped views of the human May be repeated for credit. issues. Fieldwork focuses on plants and past; 4) what new directions it catalyzed in insects and aims to generate useful baseline human evolutions research. Class activities ANT 509: Seminar in European data for longer term studies. Students will consists of lectures, field and laboratory Ethnography be introduced to some basic ecological exercises (reconstructions, measurements) Investigation and discussion of selected topics monitoring methods for plant and insect using casts of a wide range of primate fossils, and problems concerning European societies communities such as topics including and field trip to locations. Students will learn and cultures. The perspectives of culture mutualism, phenology, invasive species how to classify and identify fossils. Graded history and current fieldwork are employed. and restoration ecology. We will be looking work includes fieldwork and lab assignments, This course is offered as both ANT 509 and closely at adaptation to heat stress/high independent research assignments, quizzes DPA 509. temperatures during this module as well as and a final exam. Semesters offered- Fall and Fall, 3 credits, S/U grading simple systems around TBI. Students will be Spring. Components- laboratory, lecture, and May be repeated for credit. exposed to a variety of habitats including the recitation. riverine forests and dryland grassland areas 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ANT 510: Environments, Ecosystems around the Turkana Basin Institute as well and Evolution: Evidence from the as the rich freshwater and island systems of ANT 507: Archaeology of the Turkana Turkana Basin Lake Turkana. Semesters offered- Fall and Basin An introduction to the ways scientists use Spring. Components- laboratory, lecture, and This course familiarizes students with the fossil and archaeological records to learn recitation. Africa Stone Age archaeology through class about past changes in Earth's climates and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) lectures and lab exercises. Students learn environments, and how humanity's ancestors how archaeologists document the behavioral responded to those changes physiologically ANT 505: Vertebrate Paleontology & characteristics of early humans in Africa and technologically. Interdisciplinary lectures Paleoecology of the Turkana Basin through study of material cultural evidence. will show evidence from the Turkana Basin's Vertebrate fossils are important sources of During field excursions, they learn diverse paleoenvironmental, fossil and archaeological information about the appearance, evolution, methods of survey and excavation techniques records of the dynamic interactions between and extinction of major organisms. As appropriate for different sites and contexts. the climate, environment, local food webs, such, they provide a valuable window onto Primary areas of discussion throughout and ancient human populations. This changes in climate and selection pressures, the coursework include the question of the background will prepare students for training and organisms' diverse adaptive responses to cognitive status of early humans implied by in paleoanthropological and archaeological these changes. They are also significant in their technologies and the evolution of human field methods. placing hominid discoveries within a relative adaptation from an evolutionary perspective, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) local chronology, and helping reconstruct exploring the relationship between stone tool May be repeated for credit. environments associated with hominid technology, paleoenvironments, hominin fluids. This course acquaints students with species, and cognitive evolution. Graded ANT 511: Paleolithic Archaeology laboratory and field methods of paleontology work includes fieldwork and lab assignments, A survey of the archaeological record of employed in different chronological contexts independent research assignments, quizzes foraging peoples in Africa, Europe, and of the Turkana Basin, used to solve diverse and a final exam. Semesters offered- Fall and Asia prior to the emergence of agriculture. theoretical questions. Graded work includes Spring. Components- laboratory, lecture, and The course emphasizes particular problems fieldwork and lab assignments, independent recitation. including the relationship between behavioral research assignments, quizzes and a final 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and biological change, different adaptive exam. Semesters offered- Fall and Spring. strategies in temperate and tropical zones, the

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 15 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 origins of modern humans, and the emergence today. This course is offered as both ANT 515 Concepts and principles of social and cultural of complex hunter-gatherer societies. This and DPA 515. anthropology; historical background, structure course is offered as both ANT 511 and DPA Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and function, social processes, transactions, 511. culture, communication, continuity, and other Prerequisite: Any other archaeology course. ANT 516: Research Design in change; topics and problems of contemporary Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Archaeology interest. Some ethnographic monographs are An examination of the ways in which discussed in terms of their relevance to the ANT 512: Comparative Civilizations archaeologists develop successful research general concepts and principles treated in the A comparative study of the processes of strategies for arriving at answers to the key seminar. This course is offered as both ANT sociocultural evolution from the beginnings questions in the field. Students will analyze 520 and DPA 520. of sedentary life to the achievement of early grant proposals that received funding from Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) civilization in the Near East, Egypt, the the major sources of funding for archaeology Indus Valley, China, Mesoamerica, and the before developing research proposals of their ANT 525: Research Areas in Andean area. The seminar covers such topics own. The aim of the course is to provide the Anthropological Sciences as urbanization, demography, irrigation, class with the skills needed to plan their future An overview of the current research areas of craft specialization, militarism, and trade and and compete successfully for funding both for the Anthropological Sciences as represented exchange. This course is offered as both ANT their thesis research and in their future careers. in the Master's Program of the Department 512 and DPA 512. Fall, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter graded of Anthropology. All first-year students are Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission (A, A-, B+, etc.) expected to participate. Semesters offered: Fall of instructor 0-2 credits, S/U grading Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, ANT 517: Primitive Technology May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. etc.) An introduction to the technology of hunter-gatherers. The course examines how ANT 526: The Use of Remote Sensing ANT 513: Origins of Agriculture archaeologists use both ethnographic and and GIS in Environmental Analysis This course will trace the history of experimentation to shed light on prehistoric An introduction to the use of aerial and anthropological thought on the origins of human technological adaptations. Techniques satellite imagery in environmental analysis and agriculture and will assess the evidence from for making and using primitive tools are the manipulation of geographic data sets of all the Old and New worlds for this economic practiced in weekly laboratory sessions. types using Geographic Information Systems. revolution. The course will not only explore Fall, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter graded This course is designed to teach students areas where early agriculture is evidenced, but (A, A-, B+, etc.) in archaeology, physical anthropology, will also contrast these areas with those where May be repeated for credit. and related disciplines, how satellite agriculture was a later development. Emphasis imagery combined with various maps can be will be on the environmental, technological, ANT 518: Lithic Technology manipulated using GIS software to perform biological, social, and cultural processes A detailed overview of the methods powerful geographic analysis. Although associated with the "Neolithic Revolution." archaeologists use to extract behavioral students are eventually likely to use these This course is offered as both ANT 513 and information from prehistoric stone tools. tools in many different parts of the world, this DPA 513. The course examines raw material economy, course focuses on Long Island as a research Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) technological strategies, tool use, and discard area, and each student designs and completes behavior. Analytical methods are practiced a research project on a particular section of ANT 514: Human Osteology through the computer-assisted analysis of stone the area, focusing on the habitats of local A detailed study of the anatomy of the tools from simulated archaeological sites. wildlife, the locations of archaeological sites, coastal regimes, etc. This course presumes human skeleton with special emphasis on Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, computer literacy and familiarity with database the interpretation of skeletal remains from etc.) archaeological contexts. Consideration is management. Offered as ANT 526 and DPA given to the growth, structure, and function ANT 519: Archaeozoology 526 or HPH 658. of bones, and to forensic aspects such as An introduction to the study of animal bones Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, the determination of age, sex, stature, and from archaeological sites. Special emphasis etc.) pathology from skeletal remains. Students is on identification of fragmented bone, ANT 527: Field Methods and conduct a research project on a human identification of bone surface modification, Techniques in Archaeology skeleton. calculation of indexes of abundance, and 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) measurement and metrical analysis of mammal The course will be held during the summer May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. bone. Computer analysis is stressed, and the only. It consists of field and laboratory work class seeks to synthesize traditional archaeo- on an aspect of Long Island's archaeological ANT 515: Theory and Method in zoology and actualistic studies. This course is heritage. Students' time is divided between Archaeology offered as both ANT 519 and DPA 519. surveying and excavation in the field and artifact analysis in the laboratory. Such Theoretical and methodological approaches Fall, odd years, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, techniques as map and air photo reading, employed in archaeology. The goals of the B+, etc.) course are to provide an historical perspective survey, instruments, stratigraphy, conservation, on the growth of theory and method in ANT 520: Principles of Social and typology construction, etc. are taught. archaeology and to examine in detail some Cultural Anthropology Students are exposed to the full range of of the pertinent research topics being studied excavation, survey, and laboratory methods

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 16 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 and techniques. This course is offered as both organization, economic structure and the role course is offered as both ANT 567 and DPA ANT 527 and DPA 527. played by religion. 567. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission Fall, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter graded Fall, odd years, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, of instructor (A, A-, B+, etc.) B+, etc.) Summer, even years, 3-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ANT 561: Peasant Societies and ANT 568: Hunters and Gatherers Cultures The course focuses on the relationship between ANT 536: Advanced Biostatistics and The concept of peasantry is examined from ecology and adaptation to explore the cross- Phylogenetic Comparative Methods political, religious, and social class viewpoints cultural diversity of hunter/gatherers. The The course will give an overview of as well as from the more traditional economic first part of the course looks at a number of fundamental biostatistical approaches in R. view. These agricultural peoples, who are key theoretic issues and debates that surround The first 6 courses give students in-depth essentially preliterate and preindustrial, are the study of hunter/gatherers. Once this knowledge about developing quantitative described and analyzed especially in relation foundation is laid, students learn about modern research designs using standard parametric, to the national societies of which they form a and historic hunter-gatherers from all the non-parametric and data reduction analyses in part. This course is offered as both ANT 561 major geographic regions of the world. This R. The next 8 courses introduce phylogenetic and DPA 561. overview draws on studies from behavioral comparative analyses, including approached Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, ecology, ethnoarchaeology and cultural to account for phylogenetic relatedness in etc.) anthropology. The focus of the course is standard parametric tests and ways to infer both to explore hunter/gatherer variation the evolutionary history of traits using rate ANT 562: Long Island Archaeology in relationship to their environment, and to analysis. Students are expected to become Life on Long Island and the surrounding give students an appreciation of the ways in proficient in R programming. The course will area from its first settlement by Native which hunter-gatherers have been historically involve substantial preparation and included 10 Americans 12,000 years ago until the end of documented. The course is designed to be take-home assignments. the nineteenth century. Trends and changes in applicable to archaeologists, anthropologists 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) human behavior are studied in the context of and to those in other disciplines who make May be repeated for credit. environmental and cultural processes affecting inferences about past ways of life. all of northeastern North America. Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, ANT 550: Theory and Methodology in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Primatology etc.) Comprehensive overview of the theory and ANT 573: Archaeology of Human methodology used in the study of primate ANT 564: Primate Evolution Dispersals behavioral ecology. Includes ecological field The taxonomic relationships and evolutionary A survey of the archaeological evidence for methods, behavioral observations, analytical history of primates as documented by their the dispersal of Homo sapiens during the Late techniques, nonparametric statistics as well as fossil record and structural and chemical Pleistocene epoch (128,000-130,000 years planning, presenting, and reviewing research. evidence. Emphasis on primates prior to the ago). Topics include African origin of Homo Offered as both ANT 550 and DPA 550. origin of the human lineage. This course is sapiens, dispersals into Eurasia, Australia, Fall, even years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, offered as ANT 564, DPA 564 and HBA 564. and the Americas, large mammal extinctions, origins of art, music, and symbolic behavior, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, even years, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, emergence of hunter-gatherers. A-, B+, etc.) ANT 559: Archaeology of Food Offered Explores the archaeological study of food ANT 565: Human Evolution Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and foodways. The emphasis is on the social A survey of the fossil record of hominid ANT 582: Comparative Anatomy of aspects of food, particularly its roles in evolution through the Pliocene and Pleistocene Primates past power structures, social relationships, with emphasis on the morphological structure conceptions of identity, ritual practices, and and function of locomotor, masticatory, The comparative anatomy of living primates. gender roles. Also covers the theoretical and and neural systems. Includes utilization of Laboratory work including evaluation of methodological approaches archaeologists use comparative anatomical material and an skeletal material and dissection (when to study food in the past. extensive cast collection. This course is offered possible) with emphasis on relating structural Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded as ANT 565, DPA 565 and HBA 565. diversity to behavior and biomechanics. This course is offered as both ANT 582 and DPA (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, even years, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, 582. A-, B+, etc.) ANT 560: Ancient Mesopotamia 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) An examination of the cultural history of ANT 567: Primate Behavior and May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Mesopotamia based on the archaeological, Ecology ANT 583: Human Demography textual and art historical record. Focusing A comparative approach to the behavior on the fourth through second millennia, and ecology of living lemurs, monkeys, and The study of human demography has had this course investigates both the long term apes. Emphasis is placed on sociobiological a long standing focus in anthropology, developmental process of this civilization, theory; life history strategies; morphological archaeology, economics and sociology for and ways to understand its settlement adaptations; comparisons of primate the simple reason that the distribution and systems, urban structure, social and political communities in Asia, Africa, Madagascar, and density of people fundamentally shapes South America; and primate conservation. This many other aspects of the human condition.

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Human Demography gives students an strategies. Recommended for students of G5 ANT 640: Research Seminar in overview of population dynamics both as status. Permission by Instructor Ethnography and Ethnology they change through time and differ across 0-1 credits, S/U grading This course is offered as both ANT 640 and cultures. The course starts with outlining the May be repeated for credit. DPA 640. history of population studies. Following this Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading introduction, the three major components ANT 593: Ethics in the Anthropological May be repeated for credit. of population change - fertility, mortality Sciences and migration - are explored in depth. We This course familiarizes students with the ANT 650: Research Seminar in then survey the seminal transitions in human major issues in the ethics of anthropological Archaeology demographic history from hunting and science, research and teaching. Students gathering to domestication and through discuss scientific and academic values ANT 680: Special Seminar modern postindustrial times. Drawing from the and how best to comply with them in Selected topics in cultural and social ethnographic, human ecology, demographic academic, field, and laboratory environments. anthropology. Topics reflect current interests and archaeological literature, students read and Overarching research ethics topics addressed of faculty and graduate students. This course is discuss human demography from a variety of include data management, scientific offered as both ANT 680 and DPA 680. perspectives. The course includes some simple misconduct, plagiarism, authorship, and computations and a lab. mentoring. This portion of the course Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, incorporates videos and readings from GRD May be repeated for credit. etc.) 500. Anthropology-specific topics include fieldwork, museum work, animal research, US ANT 800: Summer Research ANT 585: Prehistoric Peoples of the and international laws (biodiversity; cultural This course is offered as both ANT 800 and Americas & natural heritage), and public anthropology. DPA 800. ANT 585 Prehistoric Peoples of the Americas Anthropological Sciences faculty with S/U grading Life in the Americas from the first settlement particular expertise in these various areas lead May be repeated for credit. at the end of the Ice Age until the arrival these discussions. of the Europeans in the 15th and 16th 0-1 credits, S/U grading centuries. The culture, history, and evolution May be repeated for credit. ARH of prehistoric peoples of North, Central, Art History and South America are treated. Specific ANT 599: M.A. Thesis Research topics covered include settlement by North Fall, 0-6 credits, S/U grading ARH 501: Criticism, Theory, Practice: Americans, hunting-gathering lifeways, plant May be repeated for credit. From Artes Mechanicae to Artes and animal domestication, the origins of Liberales village life, and state-level societies. ANT 602: Research Seminar in An introduction to the history of art criticism Spring, odd years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Anthropological Theory A-, B+, etc.) and theory from Greek and Roman antiquity This course is offered as both ANT 602 and through the High Renaissance. The writings of DPA 602. ANT 591: Professional Skills in the artists, historians, theologians, philosophers, Anthropological Sciences, I. Fall and Spring, 0-12 credits, S/U grading and theorists will be considered not as abstract May be repeated for credit. and independent concepts but in relation to An overview of the skills necessary for artistic practice. Changing aesthetic values, scientific professionalism, with special ANT 610: Individual Research whether expressed verbally, or in patronage reference to successful performance in the acts, will be explored. Attention will be Anthropological Sciences. Topics covered Research supervised by faculty. Students must given to such theoretical concerns as the in this course include: use of basic software have permission of instructor and enroll in paragone, the disegno-colorito debate, the tools, research design, data collection and appropriate section. This course is offered as nature of artistic creation, and aesthetic values management, dissertation proposal and journal both ANT 610 and DPA 610. reflected in basic principles regarding form, article writing, oral and poster presentations, Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading color, composition, etc. In addition, we shall and professional conduct. This course is not May be repeated for credit. investigate the particular strategies, if any, an alternative to GRD 500. Recommended for employed by artists over the centuries to students of G0 through G4 status. Permission ANT 620: Research Seminar in Topical elevate their social, economic and intellectual by Instructor Problems This course is offered as both ANT 620 and status, in short, to promote the shift from 0-1 credits, S/U grading simple craftsman to divine genius. May be repeated for credit. DPA 620. Fall and Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, ANT 592: Professional Skills in the May be repeated for credit. etc.) Anthropological Sciences, II. ANT 630: Research Seminar in ARH 502: Methods & Interpretation in A development of additional professional skills Early Modernist Art Criticism & Theory necessary to master research and teaching Physical Anthropology A survey of European art criticism, theory, in the Anthropological Sciences including This course is offered as both ANT 630 and methodologies, and interpretation from 1750 career options and employment. Topics in DPA 630. to 1890, stressing relationships between this course include: the dissertation writing Fall and Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading art and the history of ideas. Study of visual process, review processes, job applications May be repeated for credit. materials will rely heavily on close readings and negotiations, tenure process, and teaching

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Secondary goals, ARH 542: Topics in Medieval Art ranging over stylistic analysis, iconographical pertinent to the study of art history any period, A topic in medieval art or architecture, such interpretations, and theoretical studies. are to acquire analytic skills in interpreting as early medieval manuscript illumination, Students are expected to undertake original source material by explicating such writings ornament and design, or the Gothic cathedral, research and interpretation. closely, to place them in context with each is selected and explored during the semester Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, other (intertextuality) and the in lectures, discussions, and student reports or Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) papers. May be repeated for credit. Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, ARH 503: History of 20th-Century Art Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ARH 547: Topics in Global, Colonial, Criticism and Theory May be repeated for credit. and Diasporic Art The literature of art has expanded enormously This course examines various issues in the in the 20th century-far beyond attempts to ARH 543: Topics in Renaissance Art appreciation, interpretation and appropriation organize it developmentally or conceptually. This course, usually a seminar, deals with of non-Western art. Emphasis is on developing An attempt is made to define types of criticism one or several of the following aspects of a critical approach to these arts and the manner both in relation to the critics and their relation Renaissance art: iconographic problems, style in which they have been represented and to the support system for the arts of which they and connoisseurship (including the study of misrepresented in the Western imagination. are part. individual works at the Metropolitan Museum Topics vary, but may include exploration Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, or the Frick), patronage and its effect on the of themes in the so-called traditional arts of etc.) form and content of a work, the exchange of Africa, Oceania, Native and Latin America, artistic ideas between northern and southern the transformations of these arts during the ARH 540: Methodologies of Art History Europe, and Renaissance sources in antiquity colonial period, issues of identity and the This graduate seminar is designed to engage and the Middle Ages. consequences of dislocation versus sense students with the history and methods of Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, of place in the diaspora, and contemporary the discipline of art history. Through close Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) expressions of non-Western artists on the readings and focused discussions, the course May be repeated for credit. global scene. examines issues raised by aesthetics, the Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, problems of biography and 'periodization', ARH 544: Topics in Early Modern Art Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and the role of canon formation. Particular This seminar examines methodological May be repeated for credit. focus is directed towards the interpretive developments and historical issues related to tools that have developed from within the the art and visual culture of the early modern ARH 548: Museum Studies discipline of art. In addition, also stressed period. Though we are concerned with objects, Through a combination of field trips, visiting is the interdisciplinary nature of art history discourses, and practices emerging in the lecturers, group discussion, and student through readings that discuss how lines seventeenth century, we also approach these projects, the course surveys the diverse aspects of thought and critical inquiry emerging through the perspective of contemporary of the museum field, including management, within other disciplines have had enormous critical tools (for example, theories of curatorship, exhibitions, public relations, influence on art history and criticism in the urban space, spectacle, and representation; conservation, and other areas of administration last two decades: semiotics, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, sexuality and subjectivity; and professional practice. psychoanalysis, anthropology and post colonial coloniality and the encounter with New world 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) theory, cultural studies, theories of mass otherness; semiotics and the construction of culture and the post-modern, and the current absolutist power). Students are encouraged to ARH 549: Topics in American Visual debates about visual culture. engage with these issues through the study of Culture 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) traditional high art objects as well as through This course examines selected issues in the other forms of representation emerging in the history of American art and material culture. ARH 541: Topics in Ancient Art early modern period-for example, scientific The course focuses upon, but is not necessarily This course deals with a variety of topics illustration, more ephemeral forms of print limited to, the United States. Topics include relating to ancient art and its influence culture, and even urban and courtly spectacle. public art and public culture; approaches on later European art and artistic theory. Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, to the study of material culture; art and Areas explored include ancient art history, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) commercial and/or popular culture; art and aesthetics, and comparative criticism; Roman May be repeated for credit. regional locations; realism; imaging the West; uses of Greek art; pagan imagery in early cross-cultural exchanges in art of the United Christian and medieval art; antique art ARH 545: Topics in 19th-Century Art States. (May be used to fulfill 20th-century and the Renaissance (use of prototypes); Selected topics in 19th-century art with an requirement when material deals with 20th- collecting antiquities (from the Medici emphasis on century art.) to Getty); archaeological exploration and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, publication in the 18th and 19th centuries; May be repeated for credit. Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) French neoclassicism; and the calligraphy May be repeated for credit. of Greek vases (Hamilton, Blake, Flaxman, ARH 546: Topics in 20th-Century Art Ingres, Picasso).

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ARH 550: Inquiries into Art Criticism be understood as both a manifestation of ARH 595: Directed Readings in Art and Theory contemporary society and in terms of its larger History, Criticism, and Theory This course deals with the theoretical art historical context and significance. The An independent reading course to be arranged approaches to the study of art that cross New York art scene is the richest in the world. with a particular faculty member. Normally, historical boundaries. Topics vary from The class offers the student the opportunity for this course is reserved for second year semester to semester. They may be an direct, informed contact with it. Masters Students who have fulfilled most expansion of one of the areas generally 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of their course requirements and for whom covered in ARH 540, such as psychology of the proposed program of study cannot be art or the iconography of architecture. Other ARH 554: Topics in Visual Culture completed within other existing course investigations may focus on subjects requiring This class examines issues in the structures. a special methodological approach, such as the interdisciplinary field of visual culture. Visual Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, theory and history of ornament and design or culture studies look at the dynamic state of A-, B+, etc.) the role of public art. visual media in contemporary life and their May be repeated for credit. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, historical origins, seeking to relate art and film B+, etc.) to the mass media and digital culture. ARH 598: Thesis May be repeated for credit. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Prerequisite: Completion of all degree B+, etc.) requirements Fall, Spring and ARH 551: Theories of Performance May be repeated for credit. Summer, 1-6 credits, S/U grading This course examines different theories of May be repeated for credit. performance as they relate to theatre and ARH 570: Issues in Architectural everyday life. Students explore ways of History and Criticism ARH 602: Teaching Practicum, thinking about the performing body and This course examines a series of topics that Advanced different modes of cultural expression. There link architecture with other critical disciplines. Instruction in the department by advanced is a performing component to the course in Among the topics that may be addressed graduate students under the supervision of addition to a final paper. are architectural theory and the theories of faculty. language; the history of proportion and the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, S/U grading construction of gender; and Orientalism. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, ARH 551: Topics in Performance Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ARH 690: Directed Readings for The histories and theories of performance May be repeated for credit. Doctoral Candidates are explored. Topics may be the performing An independent reading course to be arranged ARH 580: Art Criticism or Gallery body, performance and political action, avant- with a particular faculty member. Normally, Internship garde performance, performing and artifact, this course is reserved for advanced PhD. virtual performance, performance and identity. An internship offering practical experience students who have fulfilled most of their Depending on the topic, there may be a in some aspect of the field of art history and course requirements and for whom the performance and/or computer based projects. criticism, such as gallery and curatorial work proposed program of study cannot be 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in an on-campus or off-campus gallery or completed within other existing course museum, or journalistic experience with an structures. ARH 552: Topics in Contemporary Art art or criticism publication such as the Art Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, department journal Art Criticism. The course will examine the latest A-, B+, etc.) developments in visual art and architecture, Prerequisite: Good standing in the graduate May be repeated for credit. beginning with the Neo-Expressionism art history and criticism program and Neo-Conceptualism of the 1980s Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading ARH 699: Dissertation Research on and extending to installation and video May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Campus art. Postmodernist and activist art will Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy ARH 591: Practicum in the Writing of be examined in particular detail, and (G5). Major portion of research must take Art Criticism contextualized in terms of the broader patterns place on SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, of 20th century art. This course is designed as a practicum in the or at the Brookhaven National Lab. writing of art criticism under the supervision of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U the faculty. May be repeated for credit. grading Fall and Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. ARH 553: Contemporary Art in New May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. York ARH 700: Dissertation Research off A systematic survey of contemporary art ARH 592: Practicum in Teaching Campus - Domestic on view in museums and galleries in New Instruction in the department under the Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy York. The class would alternate between supervision of the faculty. (This course may (G5). Major portion of research will take place gallery/museum visits and interpretative not be included more than once in the courses off-campus, but in the United States and/ analyses of the work in the classroom. A taken in fulfillment of the 36 credit hour or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven variety of theoretical approaches will be used requirement.) National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab and the full range of contemporary pluralism Fall and Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading are considered on-campus. All international will be examined. Contemporary art will students must enroll in one of the graduate

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 20 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 student insurance plans and should be advised graduate student's own practice. It will also Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, by an International Advisor. analyze the unique possibilities of this hybrid A-, B+, etc.) Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading and developing art form through theoretical May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. readings and examination of recent works, exhibitions, festivals, and the worldwide web. ARS 550: In Process Critique ARH 701: Dissertation Research off This course has an associated fee. Please see Graduate theory and practice of art, Campus - International www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more investigating historical and contemporary Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy information. concepts, concentrating on individual (G5). Major portion of research will take Prerequisite: Accepted candidate for M.F.A. development as an artist. Conceptual, place outside of the United States and/or or permission of department environmental and wide ranging solutions are U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, encouraged. Required for first year MFA's, option of the health plan and may also enroll A-, B+, etc.) this course culminates in a body of work for in MEDEX. International students who are May be repeated for credit. the end of the year First Year Exhibition. The in their home country are not covered by course also provides students with vigorous mandatory health plan and must contact the ARS 530: Professional Experience critical feedback throughout this process, Insurance Office for the insurance charge to Internship augmenting it with readings and discussions of be removed. International students who are Internship in the professional art world of New related New York City exhibitions in galleries not in their home country are charged for the York City and its environs. Depending on the and museums to inform the development of mandatory health insurance. If they are to be career objectives of the M.F.A. candidate, the their work. covered by another insurance plan they must student may choose to intern at a foundry, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, file a waiver be second week of classes. The printmaking atelier, art gallery or museum, etc.) charge will only be removed if other plan is known artist's studio, or related facility or May be repeated for credit. deemed comparable. institution. ARS 551: Graduate Painting Studio All international students must received Prerequisite: Accepted candidate for M.F.A. clearance from an International Advisor. Summer, 1-3 credits, S/U grading Studio and theory in painting and related visual Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. forms, with instruction and facilities available May be repeated for credit. in all media and techniques; emphasis on ARS 531: Graduate Teaching individual development as an artist. Models ARH 800: Summer Research Practicum and space for environmental and conceptual works available. This course has an associated May be repeated for credit. Supervised teaching practicum in undergraduate studio or studio, theory course. fee. Please see www.stonybrook.edu/ coursefees for more information. Prerequisite: Accepted candidate for M.F.A. ARS Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading Prerequisites: Permission of instructor; May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. accepted candidate for M.F.A. or permission Art, Studio of department ARS 532: Thesis Project Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, ARS 520: Special Projects for M.F.A. Preparation of thesis under the program A-, B+, etc.) Candidates advisor. May be repeated for credit. Advanced projects in areas that may not be included in the M.F.A. curriculum, utilizing Prerequisites: Accepted candidate for M.F.A., ARS 560: Graduate Sculpture Studio review board passed the unique talents of regular and visiting Theory and practice of sculpture for the Summer, 1-6 credits, S/U grading faculty, the facilities of the Art department, or graduate student, with instruction and May be repeated for credit. other aspects of the university environment, facilities available in all media and techniques; and possibly facilities at other locations or ARS 535: Projects in Studio Art emphasis on individual development as an institutions. This course has an associated fee. artist. Studio facilities include air, electric, and Projects in studio art, field and media to be Please see www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees hydraulic power equipment; TIG, MIG, Arc, determined on a per semester basis by the for more information. Prerequisites: Faculty and flame welding; forging; woodworking; individual instructor. sponsor, permission of graduate studies modeling, molding, and casting facilities for director. 1-6 credits, clay, wax, plaster, and plastics; and metal Fall, Spring and May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. casting capabilities in investment, shell, sand, Summer, 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and centrifugal. This course has an associated ARS 540: Graduate Photo Studio etc.) fee. Please see www.stonybrook.edu/ May be repeated for credit. Photographic studio, theory, and laboratory coursefees for more information. emphasizing individual development as a Prerequisites: Permission of instructor; ARS 525: Electronic Media photographer. Color and black-and-white accepted candidate for M.F.A. or permission An exploration of the experimental artistic studios and darkrooms. Fine arts, reportage, of department practices utilizing computer and electronic illustration, commercial, and industrial. This Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, technologies: digital imaging, video and course has an associated fee. Please see A-, B+, etc.) audio, web and CD-Rom production, and www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more May be repeated for credit. interactive installation. It will provide practical information. Prerequisites: Demonstration of instruction in the use of computer media with appropriate level of proficiency, permission of ARS 561: Graduate Ceramics and/ or an orientation towards relating this to the instructor. Ceramic Sculpture Studio

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Theory and practice of ceramics and ceramic laboratory etiquette, the laboratory notebook, Fall, Spring, and Summer, 3-6 credits, S/U sculpture for the graduate student with experimental design, critical evaluation of grading emphasis on individual development as the literature, analysis and presentation of an artist. Advanced studio instruction in data, ethical issues, and basic experimental handbuilding: coil, slab, pinch; wheelthrowing; techniques used in biochemistry and cell BDA casting, inclusive of multipiece plaster pour- biology. Decision Analytics molds; various firing techniques: reduction, Prerequisites: Matriculation in MS program or oxidation, raku, and high- and low-fire glaze permission of instructor BDA 508: Advanced Analytics techniques. This course has an associated fee. Fall, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Please see www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for This course introduces students to challenging more information. BCB 552: Advanced Laboratory business problems in distribution, routing and scheduling, and to the solutions strategies for Prerequisites: Permission of instructor; Methods in Biochemistry and Cell such problem via discrete optimization. The accepted candidate for M.F.A. or permission Biology topics include integer programming techniques of department This course introduces theoretical principles such as cutting plane and branch and bound, Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, and experimental techniques used to special purpose algorithms for distribution and A-, B+, etc.) investigate the properties of biological network problems, and heuristic optimization May be repeated for credit. molecules and their interactions. Students techniques for combinatorial optimization, will familiarize themselves with the ARS 570: Graduate Printmaking Studio such as Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search, instrumentation and techniques used to Evolutionary Algorithms, Ant Colony Graduate studio in the theory and practice investigate different biochemical and cell Optimization. of printmaking. Color, black-and-white, biological problems through a combination of and photographic processes in plate and lectures and demonstrations. Various topics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) stone lithography, serigraphy, relief, and will be covered such as protein purification BDA 510: Advanced Data Analysis and intaglio, emphasizing the student's individual and characterization using spectroscropic Decision Making development as an artist. and thermodynamic techniques as well as By successfully completing this course, the Prerequisites: Permission of instructor; gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting; student will have an understanding of the ways accepted candidate for M.F.A. or permission identification of metabolites by mass in which advanced statistical methods are of department spectrometry; bioinformatics analysis of used to address significant decision-making Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, DNA deep sequencing data; electron and problems as they arise in the business setting. A-, B+, etc.) fluorescence microscopy and the use of Specifically, the student will understand the May be repeated for credit. zebrafish and nematodes to understand biological processes. various ways in which decision problems can be formulated and solved and how to deal with ARS 580: Visual Arts Seminar 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) violations of the assumptions commonly found Required seminar and critique throughout the in standard methods. The student will have a M.F.A. curriculum. Guest speakers, artists, and BCB 559: MS Research Practicum in Biochemistry and Cell Biology greater understanding of multivariate models critics; demonstrations and lectures; seminars; and ways to build them, and how to handle individual and group critiques. The M.F.A. The student will be introduced to modern data collected over time in looking for trends candidate, as part of this seminar, regularly biochemical and cell biological research and in making predictions. participates in critiques in which his or her techniques through participation in ongoing work is analyzed by guest faculty and art research in the laboratory of a Biochemistry 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) history/criticism faculty and graduate students, and Cell Biology or associated faculty BDA 513: Decision Analysis under as well as by his or her peers. The visual arts member for one semester. Student must obtain Uncertainty seminar, where applicable, includes field trips permission to register from the sponsoring and assignments of special lectures, panels, faculty member. This is a hands-on course on computer simulation and other probabilistic modeling seminars, and other events of the professional Prerequisite: Matriculation in MS program or approaches to analyze and improve business, art world. permission of instructor service, and manufacturing systems that Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Fall, Spring, and Summer, 0-4 credits, S/U are subject to risk. The course takes the A-, B+, etc.) grading perspective of the consultant whose job is May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. to analyze managerial decision based on ARS 800: Summer Research BCB 599: MS Thesis Research in imperfect observations and unknown outcomes Biochemistry and Cell Biology to understand the behavior of the system and explore the effects of alternative decisions. Thesis research will be conducted in the BCB laboratory of a Biochemistry and Cell Biology 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) or associated faculty member, including Biochemistry and Cell Biology potentially an internship under the guidance of an approved mentor in the laboratory of a BEE BCB 551: Introduction to Research in local biotechnology company. Student must Ecology and Evolution Biochemistry and Cell Biology identify and obtain permission to register from A series of talks, discussions, and practical the sponsoring faculty member. Prerequisite: BEE 500: Directed Readings in exercises to address topics related to research Matriculation in MS program or permission of Population Biology in biochemistry and cell biology including instructor Offered

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Directed readings in topics of current interest, as well as a final individual project that applies Fall, even years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, under supervision of a faculty sponsor, learned concepts and approaches to a novel A-, B+, etc.) culminating in one or more critical review research question. BEE 556: Research Areas of Ecology papers. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and Evolution Prerequisites: Sponsor and approval of etc.) master's program executive committee A description of the current research areas of Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading BEE 550: Principles of Ecology ecology and evolution, broadly conceived. All May be repeated for credit. Population dynamics, interactions of first-year ecology and evolution students are organisms, theoretical concepts of community expected to participate. BEE 501: Directed Readings in the structure and their biological and evolutionary Fall and Spring, 1-2 credits, S/U grading Biology of Organisms implications. May be repeated for credit. Directed readings in topics of current interest, Prerequisite: Permission of instructor BEE 558: Tutorial Readings under supervision of a faculty sponsor, Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) culminating in one or more critical review Individual tutorial study with an instructor papers. BEE 551: Principles of Evolution in the Graduate Program in Ecology and Prerequisite: Sponsor and approval of Biological evolution, including the genetics Evolution for the purpose of background master's program executive committee of populations, speciation, evolution of higher reading in an area of ecology and evolution. Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading taxa, and the fossil record. Fall and Spring, 1-4 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit.

BEE 510: Biology Education Research: BEE 552: Biometry BEE 559: Individual Studies in Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Organisms An intensive course in statistical theory and Introduction to core policy documents, methodology. The analysis of real biological A detailed study of the biology of a selected standards, concepts, and empirical methods data is emphasized. Topics include analysis systematic group chosen by the graduate in biology education research and their of variance, simple multiple and curvilinear student and a faculty member. This is applications to undergraduate classroom regression analysis, correlation analysis, and conducted as a tutorial course. settings. Appropriate for graduate students in goodness of fit tests. Fall and Spring, 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, the biological sciences and/or those enrolled in Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, A-, B+, etc.) the Ph.D. Program in Science Education. etc.) May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BEE 553: Multivariate Analysis in BEE 560: Advanced Ecology BEE 520: Advanced Human Genetics Biology This course will provide students with an An advanced course in human genetics. Topics An introduction to multivariate statistical understanding of the theoretical basis and include the genotype/phenotype association, analysis for biologists. Topics include general empirical tests of diverse advanced topics in genetic architecture of disease/phenotype, least squares analysis, MANOVA, cluster the field of ecology. The format includes both human population genetics, coalescent theory, analysis, and factor analysis. lectures and student-led discussions of primary methylation, and ancient DNA. The course literature. Prerequisite: BEE 552 or equivalent will emphasize hands-on engagement with Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) genetic data and critical reading of scientific May be repeated for credit. papers. Computer laboratory analysis/ BEE 554: Population Genetics and assignments will make up a major component Evolution BEE 562: Concepts and Methods in of this class. Students will be evaluated based Evolutionary Biology A general introduction to mathematical on computer assignments and a final individual The course aims at achieving two related research project. population genetics and evolutionary theory. The effects of mutation, recombination, objectives: first, to provide graduate students Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, selection, and migration are studied. Modern in Ecology & Evolution, other biology etc.) concepts in both theoretical and experimental departments, as well as Philosophy, with a population genetics are covered. basic understanding of the varied methods BEE 521: Genomics Lab (both experimental and statistical) that make Prerequisite: BEE 552 or equivalent, and a This course provides a computer lab-based up the body of evolutionary quantitative course in evolution introduction to comparative genomics, biology. The focus will be in particular on Spring, odd years, 0-3 credits, Letter graded molecular evolutionary analysis, and next quantitative genetics and its interface with (A, A-, B+, etc.) generation sequencing (NGS) data and more modern approaches, including QTL analysis. Activities will include familiarization BEE 555: Mathematical Methods in mapping, bioinformatics and the various with both web-based and command-line tools Population Biology "omics" (genomics, proteomics, etc.). for analyzing genomic data and summarizing/ Second, students will become familiar with This course covers a variety of mathematical visualizing results. Lectures and background the fundamental concepts of philosophy methods used in modern theoretical biology. reading will provide an introduction to basic of science, in particular as they relate to Topics include linear algebra and applications, principles of genomics to inform computer- the conceptual analysis of the ideas that ordinary and partial differential equations, based hands-on activities. A weekly recitation shape modern evolutionary and ecological and stochastic processes. Examples from will promote discussion. Students will be theory. In this respect, the focus will be population biology, i.e., mathematical ecology evaluated based on computer lab assignments, both on philosophical concepts such as and population genetics, are used throughout.

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 23 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 falsificationism, induction, deduction, the R packages R2WinBUGS and R2jags, Prerequisite: BEE 550; BEE 551, or hypothesis testing and the nature of evidence, respectively. Offered in the Fall. permission of instructor as well as on the meaning of key ideas in 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded evolutionary ecology, like natural selection, (A, A-, B+, etc.) genetic drift, and constraints. BEE 571: Ecology Laboratory BEE 576: Principles and Applications 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course stresses the collection, analysis, of Ecology and Evolution and interpretation of ecological data, mostly BEE 564: Geometric Morphometrics in terrestrial settings. Laboratory and field An overview of the principles of ecology and An introduction to theory and methods used exercises demonstrate the operation of general evolutionary biology, and the applications in geometric morphometrics. Image analysis, ecological principles in specific populations of these principles in conservation biology, outline methods, landmark methods, and shape and communities. environmental and health sciences, and resource management. The course will cover statistics are covered. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) fundamental concepts and research questions Prerequisite: BEE 552 or equivalent; BEE 553 in population, community, and ecosystem recommended BEE 572: Conservation Biology ecology; population genetics; and evolutionary Fall, even years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Society and individual lives are increasingly ecology. These principles will be discussed A-, B+, etc.) affected by environmental degradation at in the context of contemporary issues, such different scales. From the decline of local as global climate change, biodiversity loss, BEE 566: Horizons in Ecology and fisheries to global climate change, multiple environmental contaminants, infectious Evolution crises threaten the biodiversity and ecosystems diseases, invasive species, and management of The course is designed to provide beginning that sustain us humans. This course introduces ecological resources. Offered graduate students in Ecology and Evolution the scientific foundations of conservation with an extended perspective on current and biology, along with examples from real- Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) developing trends in this field. It will be based world conservation. The course reviews the BEE 577: Ecological Genetics on readings (empirical and review papers) and biological concepts that underlie conservation discussion on diverse topics. The hour-long including habitat requirements, population An introduction to the concepts, research class will meet on a weekly basis. Each class dynamics, biogeography, and population questions, and methods involved in modern session will be led by the faculty member with genetics. Analysis of case studies on the ecological genetics and genomics. The expertise in the scheduled topic of study. effects of human activities on biological course will provide a strong foundation and broad conceptual framework for students Offered: diversity and ecosystem services will be used planning to engage in empirical work in Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading to explore the interdisciplinary nature of the practice of conservation. This course will conservation, management, ecology, and BEE 567: Molecular Diversity prepare students for careers in environmental evolutionary biology. The course will cover Laboratory sciences and ecology. basic Mendelian genetics, meiosis, and mating systems, standard population genetics methods This course will provide hands-on experience Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, for describing variation within and between in established and recently developed methods A-, B+, etc.) populations, basic quantitative genetics, of detecting and analyzing molecular variation methods for molecular marker genotyping, (DNA, RNA, Proteins) in nature. Natural BEE 574: Landscape Ecology bioinformatic and genomic concepts, and populations of Drosophila melanogaster will Laboratory organism-specific methods and case studies, be the model material for this laboratory. The A computer lab course focusing on spatial including plant and animal ecological genetics. main theme of this course is that molecular concepts, methods, and tools for addressing variation is abundant in nature and is an environmental problems. The course will be 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) important tool for understanding adaptive based on fundamental concepts in ecology May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. evolution and species relationships. and environmental science and extend that BEE 584: Intermediate Statistics Prerequisite: permission of instructor knowledge, as well as teaching technical This is an intermediate-level course in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) skills, including the use of geographic information systems (GIS) software, image biostatistics, emphasizing the use of statistics BEE 569: Bayesian Data Analysis and processing, spatially explicit modeling, as a tool to answer scientific questions in Computation and spatial statistics. The lab exercises will ecology and other biological disciplines. Topics from introductory statistics courses An applied course in Bayesian analysis introduce a variety of spatial approaches will be explored in greater depth using the and hierarchical modeling for advanced for addressing problems in environmental R software package. Additional advanced graduate students in Ecology & Evolution protection, ecotoxicology, natural resource topics will include experimental design, or related sciences. Topics will include management, conservation biology and metaanalysis, general linear models, complex probability theory, Bayesian analysis, and wildlife management. regression, multifactor analysis of variance, MCMC methods such as Gibbs, sampling Offered and multivariate analyses. Within each topic, and Metropolis-Hastings sampling, as well as Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the assumptions of statistical tests will be applied issues regarding the choice of prior examined, as well as methods to cope with distributions, posterior convergence, censored BEE 575: Evolutionary Ecology violations of those assumptions. Students and missing data, and model checking and The approach is to understand the theoretical will develop skills in graphical display of comparison. The course will be taught basis and review empirical tests of diverse quantitative data, exploratory data analysis, using WinBUGS and JAGS as accessed via topics. The format includes both lectures and and critical evaluation of published statistical student-led discussions of primary literature. analyses. Students will use R software

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 24 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 throughout the course to develop their coding BEE 588: Current Topics in Ecology and numerical taxonomy, both phenetic and skills. and Evolution cladistic. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Subject matter varies from semester to Fall or Spring, alternate years, 0-2 credits, semester, depending upon the interests of Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BEE 585: Research Design and students and staff. May be repeated for credit. Analysis in Ecology and Evolution Fall and Spring, 2 credits, S/U grading BEE 692: Seminar on the Environment This course covers topics relevant to statistical May be repeated for credit. aspects of carrying out research in ecology and Human Affairs and evolution as well as interpreting the BEE 599: Research Student seminars on selected topics concerned results of one's own and others analyses, Original investigation undertaken with the with the effect of man on the environment. particularly in field data and for experimental supervision of a member of the staff. Application of ecological and evolutionary data in the lab and field. The topics include theory to the solution of human problems. Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading quantification of spatial pattern and spatial May be repeated for credit. Fall or Spring, 0-2 credits, Letter graded (A, heterogeneity, recognizing and accounting A-, B+, etc.) for indirect effects and artifacts, design and BEE 670: Informal Seminar May be repeated for credit. analysis of experiments, meta-analysis and Presentation of preliminary research results quantitative research synthesis. This course BEE 693: Seminar on Population and and current research problems by students and will also provide an introduction to ecological Community Ecology faculty. niche modeling and bioinformatics (focused Student seminars on selected topics in Fall and Spring, 0-2 credits, S/U grading on species and traits). We will review a population and community ecology. synthetic set of tools useful for a broad range May be repeated for credit. Fall or Spring, 0-2 credits, Letter graded (A, of questions in ecology and evolution. Offered BEE 671: Ecology and Evolution A-, B+, etc.) Fall, odd years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Colloquium May be repeated for credit. B+, etc.) A weekly series of research seminars presented BEE 695: Seminar on Ecological by visiting scientists as well as by the faculty. BEE 586: Introduction to Ecological Processes Modeling Required every semester of all ecology and evolution graduate students. Seminars on selected topics concerning This course will provide students with a ecological processes at the individual, Fall, 0-2 credits, S/U grading familiarity of the major concepts, approaches, population, community, ecosystem, and global May be repeated for credit. and underlying rationale for modeling in levels. the ecological sciences. Topics will include Offered reviews of theoretical and empirical models, BEE 672: Ecology and Evolution Fall and Spring, 0-2 credits, Letter graded (A, the use of models in adaptive management, Colloquium A-, B+, etc.) and how to confront models with data to A weekly series of research seminars presented May be repeated for credit. evaluate alternative hypotheses. Roughly by visiting scientists as well as by the faculty. Required every semester of all ecology and 1/3 of the course will be devoted to the BEE 699: Dissertation Research on evolution graduate students. use of models in management, focusing on Campus the problems of fitting models to data and Spring, 0-2 credits, S/U grading Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy management pitfalls that follow. Course work May be repeated for credit. will consist of readings, in class exercises, (G5). Major portion of research must take and group assignments that involve the BEE 689: Seminar on Adaptations of place on SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, construction, analysis, and interpretation of Marine Organisms or at the Brookhaven National Lab. ecological models. Seminars on selected topics concerning Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U Prerequisite: BEE 550, BEE 552; MAT 131 or ecological, genetical, and evolutionary grading equivalent; any statistics course. problems in the marine environment. May be repeated for credit. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Fall or Spring, alternate years, 0-2 credits, BEE 700: Dissertation Research off etc.) Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Campus - Domestic May be repeated for credit. BEE 587: Applied Ecology and Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Conservation Biology Laboratory BEE 690: Seminar on Evolutionary (G5). Major portion of research will take place A computer laboratory course introducing Processes off-campus, but in the United States and/ or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven students to ecological risk analysis and Seminars on selected topics concerning National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab conservation biology. Laboratories are based evolutionary processes. on interactive software. Computer simulation are considered on-campus. All international Fall or Spring, alternate years, 0-2 credits, techniques for addressing problems in applied students must enroll in one of the graduate Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ecology are emphasized. This course is co- student insurance plans and should be advised May be repeated for credit. scheduled with BEE 353 for Spring 2012. by an International Advisor. Prerequisites: A year of calculus; one-year BEE 691: Seminar on Systematics and Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading undergraduate biology course for majors Phylogeny May be repeated for credit. Spring, even years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Seminars on selected topics in systematics. BEE 701: Dissertation Research off A-, B+, etc.) Topics will include the theory of classification Campus - International

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Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy of genetics research, while also gaining an Original investigation undertaken with the (G5). Major portion of research will take in-depth understanding of selected important supervision of a member of the program. place outside of the United States and/or topics. Students explore the use of both Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the classical and molecular genetic approaches to May be repeated for credit. option of the health plan and may also enroll understand biological processes in genetics in MEDEX. International students who are model systems including yeast, flies, worms, BGE 657: Principles of Development in their home country are not covered by mouse, and man. This course deals with developing systems mandatory health plan and must contact the Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, at all levels from the morphological to the Insurance Office for the insurance charge to etc.) molecular. Illustrative material from both be removed. International students who are animal and plant kingdoms is used. Special not in their home country are charged for the BGE 530: Laboratory Rotation attention is given to gametogenesis, genetic mandatory health insurance. If they are to be The student rotates through laboratories control of early development, transcriptional covered by another insurance plan they must of four different genetics program faculty and translational control of protein synthesis, file a waiver be second week of classes. The members during the first year. The selection the role of cell division and cell movements, charge will only be removed if other plan is of the laboratories is made by the student, in and cell-to-cell interactions in defining deemed comparable. conjunction with individual faculty, and with developing systems. All international students must received the approval of the program director. By taking Prerequisite: MCB 656, matriculation in clearance from an International Advisor. part in ongoing projects, the student will learn graduate program or permission of instructor. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading experimental procedures and techniques and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. become acquainted with research opportunities in the participating programs. Prerequisite: BGE 691: Readings in Genetics BEE 800: Full-Time Summer Research Permission of instructor Journal Club on thematic topics in different May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 1-8 credits, S/U grading areas of current genetics research May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Fall and Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, BGE 531: Graduate Student Seminar in BGE B+, etc.) Genetics Genetics May be repeated for credit. Students have the opportunity to present their research to other students and faculty BGE 501: Foundations of Science BGE 693: Research Proposal on an annual basis. Students in the first or Communication I Preparation in Genetics second year will present brief seminars as A course, based upon literature in the broad In this team-taught, immersive science part of a one-day symposium with all of communication training, students will build field of Genetics, to instruct in scientific their classmates. Advanced students present writing and the preparation of research skills to passionately communicate in a research seminars as part of a weekly research way that excites, engages, and encourages proposals. In the first section of the course, seminar series that is attended by faculty and students will become familiar with the audiences to want to learn more about students. Although the first and second year their work. Improvisational theater-based components of a research proposal and will students do not present in this weekly seminar read and evaluate proposals written by the techniques are combined with message design series, they should attend these seminars as it strategies like distilling and storytelling, training faculty. Discussions guided by the provides an excellent mechanism for learning course co-directors will cover the basics enabling healthcare professionals, scientists, about current areas of research interest. and researchers to use strategy and spontaneity of scientific writing, research proposal to execute powerful communication in any Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading preparation, and the problems and concerns context. May be repeated for credit. commonly voiced by reviewers of research proposals. In the second section, students will 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BGE 534: Introduction to Systems develop and write a research proposal for the Biology student of a topic in genetics that is unrelated BGE 503: Foundations of Science This course is geared towards teaching to their graduate research. The students¿ skills Communication II essential concepts and computational skills in in proposal preparation will be enhanced by In this immersive science communication Systems Biology. The course is centered upon critiquing the draft proposals presented by training, participants who have completed two key programming languages: Matlab for other students in the course JRN 501 will continue their foundations in modeling applications and the R language for 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) science communication with explorations into statistical analysis and sequence manipulation. engaging with key audiences and the media, as Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, BGE 699: Dissertation Research on well as creating a presentation accompanied by Campus compelling visuals. etc.) Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BGE 550: Genetics Outside Seminar Major portion of research must take place on Outside seminars and special topics courses in SBU campus. BGE 510: Graduate Genetics areas relating to genetic studies. This course investigates fundamental aspects 1-9 credits, S/U grading of the transmission and expression of genetic 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. information in prokaryotic and eukaryotic BGE 700: Dissertation Research off systems. The course is organized in a way that BGE 599: Graduate Research Campus - Domestic allows the students to appreciate the breadth

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Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy these areas. The course is organized around emergence of humans as a uniquiely complex (G5). Major portion of research will take place two resources available online: Unseen Life species. Scientific hypothesis formation and off-campus, but in the United States and/or on Earth: An Introduction to Microbiology, testing using the extensive multidisciplinary U.S. provinces. All international students which was produced by The American Society empirical record of the 1.8 million years must enroll in one of the graduate student for Microbiology (http://www.learner.org/ of human history is developed throughout. insurance plans and should be advised by an resources/series121.html) and the New Implications of human evolutionary biology International Advisor. York State core curriculum for The Living for contemporary social and sexual behavior Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Environment (http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/ are also investigated. May be repeated for credit. mst/sci/ls.html) . Intended for the students This course is co-scheduled with BIO 558. in the MAT Science and MALS programs. Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B BGE 701: Dissertation Research off This course has an associated fee. Please see +, etc.) Campus - International www.stonybrook.edu/course fees for more May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy information. (G5). Major portion of research will take 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BIO 600: Practicum in Teaching place outside of the United States and/or Fall and Spring, S/U grading BIO 520: Topics in Genetics U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the May be repeated for credit. option of the health plan and may also enroll A survey of genetics organized around a in MEDEX. International students who are particular topic, including gene regulation, BIO 601: Practicum in Teaching in their home country are not covered by developmental genetics, cancer genetics, Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading mandatory health plan and must contact the epigenetics with emphasis on areas with May be repeated for credit. Insurance Office for the insurance charge to emerging new insight. The methodology used be removed. International students who are to study these areas will also be explored. not in their home country are charged for the Intended for students in the MAT Biology and mandatory health insurance. If they are to be PhD Science Education programs. BME covered by another insurance plan they must Offered Biomedical Engineering file a waiver by second week of classes. The Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) charge will only be removed if other plan is BME 501: Engineering Principles in deemed comparable. BIO 521: Laboratory Science Cell Biology All international students must received Curriculum Development Course content is directed toward describing clearance from an International Advisor. Development of curriculum materials the physico-chemical and biological Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading appropriate for a secondary school biology interactions within cells, and between cells May be repeated for credit. classroom. Students may take this course in and their environment. The course has their second semester of the Master of Arts in two main objectives: 1) to equip students BGE 800: Summer Research Teaching Science program. with essential knowledge and stimulate May be repeated for credit. Offered intuitive understanding of molecular and cell Fall and Spring, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, biology; 2) to introduce and develop common A-, B+, etc.) engineering concepts and approaches for BIO May be repeated for credit. quantitative analysis of physical-chemical systems in context of cell biology. The long- Biology BIO 542: Model Systems for the Living term goal is to help apply their knowledge of Environment molecular and cellular phenomena and the BIO 511: Topics in Biotechnology Introduction to microbial model systems used analytical techniques learned in this course An introduction to the field of biotechnology. in biological research such as yeast, nematodes to design and development of products and The course will survey the history of and slime molds. Particular attention will be processed for improving help and/or medical the development of genetic engineering, given to using these systems in the classroom care. Therefore, a major component of this methodologies used in biotechnology, to illustrate key concepts in introductory course will be an individual project requiring applications of biotechnology in medicine, biology. Students will read and discuss the development of a patent for a biomedical agriculture and manufacturing, and the research papers selected from the current device or process, which relies on one or more implications of these technologies for scientific literature. Topics to be covered of the biological (cell and molecular level) and society. Intended for the students in the include: life cycle, laboratory techniques and engineering principles covered in class. MAT Science and MALS programs. This design of inquiry-based investigations. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course has an associated fee. Please see Offered www.stonybrook.edu/course fees for more BME 502: Advanced Numerical & Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, information. Offered Computation Analysis Applied to etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Biological Systems etc.) BIO 558: Biological Basis of Human Numerical analyses of Biological Data. A Evolution and Behavior unified mathematical/time series framework BIO 515: Current Topics in A exploration of biological theories of human for modeling and mining biological data. Microbiology evolution, properties, and behavior. We build Applications range from cardio-respiratory, A survey of microbiology with an emphasis on an understanding of evolution of complex renal blood pressure/flow and sequence microbial ecology, the role of microbes in the organisms by natural selection, followed by the (DNA,RNA, proteins) to gene expression biosphere and the methodology used to explore data. Tools of data analysis include linear

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 27 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 algebra, interpolation and extrapolation, Course content revolves around the effects commercialization process ¿ how an idea parametric and nonparametric spectral and interactions of mechanical forces at the becomes a product. This includes evolving estimation with the FFT and singular value cellular and molecular level. The topics range business models, product development decomposition, statistical description of from describing the molecular and cellular cycles, regulatory issues, finance, managerial data and integration of ordinary differential basis of the adaptation of tissues to physical challenges and future trends in the life equations. Special focus will be placed on the signals, to prescribing specific mechanical sciences. Special focus will be placed on use of linear and nonlinear numerical methods environments for improved tissue engineering, preparing students to translate concepts for the identification of physiological system to delineating relevant molecular, cellular, presented in the course into commercial dynamics and the development of computer and biomechanical techniques, to issues analysis of a technology. Must be either BME simulation techniques to study dynamic involved in the development and approval or MBA Graduate Student (West Campus) response of physiological systems. Cannot be of diagnostics and therapeutics in molecular 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) repeated for credit. engineering. Course format is based on Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, lectures and discussion of the current literature. BME 512: Fundamentals of Bio- etc.) For a deeper understanding of the scientific Entrepreneurship literature, this course will contain a module on This course will build on topics presented in BME 503: Cell and Molecular Imaging the design and analysis of experiments (i.e., BME-511: Fundamentals of the Bioscience This course will cover basics of optics, applied biostatistics). Industry Program, and is a pre- or co-requisite microscopy, spectroscopy and fluorescence Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, for enrollment. Students will work through in the context of imaging at the cellular A-, B+, etc.) modules addressing each component of and molecular level. Recently developed the commercialization process including advanced imaging techniques for probing BME 509: Fundamentals of the intellectual property strategy, market analysis protein interactions and live cell functions are Bioscience Industry and opportunity, regulatory pathway and also discussed. The course is organized in 3 A 4-module course set up to provide students technology financing. Students will work modules: with a comprehensive introduction to the in groups to develop commercialization 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) complexities of the bioscience business reports based on real intellectual property environment. disclosures, preforming due diligence to BME 504: Biomaterials Science and Prerequisite: Must be either a BME or MBA identify areas of opportunity and challenges Analysis graduate student (West Campus). All other of their technologies. Based upon the Course content is directed toward providing students must obtain permission from the commercialization report, students¿ groups an introductory treatment of the engineering instructor. will create a hypothetical company, and evolve issues implicit in understanding living Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, their technology analyses into investor-like tissue interactions with processed materials. etc.) presentations delivered at a mock pitch session Emphasis on identifying and eliminating at the end of the term. surface contamination, corrosion, and BME 510: Biomechanics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) optimizing material surface properties and This course emphasizes the application of compatibility. continuum mechanics to living tissues and BME 513: Introduction To Optical & Terahertz Imaging Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, organs in order to describe the material etc.) properties and their behavior under loading This course provides the foundations for and stress. The interrelationship between advanced topics in modern optical imaging BME 505: Principles and Practice of biomechanics and physiology is examined in techniques, including nonlinear optics, Biomedical Engineering normal function and in disease processes. This Fourier optics, ultrafast time-domain and Introduces first year students to the basic course focuses on the physiology of tissue and terahertz spectroscopy and imaging. The and clinical research at the cutting edge of organ systems in the context of mechanics, emphasis will be on connecting theory to biomedical engineering. The course has stress, strain, viscoelasticity and material modern technological advancements and their two key components: the first is a seminar behavior, and the constitutive equations and biomedical applications. The course consists of series presented by internationally renowned the field equations governing fluids and fluid the following four general modules: Review of bioengineers. An interactive discussion of flow, with an emphasis on the cardiovascular fundamental Optics; Nonlinear Optics; Fourier topic-specific scientific literature precedes the and musculoskeletal systems. Emphasis Optics; Ultrafast and Terahertz Optics formal presentation. The second component of is placed on the utilization of engineering 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the course is teaming up with a physician, in principles to analyze processes at the tissue rounds, the operating theater, clinics, etc., to and organ levels, covering soft and hard tissues BME 515: Biomedical Optical Imaging get exposure to the real-life problems which and organs (blood, cardiovascular system, An introduction to the principles and face the medical community. It is hoped bone, cartilage, etc.) and to understand how applications of biomedical optical imaging, that the mix of science and clinic will move these principles could be applied towards the with an emphasis on high-resolution imaging students towards determining how they can design and development of prosthetic devices. and spectroscopy. This course provides make contributions to health and society. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a conceptual overview, along with basic 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) mathematical theory (assignments), of BME 511: Fundamentals of the some of the key concepts that are relevant BME 508: Molecular and Cellular Bioscience Industry to biomedical optical imaging, including Biomechanics This course will provide students with a Gaussian beams, refraction, total internal comprehensive introduction to the bioscience 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) business environment by examining the

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BME 517: Radiation Physics BME 530: Medical Image Formation 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This graduate offering provides an initial This course covers the physical aspects of BME 547: Model-Based Analysis of physical background required for the study medical image formation. Image receptor Physiological Data of the Medical Physics. Sources of ionizing design/optimization, reconstruction radiation including radioactivity (natural and techniques, device hardware and performance The analysis of common biochemical manmade) and x-ray producing devices are characteristics are considered. and physiological data by non-linear regression of data models and biophysical studied as well as sources of nonionizing Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) radiation such as radiofrequency and models of physiological and biochemical ultrasound. The physical aspects of these BME 531: Biosensing and Bioimaging processes. Examples include binding kinetics, compartmental mass transfer and spectral radiations are characterized by their interaction Basic concepts of biosensing and bioimaging, analysis. with matter and methods for their detection. which include the elements of biological Each student will select and present a proposal systems and bioimmobilizers, traditional 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) for solving a clinical medical physics problem. electrode and novel optical transducers, and BME 548: Measurement and Analysis Prerequisites: Modern Physics or equivalent advanced biomedical optical imaging systems. in Physiological Research Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The acquisition and analysis of data-arising BME 518: Radiobiology BME 532: Time Series Modeling of from common biochemical and physiological The biological consequences of irradiation Biological Systems measurements. Topics include computer- based data acquisition and processing, (ionizing, ultrasound, laser, RF, etc.) will be A unified mathematical/time series framework densitometry, microscopy, and image analysis examined. Interaction mechanisms will first for modeling and mining biological data. and processing. Emphasis is on experimental be examined followed by examination of the Applications range from cardio-respiratory, design and strategies for optimizing signal to radiation impact at the molecular and cellular renal blood pressure/flow and sequence (DNA, noise ratio of measurements. level. The use of radiation for therapeutic gain RNA, proteins) to gene expression data. Tools will be considered. As well, models will be of analysis include neural networks, time- 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) developed for risk estimates. Topics to be invariant and time-varying spectral methods, BME 549: Experimental Techniques in covered will include: target theory, biological fractal and nonlinear dynamics techniques, Systems Physiology response, NSD and risk estimates. hidden Markov Model, clustering analysis, and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, various system identification techniques. A series of lectures and laboratory exercises designed to introduce students to invitro etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, experimental techniques used in systems etc.) BME 519: Medical Health Physics physiology. Emphasis will be placed on This course discusses the health physics and BME 534: Functional Genomics the ethical use of rodents in biomedical research and the measurement of physiological safety issues associated with radiological Course provides foundation in concepts of variables. Data acquisition and analysis devices, facilities and procedures. functional genomics and proteomics. Topics procedures used in cardio-vascular, Prerequisite: BME 517. include organization and complexity of respiratory, neural and renal physiology will Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, the mammalian genome and mechanisms also be covered. etc.) of expression of genes, gene expression analysis technologies with a strong focus 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BME 520: Lab Rotation I on construction and utilization of DNA BME 550: Mathematical Models of microarrays, and tools for determining gene Physiologic & Biophysical Systems BME 521: Lab Rotation II function by perturbation of gene expression. An introduction to mathematical modeling of Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, cell and tissue function. Topics include the etc.) BME 525: Tissue Engineering derivation and numerical solution of models Course deals with basics of biomaterial BME 540: Radiation Oncology Physics of cell homeostasis, membrane transport and formulation that are relevant to tissue excitability, and cell signaling and metabolism. This course provides a background in engineering, leading to the principles and Grading is based on problems, student therapeutic instrumentation, dosimetry and practice of designing an engineered tissue, presentation, and completion of a modeling treatment planning. which will be facilitated by a design project. project. Prerequisite: BME 517 Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BME 558: Physical & Quantitative BME 546: Statistical Analysis of BME 526: Biological Systems Biology Physiological Data Engineering ¿¿This is a course on the principles of physical Statistical methods useful in analyzing This course is a hands-on study of systems chemistry. We describe the nature of the forces common types of physiological data. Topics engineering in biology, using computer and energies and entropies that drive molecular include probability, data distributions, modeling to conceptualize and simulate a wide systems toward their states of equilibrium. hypothesis testing, with parametric and non- variety of applications. All skills taught in We consider a broad range of applications parametric methods, ANOVA, regression and class. Appropriate and applicable to all BME throughout chemistry, biology, materials correlation and power analysis. Emphasis is on tracks. May not be repeated for credit. engineering and nanoscience. This course aims experimental design and appropriate, efficient Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to give students an understanding of how the use of statistical software.

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 29 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 actions and behaviors of materials arise from graduate students and one or more members 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) their atomic and molecular structures. Co- of the faculty. A final project report must listed with PHY 558 and CHE 558. be submitted to the advisor as well as to the BME 604: Finite Element Modeling in Biology and Medicine 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Graduate Program Director. Without the submitted report, credits from this course Both finite difference and FEM are applied BME 571: Microfluids in Biological cannot be applied toward the MS degree. to solve the equations of incompressible and Systems 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) compressible fluid flow in porous media with This course will outline theory and May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. emphasis on flows in skeletal tissues, i.e., bone applications of special fluid handling and cartilage. Steady-state, transient flow, conditions associated with living systems. BME 599: Biomedical Engineering permeability and surface boundary conditions Research are discussed. Practical and recent studies in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Research to be supported by a faculty member the field are also discussed. Programming BME 572: Biomolecular Analysis of the Department of Biomedical Engineering. using FORTRAN or C languages will be required. The student is also introduced to This interdisciplinary course is intended Students must have permission of instructor commercially available software packages. for graduate students and advanced to enroll in appropriate section. Faculty to be undergraduates in departments such as identified by the student. Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Biology and Chemical Engineering. This May be repeated for credit. BME 605: Biomechanics of Tactile course will give an introduction to single Sensory Systems molecule experiments using fluorescence, BME 601: Cardiovascular Fluid optical traps, AFM cantilevers, microneedles, Mechanics Detailed study of the biomechanics of tactile magnetic microbeads as well as micro and The course will cover the application of fluid neurophysiology for engineers entering the nanofluidic devices. mechanics principles to the analysis of blood field of haptics and robotics manipulations. Anatomy and electrophysiology of transducer Prerequisites: BME 501 and 502, or instructor flow in the cardiovascular system under cells and neurons starting at the fingertips approval. normal and pathological conditions. It will and extending to the somatosensory cortex. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) follow an historical time line by beginning with the most basic models of arterial blood Characteristics of the external stimulus and BME 573: iPhone Programming for flow, and proceed to the most advanced its peripheral transformation. Relations of Medical Applications theories related to physiology and pathology these topics to perceptual and/or behavioral responses. iPhone Programming for Medical flow phenomena, including an examination of Applications. the most up to date research in the area and the Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter development of devices and implants. graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter BME 608: Contemporary BME 581: Biomedical Nanofabrication graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Biotechnology This one-semester, three section course, BME 602: Topics in Biomedical General discussion on the nature of serves as an introduction to the applications of Applications of Neural Networks biotechnology and its historical development, nanofabrication to various fields of importance applications, impact, consequences, and some to biomedical engineering. This will be done This is a project based course which includes of the social and ethical considerations. by a combination of examining how nature has weekly seminars discussing advanced accomplished nano-scale feats, how we can topics in fuzzy logic and neural networks Co-scheduled with BME 402 measure this, and whether we can duplicate and their applications, in biomedical Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) nature¿s functions in vitro. A significant devices. Applications include drug delivery, BME 610: Magnetic Resonance portion of the course includes technical diagnostics, management information communications, in the form of a written handling. Students utilize simulation software This course provides a comprehensive study report and oral lecture component to class. to develop algorithms to deal successfully with of magnetic resonance and its applications in training data sets of their own choosing. medical imaging. An introduction of NMR is 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded followed with development of the hardware BME 590: Biomedical Engineering (A, A-, B+, etc.) and processing aspects required for MR image Seminar formation. An overview of basic and advanced BME 603: Advanced Quantitative MR imaging techniques is provided. Each A weekly meeting devoted to current graduate Human Physiology student will select a topic in MR imaging for student work in the program in Biomedical presentation at the conclusion of the course. Engineering. Enrolled students present seminar This course is intended to provide a deep and each week throughout the semester, participate rigorous understanding of human physiology Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in seminars and responsible conduct of using a quantitative approach. This course BME 611: Positron Emission research training. will develop the physical, chemical and mathematical foundation of physiology, which Tomography 0-1 credits, S/U grading is then applied to membranes, transport, Positron emission tomography (PET) is a May be repeated for credit. metabolisms, excitable cells and various organ unique and powerful functional imaging BME 595: BME MS Project systems. A major component of this course method used in the clinic and in medical will be an individual project requiring mastery research. It is a multidisciplinary endeavor This course is taken M.S. students who select of concepts developed in class. involving the fields of chemistry, physics, MS Project track. Conducted jointly by

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 30 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 mathematics and medicine. This course including radioactive gases and aerosols- BME 670: Special Topics in Biomedical addresses the disparate areas of science prepartio, characteristics and radiation Engineering underlying PET imaging, including dosimetry, in vitro and in vivo radiation Varying topics covering current active research radioisotope production, radiotracer detection systems, imaging systems and their projects and professional development skills synthesis, the physics of the imaging performance evaluations. In addition, basic for Biomedical Engineers. This course is process, quantitative data processing, image medical ethics, clinical interpretations and designed to give the necessary flexibility to reconstruction approaches, data analysis, and radiation safety will be covered. A total of students and faculty to introduce and refine tracer kinetic modeling to extract quantitative 150 clinical hours will be completed in this new material into the curriculum before it physiological parameters. Radioactive program. has attracted sufficient interest to be made validation and applications of PET will also be Fall, 4 credits, S/U grading part of the regular course material. Topics covered including the area of drug addiction. include biomedical engineering, regenerative There is a hands-on component in which BME 617: Clinical Radiation Oncology medicine, bioimaging, biomechanics, career students will visit an active PET research Physics planning, negotiation, communications, long- center and acquire and manipulate PET data. This course is designed to prepare the Medical range planning, among others. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Physics graduate student in the area of clinical 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) radiation oncology physics. In this clinical May be repeated for credit. BME 612: Biomedical Engineering rotation, the student will learn by observation Aspects for the Use of Radiation in and participation some of a selection of BME 690: Biomedical Engineering Medicine the following medical physics procedures: Research This course provides a comprehensive study LINAC Beam Dosimetry (ion chamber Biomedical Engineering research for doctoral of the use of radiation in medicine. Physical measurement techniques, film dosimetry students who have already received their aspects of the interaction of radiation with (radiographic and radiochromic), diode M.S. degree, but have not yet advanced to matter and for the radiation production dosimetry, TLD dosimetry, water phantom candidacy. are initially considered. The underlying scanning), implementation of photon and Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, principles of current radiation based medical electon beam calibration protocols (AAPM A-, B+, etc.) imaging is considered next. Topics include TG51), LINAC beam data measurement and May be repeated for credit. radiography, fluoroscopy, radionuclide tabulation, commissioning a TPS system, imaging and computed tomography. The use LINAC, acceptance testing, LINAC monthly BME 698: Practicum in Teaching of radiation for the treatment of malignancy QA, HDR QA and planning, and IMRT Undergraduate teaching to be supervised by a is considered with the focus on required inverse planning and IMRT clinical QA. A faculty member of the Program in Biomedical technology. Finally advanced applications total of 120 clinical hours will be completed in Engineering. Course to be identified by the of radiation are considered with focus on this program. Prerequisite: BME 517 and BME student and graduate studies director. imaging and treatment. Each student will 540 with a B+ or better. Fall and Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, select a topic examining the engineering or Spring, 4 credits, S/U grading technical application of radiation in medicine B+, etc.) for presentation at the conclusion of the BME 620: Space Radiation Biology May be repeated for credit. course. An extensive series of lectures, training BME 699: Dissertation Research on Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, sessions and laboratory activities sponsored Campus etc.) by the NASA's Radiation Health Program Prerequisite: Students must be advanced to in collaboration with BNL. The material is candidacy (G5); permission of instructor and BME 615: Clinical Nuclear Imaging oriented to cover basic and state of the art enroll in appropriate section. Major portion This course is designed to prepare the Medical concepts in space radiation environment, of research must take place on SBU campus, Physics graduate student in the area of clinical physics and radiobiology. Content includes at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Brookhaven Medical Imaging. In this clinical rotation, basic concepts in physics, dosimetry, National Lab. medical physics methods for: planar film, DR, radiobiology, space radiation problems and CR, mamography, fluoroscopy, CT, ultrasound accelerator operations. Concurrent sessions are Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, Letter and MRI performance evaluations will be provided to complete specific BNL training graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) introduced. In addition, basic medical ethics, and plan and prepare experiments for low- and May be repeated for credit. radiographic anatomy and radiation safety will high-LET radiation exposures. Students are be covered. A total of 200 clinical hours will trained in NSRL operations and are able to BME 700: Dissertation Research off be completed in this program run control experiments using gamma rays in Campus - Domestic Prerequisites: BME 517; BME 518; BME 519; preparation for NSRL runs, and subsequently Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy BME 530 or BME 540. experiments at the NSRL using heavy ions. (G5). Major portion of research will take place Fall, 4 credits, S/U grading Data are obtained from different endpoints are off-campus, but in the United States and/ discussed and analyzed with the instructors. or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven BME 616: Clinical Nuclear Medicine Homework are used to test the student's National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Imaging level of comprehension of the lectures and are considered on-campus. All international students must enroll in one of the graduate This course is designed to prepare the Medical laboratory activities. The write up of a full student insurance plans and should be advised Physics graduate student in the area of clinical BNL beam time request proposal is required of by an International Advisor. Nuclear Medicine Imaging. In this clinical each student. rotation, the students will be exposed to 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading radionuclide processes, radiopharmaceuticlas May be repeated for credit.

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BME 701: Dissertation Research off to familiarize the concepts. Prerequisite: Statistics in a Biomedical/Biomolecular Campus - International Graduate standing in BMI or permission of context, students will gain the ability Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy instructor. integrate those Computational Tools and Big (G5). Major portion of research will take 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Data resources in the Biomedical research place outside of the United States and/or enterprise as well as in the clinical workflow. U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the BMI 502: Life Sciences for Biomedical Accordingly, this course will familiarize option of the health plan and may also enroll Informatics the participants with the data processing in MEDEX. International students who are This course presents the fundamentals of methodologies associated with a range of in their home country are not covered by human cell biology, biochemistry, genetics biological signals that spans from Biological mandatory health plan and must contact the and cell/organ physiology. The biochemical sequences to Histology images, and from Insurance Office for the insurance charge to and molecular bases of cell structure, energy mining medical records to Genome Wide be removed. International students who are metabolism, gene regulation, heredity, and Association Studies (GWAS) and gene not in their home country are charged for the development are discussed, as are the structure prioritization. mandatory health insurance. If they are to be and function of cell membranes and the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) covered by another insurance plan they must physiology of cell to cell signaling, cellular file a waiver be second week of classes. The respiration, and homeostasis of organs and BMI 512: Clinical Informatics charge will only be removed if other plan is individuals. Can be used for credit toward This course offers a comprehensive study of deemed comparable. masters or doctoral degree in BMI only with Clinical Informatics. It provides a holistic All international students must received permission and NOT in addition to BMI 503. review of the health care delivery system clearance from an International Advisor. Can NOT be used for credit toward certificate both historically and presently. It presents Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading in Biomedical Informatics. Clinical Informatics and its legal and ethical May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) issues, followed by an overview of Clinical Informatics. This includes data content and BME 800: BME RESEARCH BMI 503: Computer Science for structures; nomenclatures and classification Full-time summer research. Biomedical Informatics systems; quality, performance, utilization, and risk management; Clinical Informatics S/U grading This course presents the fundamentals of databases; and a review of statistics and May be repeated for credit. computer science and problem solving for computer programming. Students learn how research. Clinical informatics management computers store and manipulate data using principles and theories presented include BMI programming languages and algorithms and change, project, and knowledge management. how computers are controlled by operating Aspects of human resources and financial Biomedical Informatics systems and networked. Software engineering, management, including reimbursement data abstractions, and database management methodologies are presented as these relate to BMI 501: Introduction to Biomedical systems are described. Applications include Clinical Informatics. Informatics computer graphics and artificial intelligence. A 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course introduces the unique theory of computing is presented. Approaches characteristics of clinical and life science to devising solutions to problem are discussed. BMI 513: Imaging Informatics data and the methods for representation Structured programming tools are presented Imaging Informatics is a multidisciplinary and transformation of biomedical data, including sequential and decision logic and field which intersects Clinical Informatics, information, and knowledge to improve loops. Data and file operations are explained medical physics, engineering, computer and human health. The course will provide an including processing arrays, sorting, stacks, information sciences. It touches concepts overview of basic concepts and will serve queues, linked lists, and binary trees. Object- across the whole imaging chain, including as a Launchpad into other more focused oriented programming and sequential file image creation and acquisition, image courses that explore the computational and applications are discussed. Can be used for distribution and management, image storage analytics needs of BMI, as well as the clinical, credit toward masters or doctoral degree and retrieval, image processing, analysis research and translational applications of in BMI only with permission and NOT in and understanding, image visualization and informatics. There will be three major themes: addition to BMI 502. Can NOT be used interpretation. The goals of the course are Information representation, management and for credit toward certificate in Biomedical to gain familiarity with the terminology, sharing: biomedical data representation and Informatics. core concepts, and standard practices, management; standards, terminologies, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) understand the current state of the field and ontologies such as HL7, IHE, SNOMED, enable critical reading of the literature and ICD-9; Privacy, confidentiality and data BMI 511: Translational Bioinformatics to perform research. The course will cover sharing. Clinical Informatics: Health care This course will provide students with both radiological imaging and pathology environment and processes; electronic an integrative computational toolbox imaging. Topics include: radiological health records and management; clinical at the intersection between Biomedical imaging modalities, DICOM standards, decision making clinical information retrieval and Quantitative Sciences. Students will image management and PACS systems, clinical natural language processing. Imaging develop storage, analytic, and interpretive image exchange and IHE, image processing informatics: radiological image modalities; methods to optimize the transformation techniques, content based image retrieval, DICOM and PACS systems; computer- of large biomedical and genomic datasets, structured reporting and annotations, image aided diagnosis; digital pathology; analytical into proactive, predictive, preventive, and visualization, digital pathology and analytical pathology imaging. This course will provide participatory health information. Applying pathology imaging. The course will also cover hand-on assignments for the participants a working knowledge of Computational emerging technologies in Imaging Informatics.

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3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a high level of independence, critical thinking, and big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop and initiative. and Spark. It will also cover data management BMI 514: Imaging Informatics Analysis 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) for electronic health records, and GIS for This course will give an overview of public health. the analytical aspects of the Biomedical BMI 530: Software Development in 3 credits, Imaging Informatics. Topics include image Biomedical Informatics May be repeated for credit. visualization, enhancement, processing and This is an advanced topic in the BMI series, analysis, with focus on the applications in designed for participants with plans to develop BMI 540: Statistical Methods in medical fields. It covers a broad spectrums of Biomedical Informatics software applications. Biomedical Informatics biomedical image analysis techniques: image The BMI530 course is divided in two parts. Recent advances in high-throughput enhancement, segmentation, registration, The first part will provide an overview of experimental technologies generate enormous texture analysis, morphometry, and approaches to software development in a amounts of data. In order to extract insights tractography. Their applications in diagnostic Biomedical context, where reproducibility, from such large-scale data sets, robust and therapeutic imaging will be extensively governance and availability are particular statistical models and efficient computation discussed. The course will also cover a concerns. The participants will be introduced, methods are indispensable. This course wide range of image modalities: Magnetic hands-on, to practices such as the use of introduces probability and statistical modeling resonance imaging (with its various subtypes), version control services (such as GitHub), and analytical methods commonly used in Computed tomography, Ultrasound, Positron collaborative development models (such as biomedical-informatics. Basic probability emission tomography, Single-photon emission agile programming, extreme programming, theory will be briefly reviewed and the computed tomography, etc., with an emphasis unit testing, continuous code review, pair course will focus on the construction and on the interplay and fusion of multi-source programming etc) and software architectural solving of statistical modeling based on real information. The computation/analysis will be patterns (such as Model-View-Controller, biomedical data sets. The methods covered carried out using languages such as Matlab, C+ MVC, and Model-View-Adapter, MVA). include maximum likelihood estimation, +, Python, Java, etc., based on well tested open The increasing reliance on Cloud Computing Bayesian inference, dynamic programming, sources algorithm packages such as the Insight infrastructure and Web 3.0 technologies for Markov Models, Monte Carlo simulation, Toolkit. Moreover, softwares more geared both software development and deployment classification and clustering. Students will towards end-users, such as 3D Slicer, ImageJ, will be object of particular attention. The learn to use statistical programs and related FreeSurfer, etc. will also be introduced. increasing reliance on Big Data resources resources locally and on the Internet, with 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in Biomedicine, and the broadening use of an emphasis on the computational aspects Web Computing will be approached as part of the statistical models in order to harness BMI 517: Current Research in of the exercise of configuring class projects the ever-growing hardware power. Upon Signaling Pathways, Biochemistry, and for the second part of the course. Accordingly, finishing the course, the students will master Tissue Morphology of Disease a particular focus will be put on the use advanced applications of statistical computing In this seminar course, students will explore of Representation State Transfer (REST) in a wide range of biological and biomedical current knowledge and lines of research architectures and hands-on familiarization problems. PREREQUISITES: BMI 501; Basic inquiry for a disease of their choice, with with REST APIs (Application Programming knowledge in probability theory, algorithms respect to Signaling Pathways, Biochemistry, Interfaces). The second part of the course and programming experience in R/MATLAB/ and Tissue Morphology. Students will learn to will put these concepts into practice through C/C++ are expected. Knowledge in biology is analyze and synthesize research literature for a the development of small software projects. a plus but not a must. particular disease topic and propose a testable Groups of one to three people per project 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) hypothesis for a research project that would development team will be configured to advance one or more lines of research inquiry develop software that solves problems brought BMI 541: Advanced Statistical Methods for the disease. Students will provide feedback to the class by the participants, preferably, but Informatics for other students¿ literature reviews. not necessarily, as contributions to manuscripts This course will introduce students to advance 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and/or funded research. Prerequisite: BMI 503 statistical methods in informatics. Students and programming experience, BMI 520, or will be introduced to basics of optimization, BMI 520: Data Analytics and Software permission by instructor (face-to-face meeting control, information geometric techniques Stacks required). how such methods can be applied towards This course will cover cutting-edge data 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) problems of imaging, networks and learning. analytic applications, infrastructure, and This class will be a continuation of BMI 540 analytic methods. Students will have the BMI 531: Advanced Computer and basic statistical methods and probability opportunity to analyze real (de-identified) Science for Biomedical Informatics concepts will be reintroduced. Students learn healthcare datasets and spatio-temporal (Data Management for Biomedical basic ability to derive new models that can and molecular datasets drawn from cancer Informatics) be applied to generalized informatics. Upon research. Each class session will include Data management is a key area of competency finishing this course, student will have master discussions of applications, infrastructure, and in biomedical informatics. This course will advanced application of how to utilize standard algorithms. Students will present papers, and cover the concept of database design, data statistical knowledge coupled with ability to there will also be guest lectures from visiting modeling, data management and analytical implement such algorithms. experts. Students will attend lectures, present queries. Topics include relational models, 3 credits, and critique papers, and work with a team of conceptual modeling, relational database May be repeated for credit. students on a substantial project throughout the implementation, SQL queries, spatial database semester. Students are expected to demonstrate and GIS, XML databases, NoSQL databases,

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BMI 550: Clinical Informatics Practice research of the clinical settings that define different fields of biomedical informatics such Patterns the practical utility of personalized medicine. as imaging informatics, computational biology, This course provides detailed information on Accordingly, the clinical decision support clinical informatics etc. Students are required Clinical Informatics in a variety of practice systems (CDS)[JA1] being developed for to review articles and connect the presented settings including hospitals, freestanding clinical pharmacogenomics, specifically techniques to a bigger picture context within ambulatory care, managed care, dialysis, those that establish pharmacotyping in drug the different fields of biomedical informatics. correctional facilities, long-term and acute prescription, will play a central role in this Following the article presentation, the thoughts mental health, substance abuse, developmental course. Its content will cover innovative that the article provoked will be discussed disabilities, long-term care, rehabilitation, drug formulations and nanotheranostics, together. home health, hospice, dental, veterinary, and molecular imaging and signatures, medical 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) consulting. The role of Clinical Informatics genomics[JA2] , translational nanomedicine May be repeated for credit. in each setting is described with respect and informatics, stem cell therapy approaches, to regulatory issues; documentation; modeling and predictability of drug response, BMI 596: Special Problems in reimbursement and funding; information pharmacogenetics-guided drug prescription, Biomedical Informatics management, including data flow, coding and pediatric drug dosing, pharmacovigilance Examination of special problems in classification, computer systems, and data and regulatory aspects, ethical and cost- Biomedical Informatics, conducted jointly by set; quality improvement, utilization and risk effectiveness issues, pharmacogenomics graduate students and one or more members of management, and legal issues; the role of the knowledge bases, personal genome the faculty. sequencing, molecular diagnostics, as well as Clinical Informatics professional, and changes 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) information-based medicine. and trends. May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BMI 598: M.S. Capstone Project in BMI 551: Case Studies in Clinical BMI 590: Independent Study in Biomedical Informatics Biomedical Informatics Informatics M.S. Independent Capstone project planning This course presents cases based on real- Independent study in Biomedical Informatics. and project execution under the supervision life challenges in Clinical Informatics. Must have the approval of the Research and of a Biomedical Informatics faculty member. Critical thinking is essential for the Clinical Directed Study Committee of the Department Only open to M.S. students in Biomedical Informatics professional and case studies of Biomedical Informatics prior to registration. Informatics who will do a Capstone project. demand that students develop thought and Prerequisite: Graduate standing in BMI, or Credits earned from BMI 599 may not be action plans and then, in class, present and permission of instructor used to fulfill requirements for students in defend their choices. Each case exposes the 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Biomedical Informatics who will write an M.S. student to a complex Clinical Informatics May be repeated for credit. thesis and not do a Capstone project. scenario, requiring the student to synthesize 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BMI 591: Independent Reading in information and strategically solve problems May be repeated for credit. using Clinical Informatics principals. Learning Biomedical Informatics through the case method helps students to Supplementary specialized readings in BMI 599: M.S. Research and Thesis in ¿bridge the gap¿ from content knowledge for Biomedical Informatics for graduate students Biomedical Informatics previous and/or current courses to on-the-job under faculty supervision. Must have the M.S. Research and Thesis project under the Clinical Informatics experience. approval of the Research and Directed Study supervision of a Biomedical Informatics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Committee of the Department of Biomedical faculty member. Only open to M.S. students Informatics prior to registration. in Biomedical Informatics who will write an BMI 552: Quality Improvement 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) M.S. thesis. Credits earned from BMI 599 Methods for Clinical Informatics May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. may not be used to fulfill requirements for Teaches health care management professionals students in Biomedical Informatics who will how to perform improvement projects and BMI 592: Biomedical Informatics do a Capstone project and not write an M.S. incorporate quantitative measurement into Masters Pre-Candidates Seminar thesis. daily work routines to form the foundation This course is designed to expose students to 1-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) for a quality improvement-oriented culture. current research and other topics in Biomedical May be repeated for credit. Using Minitab software, provides strategies Informatics. Speakers are invited from both on to gather and analyze the data needed to plan, and off campus. BMI 620: Advanced Topics in Clinical implement, monitor, and evaluate health care 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Informatics quality improvement initiatives. May be repeated for credit. The subject matter of each special topics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course varies from semester to semester, BMI 595: Special Topics in Biomedical depending on the interests of students and BMI 560: Personalized Medicine Informatics faculty. Advanced topics and specialized This course is focused on the multidisciplinary Examination of special topics on artificial topics will be discussed, particularly those of research and clinical context associated intelligence in Biomedical Informatics. We current interest. with the development of personalized present and critique literature on artificial 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) health care delivery solutions. It will place intelligence in biomedicine, including but not May be repeated for credit. particular emphasis on assessing opportunities limited to machine learning, signal processing, identified by translational and operational and deep learning. The literature will span

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BMI 622: Advanced Topics in graduate students and one or more members of 0-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Translational Bioinformatics the faculty. May be repeated for credit. The subject matter of each special topics 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course varies from semester to semester, depending on the interests of students and BMI 697: Practicum in Teaching I BNB faculty. Advanced topics and specialized An introduction to teaching Biomedical Neurobiology and Behavior topics will be discussed, particularly those of Informatics, including course design, learning current interest. theory, evaluation of teaching, and teaching BNB 551: Writing Neuroscience 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) with technology. Seminar course for doctoral students in May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Neuroscience providing practical instruction in written communication in Neuroscience. BMI 625: Advanced Topics in Imaging BMI 698: Practicum in Teaching II Topics include writing effective abstracts, Informatics Graduate students assist the faculty in teaching cover letters, figure captions, and grant The subject matter of each special topics by conducting recitation or laboratory sections specific aims, among others. course varies from semester to semester, that supplement a lecture course. 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) depending on the interests of students and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. faculty. Advanced topics and specialized topics will be discussed, particularly those of BMI 699: Dissertation Research-On BNB 552: Neurobiological Techniques current interest. Campus A series of laboratory exercises designed 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Independent research conducted on campus to give students hands-on experience in the May be repeated for credit. under the supervision of a Biomedical basic laboratory techniques of contemporary Informatics faculty member in support of the neuroscience. Includes intracellular and BMI 690: Independent Study in Ph.D. Dissertation. Permission to register extracellular recording, neuronal tissue culture, Biomedical Informatics requires the agreement of the faculty member neuroanatomical techniques, and integrative Independent study in Biomedical Informatics. to supervise the research. May be repeated physiology. Must have the approval of the Research and 1-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Directed Study Committee of the Department May be repeated for credit. of Biomedical Informatics prior to registration. BNB 555: Laboratory Rotations in 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BMI 700: Dissertation Research-Off Neuroscience Campus, Domestic Course for doctoral students in Neuroscience BMI 691: Independent Reading in Independent research conducted off campus, in which students participate in three formal Biomedical Informatics in the United States, under the supervision of laboratory rotations in program faculty Supplementary specialized readings in a Biomedical Informatics faculty member in laboratories during the first year. Student Biomedical Informatics for graduate students support of the Ph.D. Dissertation. Permission make oral presentations for each rotation. under faculty supervision. Must have the to register requires the agreement of the faculty Instruction is provided in how to organize and approval of the Research and Directed Study member to supervise the research. May be present material in a seminar format, including Committee of the Department of Biomedical repeated the proper use of visual aids. Enrollment Informatics prior to registration. 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) restricted to students in the Graduate Program 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. in Neuroscience. Fall and Spring, 0-5 credits, Letter graded (A, BMI 692: Biomedical Informatics BMI 701: Dissertation Research-Off A-, B+, etc.) Candidates Seminar Campus, International May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. This course is designed to expose students to Independent research conducted off current research and other topics in Biomedical campus, outside the United States, under BNB 560: Introduction to Mammalian Informatics. Speakers are invited from both on the supervision of a Biomedical Informatics Neuroanatomy and off campus. faculty member in support of the Ph.D. This course consists of visual presentations 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Dissertation. Permission to register requires and supplemental lectures providing an May be repeated for credit. the agreement of the faculty member to overview of the structural organization of the supervise the research. nervous system. The mammalian nervous BMI 695: Special Topics in Biomedical 1-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) system and its sensory, motor and cognitive Informatics May be repeated for credit. components are emphasized. Opportunities Examination of special topics in Biomedical for examination of whole brains and historical Informatics, by one or more members of the BMI 800: Full-Time Summer Research sections, and some hands-on experience with faculty. Independent research conducted off campus, basic neuroanatomical techniques may also be available. 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in the United States, under the supervision of May be repeated for credit. a Biomedical Informatics faculty member in 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) support of the Ph.D. Dissertation. Permission BMI 696: Special Problems in BMI to register requires the agreement of the faculty BNB 561: Introduction to Neuroscience Examination of special problems in member to supervise the research. May be I Biomedical Informatics, conducted jointly by repeated. First of a two semester core course introducing students to basic principles of neuroscience.

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The major focus is cellular and molecular based on the selected topic. Students will on how to properly design experiments neurosicence. Topics covered include the first investigate principles of curricular to test hypotheses, how to avoid common ionic basis of resting potentials and electrical design. They will follow these in generating misconceptions and errors in data analysis excitability, the structure, function and a course description, a list of overall learning and how to report statistics correctly in molecular biology of voltage- and ligand-gated objectives, and a detailed syllabus that manuscripts submitted for publication. ion channels, exocytosis, cellular networks, identifies the titles, learning objectives and This course will am at providing a rigorous and gene regulation. required background readings for each of foundation of general statistical principles that 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the course¿s sessions. Required readings can be applied generally, with an emphasis much include both texts and the primary on material of high relevance to biology BNB 562: Introduction to Neuroscience literature. Students will also generate the in- and neuroscience. A companion course II class materials for at least two class sessions. (¿statistics and data analysis for neuroscience Second of two-semester core course One must be a Powerpoint for a standard II: Applications¿) will turn to selected introducing students to basic principles of lecture, and one must be any materials needed applications to neuroscience. The students neuroscience. The major focus is systems for some form of active learning (individual will also have the opportunity to hone their neuroscience. Topics covered include analyses or group) of the material. Finally, students statistics skills by analyzing different types of all major sensory systems, motor systems, must identify the means that students will be of datasets (genetic, molecular, cellular, and systems mediating higher order, cognitive evaluated, and identify how these methods will synaptic, imaging, spike and behavioral) functions in the nervous system. demonstrate achievement of the stated learning in the MATLAB (or similar) computing objectives, keeping in mind that the form of environment. 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) evaluation will differ depending on whether 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BNB 563: Advanced Topics in objectives are related to knowledge, skills, Neuroscience: Individual Learning etc. NOTE: Students and their research faculty BNB 568: Statistics and Data Analysis Plans mentors are strongly encouraged to consider in Neuroscience II: Applications using this as a vehicle for delving deeply into a In this 12 hour module course, students will topic or technique of interest that is relevant to BNB 597: Seminar Themes work with an identified faculty preceptor on the thesis/thesis proposal. Offered: an agreed upon topic of interest. Agreement This course focuses on current research topics of preceptor and an outline of the topic must Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in neuroscience and is integrated with the be submitted to and approved by the Course May be repeated for credit. Neuroscience Seminar Series. It is centered on Director in order for students to register for a common research theme. Students discuss BNB 565: Advanced Neuroscience this class. Students and preceptors will work manuscripts, attend seminars and meet with together to develop a reading list (minimum A modular course introducing concepts in the outside speakers. development of the nervous system. Topics 6-10 papers) from the primary literature that Offered Fall/ can include neuroembryology, neuronal adequately covers the topic. Students will Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) differentiation, synapse formation, and present two or more of these papers in journal May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. club format to the preceptor and to a larger specificity and plasticity of connections in group, e.g., a lab group, as applicable. Students vertebrates and invertebrates. BNB 599: Research will also synthesize their readings into a Offered Original investigation undertaken with written report that follows one of the following Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) supervision of a member of the staff. Nature Reviews Neuroscience formats (below, May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading but strict adherence to word limits, reference May be repeated for credit. numbers, etc., is NOT expected). NOTE: BNB 566: Neurobiology of Disease Students and their research faculty mentors This advanced seminar course is coordinated BNB 655: Neuropharmacology are strongly encouraged to consider using with the Neurobiology of Disease lecture this as a vehicle for beginning to develop the series hosted by the Program in Neuroscience An advanced course for graduate students Introduction to the thesis/thesis proposal. each Spring semester. The Program invites interested in developing an understanding Offered: 5-6 distinguished scientists to present of neuropharmacology and research on this research seminars organized around the broad topic. Following a general introduction to the Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) nerve cell structure, synaptic and chemical May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. topic of neurobiological and neurological diseases. Students read and discuss papers transmission, three themes receptors, receptors as channels, and G-protein-coupled receptors BNB 564: Advanced Topics recommended by the guest speakers. This are developed. Recent advances in cell and in Neuroscience: Curriculum course also provides students the opportunity molecular biology provide the framework Development to meet with the guest seminar speakers. for instruction and discussion. This course In this 12 hour module course, students will Offered is offered as both HBH 655 and BNB 655. work with an identified faculty preceptor on Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisiste: Admission to Graduate Health an agreed upon topic of interest that addresses May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. Sciences Center Program. a gap in the current Graduate Program in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Neuroscience curriculum. Agreement of BNB 567: Statistics and Data Analysis etc.) preceptor and an outline of the topic selected in Neuroscience I: Foundations must be submitted to and approved by the This course will introduce students to the BNB 697: Neuroscience Seminar Course Director in order for students to fundamental principles and methods of the Series register for this class. Students and preceptors statistical analysis of neural and behavioral will work together to develop a course data. A major focus of the course will be

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Seminar presentations delivered by faculty, Biochemistry and Structural Prerequisite: Must be matriculated in BSB associates, students and visiting speakers. Biology Graduate Program or permission of instructor Fall and Spring, 0-2 credits, S/U grading 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. BSB 509: Experimental Biochemistry May be repeated for credit. and Structural Biology BNB 699: Dissertation Research on BSB 580: Advanced Structural Biology/ Campus An introduction to modern biochemical Structural Methods in Drug Discovery research techniques. The student spends a Original investigations undertaken as part of half-semester in the laboratory of each of This course is designed for students that want the Ph.D. program under the supervision of four different members of the faculty. In to gain theoretical and practical experience the dissertation committee. Prerequisite: Must each laboratory, the student participates in in macromolecular structure determination be advanced to candidacy (G5). Major portion some aspect of the research being pursued through NMR spectroscopy and/or X-ray of research must take place on SBU campus, by the faculty member. Prerequisite: Must crystallography. The course is organized at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Brookhaven be matriculated in BSB Graduate Program or into two modules: NMR spectroscopy and National Lab. permission of instructor. Fall X-ray crystallography. Students may elect to take one or both modules. Emphasis will Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) grading be placed on practical aspects of structural determination, including sample preparation, May be repeated for credit. BSB 510: Experimental Biochemistry data collection and processing. In each of the and Structural Biology BNB 700: Dissertation Research off modules, students will be guided through a Campus - Domestic An introduction to modern biochemical complete structural determination project. research techniques. The student spends a A final project report per module will be Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy half-semester in the laboratory of each of (G5). Major portion of research will take place required. Familiarity with Linux is desirable. four different members of the faculty. In Students are encouraged to contact instructors off-campus, but in the United States and/ each laboratory, the student participates in or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven prior to enrolling. Crosslisted as BSB580 and some aspect of the research being pursued HBH585. National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab by the faculty member. Prerequisite: Must Spring, 0-4 credits, S/U grading are considered on-campus. All international be matriculated in BSB Graduate Program or students must enroll in one of the graduate permission of instructor. Spring student insurance plans and should be advised BSB 581: Teaching Honors by an International Advisor. 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Selected students whose performance in the basic required courses for the graduate Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading BSB 512: Structural Biology and program is in the top 10 percent conduct May be repeated for credit. Spectroscopy tutorials for first-year graduate students in the BNB 701: Dissertation Research off Theoretical principles and experimental program and other students taking graduate Campus - International methods used in the study of proteins and courses for credit. The tutors are supervised nucleic acids, e.g., spectroscopy, magnetic and graded by faculty of the graduate program. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy resonance and diffraction. (G5). Major portion of research will take Successful completion of this course makes place outside of the United States and/or Prerequisites: MCB 520, or undergraduate students eligible to receive "Honors in U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the physical chemistry course, plus matriculation Teaching" on their transcripts. option of the health plan and may also enroll in graduate program or permission of Fall and Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading in MEDEX. International students who are instructor. in their home country are not covered by Fall, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BSB 599: Research mandatory health plan and must contact the Original investigation undertaken with the BSB 515: Computational Methods in Insurance Office for the insurance charge to supervision of a faculty member. Biochemistry and Structural Biology be removed. International students who are Prerequisite: Must be matriculated in BSB Computational methods used in sequence not in their home country are charged for the Graduate Program or permission of instructor searching and analysis, bioinformatics, mandatory health insurance. If they are to be Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading graphical analysis of proteins, and nucleic covered by another insurance plan they must May be repeated for credit. file a waiver be second week of classes. The acids. Prerequisite: This class is restricted to charge will only be removed if other plan is first year BSB, HBM, MCB PHD, & HBH BSB 601: Colloquium in Biochemistry deemed comparable. PhD students. Exception requires approval and Structural Biology from the course instructor. All international students must received A weekly series of talks and discussions by clearance from an International Advisor. Fall, 1 credit, S/U grading visiting scientists covering current research Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading and thinking in various aspects of structural BSB 532: Journal Club in Biochemistry May be repeated for credit. biology and biochemistry. and Structural Biology Prerequisite: Must be matriculated in BSB BNB 800: SUMMER RESEARCH Provides students with a forum for acquiring Graduate Program or permission of instructor. skills involved in the critical analysis and May be repeated for credit. Fall, 0-1 credits, S/U grading presentation of scientific data by active May be repeated for credit. participation in seminars of major topics in BSB structural biology and biochemistry, and BSB 602: Colloquium in Biochemistry critical discussion of selected topics with and Structural Biology presentation of papers from the literature.

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A weekly series of talks and discussions by Prerequisite: Must be matriculated in BSB the Bio-Based Entrepreneurship Advanced visiting scientists covering current research Graduate Program or permission of instructor Graduate Certificate (BBE-AGC). and thinking in various aspects of structural Fall, Spring, 0-9 credits, S/U grading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) biology and biochemistry. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Must be matriculated in BSB BUS 520: Law and Foreign Policy in BSB 701: Dissertation Research off Graduate Program or permission of instructor. International Business Campus - International Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading Law and Foreign Policy in International May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Business is designed to provide MBA (G5). Major portion of research will take candidates with an appreciation for the legal BSB 603: Student Seminars in place outside of the United States and/or regimes and foreign policy issues affecting Biochemistry and Structural Biology U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the international business in the 21st Century. Seminars given by graduate students on option of the health plan and may also enroll The course is designed for non-lawyers, and the progress of their own thesis research. in MEDEX. International students who are does not require any previous legal training or Required of all students every semester in in their home country are not covered by familiarity with legal concepts. For each topic, which they are registered in the Graduate mandatory health plan and must contact the students will consider not only descriptive Program in Biochemistry and Structural Insurance Office for the insurance charge to and practical considerations, such as the Biology. Attendance is mandatory. Visitors are be removed. International students who are substance of a law, the mechanics of the welcome. not in their home country are charged for the relevant institutions, enforcement regimes, mandatory health insurance. If they are to be Prerequisite: Must be matriculated in BSB etc., but also normative and ethical questions. covered by another insurance plan they must Graduate Program or permission of instructor. The course will rely heavily on current affairs file a waiver be second week of classes. The Fall and Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading and case studies drawn from the headlines. charge will only be removed if other plan is May be repeated for credit. Although the course will focus predominantly deemed comparable. on international regimes and U.S. laws and BSB 604: Student Seminars in Prerequisite: Must be matriculated in BSB policies, we will, when appropriate, compare Biochemistry and Structural Biology Graduate Program or permission of instructor U.S. legal regimes and policies to those in Seminars given by graduate students on Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading other countries. the progress of their own thesis research. May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Required of all students every semester in BSB 800: SUMMER RESEARCH which they are registered in the Graduate BUS 545: Ethics and Health Care Program in Biochemistry and Structural Prerequisite: Must be matriculated in BSB This course provides students with a Biology. Attendance is mandatory. Visitors are Graduate Program or permission of instructor framework for identifying ethical dilemmas welcome. S/U grading in professional health care settings and the Prerequisite: Must be matriculated in BSB May be repeated for credit. skills and resources for addressing them. The Graduate Program or permission of instructor. course introduces students to the importance Fall and Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading of respecting patient¿s rights, maintaining May be repeated for credit. BUS confidentiality and honoring professional Business Management codes of ethics and provides students with BSB 699: Dissertation Research on an ethical foundation for working as a professional in a health care environment. Campus BUS 510: Biotechnology Startups and Original investigations undertaken as part Operations 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of the Ph.D. program under supervision of a A startup is not a smaller version of a large research committee. BUS 554: The Lean Launch Pad: biotech company. Instead, it is a team testing Turning a great idea into a great Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). a business plan for viability. In this course, company Major portion of research must take place on students will learn about the operational side of SBU campus, or at the Brookhaven National a biotech startup, with particular focus on the This course provides real world, hands-on Laboratory. first steps an entrepreneur must take through learning of what it's like to actually start a Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U to the initiation of a Phase I clinical trial. The high-tech company. This class is not about grading goal of this course is not to gain expertise in all how to write a business plan, and the end result May be repeated for credit. areas; rather students will be familiar with all is not a PowerPoint presentation to venture of the varied topics a startup must consider and capitalists. Instead, students will get their BSB 700: Dissertation Research off be better prepared to work holistically within a hands dirty talking to customers, partners Campus - Domestic startup environment. Future CEOs will have a and competitors as they encounter the chaos Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy better understanding of the myriad topics they and uncertianty of how a startup actually (G5). Major portion of research will take place must form a team to address, patent attorneys works. Students work in teams learning how off-campus, but in the United States and/ will understand regulatory needs, and clinical to turn a great idea into a great company. or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven trial coordinators will recognize the needs They will learn how to use a business model National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab of the marketing department. For additional to brainstorm each part of a company and are considered on-campus. All international information on evaluating technologies and customer development to get out of the students must enroll in one of the graduate marketing strategies, students are encouraged classroom to see whether anyone other than student insurance plans and should be advised to take BME-511 and BME-512 as part of themselves would want/use their product. by an International Advisor. Finally, they will see how agile development can help them rapidly iterate their product to

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From mechanisms and (2) standard synthetic current literature. Subject matter varies and targeted genomic medications based on reactions, their mechanisms, and modern is announced in advance. Possible subjects new nanotechnologies to the Harry Potter refinements. Examples and applications include reaction mechanisms, organometallic series, the monetization of the creative output will be presented. The course will also chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, and of scientists, artists, designers, writers, discuss biomimetic syntheses and the use of physical inorganic chemistry. May be repeated publishers, product designers, directors and mechanism in designing total syntheses. as the subject matter varies. so on all involve the use of one or more forms Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, of intellectual property. The course will etc.) begin with a brief overview/review of some CHE 503: Synthetic Organic Chemistry May be repeated for credit. principals of management strategy. There will A survey of the most important organic then be a survey of the types of intellectual reactions from the viewpoint of synthetic CHE 516: Solid-State Chemistry property, and some of the laws that support utility, including many recent innovations in This course will provide an introduction to exclusivity in intellectual property rights. this field. Throughout the discussion of these structure and bonding in solid materials. This Students will explore the use and importance methods, emphasis is placed upon their use in class will survey the important structural of intellectual property rights by companies the synthesis of complex organic structures. classes of periodic solids and will discuss and individual innovators in building and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, space groups and the crystallographic sustaining a competitive advantage, as well etc.) symmetry elements important to these as strategies used to realize the highest value materials. Topics that will be covered from intellectual property. Offered in Fall and CHE 504: Structure and Reactivity in may include, but are not limited to: (i) Spring. 3 credits. Prerequisite - MBA 501. Organic Chemistry The mechanisms by which crystals grow 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Electronic and stereochemical theories relating and common types of defects. (ii) An to organic structure and reactions. Topics such introduction to the basics of band theory. as bonding, strain, aromaticity, MO theory, (iii) An overview of the important synthetic CAR molecular rearrangements, pericyclic reactions, methods for preparing solid state materials in Career Development and photochemistry are covered. This course is nanocrystalline, powder, thin film, and single intended to provide a foundation of knowledge crystal form. (iv) A survey of the important techniques for assessing the composition, CAR 510: Career Planning at the beginning graduate level as preparation homogeneity, and crystallinity of materials This course provides graduate students with in- for advanced subjects in CHE 502 and CHE 503, and is complementary to CHE 501. (such as SEM, TEM, AFM, STM), with an depth examination of the essential components emphasis on powder x-ray diffraction. of the career development process, including Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) contemporary theories of career decision Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CHE 511: Structural Inorganic making, job market intelligence, networking, CHE 517: Structural Chemistry and professional branding. Students will Chemistry learn about the career readiness competencies Properties and reactions of inorganic Much of chemistry is concerned with the employers require, and refine their leadership compounds are considered from the viewpoint properties of atoms and molecules that are too skills through a semester-long experiential of molecular and electronic structure. The small to see directly. This course will cover a mentoring project. By the end of the course modern bonding theories used in inorganic variety of advanced techniques for elucidating students will have a professional portfolio to chemistry including molecular orbital, the atomic-scale structure of molecules showcase their abilities and accomplishments. valence bond, and ligand field theories are and periodic solids. A central technique is diffraction, which probes periodic arrays. 0-1 credits, developed using symmetry and group theory. Selected main group, transition metal, and The mathematical basis for diffraction will be organometallic compounds are discussed. An presented, followed by practical examples of CHE introduction to crystallography and solid-state obtaining atomic coordinates from diffraction structure is included. data (powder and/or single crystal). Other techniques that may be covered include the Chemistry Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) analysis of local structure in partially ordered CHE 501: Instrumental Methods in CHE 514: Transition Metal Chemistry or disordered solids (via techniques such Chemistry as PDF, EXAFS, small angle scattering, A survey course with an emphasis on the or solid state NMR), and the basis of more Practical and theoretical aspects of transition metals. Reaction mechanisms, instrumentation in chemistry. The primary complex diffraction experiments (neutron/ synthesis, and structure are covered. Specific electron diffraction, energy-dispersive/Laue emphasis is on contemporary methods of areas of concern include coordination molecular structure determination such as X- diffraction, and diffraction under extreme chemistry, organometallic chemistry, pressure/temperature conditions).

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Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, A rigorous development of the fundamentals ultracentrifugation, viscosity), light scattering, etc.) of thermodynamics and its application to a spectroscopic properties (e.g., ultraviolet number of systems of interest to chemists, hypochromism, circular dichromism, Raman, CHE 518: Materials Chemistry such as electrochemical cells, gases, and fluorescence, magnetic resonance spectra), and Our high technology world is driven homogeneous and heterogeneous equilibrium. the thermodynamics and kinetics of interaction forward by advances in materials chemistry. An introduction to statistical mechanics will with small molecules and ions. Theory of This class will discuss the origin of this also be included. conformation changes and phase transitions. technology, covering the synthesis, structures, Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and properties of advanced materials. etc.) These materials will be studied from a CHE 534: Computing in Chemistry multidisciplinary perspective, since the CHE 524: Magnetic Resonance The basic elements of scripting, design of knowledge required for their development This course provides an introduction to the computer programs, and numerical analysis are spans more than one traditional academic fundamental quantum mechanics of the discussed within the framework of solving a discipline. This class will focus on broad magnetism of spin-1/2 (and higher) particles. variety of exciting problems chosen from all topics with great current societal importance It includes a study of the Bloch equations (the areas of chemistry. Topics include automation (energy, computing, nanoscience, etc.), and responses of the magnetism to continuous- of repetitive tasks, fitting of data, numerical will discuss the materials at the heart of our wave and pulsed irradiation) and a discussion integration of rate equations, signal and image present technology as well as novel classes of the experimental hardware and techniques analysis, and quantum chemistry. No previous of materials being developed for future commonly employed. Topics covered include knowledge of computer programming is technology applications. Specific topics may the basics of the spin Hamiltonian (chemical assumed. include batteries, fuel cells, catalysts, metallic shifts, J, dipolar, and quadrupolar couplings), Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) conductors, semiconductors, superconductors, dynamics and relaxation 1-D spectroscopy permanent magnets, magnetic films. (spin and chemical exchange, lineshapes, spin CHE 535: Introduction to Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, echos, etc.), 2-D spectroscopy (homonuclear Computational Structural Biology and etc.) and heteronuclear correlation), techniques Drug Design for studies of solids and liquid crystals This course will provide an introduction CHE 519: Electrochemistry and (magic angle spinning, cross polarization, to Computational Structural Biology with Electrochemical Materials Science quadrupolar echo), and the principles of application to Drug Design. Methods and This course will survey electrochemistry and magnetic resonance imaging. Applications to applications that use computation to model electrochemical materials science. Topics the biological and material sciences, as well as biological systems involved in human disease will include fundamental measurements chemical problems, will be discussed. will be emphasized. The course aims to foster in electrochemistry, galvanostatic and Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter collaborative learning and will consist of potentiostatic methods, the electrochemical graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) presentations by the instructor, guest lecturers, double layer, corrosion and passivation. and by course participants with the goal of Relevant applications such as fuel cells, CHE 525: Theoretical Chemistry summarizing key methods, topics, and papers batteries, and supercapacitors will be This course stresses the physical theory relevant to Computational Structural Biology. discussed. underlying chemical phenomena. Special Fall, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, emphasis is given to advanced topics in etc.) etc.) electronic structure theory, molecular dynamics, condensed matter and surfaces, CHE 536: Molecular Modeling of CHE 521: Quantum Chemistry I many-body and quantum ensemble theory, and Biological Bolecules Quantum theoretical concepts are discussed. the interaction of light and molecules. This course is designed for students who Schrodinger wave mechanics and related 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) wish to gain hands-on experience modeling mathematical techniques are illustrated by biological molecules at the atomic level. In treatment of systems of chemical interest. CHE 528: Statistical Mechanics conjunction with the individual interests, Designed to form the theoretical basis for Statistical theory of equilibrium systems and Molecular Mechanics, Molecular Dynamics, the study of chemical bonding, molecular rate processes. Ensemble theory, spatial and Monte Carlo, Docking (virtual screening), structure, spectroscopy, and molecular time correlation functions. Model systems or Quantum Mechanics software packages collision phenomena. and methods of estimating their properties. can be used to study relevant biological Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Designed to enable the student to use the system(s). Projects will include setup, current literature dealing with application of execution, and analysis. Course participants CHE 522: Molecular Spectroscopy statistical mechanics to problems in chemistry. will give literature presentations relevant to A detailed description of the theory and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, the simulations being performed and a final practice of molecular spectroscopy. Topics etc.) project report will be required. Familiarity with include the interaction of molecules with UNIX (Linux) is desirable. electromagnetic radiation and the time CHE 530: Physical Chemistry of Prerequisite: CHE 535 or permission of evolution of molecular energy states. Macromolecules instructor Prerequisite: CHE 521 An investigation of the gross and fine Spring, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, structures of macromolecules and etc.) etc.) molecular aggregates in solution as revealed by hydrodynamic behavior (e.g., CHE 541: Biomolecular Structure and CHE 523: Chemical Thermodynamics Analysis

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The structures of biological macromolecules Diffusion/Smoluchowskii; Random flights; Subject matter varies according to needs of and the relationship of their structure Waiting times; Poisson; Brownian ratchets; student. to biological function are described. Chemical kinetics; Transition states; Stability, Fall and Spring, 0-12 credits, Letter graded Methodology employed to study bifurcations, pattern development; Noise (A, A-, B+, etc.) macromolecules is also discussed. Topics in cells: intrinsic and Extrinsic; Feedback; May be repeated for credit. include chemical and physical properties Biological Osciillators; Recurrence, period of cell and tissue constituents, including doubling, chaos; Networks; Topologies; CHE 590: M.S. Term Paper carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, proteins Degree distribution, betweenness; Models of Seminar leading to a term paper on a selected and peptides. Prerequisite: Strong foundation nets: Erdos-Renyi, scale-free, social, Watts- topic in chemistry, chemical applications, or in physical and organic chemistry. Strogatz, agents; Robustness, highly-optimized chemical pedagogy. tolerance, bowties, epidemics; Biological Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B networks: Protein-protein nets, regulatory and +, etc.) CHE 542: Chemical Biology metabolic nets; Known biological circuits The reactivity and physiological function of and their behaviors; How networks evolve: CHE 591: Chemistry of the biological macromolecules and their cofactors Preferential attachment, rewiring; Power Environment laws; Fluxed through networks; Information are described at the chemical biochemical This course provides an overview of the level. The emphasis of this course reflects and communication, entropy; Metabolic flux analysis; Artificial and Natural selection chemistry of environmental processes, recent advances in chemical biology. Possible environmental degradation, remediation and topics include catalysts, reaction mechanisms, for traits; Darwinian evolution; Population dynamics. abatement processes, and energy production. correlation between three-dimensional Past actions and current efforts of the chemical structure and reactivity, receptor-ligand Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, enterprise in both exacerbating and addressing interactions in extracellular and intracellular etc.) anthropogenic environmental degradation are signaling, protein folding in vitro and in vivo. discussed. CHE 581: Departmental Research Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Seminar 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) Meetings in which first-year graduate students CHE 593: Chemical Demonstrations CHE 543: Chemical Approaches to learn about the research activities of the The design and implementation of Biology departmental faculty. demonstrations to illustrate modern concepts The use of molecular concepts and Fall, S/U grading of chemistry. methodology to solve problems in biology 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and medicine. The course covers methods CHE 582: Literature Seminar to elucidate and control biological systems. Students select and discuss topics from the CHE 596: Teaching and Learning Possible topics include chemical genomics, current literature. Chemistry metabolomics, and chemotherapeutics. Spring, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The objective of CHE 596 is to better prepare Prerequisite CHE 542 students for the kinds of interactions they CHE 586: Professional Skills for Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) are likely to have in their careers when Scientists communicating their chemistry. Specifically, CHE 558: Physical Biology Development and refinement of the this course will help students to: (i) develop This is a course on the principles of physical professional skills used by scientists: An competency with research-based approaches chemistry. We describe the nature of the forces exploration of more sophisticated presentation to facilitating discourse that is generative and energies and entropies that drive molecular skills used in oral and poster presentations; for improving scientific understandings of systems toward their states of equilibrium. incorporatyion of collaborative problem chemistry phenomena; (ii) recognize the We consider a broad range of applications solving that mimics real world situations, importance of representations in chemistry throughout chemistry, biology, materials including simple proposal writing; exposure and to incorporate a more explicit modeling engineering and nanoscience. This course aims to professional societies and meetings; an perspective and approach for developing to give students an understanding of how the exploration of career options and employment scientific literacy; (iii) develop teaching actions and behaviors of materials arise from resources; tips for resume preparation and strategies to effectively communicate abstract their atomic and molecular structures. Co- interviews. Recommended for upper divsion and complex chemical concepts to advise listed with PHY 558 endergraduates and masters students. Winter, 2 expert and non-expert audiences; (iv) develop Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, credits, ABCF Grading curricular interventions aimed at improving etc.) 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) individual and community practice of challenging conceptual ideas; (v) incorporate CHE 559: Biological Dynamics and CHE 588: Graduate Workshop historical and philosophical perspectives on Networks Additional problem solving and team learning the development of fundamental chemical This course will provide a solid foundation on topics from a concurrent formal graduate principles into the teaching of those topics in key theoretical concepts for the study of course. Topics vary. in diverse settings; (vi) become aware dynamics in biological systems and networks Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading of recent developments in the learning at different scales ranging from the molecular May be repeated for credit. progressions literature to inform understanding level to metabolic and gene regulatory of appropriate curriculum planning and networks. Topics of this course include CHE 589: Directed Study implementation; and (vii) develop an identity but are not limited to: Physical kinetics; towards reflective practice and empowerment

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 41 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 of fellow chemistry educators into positions of CHE 606: Special Topics in Synthetic A systematic presentation of the chemistry leadership. Chemistry of organometallic compounds, particularly those of the transition metals. Topics include 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. structure, bonding, reaction mechanisms, CHE 597: M.S. Research Thesis CHE 607: Modern Drug Design & synthesis, and applications in catalysis and Development Discovery organic synthesis. This course provides a structured environment A seminar course covering modern aspects 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) for students to develop their research project and approaches to drug design. This course CHE 682: Special Topics in Inorganic into a written thesis. Students will receive combines presentations by faculty and by Chemistry instruction and guidance in performing industry representatives to provide a cross- literature research related to their project and disciplinary view of the development of Subject matter varies, depending on interests in developing this background material along pharmaceuticals. of students and staff, but covers recent with their own research into a properly written developments in inorganic chemistry. Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, document. etc.) 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. CHE 610: Practicum in Teaching CHE 683: Special Topics in Physical Practice instruction in chemistry at the CHE 598: Professional Masters Chemistry undergraduate level, carried out under faculty Internship orientation and supervision. A minimum of Subject matter varies, depending on interests Participation in private corporations, public two semesters of CHE 610 or 611 is required of students and staff, but covers recent agencies, or non-profit institutions for research of all candidates for graduate research degrees developments and advanced topics in physical and other experiential training activities related in chemistry, unless explicitly waived by the chemistry. to the completion of a Master term paper. chairperson. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Students will be required to have a faculty Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, May be repeated for credit. coordinator as well as a contact in the outside A-, B+, etc.) organization, to participate with them in CHE 690: Internship in Dissertation- May be repeated for credit. regular consultations on the project, and to Related Research successfully complete CHE 590. Prerequisites: CHE 611: Practicum in Teaching Supervised curricular training in dissertation- Permission of Master's Program Director. 0-12 Practice instruction in chemistry at the related research. Prerequisite: For full-time: credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit undergraduate level, carried out under faculty Summer session or advancement to candidacy; Offered orientation and supervision. A minimum of Permission of Graduate Program Director. Fall, Spring, and Summer, 0-12 credits, S/U two semesters of CHE 610 or 611 is required Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading grading of all candidates for graduate research degrees May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. in chemistry, unless explicitly waived by the chairperson. CHE 693: Physical Chemistry Seminar CHE 599: Research Fall and Spring, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall and Spring, 0-12 credits, S/U grading Fall, Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. CHE 619: Critical Readings of Current CHE 694: Biological Chemistry CHE 602: Special Topics in Physical Topics in Chemistry Seminar Organic Chemistry Recent research papers from the literature Fall and Spring, 0-12 credits, S/U grading The subject matter varies depending on will be analyzed in depth. These papers may May be repeated for credit. interests of students and staff. It may cover originate from the inorganic, organic, physical, such areas as photochemistry, theoretical and/or biochemical literature. The exact topic CHE 695: Inorganic Chemistry Seminar organic chemistry, and the chemistry of of the course is announced in advance. Fall and unstable intermediates; the emphasis is Spring Fall and Spring, 0-12 credits, S/U grading on fundamental considerations and recent May be repeated for credit. 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) developments. May be repeated for credit. CHE 696: Organic Chemistry Seminar 1-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. CHE 625: Molecular Structure and Fall and Spring, 0-12 credits, S/U grading Crystallography May be repeated for credit. CHE 603: Special Topics in Bioorganic Experimental methods in the determination of Chemistry CHE 697: Seminar in Physical and molecular structure. The emphasis is on the Quantitative Biology The subject matter varies depending on determination of structure in the solid state, interests of students and faculty. Possible particularly by X-ray crystallography. Students Fall and spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading. topics include asymmetric synthesis and complete a single-crystal molecular structure 0-1 credits, S/U grading natural product synthesis. determination using modern diffractometer May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, techniques. CHE 698: Colloquium etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 0-12 credits, S/U grading CHE 641: Organometallic Chemistry May be repeated for credit.

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CHE 699: Dissertation Research on from Chinese newspaper/magazine articles, CIV 505: Transportation Network Campus TV/films, and literary works and to write Analysis Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy creatively and professionally in Chinese Traffic flows on networks; Deterministic and (G5). Major portion of research must take using sophisticated vocabulary and advanced user equilibrium traffic assignment problems; place on SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, Chinese characters. Student will also be trained Transportation networks and optimality; or at the Brookhaven National Lab. to comprehend authentic spoken Mandarin Transportation network design and reliability; Chinese, using a variety of audio-visual Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U Vulnerability of transportation networks materials and to communication in Mandarin grading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Chinese, applying appropriate socio-cultural May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. norms. CHE 700: Dissertation Research off 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CIV 507: Transportation Economics Campus - Domestic Microeconomics principles applied in the CHI 502: Advanced Chinese II Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy transportation field. Transportation demand (G5). Major portion of research will take place The second part of an advanced course in and supply. Transportation costs (fixed off-campus, but in the United States and/ Chinese as a foreign or heritage language costs, variable costs) and externalities. or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven to strengthen their ability to understand, Economic and social benefits of transportation. National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab speak, read, and write Chinese beyond the Economic principles for transport pricing , are considered on-campus. All international intermediate level. Students learn to read and e.g. toll pricing. Cost benefit analysis of a students must enroll in one of the graduate comprehend a variety of texts from Chinese transportation project. History of government student insurance plans and should be advised newspaper/magazine articles, TV/films, and regulation of transportation. literary works and to write creatively and by an International Advisor. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) professionally in Chinese using sophisticated Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading vocabulary and advanced Chinese characters. May be repeated for credit. CIV 509: Transportation Logistics Students will also be trained to comprehend Systems authentic spoken Mandarin Chinese, using CHE 701: Dissertation Research off This course provides a deep understanding of a variety of audio-visual materials and to Campus - International logistics systems by introducing the models communicate in Mandarin Chinese, applying Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy and analytic techniques to evaluate their design appropriate socio-cultural norms. This course (G5). Major portion of research will take and operation. Emphasis will be placed on the is not intended for students who already speak place outside of the United States and/or development of models to demonstrate the Chinese natively. U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the core concepts involved in network distribution option of the health plan and may also enroll 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) strategies, discrete facility location design, in MEDEX. International students who are vehicle routing and scheduling, and inventory CHI 526: Structure of Mandarin in their home country are not covered by management. Chinese mandatory health plan and must contact the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Insurance Office for the insurance charge to Mandarin Chinese is only one of a very few be removed. International students who are contemporary languages whose history is CIV 510: Advanced Foundation not in their home country are charged for the documented in an unbroken tradition extending Engineering back to the second millennium BC. At the mandatory health insurance. If they are to be The course is designed to provide students same time, it has more speakers than any covered by another insurance plan they must with the theory and experience-based other language spoken in the modern world. file a waiver be second week of classes. The knowledge necessary to evaluate and estimate This course provides an introduction to the charge will only be removed if other plan is soil properties and earth pressure for analysis phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, deemed comparable. and design of retaining walls, anchored and writing system of the Mandarin Chinese All international students must received bulkheads, and excavation bracing systems. language. It is designed to familiarize students clearance from an International Advisor. Bearing capacity and settlement of shallow with some fundamental knowledge of the Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading foundations are also covered. Semesters structure of spoken and written Mandarin May be repeated for credit. Offered: Fall Chinese. Specifically, it aims to enable the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CHE 800: SUMMER RESEARCH students to acquire an understanding of basic methods used by linguists to observe and May be repeated for credit. gather Mandarin Chinese data, to delineate CIV 511: Advanced Shear Strength of stmctural prope1ties with regard to the sound, Soils tone, word, grammar, and discourse of the This course covers topics related to advanced CHI language, and to develop a basic typological analysis for shear strength of soils including Chinese Language comparison between Mandarin Chinese and stress-path, shear strength of cohesive soils, English. and shear strength of granular soils. CHI 501: Advanced Chinese I 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) An advanced course in Chinese as a foreign CIV 513: Seepage and Slope Stability or heritage language to strengthen their ability to understand, speak, read, and write Chinese CIV This class will expose students to water flow in soils and the associated seepage forces applied beyond the intermediate level. Students learn Civil Engineering to read and comprehend a variety of texts on underground structures. Also included in this class is a detailed discussion about

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 43 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 determining the soil hydraulic properties Basic hydrodynamics of water waves. Topics knowledge on structural analysis methods in the lab and in the field. Additionally, the include linear wave theory, energy, power and structural behavior. The subject treatment course will discuss the stability of earth slopes and energy propagation, wave refraction, is in the context of truss, beam, frame, and forming natural and manmade slopes using shoaling and breaking in the nearshore, plate structural elements. A key objective is to various analysis methods. diffraction by breakwaters and gaps, reflection provide the necessary knowledge and skills for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and basin oscillations, wave statistics and capturing structural behavior through simple spectra, wind-wave hindcast/forecast, wave models. The course will extend concepts in CIV 514: Advanced Cons forces on piles and pipes. Some coastal matrix structural analysis by presenting a This course introduces several emerging processes due to nonlinearity, including general framework for analyzing complex materials in construction, some of which wave set-up/set-down, nearshore circulations structural systems. A brief introduction to the are already in use and some of which are and storm surges. Physical interpretations finite element method and nonlinear structural still in development. First, students are of mathematical formulas are particularly analysis is provided. taught overall material properties of concrete emphasized. Semesters Offered: Spring 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) which include cement manufacturing, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) hydration, and microstructure. For each May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. CIV 532: Structural Dynamics new material discussed, students are taught Analysis of the dynamic response of structures about its properties, how those properties CIV 523: Coastal Engineering Planning and structural components to transient loads are derived, and its potential applications. and Design and foundation excitation; single-degree-of- In addition, principles and application The basic principles involved in the planning freedom and multi-degree-of-freedom systems; of material characterization techniques and design of various types and functions response spectrum concepts; numerical of X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence, of coastal structures and shore protective methods for integration of the equations of scanning electron microscope, and isothermal measures will be discussed. Topics will motion; simple inelastic structural systems; calorimetry will be discussed. Examples of include review of linear wave theory, systems with distributed mass and flexibility. materials discussed are high performance considerations of site conditions; design 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) steel, ultra high performance concrete, processes; design of sloping- and vertical- calcium aluminate cement concrete, calcium front costal structures; scour and scour CIV 533: Intermediate Steel Design sulfoaluminate cement, and fiber-reinforced protection; coastal sediment transport; shore Metal members under combined loads; polymers. The students then take field protection measures such as coastal armoring, connections, welded and bolted; moment- trips as a group to concrete batch plant, beach restoration, and beach stabilization; and resistant connections; plate girders, construction sites, or LEED-certified building introduction to harbor and marina. conventional behavior, and tension field with innovative concrete use and have a 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) action. presentation about their field trips. Semesters 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Offered: Spring CIV 524: Coastal Processes and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Sediment Transport CIV 534: Intermediate Reinforced May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. This course describes processes associated Concrete Design with water and sediment movements close to Strength, behavior, and design of CIV 515: Analysis of Deep Foundations shoreline. The topics covered in this course indeterminate reinforced concrete structures, This course covers topics related to the includes: sediment characteristics; long-term with primary emphasis on slab systems; analysis and design of deep foundations processes, hydrodynamics of coastal zone; emphasis on the strength of slabs and on the including the design of vertically loaded field measurement techniques and analysis, available methods of design of slabs spanning drilled shafts and driven piles, the analysis equilibrium beach profiles, sediment transport, in two directions, with or without supporting of laterally loaded piles, and in-situ pile load modeling of beaches and shorelines, shoreline beams. tests. modification and analysis including soft and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) hard engineering approaches and tidal inlets. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CIV 535: Earthquake Engineering CIV 516: Soil and Site Improvement Source mechanisms, stress waves, and site CIV 526: Environmental Biotechnology This class will expose students to techniques response of earthquake shaking; effect on currently used in practice to improve the This graduate course covers the fundamental the built environment; nature of earthquake properties of soils in-situ. These techniques concepts of biological processes that actions on structures; fundamental structural will include shallow and deep compaction, are important in natural and engineered response characteristics of stiffness, strength, overexcavation and replacement, deep environmental systems. The course will and ductility; representation of the earthquake replacement, drainage and dewatering, incorporate basic fundamental microbiology input in static and dynamic structural analysis; preloading, deep soil mixing, and fill into a quantifiable engineering context in order modeling of steel and concrete structures reinforcement. At the end of the class, students to describe, predict and control behavior of under earthquake effects; outputs for safety will be able to perform preliminary analysis to environmental biological system. assessment; comprehensive source-to-design select the most appropriate soil improvement 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) actions project. technique for a given project and deliver a 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) detailed design of the selected technique. CIV 530: Structural Mechanics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course deals with fundamentals of CIV 544: Environmental Fluid the theory of structures with the objective Dynamics CIV 522: Introduction to Coastal of providing proper understanding and Engineering

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Free surface flows of water and air occurring This course covers topics in theoretical and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in natural fluid systems and influencing applied environmental organic chemistry. We environmental transport and mixing. will focus on physical/chemical properties CIV 555: Analytics for Engineering Fundamental principles of fluids, covering the of organic pollutants and the processes that Systems scales relevant to both engineering and geo- govern their fate and transport, particularly This course systematically introduces methods physical applications. Topics include waves, in air and water, as well as their interactions of analytics with an emphasis placed on instability, stratification, turbulent boundary with soil and biota. Topics include equilibrium solving civil engineering problems. The layers, jets and plumes, and river hydraulics partitioning, molecular diffusion, air- design, operation, and management of civil 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) water exchange, sorption, bioaccumulation engineering systems are increasingly complex and biomagnification, and transformation and uncertain. This course aims to help CIV 545: Computational Fluid reactions. We will also touch on emerging students build the ability to use analytics for Dynamics issues involving novel organic contaminants. understanding, modeling, and optimizing civil Computational methods in hydraulics and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) engineering systems, and system of systems. coastal engineering, Incompressible flows, Topics of this course include data description Turbulence modeling, Coupled hydrodynamics CIV 550: Introduction to Smart and visualization, modeling uncertainty with and Morphodynamics, Computational methods Infrastructure Systems probability distribution, descriptive mining, for modeling contaminant transport, Numerical The course will include lectures that provide sampling and statistical inference, regression algorithms for solving Navier-Stokes historical background of smart infrastructure analysis, time series analysis, neural networks, equations, Introducing parallel programing and systems, fundamental concepts of decision- simulation, mathematical optimization, high-performance computing in computational making, data representation, sensing and decision analysis, and optimization under fluid dynamics. actuation networks, and associated challenges uncertainty. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) specific to smart cities applications. Basics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) concepts of probability and statistics, CIV 546: Environmental Aquatic optimization, and uncertainty and risk CIV 595: Independent Study in Civil Chemistry will be introduced to help students build a Engineering This course introduces the application of solid foundation for machine learning and Students can register this course in order to physical chemistry to solve problems related engineering system modeling. The course conduct research or participate in a project to natural water systems (both freshwater includes assignments that will provide hands- under the supervision of one or more members and seawater) and anthropogenic impacts on on experience on applying what they have of the Civil Engineering faculty. these systems. We will cover thermodynamics learned from lectures. The students will 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and kinetics and how they can be used to conduct a comprehensive independent research May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. understand the distribution and cycling project on topics related to smart infrastructure of chemical species in natural waters and systems to enhance their understanding of a CIV 596: MS Project related processes, including dissolution and specific topic of their interest. This course will This course is taken by M.S. students who precipitation, oxidation and reduction, acid- cover topics including sensing systems, data select MS Project track. Conducted jointly by base interactions, and complexation. We will visualization, probabilistic modeling, Bayesian graduate students and one or more members also cover special topics related to current updating, convex optimization, uncertainty and of the faculty. A final project report must issues in water quality. risks, as well as open-ended topics related to be submitted to the advisor as well as to the policy, economics, and information security 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Graduate Program Director. Without the challenges in infrastructure monitoring and submitted report, credits from his course CIV 547: Environmental Physical- decision-making. cannot be applied toward the MS degree. Chemical Processes 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 0-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Physical-chemical processes that affect May be repeated for credit. CIV 551: Sensing and Learning for environmental quality in natural and Smart Cities engineered systems. The focus is on CIV 599: M.S. Thesis Research developing a qualitative understanding of An introductory course on practical This course is taken by M.S. students for their mechanisms as well as quantitative tools applications and challenges of sensing, data thesis research work. to describe, predict, and control physical- analytics and machine learning in the context of physical urban systems. Background is 1-12 credits, S/U grading chemical processes. Topics include reactor May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. mixing and reaction kinetics, gas transfer, provided on data analysis and associated challenges specific to smart cities applications, sorption, particle dynamics, filtration, CIV 680: Special Topics in insights behind signal representation, statistical membranes, and disinfection. Most of the Transportation Engineering modeling, and machine learning, and critical applications are in the water quality sub- The subject matter of special topics course can domain, but overlap exists with air quality, soil interpretation of outcomes. The course is suitable for students without prior experience vary semester to semester depending on the and sediment contamination, and even some interests of the students and the faculty, and applications to biological systems. in probabilistic and statistical modeling, or working with data. Topics include data the contemporary topics in transportation field 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) visualization, noise cleansing, frequency 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. domain analysis, forward and inverse May be repeated for credit. CIV 548: Organic Pollutants in modeling, feature extraction, sampling bias, Environmental Systems statistical modeling, machine learning, and error analysis.

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CIV 681: Special Topics In interests of the students and the faculty, and CIV 701: Dissertation Research Off Geomechanics and Geotechnical the contemporary topics in transportation field. Campus-International Engineering 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Major Portion of research will take place The subject matter of special topics course May be repeated for credit. outside of the United States and/or U.S. can vary semester to semester depending on provinces. Domestic students have the option the interests of the sudetns and the faculty, CIV 691: Civil Engineering Seminar of the health plan and may also enroll in and the contemporary topics in geotechnical This course is designed to expose students MEDEX. International students who are engineering field. to cutting-edge research and development in their home country are not covered by 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) activities in civil engineering. Speakers are mandatory health plan and must contact the May be repeated for credit. invited from both on and off campus. Fall Insurance Office for the insurance charge to and spring. 0 credits, S/U grading. May be be removed. International students who are CIV 682: Special Topics in Ocean and repeated. not in their home country are charged for the Coastal Engineering S/U grading mandatory health insurance. If they are to be The course is designed for the discussion of May be repeated for credit. covered by another insurance plan they must topics of special interest on demand that may file a waiver be second week of classes. The not be covered in regularly scheduled courses. CIV 695: Civil Engineering Internship charge will only be removed if other plan is Varying topics from ocean wave mechanics, Participation in off-campus engineering deemed comparable. All international students offshore structures, coastal processes, practice in private corporations, public must receive clearance for an International sediments and morphology to estuarine agencies, or non-profit institutions. Student Advisor dynamics may be offered concurrently. will be required to have faculty coordinator as 1-9 credits, S/U grading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) well as a contact in outside organizations, to May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. participate with them in regular consultations on the project, and to submit a final report to CIV 683: Special Topics in Structural both. A maximum of 3 credits can be accepted CLT Engineering toward the M.S. degree. Comparative Literature The subject matter of special topics course 1 credit, S/U grading can vary semester to semester depending on May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. CLT 501: Theories of Comparative the interests of the students and the faculty, Literature CIV 697: Practicum in Teaching I and the contemporary topics in structural This course provides a survey of literacy engineering field. Every TA must register for this course theory and its role in the formation of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, S/U grading comparative literature as a discipline. May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

CIV 684: Special Topics in Water CIV 698: Practicum in Teaching II CLT 509: History of Literary Criticism Resources and Environmental Practicum in teaching under faculty Engineering A history of literary theory from classical supervision 3 credits, S/U grading Greece to Freud. Offered Fall/ The course is designed for the discussion of 3 credits, S/U grading topics of special interest on demand that may Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) not be covered in regularly scheduled courses. CIV 699: Dissertation Research On Varying topics from water treatment, solid Campus CLT 597: Directed Readings for M.A. waste management, urban and watershed Students have to register for this class during Students hydrology, stormwater management, water their dissertation research after advancement to A student and faculty member agree on a quality modeling to environmental fluid candidacy. Major portion of research must take mechanics may be offered concurrently. corpus of texts to read and discuss at weekly place on SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or biweekly meetings. The reading list must be 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) or at the Brookhaven National Lab. filed with the program's form before the add/ May be repeated for credit. 0-9 credits, S/U grading drop period ends. May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. CIV 685: Special Topics in Materials Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. Engineering CIV 700: Dissertation Research Off The subject matter of special topics course Campus-Domestic CLT 598: Thesis Research can vary semester to semester depending on Students have to register for this class during the interests of the students and the faculty, Research and writing of M.A. thesis their dissertation research after advancement supervised by faculty advisor. and the contemporary topics in materials to candidacy. Major portion of research will Offered Fall, Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading engineering field. take place off-campus, but in the United May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) States and/or U.S. provinces. All international May be repeated for credit. students must enroll in one the graduate CLT 599: Independent Study student insurance plans and should be advised CIV 686: Special Topics in Smart Civil by an international advisor. A student and faculty member agree on a topic Infrastructure Systems not offered in any seminars and a reading 1-9 credits, S/U grading list to study at weekly or biweekly meetings. The subject matter of special topics course can May be repeated for credit. vary semester to semester depending on the A final research paper or major annotated

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 46 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 bibliography will be required. The syllabus perspective. Emphasis will be placed on A portion of dissertation research must take must be filed with the program's form before an examination of differences as well as place on SBU campus. the add/drop period ends. May be repeated for similarities. Presuppositions of specific literary Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U credit. traditions will be questioned within the broader grading Only three credits of Independent Study can be perspectives of philosophical and religious May be repeated for credit. counted toward the M.A. requirements, and a valences. CLT 700: Dissertation Research off maximum of six toward the Ph.D 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Campus - Domestic Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CLT 609: Advanced Topics in Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy May be repeated for credit. Comparative Literature (G5). Major portion of research will take place A variable topics seminar in Comparative off-campus, but in the United States and/ CLT 600: Seminar in Stylistics Literature. 3 credits, Letter graded (A,A-,B+, or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven Changing topics in the study of stylistic and etc.) Course may be repeated as topics vary. National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab structural elements of the literary text. Semesters Offered: Fall and Spring are considered on-campus. All international students must enroll in one of the graduate 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) student insurance plans and should be advised May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. by an International Advisor. CLT 601: Seminar in Literary and CLT 680: Cultural Studies Research Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Cultural Theory Seminar May be repeated for credit. Changing topics in the specialized In addition to readings on issues, debates, and CLT 701: Dissertation Research off examinations of recent or historical trends problems within the profession and field of Campus - International such as semiotics, Marxism, reader-response, Cultural Studies students will develop research psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, deconstruction. for publication while engaging with practices Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy (G5). Major portion of research will take 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of professionalization. place outside of the United States and/or May be repeated for credit. Offered Fall/ U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, option of the health plan and may also enroll CLT 602: Interdisciplinary Seminar etc.) in MEDEX. International students who are Specific problems in the relations between May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. in their home country are not covered by literature and other disciplines. CLT 690: Directed Readings for mandatory health plan and must contact the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Doctoral Candidates Insurance Office for the insurance charge to May be repeated for credit. be removed. International students who are A student and faculty member agree on a not in their home country are charged for the corpus of texts to read and discuss at weekly CLT 603: Comparative Studies in mandatory health insurance. If they are to be or biweekly meetings. The reading list must be Literary History covered by another insurance plan they must filed with the program's form before the add/ Changing topics in the study of literary periods file a waiver be second week of classes. The drop period ends. May be repeated for credit. and styles. charge will only be removed if other plan is 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading deemed comparable. May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. All international students must received CLT 696: Self-Directed Readings clearance from an International Advisor. CLT 604: Comparative Studies in Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Genre For doctoral students who have completed May be repeated for credit. Changing topics in the study of the history and all course requirements and wish to dedicate theory of literary genres. themselves to full or part-time preparation for CLT 800: SUMMER RESEARCH the Comprehensive Examination. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 3-9 credits, S/U grading May be repeated 6 times FOR credit. CLT 850: SUMMER TEACHING CLT 607: Major Authors in Comparative Context CLT 698: Practicum in Teaching May be repeated for credit. Critical and comparative examination of two The course is divided into two parts: one half or more major figures from different literary or is normally given in the fall, one in the spring. CME other aesthetic traditions. Recent topics have The first part deals primarily with matters of included "Kristeveva," Dostoevsky and the pedagogy. The second part is designed to help Chemical and Molecular West," and "European Realisms." Offered Fall students plan their own undergraduate courses. Engineering and Spring 3 Credits, ABCF Grading The practicum is required of all students during their first year. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CME 501: Fluid Mechanics May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course aims to provide graduate-level May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. students with fundamental concepts of fluid CLT 608: Cross-Cultural Perspectives CLT 699: Dissertation Research on mechanics; mass, energy and momentum Key topics in genre, literary criticism, Campus balances; fluids flow in pipes; Couette flows, and methodology from a cross-cultural Poiseuille flows, unsteady flows; viscous flow; Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5).

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 47 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 fluid flow in porous media; laminar boundary CME 511: Transport Phenomena This course aims to provide graduate-level layer and other unidirectional flow; turbulent This course covers topics in advanced students with an in-depth acquaintance flow; fluctuations and time-averaging, two transport phenomena. Topics include, with important characterization methods phase flow and fluidization; non-Newtonian equations of change for isothermal systems, that are applicable to surface science, soft fluids; microfluidics and electro-kinetic flow viscosity, momentum transport, laminar materials, thin films and nanotechnology. effects; compressible flows and computational and creeping flow, multi-variable velocity Topics include techniques such as atomic fluid dynamics. potential, turbulent flow, Interphase transport, force microscopy (AFM) including contact- 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) friction factors, rheology of polymeric liquids, mode, tapping-mode and lateral-force AFM, non-Newtonian viscosity and generalized scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), CME 502: Mathematical Analysis & Newtonian models, equations of change electrostatic force microscopy (EFM), Modeling for non-isothermal systems, temperature magnetic force microscopy (MFM), AFM- This course aims to provide graduate- distributions and unsteady heat conduction in based nano-lithography, surface force and level students with a practical approach to solids, temperature distributions in turbulent adhesion measurement, as well as molecular computational methods for the development flow and heat flux, diffusivity and mass recognition, Xray photon spectroscopy (XPS) of various modeling approaches to a variety of transport, mass and molar transport by and ultraviolet photon spectroscopy (UPS), relevant chemical, physical and engineering convection. including basic principle, instrumentation configuration, data interpretation and analysis, processes. The course will cover linear 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) algebra, nonlinear algebraic systems, matrix chemical shift, quantification, and depth- eigenvalue analysis, initial value problems CME 512: Non-equilibrium profiling; time-of-flight secondary ion mass numerical optimization, boundary value Thermodynamics spectrometry (ToF-SIMS), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and Raman problems; probability theory and stochastic This course provides in depth graduate level spectroscopy, attenuated total reflection simulations, Bayesian statistics and parameter instruction in non-equilibrium thermodynamics (ATR), diffuse reflectance, and polarization estimation and Fourier analysis. and statistical mechanics. Topics include a modulation-infrared reflection-adsorption 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) qualitative comparison of equilibrium and spectroscopy (PM-IRRAS) and finally, non-equilibrium systems, the description scanning and transmission electron microscopy CME 503: Chemical Engineering of thermodynamic ensembles, the concept (SEM and TEM). In addition to the text, the Thermodynamics of system fluctuations, Brownian motion, student will be exposed to classic and current fluctuation-dissipation processes, Markov This course aims to provide graduate- literature in the field. level students with understanding on processes, Chapman-Kolmogorov equation, the equilibrium thermodynamics and the Fokker-Planck equation, the Einstein- 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) classical statistical thermodynamics, Smoluchowski equation, stochastic processes CME 515: Complex Fluids and to apply them to analyze chemical and boundary conditions, auto-catalytic engineering problems down to molecular- chemical reactions, bistability, transport This course aims to provide graduate-level scale. It contains mainly the following processes, relaxation time approximation, students with a unified approach to complex subjects: Fundamentals of Equilibrium stability of far-from equilibrium systems; fluids. Complex fluids, also referred to as Thermodynamics; Thermodynamic Properties pattern formation and self-assembly. soft materials, are materials which have the capability to self-organize to form complex of Fluids and Fluid Mixtures; Phase Transition 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and Critical Phenomena; Classical Statistical structures that may be manipulated to exhibit Mechanics; Statistical Thermodynamics of CME 513: Rheology a variety of properties essential for specific functional requirements. The materials Ideal Gases and Liquid Mixtures; and Other This course aims to provide graduate-level considered under this definition are the various Topics of Interest. students with an in-depth acquaintance with classes of colloids, polymers, amphiphiles, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) important topics in rheology. Topics include liquid crystals and biological molecules. a discussion of the role of rheology in science Topics covered include an overview and CME 504: Chemical Reaction and engineering, the definition of viscosity, the definitions of soft matter and complex Engineering classification of various types of viscous fluids fluids; Intermolecular interactions; Phase and flows, deformation and stress, relaxation Introduce the students to the fundamental transitions and order parameters, scaling functions, relaxation time, conversion among principles of reaction engineering in order to laws and polydispersity; Polymer systems, response functions, complex modulus, glass enable them to handle kinetics and kinetic- thermodynamics of polymer solutions; transition, time-temperature superposition rule, transport interactions in a variety of situations. Polymers at interfaces, adsorbed polymer WLF equation; stress expression in polymers, To introduce students to the analysis of the layers, polymer brushes; self-assembly in tension, free-energy and distribution-function kinetics of homogeneous chemical reactions. bulk, weak and strong segregation, microphase of subchains, the Rouse and Zimm models, To apply this analysis and the concepts of separation; Self-assembly in solution, derivation of stress and relaxation modulus, material and energy conservation to the design polymeric micelles, surfactant micelles, discussion on the relaxation behavior, the of idealized homogeneous chemical reactors planar assemblies, microemulsions; Colloidal deGennes reptation model, and contour length operating both in batch and continuous systems, forces, and stability, interaction fluctuation in polymer chains. In addition to modes and under both isothermally and non- between charged surfaces, colloidal dynamics, the text, the student will be exposed to classic isothermally conditions. To introduce the diffusion and sedimentation; Amphiphilic and current literature in the field. analysis of non ideal flow and, using the flow systems, surface activity, surfactants and model, to quantify its effect on an idealized 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) monolayers, membranes; Liquid crystals, reactor design. applications in microelectronics; Biological 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CME 514: Characterization Methods (Microscopy and Spectroscopy)

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 48 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 systems; Macromolecular and supramolecular The course specially designed for chemical cosmeceuticals and dermal and transdermal assemblies. engineering students to provide an introduction applications will be discussed. In the last 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to the various aspects of cell biology. The prat industrial and practical problems will be ideas of cell biology, including biochemistry discussed. CME 519: Electrochemistry and and bioenergetics, DNA and protein synthesis, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Electrochemical Materials Science and mechanisms of cancer will be introduced. This course will survey electrochemistry and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CME 591: Sustainable Future Through electrochemical materials science. Topics Renewable Energy- Advanced will include fundamental measurements CME 525: Chemical and Biological The course will expose students to the role in electrochemistry, galvanostatic and Sensors of engineering, chemistry, climate change potentiostatic methods, the electrochemical Introduction to the field of chemosensor in defining energy options, and a basic double layer, corrosion and passivation. and biosensor, as well as an in-depth and understanding of chemical engineering and Relevant applications such as fuel cells, quantitative view of the sensor design technology in developing broad energy options batteries, and supercapacitors will be and performance analysis. Fundamental in developing countries. The course combines discussed. application of chemo/biosensor theory will lectures with utilization of carbon management 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) be demonstrated including recognition, tools to calculate carbon footprint in a specific transduction, signal acquisition, and post country in a virtual environment. CME 522: Heterogeneous Catalysis & processing/data analysis. Topics are selected 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Surface Reaction to emphasize biomedical, bioprocessing, Heterogeneous catalysis is central to the environmental, and energy application. CME 599: Research petroleum chemical industry and it is 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Offered Fall and Spring directly related to products efficiency. This 0-9 credits, S/U grading CME 526: Computational Methods course will emphasize the fundamental and May be repeated for credit. application of heterogeneous catalysis and This course aims to provide graduate-level introduce the catalytic reaction mechanism. students with an in-depth acquaintance CME 695: Graduate Internship Students who complete the course will have with use of modern computational and Participation in private corporations, public attained the following outcomes: 1) Basic mathematical techniques in chemical agencies, or non-profit institutions for ongoing of heterogeneous catalyst and catalysis 2) engineering including applied numerical research activities related to thesis research. Kinetics of heterogeneously catalyzed reaction analysis, programming algorithms using Students will be required to have a faculty 3) Surface characterization by spectroscopic mathematical software, and applications of coordinator as well as a contact in the outside techniques 4) Knowledge of supported metal computational methods to the solution of organization, to participate with them in oxide and zeolites 5) Application of theoretical mechanical engineering. Topics include a regular consultations on the project, and to calculations 6) Industrial applications of discussion of the different analytical methods submit a final report to both. heterogeneous catalyst. and algorithms and how to apply these using Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Matlab. In addition to the text, the student will be exposed to classic and current literature in CME 696: Special Topics in Chemical CME 523: Nanocomposites the field. and Molecular Engineering This course aims to provide graduate-level 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course will provide an introduction to students with an in-depth knowledge of the numerical methods for engineering problems CME 590: Surfactants, dispersion main types of nanocomposite materials and in Python. You will learn the foundations of technology and novel delivery vehicles their specific physical and chemical properties scientific computing that can be applied to a required in applications. Topics include a In the first part of the course the students broad range of engineering problems. We will discussion of the methods of preparation and will learn the structures of monomeric, cover the fundamental mathematical bases of characterization of specific physical properties polymeric, and biopolymeric surfactants. numerical methods used to describe physical of nanocomposite materials. The current state Students will be taught how to prepare phenomena encountered in chemical processes of theory and modeling of nanocomposites and characterize surfactants. In the second and will then describe how to implement them will be presented. At the end of the course, part students will learn how surfactants using Python. The course will introduce you students will have enough understanding of arrange on surfaces and how they self- to Python programming language and some the main concepts in nanocomposites physics, assemble in solution. Micellar solutions and of the benefits it offers. Topics covered basic understand advantages and disadvantages their properties such as interfacial tension, data structure, solution of equations, data of different thermoplastics and thermoset aggregation number, and solubilization will be fitting, plotting, function minimization, and polymers as matrix materials. In addition studied. Also, preparation of micro emulsions; differential equations. No previous computing students will gain the knowledge of different solubilization of bioactives; stability/instability experience is assumed. manufacturing techniques of nanocomposites. parameters, and thermodynamic stability/ 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) In addition to the text, the student will be instability mechanism of emulsions, creaming, exposed to classic and current literature in the flocculation and coalescence will be discussed. CME 697: Chemical and Molecular field. In addition, steric and depletion stabilization Engineering Colloquium 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will be discussed as well as double emulsions, their characterization and stabilization by A weekly series of lectures and discussions by visitors, local faculty, and students presenting CME 524: Chemical Processes in Cell biopolymers. Foams and ¿solid in liquid¿ will current research results. Biology be explored and compared to emulsions. In the entire course examples from the cosmetic, 0-3 credits, S/U grading

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CME 698: CME 698 Practicum in from the research literature. An important Teaching CSE part of the course is the case study of an actual operating system. Students study the Practicum in teaching under faculty Computer Science supervision. source code for this operating system and do programming exercises and projects that 0-3 credits, S/U grading CSE 502: Computer Architecture involve modifying the operating system and May be repeated for credit. Topics covered include instruction pipelines measuring its performance. CME 699: Dissertation Research on and memory caches to improve computer Prerequisite: CSE 306 Campus performance; instruction-level parallelism; Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, machines: superscalar versus VLIW; cache etc.) Major portion of research must take place on and main memory hierarchy design tradeoffs; SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at compiler optimizations to speed pipelines; CSE 507: Introduction to Brookhaven National Lab. low-power computer system design: processor, Computational Linguistics 0-9 credits, S/U grading OS, and compiler support; graphics, DSP, Overview of computational approaches May be repeated for credit. and media processor design; disk I/O system to language use. Core topics include design; interconnections and networking; and mathematical and logical foundations, syntax, CME 700: Dissertation Research off introduction to parallel architecture. Advanced Campus semantics and progmatics. Special topics may topics include asynchronous microprocessors; include speech processing, dialog system Major portion of research will take place off- FPGA-based reconfigurable computing; machine translation information extraction and campus, but in the United States and/or U.S. system on a chip; embedded processors; information retrieval. Statistical and traditional provinces. intelligent RAM and superconducting approaches are included. Students will develop 0-9 credits, S/U grading computers. familiarity with the literature and tools of the May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: CSE 345 field. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Prerequisites: CSE 537; CSE 541 CME 701: Dissertation Research off etc.) Campus-International recommended Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, CSE 504: Compiler Design Major Portion of research will take place etc.) outside of the United States and/or U.S. This course covers advanced topics in provinces. compilation, including memory management, CSE 508: Network Security 0-9 credits, S/U grading dataflow analysis, code optimization, just-in- Principles and practice of Computer Network May be repeated for credit. time compilation, and selected topics from Security. Cryptography, authentication compilation of object-oriented and declarative protocols, public key infrastructures, IP/www/ CME 800: Full Time Summer Research languages. Prerequisites: CSE 304 and CSE E-commerce security, firewalls, VPN, and This course may be only taken by Ph.D. 307 intrusion detection. Limited to CSE graduate candidates who are defending in the summer 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) students. Others; permission of instructor. S/U grading Prerequisite: CSE/ISE 310, or CSE 346 or CSE 505: Computing with Logic equivalent. The course explores logic-based computing 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) COM and logic programming. It includes an introduction to programming in logic, covering CSE 509: Computer System Security Communications basic techniques for solving problems in Principles and practice of building and a logic programming system. Particular administering secure systems. Authentication attention will be paid to user interface issues and access control. Operating system security. CONSTRM and how a logic system can provide a useful Program security, database security. Key Consortium Agreement computing environment. The course covers management. Information flow. Assurance. implementation issues, emphasizing how a Vulnerability analysis and intrusion detection. logic programming system generalizes both CONSTRM AGRMNT: Credit earned as 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) transfer. traditional programming language systems and traditional database systems. The procedure, which involves the completion CSE 510: Hybrid Systems 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of a Consortium Agreement, permits a student Hybrid Systems combine discrete state- to attend another institution while receiving CSE 506: Operating Systems machines and continuous differential equations financial aid through Stony Brook. It is and have been used as models of a large a process which is to be utilized only in This course is an in-depth study of important number of applications such as real-time extenuating situations. A student who feels concepts and techniques found in modern software, embedded systems, robotics, that his/her situation can be documented and computer operating systems. An undergraduate mechatronics, aerospace systems, process therefore warrants the use of this option should course in operating systems is a prerequisite. control and biological systems. The course contact the Financial Aid Office. The course focuses on in-depth study of will cover modeling, design, analysis, and such important issues as virtual memory, 0-12 credits, verification methods for hybrid systems. file systems, networking, and multiprocessor May be repeated for credit. Topics may include SAT/SMT solvers, support, with an eye to recent directions timed automata, formal logics for system in these areas. Textbook readings are supplemented where appropriate by papers

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They will learn strategies for assessing data, next generation genetic and demonic important questions such as: what should I CSE 511: Brain and Memory Modeling data, analysis of electronic medical record/ focus my efforts on, where are societal needs, An introduction to brain modeling. population heath data; internet,internet search, what policies are required or can be taken Neuroscience topics include major brain recommender systems; and engineering and advantage of, how can I possibly influence structures, constituent glia and neurons, and physical science,analysis of experimental policy, and finally, what are the dangers synapses connecting neurons; how excited and simulation data associated with design of when developing new ST. To teach these neurons send ionic firing spikes to other energetic materials, oil reservoir simulation, topics the course takes a practical approach. neurons; synapse changes during learning nuclear fusion and self-driving cars. The first section of the sequence examines and forgetting; connection structures for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) historical science and technology successes stable ionic activity in neural networks; and failures. Then, in the second section, teams and distributed firing patterns underlying CSE 515: Introduction to Transaction composed of students from both the CS and memory, perception, and thought. Computing Processing Systems DTS departments conduct case studies of topics include efficient methods for modeling Discusses transaction processing systems. existing ST or design and implement new ST electrical activity in single neurons using Topics covered include models of transactions, under the perspectives of the course. 1 credit NEURON and in networks of millions of including nested transactions and workflow; 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) neurons using discrete event simulation. architectures of transaction processing CSE 518: Foundations of Human Participants will code simulations OR use systems, including client-server, two-tiered Computer Interactions neuroscience experience to refine brain and three-tiered architectures; concurrency models. controls for conventional and relational The focus of this course is on the design, Offered Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded databases including two-phase locking and the evaluation, and implementation of interactive (A, A-, B+, etc.) SQL isolation levels; logging and recovery; computing systems for human use and on the distributed transactions including the two- study of major phenomena surrounding them. CSE 512: Machine Learning phase commit protocol; replication; Internet This course will provide the students with a A course on the fundamentals of machine commerce, including encryption, the SSL and strong grounding in the guidelines, principles, learning, including basic models, formulations SET protocols, goods atomicity, and electronic methodologies, tools, and techniques for and modern methods. Topics include cash. Fall analyzing, designing, and evaluating user validation, classification, regression, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) interfaces and interaction techniques. Topics clustering, component analysis and include: 1) Human Information Processing graphic models.Students are expected to CSE 516: Science for Society I System 2) Interaction Behavior Modeling have the following background:Working This is part one of an interdisciplinary course 3) Computational Interface Design 4) User knowledge of probability theory and sequence (1 credit each) is designed for Centered Design 5) Sketching and Prototyping statistics,Working knowledge of linear students in computer science (CS) and students 6) Usability Testing 7) Heuristic Evaluation 8) algebra and algorithms,Working knowledge of technology and society (DTS). Students Natural User Interfaces & the Future of Uls 9) of basic computer science principles at a level taking this course will enhance their abilities State-of-the-art research within HCI sufficient to write a reasonably non-trivial to critically think and build awareness for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) computer program in a language of preference science and technology (ST) and their societal CSE 519: Data Science Fundamentals Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, aspects. They will learn strategies for assessing A-, B+, etc.) important questions such as: what should I Knowledge discovery in data is the non-trivial focus my efforts on, where are societal needs, process of identifying valid, novel, potentially CSE 514: Data Analytics Software what policies are required or can be taken useful, and ultimately understandable patterns Stacks and Algorithms advantage of, how can I possibly influence in data (Fayyad et al. 1996). Large-scale Architecture, and design of data analytics policy, and finally, what are the dangers data generated by humans and machines software stacks. We will cover MapReduce/ when developing new ST. To teach these is available everywhere. Acquiring the Hadoop/Dryad/Twister, Hadoop File System topics the course takes a practical approach. fundamental skills on how to 1) analyze (HDFS), HBASE, NOSQL tools such as The first section of the sequence examines and understand as well as 2) manage and MongoDB, Cassandra, HIVE; column historical science and technology successes process these large datasets are crucial in oriented database systems such as Vertica and failures. Then, in the second section, teams today¿s date-driven world, for producing data and MonetDB. We will also cover data composed of students from both the CS and products that solve real-world problems. This analysis management systems that target the DTS departments conduct case studies of course will cover the fundamental concepts scientific domain such as ADIOS, sciDB; existing ST or design and implement new ST in date science, to equip students with the key streaming systems such as IBM System S/ under the perspectives of the course. 1 credit skillset toward becoming good data scientists. DataCutter. Systems, data structures and 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Major topics include scoping projects, data algorithms to support management and preparation, statistics basics, visualization, analysis of spatio-temporal data from video CSE 517: Science for Society II statistical learning, data mining, various types cameras, satelliteds, telescopes or beamlines. This is part two of an interdisciplinary course of structured and We will study statistical methods, machine sequence (1 credit each) is designed for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) learning and image anlysis/reconstruction students in computer science (CS) and students methods used in big data/data analytic of technology and society (DTS). Students CSE 521: Data Mining Concepts and problems. Finally, we will survey big data/ taking this course will enhance their abilities Techniques

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Data Mining is a new, promising and CSE 525: Introduction to Robotics A comprehensive course in formulation, flourishing interdisciplinary field drawing This course introduces fundamental concepts implementation, and application of simulation work from areas including database in Robotics. In the first half of the course, models. Topics include data structures, technology, artificial intelligence, basic concepts will be discussed, including simulation languages, statistical analysis, machine learning, pattern recognition, coordinate transformation, kinematics, pseudo-random number generation, and design high-performance computing, and data dynamics. Laplace transforms, equations of of simulation experiments. Students apply visualization. It focuses on issues relating motion, feedback and feedforward control, simulation modeling methods to problems of to the feasibility, usefulness, efficiency and trajectory planning. These topics will be their own design. This course is offered as and scalability of techniques for automated exemplified with Matlab/Simulink simulation CSE 529, AMS 553 and MBA 553. extraction of patterns representing knowledge studies. The second half of the course will 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) implicitly stored in large databases, focus on applying the knowledge from the warehouses, and other massive information initial lectures to various motor systems, CSE 530: GEOMETRIC FOUNDATNS repositories. The course gives a broad, yet in- including manipulators, artificial eye systems, This course will focus on mathematical depth overview of the field of data mining and locomotory systems, and mobile robotics. tools, geometric modeling techniques, and presents one or two techniques in rigorous There will be homeworks for Matlab/Simulink fundamental algorithms that are relevant detail. Prerequisite: Database course and a final project, a midterm and a final. to graphics, visualization, and other visual 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) computing areas. The goal is to provide May be repeated for credit. graduate students with a comprehensive CSE 526: Principles of Programming knowledge on geometric concepts and CSE 522: Special Project in Computer Languages demonstrate the significance of these Science Discusses programming language concepts mathematical tools and geometric algorithms Project in a sub-discipline of Computer and design, with emphasis on abstraction in graphics and relevant areas. Course Science, including but not limited to, computer mechanisms. Topics include language topics include geometric algorithms for architecture, operating systems, programming paradigms (procedural, object-oriented, both polygonal and curved objects, theory languages, compliers, artificial intelligence, functional, and logic), language concepts of parametric and implicit representations, networking, computer graphics, data mining, (values, bindings, types, modules), and modeling methods of curves, surfaces, and databases, computer vision, visualization, foundations (lambda calculus, denotational solids, in-depth spline theory, rudiments computer security, mobile computing, semantics). Examples will be drawn from of wavelet theory and multi-resolution parallel processing, logic programming, several representative languages, such as C, shape representations, differential geometry hybrid systems, simulation and modeling, Java, Standard ML, and Prolog. fundamentals, and other sophisticated topics computational biology, and multimedia. and latest advances in the field. Prerequisite: CSE 307 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Prerequisites: CSE 328 and CSE 332 May be repeated for credit. etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CSE 523: Advanced Project in CSE 527: Introduction to Computer Computer Science I Vision CSE 531: Performance Analysis of Systems First part of an advanced project in computer Introduction to basic concepts in computer science that will extend over two semesters. vision. Low level image analysis, image This is a new course that covers topics in the The student starts the project in one semester formation, edge detection, segmentation. performance analysis of computer systems. by registering for CSE523 and completes the Image transformations for image synthesis The contents of the course should prove very project in a following semester by registering methods for 3D scene reconstruction, motion helpful for computer science students who for CSE524. CSE523/524 sequence must be analysis, object recognition. wish to analyze computer systems and learn on the same project under the direction of the more about how to improve the performance 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) same advisor. The student must identify a of systems. Existing courses do not cover this faculty advisor before registering. CSE 528: Computer Graphics material. The course is targeted primarily at PhD and Masters students in the Computer 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course emphasizes a hands-on approach Science Department, however upper-level May be repeated for credit. to the use of computer graphics. The undergraduates can take the course as well. In topics covered include models, picture CSE 524: Advanced Project in addition, students from AMS, Math and ECE description, and interaction; c windowing, Computer Science II would also benefit from the course contents. clipping, panning, and zooming; geometrical Part 2 of a 2-semester advanced research transformations in 2D and 3D; algorithms for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and development project undertaken by raster displays (scan-line conversion, polygon CSE 532: Theory of Database Systems MS students under the supervision of a CS fill, polygon clipping, etc.); hidden line and graduate program faculty member. The student hidden surface removal, shading models; user The course will cover advanced topics in starts the project in one semester by registering interaction. The students will implement a modern database systems, including object- for CSE 523 and completes the project in a substantial graphics application program. oriented databases, rule-based databases, subsequent semester by registering for CSE temporal and active databases, parallel and Prerequisite: CSE 328 524 under the supervision of the same faculty distributed databases, distributed object model, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) member. data mining, online analytical processing, data 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CSE 529: Simulation and Modeling warehousing, multimedia databases. May be repeated for credit.

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Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, search, pattern recognition, natural language steaming algorithms, as well as modern A-, B+, etc.) processing, learning, expert systems, AI distribution analysis platforms (e.g. Hadoop, programming languages and techniques. Spark). CSE 533: Network Programming Covers both theoretical methods and practical 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Topics include Unix and Linux socket implementations. API programming at the TCP, UDP, IP Prerequisites: MAT 371 or CSE 541 CSE 546: Cryptography (raw sockets) and datalink access (Linux Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Cryptography studies how to perform PF_PACKET sockets, libpcap & libnet computational tasks securely in adversarial libraries) levels, in the context of developing CSE 538: Natural Lang Process environments. It plays an important role and implementing client-server applications, in designing secure systems. This is an reliable data transfer using TCP-like rdt and CSE 540: Theory of Computation introductory course that covers basic concepts flow control mechanisms, routing protocols, Topics include models of computation: and proof techniques in this area, as well address resolution protocols, multicasting, finite-state machines, stack machines, Turing as some recent research trends. The course DNS protocols. machines, Church's thesis; computability is theoretical in nature, with emphasis on 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) theory: halting problem and unsolvability, proofs and algorithmic reductions, even when introductory recursion theory; complexity discussing applied topics. No prior background CSE 534: Fundamentals of Computer theory: complexity measures, time and space in cryptography is assumed. However, students Networks hierarchy, NP-complete problems. should have mathematical maturity and be Internet protocol layers. Internet Architecture. comfortable with definitions and proofs. Prerequisite: CSE 303 Link layer and multiple access protocols. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Local area networks including wireless LANs. Routing on the Internet. Intra- and Inter- CSE 541: Logic in Computer Science CSE 547: Discrete Mathematics domain routing. Mobile routing. Transport A survey of the logical foundations of This course introduces such mathematical layer and TCP congestion control. Scheduling mathematics and the relationships to computer tools as summations, number theory, binomial and fairness. Application layers. Overlay and science; development of propositional calculus coefficients, generating functions, recurrence P2P networks. Content distribution networks. and quantification theory; the notions of relations, discrete probability, asymptotics, Network performance modeling. a proof and of a model; the completeness combinatorics, and graph theory for use in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) theorem. algorithmic and combinatorial analysis. This course is offered as both CSE 547 and AMS Pre- or co-requisite: MAT 313 and CSE 213 CSE 535: Distributed Systems 547. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Discusses asynchronous systems, their etc.) Prerequisite for CSE 547: AMS 301 description using concurrent and distributed Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, programming languages, and their verification. CSE 542: Big Data Systems, etc.) Topics include concurrent programming using Algorithms and Networks shared memory and message passing, formal CSE 548: Analysis of Algorithms Recent progress on big data systems, semantics of communication, reliability, and algorithms and networks. Topics include Techniques for designing efficient algorithms, concurrent algorithms. the web graph, search engines, targeted including choice of data structures, recursion, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) advertisements, online algorithms and branch and bound, divide and conquer, and competitive analysis, and analytics, storage, dynamic programming. Complexity analysis CSE 536: Introduction to User-Interface resource allocation, and security in big data of searching, sorting, matrix multiplication, Development systems. and graph algorithms. Standard NP-complete Survey of user-interface systems, includes problems and polynomial transformation 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) command language, windowing, multiple techniques. This course is offered as both input/output devices, architecture of user CSE 544: Probability and Statistics for AMS 542 and CSE 548. interface management systems, toolkits for Data Scientists Prerequisite for CSE 548: CSE 373 designing user-interface, human factors, The course will cover core concepts of recommended standards, visual languages. The course also probability theory and an assortment of Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, includes discussion of emerging technologies, standard statistical techniques. Specific etc.) such as systems for cooperative work, topics will include random variables and physically distributed user-interfaces, CSE 549: Computational Biology distributions, quantitative research methods parallelism and user-interfaces, virtual reality. (correlation and regression), and modern This course focuses on current problems in A substantial project requiring the design, techniques of optimization and matching computational biology and bioinformatics. implementation, and evaluation of a user- learning (clustering and prediction). Our emphasis will be algorithmic, on interface will be required discovering appropriate combinatorial 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) algorithm problems and the techniques to CSE 545: Big Data Analytics solve them. Primary topics will include DNA CSE 537: Artificial Intelligence sequence assembly, DNA/protein sequence The course will cover concepts and standard A comprehensive introduction to the problems comparison, hybridization array analysis, RNA tools used to analyze, so called, Big Data. of artificial intelligence and techniques for and protein folding, and phylogenic trees. Specifically, it will cover algorithmic attacking them. Topics include problem approaches to analyzing large datasets: 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) representation, problem-solving methods, MapReduce, graph analytics, text analytics,

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CSE 550: Quantum Computing and Study of the fundamental algorithmic problems and analysis of medical image data will also be Applications associated with geometric computations, discussed, as well as applications of medical This course is an introduction to and survey including convex hulls, Voronoi diagrams, imaging, such as image-guided intervention. of the Quantum Computing, an emerging triangulation, intersection, range queries, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) interdisciplinary field of science which has the visibility, arrangements, and motion potential to revolutionize computation over planning for robotics. Algorithmic methods CSE 581: Computer Science the next ten years, to transform chemistry, include plane sweep, incremental insertion, Fundamentals: Theory medicine, engineering and communications, randomization, divide-and-conquer, etc. This The course consists of two parts. The first as well as to change our understanding course is offered as both AMS 545 and CSE part covers discrete mathematics -- a division of physical world. The course will build 555. of mathematics that is extensively used in intuitive approach to quantum computation Prerequisite for CSE 555: CSE 373 or CSE computer science. The topics covered include: and algorithms, but also will advance relevant 548 logic (propositional logic and predicate logic), vocabulary and skills for faculties and graduate Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, proof techniques, sequences (mathematical students in engineering, computing, applied etc.) induction and recursion), and functions. The mathematics, chemistry, physics and related second part covers the theory of computation sciences. CSE 564: Visualization -- a division of theoretical computer science 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The course emphasizes a hands-on approach that deals with what can be computed and to scientific, medical, and information what cannot be computed on a computer. The CSE 551: Smart Energy in the visualization and visual analytics. Topics topics covered include: computational models Information Age include: traditional visualization techniques, (FA, PDA, and Turing machines), grammars Energy and sustainability have become critical the visualization process, visual perception accepted by different computational models issues of our generation. While the abundant and cognition, basic graphics and imaging (regular grammars, context-free grammars, and potential of renewable energy sources, such concepts, visualization of sampled, observed, unrestricted grammars), languages accepted as solar and wind, provides a real opportunity and computed data, volume and flow by different computational models (regular for sustainability, their intermittency and visualization, information visualization, languages, context-free language, and Turing- uncertainty present a daunting operational human-computer interaction, and the coupling acceptable languages), Turing-complete challenge. This course studies how to use of intelligent computing with visualization systems, and algorithmically unsolvable Information Technology (IT) to improve 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) problems. sustainability in our energy-hungry society. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) In particular, topics include the applications CSE 566: Virtual Reality of mathematical modeling, algorithm design, CSE 582: Computer Science optimization, game theory, and control theory CSE 570: Wireless and Mobile Fundamentals: Data Structures and in real systems. The goal of the course is to Networks Algorithms provide rigorous foundations for the study of Wireless communication fundamentals: The course consists of two parts. The first smart energy management for sustainability. wireless signal transmission, coding, part covers data structures to efficiently store, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) multiplexing. Link, network and transport organize, modify, and access data. Topics layer protocols for wireless and mobile include: arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, CSE 552: Energy Efficient Computing networking: medium access control, trees, sets, hash maps, priority queues, and Energy is an important resource for a wide transmission scheduling, wireless capacity, graphs. The second part covers the design and range of computer systems from laptops protocols for wireless multi-hop networks. analysis of algorithms for solving computer to data centers and clouds. There has been Cellular networks. Wireless LANs: mobile science problems. Topics include: algorithm considerable recent research on the topic IP, TCP over wireless networks. Mobile analysis, exhaustive search algorithms, divide- of of improving energy efficiency, cutting applications. Localization and location and-conquer algorithms, greedy algorithms, across different areas of Computer Science management, Network coding. Wireless and dynamic programming algorithms. including Computer Architecture (e.g., energy security. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) efficient processor design), Networking (e.g., Offered CSE 587: Proficiency Requirement putting the network to sleep), Storage (e.g., Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) exploiting idle I/O periods to spin down This course is used by students to fill any disks), Distributed Systems (e.g., capacity CSE 577: Medical Imaging gaps in key CS proficiency background) areas provisioning), Mobile Systems (e.g., putting This course presents an introduction to the identified at the time of admission. This course the radio receiver to sleep in a smartphone), mathematical, physical, and computational is done under the supervision of a faculty and Modeling/Analytics (e.g., modeling a principles underlying modern medical imaging member teaching an undergraduate course in server's power consumption). This course systems. It covers fundamentals of X-ray the needed proficiency area. By permission of covers the recent research trends in energy- radiography, X-ray computed tomography the Graduate Program only. efficient computing, focusing specifically on (CT), ultrasonic imaging, nuclear imaging, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) themes and techniques for achieving efficiency magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and May be repeated for credit. in computer systems. functional MRI (fMRI), as well as more 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) general concepts required for these, such as CSE 590: Topics in Computer Science linear systems theory, the Fourier Transform, An advanced lecture course on a new topic CSE 555: Computational Geometry and numerical optimization. Popular in computer science. The course is primarily techniques for the visualization, segmentation, designed for M.S. students, but can be taken by

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Ph.D. students as well. Semester supplements topic changes, but cannot be used more than research problems. Prerequisite: Permission of to this Bulletin contain specific description twice to satisfy the CSE major requirements instructor when course is offered. May be repeated for the M.S. 0-1 credits, S/U grading for credit as the topic changes, but cannot Fall, Spring, every year, 3 credits, Letter May be repeated for credit. be used more than twice to satisfy CSE graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) major requirements for M.S. Limited to May be repeated for credit. CSE 602: Advanced Computer CSE graduate students; others permission of Architecture instructor. CSE 595: Advanced Topics in The focus will be on the architectural rather Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Computer Science than micro-architectural issues, and a systems etc.) An advanced lecture course on a new topic approach to computer architecture taking May be repeated for credit. in computer science. This course is primarily into account the interaction between the designed for M.S. students, but can be taken by architecture and the compiler, operating CSE 591: Topics in Computer Science Ph.D. students as well. Semester supplements system, database, and networking. The course An advanced lecture course on a new topic to this Bulletin contain specific description starts with superscalar/VLIW processor in computer science. The course is primarily when course is offered. May be repeated for architecture and proceeds to memory designed for M.S. students, but can be taken by credit as the topic changes, but cannot be used hierarchy, storage systems, network hardware, Ph.D. students as well. Semester supplements more than twice to satisfy the SCE major graphics processor, and database machines. to this Bulletin contain specific description requirements for the M.S. The emphasis will be on hands-on evaluation when course is offered. May be repeated Fall, Spring, every year, 3 credits, Letter of architectural ideas, the exploration of for credit as the topic changes, but cannot graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) software/hardware design trade-offs, and the be used more than twice to satisfy CSE May be repeated for credit. articulation of experimental procedures and major requirements for M.S. Limited to CSE performance analysis. A publication-quality graduate students; others, permission of CSE 596: MS Internship Project Off- class project will be required. instructor. Campus 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Participation in internships at private etc.) corporations, public agencies, or non-profit CSE 605: Performance Evaluation of May be repeated for credit. institutions. Students will be required to have Computer Systems a faculty coordinator as well as a contact in the The purpose of this course is to provide CSE 592: Advanced Topics in outside organization to participate with them background and training in understanding and Computer Science in regular consultations on the project, and to evaluating performance of computer systems, An advanced lecture course on a new topic submit a final report to both. This course is including centralized, distributed, parallel, in computer science. The course is primarily intended for MS students interning off campus. client/server based systems, and computer designed for M.S. students, but can be taken by 1 credit, S/U grading communication networks. The goal is to Ph.D. students as well. Semester supplements May be repeated for credit. develop a perspective on how the performance to this Bulletin contain specific description of computer systems or networks should be when course is offered. may be repeated CSE 597: MS Internship Project on evaluated in order to decide on various design for credit as the topic changes, but cannot Campus alternatives. The course will include various be used more than twice to satisfy CSE Participation in internships at private analytical techniques, mainly based on Markov major requirements for M.S. Limited to CSE corporations, public agencies, or non-profit models and queuing theory, and simulation graduate students; others, permission of institutions. Students will be required to have modeling. instructor. a faculty coordinator as well as a contact in the Prerequisites: Limited to CSE graduate Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, outside organization to participate with them students; others permission of instructor. etc.) in regular consultations on the project, and to Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. submit a final report to both. This course is intended for MS students interning on campus. CSE 608: Advanced Computer Security CSE 593: Independent Study in 1 credit, S/U grading Advanced course on principles and Computer Science May be repeated for credit. practice of engineering secure information Research and/or project work under the systems. Topics covered include threats and supervision of a Computer Science graduate CSE 599: M.S. Thesis Research vulnerabilities, counter measures, legal policy program faculty. Thesis research under supervision of CS issues, risk management and assurance. In- 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) graduate program faculty for MS students. depth coverage of various research problems, which will vary from one offering of the May be repeated for credit. 1-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course to another. May be repeated for credit. CSE 594: Advanced Topics in Prerequisite: CSE 508 or CSE 509 or Computer Science CSE 600: Research in Modern permission of instructor. An advanced lecture course on a new topics Computer Science Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in computer science. This course is primarily A survey of current computer science research CSE 610: Parallel Computer designed for M.S. students, but can be taken by areas and issues. This course comprises Architectures Ph.D. students as well. Semester supplements lectures by faculty members and visitors, to this Bulletin contain specific description selected readings, and introductory-level Topics include parallel computer systems; when course is offered. May be repeated as the important parallel applications; parallel

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Topics include message switching compilers; and programming tools. course will involve a substantial programming techniques, design of interconnection 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) project to implement an immersive virtual networks, permutation, multicast and all-to- reality system. all routing in various networking nonblocking, CSE 613: Parallel Programming 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and rearrangable capability analysis and Algorithms and technique for programming performance modeling. CSE 621: Physics-based Modeling for highly parallel computers. Trends in parallel 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and distributed computing; shared address Visual Computing space and message passing architectures; A unified approach to various fields such CSE 628: Natural Language design issues for parallel algorithms; as graphics, visualization, computer-aided Processing converting sequential algorithms into geometric design, biomedical imaging, The course offers computationally-oriented equivalent parallel algorithms; synchronization vision, and virtual environment. The course introduction to natural language processing and data sharing; improving performance of will explore select research topics centered (NLP). The focus is on modern quantitative parallel algorithms; interconnection network on physics-based modeling methodology techniques in NLP: algorithms and statistical topologies, routing, and flow control; latency and associated computational methods approaches to word-level, syntactic, and limits on speedup of algorithms by parallel for theoretical and practical problems in semantic processing of natural language. implementations. widespread areas of visual computing. The The choice of topics includes practically 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) emphasis will be on geometric and solid motivated questions in NLP such as (1) can modeling, geometric design techniques, we teach computers to automatically detect CSE 614: Advanced Programming wavelets and multi-resolution analysis, authorship of a document? (2) can computers Languages deformable models based on mathematical automatically suggest paraphrases (phrases Selected topics on advanced programming physics, variational analysis, optimization with similar meaning) to help with writing? languages technology. Program analysis and methods, numerical simulation with finite- Prerequisite: Familiarity with either Artificial transformation, program optimization and difference and finite-element algorithms, Intelligence or Machine Learning is strongly program manipulation systems. Very high- differential equations for initial-value and recommended, but not absolutely required. level and declarative languages such as sets boundary-value problems, force-driven Limited to CSE Graduate Students interaction with constraints, dynamic sculpting and relations based languages and deductive Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, system, and a large variety of applications for and object-oriented languages. A-, B+, etc.) visual computing. Prerequisite: CSE 526 or CSE 504 Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CSE 633: Computability and etc.) Undecidability CSE 624: Advanced Operating Computability theory based on Turing Systems CSE 615: Advanced Computer Vision machines and recursive functions; proof by Survey of methods used for the analysis of Students will study advanced operating system diagonalization and reducibility; unsolvable images by computer, including computer topics and be exposed to recent developments problems in set, group, number and language vision and pattern recognition. Topics to in operating systems research. In addition to theory; reducibility orderings and degrees be covered are image formation, image being conversant in classic and recent research of unsolvability; priority methods and Post's segmentation and edge detection, binary papers, this course aims to teach students problem. Prerequisite: CSE 540 or consent of images and shape analysis, shape from to read research papers critically, formulate instructor. new research questions, and evaluate these shading, motion field and optical flow, surface 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) inference, classification techniques. questions experimentally. Topics to be covered typically include: distributed systems, cloud 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CSE 638: Advanced Algorithms computing and data centers, operating system This is an advanced course in the design and design, virtual machines, OS interaction with CSE 617: Advanced Topics in Wireless analysis of combinatorial algorithms, focusing the hardware architecture, synchronization and Networks on recent material and special topics, including communication, file systems, and security. Advance topics taken from ad hoc wireless randomized algorithms, approximation networks and sensor networks. Will comprise 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) algorithms for NP-complete problems, of lectures, presentations and/or a project. string algorithms, amortized analysis of data CSE 625: Advanced Asynchronous structures, and heuristic methods such as Prerequisite: Limited to CSE graduate Systems students; others, permission of instruction. simulated annealing. Material will be selected Formal specification and verification of Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, to have little or no overlap with traditional asynchronous systems. Topics include A-, B+, etc.) introductory algorithms courses. concurrent programming, process algebras, May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) logics for describing the properties of CSE 620: Virtual Reality concurrent systems, and formal semantics of CSE 639: Seminar in Advanced Topics communication. Practical issues in the design and in Computer Science 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) implementation of virtual environments. May be repeated for credit.

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CSE 641: Seminar in Logic in generation, simulation and testing. Tool CSE 672: Special Topics in Image Computer Science support. Applications and case studies. Processing Prerequisite: Limited to CSE graduate May be repeated for credit. CSE 642: Seminar in Algorithms students; others need instructor consent Fall, 1 credit, S/U grading CSE 674: Special Topics in Operating May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. Systems CSE 643: Seminar in Concurrency CSE 658: Seminar on Mobile and May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. Wireless Networking CSE 677: Special Topics in User This seminar course will draw topics from Interfaces CSE 644: Seminar in Databases mobile and wireless networks of current May be repeated for credit. interest. The main focus will be multi-hop May be repeated for credit. wireless networks. It will cover topics on CSE 645: Seminar in Languages mobile routing, multiple access and transport CSE 681: Special Topics in Computer protocols for such networks. It will also cover Vision May be repeated for credit. topics from micromobility architectures and Advanced research topics course. CSE 646: Seminar in Artificial pervasive computing. Prerequisite: Limited to CSE graduate Intelligence Prerequisites: Limited to CSE graduate students; others need instructor consent students; others permission of instructor. Fall, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. CSE 648: Seminar in Graphics Fall, 1 credit, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. CSE 684: Special Topics in Computer CSE 659: Seminar in Computer Security CSE 649: Seminar in Operating Security Special topics course, covering selected Systems Seminar course, covering various research research areas in computer security. May be repeated for credit. problems in computer security. Spring, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading etc.) CSE 650: Seminar in Architecture May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. CSE 660: Seminar in Media Networks CSE 686: Special Topics in Data CSE 651: Seminar in Secure Graduate seminar that covers recent work on Privacy Computation multimedia and networks. Advanced research topics course. May be repeated for credit. Fall, 1 credit, S/U grading Limited to CSE graduate students; others, May be repeated for credit. permission of instructor. CSE 652: Seminar in User Interfaces Spring, 2 credits, S/U grading CSE 661: Seminar in Data Privacy May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. Current research in Data Privacy. CSE 687: Special Topics in Applied CSE 653: Seminar in Virtual Reality Limited to CSE graduate students; others, Cryptography permission of instructor. May be repeated for credit. Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. CSE 654: Seminar in Visualization May be repeated for credit. CSE 690: Advanced Topics in May be repeated for credit. CSE 662: Seminar in Medical Imaging Computer Science May be repeated for credit. An advanced lecture course on a new topics CSE 655: Seminar in Natural Language in computer science. This course is primarily Processing CSE 665: Special Topics in Theory of designed for PhD students, but can be taken by May be repeated for credit. Computing M.S. students as well. Semester supplements to this Bulletin contain specific description when CSE 656: Seminar in Computer Vision May be repeated for credit. course is offered. May be repeated for credit as the topic changes, but cannot be used more Current readings in computer vision and image CSE 669: Special Topics in Databases understanding. than twice to satisfy CSE major requirements May be repeated for credit. for M.S. Limited to CSE graduate students; Prerequisite: Limited to CSE graduate others permission of instructor students; others need instructor consent CSE 670: Special Topics in Languages Fall, 1 credit, S/U grading Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. etc.) May be repeated for credit. CSE 657: Seminar in Design Analysis CSE 671: Special Topics in Artificial CSE 691: Advanced Topics in Methods for constructing reliable and Intelligence Computer Science efficient computer systems. Topics include: May be repeated for credit. modeling and specification, analysis and An advanced course on a new topic in verification, design and optimization, code computer science. This course is primarily

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 57 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 designed for Ph.D. students, but can be Participation in internships at private All international students must received taken by M.S. students as well. Semester corporations, public agencies, or non-profit clearance from an International Advisor. supplements to this Bulletin contain specific institutions. Students will be required to have Fall, Spring, 0-9 credits, S/U grading description when course is offered. may be a faculty coordinator as well as a contact in the May be repeated for credit. repeated for credit as the topic changes, but outside organization to participate with them cannot be used more than twice to satisfy in regular consultations on the project, and CSE 800: FT SUMMER RESEARCH CSE major requirements for M.S. Limited to to submit a final report to both. This course May be repeated for credit. CSE graduate students; others permission of is intended for PhD students interning on instructor. campus. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, 1 credit, S/U grading CSM etc.) May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. Center for Science and CSE 698: Practicum in Teaching Mathematics Education CSE 692: Advanced Topics in Supervised teaching in a course identified by Computer Science the student and the Graduate Program Director. CSM 510: Biology Education Research: Teaching, Learning, and Assessment An advanced lecture course on a new topic 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in computer science. This course is primarily May be repeated for credit. Introduction to core policy documents, designed for Ph.D. students, but can be standards, concepts, and empirical methods taken by M.S. students as well. Semester CSE 699: Dissertation Research on in biology education research and their supplements to this Bulletin contain specific Campus applications to undergraduate classroom description when course is offered. may be Thesis research for PhD students who have settings. Appropriate for graduate students in repeated for credit as the topic changes, but advanced to candidacy (G5 status). This course the biological sciences and/or those enrolled in cannot be used more than twice to satisfy is taken by students when a major portion of the Ph.D. Program in Science Education. CSE major requirements for M.S. Limited to the research is done on campus, at Cold Spring 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CSE graduate students; others permission of Harbor, or at the Brookhaven National Lab. instructor. CSM 545: The Nature of Science 0-9 credits, S/U grading Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, May be repeated for credit. The nature of science refers to the values and etc.) assumptions inherent in the development, May be repeated for credit. CSE 700: Dissertation Research off understanding and interpretation of scientific Campus - Domestic knowledge. Scientific knowledge is CSE 693: Advanced Topics in Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy empirically based, culturally embedded, Computer Science (G5). Major portion of research will take place tentative, and incorporates subjectivity An advanced lecture course on a new topic in off-campus, but in the United States and/ and creativity. This course will address Computer Science. This course is primarily or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven the following: What is science? What designed for Ph.D. students, but can be National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab distinguishes science from other ways of taken by M.S. students as well. Semester are considered on-campus. All international knowing or as being basic science, applied supplements to this Bulletin contain specific students must enroll in one of the graduate science or technology? What philosophical, description when course is offered. May be student insurance plans and should be advised social, ethical and historical perspectives repeated for credit as the topic changes, but by an International Advisor. are important in understanding the nature of cannot be used more than twice to satisfy science? Fall, Spring, 0-9 credits, S/U grading CSE major requirements for M.S. Limited to May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CSE graduate students; others permission of instructor. CSE 701: Dissertation Research off CSM 546: Topics Biotechnology 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Campus - International An introduction to the field of biotechnology. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy The course will survey the history of (G5). Major portion of research will take the development of genetic engineering, CSE 696: PhD Internship Project Off- place outside of the United States and/or methodologies used in biotechnology, Campus U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the applications of biotechnology in medicine, Participation in internships at private option of the health plan and may also enroll agriculture and manufacturing, and the corporations, public agencies, or non-profit in MEDEX. International students who are implications of these technologies for institutions. Students will be required to have in their home country are not covered by society. Intended for the students in the a faculty coordinator as well as a contact in the mandatory health plan and must contact the MAT Science and MALS programs. This outside organization to participate with them Insurance Office for the insurance charge to course has an associated fee. Please see in regular consultations on the project, and be removed. International students who are www.stonybrook.edu/course fees for more to submit a final report to both. This course not in their home country are charged for the information. Offered is intended for PhD students interning off mandatory health insurance. If they are to be Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, campus. covered by another insurance plan they must etc.) 1-3 credits, S/U grading file a waiver be second week of classes. The May be repeated for credit. charge will only be removed if other plan is CSM 547: Topics in Genetics deemed comparable. A survey of genetics organized around a CSE 697: PhD Internship Project On particular topic, including gene regulation, Campus

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Course participants will also the science behind the techniques used in CSM 548: Current Topics in utilize current approaches taken by research evaluating physical evidence. Science MAT Microbiology scientists to investigate the properties of the students or permission of the instructor. A survey of microbiology with an emphasis on nervous system and its disorders. Laboratory 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) microbial ecology, the role of microbes in the activities that can be used in secondary school biosphere and the methodology used to explore curricula will be emphasized. Prerequisite: CSM 560: Life Sciences for Grades 5-8 these areas. The course is organized around Undergraduate degree in Biology This is an integrated lab/lecture course two resources available online: Unseen Life 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) designed to increase confidence and on Earth: An Introduction to Microbiology, enthusiasm while building fundamental which was produced by The American Society CSM 553: Biology and Human Social knowledge of middle-level science teaching for Microbiology (http://www.learner.org/ and Sexual Behavior and learning in the Life Sciences. Topics resources/series121.html) and the New A biological theory of human uniqueness include chemical basis of life (biochemistry), York State core curriculum for The Living is presented and explored through the cell structure and function, vital life process Environment (http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/ examination of empirical evidence from (respiration and photosynthesis), genetics, mst/sci/ls.html) . Intended for the students a mulitidisciplinary prospective including evolution and ecology. This course includes in the MAT Science and MALS programs. insights from ethnology, human social and standards-based curriculum design and This course has an associated fee. Please see sexual behavior, evolutionary biology, history, research-based teaching strategies as well as www.stonybrook.edu/course fees for more economics, the humanities and political hands on laboratory experiences. It focuses information. science. on developing and presenting inquiry-based 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) lessons designed to encourage students to investigate science using educational CSM 549: Laboratory Science CSM 554: Current Topics in technologies to support science lessons, Curriculum Development Immunology integrated other subject matter areas with Development of curriculum materials This is a comprehensive course in science, designing differentiated lesson that appropriate for a secondary school biology Immunology designed to be taught to include all students in learning science, and classroom. Students may take this course in secondary school teachers and it will address assessing student understanding of science and their second semester of the Master of Arts in the new living environment curriculum the nature of science. Teaching Science program. standards for Immunology. The proposed 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course will combine lectures in Immunology May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. with practical laboratory exercises. Laboratory CSM 562: Chemistry for the Pre-High activities will be provided that can be modified School Teacher CSM 550: Independent Study in for secondary school education. Emphasis This course provides participants with the Biology will be made on recent developments in necessary chemistry content needed to teach A research project or body of readings will be Immunology and the essential role of the physical science applications at the upper selected with an instructor. It is expected that immune system in protection from infections elementary and middle school levels. The New participants will gain current information in a and cancer. Concepts to be covered include York State Science and Learning Standards topic of interest with applicability to middle how the immune system distinquishes (NYSSLS) are utilized to provide a structure school or high school curriculum. Prerequisite: self from non-self, how it handles various for the topics that teachers are required to Permission of instructor pathogens and why it sometimes fails. teach within the new standards. In addition, the 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) science and engineering practices and cross- cutting concepts addressed in NYSSLS are CSM 551: Polymerase Chain Reaction: CSM 556: Ecology integrated within the discussion of chemistry Theory and Practice An examination of the interactions of living content. During each lesson, chemical safety The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has organisms with their physical and biological requirements are addressed and discussed. This become an indispensable tool in biology. environments. Special attention is given to course is designed to provide teachers with PCR has revolutionized our approach to population dynamics and the interactions chemistry content required for the disciplinary medical diagnostics, basic research, and among organisms that determine the structure, core ideas of the NYSSLS standards through forensic applications. This laboratory and function, and evolutionary development of integration of activities, hands on learning and lecture course is designed to teach a solid biological communities. In addition, teacher reading assignments. theoretical and practical framework for PCR, candidates will conduct an independent 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) including primer and application protocol project consisting of either a research paper design, trouble-shooting, and interpretation of or development of an ecology laboratory for a CSM 599: Graduate Research in STEM results. secondary school science class. Education 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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Research to be supported by a faculty member CSM 635: Qualitative Research CSM 700: Dissertation Research Off in the Programs in Science and STEM Methods in STEM Education Campus-Domestic education. Prerequisite: Permission required. Introduction to qualitative research methods Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Fall, 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, in STEM (science, technology, engineering, (GS); major portion of the research will etc.) mathematics) education including a) its take place off Campus, but in U.S. and/or May be repeated for credit. purposes, b) data collection techniques, c) U.S. provinces.All international students methods of data analysis, and d) preparing must enroll in one of the graduate student CSM 600: History and Philosophy of appropriate research reports. insurance plans and should be advised by an STEM Education 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) International Advisor. An introduction to the history of the field of Fall, 1-9 credits, S/U grading STEM (science, technology, engineering, CSM 640: Directed Study in STEM May be repeated for credit. mathematics) and the related philosophical Education underpinnings. The course will survey the In their fifth semester students will CSM 701: Dissertation Research Off major events, ideas and philosophies and how individually complete a directed study with a Campus-International these have changed over time. Particular focus faculty advisor. The intent of this course is to Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy will be on the time period from 1890 to the prepare the students for the doctoral qualifying (GS). Major portion of research will take present day. Offered examination and assist them in refining their place outside of the United States and/or Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) research topics. Offered U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, option of the health plan and may also enroll CSM 610: The Nature and Practice of A-, B+, etc.) in MEDEX. International students who are Science May be repeated for credit. in their home country are not covered by An overview of the nature and practice of mandatory health plan and must contact the science through the analysis of current issues CSM 645: Introduction to Quantitative Insurance Office for the insurance charge to be in science. Through the extensive use of Research Methods removed. International students who are not in case studies, students will address questions This course will provide doctoral student with their home such as: What is science? What distinguishes an introduction to various quantitative research country are charged for the mandatory science from other ways of knowing? methods (non-experimental, experimental, health insurance (if they are to be covered What standards of evidence and scientific and quasi-experimental designs) and the by another insurance plan they must file a explanations, processes, and conventions corresponding data analysis/statistical waiver be second week of classes. The charge are used in science? What philosophical, procedures used for conducting empirical will only be removed if other plan is deemed social, ethical, and historical perspectives are research in STEM (science, technology, comparable); all international students must important in understanding science? engineering, mathematics) education. receive clearance from an International Offered Appropriate statistical analysis associated Advisor. Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, with each research method will be discussed Fall, 1-9 credits, S/U grading A-, B+, etc.) and SPSS assignments included. Students May be repeated for credit. will develop a research proposal for a peer CSM 620: STEM Teacher Education reviewed conference of journal. Introduction to the historical, philosophical 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CST and pedagogical issues surrounding Cultural Studies STEM (science, technology, engineering, CSM 650: Introduction to Measurement mathematics) teacher education. Introduction and Assessment in Science Education CST 502: Theories in Cultural Studies to the nature of the research that has been CSM 650: Introduction to Measurement and conducted on teacher education in the past and This course examines the role of theory in the Assessment in Science Education. 3 Credits. practice of cultural studies. 3 credits. current trends. Offered Introduction to core standards, concepts, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and empirical methods in educational 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) measurement and assessment; introduction May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. to the development, use, and evaluation of CST 510: History of Cultural Studies CSM 630: STEM Education Research measurement instruments in science education. Seminar Semesters Offered: Fall and Spring This course will examine the intellectual and Introduction to the major theoretical disciplinary stakes of raising the question, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) "what is Cultural Studies?" The intention is frameworks and paradigms in societal issues May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. (gender, culture, and diversity) contextualized not so much to define Cultural Studies as to in STEM (science, technology, engineering, CSM 699: Dissertation Research on study the polemics and histories that sparked mathematics) education. Students will be Campus its delineations. required to critique research papers in the field Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Offered Fall/ and will conduct a literature review in their (G5); major portion of the research will take Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, general thesis area. Offered place on SB campus, at Cold Spring Harbor; etc.) Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, or at Brookhaven National Lab. Semesters May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. A-, B+, etc.) offered: CST 597: Directed Readings for M.A. Fall, 0-9 credits, S/U grading Students May be repeated for credit.

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A student and faculty member agree on a CST 696: Self-Directed Readings All international students must received corpus of texts to read and discuss at weekly For doctoral students who have completed clearance from an International Advisor. or biweekly meetings. The reading list must be all course requirements and wish to dedicate Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading filed with the program's form before the add/ themselves to full or part-time preparation for May be repeated for credit. drop period ends. May be repeated for credit. the Comprehensive Examination. CST 800: SUMMER RESEARCH Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading Fall and Spring, 3-9 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. May be repeated 6 times FOR credit. May be repeated for credit.

CST 598: Thesis Research CST 698: Practicum in Teaching CST 850: SUMMER TEACHING Research and writing of M.A. thesis The course is divided into two parts: one half May be repeated for credit. supervised by faculty advisor. is normally given in the fall, one in the spring. Offered Fall, Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading The first part deals primarily with matters of May be repeated for credit. pedagogy. The second part is designed to help CWL students plan their own undergraduate courses. CST 599: Independent Study The practicum is required of all students Creative Writing and Literature A student and faculty member agree on a topic during their first year. CWL 500: Introduction to Graduate not offered in any seminars and a reading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Writing list to study at weekly or biweekly meetings. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. A final research paper or major annotated A seminar that introduces students to one bibliography will be required. The syllabus CST 699: Dissertation Research on another, the faculty, the program in Writing must be filed with the program's form before Campus and Literature, and to issues in contemporary writing. Offered in conjunction with the the add/drop period ends. May be repeated for Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). credit. Only three credits of Independent Study Writers Reading Series. Students will attend A portion of dissertation research must take can be counted toward the M.A. requirements, the regular series of readings sponsored by the place on SBU campus. and a maximum of six toward the Ph.D Writing program and meet at weekly intervals Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U Offered under the direction of a faculty advisor to grading discuss and write about topics raised in the Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, May be repeated for credit. lecture series, as well as issues generated from A-, B+, etc.) seminar discussions. May be repeated for credit. CST 700: Dissertation Research off Campus - Domestic Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded CST 609: Advanced Topics in Cultural (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Studies (G5). Major portion of research will take place CWL 510: Forms of Fiction A variable topics seminar in Cultural Studies. off-campus, but in the United States and/ Regular submission, discussion, and analysis 3 Credits, Letter graded (A,A-,B+,etc.) Course or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven of students' work in one or more of the modes may be repeated as topics vary. Semesters National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab of fiction, including the short story, the Offered: Fall and Spring are considered on-campus. All international novella, and the novel. Writing assignments 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) students must enroll in one of the graduate may include exercises, imitations, responses, May be repeated for credit. student insurance plans and should be advised and original work. Students will examine by an International Advisor. CST 680: Cultural Studies Research relevant works that illustrate point of view, Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Seminar character development, dialogue, plot, setting, May be repeated for credit. theme, motif, and other aspects of fiction. In addition to readings on issues, debates, and Specific mode or topic to be studied will be problems within the profession and field of CST 701: Dissertation Research off announced in the course schedule. Cultural Studies students will develop research Campus - International Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and/or for publication while engaging with practices Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy departmental consent of professionalization. (G5). Major portion of research will take Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded place outside of the United States and/or Offered Fall/ (A, A-, B+, etc.) U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, May be repeated for credit. etc.) option of the health plan and may also enroll May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. in MEDEX. International students who are CWL 520: Forms of Poetry in their home country are not covered by Regular submission, discussion, and analysis CST 690: Directed Readings for mandatory health plan and must contact the of students' work in one or more of the modes Doctoral Candidates Insurance Office for the insurance charge to of poetry. Writing assignments may include be removed. International students who are A student and faculty member agree on a exercises, imitations, responses, and original not in their home country are charged for the corpus of texts to read and discuss at weekly work. Students will examine relevant works mandatory health insurance. If they are to be or biweekly meetings. The reading list must be that illustrate structural principles, metrical and covered by another insurance plan they must filed with the program's form before the add/ syntactical rhythm, sound and rhyme, formal file a waiver be second week of classes. The drop period ends. May be repeated for credit. and stanzaic organization, the use of figurative charge will only be removed if other plan is Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading language, and other aspects of poetry. May be repeated for credit. deemed comparable.

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Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and/or contemporary modes of professional writing, The Southampton Writers Conference Program Director including technological writing, writing is an intensive program of workshops in Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded about science, and writing for advertising, contemporary writing that includes lectures, (A, A-, B+, etc.) business, and public relations, as well as for readings, workshops, and panels featuring May be repeated for credit. governmental, educational, and professional nationally distinguished authors who join organizations. Writing assignments may the department's summer faculty. Graduate CWL 530: Forms of Scriptwriting include exercises, imitations, responses, and students in the program will assist in planning Regular submission, discussion, and analysis original work. Students will examine relevant and running the Conference, and will have of students' work in one or more of the works that illustrate the strategies available in the option of taking a Conference workshop contemporary modes of scriptwriting, modern professional communication. Specific for credit. The Writers Conference will also including writing for film, theater, radio, mode or topic to be studied will be announced encourage participation by visiting students and television. Writing assignments may in the course schedule. ¿ new writers, established writers, teachers of include exercises, imitations, responses, and Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and/or writing and editors ¿ who will be admitted by original work. Students will examine relevant departmental consent application and may receive academic credit works that illustrate point of view, character Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded upon request. development, dialogue, plot, setting, and other (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) techniques vital to scriptwriting. Specific mode May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. or topic to be studied will be announced in the course schedule. CWL 560: Topics in Literature for CWL 580: Practicum in Arts Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and/or Writers Administration departmental consent A seminar for writers concentrating on the Practicum in Arts Administration Under the Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded study of one area of literary study, to be guidance of a faculty advisor, students will (A, A-, B+, etc.) announced in the course schedule. The course learn the essentials of Arts administration. May be repeated for credit. may examine a contemporary or historical This may include assisting in the coordination trend in literature, the rise of a specific genre, of reading and lecture series, conference CWL 535: Writing in Multiple Genres a social issue expressed in literature, an organization, or other writing and arts Regular submission, discussion, and analysis issue in literary theory, or any other topic of administration activities. 1-4 Credits. May be of students' work in two or more genres of relevance and concern to students of writing. repeated for credit Prerequisites: Permission of creative writing. Topics include Truth and The emphasis will be on scholarly analysis. instructor and program director SEMESTER: Humor; Three Characters in Search of an Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded On Demand Author; Imagining What You Know; What (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) We Write About When We Write About May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. Love; Fiction, Fact and the Heart of the Story; Writing about Place; Writing Everything; and CWL 565: Special Topics in Writing CWL 581: Practicum in Teaching Writing on Location. Semesters Offered: Fall A seminar concentrating on a specific topic Writing & Spring Campus: Manhattan & Southampton or concern in writing. The particular theme Students take the seminar in conjunction with 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of the course will be announced in the course teaching a section of first year composition. May be repeated for credit. schedule. Topics may include, among others, This course provides hands-on experience and studies of character development, the uses instruction in the basics of writing pedagogy, CWL 540: Forms of Creative Nonfiction of humor, writing about place, finding one's including designing writing assignments, Regular submission, discussion, and analysis voice, and narrative style. Written work will be sequencing assignments, motivating writing, of students' work in one or more of the supported by the reading of related texts. writing skill development and evaluating contemporary fields of non-fiction writing, Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded writing. Students will also be given a including biography, autobiography, memoir, (A, A-, B+, etc.) preliminary overview of the major theories expository writing, and social commentary. May be repeated for credit. driving composition pedagogy. 3 Credits. Writing assignments may include exercises, Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and imitations, responses, and original work. CWL 570: Advanced Writing Workshop program director SEMESTER: On Demand Students will examine relevant works that The focus is on work in progress and the 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) illustrate the methods and techniques available extension of the manuscript. The workshop May be repeated for credit. to the non-fiction writer. Specific mode or is open to students interested in any form topic to be studied will be announced in the of writing. Students are encouraged to CWL 582: Practicum in Publishing and course schedule. pursue their own writing interests while Editing Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and/or simultaneously being exposed to the work of Under the guidance of the faculty advisor, departmental consent others in varying genres. Regular writing is students will be exposed to the hands-on Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, required, and vigorous analysis and discussion process of editing and publishing a literary etc.) are encouraged. Strongly recommended for journal. May be repeated for credit. students preparing for the thesis. Offered Fall, Spring, 1-4 credits, Letter graded Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CWL 550: Forms of Professional and (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. Scientific Writing May be repeated for credit. Regular submission, discussion, and analysis CWL 588: Independent Study of students' work in one or more of the CWL 575: Writers Conference

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Independent studies in topics chosen by the Dance operations? What is a quantum computer student are arranged through an individual and what are the limits of quantum power? instructor. DAN 501: Yoga and Somatics What is the difference between classical and quantum computation? Quantum teleportation? 1-6 credits, S/U grading A practicum in the ancient Indian philosophy Quantum entanglement and supersposition? May be repeated for credit. of yoga approached from the somatic How to mitigate errors and decoherence perspective of equally conditioning the and transmit information through noisy CWL 599: Thesis physical, psychical, and discriminating channels? What are business applications Every student in the M.F.A. program in mental body. Moments of harmonious action and engineering challenges of the quantum Writing must complete a thesis that is a within the human system will be investigated computers? What are the gains in running publishable, book-length work. It may be through the physical challenges of Hatha quantum vs. classical algorithms? What are fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or a script for the Yoga. Participants will learn dynamic the physical principles of the current quantum visual media. It may be a collection of short movement sequences, static poses, and computers hardware and what are technology pieces. Its subject matter may be scientific breathing techniques, as they relate to the requirements for realistic quantum computers? or literary. It may be business-oriented or varied historical lineages from India. The academic. The thesis is judged solely on the student will gain experiential knowledge of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) quality of its intelligence and its writing. Every yoga as used for healing pain, improving body student will, with the assistance of the program image through somatic awareness, prevention DCS 504: Compiler Design director, choose a thesis supervisor to provide of mental and physical disease, muscular This course covers advanced topics in guidance and criticism in the completion of control, and as training to balance strenth and compilation, including memory management, the project. At the same time that the thesis flexibility. Although the course will focus dataflow analysis, code optimization, just-in- supervisor is chosen, the program director primarily on the physical experience, related time compilation, and selected topics from will also guide the student in the selection texts will be used to contextualize modern compilation of object-oriented and declarative of a thesis committee, which will consist practices and familiarize the student with the languages. Prerequisites: CSE 304 and CSE of the thesis supervisor, one other member extent of varied methodologies available. 307 of the faculty in Writing, and one outside Offered Fall and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) reader knowledgeable in the student's field of Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, interest. Progress toward the completion of the etc.) DCS 521: Introduction to thesis will be reviewed not only by the thesis Computational and Data Science supervisor but also by members of the thesis DAN 568: Dance Improvisation This course provides a foundation of committee, at which point student will submit The practice and movement investigation knowledge and basic skills for the successful a bound copy of the thesis to the department. 1 through discipline, spontaneity, and awareness. application in graduate research of modern - 9 Credits. Skills in improvisation will be developed techniques in computational and data science 1-9 credits, S/U grading through creative projects and experiments in relevant to engineering, the humanities, and May be repeated for credit. dance. the physical, life and social sciences. It is Prerequisite: DAN 165, 166, or 167 consciously crafted to provide a rich, project- CWL 600: Post MFA Creative Writing oriented, multidisciplinary experience that Fellow Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) establishes a common vocabulary and skill CWL 600 provides students who have set. Centered around the popular programming successfully completed the MFA in Creative language Python, the course will serve as an Writing and Literature degree requirements DCS introduction to programming including data access to an intellectual community of writers. structures, algorithms, numerical methods, Participants will be allowed to participate in Data and Computational basic concepts in computer architecture, one workshop or course per semester on a Science and elements of object-oriented design. space available basis. The program office will Also introduced will be important concepts communicate with enrollees prior to the start DCS 501: Quantum Computing and and tools associated with the analysis and of the semester the workshops and courses Applications management of data, both big and small, available. This course is an introduction to and survey including basic statistical modeling in R, S/U grading of the Quantum Computing, an emerging aspects of machine learning and data mining, May be repeated for credit. interdisciplinary field of science which has the data management, and visualization. No potential to revolutionize computation over previous computing experience is assumed. CWL 800: Summer Research the next ten years, to transform chemistry, Students are assumed to have taken some Independent reading, writing, research on medicine, engineering and communications, introductory courses in two of these three topics or problems related to work on the MFA as well as to change our understanding math subjects: linear algebra, calculus, and Thesis. of physical world. The course will build probability. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and/or intuitive approach to quantum computation 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) program director and algorithms, but also will advance relevant DCS 522: Introduction to Scientific Summer, S/U grading vocabulary and skills for faculties and Programming in C++ May be repeated for credit. graduate students in engineering, computing, applied mathematics, chemistry, physics and This course provides students with related sciences. The key questions of the foundational skills and knowledge in DAN quantum computing will be introduced. How practical scientific programming relevant to describe quantum systems and quantum for scientists and engineers. The primary

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 63 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 language is C + + since it is a widely - the R packages R2WinBUGS and R2jags, human social activity and its relationship used, object-oriented language, includes respectively. to ecological systems and the environment. C as a subset, and is a powerful tool for 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Readings include both classic studies as well writing robust, complex, high-performance as contemporary research, with particular software. Elements of Python, Bash, and other DCS 572: Geophysical Simulation emphasis placed on the various dimensions languages will be introduced to complement Basic equations and boundary conditions. and scales of social organization and activity, the capabilities of C++, and essential tools Linear and nonlinear instabilities. Finite and on the role of cultural, religious, and for software development and engineering difference and time integration techniques political institutions in shaping ecological will be employed throughout the course for problems in geophysical fluid dynamics. relationship as well as economic behavior. (e.g. makefiles, version control, online code Numerical design of global atmospheric and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) repositories, debugging, etc.). ocean models. DPA 503: Social Organization 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course explores theoretical models DCS 525: Fundamentals of Computing DCS 581: Phase Transformations and empirical observations of human social Introduction to several modern approaches Thermodynamics and kinetics of solid organization in a comparative perspective, for developing computer programs state phase transformations. Mathematical including such topics as demography and and their use to to solve mathematical formulation of equilibrium conditions and behavioral ecology, kinship and marriage, problems. It will cover the fundamentals of application to multicomponent homogenous/ reciprocal exchange, and political dimensions programming in MATLAB, Python, and C/C heterogeneous systems using chemical of resource mobilization in small-scale as ++, including scripting, basic data structures, potential surfaces and free energy diagrams. well as complex societies. Organized around algorithms, scientific computing, performance Common tangent construction involving different layers of human sociality, the optimization, software engineering and multiphase equilibria and miscibility course examines social dependence among program development tools. No previous gaps. Kinetics of phase transformations humans and nonhuman primates, evolutionary programming experience is required. This is including classical nucleation theory followed explanations for human mating strategies, a project-based, 3-credit course. Homework by diffusion and diffusionless growth cooperation in child-rearing, paradigms of projects will focus on using computation mechanisms. descent and affinity, and the dynamics of to solve mathematical problems (e.g. linear hierarchy and alliance in egalitarian cultures as 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) algebra and differential equations), data well as stratified states. management, data analysis, etc. DCS 697: Computational Linguistics 2 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) An introduction to the theoretical foundation DPA 505: Vertebrate Paleontology & of computational linguistics. The course DCS 544: Computational Methods in Paleoecology of the Turkana Basin emphasizes the importance of algorithms, Physics and Astrophysics algebra, logic, and formal language theory in Vertebrate fossils are important sources of An introduction to procedural and object- the development of new tools and software information about the appearance, evolution, oriented programming in a high-level language applications. Empirical phenomena in and extinction of major organisms. As such as C++ or modern Fortran with examples phonology and syntax are sampled from a such, they provide a valuable window onto and assignments consisting of rudimentary variety of languages to motivate and illustrate changes in climate and selection pressures, algorithms for problems in physics and the use of concepts such as strictly local string and organisms' diverse adaptive responses to astronomy. Students will use the UNIX/ languages, tree transducers, and semirings. these changes. They are also significant in Linux operating system to write programs and Students will develop familiarity with the placing hominid discoveries within a relative manage data, and the course will include an literature and tools of the field. local chronology, and helping reconstruct introduction to parallel computing and good environments associated with hominid 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) programming practices such as version control fluids. This course acquaints students with and verification. The course will prepare laboratory and field methods of paleontology students for courses in algorithms and methods employed in different chronological contexts that assume a knowledge of programming. DPA of the Turkana Basin, used to solve diverse 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Doctoral Program in theoretical questions. Graded work includes Anthropological Sciences fieldwork and lab assignments, independent DCS 569: Bayesian Data Analysis and research assignments, quizzes and a final Computation DPA 501: Development of exam. Semesters offered- Fall and Spring. An applied course in Bayesian data analysis Anthropological Theory Components- laboratory, lecture, and recitation. and hierarchical modeling for advanced Survey of the development of anthropological graduate students in Ecology& Evolution theory from the 19th century to the present. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) or related sciences. Topics will include This course is offered as both ANT 501 and DPA 509: Seminar in European probability theory, Bayesian analysis, and DPA 501. MCMC methods such as Gibbs sampling and Ethnography Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Metropolis-Hastings sampling, as well as Investigation and discussion of selected topics etc.) applied issues regarding the choice of prior and problems concerning European societies distributions, posterior convergence, censored DPA 502: Social Ecology and cultures. The perspectives of culture and missing data, and model checking and history and current fieldwork are employed. This course explores theoretical and comparison. The course will be taught This course is offered as both ANT 509 and methodological issues in the study of using WinBUGS and JAGS as accessed via DPA 509.

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Fall, 3 credits, S/U grading of instructor. Alternate years, 4 credits, Letter identification of bone surface modification, May be repeated for credit. graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) calculation of indexes of abundance, and 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) measurement and metrical analysis of mammal DPA 511: Paleolithic Archaeology May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. bone. Computer analysis is stressed, and the A survey of the archaeological record of class seeks to synthesize traditional archaeo- foraging peoples in Africa, Europe, and DPA 515: Theory and Method in zoology and actualistic studies. This course is Asia prior to the emergence of agriculture. Archaeology offered as both ANT 519 and DPA 519. The course emphasizes particular problems Theoretical and methodological approaches Fall, odd years, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, including the relationship between behavioral employed in archaeology. The goals of the B+, etc.) and biological change, different adaptive course are to provide an historical perspective strategies in temperate and tropical zones, the on the growth of theory and method in DPA 520: Principles of Social and origins of modern humans, and the emergence archaeology and to examine in detail some Cultural Anthropology of complex hunter-gatherer societies. This of the pertinent research topics being studied Concepts and principles of social and cultural course is offered as both ANT 511 and DPA today. This course is offered as both ANT 515 anthropology; historical background, structure 511. and DPA 515. and function, social processes, transactions, Prerequisite: Any other archaeology course. Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) culture, communication, continuity, and other Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) change; topics and problems of contemporary DPA 516: Research Design in interest. Some ethnographic monographs are DPA 512: Comparative Civilizations Archaeology discussed in terms of their relevance to the A comparative study of the processes of An examination of the ways in which general concepts and principles treated in the sociocultural evolution from the beginnings archaeologists develop successful research seminar. This course is offered as both ANT of sedentary life to the achievement of early strategies for arriving at answers to the key 520 and DPA 520. civilization in the Near East, Egypt, the questions in the field. Students will analyze Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Indus Valley, China, Mesoamerica, and the grant proposals that received funding from Andean area. The seminar covers such topics the major sources of funding for archaeology DPA 525: Research Areas in as urbanization, demography, irrigation, before developing research proposals of their Anthropological Sciences craft specialization, militarism, and trade and own. The aim of the course is to provide the An overview of the current research areas of exchange. This course is offered as both ANT class with the skills needed to plan their future the Anthropological Sciences as represented 512 and DPA 512. and compete successfully for funding both for in the IDPAS. All first-year students of Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission their thesis research and in their future careers. Anthropological Sciences are expected to of instructor Fall, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter graded participate. Semesters Offered: Fall Grading: Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, (A, A-, B+, etc.) S/U etc.) 0-2 credits, S/U grading DPA 517: Primitive Technology May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. DPA 513: Origins of Agriculture An introduction to the technology of This course will trace the history of hunter-gatherers. The course examines how DPA 526: The Use of Remote Sensing anthropological thought on the origins of archaeologists use both ethnographic and and GIS in Environmental Analysis agriculture and will assess the evidence from experimentation to shed light on prehistoric An introduction to the use of aerial and the Old and New worlds for this economic human technological adaptations. Techniques satellite imagery in environmental analysis and revolution. The course will not only explore for making and using primitive tools are the manipulation of geographic data sets of all areas where early agriculture is evidenced, but practiced in weekly laboratory sessions. types using Geographic Information Systems. will also contrast these areas with those where Fall, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter graded This course is designed to teach students agriculture was a later development. Emphasis (A, A-, B+, etc.) in archaeology, physical anthropology, will be on the environmental, technological, May be repeated for credit. and related disciplines, how satellite biological, social, and cultural processes imagery combined with various maps can be associated with the "Neolithic Revolution." DPA 518: Lithic Technology manipulated using GIS software to perform This course is offered as both ANT 513 and A detailed overview of the methods powerful geographic analysis. Although DPA 513. archaeologists use to extract behavioral students are eventually likely to use these Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) information from prehistoric stone tools. tools in many different parts of the world, this The course examines raw material economy, course focuses on Long Island as a research DPA 514: Human Osteology technological strategies, tool use, and discard area, and each student designs and completes A detailed study of the anatomy of the behavior. Analytical methods are practiced a research project on a particular section of human skeleton with special emphasis on through the computer-assisted analysis of stone the area, focusing on the habitats of local the interpretation of skeletal remains from tools from simulated archaeological sites. wildlife, the locations of archaeological sites, archaeological contexts. Consideration is coastal regimes, etc. This course presumes Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, given to the growth, structure, and function computer literacy and familiarity with database etc.) of bones, and to forensic aspects such as management. Offered as ANT 526 and DPA the determination of age, sex, stature, and DPA 519: Archaeozoology 526 or HPH 658. pathology from skeletal remains. Students An introduction to the study of animal bones Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, conduct a research project on a human from archaeological sites. Special emphasis etc.) skeleton. 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DPA 527: Field Methods and Fall, even years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, This course is offered as both HBA 563 and Techniques in Archaeology A-, B+, etc.) DPA 563. The course will be held during the summer Prerequisites: Introductory physics and DPA 559: Archaeology of Food only. It consists of field and laboratory work biology or permission of instructor. on an aspect of Long Island's archaeological Explores the archaeological study of food Spring, odd years, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, heritage. Students' time is divided between and foodways. The emphasis is on the social A-, B+, etc.) surveying and excavation in the field and aspects of food, particularly its roles in artifact analysis in the laboratory. Such past power structures, social relationships, DPA 564: Primate Evolution techniques as map and air photo reading, conceptions of identity, ritual practices, and The taxonomic relationships and evolutionary survey, instruments, stratigraphy, conservation, gender roles. Also covers the theoretical and history of primates as documented by their typology construction, etc. are taught. methodological approaches archaeologists use fossil record and structural and chemical Students are exposed to the full range of to study food in the past. evidence. Emphasis on primates prior to the excavation, survey, and laboratory methods Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded origin of the human lineage. This course is and techniques. This course is offered as both (A, A-, B+, etc.) offered as ANT 564, DPA 564 and HBA 564. ANT 527 and DPA 527. Spring, even years, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, DPA 560: Ancient Mesopotamia Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission A-, B+, etc.) of instructor An examination of the cultural history of Summer, even years, 3-9 credits, Letter graded Mesopotamia based on the archaeological, DPA 565: Human Evolution (A, A-, B+, etc.) textual and art historical record. Focusing A survey of the fossil record of hominid on the fourth through second millennia, evolution through the Pliocene and Pleistocene DPA 536: Advanced Biostatistics and this course investigates both the long term with emphasis on the morphological structure Phylogenetic Comparative Methods developmental process of this civilization, and function of locomotor, masticatory, The course will give an overview of and ways to understand its settlement and neural systems. Includes utilization of fundamental biostatistical approaches in R. systems, urban structure, social and political comparative anatomical material and an The first 6 courses give students in-depth organization, economic structure and the role extensive cast collection. This course is offered knowledge about developing quantitative played by religion. as ANT 565, DPA 565 and HBA 565. research designs using standard parametric, Fall, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter graded Fall, even years, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, non-parametric and data reduction analyses in (A, A-, B+, etc.) A-, B+, etc.) R. The next 8 courses introduce phylogenetic comparative analyses, including approached DPA 561: Peasant Societies and DPA 566: Studies in Functional to account for phylogenetic relatedness in Cultures Morphology standard parametric tests and ways to infer The concept of peasantry is examined from Introduction to the theory and methods of the evolutionary history of traits using rate political, religious, and social class viewpoints functional morphology. Various methods of analysis. Students are expected to become as well as from the more traditional economic analysis and the application of experimental proficient in R programming. The course will view. These agricultural peoples, who are techniques such as electromyography or bone involve substantial preparation and included 10 essentially preliterate and preindustrial, are strain analysis are discussed as they pertain to take-home assignments. described and analyzed especially in relation the understanding of the interaction between 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to the national societies of which they form a form and function. Special emphasis is placed May be repeated for credit. part. This course is offered as both ANT 561 on the analysis of human and nonhuman and DPA 561. primate morphology, and the application of DPA 541: Evolutionary Anatomy Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, this analysis to interpretation of the fossil A lecture and laboratory with emphasis on etc.) evidence for human and nonhuman primate dissection of the entire human body. Includes evolution. This course is offered as both HBA functional and comparative anatomy with DPA 562: Long Island Archaeology 566 and DPA 566. special emphasis on the musculoskeletal Life on Long Island and the surrounding Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. morphology of humans and higher primates. area from its first settlement by Native Spring, even years, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, This course is offered as both DPA 541 and Americans 12,000 years ago until the end of A-, B+, etc.) HBA 541. the nineteenth century. Trends and changes in Prerequisite: permission of instructor human behavior are studied in the context of DPA 567: Primate Behavior and Fall, 8 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) environmental and cultural processes affecting Ecology all of northeastern North America. A comparative approach to the behavior DPA 550: Theory and Methodology in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and ecology of living lemurs, monkeys, and Primatology etc.) apes. Emphasis is placed on sociobiological Comprehensive overview of the theory and theory; life history strategies; morphological methodology used in the study of primate DPA 563: Aspects of Animal adaptations; comparisons of primate behavioral ecology. Includes ecological field Mechanics communities in Asia, Africa, Madagascar, and methods, behavioral observations, analytical An introduction to biomechanics. Covers South America; and primate conservation. This techniques, nonparametric statistics as well as freebody mechanics and kinetics as applied to course is offered as both ANT 567 and DPA planning, presenting, and reviewing research. vertebrate locomotion. Considers the structure 567. Offered as both ANT 550 and DPA 550. and physiology of muscle as it relates to Fall, odd years, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, adaptations of the musculoskeletal system. B+, etc.)

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DPA 568: Hunters and Gatherers history of population studies. Following this May be repeated for credit. The course focuses on the relationship between introduction, the three major components DPA 593: Ethics in the Anthropological ecology and adaptation to explore the cross- of population change - fertility, mortality Sciences cultural diversity of hunter/gatherers. The and migration - are explored in depth. We first part of the course looks at a number of then survey the seminal transitions in human This course familiarizes students with the key theoretic issues and debates that surround demographic history from hunting and major issues in the ethics of anthropological the study of hunter/gatherers. Once this gathering to domestication and through science, research and teaching. Students foundation is laid, students learn about modern modern postindustrial times. Drawing from the discuss scientific and academic values and historic hunter-gatherers from all the ethnographic, human ecology, demographic and how best to comply with them in major geographic regions of the world. This and archaeological literature, students read and academic, field, and laboratory environments. overview draws on studies from behavioral discuss human demography from a variety of Overarching research ethics topics addressed ecology, ethnoarchaeology and cultural perspectives. The course includes some simple include data management, scientific anthropology. The focus of the course is computations and a lab. misconduct, plagiarism, authorship, and both to explore hunter/gatherer variation Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, mentoring. This portion of the course in relationship to their environment, and to etc.) incorporates videos and readings from GRD give students an appreciation of the ways in 500. Anthropology-specific topics include which hunter-gatherers have been historically DPA 585: Prehistoric Peoples of the fieldwork, museum work, animal research, US documented. The course is designed to be Americas and international laws (biodiversity; cultural applicable to archaeologists, anthropologists ANT 585 Prehistoric Peoples of the Americas & natural heritage), and public anthropology. Anthropological Sciences faculty with and to those in other disciplines who make Life in the Americas from the first settlement particular expertise in these various areas lead inferences about past ways of life. at the end of the Ice Age until the arrival these discussions. Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, of the Europeans in the 15th and 16th etc.) centuries. The culture, history, and evolution 0-1 credits, S/U grading of prehistoric peoples of North, Central, May be repeated for credit. DPA 573: Archaeology of Human and South America are treated. Specific DPA 600: Practicum in Teaching Dispersals topics covered include settlement by North A survey of the archaeological evidence for Americans, hunting-gathering lifeways, plant May be repeated for credit. the dispersal of Homo sapiens during the Late and animal domestication, the origins of Pleistocene epoch (128,000-130,000 years village life, and state-level societies. DPA 602: Research Seminar in ago). Topics include African origin of Homo Spring, odd years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Anthropological Theory sapiens, dispersals into Eurasia, Australia, A-, B+, etc.) This course is offered as both ANT 602 and and the Americas, large mammal extinctions, DPA 602. DPA 591: Professional Skills in the origins of art, music, and symbolic behavior, Fall and Spring, 0-12 credits, S/U grading Anthropological Sciences, I. emergence of hunter-gatherers. May be repeated for credit. Offered An overview of the skills necessary for Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) scientific professionalism, with special DPA 610: Individual Research reference to successful performance in the Research supervised by faculty. Students must DPA 582: Comparative Anatomy of Anthropological Sciences. Topics covered have permission of instructor and enroll in Primates in this course include: use of basic software appropriate section. This course is offered as The comparative anatomy of living primates. tools, research design, data collection and both ANT 610 and DPA 610. Laboratory dissection with emphasis on management, dissertation proposal and journal article writing, oral and poster presentations, Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading relating structural diversity to behavior and May be repeated for credit. biomechanics. This course is offered as both and professional conduct. This course is not an alternative to GRD 500. Recommended for HBA 582 and DPA 582. DPA 620: Research Seminar in Topical students of G0 through G4 status. Permission Prerequisites: HBA 364 and previous Problems by Instructor course in human or vertebrate anatomy and This course is offered as both ANT 620 and permission of instructor. 0-1 credits, S/U grading DPA 620. May be repeated for credit. Spring, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter Fall and Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) DPA 592: Professional Skills in the May be repeated for credit. Anthropological Sciences, II. DPA 583: Human Demography DPA 630: Research Seminar in A development of additional professional skills The study of human demography has had Physical Anthropology a long standing focus in anthropology, necessary to master research and teaching in the Anthropological Sciences including This course is offered as both ANT 630 and archaeology, economics and sociology for DPA 630. the simple reason that the distribution and career options and employment. Topics in density of people fundamentally shapes this course include: the dissertation writing Fall and Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading many other aspects of the human condition. process, review processes, job applications May be repeated for credit. Human Demography gives students an and negotiations, tenure process, and teaching DPA 640: Research Seminar in overview of population dynamics both as strategies. Recommended for students of G5 Ethnography and Ethnology they change through time and differ across status. Permission by Instructor cultures. The course starts with outlining the 0-1 credits, S/U grading This course is offered as both ANT 640 and DPA 640.

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Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading DPA 800: Summer Research ECO 520: Mathematical Statistics May be repeated for credit. This course is offered as both ANT 800 and The first semester of a one-year course in DPA 800. quantitative methods. Statistical methods and DPA 650: Research Seminar in their properties of particular usefulness to Archaeology S/U grading May be repeated for credit. economists. Topics include probability theory, univariate and multivariate distributions, DPA 680: Special Seminar limiting distributions, point and interval Selected topics in cultural and social ECO estimation, hypothesis testing. anthropology. Topics reflect current interests Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the of faculty and graduate students. This course is Economics Economics Department or permission of the offered as both ANT 680 and DPA 680. Graduate Director. ECO 500: Microeconomics I Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. The first semester of a one-year course in microeconomic theory. Deals with decision- ECO 521: Econometrics DPA 699: Dissertation Research on making of economic agents in different choice A continuation of ECO 520. The application Campus environments using the analytical approach of mathematical and statistical methods of of duality theory. Topics include theory of the Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy economic theory, including the concept of consumer, theory of the firm, decision-making (G5). Major portion of research must take an explanatory economic model, multiple under risk and uncertainty, intertemporal place on SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, regression, hypothesis testing, simultaneous choice, aggregation, and capital theory. or at the Brookhaven National Lab. equations models, and estimating techniques. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U Prerequisite: ECO 520, Graduate standing in Economics Department or permission of the grading the Economics Department or permission of Graduate Director. May be repeated for credit. the Graduate Director. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, DPA 700: Dissertation Research off etc.) ECO 501: Microeconomics II Campus - Domestic A continuation of ECO 500, focusing Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy ECO 522: Applied Econometrics on theories of equilibrium and market (G5). Major portion of research will take place A continuation of ECO 521. The application structure. Topics include general competitive off-campus, but in the United States and/ and extension of econometric techniques equilibrium, imperfect competition and game or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven developed in ECO 521. Emphasis on the theory, imperfect information, theory of public National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab relationship among economic theory, goods, and social choice. are considered on-campus. All international econometric modeling and estimation, and students must enroll in one of the graduate Prerequisite: ECO 500, Graduate standing in empirical inference. Computer usage for student insurance plans and should be advised the Economics Department or permission of calculation of estimators. Critical examination by an International Advisor. the Graduate Director. of econometric studies in current journals. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Prerequisite: ECO 521, Graduate standing in etc.) May be repeated for credit. the Economics Department or permission of the Graduate Director. ECO 510: Macroeconomics I DPA 701: Dissertation Research off Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Campus - International The first semester of a one-year course in macroeconomic theory. Deals with theories Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy ECO 531: Introduction to and determinants of income, employment, and (G5). Major portion of research will take Computational Methods in Economics inflation. Topics include static equilibrium place outside of the United States and/or A first course in the computational and models, theories of money demand and U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the graphical techniques for finding numerical monetary phenomena, theories of the option of the health plan and may also enroll solutions to a set of economic models (from labor market and unemployment, rational in MEDEX. International students who are more elementary models such as Edgeworth expectations and stabilization policy, in their home country are not covered by Box to a more general competitive equilibrium consumption, and investment. mandatory health plan and must contact the model to finding the policy function of a Insurance Office for the insurance charge to Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) dynamic growth model) based on concepts and be removed. International students who are constructs presented in the 1st year graduate not in their home country are charged for the ECO 511: Macroeconomics II theory courses. Includes the foundations mandatory health insurance. If they are to be A continuation of ECO 510, focusing on of programming (using a symbolic algebra covered by another insurance plan they must dynamic models. Topics include models language), and finding maxima of functions, file a waiver be second week of classes. The of economic growth, optimal growth and finding equilibria of markets, and exploring charge will only be removed if other plan is efficiency, overlapping-generations models, and fitting functions graphically and through deemed comparable. rational expectations, and optimal policy. finite difference and projection methods. All international students must received Prerequisite: ECO 510, Graduate standing in Emphasis is put on understanding the clearance from an International Advisor. the Economics Department or permission of connections between the concepts, the algebra, Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading the Graduate Director. the algorithm of the computation and the May be repeated for credit. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, graphical presentation of economic models etc.) and on using the numerical models to perform

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 68 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 experiments. Prerequisites: ECO500, ECO590, with and without complete information, and ECO 613: Computational limited to Economics Department M.A. stochastic games. The Shapley value of games Macroeconomics students Offered with many players, and NTU-values. This A concentration on numerical methods Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, course is offered as both ECO 605 and AMS commonly used to solve dynamic etc.) 555. macroeconomic models. These include Prerequisite for AMS 555: AMS 552/ECO 604. methods relying on dynamic programming ECO 590: Mathematical Foundations of Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, techniques, linear approximation methods, Contemporary Economic Theory etc.) and non-linear methods that can be A one-semester course dealing with applied to models with distortions and mathematical concepts and techniques relevant ECO 606: Advanced Topics in heterogeneous agents. The different methods to economic theory. Topics in set theory, Strategic Behavior in Economics will be explained and their application to topology, linear algebra, and optimization An analysis of varying topics in strategic macroeconomics will be illustrated with theory. Applications to economic theory behavior in economics. One or more of the examples from various areas such as Real developed as time permits. following topics and others will be dealt with Business Cycles, Asset Pricing with Complete Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the each week: repeated games with incomplete and Incomplete Markets, and Recursive Economics Department or permission of the information; stochastic games; bounded Contracts. Graduate Director. rationality complexity and strategic entropy; Prerequisite: ECO 612, Graduate standing in Fall, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, values of non-atomic games; strategic aspects the Economics department or permission of the etc.) in the telecommunication industry; general Graduate Director equilibrium and financial markets; auction Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, ECO 597: Masters Project in mechanisms; knowledge, common knowledge, etc.) Economics and strategic equilibria. In this required course students will work Prerequisites: ECO 501, ECO 604, ECO 605, ECO 615: Advanced Macroeconomics with an adviser of their choice to write a paper or permission of instructor, Graduate standing workshop to be submitted by the end of the semester. in the Economics Department or permission of This course is designed for PhD students This research piece will be a well-structured the Graduate Director. in their 2nd year and above who are and coherent article on an economic research Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, thinking about writing a dissertation in question in a field of the student's choice, B+, etc.) macroeconomics. The course will provide the with some elements of originality. The paper May be repeated for credit. students with research methods for finding cannot be just an extended example that carries a PhD topic as well as for developing their out known techniques on a problem that has ECO 610: Special Topics: Advanced preliminary ideas for their dissertation topic. known answers even if those techniques are Macroeconomics Theory The course will complicated. The approval of the master's Topics in macroeconomic theory, including involve presentations not only from faculty project advisor and the Graduate Program microfoundations of macroeconomics, members but also from students, allowing them Director are required to register for this class. temporary general equilibrium and to obtain direct feedback and direction for Offered fall and disequilibrium, monetary theory, equilibrium future research from all the faculty members Spring, 0-3 credits, S/U grading theory of business cycles, implicit contracts, in macroeconomics. The course will also rational expectations, and econometric provide students with reviews of the most ECO 599: Research in Special Topics implications. Prerequisites: ECO 501, ECO important literature through discussions Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the 511, Graduate standing in the Economics and presentations by the faculty members of Economics Department or permission of the Department or permission of the Graduate seminal papers in the cutting edge research Graduate Director. Director Semesters Offered: Fall and Spring areas in macroeconomics. Some examples Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of these areas are consumer bankruptcy, May be repeated for credit. May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. Housing Markets, Social Security Reform, Health Care reform and Tax reform. The ECO 604: Game Theory I ECO 612: Computational Economics course will deal with stochastic, dynamic and Dynamic Modeling Elements of cooperative and non-cooperative general equilibrium models which do not have games. Matrix games, pure and mixed An analysis of the theory and applications a close form solution. Students will have to strategies, and equilibria. Solution concepts of the dynamic modeling literature using use these models to study their question of such as core, stable sets, and bargaining sets. computational methods, and on the methods interest and the course will also provide them Voting games, and the Shapley and Banzhaff themselves. Dynamic Modeling and with direction as to which numerical methods power indices. This course is offered as both Computational Economics are possibly are more appropriate to solve their particular ECO 604 and AMS 552. Prerequisite for ECO the fastest growing areas of interest in the problems. 604: Graduate standing in the Economics profession due to its suitability to model, solve Fall and Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading Department or permission of the Graduate and also estimate realistic decision making May be repeated for credit. problems in most areas of economics. Director. ECO 623: Data Analysis and Economic Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Applications Economics Department or permission of the Survey of major sources of data in economics ECO 605: Game Theory II Graduate Director Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and theoretical hypotheses and statistical Refinements of strategic equilibrium, games methods for organizing and analyzing such with incomplete information, repeated games data. Statistical models for quantitative data

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 69 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 as well as qualitative choices are presented. Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, of the course is to provide skills and feedback Computer usage is expected. A-, B+, etc.) to students at various levels in the program Prerequisite: ECO 521; Graduate standing in that assist them toward the completion of ECO 642: Demographic Economics I the Economics department or permission of the their second year paper, dissertation proposals Graduate Program Director. This course deals with the economics of and thesis. It is a course in research and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, the family. It utilizes recently developed presentation methods that provides an effective etc.) techniques in economics and demography mechanism for learning about current areas of to deal with questions concerning marriage, research interest. ECO 629: Studies in Quantitative divorce, fertility, contraception, the Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the Methods intrafamily distribution of resources, and the Economics Department or permission of the Prerequisite: ECO 521; Graduate standing in intergenerational distribution of resources. Graduate Director the Economics department or permission of the Students will do original theoretical and Fall or Spring, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, Graduate Program Director. empirical research under the professor's A-, B+, etc.) supervision. Prerequisite: ECO 501; Graduate Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. standing in the Economics department or ECO 636: Industrial Organization I permission of the Graduate Program Director. ECO 690: Seminar in Applied Economics Applications of microeconomic theory to the Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, determinants of market structure. Relationships etc.) Preparation, presentation, and discussion between market structure, firm behavior, and of student and faculty research in applied ECO 643: Demographic Economics II allocational efficiency. Econometric estimation economics. Topics covered by student papers and testing of some hypotheses suggested by This course is a continuation of ECO 642. are usually related to students' long-term the theory. It deals with the same questions and tools research interests. as ECO 642, but emphasizes developing Prerequisites: ECO 501, ECO 521; Graduate Fall or Spring, 0-6 credits, S/U grading economies. The connections between standing in the Economics department or May be repeated for credit. population growth and development are permission of the Graduate Program Director. stressed. ECO 695: Research Workshop Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Designed to direct students to the selection ECO 637: Industrial Organization II of dissertation topics. Oral and written ECO 645: Health Economics II This course is a continuation of ECO 636. presentation of student papers with active It deals with the same questions and tools Critical reviews of research in health faculty participation. Several sections may as ECO 636, and provides an introduction economics topics of current interest, such as be offered each semester in areas of broad to antitrust policy and to public policy empirical and conceptual models of physician research interest. toward industry, including regulation and behavior, competition in the pharmaceutical Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the deregulation, the design of optimal regulation, industry, the economic impacts of managed Economics department or permission of and the effectiveness of current regulation. care, and the causes and consequences of the Graduate Program Director and three unhealthy behaviors. Students will present Prerequisites: ECO 501, ECO 521; Graduate semesters of coursework in the Ph.D. program. and critique original research and produce a standing in the Economics department or Fall, 3 credits, S/U grading research paper on a topic of their interest.. permission of the Graduate Program Director. May be repeated for credit. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ECO 698: Practicum in Teaching etc.) ECO 646: Health Economics II Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the ECO 640: Labor Economics I Theoretical and econometric analysis of Economics department or permission of the This is the first course in the graduate selected aspects of the health care delivery Graduate Program Director. sequence in labor economic theory and system, such as the demand for medical Spring, 0-3 credits, S/U grading empirical applications. Topics include services, the supply and distribution of May be repeated for credit. human capital theory, labor supply, life cycle physician services, the utilization of non- behaviors, and the behavioral effects of social physician medical personnel, alternative ECO 699: Dissertation Research on insurance programs. The emphasis is on up to models of hospital behavior, third-party Campus date treatments of these topics in the literature. insurance reimbursement, national health Prerequisite: Have declared thesis advisor in Offer insurance and cost, and price inflation in the Economics Ph.D. program (G5). Major portion hospital and long-term care sectors. Offered as Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of research must take place on SBU campus, ECO 646 or HPH 664. at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Brookhaven ECO 641: Labor Economics II 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) National Lab. This is an advanced course in labor economics Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U ECO 647: Research Methods in which continues ECO 640. Topics include grading Applied Microeconomics both theory and estimation of job search, May be repeated for credit. matching, dynamic discrete and continuous Presentation, discussion and analysis of choice models of the labor market. Special student and faculty research in the areas of ECO 700: Dissertation Research off emphasis will be given to the role of economic applied microeconomics, labor economics, Campus - Domestic theory in specification and testing econometric health economics and industrial organization, Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy models. as well as applied econometrics. The purpose (G5). Major portion of research will take place

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 70 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 off-campus, but in the United States and/ EGL 510: Old English Language and EGL 585: Topics in Cultural Studies or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven Literature Changing issues in the interdisciplinary study National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab of culture, including literature, popular culture, are considered on-campus. All international EGL 515: Middle English Language discourse studies, media studies, etc. Focus is students must enroll in one of the graduate and Literature on the analysis of historical contexts and on student insurance plans and should be advised methods derived from contemporary cultural by an International Advisor. EGL 520: Studies in the Renaissance theory. Fall, Spring, 0-9 credits, S/U grading Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B May be repeated for credit. +, etc.) EGL 525: 17th-Century Literature May be repeated for credit. ECO 701: Dissertation Research off Campus - International EGL 530: Studies in Restoration EGL 586: Topics in Gender Studies Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Literature Changing historical or theoretical focus on (G5). Major portion of research will take issues in gender studies, sexuality, queer place outside of the United States and/or EGL 535: Studies in Neoclassicism studies, or women's writing. U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B option of the health plan and may also enroll EGL 540: Studies in Romanticism +, etc.) in MEDEX. International students who are May be repeated for credit. in their home country are not covered by EGL 545: Studies in Victorian mandatory health plan and must contact the EGL 587: Topics in Race, Ethnic, or Literature Insurance Office for the insurance charge to Diaspora Studies be removed. International students who are Changing historical or theoretical focus on not in their home country are charged for the EGL 547: Late 19th-Century British issues of race or ethnicity, on U.S., British, or mandatory health insurance. If they are to be Literature global ethnic literatures, or on experiences, covered by another insurance plan they must histories, or theories of colonization, file a waiver be second week of classes. The EGL 550: 20th-Century British decolonization, empire, globalism, or diaspora. charge will only be removed if other plan is Literature deemed comparable. Fall, Spring, Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) All international students must received EGL 555: Studies in Irish Literature May be repeated for credit. clearance from an International Advisor. Fall, Spring, 0-9 credits, S/U grading EGL 588: Writing Workshop May be repeated for credit. EGL 560: Studies in Early American Literature Changing focus on various forms of writing, ECO 800: Summer Research including poetry, drama, fiction, the essay, etc. Prerequisite: Pre-approved participation in EGL 565: 19th-Century American Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B Economics dept. activity. Literature +, etc.) May be repeated for credit. S/U grading May be repeated for credit. EGL 570: 20th-Century American EGL 592: Problems in Teaching Literature Writing or Composition EGL This course provides an overview of writing EGL 575: British and American pedagogy as applied to tutoring in a Writing English Literature Center or in an English classroom. Included in the course is fieldwork in the campus Writing EGL 501: Studies in Chaucer EGL 582: Drama Workshop Center. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) EGL 502: Studies in Shakespeare EGL 583: Nonfiction Workshop EGL 594: Contexts of Literary Study Participants will learn to compose, critique EGL 503: Studies in Milton and revise nonfiction forms such as essays and memoirs, incorporating narrative techniques EGL 597: Practicum in Methods of EGL 505: Studies in Genre that will make their work accessible and Research engaging to general readerships. May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) EGL 598: Thesis Research EGL 506: Studies in Literary Theory Research and writing of M.A. thesis EGL 584: Topics in Genre Studies Prerequisite: Matriculation in a graduate supervised by faculty advisor. program or the composition studies certificate. Changing issues in the historical study of Fall, Spring, Summer, 1-3 credits, S/U grading particular genres, such as the novel, lyric 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. poetry, film, drama, etc. EGL 509: Studies in Language and Fall, Spring, Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded EGL 599: Independent Study Linguistics (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit.

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EGL 600: Proseminar: The Discipline examining the intersection between textual EGL 688: Experiential Learning/ of Literary Studies studies and other forms of inquiry. Internship Pro-seminar: Introduction to critical analysis, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course is designed for students who including theoretical and methodological May be repeated for credit. engage in a substantial, structured experiential approaches, and an orientation to the learning activity under the direction of a profession both in the academy and other EGL 611: Critical Theory faculty member. Experiential learning occurs careers. Faculty members will speak on their A seminar on influential theoretical approaches when knowledge acquired through formal own scholarship and professional experiences. to texts. learning and past experience are applied to a 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) "real-world" setting or problem to create new May be repeated for credit. knowledge through a process of reflection, EGL 601: Problems in History and critical analysis, feedback and synthesis. Structure of the English Language EGL 612: Theories in Composition Beyond-the-classroom experiences that A survey of the English language from its This course explores the relationship between support experiential learning may include: historical beginnings through the present. reading and writing skills, the differences service learning, field work, or an internship. The course is intended to foster professional 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) between speech production and writing production, and the relationship between development, helping students to apply and EGL 602: Problems in Bibliography, literacy, culture, and language politics. extend the specialized content knowledge and Editing, and Textual Criticism skills gained through academic coursework Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, towards prospective careers in higher An introduction to the study of manuscripts etc.) education or other sectors. and printed books, with special emphasis on editorial and textual problems and decisions. EGL 613: Research in Composition 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course provides an introduction to the nature of empirical research in Composition EGL 690: Directed Readings EGL 603: Problems in Literary Theory Studies. Students will survey landmark and Criticism research studies, learn how to read research May be repeated for credit. A seminar on any of the current theoretical reports critically, and conduct a mini-research EGL 695: Methods of Teaching English approaches to texts. project in their own classrooms or tutoring situations to analyze underlying causes of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) students' writing problems. EGL 697: Practicum in Teaching May be repeated for credit. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, English Literature EGL 604: Problems in Literary Analysis etc.) Teaching workshop for introductory courses in An introduction to the explication of texts. poetry, fiction, and drama. EGL 614: Topics in Composition and 3 credits, S/U grading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Writing May be repeated for credit. This course will consist of directed readings EGL 698: Practicum in Teaching EGL 605: Problems in Convention and in particular areas of interest in rhetoric, the Writing Genre history of rhetoric and pedagogy, and teaching This course provides hands-on experience and strategies for teachers. An examination of literary types and instruction in the basics of writing pedagogy, categories. Offered including designing writing assignments, Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, sequencing assignments, motivating writing, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A-, B+, etc.) writing skill development and evaluating May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. writing. Students will also be given a EGL 606: Period and Tradition preliminary overview of the major theories EGL 615: Independent Study driving composition pedagogy. An examination of the major issues that pertain Semesters Offered: Fall and Spring to particular historical literary periods. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. EGL 699: Dissertation Research on May be repeated for credit. Campus EGL 620: Literary Studies Research EGL 607: Individual Authors Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). and Writing Seminar Major portion of research must take place on In depth study of specified writers, from Old This course focuses on the research and SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the English to Contemporary World Literatures in writing skills necessary to submit work for Brookhaven National Lab. English. publication. In addition to shared readings, Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) students will conduct substantial new research grading May be repeated for credit. and expand a paper they have previously May be repeated for credit. written for a graduate seminar. Please note that EGL 608: Problems in the Relationship this course cannot be taken until students have EGL 700: Dissertation Research off of Literature to Other Disciplines completed at least one semester of the doctoral Campus - Domestic This seminar will encourage the program. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy interdisciplinary focus of our program by 3 credits, (G5). Major portion of research will take place

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 72 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 off-campus, but in the United States and/ and manipulate public opinion regarding the and the course will culminate in a research or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven environment. The culmination of the course capstone project. National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab will be a final research project using multiple 3-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) are considered on-campus. All international genres. Semesters offered: May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. students must enroll in one of the graduate Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B student insurance plans and should be advised +, etc.) by an International Advisor. EMP EHM 503: Ecofeminism Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Engineering Management May be repeated for credit. The course will examine ecofeminist critical theory from it's inception in the early 1970s EMP 501: Behavioral and EGL 701: Dissertation Research off to the present. Ecofeminist thought will be Organizational Aspects of Management Campus - International utilized as the lens through which students Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy read, research and study a wide variety of This course provides an understanding (G5). Major portion of research will take fiction and nonfiction literature, history, film, of the management process by analyzing place outside of the United States and/or media and culture. Semesters Offered: organizational behavior. Topics include behavior in two-person situations, factors U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) option of the health plan and may also enroll influencing attitudes and changes in in MEDEX. International students who are EHM 504: Environmental Justice organizational behavior, group influence on behavior, formal and informal organizational in their home country are not covered by This course will examine a wide range mandatory health plan and must contact the structures, conflict and conflict resolutions, of environmental issues such as climate and the dynamics of planned change. Insurance Office for the insurance charge to change, toxic pollution, water and food be removed. International students who are rights, and more--within socioeconomic and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) not in their home country are charged for the racial contexts. The course will look at how EMP 502: Engineering Economics mandatory health insurance. If they are to be underprivileged and nonwhite socioeconomic covered by another insurance plan they must communities are most adversely impacted by This is a course in advanced cost justifications file a waiver be second week of classes. The environmental degradation in the U.S. and for business and projects. The objective is charge will only be removed if other plan is around the world. Semesters Offered: to give the student a better understanding of deemed comparable. what is required to justify, budget, plan and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) All international students must received carry out technological projects in industry clearance from an International Advisor. EHM 505: Environmental Narrative today. The student will also understand how Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Nonfiction management decisions are influenced by May be repeated for credit. financial analysis when making budgetary A study of the literary genre of environmental project plans. narrative nonfiction, which includes a blend EGL 800: SUMMER RESEARCH of scientific and historical fact and creative 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. expression and memoir. Students will read EMP 504: Quantitative Methods a wide variety of creative nonfiction and narrative nonfiction books and articles, This course will lay the foundation for an EHM research a particular environmental issue understanding of basic quantitative methods for solving business questions. A working Environmental Humanities in depth, and write their own original work of environmental narrative nonfiction knowledge of these quantitative methods can (incorporating both their research and personal help managers optimize true value-added EHM 501: Environmental Humanities & voice). Semesters Offered: for company stakeholders. In this course Ecoliteracy we will explore probability theory, decision This course will provide an introduction to Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) science and linear programming among other the multidisciplinary field of environmental EHM 560: Topics in Sustainability and basic mathematical principles as a way of humanities through the study of ecocritical Study Abroad quantifying the decision-making process, but concepts and theories, including environmental will not forget the basics of good management. justice, social ecology, ecofeminism, deep This course offers students the opportunity We will also discuss several quantitative ecology, conservationism, and biocentrism. to study abroad in a foreign setting and methods for analyzing and controlling cost, Readings will include historical, literacy, and learn about another culture's approaches to lead time, and quality of the goods or services philosophical sources. Environmental film and environmental sustainability. The course will being produced. visual art will be included. Semesters offered: focus on one or more of the following subject areas: environmental creative writing, eco- 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B aesthetics, renewable energy, environmental EMP 506: Strategic Technology +, etc.) policy and design, environmental politics Analysis and history, environmental advocacy, EHM 502: Environmental Media, Film, permaculture, horticulture and landscape This course will lay the foundation for an Writing design. Participants will be assigned readings understanding of Operations Management An examination of a variety of genres - and research assignments prior to departure. principles for Engineers. Operations social media; advertising; film; video; Community service may be included. While Management is the art of transforming ideas photojournalism; fiction; children's literature; traveling abroad, student will participate in and materials into true value-added for and non-fiction - in order to understand ways lectures, readings, workshops, and site visits, company stakeholders. In this course we will in which these texts are utilized to inform explore the entire value chain from design

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 73 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 to forecasting to supply chain management, measure quality; and introduction to statistical topics include cultural issues in a global production and quality control. We will quality control and how it is used. marketplace, the impact of law and legal look at the latest trends in global Operations Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, differences in the world marketplace compared theory, but will not forget the basics of good etc.) to the U.S., and addressing competitive issues management. We will use several case studies related to items such as a need for local to get real-world experience and emphasize EMP 518: Technology Projects contact. situational learning. We will also discuss This course will lay the foundation for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) several quantitative methods for analyzing and an understanding of project management controlling cost, lead time, and quality of the principles for Engineers. We will delve into EMP 524: Modern Transportation goods or services being produced. conflict resolution and time management Systems and Logistics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and spend a good deal of time talking about The integration of the activities that procure the importance of management support materials and services, transform them into EMP 507: Research and Special Topics in engineering companies. Quantitative intermediate goods and final products, and in Global Industrial Management approaches to planning, time, cost and deliver them to the customers in a global An individual study course for students performance will be compared and contrasted environment. This course covers all the investigating special topics relating to global and critical trade-offs will be explored. Other logistical, ethics, and outsourcing issues in industrial management. topics will include planning, organizing, and strategic and global ways. 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) controlling resources; monitoring progress 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. toward objectives; identifying and managing risks; communicating effectively; setting EMP 525: Technology Assessment for EMP 509: Enterprise Information and priorities; and writing engineering proposals. Emerging Technologies Knowledge Systems Management The systems approach will be emphasized. This course will address the technology This course covers the different types of Finally, we will identify future trends and assessment for emerging technology through enterprise systems, how they are used to take a look at various case studies that will four basic components of technology manage an organization's processes, re- sharpen our problem-solving skills for when assessment: scope, technology, impact, and engineering the business with enterprise we undergo a "live" engineering project. policy. Emerging technology will cover systems, and the relationship among 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) information technology, energy, and medical technology, organization, and management. technology. EMP 521: Developing New Products Knowledge-based and web-based features in Offered modern enterprise systems will be emphasized. This course covers how to manage enterprise Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Database Management, Security, Control, innovation, corporate innovation cultures, etc.) Ethical, and Social issues of enterprise systems ideation and creative thinking, product design May be repeated for credit. will be discussed. and development processes and phases, issues Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, in product design, collaboration between R&D EMP 530: Intro of Big Data & Data etc.) and operations/marketing. Also, this class will Science for Technological Management focus on how to use forecasting to ensure the This course is an introduction to big data EMP 511: Starting a Business Venture successful launch of a technology product. techniques, its applications and its challenges. This course covers the necessities of beginning Case studies will be discussed. We will analyze customer relationship a business from turning a concept into a new 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) management processes using software venture and developing a business plan for management tools such as DFD and UML and a venture. Topics include how to identify EMP 522: Strategic Marketing: Lean & Six Sigma management to improve and evaluate the product and its market Planning and Process applications or services in a cloud computing potential; management and organization This course will examine the vital role that environment. Data modeling, mining and issues; production and channels of distribution; strategic marketing and planning plays in visualization tools will be introduced for and how to present a plan to the financial all businesses, as well as non-profit and developing business intelligence, predictive community. Specific case studies and guest government organizations. Marketing's role analytics and decision support applications. speakers are utilized. in our economy, society and the appropriate Technologies in related areas such as data Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, marketing target and mix of media will also be warehousing, data sharing, data security, etc.) presented. The various careers which exist in networking, and operating systems will also marketing and the structure of marketing plans be included to support big data applications in EMP 517: Quality and Value and departments are studied. The class will cloud computing environments. Management create a marketing plan based on real products 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Modern management's approach to quality and present it. has changed radically in the last 20 years; 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) EMP 531: Data Mining for this course explains why and how. It covers Technological Management methods used by both manufacturing and EMP 523: International Business and Data mining can be used to extract meaningful service organizations to achieve high quality: Management and actionable information from large data how each organizational function is involved This course covers the world's marketplace, sets and then used for business intelligence, in quality; how improving quality can international environment, managing predictive analytics and decision support. reduce costs; importance of communication; international business, and managing Supervised and unsupervised machine importance of involving all employees; need to international business operations. Additional learning techniques, such as linear regression,

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 74 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 classification, decision trees, support vector project design, research, and/or curriculum Prerequisite: ESE 503 or permission of machines, and clustering, will be discussed. opportunities at the secondary and post- instructor. These techniques and associated tools will secondary levels. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) be introduced in the context of customer 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) relationship management (CRM), supply chain ESE 505: Wireless Communications management (SCM), and global operations ESE 501: System Specification and This course covers first year graduate management applications. Semesters Offered: Modeling level material in the area of wireless Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B A comprehensive introduction to the field communications: Wireless channels, overview +, etc.) of System-on-Chip design. Introduces basic of digital communications and signal concepts of digital system modeling and processing for wireless comm., voice and EMP 532: Big Data Systems for simulation methodologies. Various types data applications, design basics for wireless Technological Management of hardware description language (HDL) modems, analysis of system issues like The infrastructure requirements and challenges will be studied, including Verilog, VHDL, resource management and handoff, cellular of big data systems to support large-scale and SystemC. Topics include top-down and and wireless LAN systems. technology management applications will bottom-up design methodology, specification Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, be discussed. Advanced topics in big data language syntax and semantics, RTL, B+, etc.) infrastructure such as data center operations, behavioral and system-level modeling, and IP network and system security, data management core development. Included are three projects ESE 506: Wireless Network and integration will be covered. Cloud on hardware modeling and simulation. This course will examine the area of wireless computing platforms such as Iaas, Saas, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) networking and mobile computing, looking and Pass will also be included. Other at the unique network protocol challenges topics including advanced data mining and ESE 502: Linear Systems and opportunities presented by wireless visualization techniques as they relate to Development of transfer matrices and state- communications and host or router mobility. customer relationship management (CRM), space equations from the concepts of linearity, The course will give a brief overview of supply chain management (SCM), and global time-invariance, causality, and lumpedness. fundamental concepts in mobile wireless operations management applications will also Op-amp circuit implementations. Solutions systems and mobile computing, it will then be discussed. Semesters Offered: and equivalent state equations. Companion cover system and standards issues including Fall, Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, and modal forms. Stability and Lyapunov second generation circuit switched and third B+, etc.) equations. Controllability, observability, and generation packet switched networks, wireless their applications in minimal realization, LANs, mobile IP, ad-hoc networks, sensor EMP 572: Special Topics state feedback, and state estimators. Coprime networks, as well as issues associated with This multidisciplinary course provides a fraction of transfer functions and their designs small handheld portable devices and new comprehensive overview of emerging topics in in pole-placement and model matching. Both applications that can exploit mobility and society from both policy and technology point the continuous-time and discrete-time systems location information. This is followed by of view. Topics include energy, smart city, big will be studied. several topical studies around recent research data, disaster, bio-medical, and security. The Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) publications in mobile computing and wireless goal of the course is to assist students to gain networking field. This course will make the insights into different special topics to solve ESE 503: Stochastic Systems system architecture and applications accessible challenging problems and discover new ones. Basic probability concepts and application. to the electrical engineer. Prerequisites: ESE Offered Spring & Fall Probabilistic bounds, characteristic functions, 505 and ESE 546 or ESE 548, or permission of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and multivariate distributions. Central limit instructor theorem, normal random variables, stochastic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) processes in communications, control, and ESE other signal processing systems. Stationarity, ESE 507: Advanced Digital System Design and Generation Electrical Engineering ergodicity, correlation functions, spectral densities, and transmission properties. This course focuses on languages, tools and Optimum linear filtering, estimation, and abstractions for design and implementation ESE 500: Introduction to Engineering prediction. of digital systems. Course material is divided Education Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) roughly into three categories: Limitations This graduate course provides an in-depth and constraints on modern digital systems; examination of engineering knowledge and ESE 504: Performance Evaluation Hardware design abstractions, languages, practices in the context of secondary science of Communications and Computer and tools (including the SystemVerilog content and instruction. The focus is on Systems hardware description language); and new engineering design principles and how they Advanced scheduling theory, queuing models architectures and paradigms for digital design. may be applied to biology, chemistry, and Coursework will be primarily project and physics disciplinary domains. Key concepts and algorithms for communication and computer systems. Transient analysis and M/ assignment based; there will also be reading of effective engineering education will and discussion of published papers in these be introduced: design-based approaches, G/1 queue models. Networks of queues, mean value analysis and convolution algorithms. areas. Students should have experience with optimization, STEM integration, assessment, hardware description languages (VHDL, and transfer of science principles to technology Petri networks. Bursty and self-similar traffic. Divisible load theory for scheduling and Verilog, or System Verilog) and software (C, solutions. Students will participate in C++ or Java). engineering education opportunities through parallel computer performance evaluation.

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Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) SPICE). Consideration of the devices in resistors. Design techniques for linear digital integrated-circuit applications. integrated electronic components and circuits. ESE 509: Modern Energy Technologies Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Discussion of computer-aided design, MSI, This course cover a broad array of etc.) and LSI. technologies that are essential to the modern Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) energy industry, specifically focusing on the ESE 513: Introduction to Photovoltaics most contemporary topics and ¿hot¿ areas Introduction to the basic concepts of ESE 517: Integrated Electronic Devices of research, development, and deployment. photovoltaic solar energy conversion, and Circuits II Students will gain a quantitative understanding including: 1. The solar resource in the Theory and applications: elements of of selected energy generation technologies, context of global energy demand; 2. The semiconductor electronics, methods of energy storage technologies, and pollution operating principles and theoretical limits of fabrication, bipolar junction transistors, FET, control technologies. photovoltaic devices; 3. Device fabrication, MOS transistors, diodes, capacitors, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) architecture, and primary challenges and resistors. Design techniques for linear digital practical limitations for the major technologies integrated electronic components and circuits. ESE 510: Electronic Circuits and materials used for photovoltaic devices. Discussion of computer-aided design, MSI, This is a course in the design and analysis of Students will gain knowledge of the device and LSI. analog circuits, both discrete and integrated. physics of solar cells, the operating principles Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, The first part of the course presents basic of the major commercial photovoltaic etc.) topics related to circuit analysis: laws, technologies, the current challenges and theorems, circuit elements and transforms. primary areas of research within the field of ESE 518: Advanced design of low Fundamental semiconductor devices are photovoltaics, and a basic understanding of noise and low power analog circuits introduced next. A number of aspects of circuit the role of photovoltaics in the context of the Students will learn state-of-the-art circuit design beginning with basic device operation global energy system. techniques for low-noise and low-power through the design of large analog functional 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) amplification and processing of signals blocks including amplifiers, oscillators and from sensors. Examples of circuits are low- filters are discussed. ESE 514: MOSTransistor Modeling noise amplifiers, filters, peak directors Cannot be used to fulfill any ESE degree An overview of the metal-oxide semiconductor and discriminators. Applications range requirements. (MOS) transistor and its models for circuit from medical, to security, safety, industrial Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) analysis. The course is modular in structure. measurements and physics research. As a In a common first part, CMOS fabrication, course project, students will develop part of ESE 511: Solid-State Electronics device structure and operation are introduced. a front-end circuit from transistor level to A study of the electron and hole processes Starting from basic concepts of electrostatics, physical layout using industry-standard CAD in solids leading to the analysis and design MOS field-effect transistor operation is tools, and will participate in the experimental of solid-state electronic devices. Solutions to presented in an intuitive fashion, and no characterization of those similar circuits. At the Schrodinger representation of quantum advanced background in solid-state theory the end of the course the student will own a effects, perturbation techniques. Simple band is required. Analytical models of increasing solid background and the basic instruments to structure, effective mass theorem. Derivation complexity and their SPICE Implementations design low-noise and low-power amplifiers and application of the Boltzmann transport are discussed. The second part of the course and processing circuits. theory. Electrical and thermal conductivities allows students to focus on their field of Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, of metals and of semiconductors, and their preference: Device physics; digital circuits; B+, etc.) application to electronic devices. Properties of Analog circuits. The course includes a project semi conductors and the theories underlying in one of these subtopics. ESE 519: Semiconductor Lasers and the characteristics of semiconductor devices. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Photodetectors Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The course provides an introduction to ESE 515: Quantum Electronics I performance, testing and fabrication ESE 512: Introduction to Quantum Physics of microwave and optical lasers. techniques for semiconductor lasers Systems Engineering Topics include introduction to laser and photodetectors. The topics include A study of fundamental properties concepts; quantum theory; classical radiation fundamentals of laser and detector operation, of homojunction and heterojunction theory; resonance phenomena in two-level devices band diagram, device characteristics, semiconductor devices. Derivation of the systems; Block equations-Kramers-Kronig and testing techniques for analog and digital characteristic equation for p-n junction diodes, relation, density matrix; rate equation and edge emitting and surface emitting lasers, for the bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and for amplification; CO2 lasers; discharge lasers; avalanche and PIN photodetectors. Special the heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT); semiconductor lasers. attention is given to the design and working the device parameters for low- and high- Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) characteristics of transmitters and pumping frequency operation, the effects on the device lasers for telecommunication networks. characteristics of fabrication methods and of ESE 516: Integrated Electronic Devices 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) structural arrangements. The development of and Circuits I the large-signal and small-signal equivalent Theory and applications: elements of ESE 520: Applied Electromagnetics circuits for the p-n diode and the BJT and semiconductor electronics, methods of Wave phenomena and their importance in HPT devices, with emphasis on models used fabrication, bipolar junction transistors, FET, electromagnetic engineering. Harmonic waves. in prevalent computer-aided analysis (e.g., MOS transistors, diodes, capacitors, and Phase and group velocities. Dispersive and

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 76 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 nondispersive propagation. Transmission BAW transduction and applications: delay-line Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, lines. Maxwell Equations. Uniform plane and resonator structures, the Mason equivalent etc.) waves, waveguides, resonators. Scattering circuit, monolithic crystal filters, IM CON matrix theory. Introduction to antenna theory. dispersive delay lines, acoustic microscopes, ESE 531: Detection and Estimation Electrostatics and magnetostatics as special SAW transduction and applications: the Theory cases of Maxwell equations. interdigital transducer, band-pass filters, Hypothesis testing and parameter estimation. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, dispersive filters, convolvers, tapped delay Series representation of random processes. etc.) lines, resonators. Detection and estimation of known signals in Prerequisite: ESE 319 white and nonwhite Gaussian noise. Detection ESE 522: Fiber Optic Systems Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of signals with unknown parameters. This course covers the essential components Prerequisite: ESE 503 or permission of of a modern optical fiber communication ESE 525: Moden Sensors in Artificial instructor system: (I) wave propagation in optical fiber Intelligence Applications Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, waveguides, (II) transmitter design, (III) Sensors are devices that convert physical etc.) receiver design, (IV) single wavelength fiber- values into electrical signals. This course will optic networks, and (V) wavelength division provide practical information on diversified ESE 532: Theory of Digital multiplexing networks. subjects related to the operation principles, Communication Prerequisite: ESE 319 design and use of various sensors. Established Optimum receivers, efficient signaling, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and novel sensor technologies as well as comparison classes of signaling schemes. problems of interfacing various sensors with Channel capacity theorem, bounds on ESE 523: Quantum Computing and electronics are discussed. optimum system performance, encoding Applications 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) for error reduction, and the fading channel. This course is an introduction to and survey Source coding and some coding algorithms. of the Quantum Computing, an emerging ESE 526: Silicon Technology for VLSI Prerequisite: ESE 503 interdisciplinary field of science which has the This course introduces the basic technologies Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) potential to revolutionize computation over employed to fabricate advanced integrated the next ten years, to transform chemistry, circuits. These include epitaxy, diffusion, ESE 533: Convex Optimization and medicine, engineering and communications, oxidation, chemical vapor deposition, ion Engineering Applications as well as to change our understanding implantation lithography and etching. The Introduction to convex optimization and its of physical world. The course will build significance of the variation of these steps is applications. Convex sets, functions, and intuitive approach to quantum computation discussed with respect to its effect on device basics of convex analysis. Linear and quadratic and algorithms, but also will advance relevant performance. The electrical and geometric programs, second-order cone and semidefinite vocabulary and skills for faculties and design rules are examined together with the programming, geometric programming. graduate students in engineering, computing, integration of these fabrication techniques to Duality theory and optimality conditions. applied mathematics, chemistry, physics, and reveal the relationship between circuit design Unconstrained minimization methods. Interior- related sciences. The key questions of the and the fabrication process. point methods. Nondifferentiable problems. quantum computing will be introduced. How Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Decomposition methods. Applications in to describe quantum systems and quantum engineering fields including statistical signal operations? What is a quantum computer ESE 528: Communication Systems processing, communications, networking, and what are the limits of quantum power? This course provides a general overview energy systems, circuit design, and machine What is the difference between classical and of communication theory and addresses learning. quantum computation? Quantum teleportation? fundamental concepts in this field. After a 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Quantum entanglement and superposition? review of signals and systems representations, How to mitigate errors and decoherence various continuous and digital modulation ESE 534: Cyber Physical Systems and transmit information through noisy schemes are analyzed. Spread spectrum As computers and communication bandwidth channels? What are business applications systems and their application to multiuser become ever-faster and ever-cheaper, and engineering challenges of the quantum communications are also addressed. Advanced computing and communication capabilities computers? What are the gains in running communication systems are described and will be embedded in all types of objects quantum vs. classical algorithms? What are general concepts of wide and local area and structures in the physical environment. the physical principles of the current quantum networks are introduced. Applications with enormous societal impact computers hardware and what are technology Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and economic benefit will be created by requirements for realistic quantum computers? harnessing these capabilities in time and 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ESE 530: Computer-Aided Design across space. We refer to systems that The course presents techniques for analyzing bridge the cyber-world of computing and ESE 524: Microwave Acoustics linear and nonlinear dynamic electronic communications with the physical world as Continuum acoustic field equations. Wave circuits using the computer. Some of the cyber physical systems (CPS). This course equation, boundary conditions, and Pointing topics covered include network graph theory, covers important areas from the research vector. Waves in isotropic elastic media: generalized nodal and hybrid analysis, literature on SPS. Three application domains plane-wave modes, reflection and refraction companion modeling. Newton's method in n- are emphasized: medical devices for health phenomena, bulk-acoustic-wave (BAW) dimensions and numerical integration. care, smart transportation systems, and waveguides, surface acoustic waves (SAW). smart buildings. Several key cross-cutting Prerequisite: B.S. in Electrical Engineering Plane and guided waves in piezoelectric media. principles, independent of the application

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 77 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 domain, are also covered, including formal evaluating the reliability of systems of computing technology used in modern smart modeling, embedded systems, real-time components. Analytical models for systems phones; 2. The cloud computing technologies systems, feedback control and sensor analysis, lifetime distributions, repairable used in existing data centers; 3. The synergy networks. Prerequisite: Background in systems, warranties, preventive maintenance, of mobile and cloud computing and its embedded systems and computer networking is and inspection. Software reliability and fault applications; and 4. Programming on smart necessary. tolerant computer systems. Prerequisite: ESE phone utilizing data center services. Students 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 503 or permission of instructor will gain knowledge of the fundamental 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) principles of mobile cloud computing, the ESE 536: Switching and Routing in May be repeated for credit. major technologies that support mobile cloud Parallel and Distributed Systems computing, the current challenges and primary This course covers various switching and ESE 541: Digital System Design areas of research within the field of mobile routing issues in parallel and distributed The course provides an introduction to digital cloud computing, and a basic understanding systems. Topics include message switching and computer systems. The course follows of the role of mobile cloud computing in the techniques, design of interconnection a top-down approach to presenting design context of the everyday living. networks, permutation, multicast and all-to- of computer systems, from the architectural- 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) all routing in various networking nonblocking, level to the gate-level. VHDL language is and rearrangable capability analysis and used to illustrate the discussed issues. Topics ESE 544: Network Security performance modeling. include design hierarchy and top-down Engineering 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) design, introduction to hardware description An introduction to computer network languages, computer-aided design and digital and telecommunication network security ESE 537: Mobile Sensing Systems & synthesis, basic building blocks like adders, engineering. Special emphasis on building Applications comparators, multipliers, latches, flip-flops, security into hardware and hardware working This is a graduate course focusing on recent registers etc, static and dynamic random with software. Topics include encryption, advances and developments in mobile sensing access memory, data and control buses, public key cryptography, authentication, systems and their applications, especially fundamental techniques for combinational intrusion detection, digital rights management, those leveraging modern mobile devices circuit analysis and design, sequential circuit firewalls, trusted computing, encrypted and embedded sensors. Topics include: design procedures, and programmable logic computing, intruders and virus. Some projects. conventional mote-class sensor networks, devices. Testing of digital designs is addressed Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded participatory sensing leveraging mobile throughout the course. A mini project will (A, A-, B+, etc.) devices, intelligent hardware and Internet-of- complement the course. Things, location sensing, future information Cannot be used to fulfill any ESE degree ESE 545: Computer Architecture centric networking, and applications in smart requirements. The course covers uniprocessor and pipelined homes, buildings, transportation, environment Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, vector processors. Topics include: hierarchical and health/fitness. Student need to read latest etc.) organization of a computer system; processor literature and write reviews, work on research design; control design; memory organization problems and develop solutions, present their ESE 542: Product Design Concept and virtual memory; I/O systems; balancing work and write formal reports. The practice of Development and Optimization subsystem bandwidths; RISC processors; the basic research skills are major components. This graduate course will concentrate on the principles of designing pipelined processors; This course intends to be self-sufficient and design concept development of the product vector processing on pipelines; examples of prior experiences in programming, mobile development cycle, from the creative phase of pipelined processors. The course involves a devices and embedded systems is a plus. solution development to preliminary concept system design project using VHDL. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) evaluation and selection. The course will then Prerequisite: ESE 218 or equivalent cover methods for mathematical modeling, Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, ESE 538: Nanoelectronics computer simulation and optimization. The etc.) The major goals and objectives are to concept development component of the course provide graduate students with knowledge will also cover intellectual property and patent ESE 546: Networking Algorithms and and understanding of physical background issues. The course will not concentrate on Analysis and applications of nanoelectronics. The the development of any particular class of An introduction to algorithms and analysis for course will cover electrical and optical products, but the focus will be mainly on computer and telecommunication networks. properties of materials and nanostructures, mechanical and electromechanical devices and Continuous time and discrete time single fabrication of nanostructures, nanoelectronic systems. As part of the course, each participant queue analysis. Algorithms from public key devices including resonant-tunneling will select an appropriate project to practice cryptography, routing, protocol verification, devices, transistors, and single-electron the application of the material covered in the multiple access, error codes, data compression, transfer devices, as well as applications of course and prepare a final report. search. nanotechnologies in molecular biology and Prerequisites: Undergraduate electrical Prerequisite: ESE 503 or permission of medicine. or mechanical engineering and/or science instructor. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) training. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ESE 540: Reliability Theory ESE 547: Digital Signal Processing ESE 543: Mobile Cloud Computing Theory of reliability engineering. A basic graduate course in Digital Signal Mathematical and statistical means of Introduction to the basic concepts of mobile Processing. Sampling and reconstruction cloud computing, including 1. The mobile

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 78 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 of Signals. Review of Z-Transform theory. density, symmetry, representations, and Areas to be covered are Physical Design Signal flow-graphs. Design of FIR and IIR routing algorithms. Topologies being discussed Automation and Logic Design Automation. filters. Discrete and fast Fourier transforms. include: Benes, Omega, Banyan, mesh, Upon completion of this course, students will Introduction to adaptive signal processing. hypercube, cube-connected cycles, generalized be able to develop state-of-the art CAD tools Implementation considerations. chordal rings, chordal rings, DeBruijn, and algorithms for VLSI logic and physical Prerequisite: Senior level course in signals Moebius graphs, Cayley graphs, and Borel design. Tools will address design tasks such as and systems Cayley graphs. floor planning, module placement and signal Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: ESE 545 or equivalent routing. Also, automated optimization of Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) combinational and sequential circuits will be ESE 548: Computer Networks contemplated. Basic theory and technology of computer ESE 553: A/D and D/A Integrated Data Prerequisite: B.S. in Computer Engineering/ communications. Introduction to performance Converters Science or Electrical Engineering evaluation, error codes and routing algorithms. This is an advanced course on analog Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Other topics include Ethernet, wireless integrated circuit design aspects for data networks including LTE and 5G, fiber optic converters. Topics include: continuous and ESE 557: Digital Signal Processing II: networking, software defined networking, discrete-time signals and systems; sampling Advanced Topics networking on chips, space networks, data theorem; ideal ND and D/A converters; A number of different topics in digital signal centers, grids and clouds, and network specifications and testing of data converters; processing will be covered, depending on security. 3 credits , grading ABCF. basic building blocks in data converters: class and current research interest. Areas to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) current sources and mirrors, differential be covered include the following: parametric gain stages, voltage references, S/H circuits, signal modeling, spectral estimation, multirate ESE 549: Advanced VLSI System comparators: Nyquist D/A and ND converters: processing, advanced FFT and convolution Testing principles of data conversion and circuit design algorithms, adaptive signal processing, This course is designed to acquaint students techniques; oversampling data converters: low- multidimensional signal processing, advanced with fault diagnosis of logic circuits. Both pass and band-pass delta-sigma modulators, filter design, dedicated signal processing chips, combinatorial and sequential circuits are decimation and interpolation for delta-sigma and signal processing for inverse problems. considered. Concepts of faults and fault data converters. The attending students must Students will be expected to read and present models are presented. Emphasis is given to test be acquainted with principles of transistor current research literature. generation, test selection, fault detection, fault operation, function of simple analysis. Prerequisite: ESE 547 or permission of location, fault location within a module and Familiarity with SPICE is required. instructor fault correction. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Prerequisite: BS in Electrical Engineering etc.) ESE 554: Computational Models for Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Computer Engineers ESE 558: Digital Image Processing I etc.) This course covers mathematical techniques Covers digital image fundamentals, ESE 550: Network Management and and models used in the solution of computer mathematical preliminaries of two-dimensional Planning engineering problems. The course heavily systems, image transforms, human perception, This course provides an introduction to emphasizes computer engineering application. color basics, sampling and quantization, telecommunications and computer network Topics covered include set theory, relations, compression techniques, image enhancement, management and planning. Network functions, graph theory and graph algorithms, image restoration, image reconstruction from management is concerned with the operation and algebraic structures. projections, and binary image processing. of networks while network planning is Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: B.S. in Engineering or Physical concerned with the proper evolution of or Mathematical Sciences network installations over time. Network ESE 555: Advanced VLSI Systems Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) management topics include meeting service Design requirements, management operations, Techniques of VLSI circuit design in the MOS ESE 561: Theory of Artificial management interoperability, and specific technology are presented. Topics include Intelligence architectures such as Telecommunications MOS transistor theory, CMOS processing Problem solving by searching, game trees, Management Network (TMN), and Simple technology, MOS digital circuit analysis and constraint satisfaction problems, uncertain Network Management Protocol (SNMP). design, and various CMOS circuit design knowledge and reasoning, probabilistic Network planning topics include planning techniques. Digital systems are designed and reasoning, probabilistic reasoning over problem modeling, topological planning simulated throughout the course using an time, Markov decision processes, partially design, heuristic and formal solution assortment of VLSI design tools. observable Markov decision processes, techniques. Prerequisite: B.S. in Electrical Engineering or reinforcement learning, generalized Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Computer Science reinforcement learning. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ESE 552: Interconnection Networks etc.) Formation and analysis of interconnect ESE 562: AI Driven Smart Grids processing elements in parallel computing ESE 556: VLSI Physical and Logic The course focuses on Artificial Intelligence organization. Topics include: SIMD/MIMD Design Automation (AI) applications to power system analysis, computers, multiprocessors, multicomputers, planning and operation. Topics include basics

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 79 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 of AI and smart grid, data preprocessing, This course will present state-of-the-art architecture modeling, power-performance predictive analytics, AI driven static analytics, concepts and techniques for design of tradeoff analysis. The emphasis is on the such as optimal dispatch, state estimation embedded systems consisting of hardware development of application-specific VLSI and security assessment, and AI-based and software components. Discussed topics architectures for current and future generation dynamical analytics such as transient stability include system specification, architectures for of wireless digital communication systems. An assessment, dynamic model discovery and embedded systems, performance modeling and experimental/research project is required. emergency control. Emerging topics, including evaluation, system synthesis and validation. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) transfer learning, data-driven formal methods, The course is complemented by three learning-based cybersecurity and big data mini-projects focused on designing and ESE 576: Power System Dynamics platform, are also discussed. Prerequisite: An implementing various co-design methods. The course provides the background for undergraduate course in power systems Prerequisite: ESE 545, ESE 554 and ESE 333 understanding power system dynamics and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall numerical simulation techniques. Topics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) include the numerical integration for large- ESE 563: Fundamentals of Robotics I scale power networks, numerical oscillation This course covers homogenous ESE 568: Computer and Robot Vision and its solution, power system component transformations of coordinates; kinematic Principles and applications of computer modeling, frequency-dependent transmission and dynamic equations of robots with their and robot vision are covered. Primary network, nonlinear elements, network associated solutions; control and programming emphasis is on techniques and algorithms equivalents, power network stability, and of robots. for 3D machine vision. The topics include microgrid stability & control. The area of Prerequisite: Permission of instructor image sensing of 3D scenes, a review of 2D real-time simulation for cyber-physical power Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) techniques, image segmentation, stereo vision, infrastructures will also be discussed. optical flow, time-varying image analysis, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ESE 564: Artificial Intelligence for shape from shading, texture, depth from May be repeated for credit. Robotics defocus, matching, object recognition, shape Artifical Intelligence is intelligence representation, interpretation of line drawings, ESE 577: Deep Learning Algorithms demonstrated by machines , unlike the natural and representation and analysis of 3D range and Software intelligence displayed by humans and animals. data. The course includes programming This course is an introduction to deep learning Research and AI focuses on the development projects on industrial applications of robot which uses neural networks to extract layered and analysis of algorithms that learn and vision. high-level representations of data in a way that perform intelligent behavior with minimal 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) maximizes performance on a given task. Deep human intervention. This course aims to learning is behind many recent advances in AI, introduce students some basic techniques ESE 569: Translational Bioinformatics including Siri's speech recognition, Facebook's and algorithms in AI including probabilistic Advanced technologies have driven rapid tag suggestions and self-driving cars. Topics inference, planning and search, localization, increases in the quantities of biomedical covered include basic neural networks, tracking and control, and their applications to data. Translational bioinformatics develops convolutional and recurrent network structures, robotics. the specified computational and analytic deep unsupervised and reinforcement learning, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) methods to transform these large-scale datasets and applications to problem domains like May be repeated for credit. into biomedical applicable information and speech recognition and computer vision. knowledge. It is one of major applications Classes will be a mix of short lectures and ESE 565: Parallel Processing of machine learning and data mining. This tutorials, hands-on problem solving, and Architectures course introduces large-scale biomedical project work in groups. This course provides a comprehensive data resources and management, data 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) introduction to parallel processing. processing and modeling, data mining and Topics include types of parallelism, machine learning approaches in translational ESE 579: Advances Topics in classification of parallel computers, functional bioinformatics, and provides the hands- Translational Bioinformatics organizations, interconnection networks, on projects for students to practice these This course introduces the current applications memory organizations, control methods, approaches for real-world biomedical data. of machine learning and data mining parallel programming, parallel algorithms, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) techniques in biomedical data science, performance enhancement techniques and discusses the latest translational research design examples for SIMD array processors, ESE 575: Advanced VLSI Signal areas and progresses, and provides the hands- loosely coupled multiprocessors, and tightly Processing Architecture on team projects for graduate students to coupled multiprocessors. A brief overview of This course is concerned with advanced explore, design and practice their ¿data- dataflow and reduction machines will also be aspects of VLSI architecture in digital signal driven¿ solutions for the cutting-edge research given. processing and wireless communications. The topics in biomedical data science. Prerequisite: ESE 545 or equivalent first phase of the course covers the derivation 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, of both data transformation and control etc.) sequencing from a behavioral description ESE 581: Microprocessor-Based of an algorithm. The next phase reviews the Systems Engineering II ESE 566: Hardware-Software Co- general purpose and dedicated processor for This course is a study of methodologies and Design of Embedded Systems signal processing algorithms. This course techniques for the engineering design of focuses on low-complexity high-performance microprocessor-based systems. Emphasis algorithm development and evaluation, system

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 80 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 is placed on the design of reliable industrial ESE 587: Hardware Architectures for ESE 590: Practical Machine Learning quality systems. Diagnostic features are Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence included in these designs. Steps in the design This course focuses on the design and The course provides a broad introduction to the cycle are considered. Specifically, requirement implementation of specialized digital state-of-the-art of machine learning methods definitions, systematic design implementation, hardware systems for executing deep learning through lectures and labs, where the lectured testing, debugging, documentation, and algorithms. The course is divided into summarize the theoretical foundations of the maintenance are covered. Laboratory three sections. First, students will study methods. Students work in teams and utilize demonstrations of design techniques are field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) modern tools to develop a specific application included in this course. The students also and related tools. Second, the course will in areas like computer vision, biomedical obtain laboratory experience in the use of present an overview of modern deep learning engineering and social sciences. microprocessors, the development of systems, algorithms and applications (e.g., visual object 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) circuit emulation, and the use of signature and recognition, or speech recognition). Third, logic analyzers. students will apply this knowledge to complete ESE 591: Industrial Project in OEMS Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, a significant design project implementing and Engineering etc.) optimizing a deep learning algorithm on an A student carries out a detailed design of an FPGA. industrial project in OEMS engineering. A ESE 585: Nanoscale Integrated Circuit 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) comprehensive technical report of the project Design and an oral presentation are required. This course describes high performance ESE 588: Pattern Recognition Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and low power integrated circuit (IC) Basic concepts of pattern recognition design issues for advanced nanoscale techniques are introduced, including ESE 592: Distributed Computation, technologies. After a brief review of VLSI statistical pattern recognition, syntactic Control and Learning Over Networks design methodologies and current IC pattern recognition, and graph matching. Network Science is an interdisciplinary trends, fundamental challenges related to Topics on Bayes decision theory, parametric research area, which typically deals with the conventional CMOS technologies are and nonparametric techniques, clustering large-scale complex networks. This course described. The shift from logic-centric to techniques, formal languages, parsing covers fundamental problems in distributed interconnect-centric design is emphasized. algorithms, and graph-matching algorithms are computation and control, including consensus Primary aspects of an interconnect-centric covered. and distributed averaging, distributed design flow are described in four phases: Prerequisite: Stochastic processes and data optimization, discusses the rendezvous (1) general characteristics of on-chip structures problem and formation control, and explores interconnects, (2) on-chip interconnects for Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, recent development in distributed machine data signals, (3) on-chip power generation and etc.) learning over networks. distribution, and (4) on-chip clock generation 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and distribution. Existing design challenges ESE 589: Learning Systems for May be repeated for credit. faced by IC industry are investigated for Engineering Applications each phase. Tradeoffs among various design The course presents the main methods criteria such as speed-power-noise-area are ESE 597: Practicum in Engineering - used in automated (machine) learning highlighted. In the last phase of the course, Internship for engineering applications. The course several post-CMOS devices, emerging circuit This course is for part-time and full-time discusses representation models for learning, styles, and architectures are briefly discussed. graduate students, relating to their current extraction of frequent patterns, classification, At the end of the course, the students will professional activity. Participation is in private clustering and application of these techniques have a thorough understanding of the primary corporations, public agencies or non-profit for diverse engineering applications, such circuit and physical level design challenges institutions. Students will be required to have as Intranet-of-Things, electronic design with application to industrial IC design. a faculty advisor as well as a contact in the automation, and healthcare. The covered topics Prerequisites: ESE555 or ESE330 and ESE outside organization to participate with them in include an overview of learning systems, 355 regular consultations on their project. Students learning representations i.e. ontologies, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, are required to submit a final written final regression models, stochastic models and report to both. etc.) symbolic models, data preparing techniques, The maximum credits which can be accepted different frequent pattern extraction methods, ESE 586: Micro Grids towards the M.S. degree is 3 credits. supervised and unsupervised classification, Fall, Spring, Summer, 1-3 credits, S/U grading This course will discuss techniques useful for and basic and advanced clustering algorithms. May be repeated for credit. the grid modernization from a unique angle The course is organized as three modules, of microgrid design, analysis and operation. each module being centered on a specific ESE 599: Research Master's students It will cover smart inverters, microgrid theme. Students will learn the characteristics architectures, distributed energy resources of the enumerated topics, and devise and Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading modeling, microgrid hierarchical control, implement software programs for discussed May be repeated for credit. microgrid stability, fault management, resilient techniques as part of their project work for the microgrids through programmable network, course. Student projects will be assessed using ESE 610: Seminar in Solid-State reliable networked microgrids, and cyber standard benchmarks. Electronics security. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Current research in solid-state devices and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. circuits and computer-aided network design. May be repeated for credit.

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Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Fall, Spring, Summer, 1-3 credits, Letter Advanced training in writing for ESL students A-, B+, etc.) graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) who need to concentrate on paragraph May be repeated for credit. development. The first half of the semester ESE 670: Topics in Electrical Sciences deals with paragraph construction, stressing Varying topics selected from current research ESE 699: Dissertation Research on concepts of the main thesis and supporting topics. This course is designed to give the Campus arguments. Some advanced grammar is necessary flexibility to students and faculty Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). reviewed, but the assumption is that basic to introduce new material into the curriculum Major portion of research must take place on structures and mechanics of writing have before it has attracted sufficient interest to SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the already been mastered. The second half of be made part of the regular course material. Brookhaven National Lab. the semester stresses combining paragraphs Topics include biomedical engineering, Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U into short compositions. Both descriptive circuit theory, controls, electronics circuits, grading and argumentative writing are practiced. digital systems and electronics, switching May be repeated for credit. Diagnostic test during first week of classes theory and sequential machines, digital determines placement in the course. A through signal processing, digital communications, ESE 700: Dissertation Research off C/Unsatisfactory grading only. computer architecture, networks, systems Campus - Domestic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) theory, solid-state electronics, integrated Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy electronics, quantum electronics and lasers, (G5). Major portion of research will take place communication theory, wave propagation, off-campus, but in the United States and/ ESM integrated optics, optical communications and or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven Materials Science information processing, instrumentation, and National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab VLSI computer design and processing. are considered on-campus. All international ESM 501: Teaching and Mentoring Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, students must enroll in one of the graduate Techniques A-, B+, etc.) student insurance plans and should be advised May be repeated for credit. by an International Advisor. Discussion of various phases of teaching, including preparation, classroom technique, Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading ESE 691: Seminar in Electrical and student evaluation. Also exploration May be repeated for credit. Engineering of skills and understanding necessary for mentoring of undergraduates and others This course is designed to expose students ESE 701: Dissertation Research off involved in research. to the broadest possible range of the current Campus - International Fall, 1 credit, S/U grading activities in electrical engineering. Speakers Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy from both on and off campus discuss topics of (G5). Major portion of research will take current interest in electrical engineering. ESM 502: Scanning Electron place outside of the United States and/or Microscopy Skills Fall and Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the May be repeated for credit. option of the health plan and may also enroll Practical introduction to the operation of in MEDEX. International students who are scanning electron microscopes, including ESE 697: Ph.D. Practicum in Teaching in their home country are not covered by energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometers. The course provides hands-on experience mandatory health plan and must contact the Required of all students who use the SEM in in classroom teaching. Other activities Insurance Office for the insurance charge to their research. may include preparation and supervison of be removed. International students who are Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) laboratory experiments, exams, homework not in their home country are charged for the assignments and projects. Final report that mandatory health insurance. If they are to be ESM 503: Electron Diffraction summarizes the activities and provides a covered by another insurance plan they must A quantitative discussion of electron description of the gained experience and a list file a waiver be second week of classes. The diffraction as a means of micro- of recommendations is required. Prerequisite: charge will only be removed if other plan is characterization of materials and as a basis G5 status and Permission of Graduate Program deemed comparable. for understanding image contrast in the Director All international students must received transmission electron microscope. Topics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) clearance from an International Advisor. covered include atomic, kinematical, and Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading dynamical scattering; indexing diffraction ESE 698: Practicum in Teaching May be repeated for credit. patterns; and convergent-beam diffraction. This course enables graduate students to Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, gain experience in teaching and interacting ESE 800: FULL TIME SUMMER etc.) with students enrolled in an electrical and RESEARCH ESM 508: Impact of Materials on computer engineering course. Students May be repeated for credit. enrolled in ESE-698 are expected to perform Environment various teaching duties required by the course This course will focus on several concepts instructor, such as attending lectures, providing ESL underlying the impact of materials on office hours, holding review/recitation the environment and various methods of sessions, assisting in lab sections and grading, English as Second Language minimizing them, More specifically this etc. course will explore the concepts of air and ESL 593: Advanced Composition water pollution associated with product manufacturing, various concepts of hazardous

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 82 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 materials impact on human health, several of "They Say/I Say," a cornerstone strategy and thermoelectric effects. Hall effect and topics of sustainable developments and of academic conversation, in which newer magnetoresistance. Conductivity in thin films. selected methods of contaminated water and colleagues in a field (i.e., undergraduate and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) air treatment. Additionally this course will graduate students) learn by apprenticeship how be addressing the issues of how to minimize to engage their peers in the discussion of ideas ESM 531: Phase Transformations the environmental pollution by product through written format. Offered Kinetics and Transformations II changed substitution and by decreasing the energy input Spring, 0-3 credits, S/U grading to Phase Transformations. A review of the into materials production. It will also give an processes by which structures are changed overview of the concepts of green chemistry, ESM 519: Electrochemistry and in the solid state. Classical nucleation theory green engineering and industrial ecology. Electrochemical Materials Science including homogeneous and heterogeneous Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, This course will survey electrochemistry and mechanisms. Diffusion and diffusionless A-, B+, etc.) electrochemical materials science. Topics growth mechanisms. Transformation kinetics. will include fundamental measurements Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, ESM 511: Thermodynamics of Solids in electrochemistry, galvanostatic and etc.) Current knowledge regarding the potentiostatic methods, the electrochemical thermodynamic properties of condensed double layer, corrosion and passivation. ESM 532: Materials Processing phases is discussed. The thermodynamic Relevant applications such as fuel cells, A study of manufacturing processes used treatment of ideal, regular, and real solutions is batteries, and supercapacitors will be in the semiconductor industries. Topics reviewed. Estimation of reaction-free energies discussed. include single crystal growth, compound and equilibria in condensed phase reactions 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) formation, zone refining, epitaxial growth, such as diffusion, exication, and phase doping techniques, thin film techniques, thick transformations; thermodynamic analysis of ESM 521: Kinetics of Materials film techniques, passivations, isolations, lead phase equilibrium diagrams. This Kinetics of Materials course will bonding techniques, cleaning and etching, and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) discuss important kinetic phenomena in failure analysis; discrete devices and integrated materials science and engineering. The circuit devices; various modern concepts in IC ESM 512: Structure of Materials studies of kinetics explore how materials processing. The structure of solids can be studied using evolve and change in structure, morphology Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) X-ray, neutron, and electron diffraction and composition. The understanding techniques. Topics covered are coherent of kinetics in materials leads to a broad ESM 533: Polymeric Materials and incoherent scattering of radiation, impact in all scientific and engineering Introduction to the physical properties of structure of crystalline and amorphous solids, fields concerning materials design and polymeric materials. Conformations, phase stereographic projection and crystal orientation processing. This course will cover topics diagrams, and flow properties of polymers determination, the concept of reciprocal vector ranging from core knowledges such as and polymer solutions. Rubber elasticity of space. Laboratory work in X-ray diffraction is various diffusion phenomena and motions polymer networks and melts. Flory-Huggins also included. of defects and interfaces, to more complex lattice model for concentrated solutions. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) subjects such as phase transformations and Applications to diffusion, segregation, and development of microstructure. It emphasizes spinodal decomposition in polymer blends. ESM 513: Strength of Materials the comprehension of fundamentals, leading to Experimental methods. a better understanding of processing-structure- A unified approach for all solid materials Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will be used with regard to the correlation property relationships. between microstructure and their macroscopic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ESM 534: Advanced Laboratory mechanical properties. The course deals with Students perform a series of advanced ESM 522: Imperfections in Crystals various testing techniques for delineating materials experiments which involve some mechanical properties of materials, considering The characteristics of point defects in metals, independent research. The results are then elasticity, inelasticity, plasticity, dislocation semiconductors, and ionic solids are described, written in a report suitable for publication in a theory, cohesive strength, fracture, and surface and the thermodynamics of point defects is journal or proceeding. wear. Attention is given to strengthening developed. Dislocation theory is introduced Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) mechanisms for solids, metals, ceramics, and and the structures of internal boundaries are polymers. described. Finally, interactions between lattice ESM 537: Cellular Interactions Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) imperfections are discussed, with emphasis on plasticity and fracture. This course is intended to introduce cellular and biological concepts and principles for ESM 514: Technical Writing for Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, graduate students in chemical engineers Materials Scientist etc.) related to their research projects that involve Students will examine writing as it appears in cellular interactions with materials as possible ESM 523: Solid-State Electronics published and draft format, taking into account scaffolds in bioengineering. This course may different audience needs. Processes we will A study of the electronic processes in be counted as either CSE 370 or ESM 537. cover include: planning, organizing, writing, solids leading to the analysis and design of Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, review, editing and rewriting. Grammar issues, materials and devices. Crystal structures, etc.) particularly those that challenge non-native binding, electrical and thermal conductivities, speakers, will also be addressed. We will be diffusion, galvomagnetic, thermomagnetic, ESM 542: Modern Electron Microscopy working with Professor Gerald Graff's idea

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Principles and practice for transmission and unintended release and escape, and security post-industrial revolution era. A comparison scanning transmission electron microscopes. measures to protect and control stockpiles. of the three fossil fuels with respect to their Instrument design. Specimen preparation. Prerequisite: Undergraduate equivalent energy content, CO2 output and associated Instrument operation. Electron diffraction chemistry, biochemistry, and microbiology. environmental impact tied to global warming. and imaging theory. Microanalysis using X- Fall, Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ray and electron spectra. Typical electron +, etc.) microscope investigations are outlined and ESM 566: Fuel Combustion used as examples. ESM 555: Synchrotron Techniques in The course will focus on combustion process Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Materials Science for heat and power generation. Describe both A short course in a selected synchrotron fundamentals and actual systems involving ESM 550: Introduction to Homeland analytical technique as applied to problems in fossil feuls and upcoming CO2-neutral Security Materials Science. May include demonstration biofuels. Emphasis on fuel combustion in The course is a combination of lectures and hands-on experience at the national stationary equipment, emissions characteristics and laboratory experience to introduce synchrotron light source at Brookhaven of burning fuels and challenges in developing students to critical issues and assess needs National Laboratory, and synchrotron safety the next-generation combustion equipment. for homeland security. The course includes training. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, invited lectures by experts on special topics 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) such as fundamentals of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and the associated ESM 560: Risk Assessment, ESM 569: Biofuels threat to the transportation of goods and the Regulation, and Homeland Security The course will focus on biofuels- a promising public. The students will learn about cyber The course focus is on risk assessment option to replace fossil fuels. Topics to be security, devices to safeguard materials from associated with nuclear, chemical and covered include crop-growth cycle and its terrorist threats, safety of nuclear power plants biological weapons as it relates to Homeland impact on land-use, biomass to various fuel and water supply, forensics and emergency Security. Topics include air dispersion, options, their integration into the exiting preparedness. The students will submit a term uncertainty analysis, exposure measurements, energy delivery infrastructure and potential paper on a selected topic in lieu of the final epidemiology, toxicology, regulatory issues, benefit in CO2 reduction. exam. risk management, risk communication, risk Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Prerequisite: undergraduate level biology, perception, and risk preparedness. The course etc.) chemistry and physics. will also cover laws and regulation, and Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B disaster preparedness, various acts passed by ESM 575: The Material World +, etc.) the U.S. Congress to regulate water, air, and The evolution of the Material World starting controlled substances. from the Big Bang, the creation of stars and ESM 553: Nuclear Safeguards and Prerequisite: undergraduate or equivalent galaxies, the nucleosynthesis of the elements in Security physics, math and chemistry. supernova explosions, formation of the Earth The course is intended to familiarize students Fall, Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B and Solar System, human adaptation of Earth with the fundamentals of nuclear physics, +, etc.) resources to create the Modern World will be radiation, mining, weapons and fuel cycle, discussed. In this process we will discover the other than producing electricity, as it pertains ESM 561: Crystal Growth Technology fundamental laws governing material behavior to nuclear power plants. Topics include The main goal of this course is to introduce and explore the cosmic significance of our nuclear detection, devices to safeguard nuclear graduate students to the fundamentals and existence. materials from terrorist threats, needed physical principles that govern the process of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) physical protection for safe handling and its crystal growth and show them how to apply relevance to Homeland Security. The course those principles to design and engineer growth ESM 599: Research combines lectures with hands-on experience at systems for different crystalline materials. Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading the newly installed nuclear detection facility While microscopic theory of nucleation and May be repeated for credit. located at the nearby United States Department growth kinetics will be an essential part of this of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. course, its core will mainly focus on applying ESM 604: Seminar in Ultrasonic Prerequisite: undergraduate equivalent transport phenomena and thermodynamics of Methods and Internal Friction in Solids physics and chemistry. chemical reactions to the design of processing Fall, Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B reactors. As part of the academic requirements Review of advanced measurement techniques +, etc.) associated with this course, students will form in the field of ultrasonics coupled with teams and work on the virtual design of crystal quantitative descriptions of experimental ESM 554: Chemical & Biological growth reactors using software packages for variables related to the sample microstructure. Weapons: Safeguards and Security transport phenomena modeling. Applications to optical, electrical, and mechanical properties are discussed. Use of This course deals with the fundamentals of Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) chemistry and biochemistry related to chemical ultrasonics for nondestructive evaluation is considered. weapons (CW) and biological weapons (BW) ESM 562: Traditional Fossil Fuels Prerequisite: ESM 513 that could be used by terrorists. Topics include The course will focus on the original and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, CW and BW history, production, control, history of traditional fossil fuels, coal, etc.) detection, identification, and emergency petroleum and natural gas. Discuss mining response measures to deal with intended or methods and the role of fossil fuels play in the ESM 608: Seminar in Catalysis

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Introduction to homogeneous and Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Fall, 1-9 credits, S/U grading heterogeneous catalysis. Geometric factors A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. in catalysis. The kinetics of heterogeneous May be repeated for credit. catalysis. Electronic factors in catalysis: ESM 800: FULL TIME SUMMER RSH ESM 697: Materials Science metals, semiconductors, and surface species. May be repeated for credit. Preparation and properties of metal surfaces. Colloquium Porosity. Typical industrial processes, e.g., A weekly series of lectures and discussions by Fischer-Tropsch, ammonia synthesis, ammonia visitors, local faculty, and students presenting ESS oxidation, etc. current research results. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall and Spring, 0-3 credits, S/U grading Earth and Space Sciences May be repeated for credit. ESM 614: Seminar in Diffusion in ESS 501: Foundations of Earth Science Solids ESM 698: Practicum in Teaching Comprehensive analysis of the New York Diffusion in solids is considered in detail, State Earth Science Curriculum taught by an Fall and Spring, 0-3 credits, S/U grading experienced Earth Science teacher. This course including solution of the transport equations May be repeated for credit. for volume, grain boundary, and surface is intended for science teachers and science diffusion. Kirkendall effect and other diffusion ESM 699: Dissertation Research on education students. phenomena, atomic mechanisms of diffusion, Campus Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) correlation effects, etc. Next, the theory Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). ESS 511: Pine Barrens Sustainability of processes in which diffusion plays an Major portion of research must take place on important role is considered, such as ionic SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the The ecologically diverse Long Island Pine conduction, oxidation of metals, and the Brookhaven National Lab. Barrens region provides a habitat for a large sintering of solids. number of rare and endangered species, but Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading faces challenges associated with protection of grading a natural ecosystem that lies in close proximity May be repeated for credit. ESM 694: Directed Studies in Materials to an economically vibrant urban area that Science ESM 700: Dissertation Research off exerts intense development pressure. In this This course is designed for research on special Campus - Domestic course we will consider the interaction of topics in Materials Science and is directed by the ecological, developmental and economic Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy factors that impact the Pine Barrens and the a faculty member. Designed for students who (G5). Major portion of research will take place want to research areas that are not typically effectiveness of decision support systems in off-campus, but in the United States and/ promoting sustainability of the Pine Barrens. covered by regular coursework. Registration or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven requires the faculty member's and departmental National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) approval. Cannot be repeated for credit with are considered on-campus. All international ESS 522: The Planets the same faculty member. students must enroll in one of the graduate 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) student insurance plans and should be advised A study of present knowledge of planets and May be repeated for credit. by an International Advisor. their satellites, the interplanetary medium, asteroids, meteorites, comets, and the Sun. Fall, 1-9 credits, S/U grading ESM 695: Graduate Internship Emphasizes the methods of science including May be repeated for credit. Participation in private corporations, public the history of astronomical sciences, ongoing agencies, or non-profit institutions for ongoing ESM 701: Dissertation Research off deep-space missions, modern astronomical research activities related to thesis research. Campus - International instrumentation, and exoplanet discoveries. Students will be required to have a faculty Emphasis will be placed on topics contained Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy in the Earth Science curriculum in New coordinator as well as a contact in the outside (G5). Major portion of research will take organization, to participate with them in York State. A research report is required. place outside of the United States and/or U.S. This course is intended for science teachers regular consultations on the project, and to provinces. submit a final report to both. Not accepted for and science education students and requires credit toward the M.S. degree. Domestic students have the option of the knowledge of trigonometry, algebra and health plan and may also enroll in MEDEX. introductory college level physics. 1-3 credits, S/U grading International students who are in their home May be repeated for credit. Offered countries are not covered by the mandatory Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) health plan and must contact the Insurance ESM 696: Special Topics in Materials Office for the insurance charge to be removed. Science ESS 523: Collisions in the Solar International students who are not in their System Supervised reading and discussion of selected home countries are charged for the mandatory A discussion of the evidence that comet and publications in particular fields of Materials health insurance. If they are to be covered by Science. This course is designed primarily asteroid impacts have played a significant other insurance plans they must file waivers part in the evolution of the Earth, and other for advanced graduate students who are, or by the second week of classes. The charge expect to be, involved in research in these planets of the solar system, as well as an will only be removed if the other plans are assessment of the actual and perceived hazard areas, although other students may enroll with deemed comparable. All international students permission of the instructor. posed by terrestrial impacts and discussion must receive clearance from an International of what can be done about it. Research report Advisor. required. This course is intended for science

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 85 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 teachers and science education students and This course provides an overall picture of air to describe the earth materials through which requires knowledge of trigonometry, algebra pollution caused by gas phase species and seismic waves travel; and understanding the and introductory college level physics. Offered airborne particulate matter. The sources of air role of plate tectonics in the earth's geologic Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, pollution and the transport of air pollutants will evolution. Instruction will include lectures and etc.) be discussed. We will study the underlying laboratory exercises. Research report required. chemical processes which can lead to the This course is intended for science teachers ESS 524: The Universe formation of secondary air pollutants. Their and science education students. Offered The origin, evolution, and ultimate fate of the effect on an urban, regional, and global Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, universe. The course begins with a historical scale and on human health will be assessed. etc.) approach with emphasis on the evolution National and international air quality policy of cosmological ideas from geocentric regulations will be discussed. The causes and ESS 543: Rocks and Minerals universes to the Big Bang. Consideration of consequences of the stratospheric ozone hole Identification, properties, formation and the evolution of the universe from the earliest will be outlined. The international efforts in occurrence of rock-forming minerals: moments after the Big Bang to the distant form of policy protocols to stop stratospheric characterizing igneous, sedimentary and future, including the formation of the galaxies, ozone depletion will be discussed. The natural metamorphic rocks including the diverse stars, and planets. Research report required. greenhouse effect will be introduced and our geologic settings in which they occur This course is intended for science teachers current understanding of global warming will with emphasis on their occurrence in the and science education students and requires be presented. Research report required. This Metropolitan New York area. Instruction will knowledge of trigonometry, algebra and course is intended for science teachers and include lectures and laboratory exercises. introductory college level physics. science education students. Research report required. This course is Co-scheduled with AST 304 The Universe. Offered intended for science teachers and science Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, education students. etc.) etc.) Offered Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ESS 532: Atmospheric Fundamentals ESS 536: Principles of Weather Analysis and Forecasting This course considers: the principles of ESS 544: Geology of New York atmospheric thermodynamics to assess This course explores the fundamental physical The course will explore the geologic adiabatic and saturated adiabatic processes; processes associated with various weather development of New York from the the concepts of radiative transfer such as phenomena: tropical cyclones, extratropical Mesoprfoterozoic to the present and will blackbody radiation, scattering, absorption, cyclones, fronts, convective storms, and local also explore how the rocks were dated using and emission by molecules and particles will air-sea and mountain flows. The latest analysis radiometric methods and fossils. Research be discussed; tropospheric and stratospheric techniques, datasets, and tools will be used report required. This course is intended chemistry with its subsequent effects on air to understand the climatology and structural for science teachers and science education pollution and chemical cycles; meteorological evolution of these weather phenomena. Basic students. forecasting techniques will be applied using physical concepts such as geostrophic and Offered observations and numerical model output. gradient winds, and general circulation; and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Research report required. This course is the microphysics of cloud formation and etc.) precipitation. Research report required. This intended for science teachers and science course is intended for science teachers and education students. ESS 585: Directed Studies science education students. Offered Special studies directed by various faculty Offered Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, members to be taken for variable and repetitive Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) credit. Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-3 credits, Letter ESS 533: Global Climate ESS 541: Earth's Surficial Environment graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course includes creating and using This course explores the fundamental physical May be repeated for credit. processes associated with various weather topographic maps, weathering, soil phenomena: tropical cyclones, extratropical development, stream systems, groundwater, ESS 589: Research for Earth Science cyclones, fronts, convective storms, and local glacial geology, mass movement, erosion and Teachers air-sea and mountain flows. The latest analysis deposition,. Instruction will include lectures and laboratory exercises. Research report This course is intended to provide science techniques, datasets, and tools will be used teachers or graduate students in the Science to understand the climatology and structural required. This course is intended for science teachers and science education students. Education program an opportunity to obtain evolution of these weather phenomena. Basic research experience. A written report is forecasting techniques will be applied using Offered required. observations and numerical model output. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, Spring and Research report required. This course is Summer, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, intended for science teachers and science ESS 542: Tectonic Environment etc.) education students. The use of maps in recognizing, describing May be repeated for credit. Offered and interpreting tectonic features in New York Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) State and around the world; understanding the ESS 600: Independent Research origin of structural features of the earth's crust This course is required for students in MAT ESS 534: Air Pollution and Control and interior; using seismic data to understand the tectonic significance of earthquakes and Earth Science and MS in Geosciences with

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 86 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 a concentration in Earth and Space Sciences explore distance education, media streaming education students are using technology and to document that the student has completed and communication tools such as Twitter and offer innovative ways to use that technology an independent research project as part of a Facebook. They will review management to motivate students to learn. Throughout graduate earth science academic or research systems, data collection/analysis tools and the course students learn about best practices course. technology funding resources. Students in higher education, a number of web based S/U grading will also learn how to evaluate technology productivity and course management tools, integration throughout their school and/or cyber-ethics and digital footprint, organization ESS 601: Topics in Earth and Space district. The semester project for this course of your digital world, collaborating with Sciences is the development of an implementation technology, social media, virtual worlds as This course is intended for science teachers or plan and the evaluation of an educational well as presentation strategies and tools. The science education students. technology that may be used in your school or culminating project for this course is the district. research, assessment, analysis and presentation Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-3 credits, Letter of a college student profile. Semesters offered graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B EST 502: Ethical Decisions in +, etc.) ESS 610: Capstone Project in Earth Engineering and Space Sciences The engineering design process involves EST 511: Infusing Technology into Higher Education Curriculum This required capstone project considers more than material choices and cost concerns. unifying themes or "big ideas" such as scale Individuals and organizations that create The power of technology allows higher and structure, models, stability, and change, technological innovation must also address education instructors to teach and motivate systems and interactions, energy and time social and, more importantly, ethical issues. students to learn in ways never thought as they apply to astronomy, atmospheric This course will review formal frameworks possible. This course will show students science and geology. This capstone course drawn from classical ethics. These frameworks how to fully integrate technology into the integrates "big ideas" across the earth and will be used as a basis for considering case curriculum. For the semester project, students space sciences. Students should have taken at studies drawn from a variety of engineering will review and modernize an existing course least two undergraduate or graduate courses in disciplines. In addition, modern multi- to make learning more effective and exciting each of astronomy, atmospheric science and disciplinary design approaches such as Value for the higher education student. Students geology. Sensitive Design and Biophilic Architecture will learn the best way to update courses will be considered as exemplar templates for by understanding different instructional 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the explicit incorporation of social and ethical design models, content management systems principles into product development. and the Google Apps for Education suite. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Students will enhance his/her web presence EST and digital profile by harnessing the power of Technology and Society EST 508: Projects in Global Operations social media and personal learning networks. Management Students will also explore potential technology EST 500: Foundations of Educational This is a capstone course. Students will grant opportunities for his/her curriculum, Technology for Administrators demonstrate what they have learned during department or instructional area. Semesters This course is designed to teach administrators their masters studies. This course will review offered, basic principles surrounding educational several significant research areas in modern Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B technology throughout the school and/or Global Processing Management Operations. +, etc.) district. Students will explore and discuss Topics include Performance Management, critical issues surrounding technology Lean Management, Six Sigma Management EST 516: Science for Society I in education. Students will understand in conjunction with Cloud Computing and This is part one of an interdisciplinary course administrative technology applications, web Cloud computing applications. The students sequence (1 credit each) is designed for 2.0 presentation tools, Internet protocol, cyber will be given a selected case study and students in computer science (CS) and students safety and cyber bullying, Google Apps, social asked to demonstrate their knowledge by of technology and society (DTS). Students networking, collaboration tools, portable proposing a comprehensive technical and taking this course will enhance their abilities devices and apptivities. The semester project management solution. Students will use to critically think and build awareness for for this course is the development of a needs software engineering tools such as Data science and technology (ST) and their societal assessment and research of an educational Flow Diagram (DFD) and Unified Modeling aspects. They will learn strategies for assessing technology for your school/district. Language (UML) to analyze and design an important questions such as: what should I 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) implementation plan using cloud computing focus my efforts on, where are societal needs, infrastructure, platform and services. what policies are required or can be taken EST 501: Educational Technology 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) advantage of, how can I possibly influence Integration for Administrators policy, and finally, what are the dangers This course is designed to teach administrators EST 510: Fundamentals of Technology when developing new ST. To teach these how to integrate educational technology in Higher Education topics the course takes a practical approach. within their school/district. Students will Higher education is impacted by technology The first section of the sequence examines understand ISTE Technology Standards for on an ever changing scale. Students are historical science and technology successes Administrators, the National Technology Plan bringing in new technology every day. This and failures. Then, in the second section, teams and the Common Core Standards in relation course will show higher education instructors composed of students from both the CS and to educational technology. Students will what technology is available, how higher DTS departments conduct case studies of

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In their research they for this course is to conduct the developed students in computer science (CS) and students will find out what technology is available workshop to a group of Math and Science of technology and society (DTS). Students within the educational system, how that educators. After the delivery of the workshop, taking this course will enhance their abilities technology is used, explore the effectiveness students will work with the instructor and to critically think and build awareness for of the technology and research the social classmates to evaluate the delivery and content science and technology (ST) and their societal impact of that technology use. Students will of the lesson as well as assess the outcome and aspects. They will learn strategies for assessing connect with a global participant via distance results of educator learning. important questions such as: what should I communication or video conferencing to Fall, Spring, and Summer, 3 credits, Letter focus my efforts on, where are societal needs, gain real world knowledge of the educational graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) what policies are required or can be taken system and the use of technology for the advantage of, how can I possibly influence specified region. The culminating project is a EST 524: The Role of Educational policy, and finally, what are the dangers research based project that assesses the use of Technology Specialist when developing new ST. To teach these technology within the selected global region, In this course students will learn the role and topics the course takes a practical approach. offers solutions on how to improve the use responsibilities of an Educational Technology The first section of the sequence examines of technology and compares that system and Specialist. Students will connect with an historical science and technology successes the use of technology with our own use of administrator and work with the course and failures. Then, in the second section, teams technology locally in our current educational instructor to develop a year-long technology composed of students from both the CS and system. integration plan. The development of the plan DTS departments conduct case studies of Fall, Spring, and Summer, 3 credits, Letter will include: a data driven needs assessment existing ST or design and implement new ST graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) based on current goals and technology under the perspectives of the course. 1 credit available, use of that data to address specific EST 522: Integrating Educational 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) technology/curriculum needs, the integration Technology into Social Studies and plan proposal, creation of a professional EST 519: Systems Engineering Language Arts development plan using workshops, push-ins Management Students will learn how to integrate technology or one-on-one sessions to deliver instruction This course serves as an introduction to two into Social Studies and Language Arts and a peer evaluation of the effectiveness systems engineering methodologies that curriculum using the ISTE/NETs standards of the proposed technology integration create effective and efficient paths to technical and National Technology Plan to aid in the plan. In addition, students will learn how to product development, and will discuss delivery of instruction. Students will develop infuse the ISTE Standards and the National their respective advantages and limitations. a push-in training model focused on the Social Technology Plan into the curriculum, research One method is the classic top-down flow Studies and Language Arts Core Curriculum new technologies and educational resources, typically used in complex, large system and subject related needs. Students will and understand the social, political, ethical product development as is found in defense meet with a Social Studies and Language and legal issues surrounding educational industry firms. Traditional systems engineering Arts educator, assess their needs, design technology. management spans the complete product life an educational technology push-in around Fall, Spring, and Summer, 3 credits, Letter cycle, from identifying user needs through those needs and push-in the training with graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) product delivery and support. It includes the educator to their class. The culminating event-driven technical reviews and audits that activity for this course is to conduct the push- EST 525: Google for Education: assess program maturity and determine the in training with a Social Studies and Language Foundations status of the technical risks associated with Arts educator and their class. After the push-in Google for Education (GfE) is a powerful suite cost, scheduling, and performance goals. The training students will work with the instructor that now seamlessly integrates into curricula other method is the Agile system development to evaluate the delivery and content of the and district technology goals. In this course, process, preferred by entrepreneurs and in lesson as well as assess the outcome and students will learn the tools necessary to Silicon Valley. Agile development emphasizes results of educator learning. become a Google Certified Trainer. Students a design process that uses continuous input Fall, Spring, and Summer, 3 credits, Letter will create and learn how to use Google for by customers/end users to define and refine graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Education tools in their classroom. They will their user needs which otherwise might not be also develop a comprehensive knowledge captured by up-front design specifications. EST 523: Integrating Educational of a number of different products within Technology into Mathematics and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Google Apps including - Drive, Calendar, Science Gmail, Sites, Classroom and more. Students EST 521: The Social and Global Impact Students will learn how to integrate technology will focus on skills necessary to become a of Technology in Education into Math and Science curriculum using ISTE/ Google Certified Trainer through hands-on This course will explore educational systems NETs standards and the National Technology coursework, review and preparation for the and practices globally and how the use or lack Plan to aid in the delivery of instruction. Google for Education Exams. The culminating of use of technology within education impacts Students will develop an educational activities for this course are a showcase society. Inversely students will research technology workshop focused on the Math and of best practices highlighting Google for

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Education tools, the preliminary work for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) quantitative approach that helps to explain your portfolio, and the completion of the organizational behavior changes when much certification requirements. This class cannot be EST 529: Supporting Common of our communications are electronically used to satisfy master's degree requirements. Core Standards Using Educational mediated. Understanding these changes and Technology 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) how they impact organizational outcomes In this course students will learn how to is critical to leaders and managers around EST 526: Google for Education: support Common Core Standards through the world. During this course, students will Curriculum Integration the infusion of educational technology by be exposed to both theoretical models and In this course, students will learn how to fully identifying, sharing, and exploring technology real-life case studies to more fully develop integrate the Google for Education products tools that support all curricula. Students knowledge and skills for working in the beyond the core apps, including Google will unpack the Common Core Standards digital age. Students will gain an in-depth Groups,Earth, Scholar, Blogger, and Google and analyze and discuss best practices understanding of Virtual Distance and how this +. Students will complete the Google modules that effectively integrate technology to growing phenomenon impacts critical success as well as they develop their portfolio. They promote rigorous teaching and learning. factors such as productivity, innovation, will begin to deliver training by conducting a The culminating assignment for this course and employee engagement and satisfaction. live webinar session which highlights Google is the design, delivery, reflection, revision Students will also get hands-on experience tools or apps and sharing best practices. The and presentation of your technology infused with Virtual Distance Index data. Drawing culminating activities for this course are the Common Core lessons from over 700 project teams from around the development of a portfolio highlighting the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) world, students will learn how to interpret lessons or trainings they conducted throughout Virtual Distance data this program. This class cannot be used to EST 530: Internet Electronic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) satisfy master¿s degree requirements. Commerce EST 534: The Lean Launch Pad: 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Topics addressed in this course include: technology infrastructure, business models Turning a great idea into a great EST 527: Google for Education: and concepts, technological skills needed to company Professional Development build an E-Commerce web site, marketing, This course provides real world, hands-on Students will explore educational best communications, security and encryption, learning of what it's like to actually start a practices and examples of materials needed payment systems in E-Commerce/M- high-tech company. This class is not about to submit the application to become a Google commerce. Financial transactions, advertising how to write a business plan, and the end result Certified Trainer. Students will thoroughly models, content ownership and the prospects is not a PowerPoint presentation to venture review Google for Education best practices, for E-Commerce are also covered. capitalists. Instead, students will get their organize additional training materials and Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, hands dirty talking to customers, partners create their portfolio. Through the delivery of etc.) and competitors as they encounter the chaos training sessions or lessons, students will focus and uncertianty of how a startup actually on the power of Google for Education tools EST 531: Virtual Distance Management works. Students work in teams learning how and their use in PK-12 education. Students Course to turn a great idea into a great company. will also create, run their own workshop. In today's global corporations, the challenges They will learn how to use a business model The culminating activity of this course is the associated with leadership and management to brainstorm each part of a company and completion of the portfolio with a screencast has grown increasingly difficult and customer development to get out of the and the submission of the application to complex. More and more, companies are classroom to see whether anyone other than Google. This class cannot be used to satisfy using networked organizational models to themselves would want/use their product. master¿s degree requirements. deliver work and interact with customers. Finally, they will see how agile development can help them rapidly iterate their product to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) As globalization and diffused networks of people and companies combine, issues build something customers will use and buy. EST 528: Teaching with Interactive related to virtual/distributed employees, Offered in Fall and Spring. Whiteboards and Immersive partners and customers have moved front 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Technologies and center. Implications for leadership has EST 535: Electric Power Systems Interactive whiteboards and other immersive grown beyond current skill sets drawn from technologies have changed the way educators traditional academic fields and training This course introduces concepts in the design deliver instruction. They are a technology programs. The Virtual Distance Management and operation of electric power systems that has enormous potential to impact student course offers business students a powerful including generation with focus on renewable learning in a hands-on, kinesthetic way. model and a set of proven practices to address power, transmission and distribution, and Throughout this course students will explore these challenges in a unique way. Students end use; key issues and challenges facing best practices using immersive technologies will learn to: Understand and diagnose electric power industry. Topics include within education. Students will learn how to barriers to effective communication Develop electric and magnetic circuits, fundamental effectively integrate interactive whiteboards, ways to work with others using virtual of electric power, circuit and load analysis, interactive projectors and cameras, learner technologies and social media Contribute reliability, planning, dispatch, integration responses systems, document cameras as well to high performance, cross-discipline and of renewable power, organizational design, as other technologies. The culminating project cross-cultural teams Management strategies regulations, environment, end-use efficiency, for this course a comprehensive lesson plan for the globally distributed workforce new technologies, and other cross-cutting utilizing immersive technology hardware and Virtual Distance, pioneered by Karen issues the associated software within the curriculum. Sobel Lojeski, is a conceptual as well as 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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EST 536: Resilience in Urban an emphasis on New York metropolitan area Offered Environments technologies. Topics covered will include Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Resilience lacks a universally agreed-upon water supply and distribution, wells, water etc.) definition, in part due to its multi-dimensional quality testing and regulation, onsite, package EST 551: The Atom and Environmental nature that crosses disciplines, and this and standard wastewater treatment, and Radiation in the Nuclear Age inconsistency in terminology and framing is stormwater collection. Policy issues considered reflected in current research. For this course, will include source water protection and This course will address technical and societal we adopt a newer, more dynamic framing wastewater impact mitigation programs. aspects relating to nuclear power and the of resilience that incorporates change and Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, general issue of environmental radioactivity. adaptation: Cities and buildings are operated B+, etc.) It will cover basics of the nuclear industry and by social actors; they may be stationary the nature of radioactivity. This includes the engineering structures, but they are not EST 546: Integrating Technology, production, storage, and disposal of diverse static, and during a disruption they evolve Policy and Financing Instruments to radionuclides emanating from the nuclear and change based on the decisions made by Catalyze Climate Finance fuel cycle and nuclear weapons testing. The people. Thus, this class focuses on conceptual The sums involved in a shift to a low-carbon properties of major radionuclides will be and theoretical frameworks for resilience society are daunting but not impossible to explored. The course will also consider the but applies them to important social science achieve. The world is planning to invest complex issue of biological risks posed by questions in the urban built environment, over $15 trillion in fixed-asset investments radionuclides at different doses to living such as vulnerability, decision making, risk in the next 10 years. Rather a problem of organisms, including man. Economic and perception, organizational behavior, and policy capital generation, the key challenge of political constraints on nuclear power formation. financing the transition towards a low carbon generation will be discussed for the US and other countries, as will the actual and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) society is to redirect existing and planned capital flows from traditional high-carbon perceived risks associated with environmental EST 540: Environmental Management to low-carbon investments. This course is radioactivity. This is an introduction to environmental designed to allow students to: (1) Review 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) management, and will focus on the interplay a number of public policies, public finance EST 553: Nuclear Security between science and public policy. Concepts mechanisms and market-based instruments include problem identification and definition, designed to shift investments from fossil fuels The course will familiarize students with the collection and analysis of relevant data to more climate friendly alternatives over the fundamentals of nuclear physics, radiation, to produce information, and the roles of past few years; (2) Gain knowledge of the mining, weapons and fuel cycle, other than public perception and action in ultimately global commercial, political, innovation and producing electricity, as it pertains to nuclear determining outcomes when consensus is technological challenges and opportunities power plants. Topics include nuclear detection, not reached. Specific fields to which these in the transition to a low-carbon society; devices to safeguard nuclear materials from concepts will be applied will be solid waste (3) Develop and practice professional skills terrorist threats, needed physical protection for management and coastal management. Current in raising and spending public finance to safe handling and its relevance to Homeland local problems will be used to illustrate the catalyze capital towards low carbon and Security. The course combines lectures broader conceptual issues. Offered as MAR climate resilient development; and (4) with hands-on experience at the newly 514, EST 540 and CEY 501. 3 Credits, ABCF Develop and practice professional skills installed nuclear detection facility located Grading in accessing carbon finance and designing at the nearby United States Department of innovative financing instruments. This course Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) is aimed at engineering students who are Prerequisite: Undergraduate equivalent physics EST 541: Long Island's Groundwater interested in the energy challenges in a carbon- and chemistry. constrained world and their implications to This course will cover basic groundwater Fall, Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B technology innovation; at business-and public- concepts in unconsolidated sediments, and +, etc.) administration students and at mid-career examine contamination issues in light of Long professionals who want to develop innovative EST 554: Chemical & Biological Island's particular hydrogeology, land use, financing solutions to real-world energy and Weapons: Safeguards and Security and waste management history. Mathematical environmental problems. Offered: Summer principles will be discussed but not stressed; This course deals with the fundamentals of scientific and technical papers discussing Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B chemistry and biochemistry related to chemical particular concepts or problems, including +, etc.) weapons (CW) and biological weapons (BW) important local examples, will be closely read. that could be used by terrorists. Topics include EST 547: Advanced Problems in CW and BW history, production, control, Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Offered Integrated Planning: Theory, Practice, detection, identification, and emergency as MAR 521 or HPH 673. and Analytical Tools response measures to deal with intended or Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, This course explores in depth new theories and unintended release and escape, and security B+, etc.) practical applications of integrated planning measures to protect and control stockpiles. EST 542: Water and Wastewater through the lens and land use, transportation Prerequisite: Undergraduate equivalent Engineering Practices and urban infrastructure systems. A series chemistry, biochemistry, and microbiology. of problem sets is undertaken in close This course will provide basic engineering Fall, Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B coordination with the instructor to produce a concepts and practices associated with water +, etc.) portfolio of networked research which, with supply and wastewater management, with further research, can be publishable quality.

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EST 555: Preventing Weapons no foundation in nuclear physics or nuclear uncertainty analysis, exposure measurements, Proliferation engineering, but who seek to understand these epidemiology, toxicology, regulatory issues, The student will learn: what some of the technologies in terms well beyond those of risk management, risk communication, key international tools to stem weapons the layman, but short of the nuclear engineer. risk perception, and risk preparedness. The proliferation are, how they have developed Individuals interested in taking this course course will also cover laws and regulation, over the last 50 years, and how they work; should have completed a course in algebra. discouraging terrorism, and disaster the kinds of technologies used to develop Students should be familiar and comfortable preparedness, various acts passed by the U.S. nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons & working with exponents and logarithms. Congress to regulate water, air, and controlled missile delivery systems; and the complexities Higher levels of math such as calculus will not substances. Offered as EST 560 or HPH 656. & methods of controlling these technologies. be utilized in this course. Prerequisite: Undergraduate or equivalent The student will also learn about the use of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) physics, math and chemistry. UN Security Council sanctions, and about Fall and Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, multilateral [e.g., EU, ECOWAS) and national EST 558: Digital technologies in A-, B+, etc.) sanctions; and about how interdicting illicit disaster risk reduction transfers does or does not work. The course The course explores the use of a variety of EST 561: Sensing Technologies for will emphasize how technology, international sensing technologies for public safety and Disater Risk Reduction law, and international and domestic politics all disaster management and risk reduction. This graduate seminar will survey the play important roles in the evolution, current These include national and commercially main topics in the emerging field of digital practice, and effectiveness of the international available satellites, manned and unmanned technology management for disaster risk nonproliferation regime. aerial "drone" systems (sUAS), closed reduction. Throughout it will introduce 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) circuit cameras, small-footprint remote- relevant theoretical concepts and relate them sensor monitor"tng in wireless networks, to policies and practices. Topics will include EST 556: Nuclear Nonproliferation & and a wide number of IP-based (loT) the evolution of next-generation public International Safeguards systems. Technically, the course starts safety networks, related digital technologies The student will learn the history of the with the fundamental character"1stics of such as robotics, augmented and virtual nuclear nonproliferation regime since 1946, electromagnetic radiation and how these reality, big data, mobility, innovation and with emphasis on the evolution of concepts energies interact with Earth materials such entrepreneurship as well as conceptual & practice. The student will also learn the as vegetation, water, soil and rock, as well as approaches to distorters and the relationship variety and complexity of motivations for humans. It describes how the energy reflected of disaster to broader environment and governments to seek nuclear weapons, and in or emitted from these materials is recorded sustainable development issues. Departmental many cases, to foreswear nuclear weapons. using a variety of sensing instruments (e.g., faculty and guest lecturers from partner The course will emphasize how nuclear cameras, multispectral scanners, hyperspectral organization (UN office for Disaster Risk energy technologies, verification technologies, instruments, RADAR). The course also teaches Reduction, Korean Red Cross, International international legal practice, and politics all how to interpret fundamental biophysical or Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent play important roles in the evolution, current land use information from the sensor data. The Societies, SafeNet Forum) will participate. practice, and effectiveness of the international history of sensing technologies, the principles 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) nuclear nonproliferation regime. of visual photo-interpretation, and issues of surveillance are also presented. EST 562: Decision Support Systems 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A decision support system (DSS) is a computer EST 557: Nuclear Energy-the nuclear system that combines, data, analytical tools, fuel cycle & technologies EST 559: Mobile Revolution in Disaster and models to support decision making. A Risk Reduction Nuclear energy has many applications beyond DSS may be model-driven or data-driven. A the well known (and controversial) civil This course will explore three themes: [1] model-driven DSS is a stand- alone system that nuclear power plant. These applications current and future trends of development uses some type of model to perform ¿what- include medical and industrial isotope and digital information technology toward if¿ and other kinds of analysis. A data- driven production, research reactors, particle mobility, [2] combined with many other DSS is a system that supports decision making accelerators, propulsion reactors, and nuclear technologies increasingly repurposed and by allowing users to extract and analyze useful weapons. Supporting these applications is adapted toward mobility and sustainability information that was previously buried in large a complex infrastructure involving several (wearable, lOT), [3] along with skills required databases. In this course, both model-driven diverse scientific, engineering, and industrial for employing such arrangements effectively and data-driven decision support services processes. One of the key processes is the toward the part they play in risk assessment will be considered. Students will identify nuclear fuel cycle, involved principally in and in advancing risk reduction whether in an appropriate engineering or management civil nuclear power and related civil nuclear natural hazards and/or human disasters and application. By collecting relevant data, activities, from uranium mining to spent inequitable development. building suitable mathematical models, fuel reprocessing. However, the same set 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) designing an accessible user interface, and of technologies can be used to manufacture connecting these components via computer nuclear weapons ¿ thus these technologies EST 560: Risk Assessment, code, students will develop a deliverable DSS. become a double-edged sword. This course Regulation, and Homeland Security Through a series of presentations, they will provides a comprehensive first look at this The course focus is on risk assessment demonstrate how their DSS addresses the complex of technologies for those interested in associated with nuclear, chemical and stated engineering or management problem. nuclear weapons proliferation, nuclear energy, biological weapons as it relates to Homeland In doing so, students will gain insight into the or nuclear safety. It is directed at those with Security. Topics include air dispersion,

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 91 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 interrelationships among information systems, collaborative learning environments and In this course students will learn principles of statistics and management science. social networking. Students will learn how instructional design and how to fully integrate Prerequisite: EMP 504 or permission of to evaluate and effectively integrate a variety technology into daily curriculum. Throughout instructor of educational resources, such as web 2.0 the course students will plan, develop and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, tools and modern communication devices for evaluate a lesson plan that demonstrates an etc.) active learning. Students will also develop a expertise in the integration of educational clear understanding of the issues surrounding technology. Students will apply the skills, EST 563: Computer Literacy for cybersafety, cyberbullying, and the ethical techniques, resources and research necessary Educators issues raised by the use of technology in to effectively create an educational technology This course is an introduction to computer and education. The culminating activity for this inspired lesson plan. The lesson plan may software basics and was formally listed as EST course is the development and publishing of include the use of emerging technologies, 583. Students will develop an understanding a collaborative website that showcases the distance learning, multimedia projects, of the underlying concepts and principles material and skills mastered throughout this collaborative environments, computer behind computers. Students will gain sufficient course. applications and Internet resources. The knowledge to successfully navigate the digital Fall, Spring, Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded culminating project for this course is the world. Emphasis will focus on computer (A, A-, B+, etc.) completion of a lesson plan in a specific literacy areas used in education and other content area that incorporates multiple professional environments. Students will leave EST 568: Networked Communication modalities of technology into pedagogical this course with the ability to grasp the risks Technologies practices. and benefits surrounding new and current EST 568 Network Communication Wired and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) computer technologies. The following skills Wireless EST 571: Educational Technology will be addressed; electronic communication, This course examines the range of Research Methodologies application-based projects, information technologies used in teaching, learning, and management, assessment, and the societal communication. Instructional technologies This course evaluates the impact and value of impacts of computer based technologies. both stand-alone and networked are surveyed educational technology uses through detailed Students having completed EST 565 in a prior with a focus on how they can be used research based on a number of current topics. semester can not receive credit for EST 563. effectively to enhance learning. Students will Course goals include understanding research EST 563 and EST 565 may be taken in the learn fundamental hardware and software methodology and literature and exploring same semester. principles underlying the development of the assessment design and implementation. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Internet and other networked communications The course includes class discussions and tools. Emphasis will be placed on assessment project work based on student learning with EST 565: Foundations of Technology of these technologies in terms of societal technology, access and the digital divide, in Education impacts and learning outcomes. This course the National Education Technology Plan, Throughout this course students will explore combines topics from EST 565 and EST 567. Internet literacy, emerging technologies, the basic pedagogical issues and social impact Fall, Spring, Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded virtual schools, and data driven research. of using technology in education. This course (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, Spring, and Summer, 3 credits, Letter examines the basic principles of integrating graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) technology and computer applications into EST 569: Technology in the City the curriculum. Students will learn how to use Will technology transform our cities, making EST 573: Interactive Multimedia and integrate word processing, spreadsheet, them more livable, efficient, and desirable? Curriculum Design and Development and presentation applications for educator Will technology erode our cities, making them This course allows students to learn how planning and student project work. Students more dangerous, chaotic, and insufferable? to use a variety of multimedia tools for the will also learn how to use a number of online This course is at the intersection of two trends. classroom. Principles of user interface and based Web 2.0 applications within school First, the world is undergoing a wave of urban interaction design will be covered. Throughout curriculum. The culminating activity for this growth. Second, the pace of technological the course students design an interactive unit course is the design and a presentation of a change is quickening and, with it, the pace of plan using multimedia authoring software. micro-lesson using one these applications as social change and even social transformation. Students will work with audio/video editing they would in the classroom. Course modules will cover technology and software, collaborative learning software, and Fall, Spring, Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded society in urban contexts with particular learn how to embed online games, activities (A, A-, B+, etc.) attention to: 1) energy, 2) environments, 3) and video within their unit plan. Development transportation, and 4) health and human safety of the interactive multimedia unit requires EST 567: The Internet, Social (including security). This class will involve students to: submit a proposal, use graphic Networking and Collaborative trips to sites in New York City, and will organizers to plan and design, create a draft Environments involve the use of IT technologies in creative version, create assessment tools, test market In this course students will learn the basic ways to advance our learning. with a specific target audience, then evaluate principles of using the Internet for instruction, Offered Fall, Spring and the unit before the final version is completed. the science and engineering concepts Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, The culminating activity is the presentation behind modern communication systems etc.) and delivery of the finished interactive and their impact on education as well as multimedia unit. the evolution of the Internet in education. EST 570: Educational Technology Fall, Spring, and Summer, 3 credits, Letter Students will design and create a website Lesson Development graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and explore the use and social impact of

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EST 574: Distance Learning and Virtual technology. This course will address the simulation, expert opinion, scenario analysis, Environments technical and conceptual bases of data capture, cost-benefit analysis, AHP method, etc.). Web-based distance learning applications data storage, data analysis and decision Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, are quickly growing within higher education support, and metadata management. etc.) institutions, K-12 schools, and corporate This course will address the technical and environments. The focus of this course conceptual bases of data capture, data EST 581: Heuristics and Quantitative is on the underlying theories, design, and storage, data analysis and decision support, Decision-Making implementation of effective modes of e- and metadata management. Environmental Complex problems (choices) need to be learning. Students will explore virtual schools, Information Systems are concerned with the resolved in the course of socio-technical virtual learning, virtual environments and management of data about the rock of soil, the processes. Quantitative decision-making other forms of distance education. The water, the air, and the species around us. techniques have been evolved to address social differences between face-to-face and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, these situations. We will investigate a virtual learning will also be examined and etc.) number of these techniques in detail, in order discussed throughout the course. Students May be repeated for credit. to understand the advantages that can be will explore virtual learning resources and gained by using them. We will also discuss design their own virtual learning lesson. The EST 578: Human-Computer Interaction common criticisms and issues associated with culminating project for this course will be the Design for Construction these methods, and consider the heuristic demonstration and write up of the experience. Principles of human-computer interaction methods that are often used instead to resolve Fall, Spring, and Summer, 3 credits, Letter applied to the design of educational complicated problems. graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) courseware. Usability engineering, with a 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) focus on the audience and learning objectives. EST 575: Developing Grants and Interface design principles. Human computer EST 582: Introduction to Systems Managing Projects dialogs. Multimedia as a communication tool, Concepts This course will develop the skills necessary using images, audio and video. Multimodal Understanding phenomena as "systems" to take a program proposal from idea through input devices and strategies. Students will requires some changes in overall analytical reality with an emphasis on new technological use a multimedia authoring tool to create a approaches, and a new vocabulary. General resources available to help with this process. prototype of an educational application or systems theory concepts such as feedback, Topics include: techniques for successful learning tool. stability, tipping point, resilience, recursion, fundraising, grant writing, program design, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) hierarchy, and complexity will be discussed, staffing, publicity and outreach, and reporting with regard to complex systems drawn from and evaluation. It is designed for current EST 579: Educational Games nature, business, technology, and education. educators and administrators as well as Simulations and computer games as a learning The course will address the use of feedback, students about to enter the education, social tool. Traditional game and simulation genres, information and communication, structure, service and health fields. and their appropriate uses in education. and cybernetics in the management of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Gameplay design. Game development process, complex systems. The role and importance from storyboarding to delivery. Assessing of "agents" in current systems thinking will EST 576: Geographic Information games as learning tools. Students will use a be emphasized. Students will prepare a study Systems in Education and Research multimedia tool to prototype an educational of a complex system and its management Students use Geographic Information Systems game or simulation of their own design. incorporating these general concepts. (GIS) software to create, manipulate and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) interpret layers of interactive maps and databases. Students collect and modify EST 580: Advanced Technology EST 583: National Energy Decision geographical materials from the Internet, assessment: Business, Government Making satellite and aerial imagery, and field data. and Strategy Today's decision about fuel exports, power They design and test scientific inquiry-driven This course has a two-fold objective: (1) plant siting, and R&D support for emergent educational modules and/or visualizations to help students develop strong conceptual technologies often hinge on underlying for research and analysis on global and local foundations for understanding and addressing priorities tied to self-sufficiency and markets, geography, for use in economics, earth science, issues at the intersection of science, among possibilities. Such dimensions are politics and civic action, history and sociology, technology, public policy, and business examined in this graduate course through the global studies, and environmental planning and strategy; and (2) to provide students with lens of diverse players in the national energy assessment. Prerequisite: EST 565 or EST 595 knowledge of analytical frameworks and tools system. Competing interests in infrastructure, or permission of instructor.) that are essential to technology assessment cost, equity, and societal buy-in will be Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, in business, government, and government, evaluated with technology systems and policy etc.) and other organizations with understanding frameworks. Takeaways will provide a basis of their strengths, limitations, and underlying for work in the private or public sector. EST 577: Environmental Information assumptions. Topics covered include utility/ Graduate Students in engineering and science, Systems (EIS) profit maximization theory, its limitations and social sciences and humanities, as well as Due to the complex nature of environmental alternative theories, business and government management are encouraged to join. Semesters and spatial data, these systems require state- interactions, technology innovation and Offered: Fall of-the-art computer technology to achieve management, technology forecasting, impact 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) environmental science and information assessment, technology valuation, and basic tools for technology assessment (monitoring,

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EST 585: Assessment of Technology in problems. This course aims to introduce the EST 597: Waste Management: Systems Learning Environments major energy issues to students in engineering, and Principles This course is designed to provide educators business, and public policy areas. It discusses Students will learn about the technologies with an overview of the uses of technology the energy choices to meet regional and and policy options in waste management, to improve instruction. Students will global energy needs. Major renewable and emphasizing recycling, incineration, understand the design and function of learning conventional energy sources, energy supply landfilling, and source reduction options environments, individual applications related technologies, and end-use efficiency options for municipal solid waste on Long Island. to the student's area of professional practice, will be assessed in the context of political, Problems concerning paper, glass, plastic, and assessment of educational uses of social, economic, and environmental goals. organic materials, and other waste stream technology today and tomorrow. Students will 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) components will be explored. Environmental chose a current technology used in a specific impacts and economics of landfills, materials learning environment and analyze and evaluate EST 593: Risk Assessment and Hazard recovery facilities, and waste-to-energy its effectiveness within instruction including Management systems are examined. The institutional practical classroom use and staff development A case-study approach to the assessment and regulatory climate, current and planned for the particular technology. Students will of risk and the management of natural and practices in the region, and hazardous waste then research and make recommendations technological hazards, with emphasis on those will be discussed. Cross-listed as CEY 597 or on how the particular technology could be that can harm the environment. The course HPH 663 or EST 597. integrated most effectively to increase teacher focuses on technological hazards involving 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) understanding and enhance student learning. energy, transportation, agriculture, natural Students then present their findings about the resources, chemical technology, nuclear EST 598: Teaching Practicum current use of the chosen technology, possible technology, and biotechnology, and on natural Designed to give graduate students teaching improvements on its use as well as future hazards such as climactic changes, droughts, experience. technology recommendations. floods, and earthquakes. The first part of the 3 credits, S/U grading Fall, Spring, and Summer, 3 credits, Letter course consists of readings on risk assessment graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and hazard management and discussions of EST 599: Special Projects and Topics published case studies. During the second part A technology assessment laboratory for EST 590: Seminar for MS, TSM of the course, students conduct Offered as EST emerging problems and focused research. May Students 593 or HPH 686. be run as a hands-on, group research study This seminar is a forum for the discussion 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of an important educational, environmental of research methods, project ideas, proposal or waste problem (perhaps to provide EST 594: Diagnosis of Environmental preparation and the written and presentation of an assessment to a regulatory agency or Disputes research proposals and results. It is designed administrative system). to meet the needs of early career researchers at Diagnosis of disagreements about 1-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) both the Masters and Ph.D. level. For Masters environmental and waste problems. Tools for May be repeated for credit. students, final product of this seminar is an evaluating disputes about (a) scientific theories approved master¿s project proposal. Ph.D. and environmental models, (b) definitions EST 600: Technology, Policy, and students will present progress on their own and analytical methodologies for estimating Innovation: Theory and Practice research. All students will participate in peer risk, "real" cost, net energy use, and life- This course provides students with frameworks review of each others¿ work and learn the cycle environmental impact, (c) regulatory and models for analysis of issues at the basics of the responsible conduct of research. and legal policy, (d) siting of controversial intersection of science, technology and public environmental facilities, and (e) fairness and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) policy, and business strategy; and helps other ethical issues. These diagnostic tools are students develop skills to work on policy EST 591: Independent Study in brought to bear upon case studies of pollution issues that require deep understanding of Technology and Society prevention, recycling, nuclear waste disposal, the technical details. Topics include utility/ and climate change. The primary objective of independent study profit maximization theory, its limitations and is to provide a student with opportunities to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) alternative theories, business and government interact with faculty members who can be interactions, technology innovation and EST 595: Principles of Environmental of assistance in his or her master's project. managements, policy process (agenda setting, Systems Analysis Students should consult individually with problem definition, framing the terms of faculty members on workload and credit(s). This course is intended for students interested debate, formulation and analysis of options, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in learning systems engineering principles evaluation of policy outcomes). Cases drawn May be repeated for credit. relevant to solving environmental and waste from energy and environmental policy, management problems. Concepts include educational technology, STEM education will EST 592: Sustainable Energy: compartmental models, state variables, be used to illustrate stakeholders and their Technologies, Systems, Markets, and optimization, and numerical and analytical value structures, high levels of uncertainty, Policies solutions to differential equations. multiple levels of complexity, and their The ample supply and appropriate use of Prerequisites: MAT 132 and one year influence on policy intervention. This course energy is critical to the well being of human of quantitative science such as physics, emphasizes quantitative policy analysis society. Energy plays an enormous role in chemistry, or geology; or permission of methods, and critical thinking. environmental degradation, national insecurity, instructor. Offered as EST 595 or HPH 688. Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) international conflict, and in solutions to these Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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EST 601: Grand Challenges in Energy knowledge base and data sources to understand 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and Environmental Policy the energy-environmental and climate EST 606: The Economics of The survey course will be taught by the faculty problems. The class will then introduce the Technology, Policy, and Innovation of Technology and Society and provide modeling tools and skills to analyze energy an introduction to the major energy and systems or individual energy projects so This course is the second in a two part environmental issues of our time. The course to understand energy systems and enable economics sequence that applies the tools will take an interdisciplinary perspective evidence based decision making. This class from Part 1 to evaluate sectors of the economy drawing from policy, engineering, social encourage students to design research projects, related to technology, public goods, and and physical sciences, the course will cover using the modeling tools, and presenting innovation. Readings cover the literature challenges and opportunities related to results. The objective of this course: Develop related to the cross between public economics society's demand for energy and resources, comprehensive understanding of energy and technology / innovation. Policies related to and resulting environmental impacts. It is a systems, i.e. the interaction of technological, technology and innovation enhancements will required course for all elective for all PhD social, economic, and regulatory forces that be assessed using the criteria of effectiveness, candidates and advanced Masters students shaping energy production, conversion, and efficiency, equity, economic growth, and outside of the energy and environmental consumption; Gain an understanding of economic stability. How technology and program who may take the course with the main data sources and key methods used to innovation impact the economy and industry, permission of the senior faculty member analyze energy systems and their strengths and how well advances are being implemented, responsible for the course. The course will weaknesses; Get introduced to major analytical will all be examined from the economist¿s be conducted in a mixture of lecture and concepts and modeling tools used in energy perspective. Pre-Requisite: EST 605, seminar styles. An extensive reading list systems and policy analysis; Develop basic Economics and Public Policy with a grade of C will be provided on each issue. Responsible analytical skills to translate energy systems + or better Fall semester, 3 credits, A, B, C, F. Instructor: Gerald Stokes Co-instructors: analysis into effective policy discussion and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Elizabeth Hewitt, Gang He debate. Prerequisite: Some programming knowledge recommended. Offered Spring EST 607: Energy and Environmental 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Economics and Markets EST 602: Energy, Technology and The landscape of global energy markets Society: Energy Nexus Research EST 604: Grand Challenges in English, over the past decades has largely driven by Frontiers Education, Management & Policy economics and regulations. This course will Energy is at the center of the nexus challenges- New technologies are created by and for draw the theories and tools of economics energy, water, food, land, environment and people. In this course, we examine how and regulations to study the evolution of development-that human being faces, critical that happens¿or fails to happen. We will the energy and environmental markets and linkages between those issues demand system examine policies at the organizational, the policy implications of such evolution. integrative thinking and of growing interest in community, sectoral, national, and cross- This course will examine the development research and policy communities. This course national levels and how they influence of effect of organized energy markets, the will provide a deep working knowledge, the lives and work of the many and varied industry structure and evolution of competition technically and socially, of the energy people who create, use, benefit from, and in the energy and environmental markets, technologies, policies, and transition. This suffer from new technologies. We will the political economy of regulation and course will survey the energy nexus concepts cover six grand challenges in engineering deregulation, market power and antitrust, and principles, introduce tools of analysis, education, management and policy (EEMP): climate change and environmental policy and and engage students in case studies of critical Educating wisely with technology (i.e., their impacts in energy and environmental energy nexus issues: energy and development, effectively and efficiently); Ensuring markets. This course will also discuss the energy and water, energy and food, energy and equity; Sparking and sustaining innovation; emerging markets for clean energy, energy land, energy and environment, and energy and Managing, organizing, and leading engineering efficiency, and transport and storage of energy. climate change. This course aims to explore enterprises; Harnessing the power of emerging This course aims to analyzing the rationale for the frontier of energy nexus research and technologies; and Coexisting with technology and effects of public policies in energy and empower students to contribute in the energy to maximize rewards and minimize risks (i.e., environmental markets. nexus debate and policy design. our individual and collective health, well- Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, being, and happiness). Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) EST 610: Data Analysis for EST 603: Energy Modeling and Energy EST 605: Economics and Public Policy Technology, Policy and Innovation Systems Analysis The course is the first in a two part economics This course covers many of the common "All models are wrong, but some are useful". sequence for students in Technology, Policy, empirical tools used for research in This class offers a systems analysis approach and Innovation. This first course is designed to Technology, Policy, and Innovation. Topics and introduces useful modeling tools to prepare policy analysts to learn the conditions include: descriptive statistics, clustering, capture and reveal the complexity of energy necessary for markets to function well, and discrimination analysis, estimation, hypothesis systems. The scope of this class includes main how the central government intervenes testing, and regression analysis. To learn these forms of energy, major energy production, when markets fail. Micro economic tools topics, students will use modern statistical conversion, and consumption activities, are developed and applied to markets for software programs to analyze data sets with and technology innovation and transition public goods. The impact of these markets socio-technological applications. After this embedded in the energy systems. We'll on the marco economy is also examined. Fall course, students will have the tools to conduct first discuss the theoretical and empirical semester, 3 credits, A,B,C,F robust data analyses and present the work

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 95 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 in written and visually appealing formats. of courses, including courses that integrate exploration and exploitation, the notion of This course assumes that students have basic appropriate technologies to enhance learning diffusion of innovation and finally innovation knowledge of statistics or data analysis. and teaching. Students will learn how to policy as well as policy innovation. We will 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) create learning environments that build on the explore a number of types of innovation strengths and address the varied needs of a including radical versus incremental, EST 620: Decision Making in Socio- diversity of learners. technological versus administrative, product Technological and Global Contexts Restricted to Ph.D. students registered in the versus process and more. Using relevant case Methodologies and applications to enhance Certificate Program on College Teaching. studies and selected readings from the most students' abilities to use qualitative and Fall and Spring, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, influential voices on innovation, including quantitative approaches to examine decision A-, B+, etc.) those in academia, corporate America as problems within socio-technological and well as policy-making organizations, we will global contexts. Psychological, social and EST 688: Internship in Research explore the many different sides of innovation, cultural influences on decision making in Participation in private corporations, why it is one of the most critical issues of organizations. Power and limitations of the public agencies, or non-profit institutions. our time and how seminar participants can theories, models and tools of decision analysis. Students will be required to have a faculty contribute to overall innovative efforts. Applications to decision problems in a variety coordinator as well as a contact in the outside Offered of areas, including energy and environmental organization to participate with them in regular Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) systems, educational technology and education consultations on the project, and to submit a in science and engineering, technology final report to both. At most one credit can be EST 692: Research Seminar management, and science and technology accepted toward the degree. This seminar is a forum for the discussion policy. 1-3 credits, S/U grading of research methods, project ideas, proposal 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. preparation and the written and presentation of research proposals and results. It is designed EST 625: Advanced Theory and EST 690: Seminar in Theory Building to meet the needs of early career researchers at Practice in Technology and Policy Science is about discovering facts as well both the Masters and Ph.D. level. For Masters Technology change entails more than the as explaining what the facts mean. Theories students, final product of this seminar is an commercialization of an invention. Likewise, provide explanations and interpretations approved master¿s project proposal. Ph.D. policy making encompasses much more than of empirical phenomena and building and students will present progress on their own cost-benefit analysis and regulation. This modifying theories are at the heart of core research. All students will participate in peer advanced, graduate level course examines scientific activities. Good theory is essential review of each others¿ work and learn the critical theory for both subjects by drawing to many new fields for several reasons. basics of the responsible conduct of research. on ideas from systems and science, policy and First, good theory provides guidance for 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) management, economics, and STS. Emphasis practical action and therefore should be May be repeated for credit. is placed on deconstructing theoretical at the foundation of curricula. Second, applications in the context of policy-based without good theory in any particular field, EST 694: Energy and Buildings: problem-solving and innovation objectives. researchers must borrow theories from other Technology, Policy, and Behavior Topics will include policy cycles, regulatory academic disciplines. While this can be Graduate Seminar (PhD students preferred; capture, innovation systems, dimensions of useful, sometimes these theories might not fit Masters students welcome w/permission of technology change, and lock-in, among others. our subject matter well. For example social instructor) Buildings consume vast amounts Students will develop skills to work in roles at theories based on behavioral assumptions of energy and resources, and are one of the interface of technology and management. stemming from non-digital communications do the largest contributors to greenhouse gas 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) not fully address substantive features of social emissions. Major advances in building design behavior in a digital age. Research courses and technology over the past decade have EST 650: Directed Study commonly emphasize empirical research given us tools to make buildings more energy Individual studies under the guidance of methods and formal modeling approaches efficient, but buildings lag far behind their a faculty member. Subject matter varies to theory development. There is much less potential. There are many avenues to green according to the needs of the student. May be guidance for those who want to build a theory the built environment sector, including repeated for credit. for managerial and behavioral studies-Yet technological innovations, occupant behavior every researcher must do so to develop a programs, retrofits of existing buildings, 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) good research proposal. This seminar aims and innovative building codes. Ultimately, May be repeated for credit. to fill that gap by focusing on theory types reducing energy consumption in the building EST 680: Teaching, Learning, and and evaluation criteria, theory development stock will require an interdisciplinary approach Technology processes, and theoretical writing. and some combination of a range of program and policy types. This course will introduce A professional development seminar that is Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) students to the many interdisciplinary issues designed to help Ph.D. students develop the surrounding energy use in buildings, with competencies needed to become effective EST 691: Seminar on Innovation, a particular focus on the intersection of teachers in colleges and universities. Students Invention, and Diffusion policy with technology, economics, social will learn relevant teaching and learning science, and behavior. The course will theories and their applications to teaching Innovation is viewed as central to progress for any individual, organization, nation or combine lectures, student-led practicum courses and laboratory sessions. Students will discussions, and guest speakers. Possible field learn methods for the design and assessment global effort. In this seminar we will discuss invention, the two main phases of innovation, trip(s) to green buildings will be explored,

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 96 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 depending on scheduling. Topics covered EST 700: Dissertation Research Off Approaches may vary from the philosophical will include: Regulatory schemes such Campus - Domestic to the artistic/literary, from the socioeconomic as tax incentives, mandates, and building Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy to the political. codes,Voluntary certification schemes such (G%). Major portion of research will take Fall & as LEED, EnergyStar, and their international place off-campus, but in the United States and/ Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, counter parts,Equity and environmental justice or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven etc.) issues surrounding access to/affordability of National Labs and Cold Spring Harbor Lab May be repeated for credit. green buildings,Economic issues: Rebound are considered on-campus. All international effects, principal-agent misalignments, students must enroll in one of the graduate EUR 502: Methods of Research and elasticity of demand,Architecture, design and student insurance plans and should be advised Theories of Interpretation engineering innovations,Occupant behavior by an International Advisor. An introduction to research techniques in challenges,Retrofits and energy efficiency 1-9 credits, S/U grading philology and manuscript retrieval, including for existing buildings,Distinctions in scales May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. an acquaintance with major libraries and of actors: Individual, household, building collections throughout Europe and the United management, organization,Distinctions in EST 701: Dissertation Research Off States. This includes basic digital humanities sectors Campus - International research techniques. Students will also be 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy introduced to the major currents of criticism (G5). Major portion of research will take in literature, history and philosophy, including EST 695: Topics in Technology, Policy, place outside of the United States and/or the basic concepts of structuralism, Marxism, and Innovation U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the reception aesthetics, historiography, and Topics selected on the basis of the needs of the option of the health plan and may also nroll hermeneutics. Students will be required first to graduate program and research interests of the in MEDEX. International students who are locate, identify, and describe certain texts, and staff. in their home country are not covered by then to analyze them according to of the given 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) mandatory health plan and must contact the theories of interpretation. 3credits. ABCF May be repeated for credit. Insurance Office for the insurance charge to grading. be removed. International students who are 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) EST 696: Advanced Topics in not in their home country are charged for the Technology, Policy and Innovation mandatory health insurance. If they are to be EUR 503: Perceptions and Inventions Advanced topics selected on the basis of the covered by another insurance plan they must of Europe needs of the graduate program and research file a waiver by the second week of classes. This seminar will focus on the problematic of interests of the staff. The charge will only be removed if other how Europe dealt with the rest of the world, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) plan is deemed comparable. All international taken mainly in a historical perspective, and May be repeated for credit. students must receive clearance from an stressing different aspects of the relation. The International Advisor. May be repeated for running thread is represented by the triple EST 697: Directed Study credit. Offered every semester, 1-9 credits, S/U topics of contact, conflict, and exchange, using Individual studies under the guidance of Grading various types of travelers, such as explorers, a faculty member.. Subject matter varies 1-9 credits, S/U grading geographers and merchants, as the starting according to the needs of the student. May be repeated for credit. points, but extending it scholars, artists, emigrants and exiles. Course will also look at 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) EST 800: Summer Research how non-Europeans first met, described, and May be repeated for credit. reacted to Europeans. Several media used. 3 May be repeated for credit. EST 698: Practicum in Teaching credits. ABCF grading. This course enables graduate students to gain 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) experience in teaching and interacting with EUR May be repeated for credit. students enrolled in Technology, Policy, and European Studies EUR 504: European Arts, Poetics, Innovation courses. Students enrolled in EST Culture 698 are expected to perform various teaching EUR 501: Historical and Cultural The aim of this course is to make an in-depth duties required by the course instructor, such Frameworks of Europe as attending lectures, providing office hours, critical assessment of the signal contribution holding review/recitation session, proctoring Intended as a General Introduction to of French, German, Italian and British thinkers exams, grading, etc... European Civilization and Cultures, this and artists to two major turning points: course begins with the "idea" of Europe and Romanticism and Postmodernism, debates Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-3 credits, S/U traces how it developed over the course of which raged in Europe (and by reflection grading 25 centuries. Through the juxtaposition of the US), the first from the 1790s through May be repeated for credit. historical, philosophical and creative texts, as the 1830s, the second from the post-World well as images, it will cover key points from EST 699: Dissertation Research on War Two period through the late Nineties. ancient Middle-Eastern and Mediterranean Campus Among the topics: the nature, ideologies and cultures through the Middle Ages and the structure of the attack on traditional (i.e.: Dissertation research under direction of Early Modern period, examine various social, Enlightenment, and/or Modernist) modes of advisor. religious, political and artistic configurations thought and organization; the theories and 1-9 credits, S/U grading through the XIX and XX centuries, and end methods proposed in turn; and implications for May be repeated for credit. with the creation of the European Union. literary theory, education, politics and history;

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 97 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 the evolving features of selected works of art faculty sponsor and permission of the Career FIN 536: Financial Management 3 credits. ABCF grading. May be repeated for Center How managers should interface with credit if syllabus or instructor is different. 0-3 credits, accounting and finance departments and how 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. firms meet their financial objectives. Financial May be repeated for credit. tools and techniques, which can be used to help firms maximize value by improving EUR 571: Special Topics In European FIN decisions relating to capital budgeting, capital Studies Finance structure, and working capital management are Course will focus on the imaginative explained. Related topics include multinational construction of other worlds as a critique of financial management, risk management, and FIN 523: High-Frequency Finance or alternative to the existing one in specific mergers and aquisitions. This course will give students an overview of moments of Europe's social and cultural 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) development. Each utopistic project manifests theories and models useful in understanding striking different stylistic, social, symbolic and processing automated trading. The FIN 539: Investment Analysis and philosophical takes on what the different fundamental theories and models of market microstructure such as the Glosten-Milgrom Modern investment and traditional approaches authors conceive as an alternative to Europe's to investment valuation, selection and complex history. Actual texts may vary model, Roll model and Kyle models are covered. Then the implementation of management. Modern investment theory, depending on Instructor, and different including asset pricing models and efficient mediums may be used. automated trading strategies such as adverse selection models and detection of informed market hypotheses are explained. Traditional 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) trading are introduced. The nature of high approaches to stock and bond selection, May be repeated for credit. frequency data in various markets is discussed, including fundamental analysis and technical and mathematical and statistical techniques analysis, will be explained in detail. EUR 581: Independent Individual Investment management strategies for both Studies commonly used in modeling such data (such as ARIMA models, logit regression, Kalman individual and institutional investors will be Studies in specialized topics under the filter and cointegration) are covered. developed and discussed. direction of a designated faculty. Fall, Spring 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) or 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Summer, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, FIN 524: Asset Pricing FIN 540: Probability and Statistics for Finance etc.) This course will give students an overview May be repeated for credit. of asset pricing theory, estimating asset A survey of probability theory and statistical techniques with applications to finance EUR 599: Thesis Research pricing models, pricing options and other derivatives. Topics covered will include situations. Topics covered include regression; Research and writing of MA Thesis supervised Consumption-Based Pricing Model and binomial, Poisson, normal, exponential, by faculty advisor. Discount Factors; Mean-Variance Frontier and chi square random variables; tests of Fall, Spring, or and Beta Presentations; Factor Pricing hypotheses; confidence intervals; tests; and Summer, 3-6 credits, S/U grading Models(Capital Asset pricing Models and analysis of risk, variance, regression, and May be repeated for credit. Arbitrage Pricing Theory); ) Speci¿cation contingency tables. Offered in Fall. and testing of linear factor models; Hansen- 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Jagannathan bounds; Option pricing and May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. EXT Black-Scholes Formula; Term Structure FIN 541: Bank Management Externships of Interests Rate; Numerical methods for derivative pricing. The goal of the course is to introduce students to the banking industry, and develop skills EXT 588: Grad Externship 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) necessary to effectively manage a financial An externship is a form of experiential FIN 525: Portfolio Management institution. We will start with an overview learning in which knowledge gained in classes This course will give students an overview of of the banking industry and its regulatory is applied to an authentic, real-world setting. environment. Then we will learn how to With guidance from a faculty sponsor, each the basics of investing, portfolio management, and risk management, from the perspective analyze bank performance, how to measure student sets learning goals and works with a and manage various risks associated with site supervisor to create a mutually beneficial of efficient markets theory. Topics covered will include the institutions of the modern financial intermediation, and how to maximize experience. During the semester, externs bank market value. reflect upon their learning experience through financial system and the types of assets 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) journaling. An externship also provides available for investment; models of risk, opportunity for personal and professional the risk-return tradeoff and utility; optimal portfolio choice; the Capital Asset Pricing FIN 545: Capital Markets and Financial growth, and increased understanding of a Institutions career field from the insider perspective. Model; multifactor models of return; portfolio Prerequisite: Only matriculated SBU students evaluation metrics; basic dynamic portfolio Financial institutions and capital markets form may enroll in EXT. Minimum overall GPA management strategies; the efficient markets the basis of the financial system in our global of 3.0 with at least G1 standing and at least hypothesis, and possible departures from economy. Capital markets are the conduits one semester of graduate school completed market efficiency. in which capital flows through financial at Stony Brook University; acceptance by a 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) institutions to a network of organized and over the counter markets. Students will learn

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 98 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 how many of these markets work in tandem to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) are further considered in detail in a series propel our economy forward. Topics include of four case studies that will be completed money markets, foreign exchange markets, FIN 552: Mergers and Acquisitions by the students and discussed in class by the derivative markets, the banking industry and The focus of this course is on buying a instructor. The course will expose students to the business of banking. The role of money in controlling stakes in firms. The main topics to current ¿real world¿ real estate finance, user the capital markets and a variety of financial be covered are: Growth through acquisitions, decision making and investment situations. products offered by financial institutions will Critical Steps in the M&A Process, financial The course is case-based, and students will be explained. valuation of mergers and friendly acquisitions, be challenged to think on their feet in class. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) hostile takeovers and buyouts. The course Students will have the opportunity to develop should be of interest to students interested in their business presentation skills through case FIN 547: Fundamentals of Fixed pursuing careers as private equity investors, discussions and project presentations. Income Analysis advisors in investment banking and corporate 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A concrete understanding of the fundamentals managers. of fixed income security analysis. Study Prerequisite: MBA 502, MBA 504 FIN 578: Behavioral Finance of the basics of bond analysis, such as the Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Behavioral Finance examines how individuals' relationship between the price and yield attitudes and behavior affect their financial of a bond, the sensitivity of a bond's price FIN 562: Data Analysis for Finance decisions. This course reviews recent research to changes in yield, and measuring the Recent innovation of information technology on possible mispricing in financial markets total return on a bond. We will analyze the along with the fast growth of applications on due to the nature of psychological biases. determinants of interest rates and how different the Internet have resulted in an explosion of Moreover the course deals with behavioral market participants interact. Trading strategies, financial data, new ways of data collection and finance models explaining investor-behavior evaluate their risk, and perform ex-post storage, as well as additional opportunities for or market anomalies when rational models analyses will be discussed. business and research based on the data. This provide no sufficient explanations. Topics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course enables students to analyze financial will include among others overconfidence, data based on traditional financial models. prospect-theory, heuristic-driven biases and FIN 549: Risk Management The major topics include asset pricing, capital frame dependence. This course introduces students to risk budgeting, risk management, pension fund 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) management primarily from the perspective management, portfolio analysis, and stock on non-financial corporations. Focus will hedging. Students will learn (review) the FIN 580: Finance Research Practicum be placed on why firms should or should models with a focus on their implementation The Finance Research Practicum is a graduate- not manage risk, while demonstrating how using Microsoft Excel, Matlab, or other level finance capstone course in which risk management can be used to reduce the programming languages. In addition, the basic students work in teams on projects proposed probability that a firm will encounter financial statistical models, such as regression, time by external sponsors. A goal of this course distress or earnings volatility, and whether series models and probability models will be is to provide students with an outstanding such activities can enhance shareholder value. used. ¿Big Data¿ (data mining) technology opportunity to work with leading industry The course offers an integrated approach to will be introduced with a focus on financial practitioners on important business problems, risk management by combining concepts, data analysis. The main topics include while helping students bridge the gap between tools, and techniques which derive from the classification, clustering, association analysis theory and practice, and introducing them to financial risk management and insurance and anomaly detection. The key objectives the broader financial community. This course disciplines. The course texts focus on pure of this course are: (1) to review the classical is only for Master of Science Finance students. financial models and statistical models; (2) risk, or the use of insurance products to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) reduce risk and financial risk management, to teach the concepts of data mining with a including commodity price, exchange rate, focus on financial applications; (3) to provide interest rate, and credit risk management. students extensive hands-on experience FLA Financial derivative products will be used in applying the concepts in financial data extensively; however, the focus will be more applications. Foreign Language Teacher on the appreciation of derivative products 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Preparation to hedge risk, rather than the valuation of derivatives. FIN 576: Real Estate Finance FLA 505: Methods: Foreign Language 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course is not a lesson on how to get rich An in-depth exploration of the methods and quick in real estate with no money down. materials for the teaching of foreign languages, FIN 551: Cases in Finance It will be a study of the major aspects of literatures, and cultures. Special attention Application of finance concepts to cases real estate finance, user decision making is given to the theories of first and second involving financial decisions in a corporate or and investment from the perspective of language acquisition and to the techniques institutional setting. Students will be asked to corporate, private, and public owners; for teaching listening, speaking reading and perform the work of a manager or analyst in investors; and users. Commercial properties writing skills. This course gives students the a professional capacity, direct their attention will be emphasized. The course begins with an opportunity to conduct observations/field to specific questions raised and report back overview of the fundamentals of commercial experiences in grade level (7-12) settings. real estate and builds on these concepts as we with analysis and recommendations from the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) perspectives of the CFO, the Lending Officer, consider the forces that influence the cyclical, and other managerial positions. Prerequisite: fragmented, and inherently local business FLA 506: Curriculum Development MBA 502 and MBA 504 of real estate. These foundation concepts

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Drawing on theories of first and second FLA 552: Supervised Student Teaching This seminar course will introduce graduate language acquisition and research into the 10-12 film students to each other, to graduate faculty best practices of language teaching, this across disciplines, and will encourage new course trains future language teachers in the FLA 554: Student Teaching Seminar collaborations and projects for development development of well-articulated language during the students¿ graduate careers. Film Seminar on instructional planning and programs (grades 7-12). Students have the students will meet to discuss the role of each assessment in World Languages, grades opportunity to enjoy clinical experiences in artist, with emphasis on the changing nature 7-12, aligned with current state, national, and school settings. Special attention is given to of collaboration and the expanding art form professional standards. Focus is on delivering the development of a professional teaching in today¿s film profession. Readings, written proficiency-based instruction and meeting the portfolio including lesson plans, assessment assignments and collaborative projects are needs of diverse learners. Variable credits (1-3 instruments, and technology-based activities. required. 4 credits. Letter graded (A, A-, B+, credits) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) Prerequisite: Permission of the Instructor. 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Southampton and Manhattan. Semesters FLA 507: Critical Pedagogy Offered: Fall & Spring. FLA 570: Introduction to Media for This graduate seminar is intended to introduce Language Teaching 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the ideas, theories, and practices that together Course open to non-D.A. students. Gives constitute the field known as critical pedagogy. FLM 501: Film Tools students an introduction to all of the Critical pedagogy assembles numerous forms This course will give students an overview of technology used in teaching languages; audio, of academic approaches to teaching and production essentials; covering safety, basic video, computer, and Internet. Emphasis is on curriculum that are informed by critical social movie-making equipment and basic editing. hands-on use and practical applications. Fall or theory. As the educational arm of critical Student will spend time in the classroom and spring social theory, critical pedagogy engages on set, shooting various exercises, paying educators in understanding the relationships 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) special attention to set safety, proper handling among knowledge, ideology, and power. We of the gear, the ins and outs of a selection will read works from several critical pedagogy FLA 571: Foreign Language of cameras, sound equipment and lighting. theorists (Freire, Shor, Giroux, McClaren, Technology and Education In addition, the basics of cinematography Apple, hooks) to explore some of the key Course open to non-D.A. graduate students. and framing, audio techniques and basic set themes within critical pedagogy (relationship Assumes knowledge of material taught in protocol will be covered. The course will cover of education to power; issues of difference and DLL/FLA 570. Addresses more globally and the basics of non-linear editing; including: pluralism; transformative education; the social more theoretically the intersection between creating new projects, media management, construction of knowledge; dialogic relations technology and languages. Issues of cognitive sequence settings, importing, transcoding, in the classroom; teaching for social justice). learning theory and educational psychology sound, JKL cuts, titling, mixed file format Learning through collaborative inquiry, we addressed. Offered as DLL 571 and FLA 571 editing, export settings and delivery. will translate the theories in these readings Prerequisites: FLA 505 and FLA 506 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) into practice and will test ideas and concepts Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, unique to teaching and learning "critical B+, etc.) FLM 505: Film Management I: (second/foreign) language" in a school setting. Production Development 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) FLA 581: Foreign Lang Teach Project Instruction and training in art direction and (Ind. Study) design which may include exploration of FLA 549: Field Experience Students enrolled in Track B of the MA a particular approach, review of current Observation, inquiry, and practice in foreign program in European Languages (French, techniques, experiments in style, hands-on language education at the secondary level German, Italian or Russian) or the MA in exercrised, intensive production periods, etc. including 50 hours of documented visitations Hispanic Languages complete an independent The particular theme of the course will be and observations at approved sites. Field project in the area of Foreign Language announced in the course schedule. Beneficial experience writing logs are the basis of group Teaching. The content and scope of this for writers, directors, and producers. Suitable discussion. S/U grading. project must be approved by the Director of for film and television. 1 credit, S/U grading Foreign Language Pedagogy. Possible projects 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) include a fully developed professional teaching May be repeated for credit. FLA 550: Field Experience portfolio (in print and/or electronic version), an action research study or a classroom-based Observation, inquiry, and practice in foreign FLM 506: Film Management II: Literary research study culminating in a publishable language education at the secondary level Management paper. Fall or spring including 50 hours of documented visitations In this course, students will be guided through and observations at approved sites. Field 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a deeper dive examination of best-practices, experience writing logs are the basis of group May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. a changing landscape, and strategies for discussion. S/U grading. marketing, distribution, financing, legal 1 credit, S/U grading and post-production in film, television, & FLM digital content. The class is structured as an FLA 551: Supervised Student Teaching Film independent study for students to workshop 7-9 their ongoing individual projects and receive FLM 500: Introduction to Graduate one-on-one mentoring from class instructors. Studies Throughout the semester this course will also include provocative in-class conversations

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May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. collaboratively on building an executable plan for one film, tv, or digital content project of FLM 523: Film in New York FLM 536: Forms of TV Writing their choosing in preparation for its creation The course delves into a field survey of Regular submission, discussion, and analysis and release. film and television offerings in New York of students work in one or more contemporary 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) City, festival by festival and organization by areas of television writing. Topics may include May be repeated for credit. organization. Students will become acquainted writing for mini-series and limited-series, with the status of film in New York, including, unscripted television, writing for documentary, FLM 508: Editing I but not limited to The Film Society of Lincoln writing for short form, writing the webisode, This course will focus on the editing process Center, The Tribeca Film Fest, New York writing for international TV, writing the pilot, and how a film is shaped during editing. Film Festival, New York Shorts Festival, writing the spec, among others. Tools of editing will be explored as well as IFC, Doc NYC, Women¿s International 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the theory behind their use. Through film Film Festival, New York Women in Film May be repeated for credit. examples, articles, books and hands on lessons, and Television, New York Mayors Office of students will learn the craft of editing. The Film and Television, New York Governor¿s FLM 537: Production I language and purpose behind every cut will be Office of Film and Television, and New York In this course, writing, directing, editing and examined. Working with cutting-edge digital Production Alliance. Additionally, all students cinematography training will be synthesized, editing software, the course will cover the will serve as jurors on the SUNYWide Film focused, and put into practice. Students basics of non-linear editing; including: creating Fest. work from the scripts developed in previous new projects, media management, sequence 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) semester. In the first weeks, students review settings, importing, transcoding, sound, JKL May be repeated for credit. camera, sound, lighting, casting, scheduling, cuts, titling, mixed file format editing, export safety, and running a set, while preparing settings and delivery. FLM 525: Topics in Film shot lists, story boards, call sheets, shooting 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Intensive studies of selected forms of film schedules, talent agreements and location and filmmaking from various countries and releases necessary to bring their visions to FLM 509: Cinematography I periods, designed to supplement rather than the screen. Then the production cycle begins: This course will focus on the fundamentals repeat areas of study already undertaken in the intense breakout sessions coupled with camera of camera, sound, safety, and proper use of curriculum. Topics may include producing, blocking prepare students for the rigors of basic production equipment. Students will directing, writings in film, the ins-and-outs of a film shoot. To make the experience truly be introduced to the tools necessary to shoot financing, genre screenwriting, films without immersive, students crew on all productions, their short films, shooting various exercises in words, films in the noir tradition, the spaghetti so expect to spend many days on set. a classroom and on the set, including safety, western, among others. May be repeated for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) proper handling of the gear, the ins-and-outs of credit. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. a selection of cameras, sound equipment and 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.). FLM 550: Teaching Practicum lighting. In addition we will cover the basics of Semesters Offered: Fall and Spring. Supervised student teaching of undergraduate cinematography and framing, audio techniques 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) courses accompanied by a seminar in and basic set protocol. This is the first step to May be repeated for credit. methods and strategies of teaching film at the properly capturing the stories students have to University level. An independent teaching tell. Course takes place in the classroom and FLM 526: Topics in TV Writing project, in which the student works with a on the set. A seminar for writers and filmmakers particular faculty member, may be substituted. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) concentrating on one area of study or topic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.). in Television. The particular theme of the Southampton and Manhattan. Semesters FLM 510: Film History I course will be announced in the course Offered: Fall & Spring. Film as text in the context of its time. A study schedule. Topics may include, among others, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of Film History with attention to specific the showrunner, producing the web series, May be repeated for credit. topics in the lexicon, theories, movements and international TV, producing the comedy genres of the field. It may be repeated as an sketch, a survey of American television. FLM 560: Acting Theory and Practice independent study with the permission of the 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Course surveys the field of acting-its history, instructor.¿3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B May be repeated for credit. formal principles, primary techniques, and +, etc.)¿May be repeated for credit. Semesters contemporary practice. Students develop Offered: Spring. FLM 530: Directed Readings in Film course papers and, or projects in conjunction 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Students read and evaluate the literature on a with advanced readings and instruction. May be repeated for credit. topic of special interest under the supervision Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter of a faculty member. What makes a good graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) FLM 520: Film History II script? What makes a producible script? What May be repeated for credit. makes a feature film, a television series, a made-for-tv movie, or a webisode. May be FLM 575: Adaptation Workshop

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This course is an intense examination of a and every cut has a purpose. Focus on the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) stage play, a work of fiction (novel, novella, tools of editing as well as editing theory. short story, poem) or a work of non-fiction Through the analysis of film clips, class FLM 639: Directing II: Advanced (memoir, autobiography, poem), with the discussion, and hands on lessons, students Directing object of preparing an adaptation for the will learn the fundamentals and the processes This course will build upon the work covered screen. Valuable for writers, directors and of reconstructing these styles. Working in Directing I and will focus on advanced producers. The course will study other text with editing software, students will have the problems in Directing, including advanced to screen adaptations and film versions. opportunity to edit various scenes, which will scene work, choreographing the action Students will submit an outline or rough draft range in style and tone. Student will learn to scene, directing within a style or period, of their new version at the end of the course. 3 think critically about all aspects of filmmaking, directing with f/x, incorporating fx into credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.). May be including blocking, framing, locations and shot scenes, alternative forms, and the challenges repeated for credit. Semesters Offered: Fall & selection. of contemporary film and/or filmmaking. Spring. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Topics may change. Prerequisite: THR 638 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. or permission of instructor. 3 credits. Letter May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. graded (A, A-, B+, etc.). FLM 609: Cinematography II 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) FLM 576: Film Workshop This course will introduce you to the advanced May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. The workshops are intensive classes in cinema tools at your disposal. We will various aspects of the craft of film, including spend time in the classroom and on set, FLM 640: Film Design Workshop producing, directing, editing, cinematography, shooting various exercises, utilizing a wide Advanced assignments in film design. May lighting design, sound design, screenwriting, variety of advanced camera/lighting and grip include understanding set design, sound directing, acting, scheduling, budgeting, equipment. In addition to on-set exercises, design, light design, art direction, music writing/directing webisodes, writing, we will study a variety of current and former supervision, and shooting within a style, producing and directing within the Dogme cinematographers, analyzing their work from period, genre, era. Prerequisite: Permission of tradition, and episodic television, sitcoms, film to film. instructor. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-B+, dramas, mini-series, and distribution; together 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) with lectures, readings, seminars, and panels 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) featuring nationally distinguished artists. FLM 637: Production II May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. These workshops encourage participation by The primary goal of this flexible workshop visiting students, new theatre and film artists, is to foster students' individual visions while FLM 650: Screenwriting Workshop I established film artists, and teachers who will expanding the scope of their production Students write, discuss and receive feedback be admitted by application and may receive knowledge and experience. Participants on writing exercises, original scenes, and academic credit upon request. Graduate should bring a draft of a 5-12 page script to short or full-length screenplays, teleplays, students may take any Film Workshop the first class. Classes will focus on directors' episodic television, sit coms, long form sponsored by the MFA program for academic preparation- both creative and practical. dramas or webisodes. Advanced students may credit. Study may occur in Southampton, For the shoots, students will choose their develop material for production. Prerequisite: Manhattan, or abroad. A submission of a collaborators and run their own sets. The final Permission of instructor. 3 credits, Letter workshop application, and permission of weeks of the class will be preparation for graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) instructor are required. 1-6 Credits. Letter Dogme shoots. graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ¿May be repeated for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) credit. Semesters Offered: May be repeated for credit. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Fall, Spring, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, FLM 651: Screenwriting Workshop II B+, etc.) FLM 638: Directing I - Principles of Emphasis on a particular aspect or genre of May be repeated for credit. Directing screenwriting, including comedy, drama, noir, This course will focus on the analytical FLM 591: Independent Project crime, dogme, period, action, writing within organizational and creative processes a high or low budget; character, dialogue, Special project allowing advanced individual necessary to be a director. Topics include: structure, and experimental forms. Emphasis work in an area of film study or practice under visualizing your story, storyboarding, scene also on workshopping whole drafts of longer the supervision of a faculty member. Must construction, shooting to the turn in the form projects. Prerequisite: FLM 650 or be scheduled by arrangement with instructor. scene, shot lists, shoot schedules, framing, permission of instructor. 3 credits. Letter Should result in longer form screenplay, composition, script analysis and interpretation; graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) production package or film, episode, or visual interpretation (narrative, evocative webisode. Can include technical, trade, or 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) image) and working with art directors, May be repeated for credit. business school study. set designers, wardrobe, sound and light 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) designers; casting, and the actor / director FLM 652: Screenwriting Workshop III May be repeated for credit. process. Preparation, leadership, scheduling. Advanced problems in writing of original Students will gain a practical, hands-on FLM 608: Editing II screenplays for film, television, web and other understanding of the topics covered through media platforms. Emphasis on whole drafts Horror, comedy, drama and action. Four exercises, various directing assignments, and a and revision. different genres, four different editing styles. final project. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B This course will cover the styles used to +, etc.). 3-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) edit the various film genres and why each May be repeated for credit.

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FLM 660: Acting Workshop for ¿ Prerequisite: Permission of MFA Director. 3 features which have created France today Filmmakers credits. Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and its current culture. Political and social Intensive study in acting in a particular 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) developments are considered as well as major approach or technique. Rehearsals outside May be repeated for credit. trends in the arts. of the scheduled class time may be required. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. 3 FLM 691: MFA Project etc.) credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.). May be This is a long form produced project. All repeated for credit. proposals for projects must be submitted in FRN 507: Stylistics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) writing to the faculty supervisor and graduate Stylistic theory and analysis. Contrastive May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. program director for approval through FLM stylistics French/English. Exploration of the 692. Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) connotative level of written message. Designed FLM 669: Advanced Tools 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to develop and refine written expression in In this hands-on workshop course, students May be repeated for credit. French and analysis of literary and non-literary will focus on five specific areas of film texts. making...Advanced Cinematography, Line FLM 692: MFA Thesis Paper Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Producing, Script Supervising, Production Independent study and research for M.F.A. B+, etc.) Design and Sound Design. Each class will students, on special topics related to the MFA be led by a working professional, and at the Project, which may result in a screenplay, FRN 510: Phonetics conclusion of this course students will emerge webisode, episodic series, documentary The pronunciation of French with emphasis with a greater understanding of each discipline. proposal or production package, realized in on intonation and articulation. Theory and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) FLM 691. Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) practice of linguistic and phonetic factors 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of the sound system. Coursework includes FLM 670: Directing Workshop May be repeated for credit. phonetic transcriptions, oral and aural Advanced training in directing, which transcriptions, as well as pronunciation. The may involve intensive production periods, class is entirely conducted in French. experiments in style, exploration of a particular FRN Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, technique and approach, such as day for B+, etc.) night, etc. May be repeated once for credit. French Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor. FRN 511: Business French FRN 500: Techniques of Reading for A course designed to provide efficiency in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Graduate Research May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. spoken and written business French with an Through intensive study of language structures emphasis on bilingual translation. This course FLM 680: Art Direction Workshop and idiomatic usage, with extensive practice will also familiarize students with French in written translation of literary and scholarly Instruction and training in art direction and business domestically, in the context of the texts, candidates for advanced degrees are European Union, and in contrast to America. design which may include exploration of able to attain the proficiency level of the a particular approach, review of current Issues of current importance as well as graduate French reading requirement. Several institutions will be studied. Students will also techniques, experiments in style, hands-on departments grant exemption from further exercrised, intensive production periods, etc. carry on individual projects such as comparing examination for successful completion of this marketing strategies of an American company The particular theme of the course will be course. (Not for graduate students in French.) announced in the course schedule. Beneficial in the US and in France or profiling a major for writers, directors, and producers. Suitable Fall or Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, French company. for film and television. A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) FRN 501: Contemporary Culture and FRN 513: Romance Linguistics May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. Civilization This course examines the linguistic evolution FLM 690: Professional Internship Analysis of contemporary French civilization of the Romance languages from the classical through the study of the development of period through modern times. The synchronic A full-term internship at a production company its historical, cultural, political, and social or on a production. Students identify a Film grammars of Italian, French, and Spanish are characteristics. Designed for potential teachers examined. company or artist whose work interests them. of French at the college level as well as in The student is expected to articulate his/her secondary schools, this course will emphasize Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, goals, research companies and inquire about and trace the evolution of the character and B+, etc.) internship opportunities at those institutions. institutions of contemporary France and FRN 531: Studies in 17th-Century A faculty advisor may help point students French-speaking countries. in the right direction; but is incumbent upon French Literature the student to do the research and secure an Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Analysis of some of the major literary genres internship. Students then present a written B+, etc.) of 17th-century French literature such as proposal to the faculty advisor for approval. tragedy, and comedy, novels or poems, FRN 502: French Civilization in Its Students will also submit an internship or focus on some of the major themes of Historical Perspective description in the first month of work, then a 17th-century literature in general. , Mme de journal or evaluation of their work experience. In this course, students study historical Lafayette, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, French civilization concentrating on those etc.The class is entirely conducted in French.

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Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, in parallel with the political and social Fall, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, B+, etc.) contexts, and with other artistic mediums etc.) such as cinema, painting, or photography. May be repeated for credit. FRN 532: Seminar in 17th-Century Possible topics: Avant-garde & Surrealism, French Literature Existentialist writers, War Literature, Marcel FRN 591: Language Acquisition I Special topics in 17th-century French Proust, Jacques Prevert, etc. Elementary French I intended for graduate literature. Intensive reading and analysis of Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, students from other programs. selected texts by authors such as Descartes, B+, etc.) 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Pascal, La Fontaine, La Rochefoucauld, La May be repeated for credit. Bruyere, Mme de Sevigné, and Mme de FRN 592: Language Acquisition II Lafayette, among others. Changing topic. The FRN 562: Studies in 20th and 21st- Elementary French II intended for graduate class is entirely conducted in French. Century Literatures students from other programs. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Focused examination of contemporary French 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) B+, etc.) literary texts and recent Francophone writings May be repeated for credit. of Belgium and Switzerland. Questions may FRN 593: Language Acquisition III address the limits of fiction and representation Intermediate and Advanced French intended FRN 541: Studies in 18th-Century in the novel, the status of modern theater for graduate students from other programs. French Literature and poetry, the new impact of visual and The requirements for the course will include a A study of the major texts of the 18th-century technological devices, human relationships in a graduate-level component to be determined by expressing the struggle between absolutism global world. the instructor. May be repeated for credit. and the emerging forces of Enlightenment, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) preromanticism. It may include the works of B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, May be repeated for credit. Beaumarchais, and Laclos, among others, as FRN 595: Practicum in Teaching well as the works of lesser-known authors who FRN 564: Seminar in Francophone also helped reshape the literary scene during Literature Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading that time Close examination of the literatures written May be repeated for credit. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, in French of the Francophone world outside FRN 599: Thesis Research B+, etc.) of France. This course will pose and explore May be repeated for credit. questions such as: What is Francophone Fall and Spring literature? What is the function of writing in 1-6 credits, S/U grading FRN 542: Seminar in 18th-Century French in a Francophone context? Attention is May be repeated for credit. French Literature paid to the issue of critical approaches to these Special topics in 18th-century literature, texts. Topics vary from year to year and may FRN 800: Summer Research such as "Le roman initiatique," and "Eros include texts from any of the French-speaking May be repeated for credit. in fiction," are studied through the works of territories outside of France. major writers of the period as well as those Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, of lesser-known figures, in particular women B+, etc.) FSY writers. May be repeated for credit. Study Abroad Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) FRN 570: Special Topics in French Literature FSY 540: Study Abroad FRN 552: Studies in 19th-Century Courses given in the past have covered a single May be repeated for credit. French Literature author, French women writers, French poetry Close reading of selected works by major of 1664-1674 and other topics. FSY 582: OVERSEAS: GERMANY novelists of the period, such as Balzac, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. Stendhal, Flaubert, Zola; themes such as Paris versus the provinces, money and decadence; or FRN 571: Free Seminars FSY 588: Overseas: Spain 19th-century poetry by Baudelaire, Mallarme, Courses given in the past have covered a single May be repeated for credit. Verlaine, and Rimbaud, with an introduction author, genre, and other topics. to some important critical approaches to these Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, FSY 591: OVERSEAS KONSTANZ texts. B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, May be repeated for credit. B+, etc.) FSY 592: OVERSEAS TUEBINGEN May be repeated for credit. FRN 581: Independent Individual Studies May be repeated for credit. FRN 561: Seminar in 20th-Century May be repeated for credit as the topic French Literature FSY 594: OVERSEAS: ROME changes. Special attention to a literary trend, a Prerequisite: must be enrolled in a graduate May be repeated for credit. movement of ideas, or a single author of the program. first half of the century. Topics are considered FSY 595: OVERSEAS: PARIS

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May be repeated for credit. concepts to the sediments and rock units 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to provide a foundation for the chronology FSY 597: Study Abroad: Japan Kyoto- and context for recorded events in human GEO 508: The Rock-Forming Minerals Sangyo evolution. Emphasis is given to sedimentation, Study of the crystal chemistry, intracrystalline May be repeated for credit. statigraphy, volcanism, and tectonics, as they cation distribution (homogeneous equilibria) apply to local geology, including training in stability, and paragenesis of the rock-forming field methods. Modern terrestrial processes minerals. Special emphasis is placed on GEO and landscape evolution are examined amphiboles, feldspars, micas, and pyroxenes. using features present in the Turkana Basin. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Geosciences Consideration is also given to broader geologic events spanning the Oligocene to he present. GEO 510: Dimensions of Global GEO 500: Geosciences Research Geologic concepts are linked to modern Change Seminar and ancient environments, archaeology, and This course is designed to be an intense Meetings in which first-year graduate students paleoanthropology in northern Kenya. It study in global climate change science. The and undergraduates with senior standing learn is a field-based course involving visits to emphasis will be on modern climate change about the research activities of the Geosciences important geological and fossil sites. Graded however, by studying the contributions faculty. work includes fieldwork and lab assignments, of paleoclimatology we can gain insight Fall, S/U grading independent research assignments, quizzes into how the climate system operates. To and a final exam. Semesters offered-Fall and understand modern climate change and GEO 502: GIS for Geologists Spring. Components- laboratory, lecture, and predictions, it is necessary to develop an A practical introduction to geographic recitation. understanding of natural climate forcing, information system software. Participants learn 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) natural variability and feedbacks in the climate to use direct measurement and mathematical systems. Adding to natural variation are the techniques to compute the location of features GEO 505: Experimental Petrology impacts of anthropogenic forcing. The course and gain practical experience in rendering Laboratory will examine the measured and predicted imagery and tabular geographic data as layers The course is designed to give the student consequences of these anthropogenic forcing. on maps. The course consists of two three-hour experience in some or all of the following Offered Fall and sessions per week for the first five weeks of techniques of experimental petrology: Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, semester, which include fieldwork, lectures, evacuated silica-glass tube experiments, one- etc.) demonstrations and software-based analysis of atmosphere quenching experiments (with and data. without controlled atmospheres), 1- to 5- kbar GEO 511: Computer Programming for This course meets with GEO 588 (Geological hydrothermal systems (using oxygen buffers the Geosciences Field Methods for Earth Science Teachers) for where necessary), gas-media experiments up An introduction to object-oriented the first five weeks of the semester. Students to 7 kbar, and solid-media, piston-cylinder programming in Java for geoscience may not take GEO 502 and GEO 588 for experiments. students. Participants are required to develop credit. Requirements: Completion of a project interactive programs to serve as educational Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) involving several of the above techniques; or research tools pertaining to topics within written report the geosciences. These programs, or applets, GEO 503: Mineral Equilibria Spring, alternate years, 1 credit, Letter graded include a graphical user interface that enables Covers the basics of the application of the (A, A-, B+, etc.) users to control parameters and observe results. principles of chemical thermodynamics to the The applets are posted on the World Wide resolution of geochemical and petrological GEO 506: Theoretical Petrology Web. problems. Begins with the first law and Theory of phase diagrams, Schreinemaker's Prerequisite: Geosciences graduate standing continues through phase transitions, properties rules, heterogeneous equilibria, experimental Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, of fluids, definitions of fugacity and activity of systems of petrologic interest, and properties etc.) major and trace elements in fluids and molten of solutions. solutions; configurational entropies; models Prerequisites: Metamorphic and igneous GEO 512: Structure and Properties of quantifying nonideal mixing in solid solutions. petrology and physical chemistry or Materials Additional topics include interpretation of thermodynamics; or permission of instructor An introductory course that will explore calorimetric studies and/or solubilities of Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, materials from the viewpoint of their minerals in aqueous solutions. etc.) structure and chemistry and how these Prerequisites: Physical chemistry and affect applications. Different states of matter thermodynamics, or permission of instructor GEO 507: Petrogenesis (crystals, quasicrystals, glasses, liquids) Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded Discussion of the origin and evolutionary will be discussed and their similarities and (A, A-, B+, etc.) history of selected types of igneous and differences, focusing on the crystalline state. metamorphic rocks by integrating the Nanomaterials and their peculiarities in GEO 504: Geology of the Turkana principles of heterogeneous phase equilibria, terms of structure and properties will also be Basin trace-element and isotopic geochemistry, considered. Particular attention will be paid Students are introduced to the current crystal chemistry, and geologic occurrence. to (1) Materials for energy and environment perspectives on the origins and evolution The laboratory component, GEO 527, must be applications, (2) materials for technological of the Turkana Basin, Kenya. Students taken concurrently; a common grade for both applications, and (3) Earth and planet-forming learn how to apply fundamental geological courses will be assigned. Fall materials.

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3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter May be repeated for credit. graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) GEO 513: GIS Fundamentals I GEO 524: Organic Contaminant This course provides the basic concepts GEO 519: Geochemistry of Natural Hydrology underlying modern geographic information Waters There are a host of chemical, biological, and science and technology. Emphasis is placed on A comprehensive quantitative treatment of the physical processes that affect the transport the principles of GIS for collecting, storing, processes controlling the chemistry of polluted and fate of organic chemicals in natural characterizing, and maintaining data and and unpolluted surface and groundwaters. waters. This course concerns understanding computer-based techniques for processing and Topics covered include thermodynamics these processes and the structure-activity analyzing spatial data. The course includes and kinetics of water-rock interaction; relationships available for predicting their three hours of lecture, in class exercises mineral solubility; chemical speciation; redox rates. The major focus of this class is on and homework projects each week. This is reactions; adsorptions; carbonate chemistry; contaminant hydrology of soil and aquifer a computer based class with the majority and speciation, mobility, and toxicity of metal environments, and includes the principles of students work involving GIS computer ions. Based on a knowledge of these processes, behind remediation and containment software. Prerequisite: working knowledge of the chemical composition of a wide variety technologies. This course is offered as both spreadsheet software of surface and groundwaters is interpreted. MAR 524 and GEO 524. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Water-quality criteria and their application are Prerequisite: GEO 526 or MAR 503 or May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. also discussed. permission of instructor Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, GEO 514: Introduction to Physical etc.) etc.) Hydrogeology Surface hydrology. Principles of groundwater GEO 520: Glacial Geology GEO 525: GIS Fundamentals II flow. Well hydraulics. Geology of History of glaciation on earth, formation and GIS Fundamentals II will introduce the applied groundwater occurrence. Water quality and dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets; processes use of Geographic Information Systems groundwater contamination. Hydrologic site of glacial erosion and deposition; and the (GIS) which is now used extensively in evaluation. nature of glacial sediments and landforms analytical studies. The course emphasizes Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, particularly relating to the development of the applications of GIS in solving real-world etc.) Long Island. problems. Students are expected to gain an Prerequisite: Physical Geology understanding of GIS theory, methodology GEO 515: Geohydrology Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and most importantly application. Students are Dynamics of fluids in porous media. etc.) also expected to demonstrate abilities of spatial Fundamentals of physical hydrogeology. thinking, spatial analysis, and be able to solve Quantitative analysis of regional groundwater GEO 521: Isotope and Trace Element practical spatial problems utilizing a GIS. system and well hydraulics. Introduction Geology 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to numerical simulation techniques. Application of radiogenic isotopes and trace May be repeated for credit. Hydrodynamic dispersion and basic concepts elements to the petrogenesis of igneous, of contaminant transport. metamorphic, and sedimentary systems GEO 526: Low-Temperature Geochemistry Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, including water-rock interaction in diagenetic etc.) and hydrothermal systems. Evaluation of Fundamental principles of chemical radiogenetic techniques for determining the thermodynamics and kinetics, including GEO 517: Crystal Chemistry ages of rocks and minerals. isotope effects, as they pertain to geochemical The structure/property/composition Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter processes occurring in surface and near-surface relationships in solids. An introduction to graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) environments. Consideration is also given to the common structure types and how they mass transfer process and reaction pathways. illustrate principles useful in understanding GEO 522: Planetary Sciences Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) more complex solid-state materials. The chemical, physical, and petrologic Applications of modern scattering techniques properties of meteorites are reviewed. These GEO 527: Petrogenesis Laboratory to the study of solids, particularly Earth data and data for the moon and the terrestrial Three hours of laboratory per week that materials, are also included. planets are used to form a picture of the origin, corresponds to the content of GEO 507 Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) chemical evolution, and accretion of planetary 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) material. GEO 518: Carbonate Sediments Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) GEO 528: Carbonate Geochemistry An intensive study of the formation, Examination of the mineralogical and chemical deposition, lithification, and diagenesis GEO 523: Geodatabase and Design characteristics of the rock-forming carbonates of carbonate sediments. Lectures and Concepts of geodatabase design and with emphasis on stabilities in the geological seminars emphasize principles of carbonate management in geographic information environments. Includes study of phase deposition, facies relationships, and chemistry. systems (GIS), SQL statements, geographic relations; trace and minor element chemistries; Laboratories emphasize binocular and data types and functions, data entry, and and mechanisms of growth, dissolution, petrographic analysis of recent and ancient techniques of geographic information structure and replacement. Use of current research carbonates. applications. techniques as applied to carbonate minerals. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded and geologic data from ancient and modern geologic and environmental problem-solving (A, A-, B+, etc.) examples. using satellite imagery. Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, GEO 530: The Geology of Mars (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) Overview of Mars as a planetary system. Evolution of the planet and its atmosphere GEO 540: Solid Earth Geophysics GEO 549: Structural Geology through time. Detailed discussion of processes An overview of solid earth geophysics. Principles of structural geology, including that have shaped the martian surface, including Topics include earthquake and exploratory the recognition and the mechanics crustal erosion, sedimentation, volcanism, impact seismology, gravity, magnetics, geochronolgy, structural features. Topics include folding and cratering, physical and chemical weathering. and heat flow. There is an emphasis on how all faulting, stress and strain, and the nature of Comparison of geologic processes on Mars of these techniques shed light on the nature of brittle and ductile lineations and foliations and Earth. Discussion of past and future the Earth's interior and dynamics. in the crust. Three hours of lecture per week. spacecraft missions to Mars. Three hours of Prerequisite: Physical geology, undergraduate The laboratory component, GEO 569, must be lecture per week. physics and calculus taken concurrently; a common grade for both 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) courses will be assigned. Spring Prerequisite: Undergraduate physical geology GEO 531: Crystalline Solids GEO 542: Inverse Theory 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Principles of symmetry, single-crystal, and Introduction to the basic concepts of inverse powder X-ray diffraction techniques and theory and its application to the study of the GEO 550: Global Tectonics elements of crystal structure determination internal structure of the Earth and related Geological, geochemical, and geophysical are considered. Use of crystallographic data problems. evidence related to the concepts of plate in the study of mineral systems. Laboratory in Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded tectonics and mantle convection. Kinematics diffraction techniques includes extensive use (A, A-, B+, etc.) and dynamics of plate motions. Origin of first- of digital computers. order crustal structures of continents and ocean Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded GEO 543: Stratigraphy basins. Geochemical and thermal evolution of (A, A-, B+, etc.) The history and practice of defining units the Earth. layered rocks and interpreting their spatial Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, GEO 532: Solid-State Geochemistry relationships. Topics include the basis for the etc.) The application of crystallographic techniques geologic time scale, lithostratigraphic versus to problems in mineral chemistry. Concepts chronostratigraphic units, biostratigraphy, GEO 551: Physics of the Earth I of the crystalline state, order-disorder, atom magnetostratigraphy, facies patterns and Study of the internal structure and properties radii, chemical bonding, atom coordination, Walther's law, subsurface stratigraphy, and of the Earth as revealed by field and laboratory solid solutions, and physical properties of the application of stratigraphy to geological investigations. Topics include the rotation minerals. Emphasis on silicate and sulfide problems. The laboratory component, GEO and figure of the Earth, gravity anomalies, crystal structures. 563, must be taken concurrently; a common solid-earth tides, geomagnetism and Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded grade for both courses will be assigned. Spring paleomagnetism, electromagnetic induction, (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: GEO 546 or undergraduate and heat flow and the Earth's present and past mineralogy and petrology thermal states. May be taken independently of GEO 533: Geochemistry of the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) GEO 552. Terrestrial Planets Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A brief overview of basic principles of GEO 546: Mineralogy and Petrology geochemistry, including origin of the elements, An introduction to mineralogy and petrology, GEO 552: Physics of the Earth II geochemical and cosmochemical classification including crystallography, crystal chemistry, Study of the Earth's structure and properties of the elements, and a geochemical perspective mineral identification, and the processes based on evidence from seismology and of the periodic table. This is followed by an that govern the formation of igneous and high-pressure geophysics. Topics include examination of the compositions and chemical metamorphic rocks. Three hours of lecture fundamental principles of elastic wave theory, interactions among the major geochemical per week. The laboratory component, GEO body and surface wave propagation in layered reservoirs of the terrestrial planets, including 566, must be taken concurrently; a common media, earthquake source mechanisms, free their cores, mantles, crusts, and where grade for both courses will be assigned. Spring oscillations of the Earth, and rheological relevant, sedimentary shells. Prerequisite: Undergraduate physical geology properties of the Earth's interior. May be taken Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded and one year of undergraduate chemistry independently of GEO 551. (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) GEO 535: Regional Structure and GEO 547: Remote Sensing in Tectonics Geosciences GEO 556: Solid-State Geophysics Formation and development of continental Comprehensive study of commonly Application of lattice dynamics and equations crust in Phanerozoic mountain belts. The used image analysis methods in earth, of state of solids to studies in high-pressure, structure and origin of ocean crust, magmatic environmental and planetary sciences. high-temperature geophysics. Reviews arcs, and continental margin sequences are Discussion of physical principles that are experimental data from physical acoustics, studied using geophysical, geochemical, the basis for remote sensing techniques. static and shock wave compression, and Participants gain practical experience in

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GEO 587: Hydrogeology Capstone Prerequisite: GEO 552 or permission of Project GEO 562: Early Diagenesis of Marine instructor Students will complete an in-depth capstone Sediments Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter report based on analysis of original, The course treats qualitative and quantitative graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) independent research conducted by the student aspects of the early diagenesis of sediments. on a faculty supervisor-approved topic in Topics include diffusion and adsorption GEO 571: Mechanics of Geologic hydrogeology. Materials of dissolved species; organic matter S/U grading decomposition and storage; and diagenesis of Elastic, thermal, and anelastic properties of clay materials, sulfur compounds, and calcium geological materials. The course emphasizes GEO 588: Geological Field Methods for carbonates. The effects of bioturbation on a thermodynamic characterization of Earth Science Teachers sediment diagenesis are also discussed. This these properties including irreversible Geologic mapping techniques, geochemical course is offered as both MAR 562 and GEO thermodynamics and nonhydrostatic analytical approach, and hydrological 562. thermodynamics. Specific applications to the methodologies applied in the field to examples Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded Earth's environment are discussed. on Long Island. These approaches are designed (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisites: GEO 551, 552, or permission of for developing research projects for secondary instructor students in earth science. GEO 563: Stratigraphy Laboratory Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Three hours of laboratory per week that (A, A-, B+, etc.) Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, corresponds to the content of GEO 543. etc.) Laboratory work emphasizes practical GEO 572: Advanced Seismology techniques in stratigraphy. Course is intended to expose the student GEO 589: Research for Earth Science 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to topics that are at the forefront of current Teachers seismological research. Examples include This course is intended to provide earth GEO 566: Mineralogy and Petrology wave propagation in heterogeneous media, science teachers or students in the M.A.T. Laboratory earthquake source studies, tsunami generation, in Earth Science program an opportunity to Three hours of laboratory per week that and seismic network data analysis. obtain research experience. A written report is corresponds to the content of GEO 546 Prerequisite: GEO 552 required. 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded Prerequisite: Permission of instructor (A, A-, B+, etc.) Summer, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, GEO 567: Sedimentary Rocks and etc.) Crustal Evolution GEO 573: Physics of Rocks An examination of major and trace elements Fundamentals of the physical properties of GEO 590: Research Project and isotopic composition of terrigenous rock in relation to seismology, hydrogeology, Independent research geophysical prospecting and geotechnical sedimentary rocks within a framework of Fall,Spring, engineering. Topics include: composition, tracing the composition and evolution of Summer, 1-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B pore structure and fabric of rocks; elasticity, the continental crust. Emphasis is placed on +, etc.) anelasticity and plasticity; seismic velocity and interpreting sedimentary compositions in May be repeated for credit. terms of provenance and sedimentary history anisotropy; poroelasticity; electrical, magnetic (e.g., weathering, diagenesis, recycling). and hydraulic transpost properties. GEO 599: Research Relationships between sediment composition Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded Independent research for those students and tectonic setting is also examined. (A, A-, B+, etc.) established in a research group. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, GEO 581: Coastal Engineering 1-12 credits, S/U grading etc.) Geology May be repeated for credit. GEO 569: Structural Geology Concepts of the mechanics of earth materials GEO 600: Practicum in Teaching Laboratory and the physics of surficial processes with Fall and Spring, 0-3 credits, S/U grading Three hours of laboratory per week that applications to the coastal environment and May be repeated for credit. corresponds to the content of GEO 549 engineering. This course is also offered as mar 581. 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) GEO 603: Topics in Petrology Prerequisites: Enrollment in MESP or OEN GEO 570: Earthquake Mechanics program or instructor Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A survey of fundamental mechanics aspects Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. of earthquake rupture; reviews concepts of GEO 585: Directed Studies fracture mechanics, elastodynamics, and GEO 604: Topics in Planetary Science experimental rock mechanics. Topics include

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May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Advanced stylistics and discourse analysis. (G5). Major portion of research will take place Designed to deepen the advanced student's GEO 605: Topics in Sedimentary off-campus, but in the United States and/ knowledge of the syntax, structure, and Geology-Paleontology or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven stylistic versatility of the German language. Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, A-, B+, etc.) are considered on-campus. All international etc.) May be repeated for credit. students must enroll in one of the graduate student insurance plans and should be advised GER 539: Contrastive Structures: GEO 607: Topics in Geophysics by an International Advisor. German-English Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Contrastive study of the phonological, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. morphological, syntactic, and semantic May be repeated for credit. structures of German and English. GEO 701: Dissertation Research off Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) GEO 609: Topics in Mineralogy and Campus - International Crystallography Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy GER 541: Literature of the Goethe (G5). Major portion of research will take Period Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, place outside of the United States and/or A-, B+, etc.) A study of the literature and culture of U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the Germany during Goethe's lifetime, 1749-1832. May be repeated for credit. option of the health plan and may also enroll Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, in MEDEX. International students who are GEO 696: Geoscience Colloquium etc.) in their home country are not covered by A weekly series of research seminars presented mandatory health plan and must contact the GER 544: German Fiction by visiting scientists as well as by the faculty. Insurance Office for the insurance charge to Required every semester of all geoscience be removed. International students who are Major authors of modern German fiction graduate students. not in their home country are charged for the are read and discussed. Texts many include Fall and Spring, S/U grading mandatory health insurance. If they are to be works from 19th and 20th century authors. The May be repeated for credit. covered by another insurance plan they must course may also focus on works by a single file a waiver be second week of classes. The author. GEO 697: Geoscience Seminar charge will only be removed if other plan is 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Presentation of preliminary research results deemed comparable. GER 545: 20th-Century German Poetry and current research problems by students All international students must received and faculty. Required every semester of all clearance from an International Advisor. Intensive reading and discussion of 20th- geoscience graduate students. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading century German poetry, including works by Fall and Spring, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. Rilke, Trakl, Brecht, Benn, and Kirsch. The May be repeated for credit. course may also focus on a single poet or GEO 800: SUMMER RESEARCH movement in the 20th century. GEO 698: Geoscience Special Seminar May be repeated for credit. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, A weekly series of specialized seminars in etc.) which graduate students and faculty discuss specific topics within the subgroups of GER GER 546: 20th-Century German Drama geology. Research is reviewed, and theses are A survey of representative plays of the 20th discussed. Germanic Languages and century, including works by Hauptmann, Fall and Spring, S/U grading Literature Hofmannsthal, Kaiser, Sternheim, Toller, May be repeated for credit. Fleisser, Horvath, and Brecht. The course may GER 500: Intensive Reading German also focus on the works of a single dramatist. GEO 699: Dissertation Research on This course is designed for graduate students Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Campus in other programs to understand German prose. Independent research for Ph.D. degree. Open Students learn the basic structures of German GER 547: Special Author Studies only to candidates for the Ph.D. who have grammar, acquire general and specialized Tutorial passed the preliminary examination. vocabulary, and translate a variety of texts, Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). including some from their academic areas A-, B+, etc.) Major portion of research must take place on of interest. In certain programs, successful May be repeated for credit. SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the completion of this course satisfies a language Brookhaven National Lab. requirement, while in others it serves as GER 548: Special Period Studies Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U preparation for their own foreign-language Tutorial exam or testing procedure. grading Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. GEO 700: Dissertation Research off Campus - Domestic GER 506: Advanced Stylistics GER 557: History of the German Language

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Proceeding from several characteristics of GER 599: Thesis Research expect and gain a career development language in general and from the position of GER 599 Thesis Research. One-six credits. S/ framework that they can apply to any career German within the Indo-European language U grading. May be repeated for credit. goal, academic and non-academic, now and in family, this course addresses: the periodization the future. By the end of the course, students 1-6 credits, of German language history; internal will have gained enhanced knowledge of their May be repeated 6 times FOR credit. developments from Indo-European to modern skills, values and interests and how these German; the most important cultural events on GER 601: Special Author apply to a career of interest, a customized CV the path of German from the tribal dialects to or resume for a job of interest, a broadened Tutorial to be arranged with appropriate staff a unified language; and relations of borrowing professional network, and finally, an IDP member. between German and other languages. Texts outlining goals for their next steps. Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, from the different periods are examined for 0-1 credits, S/U grading their linguistic features as well as for content. A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) GRD 520: Introduction to Science Policy for STEM GER 602: Special Period GER 558: Middle High German Science, technology and innovation (STI) Tutorial to be arranged with appropriate staff An introduction to Middle High German are ubiquitous part of life and we must member. grammar with representative reading from the understand these concepts in order to develop Middle High German classics. Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, effective policies. This 1 credit hour course A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) is designed to teach engineering and science May be repeated for credit. graduated students the main concepts in GER 562: Historical Germanic science, technology and innovation policy. GER 800: Summer Research Linguistics 0-1 credits, S/U grading An introduction to the principles and methods May be repeated for credit. of historical linguistics as applied to problems in the Germanic branch of Indo-European GRD GRD 550: CEAS Placeholder (early tribal movements, attempts at dialect The Graduate School Placeholder course for students in special grouping, dialect geography, etc.). Part of programs in CEAS. Specific programs the course will be devoted to readings in GRD 500: Responsible Conduct of designated by course topic. Gothic, Old Norse, and Old High German with Research and Scholarship 0-12 credits, S/U grading a comparison of the morphologies of these This course is designed to introduce students May be repeated for credit. languages. to the major issues in the ethics of research Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and scholarship. Using a combination of etc.) readings - written and web-based - videos, GSS lectures, case discussion and other exercises, GER 581: Independent Study Geospatial Science students will investigate the moral values May be repeated for credit. intrinsic to research/scholarship/creative GSS 509: Digital Cartography activity in their discipline and the professional Maps portray spatial relationships among GER 591: Language Acquisition I and social values with which members of selected phenomena of interest and the discipline must comply. Each class will Elementary German I intended for graduate increasingly are used for analysis and begin with an introductory lecture or video students from other programs. synthesis. Cartography is the knowledge followed by discipline-based, small group 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) associated with the art, science, and discussions with the participation of faculty technology of maps. Digital computer from the department or program from which GER 592: Language Acquisition II cartography still follows the same fundamental the graduate students come. Elementary German II intended for graduate principles and still requires a broad students from other programs. 0-3 credits, S/U grading understanding of graphicacy as a language (as 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. well as numeracy and literacy). This course will provide an introduction to cartographic GER 593: Language Acquisition III GRD 510: Career Planning for principles, concepts, software and hardware Graduate Students Intermediate and Advanced German intended necessary to produce good maps, especially for graduate students from other programs. GRD 510 engages students in the PhD Career in the context (and limitations) of geographic The requirements for the course will include a Ladder Program, which leads graduate information systems (GIS). graduate-level component to be determined by students through the essential components of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the instructor. May be repeated for credit. career development following the general steps May be repeated for credit. of an Individual Development Plan (IDP). 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The steps include: self-assessment, career GSS 513: GIS Fundamentals I May be repeated for credit. research, skill identification and building, This course provides the basic concepts informational interviewing, CV/resume GER 595: Practicum in Teaching underlying modern geographic information crafting, networking, and goal setting. Each science and technology. Emphasis is placed on Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading section¿s discussion are led by a graduate the principles of GIS for collecting, storing, May be repeated for credit. student leader. Students will cultivate the characterizing, and maintaining data and career readiness competencies employers computer-based techniques for processing and

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 110 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 analyzing spatial data. The course includes management; incorporate strategies for success sciences, social sciences, business and three hours of lecture, in class exercises in your workplace; understand some of the engineering. and homework projects each week. This is legal issues about the use of GIS data; and 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a computer based class with the majority be aware of the GIS industry outlook for May be repeated for credit. of students work involving GIS computer employment and education. software. Prerequisite: working knowledge of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) GSS 575: Geospatial Teaching spreadsheet software May be repeated for credit. Practicum 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The teaching practicum provides teaching May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. GSS 550: Applied Spatial Analysis experience, carried out under faculty The specific focus is on spatial data analysis, supervision. Student will work with a faculty GSS 517: Geospatial Narratives: Deep such as the analysis of autocorrelation, member as assistant in a regularly scheduled Mapping for Humanities and Social principles of geostatistics and analysis course and student will be assigned a specific Sciences methods that are relevant in the fields of role to assist in teaching the course. The Building on formal methods in qualitative public health, environmental/earth science student will meet with the instructor on reasoning, spatial and temporal representation and social science. An important aspect of a regular basis to discuss intellectual and and geospatial science, this course will explore the course is to gain hands-on experience pedagogical matters relating to the course. state-of-the-art methods for humanities and in applying these techniques with GIS and 0-3 credits, S/U grading social sciences students to visualize and spatial analytical software, and essential May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. drill down data. Hands-on exercises of deep methodological and practical issues that are mapping will cover how to collect, analyze involved in sophisticated spatial analyses. 3 GSS 587: Geospatial Research and visualize quantitative and qualitative credits. This course is intended to provide graduate data, spatial data, images, video, audio, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) students in the Geospatial Science program other representations of places and artifacts in an opportunity to obtain research experience. humanities and social sciences. This course GSS 554: Geospatial Science for the A written report is required. Prerequisite: will also discuss models of reasoning about Coastal Zone Permission of instructor 1-3 credits, Letter events, actions and changes that are spatially The use of spatial date is becoming graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) contextualized. Only GSS517 or GSS513/ increasingly critical in the decision 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) GEO513 will count the Graduate Certificate. management process and planning of the May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) coastal zone. This course will use GIS and Remote sensing tools to collect and analyze GSS 588: GIS Internship GSS 523: Geodatabase and Design data for intergrating into the management, The GIS Internship is designed to provide Concepts of geodatabase design and planning, and monitoring of the coastal students experience in the real workplace. management in geographic information geomorphology and ecosystems. Offered in Interns are expected to function as a GIS systems (GIS), SQL statements, geographic Fall. professional and work within the existing host data types and functions, data entry, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) facility structure or on a free standing project. techniques of geographic information structure Interns will complete assigned tasks by hosting applications. GSS 555: GIS and Remote Sensing facility such as GIS data entry, data retrieval, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course provides a basic overview of the GPS field work, documentation, or general May be repeated for credit. technology by which aircraft and satellite GIS facility duties. These activities will be data are produced and utilized in analyses monitored by both a representative of the host GSS 525: GIS Fundamentals II to answer questions within a geographic facility and the instructor. GIS Fundamentals II will introduce the applied context. Students will learn to identify sources 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) use of Geographic Information Systems of remotely sensed imagery appropriate for May be repeated for credit. (GIS) which is now used extensively in common applications; acquire, manipulate, analytical studies. The course emphasizes and interpret aerial photographs and satellite the applications of GIS in solving real-world imagery/data; and incorporate remote sensing HAD problems. Students are expected to gain an data into Geographic Information Systems. understanding of GIS theory, methodology 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Clinical Laboratory Sciences and most importantly application. Students are May be repeated for credit. also expected to demonstrate abilities of spatial HAD 506: Clinical Cytogenetics thinking, spatial analysis, and be able to solve GSS 570: Geospatial Narratives: Deep Internship practical spatial problems utilizing a GIS. Mapping for Humanities and Sciences Introduces the students to clinical cytogenetic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Course will present special interest topics or techniques and standard operating procedures May be repeated for credit. recent software enhancements in the rapidly utilized in a clinical cytogenetic laboratory. developing field of Geospatial Science. Permission of department is required. GSS 526: GIS Project Management The course will include a mixture of core Prerequisites: Admission to Undergraduate This course will enable students to addresses geospatial techniques and recently released CLS Program; HAD 406; Program Consent issues unique to a GIS operation such as: methodology. Course will include a diversity Required identify implementation issues for a GIS of Geospatial topics including discipline 3-5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) project or program; be prepared to assist in specific topics relevant to majors in physical decision making procedures that involve HAD 590: Independent Study/ Clinical Laboratory Sciences

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Proposals for special projects in clinical Introduces concepts of evidence based practice 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) laboratory sciences must be submitted to (EBP) in athletic training. The student will the program director for approval prior to learn how to obtain, process, examine, and HAL 550: Advanced Therapeutic registration. Prerequisites: Admission to appraise peer reviewed journal articles. The Interventions Undergraduate CLS Program; Program students will become a consumer of literature Progression of previously learned therapeutic Consent Required and form a foundation for clinical practice as interventions. Emphasizes the use of 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) well as identifying areas of interest for future therapeutic exercise and manual therapy May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. research projects through literature searches techniques in order to rehabilitate patients and round table discussions of literature. from both surgical and non-surgical orthopedic 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) conditions. Prerequisite: Year 1 Spring HAL Courses HAL 530: Critical Care Athletic Training 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Instructs the student in the recognition and management of emergent medical HAL 555: Healthcare Management for HAL 510: Strength and Conditioning conditions in persons experiencing acute Athletic Training for the Healthcare Practitioner trauma or critical illness. Topics include Provides students with the ability to analyze Designed to provide a comprehensive patient assessment, head and spine injury various issues, policies, and procedures overview of strength and conditioning management, basic life support measures, encompassing the ethical administration of for the future or practicing healthcare environmental emergencies, and sudden athletic training in a managed-care model. practitioner. Emphasizes exercise sciences cardiac arrest. Prerequisite: Current Includes US federal healthcare laws, legal (including anatomy, exercise physiology, certification in Basic Life Support (CPR). liability, issues, personnel management, and biomechanics), nutrition, exercise 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) facility organization and design, equipment technique, program design, organization, maintenance, budgeting, record keeping, health administration, testing, and evaluation. HAL 535: Clinical Diagnosis & care services, informatics, counseling, and Prepares students for nationally- accredited Treatment I public relations. Exposes students to principles Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist that enhance their networking, professional (CSCS) certification exam. Open to non Focuses on the principles of clinical diagnosis and treatment of orthopedic injuries to the development, and personal branding skills. SHTM students Prerequisite: ANP 300, HAN Prerequisite: Year 1 Spring Courses 200 or Equivalent Anatomy Course; Instructor lower extremity. Emphasizes the components Consent Required of the comprehensive orthopedic clinical 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) evaluation and diagnosis including history, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) inspection, palpation, functional testing, HAL 560: Nutrition And Supplement special evaluation techniques, and the Use for Sport Performance HAL 515: Foundations of Athletic establishment and implementation of Training Provides an understanding of basic nutrition therapeutic interventions. science as well as the use of supplements Introduces the student to athletic training 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to enhance athletic performance. Students and the role of the athletic trainer. Topics will become familiar with the principles include the historical development of the HAL 540: Clin Diagnosis & Treatment II of diet planning, food labeling, biological profession, concept of the sports medicine Focuses on the principles of clinical functions and food sources of primary team, and injury documentation. Emphasizes nutrients, energy balance, weight management strategies for injury prevention, assessment, diagnosis and treatment of orthopedic injuries of the head, cervical spine, and upper and physical activity; the role of nutrition and treatment. Focuses instruction on the in chronic disease development; nutrition recognition and management of medical extremity. Emphasizes the components of a comprehensive orthopedic clinical evaluation throughout the life cycle and current emergencies, training and conditioning nutrition-based controversies. Reviews techniques, and the fabrication and application and diagnosis including history, inspection, palpation, functional testing, special evaluation the advantages and disadvantages to using of taping, wrapping, supportive, and protective dietary supplements. Addresses scientific devices. techniques, and the establishment and implementation of therapeutic interventions. research on recommended dosage and potential 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Year 1 Summer Courses side effects. Addresses both the needs of competitive athletes¿ and everyday needs and 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HAL 520: Principles of Physical Agents concerns. Upon completion of this course, Introduces the use of therapeutic interventions HAL 545: Clin Diagnosis & Treatment students should be able to evaluate and make to manage a variety of musculoskeletal III recommendations about diet plans, dietary conditions. Emphasizes an evidence-based supplements, as well as maintaining a healthy Focuses on the principles of clinical diagnosis practice approach to making sound clinical lifestyle. Focuses on the analysis of needs and treatment of orthopedic injuries of the decisions for the use of therapeutic modalities. of various athletes to determine if specific thoracic and lumbosacral spine. Emphasizes Topics include tissue response to injury, pain supplements should be recommended to the components of a comprehensive orthopedic physiology, psychological response to injury, improve performance.Prerequisite: Year 2 Fall clinical evaluation and diagnosis including and therapeutic interventions for inflammatory Courses and non-inflammatory conditions. history, inspection, palpation, functional testing, special evaluation techniques, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the establishment and implementation of HAL 565: Research Design for Athletic therapeutic interventions. Prerequisite: Year 1 HAL 525: Evidence Based Practice Training Fall Courses

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Presents research design and related methods diseases and other medical disorders or practice upon graduation. Prerequisite: Year 2 commonly used to contribute to the evidence- disabilities as they relate to athletes and the Summer Courses based practice of athletic training. Provides physically active. Prerequisite: Year 2 Summer 7 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the necessary tools for students to process Courses and apply the skills needed to develop 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HAL 585: Athletic Training Clinical V independent research studies. Includes This course provides the student with their literature searches, appraising scientific HAL 581: Athletic Training Clinical I capstone clinical experience. The student literature, formulating a research question or This course provides the student with their will be supervised by a preceptor at all times hypothesis, and selecting appropriate research first clinical experience. The student will be during their clinical experience. The student designs and methods. Presents information in supervised by a preceptor at all times during will practice comprehensive patient care and the context of protecting human subject and their clinical experience. The student will professional skills and behaviors on a daily health information based on the policies and practice patient care and professional skills and basis in preparation for independent clinical procedures of the Committee on Research behaviors on a daily basis. Emphasis is placed practice upon graduation. Prerequisite: Year 2 Involving Human Subjects (CORIHS) and on topics related to the student¿s previous Fall Courses IACUC. Prerequisite: Year 1 Fall Courses areas of classroom study (foundations of 7 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) athletic training, principles of physical agents, evidence-based practice, lower extremity HAL 586: General Medical Clinical HAL 570: Research Methods for evaluation, diagnosis, and therapeutic This course provides the student with general Athletic Training intervention) and immediate incorporation of medical clinical experience through rotations Introduces the student to research in athletic concurrent classroom topics (upper extremity with health care providers in different settings. training. Includes the research process, read, evaluation, diagnosis, and therapeutic The student will be supervised by a preceptor examine, and comprehend peer reviewed intervention, critical care). Prerequisite: Year 1 at all times during their clinical experience. journal articles. Students will begin assembling Summer Courses The student will practice comprehensive a research project on a topic related to athletic 7 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) patient care and professional skills and training through the development of a research behaviors on a daily basis in preparation for question and the composition of a literature HAL 582: Athletic Training Clinical II independent clinical practice upon graduation. review and methodology based on their This course offers assignments in clinical Prerequisite: Year 2 Fall Courses proposed topic. The culmination of this course settings related to the student¿s area of study 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will result in submission of an application to (Principles of Physical Agents, Clinical the IRB. Prerequisite: Year 1 Spring Courses Diagnosis and Treatment I & II, Critical HAL 599: Clinical Continuation 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Care). This course will give the student the Clinical continuation course for athletic opportunity to observe and integrate skills training students only. HAL 571: Research Seminar I under the supervision of a preceptor. The S/F graded This course is intended to review parametric student will practice comprehensive patient May be repeated for credit. and nonparametric statistics that will be care and professional skills and behaviors on implemented into students¿ research design a daily basis in preparation for independent in an effort to draw statistical inferences and clinical practice upon graduation. Prerequisite: answer research questions. Once students Year 1 Fall Courses HAO receive IRB approval time will be allotted 7 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Occupational Therapy for students to recruit subjects and pilot test their research projects. If students complete HAL 583: Athletic Training Clinical III HAO 500: Functional Neuroscience their pilot testing, they will be afforded time to This course provides the student with their Presents an integrated approach to the general begin their final projects. Prerequisite: Year 1 capstone clinical experience. The student principles of organization and function Summer Courses will be supervised by a preceptor at all times of the autonomic, peripheral and central 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) during their clinical experience. The student nervous systems. Presents these principles will practice comprehensive patient care and in a systems approach to neuroscience. The HAL 572: Research Seminar II professional skills and behaviors on a daily anatomy of a system will be followed with Culmination of the athletic training program¿s basis in preparation for independent clinical its physiology, pathophysiology relation to research curriculum. Upon receiving IRB practice upon graduation. Prerequisite: Year human function and clinical relevance to the approval, students will recruit subjects and two Summer I courses occupational therapist. Clinical topics will collect data to answer their research questions. 3-5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) include neurological testing, control of posture The goal of this course is to complete the and balance, pain, muscle tone and spasticity, proposed research projects and develop a HAL 584: Athletic Training Clinical IV feedback versus feed-forward control, reflex publishable manuscript and a poster that can This course provides the student with their versus voluntary control, control of reaching be presented at a state, regional, or national capstone clinical experience. The student and locomotion, perception, and learning. conference. Prerequisite: Year 2 Fall Courses will be supervised by a preceptor at all times Prerequisite: HAO 519, HAO 561 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) during their clinical experience. The student 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will practice comprehensive patient care and HAL 575: General Medical Conditions professional skills and behaviors on a daily HAO 504: Introduction to the Historical Provides a working knowledge of the basis in preparation for independent clinical and Contemporary Practices of pathophysiology and management of common Occupational Therapy

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Introduces occupational therapy students to HAO 507: Clinical Conditions in 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the values and philosophies that influenced Occupational Therapy HAO 517: Universal Design the development of the profession, and those Addresses clinical diagnoses, symptomatology, that continue to influence current practices. and prognosis of many major clinical Focuses on adapting the environment to Explores conceptual foundations, ideas, conditions commonly encountered in current improve the client's quality of life. Examines evidence, and resources that allow learners to practice. Emphasize the impact of disease on the therapist's ability to help the patient begin developing applied skills and clinical individual physical, cognitive and emotional reintegrate into society. Covers Americans reasoning skills to support clients in achieving function and on families and society. Case with Disabilities Act; mobility (power greater participation in the occupations they studies will be utilized within this course to and manual); seating/positioning systems; want and need. The goal of the course is to enable students to relate major theories and adapted toys; augmentative communication have learners develop beginning skills for frames of reference to treatment approaches systems; computer access; environmental conducting contemporary occupational therapy for common diagnoses and medical conditions. control units; independent living aids; and practices. The course is intended to help build a vocational adaptations. Provides foundation 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) foundation for subsequent occupational and knowledge of ergonomic, work hardening, therapy theory and practice courses and functional capacity evaluations, and vocational HAO 505: Foundations in Occupational to provide a foundation for Fieldwork II programs. Exposes students to different Therapy experiences. Prerequisites: HAO 505; HAO occupational therapy work settings and Provides a conceptual foundation for 519; HAO 561 employment, awareness of federal regulations for work-related programs, and certification occupational therapy theory and practice. 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Instructs students on the concepts of requirements for this emerging practice area. occupation, activity, purposeful activity and HAO 508: Theories of Adult The lab sessions offer practical applications of participation. Through lecture and laboratory Rehabilitation principles discussed in lectures. Prerequisite: Second Year Summer and Fall Courses sessions, students will experience working This is the first part of a two part course. with the concepts they are learning. Examines Provides entry-level knowledge and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the philosophical base of the profession, attitudes necessary to effectively work as HAO 519: Kinesiology for Occupational and explores the meaning and diversity of an occupational therapist with the adult Therapy the frames of reference in contemporary population in multiple settings to support occupational therapy practice. Emphasizes occupational performance and quality of life. Kinesiology is the study of human motion. the centrality of occupation in health and Discusses and evaluates the core concepts Designed to establish a working knowledge of wellness, through balance in performance of the occupational therapy and physical biomechanical principles as well as detailed areas and contexts. Explores the impact of disabilities environment. Students will be able understanding of the osteokinematics and disability, disease, and injury on the person, to define the role of the occupational therapist arthokinematics of the various joints of their family and society. Students will learn as well as the impact of a multidisciplinary the body. Students will be able to apply how to break down and analyze activities for team on their role as a team member and their knowledge of biomechanics into real their performance components, as well as how within the continuum of care of adults life functional applications for a variety of to grade and adapt activities for therapeutic while applying evidence based practice. occupations. The course consists of both purposes. Group discussions on social and Prerequisites: HAO 505; HAO 507; HAO 519; lecture and laboratory sessions. Laboratory political systems will focus on how they HAO 561 sessions provide the student with practical influence the delivery of health care services. applications of principles discussed in lecture. 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Introduces the impact of culture on treatment In addition, the laboratory sessions will allow and health practices. Explores the concept of HAO 509: Occupational Therapy the student to become proficient in the areas of theory development, and how theories, models Theory and Practice in Pediatrics surface anatomy and palpation, manual muscle of practice and frames of reference impact testing, and goniometry. The student will study Presents occupational therapy theories, occupational therapy evaluation/treatment. normal and pathological movement, including assessments, and treatment processes as they its impact on function. Prerequisite: HAO 561 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) pertain to the pediatric population. Integrates several of the predominant models in current 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HAO 506: Life Span Growth and practice with material from previous and Development for Occupational Therapy HAO 520: Substance Abuse and concurrent coursework. Covers abnormal Occupational Therapy Provides students with a knowledge development, acute and chronic medical of developmental theories and factors conditions, their effect on the CNS, orthopedic This course addresses physiological, influencing the normal developmental process. and musculoskeletal systems.. Reviews major sociological, and psychological effects of Developmental norms and sequences are causes of disability, the etiology and prognoses substance abuse on the abuser and his/her examined with emphasis on physical (sensory Discusses the impact on the family and cultural environment. Presents drug classifications, and motor), cognitive, and psychosocial implications. Students learn about selecting along with effects and withdrawal symptoms. tasks. Discusses cultural and environmental age and developmental stage appropriate Discusses treatment models, philosophies, and influences on development. The coursework evaluations, treatment techniques/procedures. methods. Students will learn how to design covers prenatal, child, adolescent, and adult Students enhance their activity analysis skills, both individual and group interventions. development utilizing many frames of assessment, treatment planning, documentation Explores in detail the occupational therapists references from occupational therapy points skills, and professional interaction through role in the evaluation and treatment of of view regarding development. Prerequisites: laboratory, class assignments, and fieldwork. substance abuse across the life-span and HAO 504, HAO 561 Prerequisite: HAO 505; HAO 507; HAO 519; across disabilities. Reviews the use of 12-step 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HAO 561 programs and alternative treatment models,

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Introduces students the benefits of collaborative OT -OTA to upper extremity orthotics including the partnerships and the relationships between HAO 522: Assessment and Treatment design; biomechanical principles; function; policy, legislation and practice. Include of Adult Rehabilitation use; care; and patient education. Enables aging and gender issues, successful aging, This is the second part of a two part course. the occupational therapy student to gain an and community and home safety. Provides Learning activities focus on the evaluation and understanding of various physical agents a conceptual framework for the study of treatment of adults with physical disabilities. currently used in the rehabilitation practices. gerontology as it relates to occupational Examines injury, illness, disease and the effect Prerequisites: HAO 500, HAO 507, HAO 508, therapy and develops the skills and knowledge on occupational performance in the areas HAO 519; HAO 522. to understand major issues in theory, research, and practice related to the older adult. of work, self-care and leisure. Occupational 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) therapy theories and practice are learned, Prerequisites: HAO 505, HAO 507, HAO 508, including frames of reference, evaluation/ HAO 525: Vision, Perception, and HAO 522 assessments, treatment interventions, selection Cognition 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of age-appropriate occupation-based activities, Focuses on principles and techniques HAO 527: Sensory Integration Theory and activity analysis are explored. Students for the rehabilitation of visuocognitive and Practice in Occupational Therapy will have the opportunity to further refine their dyfunction. Presents the theoretical rationale documentation and clinical reasoning skills and specific skills needed to evaluate and Presents understanding of how sensory through written and verbal assignments and treat a wide range of visual, perceptual integration as a brain function as it relates apply evidence based practices. Prerequisites: and cognitive performance components. to everyday occupations and how sensory HAO 500; HAO 505, HAO 507, HAO 508; Includes a systematic bottom up approach integration is manifested in the daily life HAO 519; HAO 522; HAO 561 to the evaluation of the adult patient with problems of children who experience difficulty 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) visuocognitive dysfunction. Explores a variety with sensory integration. Expands sensory of treatment approaches and specific treatment integration knowledge base and skills as a HAO 523: Assessment and techniques that can improve functional clinical frame of reference by identifying types Intervention of Psychosocial Issues performance and outcomes, drawing from both of sensory integrative dysfunction; reviewing Explores the psychosocial aspects of disability the neurosciences and Occupational Therapy approaches to clinical assessment; outlining as they affect the function of the individual, frames of reference. Emphasizes clinical the characteristics of both direct and indirect the family and the community. Lectures and reasoning and the use of both remediation modes of intervention; and addressing the presentations will be related to the recognition and compensatory strategies within the issue of effectiveness research. Prerequisites: of psychosocial problems and how they can be framework of Occupational Therapy practice. HAO 500, HAO 505, HAO 506, HAO 509, better understood, minimized, or eliminated. Prerequisites: HAO 500; HAO 505; HAO 507; HAO 561 Provision of mental health services across all HAO 508; HAO 561 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) levels of care will be delineated. Multicultural 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) factors will be discussed as they relate to HAO 530: Community, Occupation and mental illness and the recovery process. The HAO 526: Gerontology and Health course exposes the occupational therapy Occupational Therapy Presents the importance of occupation as student to the DSM-V and the pharmacology Focuses on the role of occupational therapy a precursor to health, and of occupational of major mental illnesses. Psychosocial with the aged within geriatric rehabilitation therapy as a health promoting profession. theories guiding assessment and intervention settings (in-patient, out-patient and home Examines the theories and applications of will be thoroughly discussed. Interviewing care); long-term care programs; wellness occupational science through a review of the skills are demonstrated and practiced in the and safety programs; hospice; community professional literature and class discussion. lab sessions. The use of group theories, the based programs (socialization, day treatment, This occupational perspective of health will be structure and function of groups in treatment, adult day care programs), and alternative the foundation for each student's design of a the analysis of group treatment and group housing environments. Addresses the aging community-based practice program. Reviews activities and the therapeutic use of self are the process and its physiological, sociological, social theories, socio-cultural and socio- focus in laboratory and lectures. Students will and psychological effects, with attention to political trends that impact the individual's be introduced to and given the opportunity to heterogeneity and older person's strengths and health status and the delivery of health care practice a variety of assessments utilized in capabilities. Presents common impairments services. Offers experience in designing/ psychosocial occupational therapy practice. and disabilities and rehabilitation needs of administering needs assessments in the This course is to provide the student with the older persons. Students will develop and community, and in organizing outcome data. knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary demonstrate skills in evaluation, treatment Prerequisite: Successful completion of all prior to function as an occupational therapist in a planning and therapeutic adaptation, coursework. psychosocial/mental health treatment setting. documentation, and discharge planning 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: HAO 504 (including collaborative client and family 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) education), and demonstrate knowledge of HAO 534: The Occupational Therapy assistive devices, equipment, and technology/ Manager

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Assists the learner in creating a HAO 561: Functional Anatomy Review clinical competence. Examines the nature business plan for an occupational therapy Provides an anatomical review of all bodily of the supervisory process with strategies to service. Teaches skills involved in setting up a systems in order for students to acquire a maximize the use of clinical and administrative business, being a manager of people, basic working knowledge of the functional supervision. Explores cultural competency budgets, and services, using evidence to guide management,structure of the human body. Provides and the scope of diversity in health care. and how to manage for change. Prerequisites: foundational knowledge for all other courses in Emphasizes the importance of life-long Successful completion of all prior coursework. the Occupational Therapy Program. Students learning through continuing education and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will apply knowledge learned to formulate other methods. Includes lectures, presentations, hypotheses about occupational dysfunction role-plays and other exercises to achieve HAO 540: Prosthetics & Orthotics associated with abnormalities within systems. learning objectives. Prerequisite: Year One Provides the theoretical, psychomotor and Utilizes critiques of research to expand on Summer and Fall Courses practical skills of orthotics and upper extremity knowledge from lecture and lab. 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) prosthetics that are necessary for current 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) practice. Utilizes lecture, discussion and HAO 574: Professional Behaviors II laboratories to teach the design, biomechanical HAO 562: Principles of Instruction Builds on previously learned material covered principles, fit, function, use, care and patient Identifies issues facing health professions in Professional Behaviors I. Students will education involved with upper extremity educators and application of knowledge work on more advanced documentation and orthotics. Students are introduced to upper of key education and behavior theories for communication skills required for entry-level and lower extremity prosthetic devices. occupational therapy practice. Explores practice. Provides opportunity to discuss Prerequisites: HAO 500; HAO 507, HAO 508; commonly used instructional methods and professional behavior expectations from their HAO 519; HAO 522; HAO 524. applies these methods to a variety of teaching/ clinical fieldwork assignments. Use of the 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) learning situations found in occupational reflective journal to enhance professional therapy education. Explores standardized tools development, and the continuation of the HAO 549: Introduction to Research for to measure literacy, design of patient education professional portfolio will assist students in Occupational Therapy materials for a specific population, and developing and documenting their clinical Description: Provides a foundation for provision of health education information in competence. Explores the supervisory process future professional and scholarly activities a community setting. Prerequisite: Successful in greater detail, in the context of its use for and stresses the importance of research completion of all prior coursework. personal and professional growth. Discusses the role of the occupational therapy assistant for informed practice decisions. Presents 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) basic research concepts and statistical as a colleague and collaborator. Continues applications for the research process. Presents HAO 570: Global Communities, to emphasize the importance of life-long methods to review and critique published, Occupations and Health learning. Lectures, role-plays, presentations and experiential activities will be used to peer-reviewed research, identify research Explores innovative, non-traditional and achieve learning outcomes. Prerequisite: Year topics of interest, and initiate the literature emerging areas of occupational therapy Two Summer and Fall Courses review process. Provides tools needed to practice. Students meet and dialog with critique commonly used assessment tools in occupational therapy practitioners and/or 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) occupational therapy and to use and interpret other health care professionals who have HAO 575: Professional Transitional standardized scores. Requires the CORIHS developed private practices, are consultants, Seminar human subjects research training. Emphasizes and are involved in emerging areas of practice. professional writing skills for publications and Presents timely articles concerning health care Discusses issues related to transition of student professional presentations. Explores current trends and non-traditional/emerging practice to entry-level practitioner role. Presents research methodologies used in occupational areas. Articulates global social issues and information on licensure, certification exam therapy to facilitate beginning research skills. occupational needs for a variety of global preparation, NBCOT certification, AOTA Prerequisite: Successful completion of all prior populations. Builds upon student's prior specialty examinations, models of supervision, coursework. knowledge and coursework and integrates mentoring, job search strategies, marketing 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) AOTA's Standards of Practice, Core Values skills, malpractice, continuing competency, and Attitudes of OT, and AOTA's Code of professional organizations, networking and HAO 551: Research Design and Ethics, with attention to current and potential career goal planning. Prerequisite: Successful Methods for OT OT/OTA partnerships in community and non- completion of all prior coursework. Provides students beginning research and traditional settings. Prerequisite: Successful 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) critical inquiry skills through learning current completion of all prior coursework. HAO 580: Special Topics in occupational therapy related research methods 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and by the design of research grant proposals. Occupational Therapy Students gain fundamental critical inquiry and HAO 573: Professional Behaviors I Offers students the opportunity to explore and writing skills necessary to identify appropriate Introduces professional behaviors, including expand knowledge and skills in a practice area funding sources and write grant proposals for basic communication and documentation of specific interest. Prerequisite: Successful research and program development. Students skills, with a focus on expectations of completion of all prior coursework. learn to design qualitative research projects fieldwork sites. Students will learn the 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and analyze qualitative data. Prerequisite: concept of reflective practice, and how HAO 549 to use a reflective journal. Introduces the HAO 585: Disability Studies and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) professional portfolio as a means to document Occupational Therapy

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Introduces a social model of disability Students develop and/or implement their This second clinical fieldwork experience and explores the ethical and psychological research projects under the mentorship of provides the occupational therapy student with issues faced by people with disabilities the course instructor and a faculty advisor opportunities to apply the knowledge and skills across their lifespan. Presents historical who has expertise in their chosen topic. learned thus far in the curriculum. Students analysis, healthcare discourse, and cultural Literature reviews are completed and the will be assigned to a fieldwork site for 12 critique to understand the evolution of project is prepared in a format appropriate for weeks on a full time basis in a particular area health practice, cultural beliefs and social professional publication or presentation. of practice. Prerequisite: HAO 596 structures influencing the treatments, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 12 credits, S/F graded services, and opportunities available to people May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. with disabilities in the United States and HAO 599: Fieldwork Continuation internationally. Offers students a multi-layered HAO 593: Case Studies This course is for occupational therapy understanding of the issues faced by people This clinical reasoning seminar focuses on students continuing with Fieldwork. with disabilities and their families. Includes the synthesis of all clinical and academic S/F graded assigned readings, films, guest speakers, site coursework in formulating a comprehensive May be repeated for credit. visits, and one-on-one interactions with people plan of care. Emphasis is placed on students with disabilities. Prerequisite: Successful responding spontaneously to case presentations completion of all prior coursework. in class, much as they would be expected to do HAP 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in the clinical setting. Prerequisite: Successful completion of all prior coursework. Physician Assistant HAO 586: Fieldwork Level IA 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The first of three introductory level clinical HAP 501: Community Health and experiences. Offers the opportunity to HAO 595: Service Learning and Service Learning for Physician identify symptomotology, observe treatment Capstone Project Assistant interventions and formulate treatment Incorporates in-depth theoretical and practical Provides opportunities for PA students to plans in a psychosocial practice setting. knowledge for maximum integration of service learn and reinforce medical knowledge and Promotes effective communication skills and classroom work. Includes discussion, skills through service to local and international used with patients and professionals. Uses journals, essays and other reflective writing communities. Learning methods will enhance reflective journals to monitor development of methods. Explores reflection, action skill the acquisition of clinical skills, cultural professional behaviors and skills. Prerequisite: buiilding, and examination of theory and competencies and expand knowledge of HAO 504; HAO 505; HAO 506; HAO 507; practice of citizenship as applied though community resources for underserved HAO 523 community involvement. Students provide populations. Open to entry-level PA students 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 30 hours of service learning. A scholarly only. project will be the culminating activity for 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HAO 587: Fieldwork Level IB the program. Students will present outcomes This is the second of three introductory level of their service learning project in poster HAP 504: Professional Practice Issues clinical experiences. It provides students with format. Prerequisite: HAO 597 and successful Provides information critical to understanding the opportunity to identify symptomatology, completion of all prior coursework the development and organization of the observe treatment interventions, and formulate 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) physician assistant profession in the United treatment plans in an adult physical disabilities States. Explores the dynamics of PA practice, setting. It is designed to promote effective HAO 596: Fieldwork Level IIA including such issues as responsibilities communication skills used with patients and Fieldwork IIA is an in-depth clinical to patients and the public, professional professionals. Reflective practice journals will experience in the delivery of occupational regulation and involvement, team care, be used to monitor professional behaviors and therapy services. According to AOTA cultural diversity, and developing trends in skills. Prerequisites: HAO 508, HAO 586. guidelines, this fieldwork is designed to PA practice. Encourages the exploration, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) promote clinical reasoning and reflective critiques, and evaluation of professional practice; transmit values and beliefs that practice issues related to the quality, delivery HAO 588: Fieldwork Level I C enable the application of ethics related to the and cost-effectiveness of our nation's health The third of three introductory level clinical profession; enable the student to communicate care system. Open to entry-level PA students experiences. Offers the opportunity to and model professionalism as a developmental only. identify symptomotology, observe treatment process and career responsibility; and develop 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) interventions and formulate treatment plans in and expand a repertoire of occupational a pediatric practice setting. Promotes effective therapy assessments and interventions related HAP 505: Contemporary Issues in communication skills used with patients and to human occupation and performance. This Health Care Delivery professionals. Uses reflective journals to first of two level II fieldwork experiences Provides physician assistants an overview of monitor development of professional behaviors exposes the student to a variety of clinical important information and trends in health and skills. Prerequisites: HAO 586, HAO 587 conditions in a specific practice area for care delivery in the 21st century. Includes 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 12 weeks on a full time basis. Prerequisite: topics such as health care systems; health Successful completion of all prior coursework. policy and advocacy; information technology; HAO 590: Independent Study in 12 credits, S/F graded medical genetics and pharmacogenomics; Occupational Therapy geriatrics; health law; health literacy; health HAO 597: Fieldwork IIB disparities; and other contemporary topics. Presents opportunities for students to explore

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 117 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 in depth one special interest area. Open to post HAP 514: The Problem Oriented patient responsibilities and mastering medical professional PA students only. Medical Record-History and Physical information. The ultimate goal of these clinical 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Examination medicine courses is to insure that students The course provides students with an are optimally prepared to participate in the HAP 509: Integrative Systems organized, sequential approach to the history delivery of high quality medical care in both Physiology and physical examination. Students will be an in-patient and out-patient setting. Open to Introduces students to human integrative able to perform both complete and directed entry-level PA students only. systems physiology. Includes exposure to histories and physical examinations and 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) physiological control systems, emphasizes in accurately document their findings. Open to detail each organ system and how homeostasis entry level PA students only. HAP 522: Clinical Medicine II is maintained. Includes membrane, 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Focuses on mastery of the knowledge, muscle, central and peripheral nervous skills, and attitudes necessary to construct system, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, HAP 516: Problem Based Learning a comprehensive patient database and gastrointestinal, and endocrine physiology. (PBL) management plan. Students are introduced to, Presents material and incorporates select Provides students with the opportunity to and become proficient in, medical interviewing examples of pathophysiology to emphasize develop critical thinking and problem solving and performing a physical examination. relevance of material. Students will solidify an skills in a seminar, small group environment. Emphasizes the process of synthesizing understanding of the structures and functions Students will learn to connect the knowledge data to formulate a diagnostic plan through across all systems in the human body under and attitudes developed in behavioral, basic learning activities such as lectures, small normal conditions and select pathophysiology. and clinical science courses and apply it to group process, problem based learning, Knowledge gained of normal function will patient care. Increases student capacity to seek case studies, and clinical skills laboratories. be applied towards making predictions and apply knowledge as individual problem Data gathering and recording are taught about physiologic function in response to solvers and members of a health care team. in the problem oriented medical record disease states. Students are expected to gain Open to entry level PA students only. format. The diagnostic process is taught in a cumulative understanding of physiologic an organ systems (or medical subspecialty) 1 credit, S/F graded function and are challenged to apply this approach. Students learn to both recognize knowledge towards problem solving and HAP 518: Medical Director and manage physical and mental health interpreting physiologic scenarios.Open to Presentation Rounds problems. Students are encouraged to think entry-level PA students only. critically as an integral part of developing a Provides students with feedback on oral logical, sequential and humanistic approach 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) presentations derived from patient history and to their patient responsibilities and mastering physical examinations completed by students. HAP 510: Clinical Laboratory Medicine medical information. The ultimate goal of Evaluations are based on student's ability to these clinical medicine courses is to insure that Presents fundamental principles of laboratory critique an incomplete history and physical, students are optimally prepared to participate medicines. Strengthens the student's ability identify issues that require further discussion in the delivery of high quality medical care to select, perform and interpret the results of in the HPI and physical exam, write a complete in both an in-patient and out-patient setting. basic clinical laboratory procedures to aid problem list, and document an assessment and Prerequisite: HAP 521 (minimum grade of B-). in formulating a preliminary diagnosis and plan. Open to entry level PA students only. management plan. The course is offered after Open to entry-level PA students only. S/F graded students have acquired a foundation in human 7 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. physiology and anatomy. Open to entry-level HAP 523: Clinical Medicine III PA students only. HAP 521: Clinical Medicine I Focuses on mastery of the knowledge, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Focuses on mastery of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to construct skills, and attitudes necessary to construct HAP 512: Principles of Clinical a comprehensive patient database and a comprehensive patient database and Pharmacology management plan. Students are introduced to, management plan. Students are introduced to, and become proficient in, medical interviewing Physician assistant students will learn to and become proficient in, medical interviewing and performing a physical examination. rationally and safely prescribe pharmaceuticals and performing a physical examination. Emphasizes the process of synthesizing for patients in a variety of clinical settings. Emphasizes the process of synthesizing data to formulate a diagnostic plan through Emphasizes the integration of pharmacologic data to formulate a diagnostic plan through learning activities such as lectures, small principles and properties with the clinical uses learning activities such as lectures, small group process, problem based learning, of the most commonly prescribed medications group process, problem based learning, case studies, and clinical skills laboratories. and provides an opportunity for students to case studies, and clinical skills laboratories. Data gathering and recording are taught deepen understanding and application of Teaches data gathering and recording in the in the problem oriented medical record knowledge in the setting of patient clinical problem oriented medical record format. format. The diagnostic process is taught in cases. Reinforces and integrates course The diagnostic process is taught in an an organ systems (or medical subspecialty) information with content learned during organ systems (or medical subspecialty) approach. Students learn to recognize and the Clinical Medicine courses of the PA approach. Students learn to recognize and manage physical and mental health problems. curriculum. Open to entry-level PA students manage physical and mental health problems. Students are encouraged to think critically only. Students are encouraged to think critically as an integral part of developing a logical, 6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) as an integral part of developing a logical, sequential and humanistic approach to their sequential and humanistic approach to their patient responsibilities and mastering medical

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 118 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 information. The ultimate goal of these clinical the differential diagnosis and treatment of HAP 549: Clinical Skills for the medicine courses is to insure that students major psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, Physician Assistant Student are optimally prepared to participate in the personality and mood disorders, psychosis, The clinical skills course provides the delivery of high quality medical care in substance abuse, and somatoform disorders. physician assistant student with an overview both an in-patient and out-patient setting. Fosters an awareness of social patterns that of common clinical procedural skills and their Prerequisite: HAP 522 (minimum grade of B-). exert an impact on mental functioning. Open to indications, limitations, benefits and potential Open to entry-level PA students only. entry-level PA students only. risks. Students are taught how to perform 6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a number of commonly performed clinical procedures.Open to entry level PA students HAP 524: Clinical Medicine IV HAP 538: Clinical Aspects of Palliative only. Care Focuses on mastery of the knowledge, 1 credit, S/F graded skills, and attitude necessary to construct Provides students with knowledge and a comprehensive patient database and skills relevant to the practice of hospice HAP 551: Research Design and management plan. Students become and palliative medicine. Involves care of Evidence-Based Medicine proficient in utilizing the history and physical patients at all stages of progressive disease, Provides students with basic knowledge and information as they begin to synthesize including symptom management, restoration skills needed to formulate research questions data to formulate a diagnostic plan. This is and maintenance of quality of life. Focuses on and hypotheses, develop research protocols, emphasized through learning activities such patient-directed goals. Explores coordination critically evaluate and analyze scientific and as lectures, small group process, case studies, of services and care, using a holistic, team- medical journals, and to conduct computerized and clinical skills laboratories. The diagnostic based model and communication tools. Open searches and literature reviews. Describes process is taught in an organ systems to any healthcare professional who has an principals of Evidence-Based Medicine and approach. Students learn to both recognize and interest or work experience in hospice and emphasizes various types of clinical questions manage physical and mental health problems. palliative medical care. and tools available to answer them. By the Students are encouraged to think critically 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) end of this course, the student will choose a as an integral part of developing a logical, proposed topic for their capstone project. Open sequential and humanistic approach to their HAP 539: Hospice and Palliative Care to entry-level PA students only. patient responsibilities and mastering medical Policy Issues 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) information. Open to entry level PA students Introduces healthcare professionals to policy only. Prerequisite: HAP 523 (minimum grade issues and fundamental tools relevant to HAP 556: Teaching Strategies of B-). Open to entry-level PA students only. the delivery of hospice and palliative care. This course provides an overview of the 9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Addresses aging population; workforce issues; principles associated with effective teaching. healthcare expenditures and reimbursements; Students will combine theory and practice HAP 528: Genitourinary, Sexual and and advancement of medical technology. while developing teaching skills that promote Reproductive Health Includes ethics, barriers to practice, and learning and diversity within a variety of A comprehensive introduction to obstetrics medical legal issues. Open to any healthcare education settings. Topics emphasize the and gynecology (OB/GYN), female and professional who has an interest or work practical aspects of teaching and include male genitourinary system (GU) and human experience in hospice and palliative medical teaching models, student learning styles, sexuality. Students will learn about structures, care. course objectives, learning outcomes function, evaluation and treatments of the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) evaluation, and classroom ethics. Students will various diseases and conditions. Open to entry be required to complete a final project that will level PA students only. HAP 545: Ethics and Health Care for be presented, discussed and evaluated in class. 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Physician Assistants For post-professional PA students only or with Provides an overview of ethics in health permission of the Program Director. HAP 532: Diagnostic Imaging care in a rapidly changing society. Teaches 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Provides an overview of common diagnostic students to approach ethical dilemmas using imaging modalities and their indications, theoretical frameworks and decision making HAP 557: Introduction to Clinical limitations, benefits and potential risks. processes. Explores ethical issues surrounding Informatics Students learn how to utilize plain radiographs health care reform and public health policy Introduces health care professionals to and other imaging studies in the diagnosis of and includes distribution of resources and concepts surrounding clinical information disease with an emphasis on recognition of rationing of services. Introduces students systems and the practical applications of these normal findings and their comparison to the to the ethical perspectives of euthanasia, concepts. Provides an overview of the Clinical abnormalities found in disease processes. Open reproduction, transplants, genetics, research Informatics field including definitions, theory, to entry-level PA students only. on human subjects, pediatrics, cloning, stem technologies, and workflows. Focuses on 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) cells and mental health through case studies. topics related to the delivery of health care Reviews classic cases in health care ethics within the realm of the electronic medical HAP 534: Introduction to Clinical and their shaping of health policy. Discusses record systems, including policy, leadership, Psychiatry patient education and the Physician Assistant regulatory affairs and administration. Includes Presents key principles of psychiatric professional codes of ethics and standards. synchronous and asynchronous on-line evaluation and interviewing to include the Open to entry-level PA students only. learning activities. mental status exam. Focuses on psychiatric 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) problems seen in primary care, introduces

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HAP 558: Epidemiology the presentation in its final form, and have and physical exams, construct a differential Presents epidemiologic concepts used to developed a draft of a final paper. Open to diagnosis, make sound medical decisions, study health and disease in populations. entry-level PA students only. Prerequisite: 561 and effectively consult and refer. Students Provides information about the major causes of 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will learn to address a variety of personal morbidity and mortality, including methods of and social issues that influence the care of measurement and data sources. Observational HAP 563: Masters Project III the surgical patient. Prerequisite: Successful and experimental epidemiologic studies Students will revise the presentation submitted completion of preclinical year courses. will be described and their advantages and at the end of HAP 562 with input from 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) disadvantages compared. Students will their faculty mentor, who will guide them develop skills needed to critically review in developing a concise, professional- HAP 574: Emergency Medicine epidemiologic research studies published in appearing product, suitable for presentation Clerkship peer-reviewed journals. Introduces various at a professional conference. Students will Provides students with practical clinical areas of epidemiologic study, including present this to the faculty and other members experience in the medical care of acutely ill or cancer, molecular/genetic, environmental, of the class, and will be evaluated on the injured patients. Students will enhance skills in occupational, social and behavioral, and content, visual, and oral components of their obtaining focused patient histories, performing infectious disease/surveillance. For post- work. Students will also complete and submit focused physical examinations, mastering professional PA students only or permission of their final paper. Open to entry-level PA emergency medical management and decision the Program Director. students only. Prerequisite: HAP 562 making, and effective consultation and referral. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Emphasis is placed on student recognition of life threatening situations and the response to HAP 559: Complementary and HAP 570: Internal Medicine Clerkship such situations. Students will learn to address a Integrative Medicine Provides practical clinical experience in wide variety of personal and social issues that Examines the theory, philosophy, and caring for adult hospitalized patients on a influence the care of the emergency medical applications of complementary and integrative medical service. Strengthens the student's patient. Prerequisite: Successful completion of medicine within today's health care system. skills in developing a comprehensive database preclinical year courses. Presents many alternatives to traditional with regard to a wide variety of common 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Western or allopathic medicine, and how inpatient medical problems, stressing mastery these various models, systems and therapies of cognitive and affective information that HAP 575: Psychiatry Clerkship impact the delivery of health care in the United enables the student to recognize normal and Provides students with practical experience in States. Prepares students to best respond to assess deviation from normal, and effectively the recognition, evaluation and management consumers requests for information on the use consult and refer. Exposure to out-patient care of patients with mental illness. Through of therapies. Emphasizes an evidence based is often included. Students learn to address clinical interaction with mental health approach and promotes awareness of clinical personal and social issues that influence the patients and workers, students will develop research currently done in these areas. Exposes care of the medical patient. Prerequisite: an understanding of the biological and various methods of access to resources and Successful completion of preclinical year psychosocial factors that influence a variety of how to incorporate these approaches into courses. psychiatric conditions, and effectively consult clinical practices. 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) with other professionals and refer patients 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to the support services that are required to HAP 571: Obstetrics and Gynecology optimize the care of the psychiatric patient. HAP 561: Master's Project I Clerkship Students will learn to address a wide variety Students will work with a faculty mentor to Provides students with practical clinical of personal and social issues that influence the develop a clinical question and perform an experience in the differential diagnosis, care of this patient population. Prerequisite: initial literature search on a topic of interest. evaluation, management, and consultation and Successful completion of preclinical year Topics should be well-focused and may referral for normal and abnormal conditions in courses. include psychological, economic or ethical obstetrics and gynecology. Students will gain 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) issues in health care as well as diagnostic or skills in obtaining patient histories, physical treatment-related questions. Following review diagnosis and medical decision making HAP 576: Medicine Preceptorship by a faculty mentor, the student will submit through exposure to a broad base of patients Provides students with practical clinical summaries of selected articles as well as a with a wide variety of personal and social experience working with the ambulatory outline. Open to entry-level PA students only. issues that influence patient care. Prerequisite: medical patient. This preceptorship augments Prerequisite: HAP 551 Successful completion of preclinical year and develops directed data collection skills 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) courses. emphasizing a wide range of primary care 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) medical problems and their management. HAP 562: Masters Project II Cognitive and affective skills that enable Students will work with their faculty mentor HAP 572: General Surgery Clerkship the student to recognize normal and assess to refine a clinical question and revise the Provides students with practical clinical abnormal findings and effectively consult presentation outline and article summaries experience in the evaluation and management and refer are a key aspect of learning during submitted at the end of HAP 561. Emphasis of surgical patients. Through exposure to a this experience. Students will learn to address will be placed on thoroughness of the literature broad base of surgical patients, students will a wide variety of personal and social issues search and clarity of the presentation. By master the knowledge, attitudes and skills that influence the care of the medical patient. completion of this course, students should have necessary to obtain focused patient histories Prerequisite: Successful completion of preclinical year courses.

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5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) develops patient management skills in the health care delivery settings, and ethical and chosen medical or surgical discipline and must legal issues. HAP 577: Pediatric Preceptorship be selected in consultation with the student's 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Provides students with practical clinical program faculty advisor. Students will learn experience working with ambulatory pediatric to address a wide variety of personal and HAS 521: Disability and Health patients. Through exposure to a wide variety of social issues that influence the care of many Promotion primary care pediatric problems, students will patients. Prerequisite: Successful completion Examines the life experiences of people develop directed data collection and patient of preclinical year courses. with disabilities from a disability studies management skills and learn how to effectively 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) perspective. Includes a study of the history, consult and refer. The preceptorship stresses sociology, and psychology of disability, those cognitive and affective skills that enable HAP 588: Practicum and looks at interactions between people the student to recognize normal findings and Provides post-professional Physician with disabilities and health care providers assess abnormal findings. Students will learn Assistant students opportunities to apply in terms of miscommunication, prejudice, to address a wide variety of personal and social theories and skills learned in the program. communication, and health promotion. issues that influence the care of the pediatric A limited number of students are allowed to Explores the larger systems that can help or patient. develop a practicum project that is uniquely hinder health promotion including structural 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) designed to meet his/her needs. Students barriers of poverty, lack of insurance, will plan and implement a project within inaccessibility of services, architectural HAP 579: Geriatrics Clerkship one of the following areas: 1.) research, 2.) barriers and lack of transportation. Addresses Provides students with practical clinical administration and management, 3.)education, particular health care challenges faced experience in working with elderly patients. 4.)leadership/professional development, or 5.) by women and ethnic, racial, and sexual Augments and strengthens students' skills in professional writing. Acceptable projects must minorities who have disabilities. developing a thorough database and enhances include design, implementation and analysis 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) student understanding of when to request phases as well as a bibliography. Projects a consultation or make a referral. Students are approved by the Program Director and a HAS 525: Complementary and work with a wide variety of common geriatric mentor is assigned to assist in the development Alternative Medicine problems and learn how to appropriately of a practicum proposal. Enrollment requires Examines the theory, philosophy and modify their management approach to the permission of the Program Director. The applications of complementary and alternative indications, limitations, and methodology course may be repeated once. medicine within today's health care system. of diagnostic procedures and therapeutic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Presents the many alternatives to traditional regimens in the elderly. Students will also Western or allopathic medicine, and how learn to address a wide variety of personal these various models, systems and therapies and social issues that influence the care of HAS impact on the delivery of health care in the the geriatric patient. Prerequisite: Successful Allied Health United States. Addresses skills needed to best completion of preclinical year courses. respond to consumers' requests for information 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) about these approaches. Students will examine HAS 500: SHTM Advanced Standing the current body of research available on HAP 580: Orthopedic Clerkship Place holder credits for Health Technology and complementary and alternative medicine and Provides students with practical experience Management students. be introduced to the vast array of resources in the care of patients with musculoskeletal 0-9 credits, S/F graded available, the type of training involved in disorders and acute injuries in the primary care May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. license/certification, and how to incorporate setting. Students will develop the knowledge, these approaches into their clinical practices. attitudes and skills necessary to obtain directed HAS 513: Health Care and Older This course will combine lecture, readings, patient histories, perform focused physical People speakers, independent research and some exams, make sound clinical decisions, and Course is designed to maximize a student's expediential, hands-on work. effectively consult and refer through exposure understanding of policy and administrative 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to patients with a wide variety of orthopedic issues in delivering health care to older people. problems. Students will learn to address a Highlights examples of policy directions on HAS 526: Community Mental Health wide variety of personal and social issues the national, state and local levels and the Programs that influence the care of the orthopedic practical application of administrative tools in Provides a critical examination of the mental patient. Prerequisite: Successful completion of managing health facilities mandated for older health system as it has evolved in the United preclinical year courses. people. States. Focuses on the service delivery system: 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) how it has developed, what it is today and where it is going. Deals with the mental health HAP 581: Clinical Elective HAS 516: Health and the Aging system as a business: how it operates, how Provides students with the opportunity to Process it is funded, who it employs and how it will explore an area of medical or surgical practice An overview of information and issues develop in the new managed care environment. beyond basic required rotations. Students are pertinent to physical and psychosocial health 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) encouraged to choose an area of emerging of aging Americans. Includes demographics, importance in health care and PA practice attitudes, physiological and psychological HAS 527: Principles and Practice of and/or a potential employment setting. This changes, health promotion, disease prevention, Public and Community Health elective clerkship further augments and

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Provides an overview of the public health service, cost containment, decision making, term care facilities, medical practices, health system, the philosophy and purpose of public total quality management, and managed care. professional practices and other institutions and community health, the managerial and Emphasizes hospital operations, and presents and individuals involved in the delivery of educational aspects of public health programs, nursing home and community health care health care. Identifies legal problems affecting how the public health sector responds to center operations. the delivery of health care and addresses disease prevention, environmental issues, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) problems encountered by institutions and community public health provisions and individuals. other core public and community health HAS 531: Health Care Delivery 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) components. The impact of federal health care Systems reform on the public health delivery system Provides overview of health care delivery HAS 538: Health Economics and Public and the economic and fiscal implications of enterprise in the United States and the various Policy the system on state and local governments will forces that shape this enterprise. Discusses Presents an in-depth analysis of the effects of be discussed. Students will analyze the critical dynamics of care, evolving public and economic principles on health care and the elements of a health care system. private regulations and guidelines ,and rapid effect of health policy and economic forces on 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) technological advances. the health care delivery system. Examines the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ways in which these concepts may be used to HAS 528: Long Island's Community analyze health policy and improve the delivery Health HAS 533: Communication and Group of health care services. The effect of changes Provides students with an overview of Dynamics in market forces, human resources needs, community health concerns of Long Island Assists students in understanding and formation of integrated delivery systems, and information and resources for addressing improving interpersonal communication skills health promotion initiatives and the impact of them. Presents conditions that are associated through structured exercises in speaking, technology will be studied. with special populations such as the Native writing and interacting. Emphasizes leadership 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Americans, baymen, homeless, migrant skills in group interactions especially in the workers, rural residents, urban residents, health care fields. HAS 539: Strategic Planning for Health and the uninsured middle-income residents. Programs, Facilities and Networks 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Community health problems with high Conveys to prospective and current health incidence on Long Island including breast HAS 534: Fundamentals of Health Care program managers the fundamentals of cancer, Lyme disease, AIDS, and tuberculosis Management strategic thinking and planning and the will be covered. Reviews Long Island's Provides students with a realistic knowledge integration of these processes into executive environmental health problems with special management functions. Prepares prospective emphasis on those associated with drinking of management, not only the theories and techniques, but the ways in which they and current managers to fulfill their roles and and swimming water, agriculture, pesticides, responsibilities within a dynamic, changing and transportation. Discusses and presents the are worked out in practice. Emphasizes the essentials of management pertinent to medical marketplace where health care entities community health care delivery system and are undergoing a major paradigm shift, model programs and resources. practicing managers, e.g., organizational profiles, political and power relationships, changing from independent organizations 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) planning, organizing, staffing, directing, that provide illness-focused episodic care to leading, controlling and evaluating. Looks networks and systems of entities that address HAS 529: Community Health and at essentials as a system interacting with the the health care needs of populations over entire Patient Education manager's total environment - economic, lifetimes. Provides information on current trends in technological, social, political and ethical. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) patient education program development. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Emphasizes techniques used by health HAS 541: Strategic Management in professionals in planning, implementing and HAS 535: Essentials of Health Care Health Care evaluating patient education programs in Finance Designed for health services organization hospitals and other health care organizations The course is designed to introduce the student managers. Provides exposure to varied theories concerned with the educational component of of oganization and management to prepare patient care. to those types of financial decisions that health care executives are most likely to be involved students to predict and explain organizational 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) with, and to provide material that will help and managerial actions and responses relative them understand the conceptual basis and to public policy. Readings focus on four HAS 530: Health Care Operations mechanics of financial analysis and decision- major themes: organization/environment Addresses the operations within health care making as it pertains to health care. relationships, organization complexity, institutions from the macro to the micro levels strategic management, and the significance of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of management. Analyzes philosophy and economic theory in understanding organization significant occurrences affecting health care HAS 536: Health Law and systems behavior. operations in the past, present, and future. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Divisions within health care operations Acquaints students with the general applicability of law to the health field and the (clinical, support and informational services, HAS 542: The Impact of the Political health delivery system. Covers specific areas nursing, finance, and ambulatory care) will Setting on Health Policy and of laws (including statutory law, common law address the following aspects of management: Management financial forecasting and monitoring, staffing, and rules and regulations) applicable to and employee productivity and morale, customer controlling the operation of hospitals, long-

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Examines the influences and effects of politics Teaches the use of descriptive statistics such Introduces strategic selling methodology on the implementation of health policy at as means, medians, standard deviations and and looks at the health care buying decision. federal, state and local levels of government. histograms to report results of experiments. Focuses on the health care customer's needs, Analyzes the roles and consequences of Illustrates how inferences can be made both organizational and personal. The resultant various governmental and social entities from hypothesis testing and regression analysis will allow the student to better involved in policy implementation including analysis. Includes analysis of the validity determine how to add value to the health care structure and process. Reviews outcomes of and appropriateness of statistical techniques customer's organization and create a long-term selected public policies within the legislative employed by researchers in the health field. business relationship that benefits all parties. or administrative context. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Focuses on the key principles, methodologies 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and strategies of marketing, and expands these HAS 551: Research Design and basic concepts to include an analysis of the HAS 543: Health Policy Proposal Writing health care value chain: trading relationships Provides students with an overview of health This course is designed to acquaint students between the producers (manufacturers) of care policy making principles. Specific policy with the research and proposal writing process the health care products, purchasers of those formats will be analyzed using examples of in preparation for a practicum or research products (groups purchasing organizations, local and national policies. Students will learn project, including: identifying a problem wholesalers/distributors), and health care to develop selective health policies using case within an area of health care management, providers (hospital customers) that are end studies. policy, and/or practice; formulating a research users of these products. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) question or hypothesis; reviewing and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) critically appraising relevant literature; HAS 544: Principles of Managed Care designing a realistic study and selecting HAS 556: Foundations of Health Care Quality Management Provides an in-depth understanding of the appropriate scientific methods to answer the meaning of managed care in the context of the proposed question (or test the hypothesis); Introduces health care quality management United States health care system. Reviews the articulating the major strengths and limitations methodologies and examines their impact on history, components and various organizational of the proposed study; considering expected health care productivity, quality, and patient forms of managed care systems. Potential results and potential impact of study findings safety. Utilizes concepts of performance benefits, inherent limitations, and the legal, on health care management, policy, and/or improvement and continuous process social and ethical implications of managed practice; and communicating the proposal in improvement to improve product and service care as a health care delivery system will be a well-referenced and clearly written plan. quality and competitiveness. Presents history discussed. Prerequisite: HAS 550 of quality improvement in health care and application of quality concepts to improve 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) clinical outcomes, patient safety, patient HAS 546: Stem Cells and Society HAS 553: Research Methods and satisfaction, financial outcomes, and employee Design and physician satisfaction.Emphasizes Provides a multifaceted and interdisciplinary Presents process and skills needed to develop importance of data usage to monitor look at issues surrounding stem cell research, performance improvement activities. taking into consideration the basic science, a research study, formulate a research question history, public policy (both federal and or hypothesis, conduct literature searches, use 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) state), economics, and ethics. Students will library resources, critically appraise scientific HAS 557: Planning and Implementing gain an understanding of how each of these literature, select an appropriate research design Community Health Programs disciplines affects the complete issue. Presents and methods for data collection, and consider the basic fundamental concepts underlying the the protection of human subjects and health Prepares students to conduct needs research, what factors characterize different information, including policies and procedures assessments of various diverse populations and types of stem cells (adult, embryonic, ips) of the Committee on Research Involving to plan, implement and evaluate programs to and how they pertain to a quest for disease Human Subjects (CORIHS). Prerequisite: HAS meet the needs. Plans include detailed goals, cures. Investigates policies and legislative 550. Permission of instructor required. Cannot behavioral objectives, methods, resource and underpinnings of stem cell research that have receive credit for this course and HAS 551. budget allocation, including grant and contract shaped the course of stem cell research in the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) considerations. United States. Explores the ethical concerns 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) surrounding stem cell research and the related HAS 554: Marketing in Health Services impact on policy. Provides an introductory explanation of HAS 558: Epidemiology and Health Policy 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) marketing as a requisite component of modern business. While presenting the basic principles Presents the concepts, principles and HAS 547: Grantsmanship in the Health and general philosophies of marketing, the applications of epidemiology through the Professions course concentrates on the importance of use of public health case studies. Examines Introduces the grantsmanship process, in marketing in health care service delivery in a the distributions and determinants of both federal and private domains. Focuses on managed care environment. disease, human morbidity and mortality, research, design, preparation, and submission 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the characteristics of populations and the of grant applications. biological bases of health and disease. HAS 555: Essentials of Health Care Prerequisite: HAS 550 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Sales and Marketing 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HAS 550: Statistics and Data Analysis

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HAS 560: Evaluation of Community explored, as well as the practical application of financial implications and reimbursement Health Initiatives developing and writing a formal business plan. methodologies that impact upon them. Prepares students to plan, implement, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) utilize an evaluation of a community health initiative. Addresses basic principles and HAS 571: Issues in Health Care HAS 576: Workplace 2020 practices of evaluation, including identifying Management Provides an overview of issues affecting the goals of a community health initiative; The course is designed to introduce the student American workplace in the future through designing an evaluation plan that can to current trends in the United States health the year 2020. Expected working conditions, determine if the initiative's goals are achieved; care system, including trends in medical- human resources, schedules and technology implementing an evaluation plan; interacting legal issues, labor relations, cost accounting are explored as students learn how to plan for with stakeholders; and using evaluation results and managed care. Models of progressive advances and changes in the health system. to improve performance. Students are required programs and health care delivery systems will Through the use of case studies, introduces to design an evaluation component for the be reviewed and discussed. students to early experiments in organizational community health program developed in HAS 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) evolution and resulting applications to the 557. health care environment. Discusses issues 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HAS 572: Ambulatory Care related to diversity, team building and Management employee education. HAS 563: Computer Case Studies in Familiarizes the student with areas of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Health Care Management ambulatory care management. Identifies Examines problem solving in health care national and local trends and practical HAS 577: e-Healthcare: e-Commerce management through the application of applications needed to administer outpatient and e-Care personal computers and case studies. care programs and facilities. Introduces students to e-trends and their Prerequisite: Knowledge of spreadsheets 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) impact on healthcare. Revisits the traditional 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) models of healthcare delivery and disease HAS 573: Statistical Process Control management. Introduces students to the HAS 564: Health Information and for Health Care Quality Management evolution of e-care models. Addresses the Communication Systems Teaches health care management professional use of the Web in healthcare organizations, Couse acquaints students with the types how to incorporate quantitative performance hospitals, medical offices and pharmaceutical of information systems available in health measurement into daily work routines to companies. Includes e-business strategies, care and their applications to health care form the foundation for quality improvement- planning and development, e-health and law delivery. Includes an overview of various oriented culture. Provides strategies to gather concepts related to e-services in healthcare. health care networks, patient centered and analyze data needed to plan, implement, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) information systems, and imaging systems. monitor, and evaluate health care quality Reviews system platforms, electronic medical improvement initiatives. Prerequisites: HAS HAS 578: Leadership in Health Care records and computer assisted instruction. 556 and HAS 550 (with minimum grades of Focuses on the future role of the leader in the Students discuss the integration of health B). emerging society of organizations. Draws information systems with communication 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) on lessons learned from the past, in both systems such as E-mail, fax, pagers and theory and practice. Examines the impact wireless telephones. Through the use of HAS 574: Group Practice Management of leadership on the future quality of life, classroom demonstrations and site visits, Introduces the student to the practices business, learning institutions and society. students gain hands-on experience with several and theories of Group/Physician Practice Defines difference between management and health related information and communication Management. Provides fundamental leadership skills and strategies for balancing systems. understanding of the financial and regulatory and developing each skill set. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) issues that influence todays medical practice. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Presents issues such as leadership, operations, HAS 568: HIV/AIDS: A Continuing compensation, and clinical productivity for HAS 579: Advanced Seminar in Societal Challenge review. Health Policy , Persuasion and Communication Examines the social, psychological and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) medical issues of the HIV/AIDS epidemic Analyzes the principle of health policy- in relation to the concerns of educators. HAS 575: Long Term Care making. The goal of the session is a complete Explores and assesses how personal values and Enhances the student's understanding of health health policy statement/paper deliverable to the attitudes impact on the delivery of educational care options for the elderly, the existing system appropriate policy-maker/legislator. Students programs. of long term care delivery and particularly, the will have round table discussions about general 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) administrative aspects of operating a nursing public health topics and develop their own home. The course will include actual exposure health policy project. HAS 570: Business Aspects of to clinical and operational departments 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Managed Care in a nursing home and their roles in the Introduces the students to and expands on their interdisciplinary process. It will also include a HAS 583: Scientific Writing for Thesis knowledge base of the business and financial review of the rules and regulations governing and Publication aspects of the managed care delivery system. nursing homes in New York State and the Provides basic skills and information to plan, Trends in the financing of health care will be research and execute the writing of a scientific

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 124 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 abstract, thesis outline, research proposal and by investigators with different perspectives and are used to guide research outcomes. Explores develop current literature and raw data into tools for analysis. Offered in the measurement properties and discusses a form for written presentation to support Fall, S/U grading strategies to appropriately assess and select or refute a hypothesis. Focuses on scholarly May be repeated for credit. various outcome measurement scales. Critical writing and deductive logic, through the use appraisal of the literature will provide the basis of scientific data (whether from the literature HAX 602: Frameworks, Models and for making research methodological decisions or the research data book) to support an Classification Systems in Health and regarding selection of the most effective argument. Permission of instructor required. Rehabilitation Sciences outcome measures. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Examines the dynamic interaction between 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) health, disability, and community and May be repeated for credit. HAS 590: Independent Study contextual factors as identified using different Independent study proposals in health frameworks and models. These frameworks HAX 629: Evidence Based Pediatric sciences. Must have the approval of the and models will be expounded to recognize Rehabilitation Research Research and Directed Study Committee of the the influence of each solely and collectively Provides students an opportunity to develop School of Health Technology and Management in terms of health and rehabilitation research, an overview of issues related to the health prior to registration. disability studies, and behavioral and of America's children and adolescents. 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) community health research. Explores parallels Emphasizes chronic disease and disability, and divergences in approaches with particular nutrition, fitness, educational accommodations, HAS 591: Independent Readings attention to analyzing how students in varied and trends in long term health services and Supplementary specialized readings for concentrations can work together to engage in health policy. Explores the growing need graduate students under faculty supervision. meaningful translational research within the for evidence based practice and outcomes Topics include but are not limited to: domains of historical and present-day society assessment necessary for the development community and public health, mental health, and research paradigms. of strategies for optimal function of children health policy, health care management, health 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) with disease/disability and their families. care ethics, gerontology, patient education Students will review and analyze evidence and health economics and policy. Approval HAX 605: Research Ethics for interventions for a specific pathology/ must be obtained from the Research and Presents a broad overview of research ethics disability. Directed Study Committee of the School of and regulation. Conveys the moral bases 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Health Technology and Management prior to of scientific ethics, the historical evolution May be repeated for credit. registration. of social science and biomedical research HAX 630: Exercise Physiology and 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ethics, and the development, implementation and limitations of U.S. human subjects Physical Activity HAS 592: Special Topics regulations. Includes ethics and morality Provides key elements of exercise physiology Presents a comprehensive look at specific in science; science in society; scientific and instructs students in measurement aspects of health policy from all relevant integrity; misconduct; whistle blowing; techniques for the assessment of exercise perspectives. Synergizes scientific, legislative conflicts of interest; collegiality; publication capacity and physical activity. Reviews normal and ethical points of view and how their and authorship; peer review; history and physiology of the cardiopulmonary system relationship to policy formulation and development of human experimentation and presents normal immediate response to implementation. Students will expand skills to ethics and regulations (HHS, FDA); exercise, and long-term effects of exercise in effectively articulate details of the policy and Institutional Review Boards; informed consent, the healthy individual. Explores foodstuffs for develop an educated position on it. Dynamic waivers, vulnerable populations; privacy and energy production, metabolic pathways for discussion, essay writing and debate will be confidentiality of records; epidemiology; and production of ATP, and energy systems used utilized to gauge information comprehension research using animal subjects. in aerobic and anaerobic activities. Principles and opinion development. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of physical activity assessment and body composition and examines qualitative and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HAX 620: Rehabilitation and Disability quantitative measurement techniques across May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Introduces the Science of Rehabilitation and the lifespan and in disability. Assimilates, the Science of Disability. Presents models via lab manual, literature reviews of articles HAX of rehabilitation and disability research and addressing measurement. discusses controversies and commonalities 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Health and Rehabilitation between these areas. Forms the groundwork May be repeated for credit. Sciences of future coursework in rehabilitation and movement sciences. HAX 631: Electro/Neurophysiology: Topics for Rehabilitation Research HAX 600: Doctoral Seminar 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Provides a venue for faculty and doctoral Introduces basic methodology of clinical students to discuss all aspects of their HAX 626: Outcome Measurement in electrodiagnostic measures of EEG, EMG, research. Researchers will present different Rehabilitation Research nerve conduction velocity studies (NCV), H- branches of translational science and discuss Introduces outcome measures relating to reflex and evoked potentials. Interpretation linkage between research agendas. Provides impairments, functional limitations and of these measures provides access to the opportunity for data to be viewed and analyzed disability, general health status, and patient/ physiological basis of disability in peripheral client satisfaction. These outcome measures or central nerve damage and potentials for recovery. Examines the interventions using

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Collection conducting research in community settings and analysis of gait and other movement including models of community-based HAX 632: Teaching and Learning kinematics, kinetics and muscle activation by services. Covers the general principles of This course will introduce students to adult electromyography (EMG) are components of community-based participatory research, and learning principles and strategies for effective lab activities. practical and ethical issues in collaborating teaching of cognitive psychomotor and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) with communities, quantitative and qualitative affective skills and behaviors in academia. May be repeated for credit. techniques used in community-based Individual teaching/learning philosophical participatory research, evaluations, and orientations, characteristics of the adult HAX 637: Orthopedic and Anatomical interventions. Prerequisite: 24 credits of learner, learning styles, self-directed learning, Principles I HAXPH core courses or Permission of and reflective practice will be explored. Provides advanced concepts of orthopedics Instructor¿ 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and anatomy. Focuses on best evidence of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, and procedures used for a variety of orthopedic HAX 641: Community Mental Health HAX 634: Motor Learning and Motor conditions of the spine and pelvis. Requires Explores the policies and programs that Control active engagement in problem solving by address mental health needs of individuals This course will introduce the various theories identifying research problems, searching for with a community health focus. Students will underlying human motor control. Students evidence, and evaluating and synthesizing apply models of behavior and health to explore will actively synthesize and analyze current the evidence to answer research questions. topics of mental health including stigma, theory and research related to motor control Includes examination of select advanced marginalization, self-determination. Discusses and skill acquisition through examination of procedures and principles to enhance research challenges to service provision. Focuses on relevant literature. This course places emphasis investigations. the ethics of research with this population as a on determining the implications of this work 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) central theme. for future research, educational and/or clinical May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) practice. Includes early and contemporary theory, skill acquisition facilitation, practice, HAX 638: Orthopedic and Anatomical HAX 642: Participation and Health in feedback, transfer of training, modeling, part Principles II Pediatric and Educational Settings vs whole training, imagery, implicit learning, Continues and expands on advanced concepts Explores policies and programs that inform explicit learning and memory systems. of orthopedic interventional research. Focuses pediatric services and community based 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) on best evidence of examination, evaluation, research. Focuses on pediatric programs that May be repeated for credit. diagnosis, prognosis, and intervention of influence health and community participation. orthopedic conditions of the extremities. Includes programs that support health, HAX 635: Biomechanics and Requires active engagement in problem wellness, and community participation as Movement I solving by identifying research problems, well as those influenced by the Individuals Introduces students to principles and searching for evidence, and evaluating and with Disabilities Education Improvement Act interrelationships of biomechanics and synthesizing the evidence to answer research (IDEA) that supports children with disabilities movement. Includes physical biomechanics questions. Student directed pilot study will from Birth to 21 years. Prerequisites: 24 of the extremities as a foundation from incorporate knowledge of select advanced credits of HAX core courses or permission of which to apply biomechanical principles. techniques and technologies. Instructor. Involves learning to use mathematical 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) approaches to solving static problems and May be repeated for credit. lay the groundwork for solving dynamic HAX 643: Healthcare Systems and biomechanical problems. Reinforces HAX 639: Technology and Medical Policy Analysis biomechanical theoretical concepts and Imaging in Rehabilitation Provides students with an overview of the US mathematical models with lab experiments Examines a range of medical imaging healthcare system and major health policy that involve the manipulation of 3D kinematic, techniques available for use and interpretation challenges we face. Explores the history kinetic and EMG data in rehabilitation research. Includes and state of the US healthcare system, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) radiographs, fluoroscopy, MRI, fMRI,CT, circumstances that have given rise to current May be repeated for credit. qCT, MEG, TMS and diagnostic US. problems such as employer-based health Synthesizes the technologies and their insurance, challenges in access to and quality HAX 636: Biomechanics of the limitations, the methods of capture and of care, and the rising costs associated with Musculoskeletal System and Movement interpretation. Reviews evidence supporting or the US healthcare model. Discusses ways II refuting the sensitivity of these techniques in to improve upon the system, importantly Provides advanced concepts of kinetics in the determining outcomes in rehabilitation. including the Affordable Care Act, and field of biomechanics. Explores biomechanical 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) how this legislation was enacted with close attention paid to the policymaking process,

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The course This course presents process and skills will explore foundational disability studies HAX 644: Ethics, Health Disparities needed to develop independent research scholarship of the 1980s and 1990s as the field and Social Justice studies, including but not limited to, established itself first in the social sciences and Examines aspects of inequality and health formulating a research question or hypothesis, then the humanities. status as an injustice within the context conducting literature searches, critically 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of ethical theories (utilitarian, libertarian, appraising scientific literature, and selecting deontological, equalitarian). Determines the appropriate research designs and methods. HAX 665: Disability, Participation and influence on case studies of health disparities This information will be presented in the Justice and inequalities. Discusses cases such as context of protecting human subjects and Explores concepts of "Participation" and global and U.S. racial, class and gender health information based on the policies and "Justice" as they relate to disability experience. disparities and in developing countries. procedures of the Committee on Research Introduces research strategies, participatory Presents ethical issues relative to different Involving Human Subjects (CORIHS) and methods and methodologies for disability methods of measuring health inequalities and IACUC. studies research in the applied social and related policies. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) health sciences. Discusses ethical issues 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. in disability research and what it means to May be repeated for credit. disabled people in daily life. Examines social HAX 656: Qualitative Research analysis, healthcare discourse, and research on HAX 645: Organizational Theory, Students will learn the basic principles the evolution of healthcare practices, cultural Management and Leadership and techniques of effective analysis and beliefs, and social structures influencing Examines theoretical and conceptual interpretation of the merits of qualitative data. the treatments, services, and opportunities framework for understanding leadership and Examines how qualitative research captures available to disabled people in the United management styles of health and human complex phenomena that span the international States and internationally. services organizations and how they operate classification of function (ICF) and impact 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in a broader community. Identifies and applies on quality of life, illness/injury experience May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. strategic models to analyze organizational and recovery. Students will learn the strengths problems, organizational behaviors and and limitations of qualitative analysis and HAX 667: Disability Studies Language, processes, formulate strategic solutions, and how it complements quantitative analysis. Narrative and Rhetoric make sound decisions. This knowledge is Emphasizes several methods to represent Focuses on how language and rhetoric frame critical for the behavioral and community data, such as the mixed method approach, how disability is perceived, experienced, health field to understand how individuals and students will apply a range of analysis and treated. Included critical and rhetorical influence and are influenced by organizations. techniques through research exercises. analysis of professional discourses as 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) well as personal disability narratives and May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. memoirs. The society for Disability Studies, an interdisciplinary organization, says in its HAX 646: Social Behavior and HAX 663: Disability, Occupation and mission statement, disability is a key aspect Community Health Change Community of human experience.So is language. This Examines the nature of the behavior that Inspired by disability justice social movements course explores the interdisciplinary nature of takes place within social systems and how to in the US and abroad, this course presents disability studies and the roles language and effectuate change in these systems. Analysis politically engaged critical approaches rhetoric play in representations of disability. of behavior and possibilities for change will to disability that intersect community Some questions to be explored include: be placed in the context of health and public organizations, the arts and academic fields In what ways do clinical or professional health questions and will draw upon theories including occupational therapy, disability discourses and personal narratives reveal of organizational behavior, leadership, and studies and anthropology. Broader than a experience of power and powerlessness? mechanisms for action. medical category, disability identity recognizes How is the bodily experience of disability the political and economic dimensions of described in professional contexts as compared 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) disability inequity as it related to other forms to personal narratives? How does description May be repeated for credit. of inequality and disadvantage. Themes and perception influence the practice of HAX 647: Policies and Ethics in include all permutations of the concept of professionals and quality of life for people Behavioral and Community Health occupy;disability justice/decolonization; with disabilities? What assumptions about [participation and training for collaborations; disability are revealed through rhetorical Explores health care policies of the US health marginalization and minoritization; analysis? These questions will frame our care system and the influence on public health technology; struggle, creativity, and change. attention to representations of disability in and programs in behavior and community 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a variety of texts: academic, professional, health. Includes access and utilization of health literary, clinical, personal, and visual. Not to care, barriers to care, prevention programs, HAX 664: Conceptual Foundations of be taken for credit with ESL 592 and health disparities and ethics. Addresses the Disability Studies 1890s-1990s perspectives of the consumer, provider and the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) institution. Present conceptual foundations of disability studies beginning with the 19th and early 20th

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HAX 668: Emerging Topics in Disability HAX 699: Dissertation Research On Presents an integrated approach to the general Studies Campus principles of organization and function Focues on the intersections of disability with Dissertation research under direction of of the autonomic, peripheral and central other emerging area studies such as gender, advisor. Prerequisite: Advancement to nervous system. Presents principles in a class, sexuality, race and global studies. candidacy (G5). Major portion of research systems approach to neuroscience. Follows Encompass study of different emerging must take place on SBU campus. the anatomy of a system, its physiology, pathophysiology and clinical relevance to disciplinary areas of disability studies in the 1-9 credits, S/U grading the physical therapist. Introduces clinical social sciences, health sciences, humanities, May be repeated for credit. business, and technology. Explores the topics as they relate to neuroscience including connections between disability activism, art, HAX 700: Dissertation Research Off neurological testing; control of posture and and scholarship in the 21 century. Traces Campus- Domestic balance; pain; muscle tone and spasticity; feedback versus feedforward control; reflex emerging regional distinctions in disability Dissertation research under direction of versus voluntary control; control of reaching studies research and scholarship, especially an advisor. Prerequisite: Advancement to and locomotion; perception and learning. between Northern and Southern Countries candidacy (G5). Major portion of research Engages students in discussions identifying 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will take place off-campus, but in the United variant and invariant characteristics from one May be repeated for credit. States and/or U.S. provinces. All international system to another and how systems work. students must enroll in one of the graduate Prerequisites: First Year Summer Courses HAX 669: Disability and Health in Local student insurance plans and should be advised and Global Contexts by an International Advisor. 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Critically examines the experiences of 1-9 credits, S/U grading HAY 501: Growth and Development people with disabilities in a local and global May be repeated for credit. Across the Life Span context and examines the connections between the two contexts. Utilizes policy HAX 701: Dissertation Research Off Provides students with foundational documents, ethnographies, memoirs, program Campus International knowledge of typical human development. Examines developmental sequences with evaluations, and multi-media and provides Dissertation research under direction of an emphasis on biophysical changes, motor the tools to critically evaluate local and global advisor. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to skills, cognition, and psychosocial issues disability experiences as well as programs and candidacy (G5). Major portion of research will across the lifespan. Discusses the impact of interventions. take place outside of the United States and/ social, cultural, and environmental differences 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) or U.S. provinces. Domestic students have on typical development. Integrates didactic the option of the health plan and may also information with observation experiences in HAX 690: Independent Study in Health enroll in MEDEX. International students who order to prepare them for future coursework and Rehabilitation Sciences are in their home country are not covered by that requires application of these skills to the Independent study proposals in health mandatory health plan and must contact the atypical population. Prerequisites: First Year and rehabilitation sciences. Approval of Insurance Office for the insurance charge to Courses independent study proposal and credit hours be removed. International students who are required prior to registration. not in their home country are charged for the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) mandatory health insurance. If they are to be 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HAY 502: Psychosocial Aspects of covered by another insurance plan they must May be repeated for credit. Disability file a waiver by the second week of classes. HAX 693: Directed Readings The charge will only be removed if other Examines the psychological and social factors that directly or indirectly affect an Provides faculty directed readings and guided plan is deemed comparable. All international individual with a disability. Topics include discussion to synthesize selected content students must receive clearance from an identification of pre-morbid factors that related to the current course curriculum International Advisor. contribute to the adjustment or responses and/or to the students' research interests. 1-9 credits, S/U grading to disability; impact of disability on family Through the guided readings, the students May be repeated for credit. roles; the effects of pain on the individual; will learn foundational and advanced the influence of culture and spirituality theoretical constructs that will be important HAX 800: Summer Research on individual and family expectations of underpinnings of their future studies and Prerequisite: Pre-approved participation the health care system; and the economic, doctoral research. Specifically, studies in health rehabilitation sciences (HAX) sexual, and societal aspects of disability. may focus in the concentration areas of department activity. S/U Grading. May be Explores the interactions of the individual with rehabilitation and movement science, disability repeated for credit. disability within the community. Focuses on studies or behavioral and community health. May be repeated for credit. concerns of the individual beyond physical A critical analysis of readings may include rehabilitation. Topics include mental health theoretical constructs, methodologies, and/ disorders; motivation and adherence; humor or interpretation of results. The course will HAY in medicine; terminal illness; substance abuse; include analytical writings and a summative eating disorders; self-injurious behavior; paper. Physical Therapy and interpersonal abuse. Emphasizes the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HAY 500: Neuroscience for Physical utilization of psychosocial information in the May be repeated for credit. Therapy establishment of the plan of care for patients across the life span. Prerequisite: Second Year Fall Courses

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2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) neuromusculoskeletal concepts within of the physical therapist during transitions the patient/client management model. between delivery settings. Prerequisite: Second HAY 504: Neurological Physical Introduces orthopedic physical therapy Year Fall Courses Therapy I practice emphasizes clinical decision-making 4-5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The first of a three course series designed to and problem solving through on-going prepare second year physical therapy students hypothesis generation and testing. Provides HAY 510: Cardiopulmonary to evaluate and treat patients with neurological content that students will apply to paper cases Rehabilitation dysfunction during their clinical experiences. as they establish goals, organize subjective Utilizes the patient-client management model. Prepares students to examine, assess, and and objective exams, and practice screening Spans in-patient, out-patient rehabilitation and establish problem lists for individuals with skills. Information that is obtained during home care settings. Includes interpretation various neurological disorders. Examines typical physical therapy exams is utilized in of electrocardiograms and grades exercise fundamental testing and assessment skills for discussions to practice the evaluation process tests, and chest physical therapy techniques sensation, musculoskeletal function, tone, including ruling out red flags, identifying to mobilize secretions. Explores exercise reflexes, coordination, motor control, balance, yellow flags, establishing a physical therapy prescription for aerobic endurance training postural stability, and function. Students will diagnosis, developing a problem list, and for individuals with cardiac and pulmonary gain experience choosing appropriate outcome generating an intervention plan. Prerequisites: disease and the use of appliances in elderly measures and gain competence in performing First Year Courses patients with cardiac and pulmonary disease. these measures. Justification for clinical 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Emphasizes the use of physical examination decisions will be highlighted throughout. findings that direct chest physical therapy Prerequisites: First Year Courses HAY 508: Orthopedic Physical Therapy interventions, exercise prescription, and a 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) III total plan of care. Prerequisites: Second Year The last of three courses within the Courses HAY 505: Neurological Physical musculoskeletal sequence. Explores 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Therapy II neuromusculoskeletal concepts within the The second of a three course series designed patient/client management model. Orthopedic HAY 512: Prosthetics and Orthotics in to prepare second year physical therapy physical therapy practice of the upper Physical Therapy students to evaluate and treat patients with extremities and spine is explored with an Provides a theoretical knowledge base neurological dysfunction during their clinical emphasis on clinical decision-making and as a framework for clinical intervention experiences. Fundamental assessment skills problem solving through ongoing hypothesis when providing treatment using orthotic will include: PNF, bed mobility and trunk generation and testing. Asked to apply and/or prosthetic devices for clients control, advanced gait, and motor control of content to paper cases and establish goals, across the lifespan who present with the extremities. Introduces various treatment organize subjective and objective exams, and amputations, diabetes, neurological disorders, approaches and integrates approaches to create practice screening skills. Information that and pathokinesiologic deficits of the a comprehensive and patient-centered plan is obtained during typical physical therapy musculoskeletal system. Presents course of care. Skills will be developed through exams is utilized in discussions to practice the materials that reinforces course work from role playing, videotape analyses, and clinical evaluation and intervention process including earlier basic science courses. Students will patient experiences. Lab experiences will ruling out red flags, identifying yellow flags, be expected to recall pertinent content from require written and verbal justification for establishing a physical therapy diagnosis, previous courses, apply that information in student clinical decisions. Prerequisites: developing a problem list, generating a clinically relevant manner, and critically Second year summer courses and implementing an intervention plan. solve problems covering client examination, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Second Year Fall Courses evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment when 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) presented with a variety of clinical scenarios. HAY 506: Neurological Physical Prerequisites: First Year Fall Courses Therapy III HAY 509: Pediatric Physical Therapy 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The last of a series of three courses designed Emphasizes the study of atypical movement to prepare second year physical therapy patterns in children. Presents developmental HAY 513: Orthopedic Physical Therapy students to evaluate and treat patients with and long-term effects of neuromuscular and II neurological dysfunction during their clinical musculoskeletal dysfunction as they relate The second of three courses within the experiences. Offers continued practice to movement. Students learn examination musculoskeletal sequence. Explores and synthesis of examination data during and interventions for subtle and complex neuromusculoskeletal concepts within the evaluation process, however, major movement dysfunctions resulting from a the patient/client management model. emphasis is to develop and implement variety of musculoskeletal and neuromuscular Evaluation skills are sharpened as appropriate intervention strategies based on diagnoses, conditions, and syndromes clinical decision-making and differential the best available evidence for people with including but not limited to preterm birth, physical therapy diagnosis, prognosis neurological or neuromuscular disorders. torticollis, developmental hip dysplasia, and intervention are introduced in the Prerequisites: Second Year Fall Courses OBPI, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, framework of neuromusculoskeletal 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) autism, developmental coordination disorder dysfunction. These general skills are then (DCD), Spina Bifida and Duchenne Muscular applied to various neuromusculoskeletal HAY 507: Orthopedic Physical Therapy Dystrophy. Explores strategies for working dysfunctions of the lower extremity. I with children presenting at the opposite ends of Functional anatomy, including the The first of three courses within the functional abilities (severe/multiple vs minimal osteokinematics, arthrokinematics, myology musculoskeletal sequence. Explores handicapping conditions. Addresses the role and neurology of the lower extremity are

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 129 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 explored as they relate to surgical and non- 4.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) physical therapy interventions, precautions surgical neuromusculoskeletal conditions. and contraindications related to each common Prerequisites: Second Year Summer Courses HAY 524: Health, Wellness and health condition. Prerequisites: First Year Prevention in Physical Therapy 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Summer Courses Presents issues related to promotion of health 4.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HAY 515: Foundations of Kinesiology and wellness and concepts of integrative, Explores the essential topics of Kinesiology complementary and preventive medicine. HAY 527: Foundations of Patient Care and establishes a basis for future study of Examines and integrates general fitness, Emphasizes patient care in the acute care applied kinesiology. Introduces the study of nutrition and complementary medicine into environment. Prepares students for functional normal human movement including topics exercise prescriptions for the following chronic mobility training for patients in all settings. such as movement description, muscle diseases and conditions: cardiovascular Applies the laws of physics to body mechanics function, and biomechanics. disease; endocrinology and metabolic in order to safely and effectively assist disorders; pulmonary disease; oncology; 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) patients with bedside functional mobility disorders of the bones and joints; spinal cord training. Prepares students to effectively guard HAY 517: Exercise Physiology injury; stroke; depression; and intellectual patients during ambulation and engage in gait disability. Based upon the findings of Provides a general background in exercise training with assistive devices. Students will screens and individual client goals, students physiology. Topics include an introduction perform initial evaluations, create physical will develop, implement and assess the to energy systems and how they are recruited therapy plans of care, and use vital signs and effectiveness of an individualized wellness during different forms of exercise; an lab data to guide clinical decision making. program. Prerequisites: Second Year Courses introduction to cardiopulmonary physiology Engages students in simulation-based learning and the response to exercise challenge; 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) experiences and integrated clinical experiences and the monitoring of cardiorespiratory with patients of varying diagnoses and HAY 525: Advanced Therapeutic and temperature vitals. Students will be complexity to prepare them for their first Exercise expected to gain a general understanding of clinical education experience. Prerequisite: skeletal muscle physiology and recruitment, Provides students with the opportunity to apply First Year Fall Courses describe aerobic and anaerobic training effects, and analyze therapeutic exercise techniques 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and understand exercise stress testing and in order to formulate exercise programs for prescription. Prerequisites: First Year Summer diverse patient and client populations. Students HAY 528: Clinical Medicine and Courses will be encouraged to discuss and build Pharmacology II upon their knowledge of basic therapeutic 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Continues to build a critical foundation for techniques attained from previous coursework Clinical Education I and the remainder of HAY 518: Foundations of Exercise and and clinical training experiences. Advanced the professional curriculum by establishing Movement in PT techniques will be demonstrated and practiced a foundation in medicine and differential in lab. Students will evaluate, set goals, Presents an introduction to the fundamental diagnosis. Students are expected to utilize develop therapeutic exercise programs and principles of strength and flexibility. the concepts of evidence-based practice, the measure outcomes. Issues regarding frequency, Fundamentals of muscle and connective ICF model of disablement, and the Patient/ intensity and duration of treatment will be tissue function from microstructure to Client Management Model as frameworks discussed throughout the course. Prerequisites: macrostructure are considered in health and for clinical decision-making. In-depth Second Year Courses dysfunctional states through the life span. exploration of frequently encountered These basic principles will be expanded to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) health conditions across the life span explore the concept of myofascial mobility, will be the continuing format. Presents HAY 526: Clinical Medicine and extensibility and length. Students will combine epidemiology, pathophysiology, etiology, Pharmacology I the skills learned in Kinesiology with those clinical characteristics with subsequent learned in this course to begin the process Provides a foundation in medicine and medical, pharmacological and surgical of examination, evaluation and designing differential diagnosis. Introduces the management of each health condition. Students intervention programs for the movement concepts of the International Classification will continue to build a repertoire of medical dysfunction. Prerequisites: First Year Summer of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), terminology, medical abbreviations and Courses the Patient/Client Management Model clinical outcome measures to promote efficient and outcomes management that guide and effective chart review and documentation. 3.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the process of clinical decision-making. Prerequisites: First Year Fall Courses HAY 519: Kinesiology Integrates principles of pharmacology, 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) medical imaging and laboratory diagnostic Explores the kinetics and kinematics of testing to facilitate safe and effective patient HAY 534: Motor Learning and Motor normal, purposeful human movement. management. Familiarizes students with Control Integrates knowledge of human anatomy, medical terminology and abbreviations for physiology and biomechanics as it applies Establishes a context for the major explanatory efficient and effective chart review and to movement of the extremities and spinal concepts applied to the issues of coordination documentation. Common health conditions column. Includes evaluation procedures such and skill and learning. Foundational material will be explored, focusing on epidemiology, as manual muscle testing, measurement of from Neuroscience will support the application pathophysiology, histology, as well as joint range of motion, and gait assessment. and theory addressed throughout the course. primary and secondary clinical characteristics. Direct patient contact is scheduled. Uses academic rationalization and cognitive Discusses medical and surgical management Prerequisites: First Year Summer Courses processing philosophies to develop and refine and integration to formulate appropriate intellectual processes. Students learn from

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 130 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 historical perspectives of motor control to cases in health care ethics, involving issues historical, ethical and legal foundations develop skills necessary to pose and solve such as euthanasia and organ transplants from and current and emerging issues affecting problems, to infer, to hypothesize, and to an ethical, legal and historical perspective. change within the profession. Introduces locate needed resources for theoretically Prerequisites: Second Year Courses the format and function of the APTA at sound clinical judgments. Students read 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the national and state levels. Examines the original research papers and current literature roles and responsibilities of the physical pertaining to motor learning, motor programs HAY 552: Research Methods for therapist, the physical therapist assistant and dynamic pattern theory. Student will Physical Therapists and the physical therapist aide in the present analyze papers examining loss of function First of three courses designed to prepare healthcare environment. Explores dynamics of related to disease or injury. Prerequisite: First students to search for and critically appraise professional interactions with patients, families Year Fall Classes scientific literature as well as understand the and other healthcare providers. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) fundamentals of research methods, design, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and statistics. Includes principles of evidence HAY 543: Integumentary and Vascular based practice, use of electronic data bases to HAY 561: Professional Practice II: Physical Therapy search for evidence, research and measurement Clinical Education Presents principles of skin anatomy and reliability and validity, research design, Taught concurrently with theoretical and physiology, normal and abnormal would descriptive statistics, statistical inference, tests practical coursework in the curriculum to healing, and the anatomy and role of both for experimental comparison, correlation, prepare the students for their first clinical peripheral vascular system and lymphatic regression, and nonparametric tests. Addresses experience. Offered before HAY 595 systems. Discusses physical therapy the relationship between statistics and research Clinical Education I to prepare students assessment and interventions. Includes design by introducing relevant research articles for patient and caregiver instruction and focused practice in myofascial mobility and in the healthcare field. Prerequisites: First Year to provide students with knowledge of the extensibility, lymphedema management, Fall Courses roles and responsibilities of the student wound assessment, debridement, would 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and the clinical instructor within the dressing choices, and other available healthcare environment. Examines different modalities. Engages students in practical skills HAY 557: Introduction to Evidence learning and teaching styles and their during interactive lab sessions to demonstrate Based Practice effect on the learning environment. The competence and integrate information in Second of three courses that introduce the fundamentals of teaching as they apply to a clinically relevant manner to provide a concepts of evidence informed decision patient education, professional inservices, framework for future safe and effective making by exploring the evidence based and clinical education are presented and intervention with clients. Prerequisite: First practice (EBP) model and the five steps of the practiced. Students are introduced to aspects Year Fall Courses EBP process. Builds upon the integration of of verbal and nonverbal communication, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) research concepts that allow for the critical with opportunity to work in small groups for analysis of varying levels of research literature. application of these principles. Preparation HAY 544: Biophysical Agents in Review of physical therapy literature will for the first clinical education experience, Physical Therapy be used as a tool to integrate critical inquiry specifically clinical site and academic program Introduces various physical, mechanical and skills, depth of knowledge, and related clinical expectations, professional behavior, and electrotherapeutic biophysical agents. Covers significance. Prerequisite: Second Year Fall student responsibilities, are discussed in detail. the role of such agents in the management Courses Prerequisites: Second year summer courses of impairments and pathology involving 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiopulmonary, and integumentary systems. HAY 558: Evidence Based Practice HAY 580: Practicum Explores evidence-based informed decision Seminar A limited number of students may enroll in making for each of these agents through the Final of three courses that explore a broad 3-6 credits of independent study in research, analysis of appropriate literature. Prerequisites: spectrum of research literature examining education, clinical practice, or management/ First Year Summer Courses physical therapy practice. Literature will be administration. Each practicum project is 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) used as a tool to integrate student's critical uniquely designed to meet the needs of the inquiry skills and depth of knowledge. student. Mentored by faculty with expertise HAY 545: Ethics and Health Care for Students judge the strength of the evidence of in the area of study. Acceptable projects Physical Therapists each paper and draw conclusions regarding its must include design, implementation and Provides an overview of the ethics of health clinical significance. When lacking evidence, analysis phases. 3-6 credits by permission of care in a rapidly changing society. Explores challenges student to suggest ways to the Program Director. ethical issues surrounding health care changes strengthen the current evidence. Prerequisites: 3-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and public health policy. Includes an overview Second Year Courses May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. of ethics within patient education and 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HAY 589: Case Studies I discusses the professional code of ethics and May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. standards. Students will learn how to approach Develop's students' ability to utilize and ethical dilemmas using theoretical frameworks HAY 560: Professional Practice I: apply relevant knowledge and skills within and decision-making processes. Introduces the Foundations the patient management model including student to the ethics within physical therapy First of two courses regarding the developing examination, evaluation, and development and other health care professions through the physical therapy professional. Discusses of intervention strategies. Students will use of case studies. Includes a review of classic discover how the four systems (neuromotor,

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Prerequisites: First and controlling/coordination; marketing and guidance during the learning experience. Year Courses theory; business plan development; change Pre-requisites: All coursework prior to HAY 1 credit, S/F graded management, total quality management/ 692. continuous quality improvement; regulatory 2-9 credits, S/F graded HAY 590: Case Studies II agency and public policy impact; enhancement Second in a two-course sequence to further and maintenance of quality care including HAY 693: Clinical Education III develop students' ability to utilize and apply outcome analysis; emerging health care An eight-week full time clinical experience relevant knowledge and skills within the reimbursement models; and consulting course and the third of four clinical patient management model. With each Case approaches. Prerequisites: Second Year experiences in the curriculum. Allows the Studies course, the demand on students for Courses student to apply and integrate the academic synthesis and integration increases. Requires 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) knowledge, skills, and professional behavior students to examine, evaluate, determine May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. acquired in the curriculum. Students are differential diagnosis, prognosticate, develop expected to demonstrate intermediate and integrate intervention strategies for HAY 620: Cardiopulmonary Physical level competency in all categories of the patients of varying ages from diverse cultural Therapy I Clinical Performance Instrument (CPI) at the backgrounds with complex neuromotor, Introduces students to the interpretation of conclusion of the course. A licensed physical cardiopulmonary, musculoskeletal, and data from various diagnostic tests commonly therapist is responsible for close supervision or integumentary pathology/dysfunction. encountered in patients with cardiac and/or and guidance during the learning experience. Culminates in student group presentations pulmonary dysfunction. Engages classroom Pre-requisites: All coursework prior to HAY with defense of clinical decisions for assigned and laboratory activities designed to promote 693. case studies at the end of this integrative clinical decision making skills regarding the 8 credits, S/F graded experience. Prerequisites: Second Year Fall titration of exercise and the development Courses of physical therapy interventions, including HAY 694: Clinical Education IV 1 credit, S/F graded airway clearance techniques. Concentrates A full time ten-week clinical experience on the psychomotor skills needed to treat this course and the final clinical experience in HAY 593: Special Topics Seminar patient population and the clinical reasoning the curriculum. Allows the student to apply Provides opportunity for students to explore skills required to ensure patient safety and and integrate the academic knowledge, the literature in a selected topic related to the improve patient outcomes. Prerequisites: skills, and professional behavior acquired instructor's area of study or major interest. Summer Year 2 Courses in the curriculum. Students are expected Emphasizes the bridge between scientific and 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to demonstrate entry level competency in behavioral literature and clinical practice. all categories of the Clinical Performance Students will be responsible for leading the HAY 621: Cardiopulmonary Physical Instrument (CPI) at the conclusion of the seminar. Therapy II course. A licensed physical therapist is 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Integrates material from prior coursework and responsible for close supervision and guidance May be repeated for credit. utilizes information to develop an evidence- during the learning experience. Pre-requisites: based total plan of care for patients with All coursework prior to the HAY 694. HAY 595: Clinical Education I cardiac and/or pulmonary dysfunction. 8-12 credits, S/F graded An eight-week full time clinical experience Students engage in simulation-based learning course and the first of four clinical experiences experiences to help understand the relationship HAY 699: Clinical Continuation in the curriculum. Allows the student to between pathophysiology and signs and This course is for physical therapy students apply and integrate the academic knowledge, symptoms; choose and perform appropriate continuing with clinical. assessments; evaluate clinical data; design skills, and professional behavior acquired S/F graded and perform physical therapy interventions; in the curriculum. Students are expected to May be repeated for credit. demonstrate advanced beginner to intermediate respond to changes in patient status; and make level competency in all categories of the appropriate recommendations for equipment Clinical Performance Instrument (CPI) at the and community programs for patients with HBA conclusion of the course. A licensed physical cardiac and/or pulmonary dysfunction. therapist is responsible for close supervision Prerequisites: Summer Year 3 courses. Anatomical Sciences and guidance during the learning experience. 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Pre-requisites: All coursework prior to HAY HBA 521: Gross Anatomy of Head, 595. HAY 692: Clinical Education II Neck, and Trunk 8 credits, S/F graded A nine-week full time clinical experience Tutorial laboratories with emphasis on May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. course and the second of four clinical dissections of the human head, neck, and experiences in the curriculum. Allows the trunk. HAY 602: Issues in Health Care student to apply and integrate the academic 8 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Administration knowledge, skills, and professional behavior

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HBA 531: Nervous System an exopanded view of the functional anatomy Physician Assistant or Respiratory Therapy This course provides an integrative overview and arthrology of the hip, thigh, leg and foot. programs. of the structure and function of the mammalian Labs will be three hours, one day per week. Summer, 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, nervous system with an emphasis on the Enrollment will be limited to DPT students. etc.) human brain, the cranial nerves and the S/U grading neurobiology relevant to the oral cavity. HBA 563: Aspects of Animal It begins with a series of lectures centered HBA 550: Vertebrate Evolution Mechanics on cellular foundations, basic principles of Survey of the fossil record of vertebrate An introduction to biomechanics. Covers cell signaling/neurophysiology and nervous evolution. The course emphasizes the origin, freebody mechanics and kinetics as applied to system development. The major structures phylogeny, comparative and functional vertebrate locomotion. Considers the structure of the central and peripheral nervous system morphology, biogeography, and paleontology and physiology of muscle as it relates to and their functions are also introduced. of vertebrate animals. Laboratory included. adaptations of the musculoskeletal system. These sessions build foundations for more The lectures and laboratories will utilize an This course is offered as both HBA 563 and in-depth investigations at systems levels; extensive collection of comparative anatomical DPA 563. sensory, motor, higher order, homeostatic material, fossil casts, and slides. Prerequisites: Introductory physics and and cranial systems are emphasized. For Prerequisite: Previous course in human biology or permission of instructor. most topics, basic principles are reinforced or vertebrate anatomy and permission of Spring, odd years, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, using clinical examples from different dental instructor. A-, B+, etc.) disciplines and the interactive lectures are Spring, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter complemented and extended in student graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HBA 564: Primate Evolution working group sessions that use the primary The taxonomic relationships and evolutionary literature, case-based problem solving and HBA 551: Phylogenetic Systematics, history of primates as documented by their other forms of active learning to solidify Biogeography and Comparative fossil record and structural and chemical learning and make clinical connections. This Methods evidence. Emphasis on primates prior to the course represents a coordinated teaching effort This course will provide students with a origin of the human lineage. This course is from the Departments of Neurobiology and familiarity in the practical application of offered as ANT 564, DPA 564 and HBA 564. Behavior, and Anesthesiology. modern phylogenetic methods and the use Spring, even years, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, 8 credits, S/F graded of phylogenies in framing evolutionary A-, B+, etc.) hypotheses. The course will have both a HBA 540: Human Anatomy for Physical lecture and laboratory component with lectures HBA 565: Human Evolution Therapists including in-class discussions of assigned A survey of the fossil record of hominid A lecture and laboratory course that includes readings. Lab exercises will be devoted to evolution through the Pliocene and Pleistocene dissections of the entire human body. The hands-on experience with available software with emphasis on the morphological structure course is organized in three modules: (1) for phylogenetic and comparative methods. and function of locomotor, masticatory, thorax and abdomen, (2) head and neck, Comparative methods examined will include and neural systems. Includes utilization of including neuroanatomy, and (3) limbs. It a focus on historical biogeography as well comparative anatomical material and an covers regional and conceptual information as ancestral state reconstruction, rates of extensive cast collection. This course is offered on the gross anatomy of all organ systems in evolution and diversification, and analysis of as ANT 565, DPA 565 and HBA 565. the human body. Prerequisite: permission of adaptation and key innovations. Fall, even years, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, instructor for students that are not enrolled in 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Stony Brooks Physical Therapy Program. A-, B+, etc.) 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HBA 560: Advanced Regional Anatomy HBA 566: Studies in Functional Advanced human gross anatomy for graduate Morphology HBA 541: Evolutionary Anatomy students or advanced undergraduates in Introduction to the theory and methods of A lecture and laboratory with emphasis on biology, anthropology and other life sciences. functional morphology. Various methods of dissection of the entire human body. Includes Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. analysis and the application of experimental functional and comparative anatomy with Fall, Summer, 3-8 credits, Letter graded (A, techniques such as electromyography or bone special emphasis on the musculoskeletal A-, B+, etc.) strain analysis are discussed as they pertain to morphology of humans and higher primates. the understanding of the interaction between This course is offered as both DPA 541 and HBA 561: Human Gross Anatomy form and function. Special emphasis is placed HBA 541. A lecture and laboratory course that includes on the analysis of human and nonhuman Prerequisite: permission of instructor dissections of the entire human body. The primate morphology, and the application of Fall, 8 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course is organized in three modules: (1) this analysis to interpretation of the fossil thorax and abdomen, (2) head and neck, evidence for human and nonhuman primate HBA 542: Advanced Human Anatomy including neuronatomy, and (3) limbs. It evolution. This course is offered as both HBA for Physical Therapists covers regional and conceptual information 566 and DPA 566. Regional approach to the gross anatomy of on the gross anatomy of all organ systems in Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. the lower limb for physical therapy graduate the human body. Prerequisite: permission of Spring, even years, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, students (DPT). The course is presented in instructor for students that are not enrolled A-, B+, etc.) conjunction with HYA519, Kinesiology for in Stony Brook's Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapists. This module will offer

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HBA 582: Comparative Anatomy of Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Basic principles and mechanism of drug Primates (G5). Major portion of research will take place distribution, absorption, metabolism The comparative anatomy of living primates. off-campus, but in the United States and/ and elimination. Principles of chemical Laboratory dissection with emphasis on or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven carcinogenesis and tumor promotion. relating structural diversity to behavior and National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Autonomic, Smooth Muscle and CNS biomechanics. This course is offered as both are considered on-campus. All international Pharmacology. Pharmacology of specific HBA 582 and DPA 582. students must enroll in one of the graduate drugs of historical interest including alcohol, student insurance plans and should be advised antibiotics, aspirin, nicotine and morphine. Prerequisites: HBA 364 and previous by an International Advisor. Review of anticoagulants & thrombolytic course in human or vertebrate anatomy and agents, antiparasitic, and drugs for the permission of instructor. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading treatment of allergic conditions and gout. Spring, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter May be repeated for credit. Includes discussion of specific cases taken graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HBA 701: Dissertation Research off from clinical practice and a presentation based HBA 590: Projects in Anatomical Campus - International on a set of selected readings. Crosslisted with Sciences Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy BCP 401 Individual laboratory projects closely (G5). Major portion of research will take Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) supervised by faculty members to be carried place outside of the United States and/or HBH 502: Advanced Principles of out in staff research laboratories. U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the option of the health plan and may also enroll Pharmacology Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. in MEDEX. International students who are Advanced concepts of drug metabolism, Fall and Spring, 1-6 credits, S/U grading in their home country are not covered by pharmacokinetics, biochemical and molecular May be repeated 4 times FOR credit. mandatory health plan and must contact the mechanisms of drug action and drug resistance HBA 690: Graduate Seminar Insurance Office for the insurance charge to in human disease states. Toxicological be removed. International students who are agents and environmental pollutants. Seminars by graduate students on current not in their home country are charged for the The pharmacology of autocoids, anti- literature in the areas of the anatomical mandatory health insurance. If they are to be inflammatories, immunosuppressants and anti- sciences. covered by another insurance plan they must asthmatics. Rational drug design and drug Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. file a waiver be second week of classes. The receptor interactions using computer molecular Fall and Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading charge will only be removed if other plan is modeling techniques. Includes discussion of May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. deemed comparable. specific cases taken from clinical practice All international students must received and a presentation based on a set of selected HBA 692: Advanced Topics in readings. Cross-listed with BCP 402 Anatomical Sciences Literature clearance from an International Advisor. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Tutorial readings in anatomical sciences with May be repeated for credit. etc.) periodic conferences, reports and examinations arranged with the instructor. HBA 800: Full-Time Summer Research HBH 505: Pharmacology to Pharmacy: Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Full-time laboratory research projects Practical Clinical Aspects for Non- Fall and Spring, 1-2 credits, S/U grading supervised by staff members. Clinicians (Didactic) May be repeated for credit. S/U grading This course, to be offered exclusively online, May be repeated for credit. is designed for students interested in health HBA 695: Practicum in Teaching care (either basic medical science-oriented or Practical instruction in the teaching of clinical). The class introduces many aspects anatomical sciences carried out under faculty HBC of clinical pharmacology, but is geared supervision. toward non-clinicians. Clinical Vignettes and 1-4 credits, S/U grading Biochemistry case discussions will be presented. Several May be repeated for credit. medical procedures will be first described HBC 531: Molecular Foundations of and then demonstrated. Understanding these HBA 699: Dissertation Research on Medicine procedures will be integral to appreciating the Campus An integrated course covering the important vignettes and clinical case discussions. The Original investigation under supervision of aspects of biochemistry, cell biology, human multidisciplinary course faculty will include thesis adviser and committee. and molecular genetics, and histology. physicians, scientists, educators, nurses and Includes lectures, small group conferences and pharmacists. Enrolled students will have the Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5); laboratories and stresses the clinical relevance opportunity to ask questions directly through permission of thesis advisor. Major portion of the basic science material. online chats. of research must take place on SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Brookhaven 8 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 0-3 credits, S/U grading National Lab. Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U HBH 506: Graduate Pharmacology grading HBH Colloquium May be repeated for credit. Pharmacology Research seminars in pharmacology and toxicology presented by faculty and HBA 700: Dissertation Research off HBH 501: Principles of Pharmacology distinguished scientists from academic and Campus - Domestic industrial institutions. A 1 hr. Journal Club/

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Discussion Session precedes seminar to Introduces theoretical principles and comparison of independent and paired review a reference paper relevant to the experimental techniques used in modern samples, analysis of categorical data, research concepts to be presented. Students biochemical research. Lectures and homework correlation, ANOVA, linear regression, and are expected to develop an understanding assignments explore topics in basic molecular nonparametric test. of the scientific principles given in the and cellular techniques. Prerequisites: 1 credit, S/U grading colloquium. Students are required to give a Admission to Health Sciences Center program. May be repeated for credit. formal presentation. Co-scheduled with BCP Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 406. Offered May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. HBH 560: Proposal Preparation in Spring, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Regulatory Biology etc.) HBH 546: Biochemical Laboratory A literature-based course focusing on major May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. Techniques research areas in molecular and biochemical Continuation of HBH545. Lectures pharmacology. The first part of the course HBH 510: Practical Clinical Exposure and demonstrations present topics in will expose students to a series of examples for Translational Basic Scientists chromatography, mass spectrometry, protein of recent grant proposals. The second part of Hospital Clinical Rotations-Physician sequencing, sedimentation, electrophoresis, the course will feature student presentations Course faculty will arrange two, two- ligand binding, basic pharmacological methods of their research proposals. Due to the week-long rotations (four weeks total). and statistical analysis of data. Includes coordination of this course with the Qualifying The following services are committed to procedures for the safe handling of toxic Exam, registration is limited to Pharmacology participate: Anesthesiology-students will be chemicals and radioisotopes. Prerequisites: graduate students. offered opportunities in operating room (OR) Permission of instructor, admission to graduate Fall and Spring, 2 credits, S/U grading observation; pre-admission patient evaluations; Health Sciences Center program. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. pain management clinic; and others depending Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) upon availability. Internal Medicine-students May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. HBH 580: Selected Topics in will be offered opportunities in the medical Pharmacology intensive care unit (MICU); coronary care HBH 549: Legal & Regulatory Issues in Student seminars and readings on topics unit (CCU); medical oncology; and others Clinical Research combined with Ethics arranged through consultation with staff. depending upon availability. Others-depending &Professionalism in Clin. Rsrch. 0-1 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) upon availability. Student will be expected to Some of the sessions are part of the SBU May be repeated for credit. spend 3-4 hours daily in their assigned clinical course on Responsible Conduct of Research activates (15-20 hours weekly; 60-80 hours and Scholarship (RCRS, formerly known HBH 585: Advanced Structural for the course). In addition, they will be asked as GRD 500). During the course, major Biology/Structural Methods in Drug to participate in special medical exercises contemporary issues in legal and regulatory Discovery arranged for them on an ad hoc basis by course arenas associated with scientific research are This course is designed for students that want faculty, both in the hospital pharmacy and discussed. The course introduces students elsewhere. Finally all students will attend to gain theoretical and practical experience to the history behind the regulations that in macromolecular structure determination weekly case conferences, 2hr each for all 4 safeguard human subjects, and educates weeks. At these conferences, students will through NMR spectroscopy and/or X-ray students in detail about their responsibilities crystallography. The course is organized be asked to prepare and present two clinical as clinical investigators. Using an interactive cases, based on two of the patients they have into two modules: NMR spectroscopy and case based format the topics covered include: X-ray crystallography. Students may elect seen on their clinical rotations. It is expected justification for human research and reasonable that each student will be responsible for at to take one or both modules. Emphasis will balance of risk versus benefits; the use of be placed on practical aspects of structural least two presentations during the four-week animals in research; informed consent; the course. Presentations will be graded by course determination, including sample preparation, ethical challenges of clinical research; ethical data collection and processing. In each of the faculty, S (satisfactory) or U (unsatisfactory). concerns associated with genetic testing and The final grade for the course, also S or U, will modules, students will be guided through a screening; research in minors and adults of complete structural determination project. be determined both by these grades as well as questionable capacity to consent; conflict by overall attendance at all course activities. A final project report per module will be of interest; investigator responsibilities with required. Familiarity with Linux is desirable. 0-3 credits, S/U grading regard to fulfilling government regulation; Students are encouraged to contact instructors May be repeated for credit. scientific fraud and whistle blowing; the prior to enrolling. Crosslisted as BSB580 and scientific community and mentoring; HBH585. HBH 531: Pharmacology-Dental authorship and attribution; special populations Spring, 0-4 credits, S/U grading Basic principles that underlie actions of drugs and inclusion of minorities; and emergency on physiological processes with particular research-related special requirements. HBH 590: Pharmacology Seminars reference to their therapeutic and toxic actions. 1 credit, For medical and dental students. Prerequisites: Advanced research seminars by staff and visiting lecturers. Physiology, biochemistry, permission of HBH 550: Statistics in Life Sciences Prerequisites: Full-time pharmacology instructor and admission to Graduate Health This course covers statistical concepts and graduate status Sciences Center Program. Modules 4-6, issues in the life sciences. Basic algebra is Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) assumed as a prerequisite. Topics covered May be repeated for credit. include: descriptive statistics, foundation of HBH 545: Biochemical Laboratory statistical inference, sampling distribution, Techniques point estimate and confidence internal,

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HBH 599: Graduate Research in course and to actively participate in group Original investigation undertaken as part Pharmacological Sciences discussion. of the Ph.D. program under supervision of Original research projects under faculty 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) thesis adviser and committee. Prerequisite: supervision. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Advancement to candidacy (G5); permission of thesis advisor. Major portion of research Prerequisites: Full-time pharmacology HBH 633: Quantitative Methods in must take place on SBU campus, at Cold graduate status Pharmacology Spring Harbor, or at the Brookhaven National Fall, Spring, and Summer, 0-12 credits, Letter Lab. graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course introduces second-year graduate May be repeated for credit. students to the quantitative approaches that Prerequisite: Full-time pharmacology underlie modern research in Pharmacology. graduate status HBH 601: Practicum in Teaching Students will be exposed to tools and Fall, Spring, and Summer, 0-9 credits, S/U Pharmacology techniques that are widely applied in different grading Practical experience and instruction in the fields of biomedical research. Students will May be repeated for credit. teaching of pharmacology carried out under receive an introduction to the command line, HBH 700: Dissertation Research off faculty orientation and supervision. coding and statistics, and learn to apply these tools to pharmacokinetic compartmental Campus - Domestic Prerequisites: Full-time pharmacology analysis, molecular modeling, image analysis, Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy graduate status structural biology, biological big data analysis (G5). Major portion of research will take place Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading and genomics. Students will be actively off-campus, but in the United States and/ May be repeated 5 times FOR credit. engaged in data analysis and will be expected or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven HBH 631: Graduate Pharmacology I to participate in group discussion. National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab are considered on-campus. All international Basic principles of pharmacology will be 3 credits, students must enroll in one of the graduate discussed including pharmacokinetics and HBH 655: Neuropharmacology student insurance plans and should be advised pharmacodynamics in both normal and by an International Advisor. various disease states. Major problems in An advanced course for graduate students human pharmacology will be considered interested in developing an understanding Prerequisite: Full-time pharmacology including obesity, diabetes, hypertension of neuropharmacology and research on this graduate status and heart failure. Underlying physiology as topic. Following a general introduction to the Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading well as pathophysiologic background will be nerve cell structure, synaptic and chemical May be repeated for credit. presented. Drug design and development will transmission, three themes receptors, receptors HBH 701: Dissertation Research off be discussed from both scientific and socio- as channels, and G-protein-coupled receptors Campus - International economic perspectives. are developed. Recent advances in cell and molecular biology provide the framework Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Prerequisites: Graduate Biochemistry, for instruction and discussion. This course (G5). Major portion of research will take Physiology HBY 561 or consent of instructor. is offered as both HBH 655 and BNB 655. place outside of the United States and/or Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Prerequisiste: Admission to Graduate Health U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the A-, B+, etc.) Sciences Center Program. option of the health plan and may also enroll May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, in MEDEX. International students who are HBH 632: Graduate Pharmacology II etc.) in their home country are not covered by mandatory health plan and must contact the This course introduces second-year graduate HBH 656: Cell Biology Insurance Office for the insurance charge to students to chemotherapy agents used to be removed. International students who are combat bacterial and viral infections as well Introduction to the structural and functional not in their home country are charged for the as cancers. The course develops a detailed organization of cells and tissues and to mandatory health insurance. If they are to be understanding of the strategies involved in the way structure relates to function. covered by another insurance plan they must identifying drug targets in these two diverse Particular emphasis is placed on nuclear and file a waiver be second week of classes. The therapeutic settings. The antibacterial lectures chromosomal structure, signal transduction, charge will only be removed if other plan is emphasize the problem of drug resistance and protein translocation, the cytoskeleton and deemed comparable. the need to develop new agents to combat the extracellular matrix. The interaction of resistant organisms. The anti-cancer lectures cellular structures and components and their All international students must receive begin with a comprehensive analysis of the regulation is stressed as is the organization clearance from an International Advisor. molecular basis of cellulartransformation and interaction of cells in tissues. The course Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading leading to neoplastic disease. Lectures on is comparative and includes examples of cells May be repeated for credit. cancer therapy emphasize the contrast between and tissues from vertebrates, invertebrates, HBH 800: Full-Time Summer Research conventional cytotoxic chemotherapy and plants, and prokaryotic systems. Prerequisite: novel therapeutic approaches guided by recent matriculation in graduate program or Full-time laboratory research projects developments in cancer research. Novel permission of instructor. supervised by staff members. Summer Term. computational biology and structural biology Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Prerequisites: Full-time pharmacology approaches are featured throughout the course. etc.) graduate status. Each student is expected to make two formal May be repeated for credit. S/U grading journal-club style presentations during the May be repeated for credit. HBH 699: Dissertation Research in Campus

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Original investigations under faculty basics of scientific writing, research proposal HBI supervision. preparation and the problems and concerns commonly voiced by reviewers of research Radiation Oncology Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading proposals. In the second section, students May be repeated for credit. will develop two short proposals in the area HBI 599: Graduate Research in of molecular genetics and microbiology that Radiation Oncology Medical Physics HBM 640: Molecular Mechanisms of are unrealted to their graduate research. One Original research projects under the faculty Microbial Pathogenesis of these short proposals will be selected for supervision in areas of medical physics This course covers the principles and development into a full proposal. In the third relating to radiation oncology. molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis of a section, students will develop and write the 1-8 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) selected group of the best understood viral full proposal. The students' skills in proposal and bacterial pathogens. A major focus of the preparation will be enhnaced by critiquing the course relates to pathogen modification of short and full proposals presented by other HBM host extracellular and intracellular signalling students in the second and third sections of the course. Molecular Genetics and events, as well as pathogen-host interactions pertaining to the innate, humoral and cellular Offered Microbiology responses to infection. The material is Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, presented by invited lecturers who are leaders etc.) HBM 503: Molecular Genetics in their fields. This courses is directed to Introduces the classical work and current graduate students, post-doctorate and medical HBM 696: Professional Development in developments in lower and higher genetic fellows, and advanced medical students, who Microbiology and Immunology systems. Covers gene structure and regulation are are contemplating careers in infectious In a joint credit-bearing course, 12 students in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, disease research. Prerequisite: HBM, BMO (at the advanced Bachelor and beginning mutational analysis and mapping, transposable 503 and BMO 520 Master level) from three partner institutions elements, and biological DNA transfer 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will develop a 360 degree view of six different mechanisms. Bacteriophage as well as lower pandemics that occurred in human history. and higher eukaryotic systems are used HBM 691: Readings in Microbiology Tuberculosis, Influenza, Dengue, SARS/ to illustrate aspects of molecular genetic and immunology Literature Covid 19, HIV, antimicrobial resistance. structure and function. This course is offered Readings in microbiology literature covering Each pandemic will be covered by one as both MCB 503 and HBM 503. Prerequisite: areas of molecular biology and genetics. expert who also serves as a mentor for the matriculation in graduate program or students. Expert-mentors will be recruited Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. permission of instructor from the partners' networks. Six international Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) student pairs will each explore one pandemic May be repeated for credit. and compare its consequences as well as HBM 509: Experimental Microbiology HBM 692: Experimental Methods in measures taken against them in different parts and Immunology Microbiology and Immunology of the world. In addition, students will gain An introduction to modern microbiological insights into public health institutions (WHO, The goal of this course is to introduce students research. The selection of laboratories is made CDC, RKI etc.). Students will get different to the rationale underlying the wide array of in consultation with the student's advisory perspectives on pandemics, which are of global new methods in biology, as well as to promote committee. By taking part in ongoing projects concern, while measures against them are the critical analysis of scientific literature. the student will learn experimental procedures usually taken on a national level. Lectures will be given about various scientific and techniques and become acquainted with methods and approaches, and journal articles 0-1 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) research opportunities in the department. relating to the concepts introduced will be May be repeated 6 times FOR credit. Prerequisites: Matriculation in a graduate assigned. A separate discussion section will be HBM 697: Pandemics in Human History program and permission of the graduate held to review and critique the articles, to be studies director and the lab director led by the students. In a joint credit-bearing course, 12 students Fall, 1-8 credits, S/U grading from three partner institutions will develop 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a 360°-view of six different pandemics that HBM 522: Biology of Cancer HBM 693: Research Proposal occurred in human history: Tuberculosis, A short course with the emphasis on cancer Preparation in Molecular Genetics and Influenza, Dengue, SARS/Covid 19, HIV, as a disease of man. Lectures address human Immunology antimicrobial resistance. Each pandemic will cancer as seen by the clinician and as basic be covered by one expert who also serves as a A course, based upon the literature in research relates to human disease. This mentor for the students. Expert-mentors will molecular genetics and microbiology, to course provides students with a link between be recruited from the partners¿ networks. Six instruct students in scientific writing and the courses in cell and molecular biology and the international student pairs will each explore preparation of research proposals. The course application of this basic information to tumor one pandemic and compare its consequences will be organized in three parts. In the first management. Offered as HBM 522 and HPH as well as measures taken against them in section of the course, students will become 659. Offered Spring different parts of the world. In addition, familiar with the components of the research students will gain insights into public health 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) proposal and will read and evaluate proposals institutions (WHO, CDC, RKI etc.). Students written by the training faculty. Lectures given will get different perspectives on pandemics, HBM 599: Graduate Research in by the course co-directors will cover the Microbiology and Immunology which are of global concern, while measures

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Focuses on the clinical aspects of participation in seminars of major topics in Microbiology and Immunology the body system, including relevant underlying cellular and molecular pathology, and critical For the student who has been advanced to biochemistry, structure, or pathophysiology at discussion of selected topics with presentation candidacy (G5); permission of dissertation the organ, tissue, cell or molecular level. of papers from the literature. advisor. Prerequisites: Undergraduate degree, health Prerequisite: MCB Graduate Student Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U care experience, biochemistry or cell biology, Fall and Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, grading anatomy and microbiology. B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, May be repeated for credit. A-, B+, etc.) HBM 700: Dissertation Research off HBP 966: Hematology Conference HBP 533: Immunology Campus - Domestic Teaches a given aspect of hematology, Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Principles of immunology for graduate oncology or immunology. Staff from medicine, (G5). Major portion of research will take place students in the biological sciences, including pathology, and nuclear medicine participate, off-campus, but in the United States and/or definition of antigens and antibodies, and usually presents a case to introduce the U.S. provinces. All international students specificity of the immune response, subject. Various teaching aids, such as review must enroll in one of the graduate student immunoglobulin structure, the genetics of pathological material, are used. Primarily insurance plans and should be advised by an of immunoglobulin synthesis, cellular for health sciences professionals. cooperation in the immune response, International Advisor. 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) hypersensitivity, tolerance immunogenetics. Fall, Spring, Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. Open to advanced undergraduates. May be repeated for credit. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HBP 967: Tumor Conference HBM 701: Dissertation Research off Considers problems in the management HBP 556: Laboratory Medicine Campus - International of patients with a malignancy and Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy A four-week full-time (6 hr, day) course recommendations for a course of therapy (G5). Major portion of research will take dealing with clinical laboratory decision for each patient including a review of a place outside of the United States and/or making and the basis for the laboratory particular aspect of cancer treatment or U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the evaluation of human evaluation of human natural history in depth. Functions as the link option of the health plan and may also enroll disease. Didactic and practical presentations by between the hospital and the Eastern Oncology in MEDEX. International students who are interdepartmental faculty. Intended principally Cooperative Group. Primarily for health in their home country are not covered by for senior medical students, but also for science professionals. advanced microbiology or biochemistry mandatory health plan and must contact the 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) students interested in clinical applications. Insurance Office for the insurance charge to May be repeated for credit. be removed. International students who are Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. not in their home country are charged for the Spring, 6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, HBP 968: Advanced Clinical Pathologic mandatory health insurance. If they are to be etc.) Correlations: Gross Pathology covered by another insurance plan they must Postgraduate correlative exercises in human HBP 590: Seminars in Immunology file a waiver be second week of classes. The gross pathologic anatomy that emphasize the charge will only be removed if other plan is A series of monthly seminars focusing on gross pathologic basis for altered function and deemed comparable. research in progress by the participants, current clinical manifestations of disease. Open to All international students must received journal articles in the field of immunobiology, physicians and others with advanced degrees clearance from an International Advisor. and prepared reviews of specified areas in the in medical sciences. general field. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: MCB Graduate Students May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading HBM 800: Full-Time Summer Research May be repeated for credit. HBP 969: Anatomical and Surgical Full-time laboratory research projects Pathology for Residents in Pathology HBP 622: Clinical Pathologic supervised by staff members. To provide practical and clinical experience Correlations: Gross Pathology 0-1 credits, S/U grading in tissue pathology. During the four week May be repeated for credit. Correlative exercises in clinical pathology and elective the student is given the opportunity human gross anatomic pathology including to participate in all aspects of autopsies as surgical biopsy material. Open to students in well as gross and microscopic examination of HBP medical sciences. surgical specimens. There is ongoing review Prerequisites: Systems pathology and general of general and organ system pathology to Pathology pathology course. Permission of instructor. reinforce structural-functional correlations. Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, This elective is selected by students who HBP 511: Pathobiology for Graduate etc.) plan a career in pathology as a "hands-on" Health Care Practitioners May be repeated for credit. introduction to the specialty. The elective is

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 138 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 also chosen by others, particularly individuals conjunction with electron micrographs Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) who will enter radiology, and who seek to illustrating the relevant ultrastructure needed correlate radiographic and pathologic anatomy. to understand the normal functioning of HBY 564: Experimental Techniques in Students who are sufficiently interested and tissues and organs. The physiology of Systems Physiology motivated may become involved in relatively the major organ systems is addressed in a A series of lectures and laboratory exercises independent work-up of selected cases. lecture format with the emphasis on problem designed to introduce students to in vivo Primarily for health sciences professionals. solving. Relevant clinical correlations are experimental techniques used in systems 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) addressed at the end of each block in so far physiology. Emphasis will be placed on May be repeated for credit. as they illustrate how symptoms and signs of the ethical use of rodents in biomedical disease result from disordered physiology. research and the measurement of physiological HBP 971: Renal Clinicopathologic Organ Systems addresses the structure and variables. Data acquisition and analysis Correlations function of the cardiovascular, respiratory, procedures used in cardiovascular, respiratory, A case-oriented, postgraduate course in renal renal, gastrointestinal, endocrine, skeletal, neural, and renal physiology will also be biopsy interpretation and its relationship to reproductive, and integumenary systems. covered. Only patient management. Prerequisites: Admission to medical or dental 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) school and permission of instructor. Only 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring. HBY 570: Student Journal Club May be repeated for credit. 8 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Graduate student presentation on a selected topic with faculty consultation. HBY 554: Principles of Neuroscience HBY 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The aim of this course is to highlight and May be repeated for credit. Physiology and Biophysics create an understanding as to how the human nervous system operates. HBY 590: Special Topics in Physiology HBY 500: Short Term Research 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and Biophysics Projects in Physiology and Biophysics Students seminars on topics to be arranged Short term research project (rotation) under the HBY 557: Advanced Physiology through consultation with faculty members. supervision of a staff member. This course is designed to introduce students Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Prerequisite: Must be a Graduate Students in to integrative approaches in biomedical Offered the Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics. research. Emphasis will be placed on Fall and Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading Spring, 1-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, the primary physiological concepts of May be repeated for credit. etc.) control, communication, signal processsing, May be repeated 4 times FOR credit. metabolism and replication. Prerequisites: HBY 591: Physiology and Biophysics Systems Physiology, Biochemistry and Research HBY 501: Physiology Permission of Instructor. Original investigation under the supervision of Introduces normal function of human tissues Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, a staff member. and organs and their regulation by nervous etc.) and endocrine systems. Emphasizes the 1-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. organization and function of physiological HBY 561: Statistical Analysis of control systems and the maintenance of a Physiological Data HBY 690: Seminar in Physiology and constant internal environment. Enrollment Statistical methods useful in analyzing Biophysics restricted to fully matriculated graduate common types of physiological data. Topics Seminars and discussions on major topics in students, with permission of instructor. Only include probability, data distributions, Fall. physiology and biophysics by students, staff, hypothesis testing with parametric and non- and visiting scientists. Prerequisite: Permission 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) parametric methods, ANOVA, regression and of instructor correlation, and power analysis. Emphasis HBY 530: Cellular Physiology and is on experimental design and appropriate, 0-1 credits, S/U grading Biophysics efficient use of statistical software. May be repeated for credit. Cellular structure and function. Topics include Offered HBY 695: Practicum in Teaching in ion channels, excitability, transport, energetics Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Physiology and Biophysics and metabolism, contraction, secretion, and communication within and between cells. HBY 562: Model-based Analysis of Practical experience and instruction in the Emphasizes quantitative analysis of cellular Physiological Data teaching of physiology and biophysics carried out under faculty orientation and supervision. processes. The analysis of common biochemical 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and physiological data by non-linear 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) regression of data models and biophysical May be repeated for credit. HBY 531: Medical Physiology models of physiological and biochemical HBY 699: Dissertation Research on A graduate-level introduction to the processes. Examples include binding kinetics, Campus physiology of the organ systems with compartmental mass transfer and spectral ultrastructural correlations. Ultrastructural analysis. Original (thesis) research undertaken with the supervision of a member of the staff. correlations are demonstrated in a laboratory Prerequisite: Permission of instructor, HBY setting using histological preparations in Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5); 561 permission of thesis advisor. Major portion

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 139 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 of research must take place on SBU campus, satisfaction. Some emotional dynamics of the are continuing to be) made available with at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Brookhaven illness experience will be addressed, such as the advancement of technology. Ought we to National Lab. hope, through the work of eminent physician- regard that which technology makes available 1-9 credits, S/U grading writers such as Jerome Groopman, MD. The as uncontroversially good? If not, why not? May be repeated for credit. dynamics of medical mistakes and forgiveness What sorts of new issues regarding distributive will be explored through psychiatrist Aaron justice, autonomy, utility, and compassion HBY 700: Dissertation Research off Lazarre's influential writings on effective are ours to consider carefully because of the Campus - Domestic medical apologies. Some philosophical and changing world in which we live? Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy metaphysical aspects of personhood and self- Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, (G5). Major portion of research will take place identity will be introduced. A-, B+, etc.) off-campus, but in the United States and/ Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven B+, etc.) HCB 510: Literature, Compassion, and National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Medical Care are considered on-campus. All international HCB 502: Landmark Cases in Bioethics How does literature help us understand students must enroll in one of the graduate What is a life worth living? How do we the nature of human illness and suffering? student insurance plans and should be advised decide, and who decides, when to use medical Can written works of art, ancient and by an International Advisor. technologies such as incubators, ventilators, contemporary, that depict moments of 1-9 credits, S/U grading transplants and reproductive technologies? compassion and compassionate acts lay May be repeated for credit. This is an intensive introduction to some of bare the moral, spiritual, psychological, and the cases in medical ethics that have changed physical reality of suffering? There is a long HBY 701: Dissertation Research off the ways that we are born, cared for, and association between literature and medicine, Campus - International die in American hospitals. Examples of from the viewpoint of physician-writers, Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy topics include: vaccination and public health; such as Anton Checkov and William Carlos (G5). Major portion of research will take eugenics and human subjects research ethics; Williams, whose literary skills have eclipsed place outside of the United States and/or the right of privacy and health care; end-of- their medical backgrounds. Sherlock Holmes U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the life planning and treatment; women's bodies and Doctor Watson were the creations of option of the health plan and may also enroll and fetal rights; disability rights; religious a physician-writer, Arthur Conan Doyle. in MEDEX. International students who are beliefs and health care; triage and allocation of Physicians portrayed in literature, such as Dr. in their home country are not covered by scarce resources; mental illness and individual Bernard Rieux, in Albert Camus The Plague, mandatory health plan and must contact the rights; global clinical trials; and, bioethics and have also explored the relationship between Insurance Office for the insurance charge to be culture. patient and doctor, the nature of healing. removed. Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, This semester-long course will study these relationships through reading of poetry, drama, 1-9 credits, S/U grading B+, etc.) fiction, memoir, and essay and reflect on the May be repeated for credit. HCB 503: Traditions and Values in nature of suffering, the intrinsic human need HBY 800: Full-Time Summer Research Bioethical Conflicts for compassion, and the implications for health and healing. Full-time laboratory research projects This course serves as an introduction to supervised by staff members. Western moral and religious traditions and Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, to the positions about killing, saving, and B+, etc.) S/U grading enhancing that these traditions have informed. May be repeated for credit. It explores the interface between religion HCB 511: Bioethics, Disability & and biomedical ethics and then delves into Community specific issues in health care in light of more Most people will experience disability at some HCB general normative concerns such as justice, point in their lives, and for some it will shape Medical Humanities, love, autonomy and rights, utilitarianism, self- their social, personal, family, educational, Compassionate Care & sacrifice, gender, virtue, and community. The and employment experiences. Viewpoints issues with which the course deals address on disabilities which have emerged in policy Bioethics the plights of real people, in the concrete, and the broader culture have been explicitly who come from particular backgrounds and challenged by emerging communities of HCB 501: Compassionate Care, whose set of values may make them sometimes people with disabilities who seek to speak Medical Humanities, and the Illness recalcitrant to possibilities that technology has for themselves and claim full inclusion in Experience made (or is just now making) available. society. In this context, bioethicists and This course will introduce students to major Offered disability scholars have found points of interpretations of the illness experience, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) both common cause and stark disagreement to several classical biographical and over issues such as neonatal and end-of-life autobiographical accounts of illness, and to the HCB 504: Special Topic in care, the value and values inherent medical important dynamic of compassionate care in Biotechnology decisions and their outcomes. These bioethical the healing relationship. The patient-as-person Just because we can do it, does this mean debates occur in the context of debates over will be emphasized throughout, as well as the that we should do it? This course takes a the rights of individuals with disabilities ways in which respect for and empathy toward focused look at controversial practices in to self-determination, accommodations for the patient impacts diagnostic accuracy, health care settings, such as organ donation work and schooling, and the potential for patient adherence, and patient and professional and enhancements, which have been (and people with disabilities to make unique

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 140 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 contributions because of--rather than despite-- Bioethics is an American invention. Ideas HCB 517: The Problem of Evil: their disabilities. This course will consider about medicine and morality, of course, go Philosophical, Biological, and Social major debates in bioethics in light of recent back to antiquity and are documented as Dimensions scholarship in disability studies, drawing on medical ethics in Europe, medical morality in What is the nature of evil? Can it be the perspectives from philosophy, literature and China, and under many other names in cultures result of brain malfunction, something that narrative, history, and sociology. around the world. Recently, the process of is genetically predetermined? Or, is evil Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, globalization of ideas, medical practices, something which is part of or at least necessary B+, etc.) clinical trials, and migration of patients has to know the good? Alternatively, is evil an led to clashes of culture around issues such as arbitrary designation, a perspective from which HCB 512: Altruism and Bioethics the appropriate standards and control groups we can wrest ourselves given the right sort What is altruism, and what are its evolutionary for clinical trials, organ transplantation, brain of reinvention? In this class, we shall address roots as a moral dynamic? What impact does death, and end-of-life care. Issues of religion, the problem of evil from scientific, social- altruistic action have on the human agent? morality, public policy, disability rights scientific, and philosophical perspectives, Does it impact flourishing and health? When and policy, and health system structure and using fiction and non-fictional sources. is it experienced as overwhelming by medical payment all shape how particular societies Examples of medical evil, such as the Nazi professionals? Where does altruism fit within decide to manage divisive issues such as the doctors or Tuskeegee, can be introduced as medical and nursing professionalism? How beginning and end of life. This course will case studies. draw on a growing literature on global and is it related to compassionate care? What Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, transnational cases, policies, and traditions in about the duty to treat in time of epidemic, A-, B+, etc.) auto-experimentation, pro-bono medical the ethics of health, public health, and health treatment, high-risk provision of healthcare in care. HCB 518: Empirical Bioethics time of conflict, healthcare activism, and the Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, The formal study of bioethics attempts to commitment to the patient's good as a guiding A-, B+, etc.) define ethical courses of action in a world professional ideal? How does the practitioner ever increasing in complexity. But in day to HCB 515: Health Policy, History & strike a balance between the care of patients day practice, ethical outcomes are expressed Ethics and the care of the nearest and dearest or the through the individual decisions and resulting care of the self? How does altruism correlate Who gets sick? Who gets health care, what actions--of human agents. How do individuals with pro-social behavior, happiness, and kind, and in what setting? This course covers form these judgments? How do people health? the major health policy issues of the United become motivated to engage in behaviors Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, States today, including the health status of that are designed to benefit someone else? B+, etc.) the U.S. as a whole, the social and economic We will explore current scientific approaches determinants of health, the role of personal and to these questions with several areas of HCB 513: Disease and Society public health services in affecting health, the emphasis, including a) the neuroscience What is disease? How do the beliefs, politics, organization and financing of health services, of compassionate care and altruism, b) and economies of particular societies shape and the multiple factors affecting health cognitive and neuroscientific approaches how diseases are defined, experienced, policies. We will explore the evolution of the to understanding judgment and decision and treated? In this seminar, students will US health care system in the past century, making in ethical domains, and c) empirical explore these questions by analyzing historical and debates about rights to health care or lack approaches to quantifying the effects of documents, scientific reports, and historical thereof, health disparities, conflicts of interest, ethically based policy decisions. and the ethics of health policy and practice. scholarship. We will look at disease from Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, multiple perspectives as a biological process, Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, A-, B+, etc.) clinical entity, population phenomenon, B+, etc.) historical actor, and personal experience. We HCB 519: Public Health Law HCB 516: Ethical Issues in Human will pay special attention to how diseases This course is a survey of legal and policy Reproduction have been recognized, diagnosed, named, issues that have special relevance for public classified and counted in different times, New technologies have modified human health professionals. Topics may vary, but places, cultures, and settings based on different reproduction in numerous ways, raising typically will include many of the following: environmental and social conditions, medical profound questions about the moral status structure of the U.S. legal system; power ideas, diagnostic technologies, and available of human life and the nature of parental and of state and federal governments in matters treatments. The course will begin with a sibling obligations. This course will investigate affecting health care; governmental power review of major approaches to understanding the values that attach to different relationships, and the right to privacy; constitutional issues the manifold relationships between disease both familial and general. It will cover in social welfare benefits; governmental and society. The remainder of the course questions around the treatment of infertility, regulation of health care providers and payers; will view disease and society relationships surrogate mothering, the commodification the scope and discretion of administrative through the lens of specific issues, such as of the body, and the elevated expectations of agencies in health care; the antitrust laws; the epidemic disease, consumption and affluence, familial obligations that correspond to new fraud and abuse laws; and negligence in the globalization, and risk. reproductive technologies. delivery and financing of health care. The Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, course is taught primarily by Socratic method. B+, etc.) A-, B+, etc.) Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HCB 514: Global Bioethics HCB 520: Bioethics and Film

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Film and television, both fiction and As with all multidisciplinary pursuits, the (enamel, dentin, cementum, bone). Ectopic nonfiction, capture man of the human medical humanities project is characterized by calculus formation will be examined. tragedies, challenges, and possibilities that an ongoing negotiation among its practitioners Prerequisites: HDO 560, 561, 562, and 563 or are debated in bioethics books, articles, over methods, scope and goals. This course their equivalent. Fall and Spring newspapers, on hospital ethics committees, will examine, in detail, one of the latest 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and in daily clinical care. This course will debates within the field. explore themes of birth, death, hope, fear, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HDO 510: Salivary Metabolism and faith, finitude and resource allocation through May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. Secretion watching, analyzing, and reading about Consideration is given to the normal and bioethics issues in visual media. The course HCB 524: Special Topics in Bioethics abnormal structure and function of the will draw on material from philosophical Bioethicists are frequently asked to consider glandular systems found in the oral cavity. The ethics to history, health policy, and film the ethical ramifications of new research composition, regulation, and functions of the criticism to place these issues and their findings and emerging technologies as they secretions from the major and minor salivary portrayals in context. arise. This course will examine one such issue glands will receive particular attention. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in close detail. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HCB 521: Clinical Ethics Practicum May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. HDO 520: Oral Microbial Systems As difficult as settling abstract ethical issues Consideration is given to the structural in medicine may be, the delivery of ethical HCB 598: Independent Study composition, metabolism, and environmental care presents its own set of difficulties. This 3 Credits, ABCF Grading relationships of the bacterial systems formed course aims to introduce students to the 0-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) on and in association with the oral hard and practices hospitals employ to ensure the care May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. soft tissues. Specific and mixed bacterial they deliver meets the relevant legal and populations, such as those resident on extra- moral requirements. At the end of this course, HCB 599: Special Projects Capstone oral mucosal surfaces and the skin and students will have been exposed to many Course their role in oral disease will be dealt with. basic, and some advanced, aspects of clinical This course, to be offered in the second Prerequisite: HDO 560, 561, 562, and 563 or ethics theory and practice. They will be able their equivalent. Fall and Spring to identify, describe, and analyze ethical (spring) semester, is designed to satisfy the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) dilemmas in clinical cases, and will develop special projects requirement of our program. an appreciation for the complexity and multi- The first part of the course will be devoted to readings and discussions that further illuminate HDO 530: Molecular Biology and disciplinary nature of ethical dilemmas in Pathology of the Periodontium clinical medicine and will be able to apply the methodologies of the interdisciplinary what they have learned to assess ethical, social, field of medical humanities, compassionate This course deals with the ultrastructure and and legal aspects of cases. care, and bioethics. Students will develop an biochemical composition of the periodontal appreciation for the standards of high quality tissues, remodeling of the extracellular 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) scholarship and research through review of matrix with an emphasis on the role of carefully selected readings. This will prepare metalloproteinases; the microbial interrelations HCB 522: The Role of Virtue Ethics in them for the second part of the course, where with the organic and inorganic components Medicine they pursue and present their own research of the periodontal tissues, the biochemical Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and the role based on the existing literature. This capstone dynamics of gingival inflammation and of virtue ethics are central to many religious course will be highly collaborative, entail wound healing, and the metabolic processes traditions including Buddhism, Christianity, substantial peer review, and be organized responsible for the composition and flow of Confucianism, and the philosophical traditions. around the development of significant student gingival crevicular fluid. Prerequisites: HDO Key virtues include honesty, courage, projects which are intended to represent the 560, 561 and 563 or their equivalent. Fall and generosity, prudence, justice, compassion, beginnings of publishable papers. Our entire Spring. Please note that this may be taken benevolence, loyalty, and hospitality. This faculty will be involved in these projects twice for a total of 4 credits. course explores the real and potential role according to their specific areas of expertise. 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of virtue on the development of virtuous Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. physicians. The course's texts offer two A-, B+, etc.) diametrically opposed views on the role of HDO 531: Normal and Reparative virtue in medicine, i.e., one is that virtue can Tissue Development in the Oral Cavity be channeled into the training of medical professionals, whereas the other is that HDO This course includes a series of lectures bioethics has extracted virtue from medicine. Oral Biology and Pathology and student-led discussions dealing with Through readings, documentaries, dialogue specific oral tissues, biologic mineralization, osseointegration, hard and soft tissue and active leadership of sessions by students, HDO 500: Biology of the Oral development, and tissue regeneration. The the course will interrogate the claims as well as Mineralized Tissues possibilities for a role of virtue in medicine. molecular aspects leading to oral cancer and This course deals with the basic chemistry, osteonecrosis will also be presented and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) crystallography, ultrastructure, and metabolism discussed. of the calcium phosphates involved in the HCB 523: Special Topics in Medical formation and physiological and pathological 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Humanities resorption of the various mineralized tissues HDO 532: Host-Parasite Interaction found in or associated with the oral cavity

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This course includes a series of lectures system from the peripheral immune system. in basic science; permission of instructor. Fall and student-led discussions dealing with Features of innate and adaptive immunity as and Spring specific oral tissues, growth factors, ctyokines, they relate to mucosal immune responses will 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) prostaglandins, biologic mineralization also be covered. As well as delivering in depth and wound healing. The biology of the lectures on relevant and emerging topics the HDO 562: Oral Biology and Pathology immune system and phagocytic cells is course will engage participants in interactive III presented, including the relationship of discussions on topics in an informal setting. This course is the third of four comprehensive nutrition to inflammation and oral health. The The course content is based on the "Principles courses on molecular structure, biochemical microbiology of the oral cavity in health and of Mucosal Immunology" textbook. and physiological function, developmental disease as well as oral mucosal infections is 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) anatomy, and pathology of the various presented as the basis of the understanding systems that constitute the oral apparatus. The of immunopathobiology of dental caries and HDO 550: Oral Diagnostics and course consists of' the following two units of periodontal disease. The oral manifestations Therapeutic Technology, Lectures and instruction; (1) the biology and pathology of of pharmacologic agents are reviewed in Laboratory Techniques the salivary glands and their products and (2) terms of both their immunologic and non- Recent advances in the use and development the biology and pathology of the periodontal immunologic mechanisms of pathology. of research technology for the early diagnosis structures, Prerequisites: Undergraduate degree Finally, antimicrobial chemotherapy and and treatment monitoring of oral and systemic in basic science and permission of instructor principles of infection control are reviewed in disease. Special attention is paid to the Fall and Spring terms of clinical practice of dentistry. principles of technology transfer including 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) patents and patenting; searching of on-line databases is a key component. The course HDO 563: Oral Biology and Pathology HDO 533: Regional Anatomy, Orofacial includes relationships of dry mouth to salivary IV Neuroscience and Pain Control physiology, diabetes, and drug medications; This course is the last of four comprehensive This course includes a series of lectures salivary film measurements, wetting of oral courses on molecular structure, biochemical and discussions dealing with head and surfaces, viscoelasticity and lubricity; the and physiological function, developmental neck gross anatomy and microanatomy and use of the Periotron and enzyme assays for anatomy and pathology of the various systems biochemistry of orofacial pain. It will provide the diagnosis of gingivitis and periodontal that constitute the oral apparatus. Covers the an in-depth understanding of the underlying disease; instrumentation used in sensitive biology and pathology of the oral sensory neuroanatomy and biochemical events leading teeth measurement and evaluation of treatment systems and the biology and pathology of oral to the perception of acute and chronic orofacial effectiveness using oral compositions and motor systems. Prerequisites: Undergraduate pain. iontophoresis; oral candidiasis and denture degree in basic science and permission of 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) stomatitis and early detection and causes of instructor. Admission to Graduate Health dental caries; oral malodor measurements Sciences Center Program. HDO 535: Epithelial Keratinization and including use of the Halimeter and its use 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Differentiation in the formulation of oral compositions. The course examines the growth and Application to clinical practice and clinical HDO 590: Research Projects in Oral differentiation of stratified sqamous epithelia. studies is covered. Biology and Pathology Particular emphasis is placed on molecular 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Individual laboratory projects closely events involved in the differentiation program. supervised by faculty members to be carried HDO 560: Oral Biology and Pathology I Consideration is also given to mechanisms out in their research laboratories. involved in oral and cutaneous disorders. The first of four comprehensive courses 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisites: Permission of instructor on molecular structure, biochemical and May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. required; HBP 531 suggested; students physiological function, developmental must have had a background in cellular anatomy and pathology of the various systems HDO 599: Graduate Research biochemistry molecular biology. that constitute the oral apparatus. Covers the embryological development of the face and Original investigations undertaken with Fall and Spring, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, supervision of a faculty member. A-, B+, etc.) oral cavity and the biology and pathology of the oral mineralized tissues. Prerequisites: 1-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HDO 541: Principles of Mucosal Undergraduate degree in basic science; May be repeated for credit. Immunology permission of instructor. Fall and Spring HDO 690: Oral Biology and Pathology 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The mucosal immune system is essentially the Seminar primary site of interaction between invading pathogens and the immune system. The overall HDO 561: Oral Biology and Pathology Research seminars by students, staff, and aim of this graduate course is to facilitate a II visiting scientists which may include review deeper understanding of the fundamentals of The second of four comprehensive courses of current literature and presentation of student the immune system at mucosal surfaces. It on molecular structure, biochemical and research. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the MS or will provide a broad overview of several core physiological function, developmental PhD program in Oral Biology and Pathology. mucosal immunology topics and has been anatomy and pathology of the various systems Fall and Spring. 1 credit, Letter graded (S/U) designed for graduate students and post-docs that constitute the oral apparatus. Covers the May be repeated for credit. who have recently entered the field. This class biology and pathology of the periodontal 1 credit, will provide in-depth analysis of the structural structures and the microbiology of the oral May be repeated for credit. features that distinguish the mucosal immune cavity. Prerequisites: Undergraduate degree

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HDO 695: Oral Biology and Pathology Focuses on historic and current issues HHA 504: Database Design and Teaching Practicum that impact the United States healthcare Development for Health Informatics Practice instruction in the teaching of oral delivery system with a primary focus on how Professionals biology and pathology at the undergraduate healthcare is delivered, organized, governed, Covers relational database theory and level carried out under faculty orientation and and financed. There will be an overview development methodology. Emphasizes the supervision. of special populations and major diseases progression through a health information including epidemics, chronic illness, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) systems development life cycle through acute illness, and the interrelated concepts the design, development, deployment, HDO 699: Thesis Research Oral of access, quality, and cost. Emphasizes the administration, testing, evaluation, and Biology and Pathology influence of an evolving healthcare delivery maintenance of a database. Introduces students system on the practice of health informatics Dissertation Research, Prerequisite: to relational query languages (i.e. SQL). including meaningful use, Health Information Advancement to Candidacy Passing, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, Letter (HITECH). HHA 505: Leadership and Management graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Essentials May be repeated for credit. Provides broad but significant immersion HHA 501: Biomedical and Health HDO 704: Translational Oral Biology in organizational change, leadership, Informatics Essentials Covers the biochemical, physiological, organizational behavior, project management Provides broad but significant immersion microbiological and electronic principles and change management. Emphasizes into the field of biomedical and health involved in a variety of techniques used as aids healthcare project life-cycle, theoretical informatics. Emphasizes the clinical flow in the diagnosis of oral diseases. and applied strategies of managing change, of data (acquisition, use, and storage of communication and group dynamics, systems Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) information in healthcare), biomedical thinking, and strategic planning. research, informatics and public health, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HDO 706: Oral Facial Genetics decision and cognitive science. Explores Focuses on the utilization, preparation and electronic health records, personal health HHA 506: Research Design and analysis of basic human genetics in clinical records, personalized medicine, imaging, Methodology for the Health Informatics situations. Covers genetic disorders of the telemedicine, concepts of meaningful use, Professionals craniofacial complex and dentistry for the Health Information Technology for Economic Provides in-depth overview of quantitative, multiple handicapped patient. 30 course and Clinical Health (HITECH), and American qualitative, and mixed-methods research hours Prerequisite: HD 501 or permission of Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). designs and methodologies. The student instructor Includes hands-on experience in the use of an will analyze and evaluate the philosophical Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) electronic health record system. foundations, characteristics, strengths, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HDO 805: Summer Research limitations of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research designs and HHA 502: Health Information Systems SUMMER RESEARCH methodologies most appropriate to the practice and HIT Essentials S/U grading of health informatics. Emphasizes critical May be repeated for credit. Provides broad but significant immersion review and techniques of applied research and into the fields of health information systems evaluation. and health information technology (HIT). 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HDS Emphasizes systems analysis, clinical decision-support, integrated networking Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery HHA 507: Statistics for Health and distributed computing technologies, Informatics Professionals telemedicine applications, mobile applications, Explores quantitative data analysis techniques HDS 702: Oral Pathology cloud computing, architecture and utilized in patient safety research. Includes Covers the clinical and histopathologic infrastructures, and database and systems descriptive, inferential, and correlational manifestations of acquired, inherited and administration. statistics. Students will use available computer neoplastic diseases of the human oral cavity. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Includes benign and malignant tumors of bone, programs to conduct a variety of descriptive, inferential, and correlational statistical tests. odontogenic and non-odontogenic cysts and HHA 503: Regulations, Confidentiality, tumors, mucosal and salivary gland diseases, Privacy and Security 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and oral manifestations of systemic diseases. Provides foundational knowledge in the laws, 62 course hours Prerequisites: HDO 601 HHA 520: Program Management and regulations, policies and procedures related Administration for Privacy and Security 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to the confidentiality, privacy, and security Provides significant immersion into the on all levels of health-related information and knowledge and skills related to administration infrastructures. Emphasizes interoperability, and management of healthcare organizations HHA HIPAA/HITECH Privacy Rule and Security privacy and security programs. Emphasizes Standards, Code Set Rules, meaningful use, Applied Health Informatics development of policies, protocols, and and IT security forensics. procedures for risk assessment and mitigation, HHA 500: Healthcare Delivery System 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) integrity, and confidentiality of the patient, provider, employee, and business information.

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Prerequisites: HHA 500, HHA 501, HHA 502, efficient, safe, timely, equitable, and patient- Provides significant immersion into the HHA 503, HHA 504, HHA 505, HHA 506, centered care. Summer and Fall courses. knowledge and skills related to the health and HHA 507 Prerequisites: Summer and Fall courses management domains of Leadership, Resource 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) including HHA 500, HHA 501, HHA 502, Management, and Education and Training. HHA 503, HHA 504, HHA 505, HHA 506, Summer and Fall courses. Prerequisites: HHA 521: Physical and Technical and HHA 507. Summer and Fall courses including HHA 500, Safeguards of Health Information 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HHA 501, HHA 502, HHA 503, HHA 504, Provides significant immersion into HHA 505, HHA 506, and HHA 507. the knowledge and skills related to the HHA 531: Health Information Systems 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) physical and technical privacy and security Provides in-depth immersion into the safeguards utilized in all sectors of healthcare. knowledge and skills required to participate in HHA 584: Specialization Practicum I Emphasizes risk assessment and mitigation, the development or selection of an information First course in a three part experiential learning disaster recover, business continuity, and system for clinicians; prepare clinicians prior sequence designed to provide significant standards regarding the maintenance, to implementation and support them during hands-on immersion into the practice of safeguarding, authorization access, release, implementation and ongoing operation of Health Informatics. The 120 hour practicum and disposal of personal and confidential clinical information system; and evaluate the requires students to apply knowledge and skills information. Prerequisites: HHA 500, HHA effectiveness of a system in meeting clinical acquired during the core and specialization 501, HHA 502, HHA 503, HHA 504, HHA needs. Summer and Fall courses. Prerequisites: course work.Prerequisite: Department Consent 505, HHA 506, and HHA 508 Summer and Fall courses including HHA 500, Required 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HHA 501, HHA 502, HHA 503, HHA 504, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HHA 505, HHA 506, and HHA 507. HHA 522: Forensic Analysis and Health 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HHA 586: Specialization Practicum II Information Cybercrime Second course in a three part experiential Provides significant immersion into the HHA 532: Leading and Managing learning sequence designed to provide knowledge and skills related to forensic Clinical Information Systems Change significant hands-on immersion into the science and its application to the healthcare Provides in-depth immersion into the practice of Health Informatics. This 180 sectors digital environments. Emphasizes knowledge and skills required to lead, manage hour practicum is a progressive experimental health information cybercrime; methods change, and promote adoption associated with learning experience. Students are expected to uncover, collect, protect, and document implementing clinical information systems. to demonstrate increasing proficiency of evidence; and tools, techniques, and Summer and Fall courses. Prerequisites: integration and application of didactic procedures to perform computer and Summer and Fall courses including HHA 500, and experiential learning with the goal of cybercrime investigations. Prerequisites: HHA HHA 501, HHA 502, HHA 503, HHA 504, demonstrating mastery in Health Informatics. 500, HHA 501, HHA 502, HHA 503, HHA HHA 505, HHA 506, and HHA 507. Prerequisite: HHA 584 504, HHA 509 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HHA 540: Health Data Management HHA 588: Specialization Practicum III HHA 523: Legal and Regulatory Issues, Provides significant immersion into Final course in a three part experiential External Environmental Assessment, the knowledge and skills of the health learning sequence designed to provide Compliance management domains of data structure, data significant hands-on immersion into the Provides significant immersion into the analysis, and outcomes. Prerequisites: Summer practice of Health Informatics. This 180 knowledge and skills related to the legal and and Fall courses including HHA 500, HHA hour practicum is a progressive experimental regulatory issues specific to security and 501, HHA 502, HHA 503, HHA 504, HHA learning experience. Students are expected privacy personnel, external environmental 505, HHA 506, and HHA 507. to demonstrate increasing proficiency of assessments, and compliance. Emphasizes 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) integration and application of didactic development of policies and procedures and experiential learning with the goal of to receive, verify, authorize, process, and HHA 541: Information Technology and demonstrating mastery in Health Informatics. document various information requests; Systems Prerequisite: HHA 586 incident response team; compliance issues; Provides significant immersion into 6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) federal breach notifications; employee the knowledge and skills of the health training; and patient services. Prerequisites: management domains Healthcare Information HHA 599: Practicum Continuation HHA 500, HHA 501, HHA 502, HHA 503, Systems and Information Management This course is for Applied Health Informatics HHA 504, HHA 505, HHA 506, and HHA 510 Planning. Summer and Fall courses. students continuing with Practicum. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisites: Summer and Fall courses S/F graded including HHA 500, HHA 501, HHA 502, HHA 530: Clinical Decision Making and HHA 503, HHA 504, HHA 505, HHA 506, Process Improvement and HHA 507. HHM Provides in-depth immersion into the 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) knowledge and skills required to implement Medical Molecular Biology effective clinical decision making systems HHA 542: Advanced Organizational and participate in the development of clinical Leadership and Management HHM 500: Fundamentals of Molecular process improvements that support effective, Biology Techniques

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Covers main techniques used in molecular 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) standards.Prerequisite: HHM 500, 510, 511, biology, including direct and amplified 516, 520, 521 HHM 520: Flow Cytometry Laboratory nucleic acid-based methods. Emphasizes basic 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) principles behind each test, interpretation of This laboratory course consists of 30 hours results, advantages and limitations of each of hands-on activities, and covers the main HHM 545: Ethics in the Laboratory methods, and type of specimen required for techniques used in the flow cytometry Reviews professional guidelines for ethical each test. Addresses the importance of quality laboratory. This laboratory will be given once conduct and approaches to ethical dilemmas control, biosafety and proper decontamination weekly, on weekends or weeknights. Students for laboratory scientists. Explores ethical procedures to ensure accurate data for proper will perform numerous immunophenotyping issues, including responsible research conduct, patient diagnosis. techniques, including stem cell quantitation, good laboratory practice, and research with 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) hematologic and non-hematologic neoplasms, human subjects. Discusses ethical principles minimal residual disease, fetal hemoglobin and in genetics and genetic engineering; advance HHM 510: Advanced Molecular Biology cell functional assays. Students will learn how directives, confidentiality, informed consent, Laboratory to do quality assurance and instrumentation patient rights, and Health Insurance Portability This 15-week laboratory course consists of a maintenance, and will gain hands-on and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). 6-hour weekly lab, during which the students experience with the application software used All aspects of this class will be presented and perform hands-on activities covering the main by flow cytometers. Prerequisite: HHM 500, discussed via a distance learning format using molecular biology techniques used for the 510, 511 Co-requisite: HHM 521 Blackboard. Prerequisite: HHM 500, 510, 511, diagnosis of infectious and genetic diseases, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 516, 520, 521 determination of cancer markers, and forensic 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) testing. Techniques include nucleic acid HHM 521: Flow Cytometry Methods isolation, purification and quantification, DNA and Applications HHM 551: Research Methods and separation, amplification and sequencing. Introduces students to the applications Scientific Writing Prerequisite: HHM 500 of flow cytometry techniques and their Introduces students to the basic concepts of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) applications in the diagnosis and prognosis biomedical research. Emphasizes critical of human diseases including leukemia and evaluation of published scientific literature, HHM 511: Application of Molecular lymphoma, primary immunodeficiency and how to plan, design and conduct a research Biology in Diagnostics diseases, Human Immunodeficiency Virus study. Presents the proper use of the different Introduces the applications of molecular (HIV) infection detection of paroxysmal statistical methods required to analyze research biology techniques in diagnostics of nocturnal hemoglobinuria, cytometry clinical data. Teaches students how to communicate various diseases. The students will learn the transplantation, leukocyte functional assays, effectively as scientists by writing high quality molecular mechanisms underlying infection cell apoptosis, CD34 positive stem cell scientific papers, giving oral presentations, by microorganisms, genetically inherited enumeration, immunologic dysfunction, and and putting together a research proposal. The diseases as well as cancer, and how molecular DNA and cell proliferation measurements in students will apply these concepts to their own techniques can help with the diagnosis and cancer cells. Prerequisite: HHM 500, 510, 511 writing. Prerequisite: HHM 500, 510, 511, prognosis of these diseases. Addresses the Co-Requisite: HHM 520 516, 520, 521, 540, 545 advantages and limitations of different 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) techniques available, as well as the importance of quality control. Prerequisite: HHM 500 HHM 531: Cytogenetics Methodology HHM 570: Journal Club on Medical and Applications 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Molecular Biology Focuses on the impact of chromosome Students participate in critical analysis of HHM 516: Application of Molecular abnormalities on the diagnosis, prognosis and scientific journal articles from a diverse set Biology in Research treatment of cytogenetic syndromes. Covers of topics related to the field of molecular Focuses on various applications of molecular basic cytogenetic concepts and laboratory biology including molecular diagnostics, biology techniques in both basic and techniques required for the detection of molecular microbiology, cancer research, translational medical research. High emphasis various diseases, including sex chromosome genetically inherited diseases and genomics, will be placed on the understanding of the abnormalities, the fragile X syndrome, among others. In each session, a student molecular pathways involved in various and structural and numerical chromosome presents the essential information of the diseases, including cancer, genetically abnormalities, with special emphasis on the paper including background, significance, inherited diseases and infection by mechanisms underlying these syndromes. hypothesis, experimental methods, results and microorganisms. The students will learn how Prerequisite: HHM 500, 510, 511, 516, 520, conclusions by means of a narrated Powerpoint the power of molecular genetic analysis is used 521, 540, 545 presentation. Following the presentation, to identify, isolate and characterize genes that 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the rest of the class discuss and analyze the cause and contribute to the etiology of human content of the paper in an online discussion diseases. Explains how various molecular HHM 540: Laboratory Operations in forum. Prerequisite: HHM 500, 510, 511, 516, biology techniques can be applied to diagnose Molecular Biology 520, 521, 540, 545 diseases and to develop potential therapeutics. Covers the main principles of laboratory 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Discusses the advantages and limitations of standards used in the molecular diagnostics, different techniques, as well as the importance including pre- and post-analytical HHM 581: Clinical Practicum in of quality control. Prerequisite: HHM 500, operations, test result documentation, quality Molecular Diagnostics 510, 511 assurance and quality control. Considers the importance of safety, regulation and

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This is a two week fulltime practicum in a Hemisphere Syndrome. Covers evidence-based 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Clinical Molecular Diagnostics lab designed to practices in the assessment and intervention, give students supervised practical application multicultural issues during service delivery, HHS 514: Neuromotor Speech of what was learned in classes. The students patient and family education, and client Disorders will be provided with on-the-job training advocacy. Students will learn how to translate Covers the etiology, assessment and while experiencing the work environment in research into clinical practice. intervention of motor speech disorders a clinical diagnostic laboratory. Prerequisite: 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) secondary to developmental or acquired central HHM fall year two courses. and/or peripheral damage to the nervous 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HHS 511: Cognitive Communication system of adults and children. Includes Disorders the identification and differentiation of HHM 583: Clinical Practicum in Flow Provides information about the assessment various motor speech disorders secondary to Cytometry and intervention of cognitive communication neurological injury. Discusses best practice This is a two week fulltime practicum in a disorders, including traumatic brain injury, in assessment and intervention with an Clinical Flow Cytometry lab designed to give primary progressive aphasia and dementia. emphasis on evidence-based practice, ethical students supervised practical application of Discusses evaluating and treating cognition, case studies, functional treatment outcomes, what was learned in classes. The students including attention, memory and executive importance of interprofessional education, and will be provided with on-the-job training function skills. Discusses evidence based client advocacy. Students will observe in the while experiencing the work environment in practice for assessment and intervention with ALS team clinic at Stony Brook University a clinical diagnostic laboratory. This will be a focus on The World Health Organization's Hospital. repeatable course, for additional course credits. International Classification of Functioning, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: HHM fall year two courses. Disability, and Health model. Opportunities HHS 520: Preschool Child Language 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will be available for interprofessional practice and discussion about multicultural service Disorders HHM 585: Clinical Practicum in delivery, partner/family education and Examines the theories of language Cytogenetics challenges that clinicians face in today's development, evidence-based practice This is a two week fulltime practicum in a healthcare system. assessment and intervention of language cytogenetics diagnostics lab designed to give 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) delays/disorders in preschool children, students supervised practical application of multicultural service delivery, treatment what was learned in classes. The students HHS 512: Neuroscience in advocacy and outreach, designing intervention will be provided with on-the-job training Communication Sciences and plans, establishing and maintaining while experiencing the work environment in Disorders collaborative relationships, and the role of a clinical diagnostic laboratory. Prerequisite: Covers the neuroanatomy and neurophysiology family in the intervention process. Students HHM fall year two courses. of the speech, language, hearing, and will apply their theoretical knowledge to clinical practice by eliciting a language sample 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) swallowing mechanism. This intensive neuroscience course includes neuroanatomical from a preschool child. HHM 596: Capstone Project in Medical dissections, lectures, and clinical problem 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Molecular Biology solving. Requires students to conduct a cranial HHS 521: Speech Sound Disorders Culminating experience designed to for nerve exam examining the cranial nerves students to choose a topic of interest within the responsible for speech and swallowing with Covers articulation and phonological area of molecular diagnostics, flow cytometry, a client diagnosed with a communication or development, theories of development, and or cytogenetics and further investigate it by swallowing disorder. Uses team-based and disorders in children. Discusses best practice means of a systemic literature review. Topics problem-based learning in the classroom to in assessment and intervention with an can be problems identified during clinical help students apply their theoretical knowledge emphasis on evidence-based practice, language practice or learned in classes. Students will into clinical practice. difference versus disorder, multicultural need to develop a comprehensive proposal 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) issues in service delivery, and phonological that will be reviewed by faculty. Prerequisite: awareness. Students will apply theory into HHM fall year two courses. HHS 513: Adult Dysphagia clinical practice by completing a speech sample assignment with a child diagnosed with 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Examines the anatomy and physiology of normal and disordered swallowing in a speech sound disorder. the adult population. Includes assessment 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HHS and intervention of swallowing disorders; etiologies of swallowing disorders; working HHS 522: Early Intervention in Speech- Speech-Language Pathology with tracheotomy/ventilator dependent Language Pathology populations; ethical considerations; Includes information about the normal HHS 510: Aphasia and Related documentation; insurance coverage; development of feeding/oral-motor skills and Disorders importance of client advocacy; and education its relation to overall motor development. Provides current theory and practice in the of family and other professionals. Students will Discusses feeding, craniofacial syndromes identification, assessment, and intervention refine their skills through case scenarios, role- and disorders. Students will observe a session of aphasia in adults. Includes the anatomy, playing situations, interprofessional education at the Cleft Palate - Craniofacial Center. neuropathology and the cognitive and and interprofessionl practice. Prerequisites: Discusses information about clinical practice communication characteristics associated Completion of Year One Fall Courses in early intervention, caregiver training, with different types of aphasias and Right multicultural issues in service delivery, and

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 147 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 counseling of families. Includes discussion Provides a thorough understanding of Prepares students to provide evidence-based about evidence-based practice approaches physical, physiological and pedagogical practice assessment and intervention with to assessment and intervention of children principles in understanding professional and patients in a medical setting. Students will who are medically fragile and how to best nonprofessional impaired voice production in apply ethical and professional practice skills facilitate communication and feeding with children and adults. Discusses vocal anatomy, during problem-based and team-based case these children. voice classification, and us of instrumentation studies. Topics include: identifying the role 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) for assessment and intervention. Provides of the SLP as a member of the rehabilitation information about evidence-based practices team in healthcare, identifying pertinent HHS 523: Language and Literacy in assessment and intervention, multicultural background information and applying the Disorders in School-Age Children and issues, and client advocacy. Students will information in making decisions about the Adolescents integrate their theoretical skills with clinical patient's communication and swallowing Provides an overview about school-age and practice by engaging in real life scenarios and function, creating functional treatment plans, adolescent language and literacy disorders. case studies. and interprofessional education and practice. Covers models of language and reading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Students will also participate in neurology development. Discusses evidence-based grand rounds. practice assessment and intervention of oral HHS 531: Fluency Disorders 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and written language disorders in school-age Provides the theoretical knowledge about children and adolescents, multicultural service the nature and possible etiologies of fluency HHS 537: Seminar in Professional, delivery, treatment advocacy and outreach, disorders, and evidence-based practice Ethical and Multicultural Issues designing intervention plans accounting for assessment and intervention in the preschool, in Communication Sciences and Common State Core Standards and Response school-age, adolescent and adult populations. Disorders to Intervention (RTI), and providing therapy Emphasizes working with family and friends Covers an overview of the policies of the services to children in schools. Students will of persons who stutter. At the culmination of graduate program in Speech-Language apply their theoretical knowledge to clinical the course, students will complete a diagnostic Pathology and current issues and procedures practice by eliciting narrative samples from a evaluation and an intervention plan of a person related to the clinical pratice of speech- school-age child. with a fluency disorders. language pathology. Topics include knowledge 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and skills related to professional ethics, SLPs in different work settings, documentation, HHS 524: Autism and Social HHS 532: Aural Rehabilitation confidentiality, mandatory reporting of abuse, Communication Disorders Provides information and strategies for aural regulations and requirments for professional Reviews current research about speech- habilitation/rehabilitation with children and practice, cultural conisderations for studying, language, cognitive, and social communication adults. Topics include hearing aids, cochlear assessing and treating communication and aspects of Autism Spectrum Disorders. implants, assistive technology, speech reading, swallowing disorders in culturally and Discusses possible theories of ASD, the auditory training, listening skills impacted by linguistically diverse (CLD) populations, diagnostic criteria used to identify these hearing loss, deafness, auditory processing knowledge and skills related to certification children, best practices in assessment and disorders and communication strategies and and licensure, employment seeking skills, intervention. Focuses on the role of families counseling techniques. Students will develop cultural linguistic diversity, clinical fellowship, in the assessment and intervention process, an intervention plan based on communication and information about ASHA and its role in using effective intervention strategies, and skills and needs of the individual and learn the profession. collaborative and interdisciplinary models of about collaborating as part of multidisciplinary 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) service delivery for children diagnosed with teams. HHS 539: Seminar in Counseling Autism and social communication disorders. 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Provides an overview about counseling in HHS 533: Augmentative and speech-language pathology, specifically in HHS 526: Foundations of Teaching Alternative Communication interdisciplinary and collaborative healthcare English Language Arts to Bilingual Examines the design, selection, and use of and educational settings. Covers the role Language Learners augmentative and alternative methods of of the speech-language pathologist in the Provides the students with an understanding communication. Addresses the populations for counseling process, contemporary counseling of methods of teaching English language which they are appropriate, and issues related issues, models of counseling, multicutural arts to bilingual English language learners, to the prevention, assessment and intervention issues and advocacy during prevention and including literacy for meeting the State of persons using augmentative and alternative wellness, screening, assessment and treatment learning standards for students. This is a methods and devices, client advocacy, and in different service areas. Incorporates case required course for students who wish to service delivery models. Students will also studies and team-based learning. obtain a Bilingual Extension in any registered learn about incorporating evidence-based 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and approved Base Certification Program. practices and multicultural services deilivery in There is a requirement of 25 hours of field assessment and intervention. HHS 540: Foundations of Clinical Practice experience dedicated to observations and 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) paraprofessional authentic activites. Provides the students with a thorough 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HHS 536: Seminar in Medical Speech- understanding of the assessment and therapy Language Pathology principles, methods and procedures in speech- HHS 530: Voice and Resonance language pathology. Topics include Health Disorders & Instrumentation Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

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(HIPPA), universal precautions, CALIPSO, HHS 551: Research Methods and clock hours will be obtained for real-life writing behavioral objectives, session plans, Resources in Communication Sciences experiences and clinical simulations. Students progress notes, individual and group therapy, and Disorders will complete an evidence-based practice data accountability and recording, and teaching Teaches students to be critical consumers presentation to faculty and peers at the strategies. Students will attain 25 hours of of different types of research in the field culmination of this course. Corequisite: HHS supervised clinical observation if they did not of communication sciences and disorders. 540 Foundations of Clinical Practice attain at the undergraduate level. Corequisite: Topics include research designs; accessing and Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HHS 581 assessing articles in journals; using Refworks; 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) creating an annotated bibliography; ethics HHS 582: Clinical II in research; Institutional Review Board; Integrates information learned in previous and HHS 542: Clinical Concepts in Evidence-Based Practice in communication concurrent speech-language pathology courses Audiology disorders; HIPAA; and constructing a through real-life clinical experiences and Provides knowledge and skills necessary to presentation/professional poster. Students classroom discussions. Students will provide perform the responsibilities as outlined in will be required to write a research proposal prevention, and evidence-based practice the scope of practice of the speech-language including a research question, theoretical assessment and intervention services with pathologist. Discusses pure tone screenings, position, supportive literature review, and adults and children. Clinical clock hours will otoscopic inspection, tympanometry screening, methodology. be obtained for real-life experiences at clinical listening checks for hearing aids, multicultural 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) sites affiliated with Stony Brook University. screening considerations, and counseling Students will complete an evidence- based patient/family. HHS 572: Speech and Language practice presentation to faculty and peers at the 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Pathology in the Schools Clinical culmination of this course. Prerequisites: HHS Required clinical/seminar for students 540 and HHS 581 (with a minimum grade of HHS 544: Diagnostics in Speech- pursuing their TSSLD certification. Students B) Language Pathology will complete 150 clock hours of supervised 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Covers principles and methods of evidence- clinical practice in a school setting. Seminar based practice assessment of a variety of will meet once weekly and allow students to HHS 583: Clinical III communication and swallowing disorders discuss evidence-based practice assessment Integrates information learned in previous and across the lifespan. Includes analyzing and and intervention in the school setting, concurrent speech-language pathology courses interpreting testing data, designing functional models of service delivery, multicultural through real-life clinical experiences and intervention plans based on the results, diversity, advocacy and outreach, classroom classroom discussions. Students will provide reporting assessment results to clients, family, management, NYS Standards, educating prevention and evidence-based practice and other professionals working in educational family, collaboration with professionals, and assessment and intervention services with and health related fields, teaching students to reflect about their clinical experiences. children and adults. Clinical clock hours will be critical consumers of assessment materials, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) be obtained for real-life experiences at an client advocacy and outreach, and professional outside placement. Students will complete an ethics and practice. Students will engage HHS 574: Speech and Language evidence-based practice presentation to faculty in team-based and problem-based learning Pathology in the Schools Bilingual and peers at the culmination of this course. experiences. Students will acquire experience Clinical Prerequisites: HHS 540, HHS 581, HHS 582 writing the different sections of a diagnostic Required clinical/seminar for students (with a minimum grade of B) report. Corequisite: HHS This course is taken pursuing their Bilingual Extension 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) concurrently with HHS 587 certification. Students are required to complete 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 150 clock hours (50 hours with bilingual HHS 584: Clinical IV population) of supervised clinical practice Integrates information learned in previous and HHS 546: Speech Language Pathology in a bilingual school setting. There will be concurrent speech-language pathology courses in Schools a seminar which will meet once weekly through real-life clinical experiences and Covers the role of the speech-language and allow students to discuss evidence- classroom discussions. Students will provide pathologist in the school setting, models based practice assessment and intervention prevention, and evidence-based practice of service delivery, historical and legal in the school setting, models of service assessment and intervention services with foundations of education, scheduling, delivery, multicultural diversity, advocacy children or adults. Clinical clock hours will individualized education planning, and outreach, classroom management, NYS be obtained for real-life experiences at an multicultural service delivery, importance Standards, educating family, collaboration outside placement. Students will complete and of collaboration and consultation, Common with professionals, and reflect about their evidence-based practice presentation to faculty Core Standards, managing the educational clinical experiences and peers at the culmination of this course. environment to maximize communication 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisites: HHS 540, HHS 581, HHS 582, opportunities, and communication with family and HHS 583 (with a minimum grade of B). and professionals. Describes models and HHS 581: Clinical I 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) theories of typical and atypical growth and Integrates information learned in concurrent behavior across age groups, and philosophies speech-language pathology courses through HHS 585: Clinical V that provide the foundation for research- based real-life clinical experiences, classroom Integrates information learned in previous and special education practice. discussions and clinical simulations with concurrent speech-language pathology courses 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) other allied health professionals. Clinical through real-life clinical experiences and

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 149 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 classroom discussions. Students will provide Provides necessary tools to prepare and present HIS 524: Core Seminar: History, Theory prevention and evidence-based practice a professional poster illustrating students' and Practice assessment and intervention services with research study. Students will write a research Introduction to the theory, practice and children or adults. Clinical clock hours will paper summarizing their capstone project for writing of history through the reading of be obtained for real-life experiences at an submission to a journal or for a professional theoretical and historical texts and the writing outside placement. Students will complete an presentation. of a research paper. This course meets over evidence-based practice presentation to faculty 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the entire academic year, for 3 credits per and peers at the culmination of this course. semester, and is mandatory for all new Ph.D. Prerequisites: HHS 540, HHS 581, HHS students. Students entering with an M.A. take 582, and HHS 583 (with a minimum grade HIS it at the discretion of their advisor. of B). NOTE: This course required clinical 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) for students not completing the TSSLD or History TSSLD with Bilingual Extension. Foundations HIS 500: Historiography HIS 525: Core Seminar: History, Theory of Clinical Practice, Clinical I, Clinical II, and Practice Clinical III, and Clinical IV are pre-requisites Introduction to historiography through reading Introduction to the theory, practice and for this course. and writing about interpretations of history, writing of history through the reading of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) historical methods, and major historians. Term paper on historian of choice. theoretical and historical texts and the writing of a research paper. This course meets over HHS 586: Audiology Clinical 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the entire academic year, for 3 credits per Provides practical skills necessary to perform semester, and is mandatory for all new Ph.D. HIS 501: Early Modern Europe the responsibilities as outlined in the scope of students. Students entering with an M.A. take Seminar:1450-1789 practice of the speech-language pathologist. it at the discretion of their advisor. Students will gain hands-on experience Field seminar in early modern European 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) performing pure tone screenings, otoscopic history, 1450-1789. Surveys the major inspection, tympanometry screenings, listening historical problems and interpretations from HIS 526: Core Seminar: History Theory checks for hearing aids, and making referrals the Renaissance to the coming of the French and Practice to audiologists. Corequisite: HHS 542 Revolution. Introduction to the theory, practice and Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) writing of history through the reading of theoretical and historical texts and the writing HHS 587: Diagnostics in Speech- HIS 502: Introduction to Late Modern of a research paper. This course meets over Language Pathology Clinical Europe the entire academic year, for 3 credits per Students will provide evidence-based practice Field seminar in late modern European history, semester, and is mandatory for all new Ph.D. assessment with children and adults diagnosed 1789-1945. Surveys the major historical students. Students entering with an M.A. take with communication and swallowing disorders. problems and interpretations from the French it at the discretion of their advisor. Students will be selecting and administering Revolution through the Second World War. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) evaluation procedures, adapting evaluation 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) procedures, interpreting and synthesizing HIS 527: Core Seminar: History, Theory information to determine diagnoses, HIS 516: Theme Seminars on Empire, and Practice considering multicultural service delivery and Modernity, and Globalization Introduction to the theory, practice and treatment advocacy and outreach, designing May be repeated for credit. writing of history through the reading of intervention plans, establishing and maintain theoretical and historical texts and the writing collaborative relationships, making appropriate HIS 517: Theme Seminars on Empire, of a research paper. This course meets over referrals and recommendations, providing Modernity, and Globalization the entire academic year, for 3 credits per counseling and education to patients/family semester, and is mandatory for all new Ph.D. and other professionals, writing diagnostic May be repeated for credit. students. Students entering with an M.A. take reports, and adhering to the ASHA Code of it at the discretion of their advisor. Ethics. Corequisite: HHS 544 HIS 521: Introduction to United States History to the Civil War 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Field seminar in U.S. history from the HIS 532: Theme Seminar: Gender, HHS 594: Capstone Project in Speech- founding of the British colonies to the Religion and Modernity Language Pathology and Praxis beginning of the Civil War. Surveys the major Examination Preparation topics and interpretations. Required for M.A. May be repeated 5 times FOR credit. This hybrid course will cover the nine ASHA students in U.S. history. areas of specialty, including speech sound 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HIS 535: Theme Seminars on Gender, disorders; child language/literacy disorder; Sexuality and Reproduction HIS 522: Introduction to United States adult language/neurological disorders; voice May be repeated for credit. disorders; fluency disorders; augmentative History Since the Civil War and alternative communication; dysphagia; Field seminar in U.S. history from the Civil HIS 540: The Black Power Movement research methods; and cultural aspects of War to the Cold War. Surveys the major This course examines the Black Power communication disorders. Discusses basic interpretations. Movement. Stokely Carmichael's call for human communication; audiology/hearing; 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) "Black Power!" broke through the commotion counseling; professional issues; and research.

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 150 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 of everyday politics during 1966's Meredith in which African histories are absent or May be repeated for credit. March Against Fear. Soon after, and for seen as aberrant. Topics will include critical the next decade, Black Power galvanized approaches to slavery, including Africanist HIS 562: Modern African History and/or African American politics, engendering radical responses to the idea of slavery as "social Asian History Seminar movements for social, political, and cultural death", fictive and other forms of kinship, Field seminar in modern African history. transformation that impacted blacks in the the concept of "wealth in persons," gendered Surveys major topics such as nationalism, United States and beyond. An emerging social identities and hierarchies, the invention anticolonial movements, and modernization. historiography traces the roots of Black Power and construction of tradition, resistance, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in the postwar black freedom movement, the colonization of consciousness. Semesters May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. finding cultural and political touchstones Offered: No fixed semester Grading: ABCF for future Black Power activism among 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HIS 563: Introduction to South Asian civil rights renegade, trade unionists, and History black nationalists. We will examine works HIS 552: Theme Seminar: Mass Surveys major topics such as nationalism, produced during the Black Power era and Media and Journalism in International anticolonial movements, legacies of British new scholarship to analyze the Black Power Perspectives imperialism, and modernization. Movement's legacy in the politics and culture May be repeated for credit. of African Americans. Permission of advisor 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) is required. This course is offered as both HIS HIS 553: Theme Seminars on Nation, HIS 564: Introduction to Chinese 540 and AFS 540. State and Civil Society History 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Topics vary by semester. Field seminar in modern Chinese history. HIS 541: Introduction to Colonial Latin 3 credits, Surveys major historical topics from American History Offered Fall and/or Spring, 3 credits, Letter modernization to revolution to reform and graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) sociocultural change. For MA, MAT, PhD Field seminar in colonial Latin American May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. students. history. Surveys major historical problems and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) debates from the colonial period through the HIS 554: Theme Seminars on Nation, wars for independence. Required for M.A. in State, and Civil Society HIS 565: Introduction to Japanese Latin American history. History May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Field Seminar in Modern Japanese History HIS 542: Modern Latin American HIS 555: Theme Seminars on Nation, surveys major historical topics from reform History Seminar State, and Civil Society and modernization to imperialism and postwar reconstruction. For MA, MAT, PhD students. Field seminar in modern Latin American May be repeated for credit. history. Surveys major historical problems and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) debates from the post-independence period to HIS 557: Special Seminars HIS 570: Theme Seminars in the present. This course is offered as both CEG Topics to be arranged. The seminar is built Environment, Science and Health 517 and HIS 542. around actual research activities of students Spring 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and faculty. The following topics have been covered: Cultural Theory; Sociology of May be repeated for credit. HIS 543: Theme Seminars on Gender, Technology; Micro-sociology; Advanced Sexuality, and Reproduction Topics in Marxist Theory; Sociology of HIS 571: Theme Seminars in Emotions; Historical Methods; Ethnic Environment, Science and Health May be repeated for credit. Relations; Biosociology; Comparative Spring Stratification; Max Weber; Sociology of the HIS 550: Modern Africa May be repeated for credit. Future; Science of Sociology and Everyday This course interrogates how historians Life; The Study of the World's Advanced HIS 572: Theme Seminars in define the modern age through the history Societies; Methods of Behavioral Observation; Environment, Science and Health of Sub-Saharan Africa from the fifteenth Social Structure; Sociology of the Family; Spring century to the present, a period that began with Cognitive Sociology; Sociology of Work; Africa at the center of exchanges in cultural, Transnational Social Movements; Economic May be repeated for credit. material, and human commodities. Topics to Sociology; War and Revolution; Sociology of HIS 581: Supervised Teaching be explored include Trans-Saharan, Atlantic, Gender; Sociology of Culture; Development Indian Ocean, and regional cultural and of Capitalism; Film as a Sociological Research Teaching practicum that usually accompanies a economic systems, salve trade and abolition, Tool; Funding and Grant Writing; The Three student's assistantship. the rise of "legitimate commerce," new African Faces of Social Psychology; A Structural 3 credits, S/U grading mercantile and laboring classes, European Approach to Organizational Behavior; May be repeated for credit. conquest and militarization, anti-colonial and Professionals and Professionalism; Sociology Pan- African movements, and the nation-state of Modernity; Globalization and Immigration; HIS 582: Teaching Practicum and its problems in post-colonial Africa. The Research Support in Sociology; Sociology of Practicum in teaching methods for new course will also pay attention to the theoretical Sexual Behavior; Global Sociology; Gender assistants. (MA. Workshop required deleted and methodological apparatuses Africanists and the Law; Poverty and Homelessness. from the curriculum) have used to challenge conventional narratives 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, S/U grading

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HIS 584: Directed Readings for M.A. HIS 603: Research Seminar on Social 1-18 credits, S/U grading Candidates and Cultural History May be repeated for credit. Specialized tutorials based on contractual HIS 685: Directed Readings for Ph.D. relationship between individual student and HIS 615: Research Seminars on Candidates faculty. Required for M.A. students. Empire, Modernity, and Globalization Specialized tutorials based on contractual 1-3 credits, S/U grading relationship between individual student and May be repeated for credit. HIS 616: Research Seminars on Social faculty member. and Cultural History HIS 585: Directed Readings for M.A. 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Candidates May be repeated for credit. HIS 617: Research Seminars on Specialized tutorials based on contractual Empire, Modernity, and Globalization HIS 686: Directed Readings for Ph.D. relationship between individual student and Candidates faculty. Required for M.A. students. HIS 622: Migration, Diaspora and Specialized tutorials based on contractual 1-3 credits, S/U grading Transnationalism relationship between individual student and May be repeated for credit. faculty member. HIS 586: Directed Readings for M.A. HIS 623: Research Seminars on 1-18 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Candidates Ethnicity and Migration May be repeated for credit. Specialized tutorials based on contractual HIS 695: Dissertation Prospectus relationship between individual student and HIS 631: Research Seminar: The Social Workshop for Ph.D. Candidates faculty. Required for M.A. students. History of Medicine and Health Required of all Ph.D. candidates in order to 1-3 credits, S/U grading prepare a dissertation prospectus. This seminar May be repeated for credit. HIS 632: Research Seminars on should be completed either before or in the Gender and Sexuality HIS 587: Teaching Practicum I: same semester as the qualifying examination. American Controversies Offered once each year, 3 credits, S/U grading HIS 633: Research Seminars on HIS 587: Teaching Practicum I: Controversies Gender and Sexuality HIS 699: Dissertation Research on in American History Campus HIS 588: Teaching Practicum II: HIS 634: Research Seminars on Dissertation research under direction of Controversies in American History Gender and Sexuality advisor. Offered Fall every year, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). May be repeated for credit. HIS 652: Research Seminar: Oral Major portion of research must take place on History: Methodology and Theory SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the HIS 588: Teaching Practicum II: Topics vary by semester. Brookhaven National Lab. American Controversies 3 credits, S/U grading Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U HIS 587: Teaching Practicum I: Controversies May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. grading in American History May be repeated for credit. HIS 588: Teaching Practicum II: HIS 653: Research Seminars on Nation, State, and Civil Society HIS 700: Dissertation Research off Controversies in American History Campus - Domestic Spring, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy etc.) HIS 654: Research Seminars on Nation, (G5). Major portion of research will take place May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. State, and Civil Society off-campus, but in the United States and/ HIS 595: Reading Colloquium in or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven HIS 655: Research Seminars on Nation, Women's History National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab State, and Civil Society are considered on-campus. All international A topics course dealing with such subjects students must enroll in one of the graduate as women in social movements, the place of HIS 682: Directed Readings for Ph.D. student insurance plans and should be advised gender in particular historical circumstances, Candidates by an International Advisor. imperialism and woman, changing views of sexuality, or relations between family policies Specialized tutorials based on contractual Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading and other political programs. This course relationship between individual student and May be repeated for credit. offered as both HIS 595 and WST 595. faculty member. HIS 701: Dissertation Research off 1-18 credits, S/U grading Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Campus - International B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy HIS 601: Research Seminars on Social HIS 684: Directed Readings for Ph.D. (G5). Major portion of research will take and Cultural History Candidates place outside of the United States and/or Specialized tutorials based on contractual U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the May be repeated for credit. relationship between individual student and option of the health plan and may also enroll faculty member. in MEDEX. International students who are

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HND 615: Genomics HND 650: Systems Theory This course will explore the role of genetic This course will provide knowledge and HNG factors in the, causation, treatment, and opportunities for identifying responsibilities Nursing Master and Post inherent in the leadership role, opportunities prevention of human disease. Emphasis will Master's Certificate be placed on translation of genetic discoveries for change, and strategies to improve and enhance health care delivery from a systems into interventions which improve health HNG 501: Primary Care outcomes. perspective. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The student explores and analyzes common 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) health problems as experienced by women from young adulthood through old age. HND 625: Health Care Policy and HND 655: DNP Synthesis I Optimum client outcomes are emphasized in Social Justice This course will emphasize methodology, and culminate in development of a proposal for a the development of client specific management This course will explore the interface among plans. The clinical components of primary federal, state and local governments, from comprehensive doctoral-level project which seeks to advance health outcomes. Practice care are practiced in women's health care

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Realistic problems within HNG 519: Advanced Theory and of evidence-based screening guidelines. a collaborative practice will be explored Clinical Practice in Adult-Gerontology Prerequisite: HNG 540 and HNG 588; Co- and developed to facilitate acquisition of Nursing Across the Continuum I Requisite: HNG 515 skills in reasoning, problem solving, decision This course focuses on clinical problem 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) making and critical reflections relevant to the solving and decision making skills essential to specialization of Perinatal Women's Health. assessing and diagnosing health status, health HNG 506: Evidence-based Health and 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) risks, illness and functional/dysfunctional Wellness of the Contemporary College health patterns of adults and their families. Student HNG 515: Advanced Health Resources, strengths and limitations are used This interdisciplinary course focuses on Assessment as a basis to collaborate with adult patient understanding the health and wellness Provides diagnostic reasoning and a regional families and/or other health care providers continuum of the contemporary college approach to physical exam in the health to plan therapeutic interventions to promote, student, identifying the at risk student, and assessment process. Functional health maintain or restore health. Prerequisite: HNG examining models for intervention and student patterns and biomedical models constitute the 515, 540, and 588 support. Concepts including developmental theoretical framework. 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) theory, health beliefs and culture will be 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) explored in relation to topics such as health HNG 520: Pediatric Pathophysiology maintenance, mental health substance abuse, HNG 517: Advanced Theory and The course is designed to provide the graduate violence, and the needs of the student with Clinical Practice in Psychiatric/Mental student preparing for an advanced practice cognitive and physical disabilities. Health I role with a broad knowledge base of the 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Provides a theoretical and conceptual physiological and pathophysiological changes foundation for the advanced practice of that occur during the maturational process HNG 507: Parenting: Anticipatory Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing. The from conception through childhood. Emphasis Guidance concept of mental health is based upon a will be placed on the maintenance of wellness This course critically examines issues, comprehensive understanding of human and prevention of illness through nursing knowledge and skills which facilitate optimal interaction with the environment through a interventions, perinatal education, and parent/child health outcomes. Concepts from synthesis of arts, sciences, humanities and anticipatory guidance. humanities, health related and nursing sciences life experience. Emphasis will be place on the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) provide a knowledge based for parenting and importance theory plays in defining knowledge parent education. Anticipatory guidance, as a necessary to assess human behavior, diagnose HNG 522: Advanced Topics in Fetal therapeutic nursing intervention, will be the illness and to implement and evaluate and Neonatal Pathophysiology focus of the course. treatment related to psychopathology. This course is designed to provide the 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: HNG 515, HNG 540, HNG 551, graduate student preparing for an advanced HNG 588 practice role in neonatal health with a broad HNG 513: Advanced Health 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) knowledge base of the physiological and Assessment of the Neonate and Infant pathophysiological changes that occur during This course will be centered on assessment HNG 518: Advanced Theory and the developmental process from conception of physical, behavioral and cognitive Clinical Practice in Pediatric Nursing through infancy. Emphasis will be placed on development of the neonate and infant within Across the Continuum I the development wellness and prevention of the context of their family and environment. The focus of this course is the development illness through nursing interventions, perinatal Emphasis will be placed on the development of critical thinking and clinical decision education, and anticipatory guidance. of diagnostic reasoning and clinical decision making as essential components of the 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) making skills as essential components of the advanced practice role. The major emphasis advanced practice role. will be on analyzing and exploring common HNG 524: Advanced Theory and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) primary health problems of infants, children, Clinical Practice in Perinatal Women's and adolescents and developing optimum Health II HNG 514: Advanced Theory and client outcomes that promote cost-effective, This is the second of four clinical courses that Clinical Practice in Perinatal Women's quality health care within the context of a will prepare the student to provide primary Health I multicultural society. Health assessments care to women during the childbearing years. This is the first of four sequential courses will integrate the concepts, theories, and The conceptual frameworks of wellness, health focusing on advanced nursing practice principles underlying advanced assessment, promotion and disease prevention, and the specializing in perinatal/women's health diagnosis, and management of common effective use of communication strategies throughout the life span focusing on health problems of infants, children, and in documentation, patient education and gynecological health. Analytical thinking and adolescents within the context of their families advocacy will be emphasized. This course clinical decision making within collaborative and communities. Knowledge of related health develops the paradigm of family-centered, practice will be implemented so that sciences, nursing theories, and research are community-based health care, which respects therapeutic nursing interventions result in drawn upon to further develop the framework multicultural traditions and lifestyle variations. desired outcomes in the ambulatory care for the advanced practice role. Prerequisite: Students are prepared for the advanced of women. Nursing theory and research for HNG 525 practice role of the Perinatal Women's Health health promotion and management of women 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Nurse Practitioner role in the provision of within the context of a multicultural society care to women from preconception through

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The implementation and treating and managing a patient/family with Assessment Child Health evaluation components of managed care are health problems and dysfunctional patterns. This course is designed to enable the emphasized. Prerequisites: HNG 519. Emphasizes coordination, consultation, and student to refine and further develop clinical 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) interaction components of case management decision making skills while conducting to promote, maintain and/or restore health health assessment of infants, children, and HNG 534: Advanced Theory and in groups of adult patients in primary care adolescents. Emphasis will be placed on Clinical Practice in Perinatal Women's settings. Clinical research is drawn upon assessment of the child's physical, emotional Health Nursing III to further develop the framework for the and cognitive development within the context This is the third of four sequential clinical advanced practice role. Pre-requisites: HNG of the family and environment. courses designed to integrate nursing theory 529 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and research into the health promotion and 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) management of the high risk perinatal family HNG 527: Advanced Theory and within the context of a multicultural society. HNG 540: Clinical Pharmacology (All Clinical Practice in Psychiatric/Mental Emphasis is placed on the prevention and early Tracks) Health Nursing II detection of reproductive risk, therapeutic Clinical applications of major classifications This is the second of four sequential clinical nursing intervention and communication of drugs. Emphasizes pharmacology and core courses for advanced practice in necessary to improve the quality of perinatal therapeutics. Addresses clinical correlations psychiatric mental health nursing. This outcomes. The nursing process is utilized to with applications to special populations using course is designed to provide the knowledge manage high risk reproductive and perinatal case studies. Prescription writing, patient and skills inherent in the diagnosis of complications. compliance to drug therapy and application of mental disorders as related to etiology, 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) this knowledge for special patient population. psychopathology, practice and research. A 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) variety of treatment models that provide a HNG 537: Advanced Theory and foundation for psychotherapeutic interventions Clinical Practice in Psychiatric/Mental HNG 541: Nursing Research and will be explored, analyzed and applied to meet Health Nursing III Evidence-Based Practice I the needs of a complex and culturally diverse Provides the knowledge and skills in the This course is an introduction to the process society. Prerequisite: HNG 517 nursing diagnosis and therapeutic nursing of evidence-based practice. Research will 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) interventions of mental disorders in special be examined as the scientific foundation populations in a multicultural society. The for nursing. An emphasis will be placed on HNG 528: Advanced Theory and variey of therapeutic roles for the Nurse understanding research methods and strategies Clinical Practice in Pediatric Nursing Practitioner in Psychiatric/Mental Health to evaluate results for use in evidence- Across the Continuum II nursing will be analyzed to provide a based practice. The steps of the evidence- This is the second of four sequential courses framework for advanced practice. Prerequisite: based practice process will provide the designed to expand and integrate concepts, HNG 527 framework for the course. Published nursing theories and principles underlying advanced 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) research studies will be evaluated according assessment, diagnosis and management of to principles of evidence-based practice for common health problems of children within HNG 538: Advanced Theory and applicability and clinical feasibility. Clinical Practice in Primary Care the context of their families and communities. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course prepares students for the advanced Pediatric Nursing I practice role of the pediatric nurse practitioner/ This is the third of four sequential courses HNG 542: Neonatal Clinical clinical nurse specialist in an environment and is designed to provide knowledge and Pharmacology conducive to analytic skills, clinical decision analytical skills to meet the health care The course is centered on pharmacotherapeutic making and reflections on practice in a multi- needs of children and families with chronic management of selected neonatal conditions cultural society. Clinical and evidence based and or medically fragile conditions in a with major emphasis on the development of research is drawn upon to further develop the complex and culturally diverse society. diagnostic reasoning and clinical decision framework for the advanced practice role. There will be precepted clinicals that expose making skills as essential components of the Prerequisites: HNG 518 students to clinical decision making in advanced practice role. Learners will explore 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) collaborative practice environments. Health and analyze pharmacologic issues relevant to care management will be linked with evidence the neonate and infant in the intensive care HNG 529: Advanced Theory and based clinical research findings that promote and primary care settings as well as potential Clinical Practice in Adult-Gerontology optimal health care for children and families consequences of maternal drug therapy on the Nursing Across the Continuum II within complex interrelated health care fetus. Currency in knowledge of the principles This is the second of four sequential courses systems. Pre-requisites: HNG 528 of clinical and basic pharmacology is an designed to develop advanced clinical 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) essential prerequisite of this course. decision making skills in diagnosing, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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HNG 543: Nursing Research and NP. Students identify the patient populations HNG 560: Sexual Health across the Evidence-Based Practice II with whom they plan to practice, negotiate for Lifespan This is the second of two courses designed placement in a self selected practice setting, This course will provide the skills to assess, to examine research in relation to evidence- implement the roles and functions of NP, and coordinate, consult, promote, maintain and/ based practice and health care outcomes. evaluate the terminal experience in advanced or restore sexual health in diverse patient Models and methods of evidence-based practice in adult health care. Prerequisites: populations. Emphasis is placed on risk practice will be examined. A focus will be HNG 539 reduction and the promotion of sexual well- placed on critical appraisal of nursing research 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) being. and clinical guidelines for applicability to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) practice. Identification, review of evidence, HNG 551: Psychopharmacology and recommendations for improving health This course will center on HNG 561: Clinical Immersion: Graduate care outcomes will be emphasized. pharmacotherapeutic management of selected The focus of this course is to expand, deepen, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) psychiatric conditions. Students will explore or enrich advanced practice skills relevant and analyze pharmacologic issues relevant to to area of clinical specialization. Learning HNG 547: Advanced Theory and the psychiatric client in ambulatory, acute care opportunities, in clinical and simulated Clinical Practice in Psychiatric/Mental and chronic care settings. settings, will promote integration of advanced Health Nursing IV 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) practice competencies, leadership, and This is the culminating course of the four practice inquiry. Emphasis will be placed sequential advanced clinical courses. It HNG 554: Advanced Theory and on self-directed and precepted learning is designed to provide students with the Clinical Practice in Perinatal Women's experiences, in-depth clinical skill building opportunity to implement and evaluate the role Health Nursing IV and decision-making, continuity of care, and of the nurse practitioner within the nursing This is the culminating nursing practicum interprofessional collaboration. discipline in a specialty area of their choice. course designed to provide students with 1-5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Emphasis will be placed on integration of the opportunity to implement and critically May be repeated for credit. the advanced nursing practice role, nursing evaluate the role of the nurse practitioner in research, and the leadership component in the women's health. Emphasis will be placed on HNG 564: Adv Thry Cln Pract in clinical specialization. Concepts of clinical the integration of advanced nursing practice, Neonatal Health Nursing II:Primary practice as they relate to the specialty area in research, and leadership/management concepts Care High Risk Infant a culturally diverse society will be explored in the clinical specialization. Issues in clinical This course forcuses on the advanced and analyzed so that therapeutic nursing practice related to the specialty area will be assessment skills required to provide primary interventions are linked with patient outcomes. explored as well as the effect of therapeutic care to high risk infants and their families Students will be expected to implement nursing interventions on patient/family within the context of a pluralistic society. The their role as advanced nurse practitioner, outcomes. biological and psychosocial aspects are studied terminate and evaluate the experience. 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) as a basis for nursing practice. Emphasis Prerequisites:HNG 537 is placed on the role of the neonatal nurse 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HNG 555: Professional Issues in practitioner in improving the provision of Midwifery Practice primary care and follow-up services to high HNG 548: Advanced Theory and The course will focus on professional risk infants with the purpose of decreasing Clinical Practice in Primary Care organizations for nurse-midwifery practice mortality and morbidity rates and improving Pediatric Nursing II and provides an opportunity for professional the quality of life for these infants after This is the last of a series of four courses socialization and responsibility. This course discharged from the intensive care nursery. designed to provide students an opportunity provides a culminating review of all clinical 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to evaluate critically the role of the Pediatric aspects of nurse midwifery practice and Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse standards. An emphasis on the mastery of core HNG 565: Adv Thry Cln Pract in Specialist in the care of children and their competencies and standards of practice of Neonatal Health Nursing II:Primary families. Care will be taken to integrate the ACNM will be integrated throughout the Care High Risk Infant advanced nursing practice, leadership, course. Co-requisite: HNG 587 This course focuses on the advanced health management, research and expert clinical 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) assessment skills required to provide primary practice in diagnosing, treating and managing care to high risk infants and their families children with particular healthcare needs. HNG 557: Clinical Perspectives of within the context of a pluralistic society. The Concepts of clinical practice will be related to Pathophysiology/Neurophysiology biological and psychosocial aspects are studies outcome based research. Prerequisite: HNG This course is based on the core concepts as a basis for nursing practice. Emphasis 538 in Neurophysiology which are integral to is placed on the role of the neonatal nurse 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the clinical practice of advanced psychiatric practitioner in improvising the provision of mental health nurses. A major focus involves primary care and follow-up services to high HNG 549: Advanced Theory and understanding the neurophysiological theories risk infants with the purpose of decreasing Clinical Practice in Primary Care Adult- of major psychiatric/mental health disorders, mortality and morbidity rates and improving Gerontology Nursing II neurological assessment. the quality of life for these infants after A capstone experience for students to be 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) discharged from the intensive care nursery. mentored by faculty in experiencing full 6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) enactment of the roles and functions of the

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HNG 567: Evidence-Based Pract: the advanced practice role in family health This course is designed to provide a theoretical Promoting Mentl Hlth Wellness nursing. An epidemiologic and body systems and conceptual framework for the NP in This course explores the current evidence approach to common problems in primary developing therapeutic interventions for surrounding societal mental health wellness. health care will be applied along the health individuals and their families. Adult and Students will select a topic of exploration and continuum. Optimal client outcomes within adolescent developmental theories, the use the steps of evidence-based practice in the the context of a multicultural society will be major family theories and crisis intervention development of solutions to improve mental explored. Prerequisites: HNG 515, HNG 540, theory are examined. Selected family health outcomes throughout the lifespan. Pre- HNG 588 typologies are used to illustrate theoretical requisites: HNG 515, HNG 588, HNG 540, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) concepts. Emphasis is placed on assessment, HNG 541 interventions and development of referral HNG 573: Advanced Theory and resources. 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Clinical Practice in Family Health II 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HNG 568: The Addicted Client: This is the second of four sequential clinical Strategies for Nursing Assessment and courses. The major emphasis is on clinical HNG 578: Advanced Theory and Intervention decision making and critical thinking as Clinical Practice in Neonatal Health Nursing III: The High Risk Neonate I This course is designed to provide a theoretical essential components of the advanced practice and conceptual foundation needed to address role. This course focuses on advanced nursing This is one of four sequential advanced theory clients with a broad range of substance abuse practice specializing in the primary health care and clinical practice courses in the neonatal and addiction patterns on the health-illness for the pediatric patient. The major emphasis nurse practitioner program. Emphasis is placed continuum. It utilizes concepts from a number will be on analyzing and exploring common on the development of diagnostic reasoning of nursing specialties in data collection, problems in primary health care for pediatric and clinical decision making skills as essential diagnosis, planning, intervention and patient and throughout a health continuum components of the advanced practice role in evaluation through the case study method. The and developing optimum client outcomes providing care to high risk infants and their critical evaluation of socio-cultural beliefs, within the context of multicultural society. families in the acute care setting. Nursing values and attitudes toward the addicted client Prerequisite: HNG 572 theory and research for health promotion and will also be explored. 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) management of the neonate and family within the context of a pluralistic society will be 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HNG 574: Advanced Theory and explored. Prerequisites: HNG 513, HNG 522, HNG 569: Advanced Theory and Clinical Practice in Family Health and HNG 542 Clinical Practice in Neonatal Health Nursing III 7 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Nursing I: The Childbearing Family This is the third course of four sequential HNG 579: Advanced Theory and This is one of four sequential courses designed advanced clinical courses. Coordination, Clinical Practice in Neonatal Health to focus on advanced assessment of the consultation and interaction components of Nursing IV: the High Risk Neonate II childbearing family.All components of this case management are emphasized to promote, comprehensive assessment are integral to the maintain, and, or restore health in families in This is the last of four sequential advanced development of differential diagnoses and primary care settings. Prereq: HNG 573 theory and clinical practice courses in the management plans for high risk neonates and 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) neonatal nurse practitioner program. Emphasis their families and will form the foundation is placed on the development of diagnostic for clinical decision-making required in the HNG 575: Advanced Theory and reasoning and clinical decision making skills advanced practice role of the neonatal nurse Clinical Practice in Family Health as essential components of the advanced practitioner. Parenting and the needs of the Nursing IV practice role in providing care to high risk family in the context of a pluralistic society are This is the fourth of four sequential clinical infants and their families in the acute care emphasized. courses that focus on advanced nursing setting. The role of the neonatal nurse practitioner in improving the provision of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) practice in family health, womens health and gender related care. The major emphasis care to high risk infants with the purpose of HNG 570: Independent Studies is on clinical decision making and critical decreasing mortality and morbidity rates and improving their quality of life is explored. The focus of this course is self-directed study thinking as essential components of the Parenting and the needs of the family in the in the analysis, examination and critique of a advanced practice role. An epidemiologic context of a pluralistic society are stressed. specialty area of interest in advanced practice. and body systems approach to common problems in primary, health care of women Prerequisite: HNG 578 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) from adolescence through the advanced years 7 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. will be applied. Optimal individual and family HNG 581: Midwifery I HNG 572: Advanced Theory and outcomes within the context of a diverse Clinical Practice in Family Health society will be explored. Prerequisite: HNG This is the first of four sequential courses, each Nursing I 574 containing the didactic content associated with the clinical practice of midwifery. Conceptual This is the first of four sequential clinical 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) frameworks of wellness, health promotion, courses that focus on advanced nursing HNG 577: Families: Theories and and disease prevention will be utilized. The practice specializing in primary family Interventions for Advanced Nursing course is designed to foster the effective use of health care. The major emphasis is on the Practice communication strategies in documentation, development of clinical reasoning and client education, and patient advocacy. critical thinking as essential components of Effective coordination of care, integration of

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 157 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 evidence-based practice, and the application of physiology. The student will explore This course examines how policies shape bioethical principles of care are emphasized. physiology in greater depth and learn the structure and financing of health care, An introduction to clinical decision making, how physiologic changes translate into influence social determinants of health, diagnosis, and the management of gynecologic pathologic changes in selected disease and affect health outcomes. Participation and antenatal patients will be emphasized. states. Focuses on the clinical aspects of the in the development and implementation of This course develops the paradigm of family- body system, including relevant underlying institutional, local, state, and federal policy centered, community-based health care, which biochemistry structure, or pathophysiology at will be an expectation of this course. The respects multicultural traditions. Pre-requisites: the organ ,tissue, cell or molecular level. role of nurse as advocate for vulnerable HNG 501, HNG 515, HNG 540, and HNG 588 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) populations, the profession, and health- 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) promoting policies will be explored. HNG 599: Therapeutic Touch 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HNG 582: Continuing Course Work Therapeutic touch assessment skills will Continuing Course Work be taught so that the practitioner may use HNH 510: Facilitating Adult Learning 0-5 credits, S/U grading therapeutic touch clinically to assist in This course focuses on the role and perspective May be repeated 5 times FOR credit. reduction of pain and anxiety, promote changes in adulthood. Concepts of self relaxation and facilitate the body's natural and maturity, learning theories, cognition, HNG 585: Midwifery II restorative process. creativity, interests, attitudes and motivation This is the second of four sequential courses 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will be explored. Issues, strategies and which builds upon the foundational concepts methods for facilitating adult learning will be of clinical practice in midwifery. The focus emphasized. Theory is considered in relation to of this course is to provide a comprehensive HNH nursing education. understanding of gynecology, maternal and Nursing Leadership 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) fetal physiology, and antenatal care. The conceptual frameworks of health promotion, HNH 511: Curriculum Design , HNH 501: Health Illness in a Cross disease prevention are reinforced. The use of Implementation and Evaluation in Cultural Perspective communication strategies and documentation Nursing Education principles are emphasized. This course furthers This course examines the role of history This course focuses on issues in design understanding of family-centered, community- and culture in healing and medicine. The of curriculum content, organization, and based, multicultural care across the lifespan. consideration and utilization of cultural planning toward a practical approach to Pre-requisites: HNG 581 practices and beliefs when designing health curriculum development. Application of education programs will be stressed. 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) theory to the development and implementation 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of curriculum from the point of view of HNG 586: Midwifery III the practice discipline of nursing will be HNH 503: Organizational Leadership This course emphasizes the normalcy emphasized. Problems, issues and procedures and Role Transformation of labor and birth as a physiologic and involved in designing and implementing developmental process and prepares students This course focuses on the knowledge and evaluation studies will be discussed. Theory to assume responsibility for management skills needed to understand the economies of and methods of measurement and evaluation of care of the woman and fetus during the care, business principles, and how to work and their application to practice will be intrapartum period. The use of conceptual within and affect change in systems. It will emphasized. frameworks of wellness, health promotion also prepare students to conceptualize a 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and disease prevention will be emphasized. new advanced practice role in the discipline Communication and collaborative strategies of nursing. Leadership, including theory, HNH 512: Advanced Teaching will be emphasized to build upon the strengths leadership styles, contemporary approaches Strategies of families and communities and minimize and strategies, will be explored. This course emphasizes the role of the technological intervention. Prerequisite:HNG 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) teaching-learning process in clinical and 585 academic nursing education through HNH 504: Quality Improvement, Safety 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) development of innovative instructional and Healthcare Technologies designs and processes. Issues such as HNG 587: Midwifery IV As a foundational course for graduate level feminism, creativity in clinical teaching, and This is the fourth in a sequence of courses nurses, this course prepares students to apply the impact of economic and social trends on designed to prepare the midwife for clinical quality improvement methods and analyze reality-based nursing will be discussed. A practice. The organizing framework of this information to affect safety and quality of care variety of teaching methods will be explored course is continuity of care, emphasizing and to improve patient outcomes. The use of including simulation, virtual learning, family centered, community-based health current and emerging technologies to support social media and relevant and innovative care and the normalcy of birth and recovery. safety, quality and value based care and quality instructional technologies. Prerequisites: HNG 586 across diverse settings will be emphasized. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HNH 513: Advanced Theory and HNG 588: Clinical Pathobiology HNH 505: Health Care Policy and Practice in Nursing Education I Advocacy This is a graduate level pathobiology This course focuses on graduate level clinical course designed to build on undergraduate practice content and experiences related to the

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 158 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 role of the nurse educator. This population- and written communications in relation to This is the first of two sequential courses focused practicum will include student leadership in relationship management. designed to provide learning experiences placement with an expert nurse clinician 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) with a nurse leader. Students will integrate to develop proficiency in a focused area advanced knowledge and skills related to of clinical practice. Students will choose a HNH 531: Business Skills for Nurse organizational theory and financial/human population foci and complete 75 direct care Leaders resource management. The student will use hours during this precepted clinical experience. This course focuses on issues in resource data-driven decision making and creative Increased knowledge in a specialized area of management, strategic management and leadership skills to build a positive practice practice will provide a clinical foundation for marketing in the health care environment. environment as well as develop analytical academic and/or clinical nursing education. Focus will be on developing a strategic plan skills to assess and forecast trends in nursing Prerequisites: HNG 515, HNG 540, and HNG for the health care environment in which the leadership. Inter-professional collaboration 588. student works. Marketing strategies will be will be emphasized. Field experiences of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) explored. Discussions on labor relations in 90 hours are required and may include relation to professional issues in collective preceptorship by a nurse leader and financial HNH 514: Advanced Theory and bargaining will be emphasized. Problems, officer in a health care system. Practice in Nursing Education II issues and procedures involved in resource 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This is the second of three sequential courses management will be discussed. HNH 541: Advanced Theory and focused on providing guided learning 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) experiences in nursing education. Students Practice in Nursing Leadership II will select aspects of nursing education related HNH 532: Finance and Economics in This is the second of two sequential courses to the development, delivery, and evaluation Nursing Leadership designed to provide learning experiences of curricula. Role transition and experiential This course provides an introduction to with a nurse leader. This course builds on learning related to academic or clinical nursing financial management for planning, operation, knowledge of organizational leadership education will be a central focus of this and evaluation of the economic performance and quality improvement. The student will course. Observation and experience related to of an organization. The course will focus integrate advanced knowledge and skills academic or clinical nursing education will on budgeting, healthcare reimbursement, into practical applications in the role of be emphasized. The student will be expected cost/benefit analysis and the integration of nurse leader. Students will further explore to complete 90 hours with a nurse educator. leadership and management functions into the leadership role through current relevant Prerequisite: HNH 513 fiscal planning. The student will investigate research to enhance their ability to strategize 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) concepts and principles necessary for the entrepreneurial relationships, develop creative management of fiscal resources. solutions to financial constraints and evaluate HNH 515: Advanced Theory and infrastructure and technology. Project 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Practice in Nursing Education III management will be emphasized. Students will This is the third of three sequential courses HNH 533: Legal/Ethical/Regulatory be required to seek experiences with health focused on providing guided learning Issues in Nursing Leadership care leaders involved in project management. experiences in nursing education. Students Field experiences of 90 hours are required. This course is designed to provide the Prerequisites: HNH 532 and HNH 540 will select aspects of nursing education knowledge and skills necessary to integrate related to the role of nurse educator as legal, ethical and regulatory requirements into 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) leader. Scholarship activities begun in a variety of health care settings. Principles and HNH 580: Health Coping Skills Training HNG 543 and HNH 514 will continue. processes of patient and employee safety will for Health Care Professional role responsibilities, including also be emphasized. Students will investigate adminsitrative functions, committee work and concepts and principles necessary for ethical Treatment approaches for many chronic interdisciplinary efforts will be emphasized. decision making. illnesses consist of pharmacological and non- The student will be expected to complete 90 pharmacological interventions. Often patients 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) hours with a nurse educator. Prerequisites: need to take an active role in their care in order HNH 514 HNH 534: Advanced Leadership to best manage symptoms associated with 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Seminar chronic illness. Coping Skills Training (CST) is a psychotherapeutic approach that aims This course is the capstone course and will HNH 530: Communication and to solve problems concerning dysfunctional focus on the role of the nurse leader. Emphasis Relationship Management emotions, behaviors and cognitions through will be on role formation, dimensions of This course focuses on issues in a goal-oriented, systematic procedure. The leadership roles, identification of individual theoretical foundations that underpin CST communication, relationship building, and group leadership attributes, knowledge behaviors that influence others, diversity will be explored through guided readings. and skills required to fulfill the role and A combination of cognitive and behavioral and shared decision making. Theories of approaches to leadership. Students will interpersonal communication and professional therapeutic interventions will be introduced develop and conduct self-assessments and and practiced with the goal of applying the relationship development will be emphasized. create a professional development plan. Problems, issues and procedures in skills to practice in order to help people 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) relationship building will be discussed. Inter- change negative thought patterns, beliefs, professional collaboration will be stressed. and behaviors so they can manage symptoms HNH 540: Advanced Theory and and enjoy more productive, less stressful A variety of leadership theories will be used Practice in Nursing Leadership I to articulate the importance of effective oral lives. Students will learn to deliver CST using a standardized manual of coping skills.

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Rationale for each skill, demonstration, regard to capital budgets and expenditures 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) role playing and skills feedback will be the are reviewed. Co-requisite: HPH 529 or teaching/learning strategies for this course. Departmental Permission HPA 536: Health Law and Compliance Instructor feedback and supervision of home 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Explores the way in which legal matters practice audio recordings of simulated skill relevant to health professionals are analyzed, sessions will enhance student proficiency in HPA 520: Health Governance and discussed and resolved through the lens of skill acquisition. Organizational Analysis policy, ethics, governance and law. Topics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Provides students with immersion into the may vary, but typically will include many study of organizational behavior, integrated of the following: structure of the U.S. legal HNH 590: Nursing and Numbers: with the study of organizational theory, system; power of state governments in matters Budgeting and Benchmarking for to develop evidence-based approaches to affecting health care; governmental power Nurses analyze, manage, and lead change within and the right to privacy; constitutional issues This course is designed to provide nurse healthcare organizations. . Emphasis on in social welfare benefits; governmental leaders with an overview of the budget groups and teams, diversity and cultural regulation of health care providers and payers; development process. Various types of budgets competence, individual attitudes and the scope and discretion of administrative will be discussed with a focus on variance perceptions, communication, organizational agencies in health care; antitrust laws; fraud assessments, analysis, and benchmarking. change, cognitive processes, leadership, power and abuse laws; and negligence in the delivery and financing of health care. Prerequisite: HPH 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and influence, stress and well-being, conflict management, decision making and negotiation 529 or Departmental Permission skills, motivation, and strategies to improve 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HPA employee and organizational success. All aspects of this course will be presented and HPA 541: Health Strategic Planning Health Administration discussed via a distance learning format (using and Management Blackboard). Explores the fundamentals of strategic HPA 507: Health Systems Performance 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) planning and leadership in the health sector. This course introduces students to the Emphasizes mission, vision, values, creating system that we have developed to deliver HPA 523: Social & Behavioral business plans and conducting strengths, health care in the United States, with Determinants of Health weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) international comparisons. The topics include This course introduces students to the analyses. Explores the impact of leadership the organization and financing of health care social determinants of health as one of the style on the strategic planning process. systems, access to health care including health drivers of population health. Consistent with Prerequisite: HPH 529 or Departmental insurance, regulation and policy issues, and the public health tradition, health is discussed Permission health care workforce. from an ecological perspective, and the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course presents current knowledge about the multiple determinants of population HPA 542: Health Leadership and HPA 508: Human Resources health including socioeconomic status, the Change: Comprehensive Capstone Management in the Health Sector physical environment, medical care, individual Project Explores the key and active role played behavior, and genetics and the interaction of Provides an in depth examination of leadership by human resources in health services these factors. Also covered is the measurement theory and the essential qualities required to organizations. Introduces students to the role of population health, sources of data, and lead successfully in the fluid and changing of the human resources function and to the methods for assessing population health healthcare environment. Explores the key challenges that health care managers and improvements. characteristics of successful health leaders, leaders will face. Emphasizes strategic human 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) including the values that guide personal resources, talent management, performance and professional behavior through the lens management, the role of the regulatory HPA 530: Health Operations of an interactive capstone research project. environment in human resources and making Management Prerequisite: HPH 529 or Departmental the connection between financial and non- This online course explores the terminology Permission. financial rewards and workforce management. and tools for identifying and applying 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The course also identifies issues between appropriate operations management (OM), management and the labor force. Prerequisite: decision analysis (DA) and operations research HPA 564: Health Quality and HPH 529 or Departmental Permission (OR) techniques to problems in healthcare. Information Systems Management 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Students will receive exposure to OM, DA Explores two critical components of healthcare and OR techniques in order to have practical administration through a split module format, HPA 510: Health Finance and experience solving problems in planning, dedicating seven weeks per topic and one Accounting scheduling, resource allocation, procedural week exploring the synergies between Provides broad but significant immersion decisions, and measurement of health care both topics. The first module will explore into the requisite core knowledge and skills processes. All aspects of this course, with information systems management and the of financial management and accounting in the exception of the optional synchronous second module will explore healthcare quality the healthcare sector. Emphasis will include Zoom learning sessions, will be presented and and performance improvement concepts. but not be limited to managerial and financial discussed via a distance learning format (using The Information Systems Management accounting, fiscal analysis, fiscal planning, Blackboard). module will discuss how healthcare decision- and fiscal reporting. Decision making with making and management are increasingly

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 160 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 driven and dependent upon information. The based upon the individual experiences of This introductory course will provide students sheer diversity of the information required students. Prerequisites: Students will need with an understanding of the process used to by the healthcare enterprise surpasses the departmental permission to register for this perform systematic review, as well as provide information needs of almost any other type course. Permission is granted only after a "hands on" experience. Each student will of organization. Healthcare managers at students have matched with a preceptor and perform a systematic review of the literature every level of the organization are forced placement site and completed all necessary for their own pre-defined research question to be information managers. The Quality Program forms. Designated PPH faculty and of interest. As part of the systematic literature and Performance Improvement module will staff are available to assist students with this review process, students will learn how to explore healthcare quality management process. focus their research question; to search the methodologies and examine the impact on 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) literature to identify relevant studies; to healthcare productivity, quality and patient appraise the quality and select studies; and safety. Students will understand and utilize HPA 586: Health Management to summarize studies as well as to synthesize the concepts of performance improvement Professionalism and Ethics their results in context of their original and continuous process improvement to Explores professionalism and ethics in the research question raised. To receive a grade improve product and service quality and field of health management. Facilitates for this course, moreover, a scholarly product competitiveness. Students will understand the the application and integration of health (e.g., manuscript or letter to the editor) must be history of quality improvement in healthcare management competencies gained in submitted to a peer -reviewed journal. and how quality concepts may be applied to year one of coursework to realistic case Offered improve clinical outcomes, patient safety, studies using interdisciplinary team based Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) patient satisfaction, financial outcomes methods. Students will continue to enhance and employee and physician satisfaction. communication skills, skills that encourage HPD 521: Introduction to Clinical An emphasis will be placed on the critical functional interdisciplinary teamwork and will Research importance of data analytics to monitor develop presentation skills, problem solving This seminar series course provides a broad- performance improvement activities. CQI and skills, networking strategies, professional based introduction to the fields of population lean strategies are introduced to students as etiquette and have the opportunity to engage health and clinical science research. This well. Prerequisite: HPH 529 or Departmental in professional development activities. course will prepare participants to become Permission. Prerequisite: HPH 529 or Departmental critical consumers of the peer-reviewed 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Permission. literature. Class lectures will cover a wide 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) range of topics, which include: framing a HPA 575: Long-Term Care in the Health research question, formulating a research Sector HPA 599: Physician Practice hypothesis, evaluating the peer-reviewed Explores management techniques and Management literature, exploring study design options, standard practices in long-term care in the Explores the essential components of conducting human subjects' research ethically/ health sector. Emphasizes skilled nursing, physician practice management including the responsibly, selecting clinical outcomes, and home care, assisted living, adult day care, structure and organization of solo practice evaluating analytical alternatives. Offered in home health care and senior retirement and group practices. Includes operating Summer, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, communities. Provides direction and insight and administrative issues, information etc.) for understanding industry certification. management, health informatics, patient care Prerequisite: HPH 529 or Departmental systems, corporate compliance, physician HPD 601: Human Subjects: Ethics and Permission. credentialing, finance and management Responsible Conduct of Research 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) reporting, risk management, operations, This introductory course incorporates three practice valuation, marketing and planning, components focused upon identifying: 1) HPA 580: Integrative Experience leadership, compensation, governance, the ethical principles associated with human This course provides a 100-hour field billing, coding, medical malpractice, subjects research; 2) the primary tenets of placement that provides students with collections, reimbursement mechanisms, responsible conduct of research; 3) academic opportunities to gain practical health human resource management, physician career planning. This course provides a management experience in the health services compensation and quality of care. Explores philosophical basis for current research ethics field. Field placements strive to integrate the factors influencing physician practices, practices, identifies outstanding ethical issues real-world experience in administration physician-hospital relationships, leadership and controversies in clinical and translational and management of health services by and governance. Prerequisite: HPH 529 or science and research, and provides students enhancing health administrative skills under Departmental Permission. with knowledge and access to resources such the direction, mentorship or supervision of a 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) that they may to address the ethical challenges knowledgeable preceptor in an environment that may arise most effectively. The course that promotes learning. Students will complete provides a more in-depth exploration of the aspects of the health management integrative HPD ethics and responsible conduct of clinical experience on site in individual practicum and translational science research that can placement settings. In addition to the field Population Health and Clinical supplement current mandated training in the placement and under supervision of a faculty Outcomes Research area. ABCF grading member, students will maintain and submit 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) weekly logs of their activity and attend three HPD 519: Sytematic Review of the synchronous sessions that will allow reflection, Literature synthesis, and professional development

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HPD 605: Introductory Seminar on 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) physical living conditions, individual Doctoral Studies in Population Health characteristics, social support, etc) and health. and Clinical Outcomes HPD 665: Clinical Outcomes Research Students will review and critically examine the This is an introductory doctoral level 3-credit This course will provide an overview of current literature on the social determinants of seminar for all incoming PhD students in the field of clinical outcomes assessment. population health with the goal of identifying Population Health and Clinical Outcomes. The specific topics covered include: risk gaps in this literature which may be filled by This course will help students understand factors identification, clinical outcomes future research. Concepts relating to the social what earning a PhD entails, opportunities that selection, risk adjustment methods, patient determinants of health - e.g., identification of exist after earning a PhD, typical PhD-level safety monitoring, and provider-based quality current priority areas, theoretical frameworks work activities, and beginning the process of improvement performance reporting. Students and perspectives, intervention, research academic writing. Students should already be will be introduced to a broad range of clinical methodology, etc, will be addressed as each thinking about what their dissertation will be outcomes including (but not limited to) short- comes up in the context of the reviewed about, and we will build off of that throughout term mortality, treatment-related morbidity, journal article. Using publicly available data the course. health-related quality of life, condition-specific sets, students will choose a research topic metrics, patient satisfaction, health plan related to an identified gap in the current 3 credits, S/U grading member satisfaction, utility theory, and cost- research on the social determinants of health, HPD 619: Independent Study effectiveness analysis. An emphasis will be propose a project to examine this topic or need placed in this course is placed on learning how which can be accomplished using publicly Intensive reading under supervision of one clinical outcomes research can provide a data- available data sets, conduct the analysis and or more instructors, of material not covered driven approach to influence patient, provider, write up their project in a format suitable for in the formal curriculum, or execution of a program, and policy decisions. submission for publication. Offered research project under the supervision of one or more faculty members. Generally a written 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, deliverable (e.g. manuscript) will be required. etc.) HPD 673: Longitudinal Data Analysis Instructor consent required. This course covers the theory and application HPD 682: Statistical Methods in 0-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of univariate and multivariable techniques Clinical Outcomes Research May be repeated for credit. appropriate for longitudinal data. Students The purpose of the course is to familiarize HPD 650: Seminar Series: Clinical will be exposed to both theory and application students with some major topics in clinical Applications of Molecular Medicine addressing repeated measures challenges. outcomes research, the statistical models commonly employed, and statistical problems This course will provide an overview of the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) that need to be overcome. Specific topics of field of molecular medicine, with a focus on HPD 674: Statistical Methods in interest may include: risk factor analysis; cutting edge technologies related to the current Clinical Outcomes and Health Services static models; risk factor/disease progression and future clinical applications to improve Research analysis;dynamic models; survival analysis early detection, to enhance diagnostic testing, (including multivariable survival analysis); to monitor treatments, and to counsel patients Clinical outcomes research frequently volume-outcomes research; and forecasting on their prognosis. As applied to clinical involves the analysis of nonexperimental models. Statistical techniques and challenges patient care questions, the specific molecular retrospective databases. Such databases pose will be discussed within the context of each medicine topics discussed will include: DNA, a number of statistical challenges, due to research topic as they arise. By the end of this RNA, proteomics, and chromosome assays. their nonexperimental design and various course, students should be broadly familiar Pending the specific lecturers and topics data limitations. This course will review with these issues, and should be able to coordinated, students will be introduced to a and discuss multivariate methods in clinical evaluate published clinical outcomes research broad range of biomarkers for disease such outcomes research, focusing on specific issues in terms of the appropriateness of models as cancer, pulmonary/heart diseases, autism, involved in building and interpreting these chosen and how well the statistical problems and immune-related disease challenges. models. These issues include causal inference, have been addresses, and the reliability of the An emphasis will be placed in this course selection bias, measurement error, missing results. Prerequisites: HPH 507 Biostatistics II on learning how molecular markers can data problems, multicollinearity, and serial or equivalent course. ABCF Grading be applied in a clinical setting to augment correlation. Clinical outcomes and health the patient and provider decision-making services research studies will be reviewed 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) process. (NOTE: Students should have an and discussed to illustrate these statistical HPD 685: Research in Population introductory knowledge of cellular and issues and how they have been addressed in health and Clinical Science. molecular development biology. ABCF published research. Students will be asked to Grading review and evaluate clinical outcomes and This course will introduce students to health health services research papers, and present services and clinical outcomes research 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) their reviews for discussion in class. methods and applications of these approaches. HPD 664: Clinical Trials 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The course will begin with an overview of key statistical methods, outcomes measurement This course introduces the design, conduct, HPD 681: Advanced Social issues, and methods for assessing the economic and analysis of clinical trials. Topics include Determinants of Health value of clinical treatments. The second types of clinical trials, study design, treatment part of the course will consider specific allocation, randomization and stratification, This course will build on the prior HPH 523 applications of health services and clinical quality control, sample size requirements, and further examine the current evidence outcomes research from a review and critique patient consent, and interpretation of results. supporting an association between social determinants (e.g., socioeconomic status, of published studies. Students will present

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Specific areas of applications This course will assist students in synthesizing research question and, correspondingly, how will include: Estimating the Production basic public health knowledge through to formulate a clear, concise hypothesis or of Health Hospital Volume and Clinical completion of a grant writing experience. set of hypotheses; reasons and procedures Outcomes Estimating Clinical Outcomes Students will be introduced to the process of for reviewing the literature; overview of with Patient-Level Data Racial and Ethnic writing grant proposals, developing budgets, observational and interventional research Disparities and Medical Treatments Electronic professional networking, publishing in the designs; review of measurement theory, types Medical Records and Clinical Outcomes Cost scientific literature, and planning for their of scales, and commonly used measures in Effectiveness Applications future careers as public health professionals public health-related research; data collection 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and academics. Students will also present their methods including survey and qualitative own individual research projects, write their methods; and the ethical conduct of research. HPD 686: Mentored Research Project own grant proposal, and do a career mapping Through the introduction of these topics, the in Population Health and Clinical exercise. course provides a general background for Outcomes Research individuals who are interested in learning the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Supervised research experience. fundamentals of how to prepare a research proposal. Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate 0-9 credits, HPD 699: Dissertation Research On Public Health Program or Department May be repeated for credit. Campus Consent. This course is normally taken by advanced HPD 687: Advanced Research Seminar PhD students when they conduct research 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The main purpose of this course is to towards their theses. Only PhD students who HPH 506: Biostatistics I familiarize students with empirical research have been advanced to candidacy (G5 status) methods via presentation and critiques of can take this course. Students who have the This is the first of a sequence of two-semester published research and work in progress. By G3 and G4 status and participate in a research courses with the aim to provide students presenting and discussing actual research project with their advisor can register for HPD and researchers in public health with an that employs various statistical and other 619 Independent Study. Prerequisite: Must be introduction to the principles of public health research methods, students will deepen advanced to candidacy (G5); permission of informatics and statistical methods with their understanding of research intent and instructor S/U grading, may be repeated for their application in biomedical and public design, methodology and technique, format credit health research. The course will provide necessary knowledge and skills to perform and presentation, and data management 0-9 credits, S/U grading various data management tasks to create and analysis. This will reinforce their May be repeated for credit. understanding of these methods learned in and manage data sets using SAS with basic previous coursework. proficiency. The course will also introduce summarizing and exploring data, probability 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HPH theory, discrete and continuous probability May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. Public Health distributions, populations and samples, HPD 692: Practicum in Teaching I sampling distributions and statistical inference, HPH 500: Contemporary Issues in hypothesis testing, one-sample and two-sample In this course, students will have the Public Health comparisons. opportunity to examine, and plan for, the teaching component of the professor role. This course provides an introduction to the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) We will use a combination of strategies field of public health that aims to develop HPH 507: Biostatistics II including lectures, discussions, small group an appreciation of the unique and important activities, and interviews of exceptional mission of public health; an understanding of "This is the second of the two-semester courses teachers and departmental chairs to explore the history, values, ethics, mission, and goals intended to provide students and researchers philosophical and practical issues related to of public health; and knowledge about how in public health with an introduction to the course preparation, delivery, and evaluation. public health functions today including the principles of public health informatics and At the completion of the course, students organization, financing, policies, and practices statistical methods and their application in will have a teaching portfolio that will have of public health. Students will be expected to biomedical and public health research. The two basic components: a detailed set of plans think critically about whether public health has course will provide necessary knowledge and for a specific course and a statement of their achieved its mission in today's world and how skills to perform various data management teaching philosophy. This will be an intensive the profession might develop in the future. tasks to create and manage data sets using hands on course that will require supportive Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Public SAS with intermediate proficiency. The course and cooperative behaviors by all. Health Program or Department Consent. builds upon the foundations of its prerequisite, Biostatistics I, with progressively more 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) advanced instruction in analysis of variance, May be repeated for credit. HPH 501: Introduction to the Research association and correlation, linear regression, HPD 693: Practicum in Teaching II Process and logistic regression. Prerequisite: HPH 506 The course is a supervised teaching experience This course provides an overview of the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) with the Master of Public Health program. research process including formulation of a research problem, conceptualization of the HPH 508: Health Care Systems 3 credits, S/U grading research design, construction of the instrument This course introduces students to the May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. for data collection, selection of a sample, system that we have developed to deliver collection of data, and writing a research health care in the United States, with

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Prerequisite: comprehensive view of the reasons behind Admission to Graduate Public Health Program HPH 521: Introduction to Clinical the rapid rise in medical expenditures in or Department Consent Research the United States over nearly four decades, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This introductory seminar series provides and the measures that have been proposed a broad-based overview of clinical science to address this problem. This course will HPH 514: Epidemiology for Public research methods, as well as guidance for cover the following topics: the demand and Health critically reviewing the peer-reviewed supply of medical care; the dynamics of This course presents basic epidemiologic literature. Class lectures, exercises, and competition in the health care industry; the concepts used to study health and disease interactive small group sessions will cover role of government in medical care; general in populations. It provides an overview of framing a research question, formulating a understanding of health care institutions, the major causes of morbidity and mortality, research hypothesis, critically appraising the including Medicare, Medicaid, managed including methods of measurement (e.g., literature, exploring study design options, care, hospital and physician behavior, and incidence, prevalence). Observational and conducting research ethically and responsibly, pharmaceutical markets; and health care experimental epidemiologic studies will selecting clinical outcomes, and evaluating reform. Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate be described and their advantages and analytical alternatives. Students enrolled in the Public Health Program or Department Consent disadvantages compared. The course aims for Master of Public Health degree program can 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) students to begin developing the skills needed not use this course (earn credit) to their degree to evaluate data, interpret reports, design, and requirements. HPH 529: Fundamentals of Healthcare Management conduct studies. Students will be introduced 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to the various areas of epidemiologic May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. This course provides students with an studies, including cancer, molecular/genetic, overview of concepts and issues related environmental, occupational, social and HPH 523: Social and Behavioral to healthcare leadership. Through the behavioral, and infectious disease surveillance. Determinants of Health examination of management topics and The course comprises both lectures and small This course introduces students to population healthcare situations, the student will group seminars for in-depth discussions of health as one of the organizing concepts explore the skills and knowledge needed previously assigned topics. Prerequisites: in public health and the orientation that to be successful in a diverse healthcare Admission to Graduate Public Health Program differentiates public health from medicine. environment. Topics include healthcare or Department Consent; HPH 506. Consistent with public health tradition, health leadership, organizational design as it relates 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) is discussed from an ecological perspective, to the uniqueness of healthcare organizations, and the course presents current knowledge managing professionals, and supervisory to HPH 516: Environmental and about the multiple determinants of population mid-level management. It is designed for the Occupational Health health including socioeconomic status, Health Policy and Management concentration This course is designed to provide the the physical environment, medical care, but is open to all MPH students. Prerequisite: fundamentals of environmental and individual behavior, and genetics and the Admission to Graduate Public Health Program occupational health and to educate students interaction of these factors. Also covered or Department Consent. on issues related to major environmental is the measurement of population health, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and occupational concerns. It will provide a sources of data and methods for assessing forum for the discussion of local and national population health improvements. Prerequisite: HPH 534: Spatial Analysis: Health environmental and occupational public health Admission to Graduate Public Health Program Applications issues. The content of the course will focus or Department Consent This course is an intermediate level graduate on major pollutants, their detection, impact 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course in the application of spatial methods on health, and principles of remediation. for analyzing environmental exposure and Using various teaching techniques, students HPH 525: Evaluating Programs and disease data. Students with backgrounds in will be exposed to current environmental Policies to Improve Health epidemiology, public health, environmental and occupational topics and approaches to This course introduces students to health health, biostatistics, community health, prevention and treatment. The course will policy analysis and public health program biology, sociology, psychology, marine emphasize the most recent research in the evaluation, two distinct fields that share and atmospheric sciences, geosciences, field. Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate similar tools, albeit with different goals demography, and geography are particularly Public Health Program or Department Consent in mind and approaches to meet these encouraged to participate. Although the course 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) goals. Specifically, this course (1) draws on will focus on examples related to human economics, epidemiology, political science, health, graduate students in other disciplines HPH 519: Independent Study and biostatistics to prepare students to conduct will find the course useful for specific and Intensive reading, under supervision of one holistic analyses of health policy issues; appropriately defined research purposes. or more instructors, of material not covered (2) prepares students to plan a program Techniques for spatially analyzing point in the formal curriculum, or execution of evaluation; and (3) prepares students to patterns and aggregated data in polygons a research project under the supervision of evaluate public policy options. Prerequisite: will be introduced, including autocorrelation, one or more faculty members. Permission Admission to Graduate Public Health Program clustering analysis, geostatistical smoothing, of MPH Academic Coordinator is required. or Department Consent and approaches for spatial regression.

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Consideration of space-time variability programs with instructor permission. This will learn about and critique theories that will also be covered. This course includes course will explore core concepts in global are less-commonly used (such as new and theoretical elements so that the student will health, including its definition and origin; emerging theories in the literature) and have learn to appreciate strengths and weaknesses how to measure the global burden of disease; important implications for future research, of different spatial approaches.Prior course in recent progress and current challenges; social practice, and further theory development GIS or equivalent, as determined by consent inequalities in health; health systems; and and testing among populations. Prerequisite: from the instructor required. Students need global stakeholders. It will also apply such Admission to Graduate Public Health Program a foundational knowledge of Geographic concepts to major global health topics, with or Department Consent Information Systems (GIS) software. This lectures focused on such areas as HIV/AIDS, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) requirement can be met by completing child health and immunization, chronic disease GSS 313: GIS Design and Application I (if epidemiology and sexual violence. HPH 551: Practice of Health available), by completing other Introduction 2 credits, S/F graded Communications to GIS courses at Stony Brook or elsewhere, This course provides an overview of health or by self-teaching using the following book: HPH 549: Public Health Law communication. The course will introduce Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop by Tim This course is a survey of legal and policy theories concerning health communication, and Ormsby, Eileen Napoleon, and Robert Burke. issues that have special relevance for public build on such to provide practical approaches Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Public health professionals. Topics may vary, but to interpersonal and organizational health Health Program or Department Consent typically will include many of the following: communication, risk communication, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) structure of the U.S. legal system; power media campaigns. Students will learn to of state governments in matters affecting collect, organize, and convey information HPH 535: Clinical and Community health care; governmental power and the effectively to different audiences important Preventive Medicine right to privacy; constitutional issues in social to public health initiatives. Throughout, This course prepares residents to transition welfare benefits; governmental regulation of the course will emphasize how health from the role of learners to practitioners health care providers and payers; the scope literacy and cultural beliefs influence of preventive medicine. Didactic lectures and discretion of administrative agencies in effective communication, and students will emphasize clinical preventive medicine, health care; the antitrust laws; the fraud and be challenged to develop communication which entails mastering the science of abuse laws; and negligence in the delivery tools (e.g., social marketing campaigns, preventive medicine practice, grounded in the and financing of health care. Prerequisite: presentations, op-eds) optimized for a evidence-based clinical preventive services Admission to Graduate Public Health Program. specific population. Prerequisite: Admission guidelines as developed by the United States 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to Graduate Public Health Program or Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Department Consent [i.e. screenings, behavioral counseling, and HPH 550: Theories of Health Behavior 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) chemoprophylaxis/preventive medications], and Communication while case-based simulated sessions provide In this survey theory course, students learn HPH 552: Planning and Implementing an opportunity to become skilled in the art of about the major health behavior and health Community Health Initiatives preventive medicine practice, built upon the communication theories that are used in In this course, students learn how to develop principles of lifestyle medicine, motivational population health research and practice. Rather theoretically-informed and evidence-based intervention, brief action planning and other than simply cataloguing each theory in turn, community health initiatives. Over the course evidence-based strategies for health behavior this course takes a constant, comparative, of the semester, students work on developing change. The work of the preventive medicine approach to the learning of theories, in which their own culturally-competent community physician in public health, referred to as theories are dissected to their core elements health initiatives, each of which is targeted community preventive medicine or community and compared to each other in order to at a particular population with a specific medicine, is also covered in this course, understand the points of convergence and health need. Each student learns how to assess including the Community Preventive Services divergence among them. The goal in taking community needs and assets using a variety (CPSTF) guidelines, to help prepare residents this comparative approach is application: by of methods, elaborate an initiative's theory for the medical practice of prevention in knowing the core elements of various theories, of change through use of logic model, design the public health domain. The role of the students will more easily be able to choose theoretically-informed intervention activities preventive medicine physician in the seamless appropriate theories to explain population appropriate to the needs/assets identified, integration and effective collaboration health problems of interest and consider the create a budget and organizational structure, between clinical medicine and public health is design of interventions that are appropriate and engage key stakeholders at every facet emphasized where appropriate. Prerequisite: to achieve improvements in the educational, of development and implementation of the Admission to Graduate Public Health Program behavioral and environmental factors that community health initiative. Students work or Department Consent may contribute to the problem. In addition to together in the same small group over the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) covering traditional individual-level behavior course of the semester to get/give feedback change and health communication theories, and hone their individual projects. Through HPH 542: Introduction to Global Health this course will focus on social change and this intense group work, students both (1) This course will provide an introduction to the systems theories, challenging students to think learn how to apply course concepts to several field of global health and challenge students about the role of social context and systems particular community health problems and (2) to think about how a global perspective could on health behavior and health communication gain skills for working in teams on community enhance their future practice. The course is to achieve population health improvements. health initiative planning and implementation. designed for MD and MPH students, and Finally, after learning about commonly-used Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Public is open to students from related graduate theories in the field of public health, students

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Health Program or Department Consent; HPH evaluation of research design, sample size, and aimed at developing hands-on skills for the 550. issues related to potential threats to validity management and analysis of health data 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) within a public/applied setting. Additionally, using SPSS and other relevant statistical students will become familiar with how to software programs, such as Open Meta HPH 553: Advanced Evaluation of evaluate methods used in published literature Analyst (OMA) and the System for the Community Health Initiatives and to design their own research projects. Unified Management, Assessment and Review This course prepares students to plan, Course topics will include how to obtain of Information (SUMARI). Prerequisite: implement, and utilize an evaluation of a secondary data, sample size calculation, risk Admission to Graduate Public Health Program community health initiative. Basic principles adjustment, bias, confounding, and interaction. or Department Consent; HPH 501 and HPH and practices of evaluation are addressed, The instructor will work with students as they 506 including identifying the goals of a community develop their own analytic project proposals. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) health initiative; designing an evaluation plan Students will be expected to implement their that can determine if the initiative's goals proposed research in HPH 560 Advanced HPH 564: Qualitative Methods are achieved; implementing an evaluation Biostatistics in the following semester. In this course, students learn about the logic, plan; interacting with stakeholders; and using Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Public theory, and methods of qualitative research evaluation results to improve performance. Health Program or Department Consent; HPH within population health and related fields Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Public 507 and HPH 501 (e.g., social welfare, nursing, medicine, Health Program or Department Consent; HPH 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) sociology, and psychology). The course begins 525 with an introduction to the epistemological HPH 560: Applied Biostatistics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and ontological underpinnings of qualitative Students learn to formulate a scientific inquiry, with special attention to how these HPH 554: Principles of Health question in terms of a statistical model, leading factors affect the types of research questions Education & Promotion to objective and quantitative answers. Topics often asked (and answered) by qualitative This course aims to provide students with may include analysis of variance, regression, researchers. Students then learn the nuts- the historical, theoretical, and philosophical including details of data-analytic techniques and-bolts of qualitative research design and foundations of health education and and implications for study design, measures of data collection through review of existing promotion. Students will be given the tools to association, 2x2 tables, stratification, matched qualitative studies and hands-on application. work with community and patient populations. pairs, logistic regression, model building, Homework and in-class exercises over the Students will be equipped with the knowledge, analysis of rates, and survival data analysis course of the semester give students practice skills, and attitudes to raise people's health using proportional hazards models. The in (a) designing a feasible qualitative research awareness, as a well as the tools needed course stresses applications in epidemiology, study, and (b) collecting three kinds of to teach people how to reduce their risk of and other areas of public health research. qualitative data: participant observation, disease and promote health. All students will Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Public in-depth interviews, and focus groups. The be required to design a health education and Health Program or Department Consent; HPH course concludes with an overview of steps promotion program using the knowledge 507 and HPH 559. for data analysis, including coding, memo- and skills learned in the course. Prerequisite: 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) writing, and triangulation. Emphasized Admission to Graduate Public Health Program throughout the course are methodological or Department Consent HPH 562: Population Health Analytics issues germane to qualitative (and quantitative) research: reflexivity of the researcher, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The Population Health Analytics course provides students with the methodological appropriate treatment of human subjects, HPH 555: Global Health and and analytical skills required for competent and obtaining quality data. Prerequisite: Demography evidence-based decision-making regarding Admission to Graduate Public Health Program or Department Consent; HPH 501 This course introduces students to the basic population health improvement projects. theory and methods employed in the study of Beginning with a review of current methods 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) demography and global health. This course and an introduction to emerging methods HPH 566: Clinical Trials will provide an introduction to the field of for the generation and analysis of health global health and challenge students to think data, such as precision medicine/¿big This course introduces the design, conduct, about how a global perspective could impact data¿, telemedicine/¿digital health¿, and and analysis of clinical trials. Topics will their future public health practice. The students spatial analysis/¿hotspotting¿, the course include types of clinical trials, study design, will also learn about sources of demographic covers the major elements required for treatment allocation, randomization and data, patterns in global fertility and mortality, the evidence-based pursuit of population stratification, quality control, sample and the demographic transition. Prerequisite: health goals. In particular, hands-on size requirements, patient consent, and Admission to Graduate Public Health Program training is provided on how to synthesize interpretation of results. or Department Consent evidence, via comprehensive systematic 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) review methodologies, in the following 4 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) aspects of evidence-based decision-making: HPH 575: Public Health Internship HPH 559: Advanced Research Methods effectiveness, efficiency, feasibility, and This course is an applied internship in a public, appropriateness/meaningfulness. In addition, not-for-profit, or private sector organization This course will provide students with an in- students will learn how to retrieve and depth review of principles of public health that provides a public health service. Students summarize information about population will gain practical public health skills though research methods. Emphasis will be placed health from major public health information on conceptualization of research questions, a semester long internship. The student will systems in the U.S. Lectures and labs are work in the organization and prepares a

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 166 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 weekly journal of activities, as well as a paper Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Public at the conclusion of the course, applying Health Program and Department Consent HWC program knowledge to the internship activities. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Graduate Graded and may be repeated for Social Work credit. MPH Academic Coordinator consent HPH 585: Introduction to Biostatistics required. Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate & Epidemiology HWC 596A: Community Learning and Professional Preparation Year I Part A Public Health Program and Department This online course is an introduction to Consent biostatistics and epidemiology. In the first half This first part of a required two-part course 0-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of the course students will be introduced to will provide foundational knowledge, values May be repeated for credit. the principles and methods of epidemiology. and skills to prepare the student as a social The second half focuses on the statistical work professional. Topics covered in this HPH 580: Practicum methods used throughout the health sciences. course include professional pathways, areas of The Practicum is a planned experience in a At the end of the course students will be able practice, advocacy and communication skills, supervised and evaluated public health-related to interpret epidemiological studies and have a and other topics specific to the students' social practice setting. A journal of fieldwork and basic understanding of the statistical methods work education. Attendance is required at two a project, with a written report, are required. these studies employ. full-day events at the Stony Brook campus per academic year. Dates will be posted at the Students will be expected to demonstrate 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) their "capacity to organize, analyze, interpret beginning of the Fall term. Students graded S/ U. (0.5 credit, G1 status. Co requisite HWC and communicate knowledge in an applied HPH 590: Research Practicum 509) manner." Health departments, as well as a The goal of Research Practicum is to mentor S/U grading variety of other local organizations, offer a students to successfully complete their wide array of potential sites for the Practicum research requirements. Expectations are that experience.Permission of MPH Academic HWC 596B: Community Learning and students will register for Research Practicum Professional Preparation Year I Part B Coordinator is required. Prerequisite: for three consecutive semesters. The Research Admission to Graduate Public Health Program Practicum is a planned experience with This second part of a required two-part course and Department Consent expectations identified each semester in will provide foundational knowledge, values 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) conjunction with a research mentor and faculty and skills to prepare the student as a social supervisor. A practicum proposal, analysis work professional. Topics covered in this HPH 581: Capstone report, and final deliverable (NIH proposal, course include professional pathways, areas of This course will assist students in synthesizing Foundation proposal, or peer reviewed practice, advocacy and communication skills, basic public health knowledge through publication) are required. and other topics specific to the students' social completion of several competency-driven work education. Attendance is required at two 0-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) full-day events at the Stony Brook campus learning experiences. Most core and May be repeated for credit. concentration course work must be completed per academic year. Dates will be posted at the beginning of the Fall term. Students graded S/ before the student can participate in Capstone. HPH 599: Maintenance of Matriculation Students will be introduced to the process U. (0.5 credit, G1 status. Co requisite HWC This course is for students who are maintaining 509) of writing grant proposals and developing matriculation while engaging in consultation S/U grading budgets, professional networking with non- with faculty regarding completion of courses academic community partners, publishing and/or master's project. Students will be graded in the scientific literature; communicating HWC 597A: Community Learning and S/F.Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Professional Preparation Year II Part A practice-based projects in both oral and Public Health Program and Department poster presentation formats, and planning Consent This first part of a required two-part course for their future careers as public health will provide advanced knowledge, values and 0-3 credits, S/F graded professionals. They will self-assess their skills to prepare the student as a Social Worker May be repeated for credit. own conflict styles and apply negotiation for entry into the profession. Topics covered and mediation skills to address community in this course include professional pathways, and/or organizational challenges, and reflect licensure, advanced advocacy and professional on their conflict styles when considering HSC communication skills, and other topics specific case studies. Students will also engage HSC Introduction and Electives to the students' social work specialization. in inter-professional education learning Attendance is required at two full-day events activities to improve their understanding HSC 500: Health, Sciences and Society at the Stony Brook campus per academic and communication of their roles, values/ Interdisciplinary course for HSC students year. Dates will be posted at the beginning ethics, and how to work effectively as part (Nursing, Social Welfare, Dental Medicine, of the Fall term. Students graded S/U. (0.5 of an inter-professional team. Students will Health Technology and Management, credit, G2 status. Co requisite depending on apply systems thinking to a case study to Medicine and Public Health). Topics include specialization- HWC 534 (for FYT) or HWC create a logic model that demonstrates the communication, health economics, scope of 564 (for IH) or HWC 570 (for CPSA) complex systems involved in a population practice, ethics, law, policy, public health and S/U grading health issue. Lastly, they will present their medical informatics. own work as part of their Practicum to fellow HWC 597B: Community Learning and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) students, and discuss career plans. Permission Professional Preparation Year II Part B of MPH Academic Coordinator is required. This second part of a required two-part course will provide advanced knowledge, values and

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 167 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 skills to prepare the student as a Social Worker multi-dimensional (e.g., social, psychological class and one hour of instructor directed for entry into the profession. Topics covered and cultural) understanding of human behavior assignments. Prerequisite: HWC 509 in this course include professional pathways, as applied to contemporary issues in social 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) licensure, advanced advocacy and professional work practice. Class meets two hours in- communication skills, and other topics specific class and one hour of instructor directed HWC 511: Research I to the students' social work specialization. assignments. Research I, is the first part of a two-semester Attendance is required at two full-day events 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course sequence designed to prepare social at the Stony Brook campus per academic work students to engage in research informed year. Dates will be posted at the beginning HWC 505: Integrating Seminar social work practice and practice informed of the Fall term. Students graded S/U. (0.5 This course extends the work covered in social work research and evaluation. The first credit, G2 status. Co requisite depending on HBSE, by applying human behavior theory semester (HWC511) provides an overview of specialization- HWC 534 (for FYT) or HWC to social work practice situations. Students the research process from both quantitative 564 (for IH) or HWC 570 (for CPSA) will integrate knowledge and skills acquired and qualitative perspectives and examines how S/U grading in social work practice, social justice, policy, a critical approach to research may form the field education and research courses to social basis of evidence-based social work practice HWC 500: Field Education I and clinical issues across diverse topics. Class and client empowerment. The course goes Placement in practice settings under activities include experiential assignments and on to examine those elements of the research supervision of a licensed M.S.W. Students will project based learning. This course prepares process that are common to all methodologies: be graded S/F. Corequisite: HWC 513. students to practice in interdisciplinary the ethical conduct of research; literature 4-6 credits, S/F graded environments. Class meets two hours in- searches and reviews; development of research class and one hour of instructor directed questions and hypotheses; measurement; HWC 501: Field Education II assignments. Prerequisite: HWC 504 and sampling procedures. Quantitative data A continuation of HWC 500. Students will 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) analysis is introduced in the form of univariate/ be graded S/F. Corequisite: HWC 514. descriptive statistics. Class meets two hours Prerequisites: HWC 500 and 513. HWC 509: Foundations of Social in-class and one hour of instructor directed Justice: Challenging Oppression assignments. 4-6 credits, S/F graded This course explores the meaning of social 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HWC 502: Field Education III justice within the context of political economy, HWC 512: Research II Placement in advanced social work practice human nature, and health policy. Examination settings. Supervision provided by a licensed will include the relation of historical Research II is the second part of a two- M.S.W. Students will be graded S/F. implications within contemporary discourse. semester course sequence designed to prepare Corequisite depending on specialization- HWC This course will analyze the foundations of social work students to engage in research 531 (for FYT) or HWC 564 (for IH) or HWC power, privilege, and prejudice in the United informed social work practice and practice 570 (for CPPSA). Prerequisites: HWC 500, States through the lens of social work ethos informed social work research and evaluation. 501, 513 and 514 that values human rights, equality, respect, and The second semester (HWC512) follows-up on health for all. Emphasis will be placed on the the first by examining specific data collection 4-6 credits, S/F graded identification of social injustice, challenging methods (experiments; surveys; interviews; HWC 503: Field Education IV institutional oppression, and the creation of focus groups; ethnographies; etc.), with effective methods to empower marginalized attention given to understanding how these A continuation of HWC 502. Students will and oppressed populations. Class meets two methods are used appropriately in social work be graded S/F. Corequisite depending on hours in-class and one hour of instructor research and evaluation processes. Quantitative specialization- HWC 571 (CPPSA), HWC 532 directed assignments. Corequisite: HWC data analysis procedures at the bivariate (FYT), HWC 565 (IH). Prerequisites: HWC 596A. and multivariate levels (t-tests; ANOVA; 502 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) correlation; regression; chi-square test, etc.), 4-6 credits, S/F graded hypothesis testing, inferential statistics, and HWC 510: Social Policy and Social computer assisted data analysis using SPSS HWC 504: Human Behavior and Determinants will be presented in the context of appropriate the Social Environment: Critical data collection methods. Emphasis placed on Applications of Social Work Theory This course builds upon the Foundations of Social Justice: Challenging Oppression research proposal development and critical This course applies a multi-theoretical course through the discussion and exploration evaluation of research reports. Class meets and critical approach to social inquiry of social policies, social determinants of two hours in-class and one hour of instructor in the examination of complex theories, health, and contemporary & historical social directed assignments. Prerequisite: HWC 511 metaperspectives, and knowledge about movements that have arisen to challenge 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) individuals, families, groups, organizations, oppression. This course utilizes frameworks institutions and urban, suburban, and rural for social policy analysis while addressing HWC 513: Social Work Practice I communities. The course encourages continuing dilemmas in policy development. Provides a foundation for generalist practice, students to maintain a view of people and Experiential learning and beyond-the- including the knowledge base, values and their environments as heterogeneous and classroom experiences introduce students skill development necessary for ethical sociohistorically embedded, as well as to the processes and dynamics of social and effective practice with individuals, adaptable and resilient. Throughout the course, movements, social change, and their effects families, groups and communities. Students special consideration is given to social and on social policy. Class meets two hours in- are introduced to the helping process across cultural diversity. Students will develop a client systems and across the life span through

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 168 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 a strengths perspective and empowerment directed assignments. Advanced Practice hours in-class and one hour of instructor approach to practice. Evidence-based short- Elective. directed assignments. term therapies are used to guide direct practice 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to address resilience and human development. Class meets two hours in-class and one hour of HWC 521: Ethnic Sensitive Social Work HWC 525: Anger Management instructor directed assignments. Corequisite: Practice This course presents an overview of concepts HWC 500. Provides a theoretical framework and focuses of anger management within a holistic context. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) on the development of the skills necessary to Students learn how to recognize external provide effective culturally sensitive social manifestations of anger in themselves, HWC 514: Social Work Practice II work services to diverse individuals, families, clients, organizations and communities. A continuation of HWC 513. Revisits the groups and communities. The special problems Anger management strategies that can be helping process in greater depth with specific faced by groups traditionally devalued and taught to clients as part of an intervention reference to special consideration for work oppressed are examined. Emphasizes skills plan will be introduced. Environmental and with families, groups, communities and in working for institutional change and social societal factors as "igniting events" of anger in organizations. The broad range of social work justice. Class meets two hours in-class and individuals, families, groups and communities roles across client systems is considered. one additional hour of instructor directed are examined. Class meets two hours in- Deepens knowledge of generalist practice, assignments. class and one hour of instructor directed ethical practice and skill development. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) assignments. Corequisite: HWC 501. Class meets two hours 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in-class and one hour of instructor directed HWC 522: Human Sexuality assignments. Prerequisites: HWC 500 and 513 This course identifies personal attitudes and HWC 526: Crisis Intervention: 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) judgments about sexually related behaviors. Opportunities for Change Critically examines factual information This course provides theoretical and HWC 519: Psychopathology and derived from research in human sexuality substantive content that will enable students Psychopharmacology and covers a wide range of sexual behavior to gain knowledge, understanding, and skill This course focuses on the concepts of mental from a knowledge base. Class meets two hours in relation to crisis intervention in social work health, mental disorders and the influence of in-class and one hour of instructor directed practice. This course defines crisis, provides culture on both. The mental health concerns assignments. Advanced Practice Elective. examples of the types of crises workers will of diverse social, racial and ethnic groups, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) face in various fields of practice, explores particularly those historically devalued and the role of the social worker, and the range oppressed are covered. In addition, the use HWC 523: Growing Old in America: of interventions needed in response to crisis and misuse of the classification system of The Social Conditions-Policy and situations. Class meets two hours in-class and the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSMIV) Practice Implications one hour of instructor directed assignments. are examined. This examination includes the Explores the social, political and economic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) distinction between major mental disorders conditions related to aging including long- and other forms of dysfunctional behavior term care in this society. Identifies social HWC 527: Social Work in the Political and the recognition of symptoms. Assessment policies and program formats that enhance Process: Campaign School of psychosocial functioning within a multi- wellness and support dependencies from a Social Workers, and the people they work cultural and gender role frame is emphasized. positive perspective. Class meets two hours with, are fundamentally dependent on the Social work values, roles, responsibilities and in-class and one hour of instructor directed decisions made by the people who are elected ethical considerations are detailed throughout assignments. to the executive and legislative branches of the course. The role of the social worker as 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) government. In order to advance the values an integral member of the interdisciplinary of the Social Work profession, and advocate mental health team is discussed. Class meets HWC 524: Children and Adolescents on behalf of clients, Social Workers must two hours in-class and one hour of instructor Who Grieve participate and engage in the political process. directed assignments. Prerequisites: HWC 500, This course is an exploration of the world of 501, 504, and 513. Focuses on issues related to bereavement in children and young people. Children and partisan electoral politics as an area of social 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) adolescents who struggle with the crisis work practice. Social workers can, and do, of loss is a special population that is often play many roles in the political arena. These HWC 520: Advanced Social Work overlooked. Students explore the emotional roles can include, staff to elected officials, Practice with the Aged response of young people who grieve. Mental volunteer and staff positions on political This course examines concepts and strategies health professionals that provide treatment campaigns, political appointments, lobbying for working with the elderly at the primary, to this population must acquire specialized roles and as elected officeholders. This course secondary and tertiary levels of intervention. knowledge and skills to assist in healing makes it clear why it is important for social It presents and critically analyzes a variety wounded children. Upon completion, students workers to be in the political arena. The of approaches in working with the elderly will have gained an increased understanding specific techniques and requirements for and their families. Interventions with the well of the developmental implications of loss in running for office, or serving in a leadership elderly living in the community, the elderly childhood, assessment of bereavement, and role on a political campaign, will be covered who suffer some disabilities but who are still treatment interventions specific to bereaved throughout this course. This is a hybrid course living in the community and the elderly who children and adolescents. Class meets two that combines ten class sessions, hybrid are institutionalized are examined. Class meets learning hours, and required attendance at a two hours in-class and one hour of instructor two day conference, titled ¿Campaign School.¿

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3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) cognitive behavioral therapy, behavioral health to various age groups, cultural orientations assessment and interventions, rapid assessment and societal expectations are examined. The HWC 529: Complementary and tools, and forensic therapeutic interventions. focus is on the acquisition of bereavement Alternative Medicine All of these topics are addressed within a counseling skills. Class meets two hours Human service workers are often required trauma- and culturally-responsive framework. in-class and one hour of instructor directed to discuss issues of health and healing. Professional and ethical considerations, assignments. Advanced Practice Elective. Many individuals, by virtue of their culture, evaluation of intervention effectiveness, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) experiences and/or choice, often adhere to a service delivery in an agency context are combination of nontraditional and traditional woven throughout the course. Corequisite: HWC 539: Ancestral Health Practices beliefs regarding healthcare. This course HWC 503 and 535. 3 credits, Spring semester. There is an increasing integration of familiarizes students with those methods and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) complementary medicine and allopathic beliefs most often found in specific cultures. May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. medicine. As health professionals, it is Students will develop an appreciation of important to understand the beliefs and each practice in order to interact with clients HWC 533: Family Intervention in Health practices of our clients in order to maximize from a strengths perspective and will gain and Mental Health their options and choices. Professionals must an international perspective on healthcare This course focuses on family and marital be knowledgeable about the healing traditions modalities. Class meets two hours in-class and problems. Environmental, social, economic, anchored in different cultures and ethnicity. one hour of instructor directed assignments. psychological and institutional pressures Class meets two hours in-class and one hour of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) that affect family functioning are examined. instructor directed assignments. Emphasis is placed on intervention skills. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HWC 530: Case Management in Human Class meets two hours in-class and one hour Services of instructor directed assignments. Advanced HWC 540: Therapeutic Approaches for Case management has grown dramatically in Practice Elective. People with Disabilities the human service field over the last twenty 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course will provide a framework for years in response to the growing service needs practice with individuals with disabilities of individuals and families facing complex HWC 534: Advanced Policy Practice based on cognitive-behavioral and solution- life situations and issues. Examines both the This course surveys historical and current focused therapies. Emphasis will be placed macro level and micro level issues facing case policies relevant to social work practice with on understanding the acute issues facing managers and agencies as they provide quality families, youth, and young adults. Students individuals with disabilities primarily from services to often oppressed populations. Class will engage in policy analysis including a a social model lens which focuses on socio- meets two hours in-class and one hour of critical analysis of oppression and inequality in environmental constraints and barriers. These instructor directed assignments. the context of child and family federal policies. include limited human rights, access to care 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) In addition, the course will explore culturally and treatment choices, and socio-cultural sensitive skill development and competencies forces. Psychosocial factors will also be HWC 531: Advanced Practice Skills I: related to policy practice including social explored. The empirical knowledge base that Developmental Processes action and activism. Corequisite: HWC 502 informs and guides the assessment and theory This course emphasizes the understanding and 531. 3 credits, Fall semester. based interventions of individuals with of developmental theories and application to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) disabilities will be examined and critiqued. culturally responsive practice with families, May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) youth, and young adults. Focus is placed on recognizing developmental issues and their HWC 535: Org Ldrship Across FYT HWC 541: Youth and Violence implications for assessment, engagement, and Systems of Care Examines the etiology of youth at risk for early intervention strategies. Familial, cultural, This course provides an evidence-based and violence, using ecological and interpersonal and environmental factors that influence empirically supported practice framework for perspectives. Family, school and community development are discussed. Corequisite: HWC developing advanced organizational leadership risk factors are outlined as well as assessment, 502 and 534. 3 credits, Fall semester. skills across various systems of care that intervention and treatment issues. Successful 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) impact the lives of youth, families, and young prevention programs are highlighted. Class May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. adults. Focus is placed on strategic planning, meets two hours in-class and one hour of effective communication, anti-oppressive instructor directed assignments. HWC 532: Family, Youth, and organizational development and evaluation, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Transition to Adulthood Advanced and organizational analysis including inter- Practice Skills II: Intervention Skills and intra-organizational contexts.3 credits, HWC 542: School Social Work: Building on the knowledge and skills in Spring Semester Practice Policy and Research Advanced Practice Skills I, this course 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Examines the practice of school social work focuses on enhancing clinical effectiveness in May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. in an in depth manner. It gives an overview interactions with children, adolescents, and of the central issues that occur in schools. It young adults by strengthening assessment HWC 538: Death and Dying; Loss and discusses strategies to build a positive and safe and diagnostic skills and understanding Separation school climate for diverse and disenfranchised related advanced theory. Topics include child This course explores student values, attitudes, populations. The course will cover evidenced- welfare related interviewing skills, parenting fears and conceptions relating to death and based practices including DBT and CBT for and communication, advanced solution- dying. Issues of loss and separation in relation schools. It examines the social/political context focused therapy, motivational interviewing,

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 170 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 of working in the school. Topics will also HWC 547: Managing Conflict: Groups, a culture-centered value base. Culture-centered include working with students struggling with Organizations, and Communities (FYT) foundation practice provides students with a psychiatric, psychological, substance use, and (CPPSA) frame of reference for better understanding familial issues as well as assisting students A major concern for health and human and appreciation of the difference of their own in special education. Crisis intervention service managers is conflict in organization, culture from the cultures of others. Class meets techniques and trauma-informed educational community and group settings. The various two hours in-class and one hour of instructor practices will be discussed. types of conflicts and the concepts of directed assignments. Advanced Practice 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) negotiation and mediation as interventive Elective. strategies are considered. Didactic and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HWC 544: Overview of Substance experiential learning experiences are utilized. Abuse Focus is on analyzing conflict situations HWC 551: Law and Social Change This course is an examination of the history and selecting interventive strategies to This course introduces students to the and development of alcohol and substance reduce, contain or heighten the conflict interrelationship of the legal process in the abuse problems in the United States. It focuses situation. Oppressive conditions, structures and United States and the profession of social on the etiology, psychopharmacology and processes are considered major determinants work. Focuses on the legal process in general, ethical and legal ramifications of the use of of human suffering and individual and social social welfare law, in particular, and the licit and illicit substances in our culture. The problems; students examine how these implications for effective social work practice. course provides information on a variety of oppressive conditions are present in conflict Students will be required to explore and services available to drug abusers, addicted situations and consider ways of dealing with integrate the ways in which legal frameworks individuals and their families in the fields of them. Class meets two hours in-class and determine the nature of practice processes prevention, education and treatment. Class one hour of instructor directed assignments. and structures within their chosen field of meets two hours in-class and one hour of Advanced Practice Elective. Specialization. Permission required for instructor directed assignments. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) students not enrolled in the School of Social 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Welfare. 3 credits, semester varies HWC 548: Adolescent Development 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HWC 545: Individual, Group and Family and Health Promotion Treatment of Alcoholics and Substance The effect on adolescent development of HWC 552: Lesbians and Gay Men: Abusers physiological changes, relationships with Issues in Health Care This course covers alcoholism and substance peers and family, and societal expectations are This course is an examination of the critical abuse as family illnesses and their stages examined. Emphasis is on the development impact that healthcare policies and services of development, as well as the impact these of assessment and engagement skills for have on lesbians and gay men in American illnesses have on the families of active and working with adolescents and their families society. Issues related to access to care, recovering alcoholics and substance abusers. to help counteract adolescent self-destructive discrimination, services, health insurance, Ethical dilemmas and treatment modalities behavior and promote well-being. Class meets healthcare resources within geographical including Self-help groups and on traditional two hours in-class and one hour of instructor areas and the health status of lesbians and gay and relatively recent modalities used in the directed assignments. Advanced Practice men are examined. It focuses on the issues treatment of addicted individuals and their Elective. that lesbians and gay men encounter in their families are focused on. Class meets two hours 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) interactions with the healthcare system. in-class and one hour of instructor directed 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) assignments. Advanced Practice Elective. HWC 549: Overview of Social Work (Manhattan) with Special Populations HWC 553: Chemical Dependency in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course examines the issues that social Special Populations workers must consider when working with This course covers alcoholism and substance HWC 546: Working with Adult Children traditionally disenfranchised populations. abuse with populations that have been of Alcoholics and Substance Abusers Emphasis will include micro and macro traditionally devalued and oppressed. This course focuses on adult children of issues when intervening with gay and lesbian It focuses on development of skills and alcoholic parents and how parents' illness individuals, members of diverse racial sensitivity to ethical issues and the needs affects their children's social, emotional, and and ethnic groups, and women, as well as of ethnic groups, women, the elderly, the educational development from infancy to others. The historic as well as contemporary mentally ill and LBGTQ people who are adulthood and into old age. Survival roles experiences of these individuals' interactions chemically dependent. Policy and practice of children in alcoholic families and how with the health and human service delivery issues related to these populations are these affect adult functioning are discussed. system will be explored. Class meets two considered. Class meets two hours in-class and Examines ethical issues and the continuing hours in-class and one hour of instructor one hour of instructor directed assignments. effect family alcoholism has on adult children directed assignments. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and the intervention strategies used in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) treatment. Class meets two hours in-class and HWC 555: Supervision in Health and one hour of instructor directed assignments. HWC 550: Culture-Centered Approach Human Service Organizations Advanced Practice Elective. to Social Work Practice This course prepares social workers for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course provides students with an the variety of tasks related to supervisory opportunity for self growth while preparing to practice in health care agencies. Supervision work with individuals and their families from is introduced as a teaching process, as an

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 171 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 administrative function and as a program principles for translating research into practice. current practice strategies, technological development tool. Emphasis is on helping Appropriate treatment outcomes that reflect advancements, and interventions to address workers function effectively with culturally effective quality mental health practice are the major health concerns that impact society. diverse clients, populations at risk and the identified. Focus is on providing assessment Students will investigate population based chronically ill. Content includes: historical and treatment to a diverse group of individuals treatments across systems that are trauma perspective of supervisory practice; supervisor with a diagnosis of serious mental illness. 3 responsive, build on client's strengths, and and agency structure; the organizational credits that are culturally congruent. Corequisite: context of practice; learning theories; concepts 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HWC 503 and 576. Prerequisite: HWC 564. 3 of power, authority and accountability; ethical credits, Spring Semester and clinical issues; supervisory techniques, HWC 561: Implications of Racism for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) skill and self awareness; staff and program Social Welfare May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. development and evaluation. Advanced This course examines personal and Practice Elective. institutional racism in the United States HWC 566: Student-Community 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and the effect racism has on the delivery of Development Student Portfolio Project services to individuals who do not fit the Provides an opportunity for students to create a HWC 556: Proposal Writing in the traditional "American model". It examines portfolio composed of various components that Health and Human Service Fields the historical relationship between racism and integrates the student's educational experiences This course provides a comprehensive study social welfare policies, programs and practice, and achievements in the Student-Community of the principles and methods used to prepare and contemporary strategies for change. Class Development Specialization. Components may program, training, research, demonstration and meets two hours in-class and one hour of include literature reviews, abstracting research other types of proposals. Extensive workshop instructor directed assignments. articles, analysis of field placements, and practice in developing appropriate writing 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) integration of social work and student affairs skills and in locating and accessing funding literature. Class meets two hours in-class and sources is included. Advanced Practice HWC 563: Homelessness, Politics and one hour of instructor directed assignments. Elective. Public Health 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course analyzes homelessness as an issue of social policy, including its history, HWC 568: The Workings of the Brain: HWC 558: Human Services recent causes and current demographics. It Practice Issues for Social Workers Administration emphasizes the political and economic context Addresses the organization, development and An introduction to the practice of that has made homelessness a major social functions of the brain and how this influences administration of public and non-profit problem. Class meets two hours in-class and how we think, feel and behave. Causes of agencies, theories of management including one hour of instructor directed assignments. organic changes in the brain such as substance alternative decision-making models, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) abuse, disease and injury are addressed. understanding of organizational structure Advances in neuroscience that have aided and process, external and internal functions HWC 564: Advanced Practice I: in diagnosis and social work practice are including interagency collaboration and Assessment and Skills in Integrated covered. Innovative treatment modalities personnel and financial management, Health such as EMDR, biofeedback and vagal nerve affirmative action and ethical issues. The This course will build advanced competencies implants are presented. Strongly emphasizes course combines theory with case examples, as applied in health and mental health the combination of science and practice issues. practical exercises and other experiential settings. Students will learn how to conduct Class meets two hours in-class and one hour learning modes. Advanced Practice Elective. assessments that engage the family and of instructor directed assignments. Advanced 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the community, and develop skills for Practice Elective. relationship building, care coordination, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HWC 559: Mental Health Evidence- and strategies for defining and addressing Based Practice the social determinants of health, utilizing HWC 569: Childhood Sexual Abuse This course develops the knowledge and skills interprofessional practice skills. Topics include and Long-Term Sequelae: Assessment necessary for working with individuals with primary prevention; acute and long term and Intervention a diagnosis of serious mental illness using care; rehabilitation in inpatient and outpatient Introduces students to the incidence and recovery-oriented evidence-based practices. clinics; forensic social work; substance abuse; prevalence of childhood sexual abuse as a This course is designed for M.S.W. students medically managed systems; chronic disease; national problem. Covered are definition and M.S.W. mental health practitioners. The HIV/AIDS; trauma and co-morbid psychiatric issues, sequelae during childhood, family course familiarizes students with evidence- issues; cancer. Corequisite: HWC 502 and 574. constellation and adult sequelae. Addressed are based practices, within a recovery-oriented 3 credits Fall semester assessment and current treatment modalities, paradigm, as a general approach to practice as 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) particularly for families and offenders, as well as specific evidence-based interventions May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. well as ethical and legal dilemmas and the to use for individuals with a diagnosis of subsequent health related difficulties of this serious mental illness. Students should have HWC 565: Advanced Practice II: childhood trauma. Special attention is paid to a basic knowledge of serious mental illness Strategies and Interventions in the cultural dynamics in sexual abuse. Students as pre- or co-requisite, however a review Integrated Health are expected to develop an awareness of and will be provided. Research literature is Building on the knowledge and skills in critically analyze current research. Focus is on examined to determine the various levels of Advanced Practice I, students will learn examination of policy issues and legislation. support for specific interventions and essential

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3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) students with opportunities to develop their The course will address local, federal, state, presentation and analysis skills and to receive and organizational policies and funding HWC 570: Advanced Tools for Change: peer feedback. Corequisite: HWC 502 and mechanisms impacting health and mental Practice I 570. 3 Credits, Fall Semester health. Topics include recent developments Building on foundation knowledge, values 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in health care reform and current issues and skills, this course will deepen student May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. and trends in primary and behavioral health capacity to work for social change. Students care integration. The course will emphasize will build their expertise using interpersonal HWC 573: Social and Political Change diversity, health disparities, and social and communication, relationship building, (Hybrid) economic justice. Corequisite: HWC 503 and organizing skills in select areas such as By its nature, social and political change 565. 3 credits, Fall semester visioning, problem analysis, community is action oriented. This course will provide 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) engagement, assessment, action research students with the opportunity and value, May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. and mobilizing communities to work for knowledge and skill based guidance to change. This course expands upon the students' undertake an actual advocacy/community HWC 577: Program Evaluation learning in their first year policy courses to change oriented capstone project. Students This course provides an in-depth analysis utilize advanced critical theories to analyze will work with community based social of the technical requirements of program social problems and develop tools for social change organizations on a social change evaluation and the organizational and political change with a special emphasis on community project for approximately 35 hours during constraints that influence the evaluation and empowerment. Corequisite: HWC 502 and the semester in lieu of classroom meetings. process. Techniques in the design and 572. 3 credits, Fall Semester During the 5 in-class meetings and online implementation of evaluation research in the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) discussions, students will act as consultants health and human services fields are covered. May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. to one another, reflecting on learning from Prerequisites: HWC 511 and 512. 3 credits project work, readings and other courses in the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HWC 571: Advanced Tools for Change: specialization. Corequisite: HWC 503 and 571. Practice II 3 credits, Spring Semester HWC 578: Advanced Social Work with Building on the knowledge and skills in the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Groups first semester of Advanced Tools for Social May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. This course explores the principles and Change, Part II focuses on developing students' practice of group work in assisting clients to skills in analyzing issues, developing powerful HWC 574: Clinical Skills: Motivational maximize psychosocial functioning. Class arguments and communicating persuasively Interviewing & Cognitive Behavioral members will participate in an experience with multiple audiences using multiple Therapy in Integrated Health that encourages them to realize the power of media platforms. Using a lens of critical This course introduces students to advanced group work process and usefulness of this theories, students will learn to engage with and evidence-based clinical modalities, that include modality. Group work techniques, context, mobilize constituents, form coalitions, lobby group treatment, and short term interventions dynamics, skills and the role of the group policymakers and leverage political power to with an emphasis on Motivational Interviewing facilitator are discussed. In presenting group challenge systemic structures of power and (MI) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) work with special populations students privilege and effect positive social change in as applied in health and mental health care learn about the impact of issues including the areas of students' passion. Corequisite: settings. Corequisite: HWC 502 and 564. 3 development, discrimination, illness, addiction HWC 503 and 573. 3 credits, Spring Semester credits, Spring semester and separation on the commonality of the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) human experience as it presents in group May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. practice. 3 credits 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HWC 572: Leadership for Social HWC 575: Child Welfare: An Overview Change This course covers the impact of historical and HWC 579: Special Topics in Social Leadership is widely understood as a critical contemporary developments within the field Work success factor for advancing social change. of child welfare. It examines the evaluation of These courses examine significant timely In this class, students are educated to develop child welfare services and the role of child care issues confronting the profession. Topics advanced leadership skills to create and sustain workers. It also examines out-of-home care, include violence as a public health problem, social-change organizations that address foster care, group home care and institutional issues of aging, racism, gender, AIDS, the societal inequities. The course covers the care within the context of traditional public/ media, and others. Topics vary each term as many facets of social change leadership, voluntary structure of services and the social/ faculty develop specific modules that address including effective communication, strategic political context. Services in relation to the one or more of these issues. Class meets planning, and program development. The changing roles of the family and emergence of two hours in-class and one hour of instructor course will consider what it means to be child care are covered. Class meets two hours directed assignments. a leader, the kinds of skills leaders need in-class and one hour of instructor directed 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to succeed in diverse community settings, assignments. May be repeated 4 times FOR credit. and what are the necessary preconditions 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) for social change. Additional focus will HWC 581: Public Health and be on anti-oppressive organizational and HWC 576: Integrated Health: Advanced Community Health Intervention program development, management, resource Health Policy Systems This course examines many of the critical development and financial management. public health issues of today. Students Specific focus will be devoted to providing

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 173 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 gain an understanding of the concepts strategies and case material will enhance development as well as the impact of societal underlying social epidemiology and develop student understanding. 3 credits, Fall Semester issues are introduced. This course will follow an appreciation of the ways in which the health 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a student-community development lens status of different populations in this country May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. and discuss a variety of important topics is differentially impacted. Community health in higher education including: overview of planning strategies (e.g. health promotion and HWC 588: The Dynamics of Trauma major policies and programming, campus health education) are examined. 3 credits This course will examine the complexity and safety, campus climate and inclusion, social 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) range of traumatic events. For example, the determinants, financial aid, relationships, and way temperament, genetic pre-disposition and mental health. HWC 582: Organizational Dynamics environment impact traumatic reactions; as 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and Legal and Ethical Issues in Health well as the physiological and psychological Care reactions that individuals experience. HWC 592: Social Work in Education: This course examines some of the traditional, Throughout this course we will examine Therapeutic Interventons as well as newer, models through which therapeutic interventions with different This course reviews a wide-range of clinical healthcare services are delivered. Particular populations (children, adults, groups, elders) practice methods using a trauma-informed emphasis is given to the issue of access as they recover from trauma experiences. This lens that are relevant to high school and higher to health services as well as the location course will cover the range of psychological education settings including crisis intervention, of the professional social worker within models that comprise trauma theory and rapid assessment tools, biopsychosocial, and these systems. Students gain the ability to examine the protective factors that mediate review of wellness and prevention services. conceptualize many of the critical ethical and post-traumatic growth. Throughout this course Students are encouraged to critically examine legal issues impacting the field today. Class we will examine cultural, legal, judicial and components of contemporary education and meets two hours in-class and one hour of policy issues that impact trauma treatments. to devise appropriate intervention strategies instructor directed assignments. Advanced 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to accomplish the development of student- Practice Elective. centered services, implement tele-mental 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HWC 589: Therapeutic Interventions health services, and a sense of community for Trauma within education settings. HWC 584: Community Analysis and This course will examine therapeutic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Health Promotion interventions with different populations Explores diverse concepts of community, (children, adults, groups, elders) as they HWC 593: Social Work in Higher analyzes a range of community structures, recover from trauma experiences. This course Education: Wrap-around Care Services processes and power relationships. Investigates will appraise the range of psychological This course reviews the care coordination contemporary models, strategies and tactics of models that comprise trauma theory and involved in the many college student support community organizing and health promotion examine the promotive factors that mediate services offered across various departments in the United States and in selected other Post-traumatic Growth. Throughout this course including offices of disability support services, countries and emphasizes efforts made by we will examine cultural, legal, judicial and counseling and health centers, athletics, poor people, ethnic minorities of color and policy issues that impact trauma treatment. student affairs, and campus and residential life. women to organize and mobilize community 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) An understanding of the transition from high groups and movements. Highlights group and school to college service systems, transition community analysis and organization skills. HWC 590: Overview of Family Violence to adult health care services, as well as how Class meets two hours in-class and one hour This advanced elective provides an overview different higher education involved systems of instructor directed assignments. Advanced of family violence in the United States function on- and off-campus will also be Practice Elective. including child abuse, intimate partner discussed. Leadership development and social 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) violence (IPV), and elder abuse. The course work practice roles to promote student success covers the etiology of each form of family in higher education settings are emphasized. HWC 587: Social Work Practice with violence, current evidence-based treatment 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the Military and Military Families modalities, and mental health and judicial This course focuses on the specific challenges approaches to these issues. Current research HWC 594: Continuation of Field Work of those who serve in the military and the for each type of family violence and social Experience response of social work practitioners to those policies will also be covered. Continuation of placement in practice settings challenges. The course will explore the nature 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) under supervision of a licensed M.S.W. of war, its impact on those who are wounded S/F graded - physically and mentally -- and the impact HWC 591: SW in Higher Ed: Prac in of the military experience on them and their College & Univ HWC 595: Independent Study loved ones/caregivers. Particular emphasis Through an interdisciplinary approach, Independent study with an individual faculty will detail the impact of recent wars in Iraq which draws from social work strengths member. Designation as enrichment or and Afghanistan on returning veterans, many and empowerment perspectives, student advanced practice elective is determined with suffering with PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injury affairs perspectives, and college student faculty sponsor. and substance abuse problems. Additional development theories, this course emphasizes 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) areas of exploration include the challenges how community on the college campus May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. faced by women in the military, the wounded, is influenced and shaped. Historical those who contemplate suicide. Intervention developments in higher education and student

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HWC 598: LMSW Licensing informant interviews, participant observation, 3 credits, S/U grading Preparation unobtrusive observation, text and content HWC 608: Social Welfare Policy This is a free non credit course designed to analysis, and the use of archival and historical Analysis I help students pass the LMSW exam. The data. Special attention is given to ethical and course will cover test-taking strategies, political issues in the conduct of research. An analytical approach to public policy critical thinking skills for analyzing the test 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) formulation in the areas of health, mental questions, and include review of sample health, and substance abuse involving practice questions. Classes will meet twice HWC 603: Research Methods II the impact of environmental forces on during the spring semester and in between the A continuation of HWC 602 Research policy content. Considered are the effects two sessions, students will have an opportunity Methods I. of various institutional arrangements and political processes as well as inquiry into the to take the online practice exam and identify 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the areas requiring further review. consequences of various contemporary public policies. Tools and frameworks of policy S/U grading HWC 604: Naturalistic and Qualitative Research analysis are examined. Policy alternatives and policy development and implementation are HWC 599: Maintenance of Considered is the application of alternative also considered. Matriculation research methods for different questions. The For students who are maintaining matriculation distinction between quantitative and qualitative 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) while engaging in consultation with faculty approaches and methods in the analysis of HWC 609: Social Welfare Policy regarding completion of courses and/or the qualitative data is explored. Analysis II Master's Project. Students will be graded S/F. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A continuation of HWC 608 Social Welfare 1 credit, S/F graded Policy Analysis I. Prerequisite: HWC 608. May be repeated 6 times FOR credit. HWC 606: Research Practicum I Spring Students undertake significant and HWC 600: Statistics I methodologically rigorous research involving 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Provides instruction in the computation, design, implementation, analysis, and HWC 610: Organizational Theory and interpretation, and application of data analytic dissemination of a research project. The Social Welfare Administration procedures used in social research. Discusses substantive areas will include health, mental procedures such as descriptive statistics, chi- health, or substance abuse. School of The focus is on theories and methods available square, and t-tests, while examining their Social Welfare faculty, affiliated faculty to planners and administrators who function relevancy for analyzing issues in social work members from the Health Sciences Center and in complex organizational settings. Decision practice. Fall Term. University social science departments, and making, political and economic factors, information systems, value conflicts, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) principal investigators in community research projects will serve as preceptors. Students adaptations of rational models to emerging HWC 601: Statistics II will spend ten hours each week for two realities will be studied. Health and mental health programs will be utilized as exemplars. Introduces students to multivariate techniques semesters in a practicum setting. Students have used in the analysis of various kinds of data. a supervised hands-on, practical experience 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Analysis of Variance, Multiple Regression with an ongoing research project. Typical HWC 611: Knowledge Building in Analysis, Logistic Regression Analysis, and activities include data analysis, interpretation Social Work: The Philosophy of Applied Log-Linear Regression Analysis, as well of results, research report writing, subject Social Research as more advanced techniques, such as path recruitment and screening, instrument analysis and survival analysis, are discussed. development, or data collection. The primary An examination of the major currents of objective is to strengthen students' ability to thought that shape the meta-theoretical, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) synthesize various phases and components theoretical, and methodological issues related HWC 602: Research Methods I of social research. A focus is on articulating to knowledge building in social work. The linkages among the research questions, the impact of pragmatic philosophy on the current Presents an overview of the variety of data gathered to address these questions, the "science versus non-science" debate within research methodologies utilized in social techniques selected for manipulating and social work is reviewed. Special attention is science and social work, with the goal of analyzing the data, and the interpretation of given to epistemological approaches and their providing students with the knowledge findings. Students are encouraged to pursue relation to qualitative and quantitative research and competencies needed to develop and publication stemming from the practicum. strategies. Fall conduct their own research. The course will While the research practicum may not lead to a sophisticated understanding of the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) necessarily expose students to the specific research process including the formulation of population or problem of greatest interest to HWC 612: Social Science Theory for research questions, hypothesis development them, the skills or competencies mastered can Social Welfare and testing, and choice of research method, prepare students methodologically to carry out involving both quantitative and qualitative In this course, we explore the nature of social their dissertation research plans. methods. Material on quantitative designs will theory and the normative project of social include experimental and quasi-experimental 3 credits, S/U grading welfare by examining theories of social justice, designs, data collection methodologies, human rights and oppression. We consider HWC 607: Research Practicum II scaling, instrument development, and sampling the nature and structure of power, the role procedures. Material on qualitative designs A continuation of HWC 606 Research of ideology and their impact in a society will address focus groups interviews, key Practicum I. defined by inequality. Social Construction

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Research HWC 800: Full Time SUMMER RESEARCH Throughout the course, students are challenged Discusses timely policy research issues to explore existing theory and, importantly, to such as violence as a public health problem, F T SUMMER RESEARCH learn and engage in the process of theorizing, aging, racism, gender, AIDS, poverty and S/U grading themselves. international social work. Topics vary each May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) term as faculty develop specific modules that address one or more of these topics. Offered HWC 613: Seminar in Social Work Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, IAP Education etc.) International Academic Focus is on the place of social work education May be repeated for credit. in the university with attention to issues of Programs current concern such as the integration of HWC 695: Independent Study professional education with the scholarly IAP 599: Research research focus of other academic disciplines. HWC 699: Dissertation Research on Supervised research course for students Consideration will be given to educational Campus enrolled in foreign universities to fulfill the program structure, content, curriculum educational objectives for his or her current development, evaluation, and teaching Dissertation research under direction of degree program at his or her home institution. methodologies. Students will be required advisor. Research proposals must be prepared by to teach a course in the B.S.W. or M.S.W. Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). the student and submitted for approval by curriculum under mentorship of a senior Major portion of research must take place on the supervising faculty before the semester faculty member. SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the and beginning of the credit period. Midpoint 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Brookhaven National Lab. and final evaluation reports are required. An Fall, 1-9 credits, S/U grading account of the work and the results achieved is HWC 614: Teaching Practicum May be repeated for credit. submitted to the supervisor before the end of The teaching practicum is a supervised the credit period. May be repeated. Department HWC 700: Dissertation Research Off Consent Required. experience in teaching at the master's Campus - Domestic or undergraduate level in the School 1-8 credits, S/U grading of Social Welfare, or in some aspect of Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy academic administration, such as curriculum (G5). Major portion of research will take place development, project planning, and/or proposal off-campus, but in the United States and/ IDC or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven development. The educational practicum is Inter-University Doctoral typically available to doctoral students in National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab the third year. An individualized plan will are considered on-campus. All international Consortium be developed for implementing the teaching students must enroll in one of the graduate practicum. Practica may include teaching a student insurance plans and should be advised IDC 600: Inter-University Doctoral section of a required graduate/undergraduate by an International Advisor. Consortium course, working as a teaching assistant with Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. a faculty member, and/or co-teaching and May be repeated for credit. working with the curriculum committees and area sequences in curriculum development. HWC 701: Dissertation Research Off ISE Spring Campus - International Information Systems 3 credits, S/U grading Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy (G5). Major portion of research will take ISE 503: Data Management HWC 615: Dissertation Seminar I place outside of the United States and/or This course provides an understanding of Students are expected to survey the current U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the the issues in managing database systems state of the art in their area of interest option of the health plan and may also enroll as an essential organizational resource. and to develop a written prospectus on a in MEDEX. International students who are Students learn the enterprise data architecture question suitable for dissertation research. in their home country are not covered by components, data storage configurations, and In the second semester, students will refine mandatory health plan and must contact the information retrieval methods. It expands from dissertation proposals through presentation and Insurance Office for the insurance charge to the relational model to the multidimensional critique in the seminar. Specific techniques be removed. International students who are model, object-relational techniques, and web and alternatives in studying a variety of not in their home country are charged for the accessed data. The course includes concepts, dissertation questions are compared. mandatory health insurance. If they are to be covered by another insurance plan they must principles, issues, and techniques for managing 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) file a waiver be second week of classes. The corporate data resources. Techniques for charge will only be removed if other plan is managing the design and development of HWC 616: Dissertation Seminar II deemed comparable. large database systems including logical

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 176 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 data models, concurrent processing, data character and institutions of contemporary Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, distribution, database administration, data Italy. etc.) warehousing, data cleansing, and data mining. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Students will use current methods and tools for ITL 513: Romance Linguistics database design and development. Limited to ITL 502: Special Topics in Italian This course examines the linguistic evolution CSE/ISE graduate students; others, permission Cinema of the Romance languages from the classical of instructor. A topics course given in Italian on Italian period through modern times. The synchronic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) cinema. Topics may include films of a grammars of Italian, French, and Spanish are particular actor, director, genre, theme, or examined. ISE 506: Quantitative Computer historical period. Smeester supplements to Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Architecure the Bulletin contain specific description when B+, etc.) Explores the physical structure of a computer; course is offered. May be repeated for credit as machine representation of information; topic changes. Prerequisite: advanced oral and ITL 516: Seminar on Dante architecture and organization of various written proficiency in Italian. Dante's Vita Nuova and Divina Commedia mainframe, mini-, and microcomputers; 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) are analyzed within their historical, social primary and secondary storage; and input and and moral context of 13th- and 14-centuries output communication. Architectural choices ITL 507: Italian Linguistics: Diachronic Europe. Offered as ITL 516 and CEI 526. are compared and used to determine resulting Development and Synchronic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) function and performance. Architectural trade- Structures offs are also identified. An examination of the linguistic evolution ITL 522: Seminar in Italian Humanism 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and the synchronic grammars (phonology, and Renaissance Literature morphology, syntax) of standard Italian and Analysis of the works of such writers as ISE 507: Project Management some Italo-Romance dialects. Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Machiavelli, The course focuses on both the technical Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Castiglione, Aretino, Tasso, and Michelangelo. aspects of project management as well as the B+, etc.) Study of the relation of the individual works of human aspects. Technical components include these writers to broader historical, cultural, and project definition, work breakdown structure ITL 508: Syntax and Composition intellectual developments of the period. development, and the use of optimization This course analyzes and discusses finer Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, techniques for planning a project and points of Italian grammar and investigates B+, etc.) optimizing schedules. Graphical approaches to diverse writing styles. Students will develop May be repeated for credit. project definition are addressed, as are needs grammatical drills from elementary through analysis, preliminary design, and detailed advanced levels. Literary masterpieces are ITL 551: Studies in Italian Romanticism design and implementation. Human aspects of translated to demonstrate types of style and Italian romanticism is compared with the project management include forming a project possible alternatives in writing. movement as it took place in other countries, team, managing performance, and resolving Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, such as England, Germany, and France. The conflicts. B+, etc.) works of Foscolo, Leopardi, and Manzoni are 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) studied in the philosophical and sociological ITL 510: Advanced Conversation and contexts of the period. Composition Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, ITL An examination of Italian in the context of B+, etc.) Italian contemporary Italy, with an eye to the effects of globalization and localism on language and ITL 552: Studies in the Modern Novel ITL 500: Reading Italian culture. Class readings and conversations focus A study of the development of the Italian novel Designed to prepare graduate students on today's multifaceted Italy, steering clear of from Verga to the latest trends. Stress is placed to read contemporary research in their stereotyped images and misconceptions. on the major shifts in sensibility occurring at respective disciplines published in Italian, the Prerequisite: Graduate status. the beginning of the 19th century and after course presents systematic instruction in the Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, World War II. fundamentals of reading comprehension and in etc.) Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, specialized subject-oriented vocabulary. B+, etc.) ITL 511: History of the Italian Language Fall or Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, May be repeated for credit. A-, B+, etc.) A study of the development of the Italian language beginning with its Latin origins, and ITL 562: Studies in Contemporary ITL 501: Contemporary Italy continuing through modern times. Literature Contemporary Italian Poetry: The Quest for Meaning Analysis of contemporary Italy and its Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, civilization through the study of the etc.) Studies in 20th century literature. development of its historical, cultural, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, political, and social characteristics. Designed ITL 512: Italian Dialects B+, etc.) for potential teachers of Italian at the college The linguistic structures of the many May be repeated for credit. as well as secondary school levels, this course languages (i.e., "dialects") spoken in Italy are emphasizes and traces the evolution of the analyzed. Consideration is also given to the ITL 581: Independent Individual sociolinguistic situation. Studies

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Fall and Spring , alternative years, JPN 526: Structure of Japanese stories, explanatory or human interest features, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The study of phonology, morphology, syntax, profiles, blogging, and first-person essays. May be repeated for credit. semantics, lexicon, and writing systems of This is an intensive course that meets six hours the Japanese language as well as the use a week and requires at least 12 hours a week of ITL 591: Language Acquisition I and functions of the language in relation work outside class. Offered Elementary Italian I intended for graduate to the social structures and interpersonal Fall, 6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) students from other programs. relationships. JRN 565: Communicating Your 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Science ITL 592: Language Acquisition II Learning to communicate one's research is Elementary Italian II intended for graduate JRN as important as learning to do the research. students from other programs. This course is designed to help graduate Journalism students in the sciences learn to communicate 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) effectively with multiple audiences, from JRN 501: Foundations of Science ITL 593: Language Acquisition III peers and professors to potential employers, Communication I journalists, and family members. It builds Intermediate and Advanced Italian intended In this team-taught, immersive science on science communication research and is for graduate students from other programs. communication training, students will build designed to help students communicate clearly The requirements for the course will include a skills to passionately communicate in a and vividly. They will develop skills that are graduate-level component to be determined by way that excites, engages, and encourages central to oral and written communication on the instructor. May be repeated for credit. audiences to want to learn more about any subject. Among the techniques applied 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) their work. Improvisational theater-based are improvisational theater exercises that May be repeated for credit. techniques are combined with message design will help connect with an audience, pay strategies like distilling and storytelling, close and dynamic attention to others, read ITL 595: Practicum in Teaching enabling healthcare professionals, scientists, nonverbal cues, respond freely and work Fall and Spring , and researchers to use strategy and spontaneity through nerves and self-consciousness. 1-3 credits, S/U grading to execute powerful communication in any For permission to enroll, please contact: May be repeated for credit. context. [email protected] 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ITL 599: Thesis Research May be repeated for credit JRN 503: Foundations of Science JRN 587: Independent Study Communication II 1-6 credits, S/U grading Intensive study of a special topic or intensive May be repeated for credit. In this immersive science communication work on a reporting project undertaken with training, participants who have completed close faculty supervision. May be repeated. ITL 800: Summer Research JRN 501 will continue their foundations in Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and science communication with explorations into graduate program director Every semester, 0-6 May be repeated for credit. engaging with key audiences and the media, as credits. S/U grading well as creating a presentation accompanied by 0-6 credits, S/U grading JPN compelling visuals. May be repeated for credit. 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Japanese Language JRN 588: Graduate Internship JRN 525: Health, Environment, Science Students participate in an appropriate JPN 501: Advanced Japanese I and Technology Reporting internship with an organization or institution An advanced course designed to strengthen The core course of the journalism master's devoted to the program content themes of students¿ ability to understand and speak the program, this will introduce students to the science, health, environment or technology. Japanese language. Students are required to range of science, health and environmental The work must involve skills related to the prepare selected texts and to read and translate coverage while providing intensive instruction educational goals of the program. Student them in class. They also write essays based on and practice in reporting and writing in interns will report regularly to a faculty the texts as well as on Japanese videos. journalistic formats. The goal is for students member and will complete an internship 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to learn how to think critically about scientific project, including a portfolio of work done. claims and controversies and how to write 0-6 credits, S/U grading JPN 502: Advanced Japanese II clear, accurate and vivid stories for print or May be repeated for credit. The second part of an advanced course in online media. Students will practice such Chinese deigned to strengthen students¿ ability skills as developing sources, interviewing to understand and speak the Japanese experts, finding stories, doing online research, KOR language. Students are required to prepare organizing material, using statistics correctly, selected texts and to read and translate them in and presenting technical information in lay Korean class. They also write essays based on the texts terms. Field trips will introduce students to KOR 501: Advanced Korean I as well as on Japanese videos. work being done at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University An advanced course designed for students who 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Medical Center. A variety of written forms wish to enhance reading comprehension and will be explored including news and trend writing ability in Korean. Reading materials

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(or who has otherwise acquired an equivalent speech perception, and the applications of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) proficiency) may not take LAT 111/LAT 591 phonetics to foreign language teaching. without written permission from the course 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) KOR 502: Advanced Korean II supervisor. Advanced Korean II is designed for students 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) LIN 523: Phonology I who have completed at least two years of An introduction to the formal study of sound LAT 592: Elementary Latin II Korean instruction at the undergraduate patterns. Problems from various languages level or who already possess a sufficiently Designed to prepare the beginning student to serve as the basis for developing a theory high level of fluency. Classes are conducted translate Latin that may be needed for use in of the representation of sound structure. in Korean. Reading materials, including undergraduate or graduate study. Focus of the Prerequisite: Enrollment in LIN program or excerpts from modern Korean literary works, course is on the fundamentals of grammar and permission of instructor journals, magazine and newspapers, will techniques of translation. Prerequisite: Latin 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) be explored and discussed. Other topics 111 or equivalent such as ancient Korean literature will also 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) LIN 524: TESOL Pedagogy: Theory and be discussed. Through this course students Practice (Methods I) are expected to enhance their ability to LAT 593: Readings in Latin Literature I Theory and practical methodology of language grasp the important of literary and academic This course serves as an introduction to and literacy instruction and assessment to texts by learning to identify essential points authentic Latin prose and poetry. The children and adolescents for whom English and lines of argument as well as enhance students will be introduced to the Roman is not their first language, in alignment with their vocabulary, particularly Sino-Korean literature of the Republic and beginning of the current state, national, and professional terms, and knowledge of idiomatic usage of Empire. The course includes a brief intensive standards. Inquiry into instructional Chinese-Korean graph dictionaries, including review of grammar. Additional grammatical approaches, standard-based and data-driven a knowledge of the basic student of graphs and constructions will be taught through the lesson planning, and reflective practices in the of the most common component radicals, in literature. The students will read a sampling teaching and assessment of speaking, listening, their original and abbreviated forms. Students of a number of authors including Eutropius, reading, and writing. Review and evaluation will also learn to research in Korean for their Cornelius Nepos, Caesar, Ovid, and Horace of resources and technologies. 3 credits, letter term paper Prerequisite: Latin 112 or equivalent graded (A, A-, B+, etc) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) KOR 526: Structure of Korean LAT 594: Readings in Latin Literature 2 LIN 525: Contrastive Analysis This course is an introduction to phonology, This course serves as a study of authentic A survey of linguistic typology and a morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, and Latin prose and poetry. The students will comparison of various languages as a basis for writing systems of the Korean language as read Roman literature of the Republic and understanding the errors made by language well as the use and functions of the language beginning of the Empire. The course includes a learners and devising strategies for teaching a in relation to the social structures of Korea brief intensive review of grammar. Additional foreign language. May be crosslisted with CEL at large. The goal of this course is to analyze grammatical constructions will be taught 551. Korean in ways that might be of most use to through the literature. The students will read 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a KFL (Korean as a foreign language) teacher a sampling of a number of authors including and KFL student. Caesar, Virgil, Catullus and Cicero LIN 526: Analysis of an Uncommonly 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Taught Language Working from primary and secondary sources, LAT students construct an outline of the phonology, LIN morphology, and syntax of a language Latin Linguistics previously unknown to them. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) LAT 581: Independent Study LIN 521: Syntax I May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit as the topic A study of formal grammar as one aspect of changes. Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in a our knowledge of language. Concepts and LIN 527: Structure of English graduate program. elements of modern syntactic analysis are A description of the major sentence elements, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) introduced and motivated using a variety subsystems, and productive grammatical May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. of grammatical phenomena and processes, processes of English. The justification of across a wide range of languages. Prerequisite: grammatical categories, interaction between LAT 591: Elementary Latin I Enrollment in LIN program or permission of systems and processes, and notions of standard Designed to prepare the beginning student to instructor and correctness are discussed with a view to translate Latin that may be needed for use in 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) their application in the ESL classroom. undergraduate or graduate study. Focus of the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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LIN 529: TESOL Pedagogy: Language regression analysis, and an introduction to LIN 555: Error Analysis and Literacy Development through the hierarchical modeling. Students will gain Study of the systematic errors made by foreign Content Areas (Methods II) experience with quantitative analysis of real- language learners and the potential of various Content-based language and literacy world linguistic data sets, including corpus linguistic theories to predict and account for instruction and assessment to children and data and experimental data, with emphasis these errors. on a connection to students¿ own theoretical adolescents for whom English is not their 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) first language, in alignment with current research. state, national, and professional standards. 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) LIN 571: TESOL Pedagogy: Curriculum Teacher candidates design standard-based and May be repeated for credit. Design and Evaluation data-driven curricular modules for teaching An in-depth study of curriculum design and LIN 539: Mathematical Methods in language through mathematics, the sciences evaluation with a focus on needs analysis, Linguistics and the social studies, engage in reflective goals and objectives, approaches to language and collaborative practices, and evaluate web- An overview of the mathematical foundations learning and teaching, assessment, resources, based technologies. 3 credits, letter graded (A, of theoretical and computational linguistics. and program evaluation. A-, B+, etc) Topics covered include set theory, morphisms, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) logic and model theory, algebra, lattices, lambda calculus, probability theory, LIN 574: Managing Instruction, LIN 530: Introduction to General information theory, and basics of formal Assessment, and Resources in TESOL Linguistics language theory. A strong emphasis is put on Investigation and evaluation of instructional the linguistic application of the mathematical An introduction to modern theoretical and planning and assessment aligned with concepts in the student and analysis of natural applied linguistics, including phonology, current state, national, and professional language data morphology, syntax, language acquisition, standards. Teacher candidates practice content- historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) based curriculum development, and use 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. of technologies for language and literacy development among English language learners LIN 541: Bilingualism LIN 532: Second Language Acquisition and reflect on their teaching in multi-level Study of the acquisition of a second language Study of the social, linguistic, educational, and classrooms. Partnerships with colleagues, by children and adults. The focus is on data; psychological aspects of bilingualism. parents and the respective communities are the systematicity of the learner' errors, the ease 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) explored. 3 credits, letter graded (A, A-, B+, of acquisition in childhood, etc., the adequacy etc) LIN 542: Sociolinguistics of theories (e.g. Interlanguage processes, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the monitor model, the critical period) to An introduction to major topics in explain data, and the reliability of methods of sociolinguistics, including variation theory, LIN 577: Field Experience for Teaching obtaining data. Students conduct an empirical language attitudes, language planning, English as a Foreign Language study testing a current hypothesis. language change, and pidgins and creoles. Observation, inquiry, and practice of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Enrollment in TESOL or LIN instruction in the area of English as a Foreign program or permission of instructor Language through various methods and in LIN 535: Historical Linguistics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) various settings. Students interested in this A study of linguistic change. Some general field experience are required to meet with topics to be discussed are the genetic LIN 544: Language Acquisition and the instructor of LIN 524 and/or LIN 529 to classification of languages; language families, Literacy Development prepare a specific semester plan. Fifty hours language, and prehistory; reconstruction; types In-depth exploration of the theories of literacy fieldwork or research. Co-requisite: LIN 524 of sound change; types of semantic change; and language development of native English or LIN 529, offered fall and spring. This borrowing. speakers and students who are English course does not satisfy requirements for NYS 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) language learners pre-school through grade 12. Teacher Certification. 1 credit, S/U grading, The development and assessment of literacy May be repeated 1 time for credit. LIN 537: Computational Linguistics I skills among children at various stages of 1 credit, S/U grading A hands-on introduction to practical aspects learning development and across disciplines May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. of computational linguistics. Students learn will be examined. Attention will also be how to perform common tasks such as tagging given to children with special needs and the LIN 578: Field Experience in and tokenization with a state-of-the-art integration of technology in the development Educational Contexts programming language. Topics include basic of literacy skills. Exploration, inquiry, and practice of English data structures and algorithms, n-gram models, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) language instruction strategies and approaches. regular expressions, and corpus linguistics. Prerequisite: Admission to MA TESOL LIN 550: Selected Topics in Linguistics 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Teacher Education Program Topics are announced each semester. The 1 credit, S/U grading LIN 538: Statistics for Linguists course may be repeated for credit if topic A hands-on introduction to statistical methods differs. LIN 579: Field Experience in TESOL in linguistics using R@. Topics covered 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Grades N-12 include aggregation and summary, descriptive May be repeated for credit. Observation and practice of data-driven statistics, data visualization, hypothesis testing, language and literacy instruction and

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 180 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 assessment across disciplines for children and topic and the format of the work must be semantics, and lexical semantics. Prerequisite: adolescents for whom English is not their first approved by the faculty supervisor. 0-6 credits. LIN 521 language. Teacher candidates are placed in 0-6 credits, S/U grading 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) diverse educational settings in pre-elementary May be repeated for credit. through secondary levels for 50 hours of field LIN 626: Computational Phonology experience. 1 credit, S/U grading May be LIN 600: Colloquium in Linguistics An in-depth survey of natural phonology from repeated for credit An introduction to research in linguistics, with a computational perspective. Topics vary 1 credit, S/U grading presentations by faculty and visiting scientists. by year and may include formal language May be repeated for credit. Topics include current research questions and theory (subregular hierarchy, finite-state ethics of research and publishing. The course transductions), computation modeling LIN 581: Supervised Student Teaching will also cover responsible conduct in research (maximum entropy grammars, Hidden Markov in TESOL: Primary and Middle Level and scholarship. Models), and machine learning. Grades N-6 0-3 credits, S/U grading 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) TESOL teacher candidates receive supervised May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. practice teaching by arrangements with selected schools across the region. The student LIN 605: Mathematical Linguistics LIN 627: Computational Semantics teacher reports to the school to which he or Workgroup A study of the computational challenges that she is assigned each full school day for the An introduction to research in mathematical arise in the interpretation of natural language entire semester. Applications must be filed in linguistics, with presentations by faculty, utterances. Students are introduced to the the academic year preceding that in which the students, and visiting scientists. Topics include logical description of sentence meaning and teacher candidate plans to take the course. 3 current research questions, the interplay of how these descriptions can be constructed in credits, S/U grading linguistics with mathematics and other STEM- an algorithmic fashion. The course includes 3 credits, S/U grading fields, research software for mathematical a significant programming component. The linguistics, mathematical writing in linguistics, selection of topics varies from year to year LIN 582: Supervised Student Teaching and how to present mathematical work to a and may include propositional and first-order in TESOL: High School (Grades 10-12) general public. logic, typed logics, model theory and model TESOL teacher candidates receive supervised 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) checking, mereology, intensional semantics, practice teaching by arrangement with selected May be repeated for credit. quantifier scope, pronoun resolution, discourse schools across the region. The student teacher representation, scalar implicatures, game- reports to the school to which he or she is LIN 621: Syntax II theoretic pragmatics, lexical semantics, and assigned each full school day for the entire A detailed consideration of recent Bayesian inference. semester. Applications must be filed in the developments in syntactic theory, including 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) academic year preceding that in which the treatments of constituency and word order, May be repeated for credit. teacher candidate plans to take the course. 3 grammatical relations, typological variation credits, S/U grading and linguistic universals, and constraints on LIN 628: Computational Syntax 3 credits, S/U grading grammatical rules and representations. An in-depth survey of natural language 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) syntax from a computational perspective. The LIN 591: Directed Readings May be repeated for credit. primary focus is on combining state-of-the- Students read and evaluate the literature art techniques from formal language theory on a topic of special academic interest or LIN 623: Phonology II with empirical insights from linguistic theory. professional relevance under the direction of a A study of recent developments in Topics covered vary by year and may include faculty member. phonological theory, with particular attention tree transducers, logics for tree description, 1-3 credits, S/U grading to nonlinear models of phonological weak and strong generative capacity of natural May be repeated for credit. representation and constraint-based models. language, lexicalized grammar formalisms, unification grammars, or the expressivity of 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) LIN 592: Directed Research probabilistic formalisms. May be repeated for credit. Students conduct research on a topic of special 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) academic interest or professional relevance LIN 624: Morphology and Word May be repeated for credit. under the direction of a faculty member. The Formation LIN 629: Learnability course will also cover responsible conduct in The internal structure of words and the research and scholarship. place of the word in syntax, phonology, An introduction to learnability theory and 1-3 credits, S/U grading and the lexicon. A variety of analytical its implications for language typology and May be repeated for credit. methods -- distributional, experimental, and language acquisition. The selection of topics computational-- will be introduced. varies and may include identification in the LIN 595: Final Project limit from positive text, PAC learning, lattice- 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Students present a thesis consisting of original based learners, Boolean function learning, work on a topic in theoretical, experimental, or LIN 625: Semantics neural networks, and learning algorithms for linguistic formalisms. Students will develop computational linguistics under the supervision An investigation of the role of semantics (the of a faculty member. The work may take familiarity with the primary literature and learn theory of meaning) in the overall theory of important proof techniques of the field. various forms, including a thesis, a technical grammar, structured around such topics as report, or a programming project. Both the formal semantics, the interaction of syntax and 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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May be repeated for credit. LIN 655: Computational Linguistics National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Seminar are considered on-campus. LIN 630: Parsing and Processing An overview of the mathematical foundations 1-9 credits, S/U grading A survey parsing theory for natural of theoretical and computational linguistics. May be repeated for credit. language processing and its applications Topics covered include set theory, morphisms, in psycholinguistic modeling. The course logic and model theory, algebra, lattices, LIN 701: Dissertation Research off covers a wide variety of parsing algorithms lambda calculus, probability theory, Campus - International for context-free and mildly context-sensitive information theory, and basics of formal Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy grammar formalisms. The performance of language theory. A strong emphasis is put on (G5). Major portion of research will take these algorithms is carefully analyzed and set the linguistic application of the mathematical place outside of the United States and/or in relation to empirical phenomena of human concepts in the student and analysis of natural U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the sentence processing. language data. option of the health plan and may also enroll 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in MEDEX. International students who are May be repeated for credit. May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. in their home country are not covered by mandatory health plan and must contact the LIN 637: Computational Linguistics 2 LIN 655: Computational Linguistics Insurance Office for the insurance charge to An introduction to the theoretical foundation Seminar be removed. International students who are of computational linguistics. The course An overview of the mathematical foundations not in their home country are charged for the emphasizes the importance of algorithms, of theoretical and computational linguistics. mandatory health insurance. If they are to be algebra, logic, and formal language theory in Topics covered include set theory, morphisms, covered by another insurance plan they must the development of new tools and software logic and model theory, algebra, lattices, file a waiver be second week of classes. The applications. Empirical phenomena in lambda calculus, probability theory, charge will only be removed if other plan is phonology and syntax are sampled from a information theory, and basics of formal deemed comparable. variety of languages to motivate and illustrate language theory. A strong emphasis is pun on All international students must receive the use of concepts such as strictly local string the linguistic application of the mathematical clearance from an International Advisor. languages, tree transducers, and semirings. concepts in the study and analysis of natural Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Students will develop familiarity with the data. May be repeated for credit. literature and tools of the field. 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) LIN 800: Summer Research 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. LIN 680: Qualifying Paper Workshop LIN 650: Selected Topics: Graduate Doctoral candidates will present and discuss Seminar their own research work. The course will also MAE Topics will be announced each semester. The cover responsible conduct in research and course may be repeated for credit if topic scholarship. Prerequisite: Advanced standing Mathematics Teacher differs. 1-3 credits, S/U grading Preparation 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. MAE 501: Foundations of Secondary LIN 698: Graduate Practicum in Mathematics Curriculum LIN 651: Syntax Seminar Teaching A re-examination of the current middle school Topic varies and relates to current issues in and high school mathematics curriculum. May be repeated for credit. the field and research activities of faculty A review of the techniques and discussion and students. Past topics have included LIN 699: Dissertation Research on of the ideas from a more advanced point of A-dependencies, adjectival and adverbial Campus view, including topics in algebra, geometry, modification, word order and antisymmetry. elementary functions, and probability and Independent research for the Ph.D. degree. statistics. Competence in basic secondary 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Open only to candidates for the Ph.D. degree May be repeated for credit. school mathematical ideas and techniques is who have advanced to candidacy (G5). Major tested. portion of research must take place on SBU LIN 653: Phonology Seminar campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Topic varies and relates to current issues in Brookhaven National Lab. The course will the field and research activities of faculty and MAE 510: Introduction to Methods of also cover responsible conduct in research and Teaching and Learning Standards students. Past topics have included interface scholarship. issues (phonetics, morphology, syntax), Introduction to the basic methods of teaching 1-9 credits, S/U grading functional motivations for phonological middle school and high school mathematics, May be repeated for credit. constraints (articulatory ease, perceptual including study of lesson designs based on salience, parsing considerations), intonation, LIN 700: Dissertation Research off National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and second language and loanword phonology. Campus - Domestic (NCTM) and New York State standards, and the study of pedagogical techniques 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy May be repeated for credit. including cooperative learning and the uses (G5). Major portion of research will take place of technology. Students also engage in guided off-campus, but in the United States and/ or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 182 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 observation of middle school and high school permission of the Director of Mathematics Prerequisite: Enrollment in MAS program or mathematics classes. Education. permission of instructor 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 3 credits, S/U grading Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MAE 520: Advanced Methods MAE 554: Student Teaching Seminar of Teaching Secondary School The student teaching experience (MAE MAR 503: Chemical Oceanography Mathematics 551/552) serves as a focus for weekly Introduction to chemical oceanography. The philosophy and goals of mathematics discussions of teaching and learning styles Topics include origin and history of seawater, education, with an emphasis on and techniques, and classroom management major and minor constituents, dissolved implementation: curriculum development; issues. Includes N.Y. State mandated seminars gases, the carbon dioxide system, distribution teaching techniques and styles, and learning on child abuse, substance abuse and school of properties in the world ocean, isotope theories and styles; lesson planning and violence. geochemistry, and estuarine and hydrothermal assessment. Students will plan an entire unit, Prerequisite: Permission of the Director of vent geochemistry. the work sample, including lesson plans and Mathematics Education. Prerequisite: Enrollment in MAS program or assessments, for inclusion in the professional Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) permission of instructor portfolio. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, MAE 698: Independent Study, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) Mathematics Education MAE 530: Directed Readings and Independent study. Topics in mathematics MAR 504: Statistics and Experimental Research Paper in Mathematics education. Semesters Offered: Design Education Fall, Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading This course has been devised to provide basic Tutorial studies concerning current issues May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. background and hands on experience to assist in mathematics education, including graduate students in developing key skills in recent research and topics in the history of MAE 699: Dissertation Research On an essential aspect of the research enterprise, mathematics and their relation to teaching Campus namely statistics analysis and experimental practice. Students write a research paper Dissertation research for students completing design. for inclusion in the professional portfolio. thesis research in mathematics education. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisites: MAE 501 and 510. Enrollment 1-9 credits, S/U grading MAR 505: General Circulation of the Limit: 18 May be repeated for credit. Atmosphere Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MAE 701: Dissertation Research Off This course provides an introduction to the MAE 540: Clinical Experience Campus general circulation of the atmosphere, covering Supervised classroom experience in both Off campus dissertation research for students aspects in observations, data analyses, and middle school and high school settings, completing thesis research in mathematics basic theories. including experience in a high needs district, education. All international students must Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter individual tutoring, working with small groups, receive clearance from an International graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and working as an inclusion aide. Seminar Advisor. MAR 506: Geological Oceanography discussions focus on classroom observations 1-9 credits, S/U grading and experiences. May be repeated for credit. An introduction to the geological 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) oceanography of the world ocean with emphasis on the coastal environment; MAE 551: Supervised Student MAR discussions of the physical processes Teaching in Middle School controlling the structure and evolution of Student teaching under the supervision of an Marine Sciences the ocean basins and continental margins, experienced teacher in middle school and high the distribution of marine sediment, and the MAR 501: Physical Oceanography school settings. These courses must be taken development of coastal features. simultaneously. Examines physics of ocean circulation and Prerequisite: Enrollment in MAS program or mixing on various scales with strong emphasis Prerequisites: MAE 520, 530, and 540; permission of instructor on profound effects of Earth's rotation on satisfaction of all other program requirements; Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, motions and distribution of properties. An permission of the Director of Mathematics etc.) introduction to physics of estuaries and other Education. coastal water bodies. MAR 507: Marine Conservation Fall, 3 credits, S/U grading Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The fundamental concepts of conservation MAE 552: Supervised Student science, a synthetic field that incorporates Teaching in High School MAR 502: Biological Oceanography principles of ecology, biogeography, Student teaching under the supervision of an Examines biological processes in the ocean, population genetics, systematics, evolutionary experienced teacher in middle school and high and introduces major ocean biomes and groups biology, environmental sciences, sociology, school settings. These courses must be taken of organisms. A broad treatment of energy anthropology, and philosophy toward the simultaneously. and nutrient cycling in coastal and open ocean conservation of biological diversity will environments. be presented within the context of the Prerequisites: MAE 520, 530 and 540; conservation of marine resources. Examples satisfaction of all other program requirements;

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Prerequisites: General biology MAR 512: Marine Pollution Prerequisite: Enrollment in MCP or MAS Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) program or permission of instructor Review of the physical and chemical Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) characteristics and speciation in the marine MAR 516: Ecosystem Science for environment of organic pollutants, metals Fisheries Management MAR 508: Found Mar Sci and radionuclides including bioavailability, This course will provide an overview of 1:Biogeochemical assimilation by marine organisms, toxicity, and the science and mathematical models that This course provides an integrated view of the policy issues. are typically used to inform Ecosystem- chemistry, geology and biology of the oceans, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) based Fisheries Management (EBFM). using the carbon cycle as an overarching The course will review single-species theme to help students tie more specific MAR 513: Atmospheric Aerosols- models, multispecies models and full system concepts, mechanisms, and facts into a unified Clouds, Climate, and Chemistry modelsl Advantages and disadvantages whole. Several other themes will also be Atmospheric aerosol particles have been of implementing these approaches into embedded throughout the course, including recognized to contribute the largest management and policy will be explored. other elemental cycles, timescales on which uncertainties to the global radiative forcing No modeling experience is necessary. The various processes operate, differences in how estimates and affect air quality. This course course requires familiarity with quantitative major ocean ecosystems (biomes) function, introduces graduate students to the physical menthods, but emphasizes current literature and the biogeochemical evolution of Earth. and chemical properties of aerosol particles and case studies where EBFM has been or is Prerequisite enrollment in MAS program or and how those affect the particles' role in being implemented as main learning elements. permission of instructor the atmosphere. Knowledge of how these Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) particles interact with their surroundings is B+, etc.) crucial to assess the impact of aerosols on MAR 509: Found Mar Sci 2: Physics of air quality and climate. This course covers MAR 517: Waves Oceans, Atmos, Climate the fundamental mathematical, physical, and Theory and observations of surface waves, Introduction to principles of physics governing chemical descriptions of aerosol particles such internal waves, and planetary waves; wave- the patterns of ocean and atmospheric as particle size distributions, thermodynamics wave, wave-current, and wave-turbulence properties. Discussion of the theoretical of aerosols, aerosol hygroscopicity, physical interactions; surface wave prediction; beach basis for energy exchange between the two and chemical particle transformation, processes. carbonaceous aerosol, aerosol cloud interaction environments and how it governs the spatial Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter (cloud condensation and ice nuclei), aerosol and temporal scales of the fluid dynamics graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) includes how these processes interact with optical properties, aerosol climate effects, climate. and gas-to-particle (heterogeneous) reactive MAR 518: Coastal Processes processes. Prerequisite enrollment in MAS program or Coastal Processes: Classification and basic permission of instructor 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) theory of water wavies, tides and sediment Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) transport. This background forms the MAR 514: Environmental Management basis for a description of shote processes MAR 510: Modeling Techniques in This is an introduction to environmental including beaches, and coastal erosion. The Chemical Oceanography management, and will focus on the interplay variety of the world¿s coastal environments Derivation of solutions to advection-diffusion- between science and public policy. Concepts will be differentiated in terms of physical reaction equations for marine sediments and include problem identification and definition, processes. The behavior of beaches also will waters. One- and multi-dimensional models collection and analysis of relevant data be examined. Co-scheduled with MAR 304 are developed for dissolved and solid-phase to produce information, and the roles of Waves, Tides and Beaches. public perception and action in ultimately substances in cartesian, cylindrical, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) spherical coordinates. Effect of imposing determining outcomes when consensus is multiple layers on these systems is examined. not reached. Specific fields to which these MAR 519: Geochemistry Seminar concepts will be applied will be solid waste Prerequisite: Permission of instructor This course explores topics in low-temperature management and coastal management. Current Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, geochemistry as chosen by the instructors and local problems will be used to illustrate the etc.) participants. The seminar series is organized broader conceptual issues. Offered as MAR around a theme such as early diagenesis, 514, EST 540 and CEY 501. 3 Credits, ABCF MAR 511: Benthic Ecology estuarine geochemistry, or aquatic chemistry. Grading This course focuses on the ecological Students are required to lead one of the interactions of benthic organisms and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) seminars and to participate in discussions. their habitat. Topics include life histories, MAR 515: Phytoplankton Ecology Prerequisite: MAR 503 or permission of the roles of competition, predation and instructor The biology and ecology of marine disturbance, feeding adaptations and food Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) phytoplankton. Covered are life cycles, webs, interactions between benthic organisms May be repeated for credit. and water motion, sediment chemistry, and growth, nutrient uptake, grazing, and the other abiotic factors, and evolutionary history effects of environmental factors on growth and MAR 520: New Production and of benthic ecological processes. survival of phytoplankton. The characteristics Geochemical Cycles

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Consideration of oceanic new production Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, This course deals both with the use of radio for a variety of ecosystems. Quantitative etc.) and stable isotope applications to the earth examination of the impact of new production sciences. MAR 525: Environment & Public Health on the transport and cycling of major and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) minor elements and pollutants. Review of the interactions of humans with the Spring, alternate years, 2 credits, Letter atmosphere and water resources, especially MAR 530: Organic Geochemistry graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in the Long Island coastal community. Introduction to the organic chemistry of An introduction is provided to the field of the earth, oceans, and atmosphere. Topics MAR 521: Long Island's Groundwater environmental health and the practices relevant include production transformation and fate This course will cover basic groundwater to an urban/suburban and coastal setting. of organic matter; use of organic biomarkers concepts in unconsolidated sediments, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and stable and radioisotopes; diagenesis in examine contamination issues in light of Long recent sediments; oil and coal production and Island's particular hydrogeology, land use, MAR 526: Mechanisms of Pollutant composition; dissolved and particulate organic and waste management history. Mathematical Responses in Aquatic Organisms matter in seawater. principles will be discussed but not stressed; This course examines the molecular and Prerequisite: Permission of instructor scientific and technical papers discussing biochemical basis for contaminant responses Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded particular concepts or problems, including in aquatic organisms. Course will be taught (A, A-, B+, etc.) important local examples, will be closely read. in seminar format utilizing the current Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Offered scientific literature as a basis for discussion. MAR 531: Long Island Marine Habitats as MAR 521 or HPH 673. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Focusing on six representative marine Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Fall, alternate years, 2 credits, Letter graded environments around Long Island, this B+, etc.) (A, A-, B+, etc.) course emphasizes the natural history of local marine communities, as well as quantitative MAR 522: Envir Toxicology & Public MAR 527: Current Issues in Global ecology, hypothesis testing, and scientific Health Climate Change writing. Students visit the sites, measure Principles of toxicology and epidemiology are This course is designed to strengthen skills environmental parameters, and identify the presented and problems associated with major in understanding and evaluating scientific distribution and abundance of common plants classes of toxic chemicals and radiation to papers, writing scientific comments, and and animals. Using qualitative and quantitative human and environmental health are examined making presentations to an audience. Topics methods in the field and laboratory, the class in case study format. will be selected from current research in determines major factors that control the Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, global climate change relevant to a wide range community structure in each habitat. This etc.) of disciplines in marine and atmospheric course has an associated fee. Please see sciences and sustainability studies. The course www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more MAR 523: Marine Mammal Biology and is organized into four modules which focus information. Conservation on climate-related topics in 1) atmospheric Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, This course provides an introduction to the science, 2) marine science, 3) sustainability etc.) basic biology of marine mammals, focusing studies, and 4) communicating climate science particularly on various adaptations (e.g., to the public. MAR 532: Marine Protected Areas morphological, physiological, acoustic) to 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are parts life in the marine environment, as well as the of the ocean that are zoned to exclude ecology and behavior of marine mammals, and MAR 528: Ocean Atmosphere activities that are potentially detrimental to the conservation and management of marine Interactions the ecosystem. Marine Reserves are special mammal populations. This course discusses the fundamental physical types of MPAs in which the harvesting 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) mechanisms through which the ocean and of marine wildlife is prohibited. MPAs atmosphere interact. These principles are are rapidly gaining traction worldwide as MAR 524: Organic Contaminant applied to the understanding of phenomena, a tool to preserve or restore ecosystems, Hydrology such as the El Nino Southern Oscillation, protect endangered species, or sustain nearby There are a host of chemical, biological, and the effects of sea surface temperature on commercial and recreational fisheries. This physical processes that affect the transport the distribution of low-level winds and course is designed to provide students with and fate of organic chemicals in natural development of tropical deep convection, and a robust background in the science behind waters. This course concerns understanding the effects of tropical deep convection and the design, implementation, and expected these processes and the structure-activity mid-latitude storms on the ocean's mixed layer. outcomes of establishing MPAs. The course relationships available for predicting their Both modeling and observational aspects are is largely field-based, and will explore rates. The major focus of this class is on discussed. Material will be taken from selected MPA-related issues by traveling to one or contaminant hydrology of soil and aquifer textbooks, as well as recent literature. more MPAs to learn about the challenges, environments, and includes the principles Prerequisite: Permission of instructor benefits, and limitations of MPAs for marine behind remediation and containment Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter conservation from local scientists, managers, technologies. This course is offered as both graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and rangers. MAR 524 and GEO 524. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MAR 529: Isotope Geochemistry Prerequisite: GEO 526 or MAR 503 or MAR 533: Instrumental Analysis permission of instructor

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Fundamental principles of instrumental complex issue of biological risks posed by MAR 539: Economics of Coastal and chemical analysis and practical applications of radionuclides at different doses to living Marine Ecosystems molecular spectroscopy, atomic spectroscopy, organisms, including man. Economic and Considering the socioeconomic implications mass spectrometry and chromatography. These political constraints on nuclear power of policy decisions involving environmental instruments are widely used in environmental generation will be discussed for the US and natural resources has become increasingly and oceanography problem solving. Lectures and other countries, as will the actual and important for ecosystem management. This cover basic concepts of chemical analysis and perceived risks associated with environmental course will view human interactions with the fundamental principles of the analytical radioactivity. coastal and marine ecosystems through the techniques to be used. In the laboratory, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) lens of economics. Topics will include the students gain hands-on experience both by basics of welfare analysis, the concept of performing a series of required basic chemical MAR 536: Environmental Law and ecosystem services, the challenges associated determinations (nutrients and trace metals Regulation with public goods, methods for economic in sediments and in seawater water) and by This course covers environmental law and valuation of non-market goods and services, undertaking special projects. Students prepare regulations from inception in common and strategies for sustainable use of coastal written reports describing the methods, the law through statutory law and regulations. and marine resources. In addition to exploring theory underlying those methods, results, and The initial approach entails the review of the fundamental principles of environmental figures of merit. Students also present their important case law giving rise to today's body economics, the course will also evaluate their results orally in brief presentations. of environmental regulations. Emphasis is on real-world application through national and Prerequisites: Permission of instructor environmental statutes and regulations dealing international policy examples. Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter with waterfront and coastal development Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and solid waste as well as New York State's etc.) Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) MAR 534: Scientific Decision Support and the National Environmental Policy Act MAR 540: Marine Microbial Ecology In this innovative course, professional (NEPA). This course is cross-listed with CEY An historical perspective of the field, government and industry scientists, policy 503. aspects of nutrition and growth, microbial makers and other decision makers will present 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) metabolism, and trophodynamic relationships and lead discussions on the science, societal with other organisms. Emphasis on roles of and other challenges associated with decision MAR 537: Tropical Marine Ecology microorganisms in marine environments such support in their field. We will explore a wide The goal of this class is to teach students as salt marshes, estuaries, coastal pelagic range of decision support systems ranging about the ecology of the tropical coral reef ecosystems, and the deep sea, as well as from decision making in public health, natural environments through lectures, field trips, microbial contribution to geochemical cycles. resource management, and climate adaptation snorkeling trips, SCUBA diving trips and Contemporary and classical methodologies as well as explore different career paths and student designed research projects. The first covered. work environments involved in scientific half of the course will be devoted to formal Prerequisite: MAR 502 or permission of decision making. Local speakers will be lectures, demonstrations, and instructor-led instructor invited, but most presentations will be remote field trips to provide students with a basic Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) via standard network tools, thereby eliminating knowledge of the common organisms and the travel costs and greatly lowering the barrier roles they play in various coral reef ecosystem. MAR 541: Foundations of Atmospheric to participation and hence enabling a very During the second half of the course, with help Sciences I wide ranging seminar program. We already from faculty, students will develop and carry This course is intended to introduce graduate anticipate seminars from scientists at NOAA, out individual research projects examining majors to the foundations in the atmospheric NASA, NIH, DOE, Global Electric, IBM organismal ecology of coral reefs. sciences necessary for future, more specialized and CDC laboratories, and from officials of 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) courses. This course covers atmospheric multiple local, state and federal agencies, thermodynamics, radiative transfer, and from journalists associated with multiple MAR 538: Methods of Univariate tropospheric and stratospheric chemistry, and formats. The sessions will be recorded and Statistics in Atmospheric and Ocean cloud microphysics. made available for nationwide access. Sciences Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) An introduction to basic statistical concepts and their applications to analysis of data in MAR 542: Foundations of Atmospheric MAR 535: The Atom and atmospheric and marine sciences. The topics Sciences II Environmental Radiation in the Nuclear include distribution, statistical estimation, Age This course introduces cloud physics, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, atmospheric chemistry, boundary layer This course will address technical and societal linear and nonlinear regression analysis, and turbulence, and atmospheric radiation. This aspects relating to nuclear power and the basics of experimental design. In-depth class is the second course in a two-course series general issue of environmental radioactivity. discussions of the theoretical concepts are taught at the level appropriate to all students in It will cover basics of the nuclear industry and accompanied by extensive applications to data atmospheric sciences. the nature of radioactivity. This includes the sets supplied by the instructor and the students. production, storage, and disposal of diverse Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisites: Enrollment in MAS program or radionuclides emanating from the nuclear permission of instructor fuel cycle and nuclear weapons testing. The MAR 544: Atmospheric Radiation Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded properties of major radionuclides will be Discussion of the compositions and radiative (A, A-, B+, etc.) explored. The course will also consider the components of planetary atmospheres.

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Blackbody and gaseous radiation with This course will discuss current research topics of computer-based models for fish stock emphasis on the respective roles of in atmospheric sciences and their connections assessment. electromagnetic theory and quantum statistics. with advance course materials. Prerequisite: Calculus I or permission of Derivation of the equation of transfer and Semesters Offered: instructor radiative exchange integrals, with application Fall and Spring, 0-2 credits, S/U grading Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter to energy transfer processes within the May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) atmospheres of Earth and other planets. Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded MAR 550: Topics in Marine Sciences MAR 554: Aquatic Animal Diseases (A, A-, B+, etc.) This is used to present special interest courses, This course is designed to expose students including intensive short courses by visiting to fundamental and current issues pertaining MAR 545: Paleoceonography and and adjunct faculty and courses requested by to host/pathogen interactions in aquatic Paleoclimatology students. Those given in recent years include environment. By the end of the course, This course will provide an extensive Nature of Marine Ecosystems, Science and students should have a basic understanding overview of the methods used in paleoclimate Technology in Public Institutions, Plutonium of disease processes in aquatic animals; research and an examination of important in the Marine Environment and Problems in knowledge of the tools used for disease climate events during the Late-Mesozoic and Estuarine Sedimentation. diagnosis; and an appreciation of disease Cenozoic eras. We will discuss proxies used Fall and Spring, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, management tools available today. A particular to create paleoclimate reconstructions forcing A-, B+, etc.) accent is given to the role of the environment mechanisms on interannual to million year May be repeated for credit. as an important factor in infectious and non- time scales, climate effects on geological and infectious diseases. biological processes, and the modeling of MAR 551: Special Topics in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, present climate and extrapolation to past and Management etc.) future climates. This course involves in-depth examination and Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded assessment of one or two topical problems and MAR 556: Conservation's 3 Rs: (A, A-, B+, etc.) issues in the management of fisheries in the Reading, Writing, Raising Money mid-Atlantic region. Fisheries management By providing instruction in critical reading, MAR 546: Marine Sedimentology encompasses a diversity of disciplines and effective writing, and fundraising, this Study of sedimentology in the marine interests: biology, ecology, mathematics, course will fill a need for graduate students, environment including an introduction to law, policy, economics, analytical modeling, particularly for students in the Marine fluid mechanics, sediment transport theory, sociology, and anthropology. The class Conservation and Policy (MCP) program. quantitative models of sedimentation, and conducts a detailed and thorough review This course will help students to both dynamic stratigraphy. of one or two key fisheries management understand the public discourse in marine Prerequisite: Permission of instructor problems that incorporate component issues and wildlife conservation and policy issues Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded spanning this range of disciplines. Students and to effectively communicate these issues (A, A-, B+, etc.) form several teams, each team focusing to a wide audience. Although the course on one aspect of the overall problem and was designed with Marine Conservation and MAR 547: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics preparing a report detailing that aspect and Policy students in mind, the course will also I making recommendations on how management be useful to graduate students interested in Fundamentals of rotating, stratified fluid decisions can be improved. improving their ability to write effective, dynamics as applied to atmospheric and Prerequisite: Permission of instructor understandable, and interesting pieces that oceanic flows: primitive equations, shallow Fall and Spring, 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, help advance public understanding and support water theory, potential vorticity dynamics, A-, B+, etc.) for issues in conservation and science more quasigeostrophic approximation, barotropic May be repeated for credit. generally. Communication and outreach, instability, and baroclinic instability. and particularly the ability to express the Prerequisite: MAR 501, MAR 509, or MAR 552: Directed Study importance of scientific research to the public, permission of instructor Offered Spring Individual studies under the guidance of is an important component of conducting research and doing conservation work, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a faculty member. Subject matter varies according to the needs of the students. Fall, and is increasingly becoming required and MAR 548: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Spring and emphasized by funding agencies. II Summer, 1-12 credits, S/U grading 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Continuation of geophysical fluid dynamics May be repeated for credit. MAR 557: Case Study and Project I. Course covers waves and wave-mean flow Planning Seminar interaction in geophysical fluids dynamics MAR 553: Fishery Management with examples from oceanic and atmospheric Survey of the basic principles of and This seminar will introduce students to case flows. Prerequisite: Mar 547 or permission of techniques for studying the population studies in marine conservation carried out instructor Offered Fall dynamics of marine fish and shellfish. regionally, nationally, and internationally through seminars given by professionals in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Discussion of the theoretical basis for management of exploited fishes and shellfish, the field. In addition students will be given MAR 549: Current Topics in contrasting management in theory and in direction on how to develop a plan for a case Atmospheric Sciences practice using local, national, and international study as well as instruction on how to obtain, examples. Includes lab exercises in the use analyze, and present data. Students will be required to submit a written project plan for

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 187 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 either their Capstone Project or Internship The course treats qualitative and quantitative air pollution and their effect on air quality prior to the end of the semester. aspects of the early diagenesis of sediments. on an urban, regional, and global scale will Fall, 1 credit, S/U grading Topics include diffusion and adsorption be addressed. The causes of London type of dissolved species; organic matter smog and modern photochemical smog are MAR 558: Remote Sensing decomposition and storage; and diagenesis of discussed. The health impacts of primary and Theory and application of remote sensing clay materials, sulfur compounds, and calcium secondary air pollutants are assessed. The and digital image analysis to marine research. carbonates. The effects of bioturbation on causes and consequences of the stratospheric Students use standard software and PCs sediment diagenesis are also discussed. This ozone hole and subsequent policy regulations for digital filtering, enhancement, and course is offered as both MAR 562 and GEO are discussed. The natural greenhouse effect classification of imagery. 562. and our current understanding of global warming are addressed. Prerequisite: MAR 501, 502, 504, 506, or Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded permission of instructor (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MAR 563: Early Diagenesis of Marine etc.) Sediments II MAR 567: Chemical Sensors in MAR 559: Risk Analysis, Error and The basic principles and concepts of diagenetic Oceanography Uncertainty processes developed in MAR/GEO 562 are An introduction to chemical sensors and their This seminar style course will explore error used to examine in detail early diagenesis in application in oceanography with emphasis estimation, uncertainty propagation, risk a range of sedimentary environments. These on in-situ sensing in coastal environments, analysis, model validation, and decision include terrigenous and biogenic sediments discussions of the sensor principles and analysis. from estuarine, lagoonal, deltaic, open shelf, fabrication, and biogeochemical processes hemipelagic, oligotrophic deep-sea, and revealed by in-situ measurements. Fall, alternate years, 2 credits, Letter graded hydrothermal regions. (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, alternate years, 2 credits, Letter Prerequisite: Permission of instructor graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MAR 560: Ecology of Fishes Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter MAR 568: Practical Skills for Scientists Introduction to current research in the graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ecology of fishes. Topics such as population This course is designed to introduce first- MAR 564: Atmospheric Structure and regulation, migration, reproductive strategies, year graduate students to the standards and Analysis predator-prey interactions, feeding behavior, practices of conducting original scientific competition, life history strategies, and others Real world applications of basic dynamical research in a professional and responsible are discussed. principles to develop a physical understanding manner. This course will guide students as of various weather phenomena. Topics include they develop practical skills in communicating Prerequisite: Familiarity with concepts of the hypsomatric equation, structure and in both oral and written formats, and as they ecology or biological oceanography evolution of extratropical cyclones, fronts, practice some of the formal and informal Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter hurricanes and convective systems, surface interactions (including questions and graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and upper air analysis techniques, radar and discussions after presentations, critical reading, MAR 561: Quantitative Fisheries satellite interpretation, and introduction to and peer review) characteristic of working Ecology operational products and forecasting. as a scientist. Students will learn to construct Prerequisite: 1 year of calculus. hypotheses and approaches to test them, write The course covers quantitative models that are a scientific proposal, evaluate proposals as a currently utilized to assess the status of fish Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) peer reviewer, critically read papers from the stocks and academic pursuits of understanding primary scientific literature, give interesting, single-species and ecosystem dynamics. The MAR 565: Tropical Meteorology informative, and concise oral scientific course builds on basic ecological models The goal of this class is to provide a presentations, explain and justify the standards such as the density-independent expotential of responsible conduct of research, identify and density-dependent logistic models and working knowledge of the dynamics and thermodynamics of the tropical atmosphere. A irresponsible conduct of scientific research and introduces equilibrium and non-equilibrium respond appropriately. Spring production models and statistical-catch-at- variety of tropical circulations and phenomena age techniques. Recruitment and growth will be studied in detail, including regional 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) models commonly used infisheries ecology and large-scale tropical circulations and their MAR 569: Statistics With R are also covered. Least-squares, non-linear and role in the global general circulation, tropical likelihood methods are methods are utilized wave dynamics, convection and convective Essentials of conducting statistical analyses in model parameter estimation. Statistical systems, synoptic, intraseasonal, and seasonal using software developed by the R Project for techniques such as bootstrapping and Monte variability; monsoons, the El Niño/Southern Statistical Computing. R is free software that Carlo methods are used to assess uncertainty Oscillation, tropical cyclones. has been developed by contributors around in models outputs. This course is useful for Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, the world and is quickly becoming a standard students that plan academic or management etc.) environment for conducting scientific data careers in fisheries and wildlife research. analyses. The course will cover the basic MAR 566: Air Pollution and Its Control language, data management, graphics, and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course provides an overall picture of air the application of R to a variety of statistical MAR 562: Early Diagenesis of Marine pollution caused by gas phase species and techniques such as ANOVA, regression, MDS Sediments airborne particulate matter. The sources of and PCA, GLMs and GAMs. The class is intended to explore the capabilities of R and

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 188 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 a basic graduate understanding of statistics is May be repeated for credit. MAR 579: Bio & Conservation/Sea required. Turtles MAR 575: Special Topics-Geological Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course provides an overview of the Oceanography biology and conservation of sea turtles, MAR 570: Methods of Multivariate The course proposes to take several views of and highlights different "solutions" to Statistics in Atmospheric and Marine the ecology and biogeochemistry of intertidal challenges these organisms face while Sciences wetlands to see whether one or more of these living in the marine environment. We begin This course on multivariate statistical views might be useful in reinvigorating interest by discussing biological adaptations and methods of interest in marine and atmospheric in the study of wetland function for its own ecological processes, and will then examine sciences discussesPrincipal component (EOF) sake. Ecology and plant life history will be these concepts in relation to conservation analysis, canonical correlation analysis, studied in addition to geology and wetlands and management issues facing different sea maximum covariance analysis, discrimination management. turtle species. This course will be primarily and classification, and cluster analysis. 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) lecture-based, although we will take advantage Applications of the topics to oceanographic/ May be repeated for credit. of additional learning opportunities, such atmospheric data are shown using MATLAB. as necropsies conducted with the Riverhead The class provides a hands-on experience MAR 576: Special Topics-Biological Foundation. Oceanography requiring each student to apply the techniques 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to his/her own data and the results are The course is designed for the discussion of discussed in class with feedback from the topics of special interest on demand that is MAR 580: Seminar instructors and other students. not covered in regularly scheduled courses. A weekly series of research seminars presented 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Examples of possible topics include grazing by visiting scientists and members of the staff. in benthic environment, coastal upwelling, Fall and Spring, S/U grading MAR 571: Zooplankton Ecology the nature of marine ecosystems, and marine May be repeated for credit. The course is designed to acquaint the student pollution processes. with the theoretical problems and applied Prerequisite: Permission of instructor MAR 581: Next Generation Sequencing methodology in ecological studies of marine Fall, 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Applications in Functional Genomics and freshwater zooplankton. Topics will etc.) Functional and Integrative genomics is a new include taxonomy, anatomy, physiology, life May be repeated for credit. area of marine research that seeks to place history strategies, population dynamics, and the functional significance of an organism¿s MAR 577: Special Topics-Coastal Zone food chain interaction. genes into an ecological and evolutionary Management Prerequisites: MAR 502 and permission of context. This course provides an integrated instructor The course is designed for the discussion view of how these methods can be used to Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter of topics of special interest on demand answer questions regarding marine organisms, graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) that is not covered in regularly scheduled evolution, biology and ecology. Over the courses. Examples of possible topics include course of the semester, examples will cover MAR 572: Geophysical Simulation microcomputer information systems, various topics including marine biodiversity, Basic equations and boundary conditions. environmental law, coastal pollution, dredge population structures, environmental Linear and nonlinear instabilities. Finite- spoil disposal, science and technology in adaptation, stress responses, phylogeny of difference and time integration techniques public institutions, and coastal marine policy. animals, aquaculture and fisheries, interaction for problems in geophysical fluid dynamics. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor between species (predation, parasitism, Numerical design of global atmospheric and Fall and Spring, 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, mutualism). A particular accent is given ocean models. A-, B+, etc.) to the role of Next Generation Sequencing Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded May be repeated for credit. technologies in answering questions related to (A, A-, B+, etc.) these topics. MAR 578: Bio & Conservation/Seabirds 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MAR 573: Special Topics-Chemical This course provides an overview of the Oceanography biology and conservation of seabirds, covering MAR 582: Advanced Atmospheric This course is designed for the discussion of basic and applied aspects of seabird biology. Dynamics topics of special interest on demand that is We examine specific biological adaptations Application of the concepts of balanced flow not covered in regularly scheduled courses. (e.g., morphological and physiological and potential vorticity thinking - conservation Examples of possible topics include carbonate adaptations for diving and flying) in the first and inversion - to study wave propagation, chemistry, isotope chemistry, and microbial third of the course, and review population- baroclinic instability, evolution of cyclones chemistry. level processes and behavioral patterns (e.g., and baroclinic waves, and wave- mean flow population ecology and migration) in the 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) interactions. second part of the course. The last third of May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: MAR 594 the course applies this knowledge of seabird Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, biology and ecology to current conservation MAR 574: Special Topics: Ocean etc.) Dynamics issues and management efforts, both within the United States and internationally. Introductory dynamical oceanography, MAR 583: Doppler Weather Radar framework and applications. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This class is designed to provide students who 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) have not previously had an undergraduate

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 189 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 class on the topic with a working knowledge and group assignments that involve the MAR 591: RCRS and Professional of Doppler weather radar, including: what construction, analysis, and interpretation of Development the basic components of a weather radar ecological models. This course is intended to help young scientists are, a theoretical background of how radars Prerequisite: BEE 550, BEE 552; MAT 131 or begin to plan and enact purposeful professional operate, an in-depth understanding of the wide equivalent; any statistics course. development activities. The course will focus variety of weather radar applications used in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, on using Individual Development Plans atmospheric science careers, and an overview etc.) as a mechanism for accomplishing career on the use of emerging radar technologies development and advancement, on studying in new and updated Doppler weather radar MAR 587: GIS: Display and Analysis of both formal definitions of research misconduct systems. Students also will gain hands-on Environmental Data and the daily dilemmas of conducting research experience working with Doppler radar data Elements of Geographic Information Systems and scholarship in a responsible manner, and and radar viewing and editing software. (GIS) with an emphasis on environmental on other professional development issues of Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, applications, especially those related to marine student interest. etc.) and coastal systems. The course includes 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) hands-on exercises to familiarize students with MAR 584: Applied Marine Ecology GIS capabilities. A project will be required. MAR 592: Internship in Marine Seminar Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Conservation and Policy This course provides an opportunity for etc.) Students will obtain practical work experience advanced graduate students to practice through an internship with local, state or presenting data on their thesis research in MAR 588: Molecular Marine Ecology federal agencies or not for profit organizations areas broadly related to how individuals and DNA analysis offers a new window into the working in the area of marine conservation and communities of marine organisms respond to ecology of marine organisms, shedding light policy. To complete the internship, students changes in their environments. Each student on aspects of their biology that are traditionally will prepare a written report on their activities will prepare an abstract of the work they difficult to study, such as their evolutionary and present their internship project at the plan to present and assign an appropriate history, population structure, population annual Program Symposium. review or research paper for the class to read. demographic history and reproductive Spring, They will then prepare a formal presentation patterns. In this way, DNA analysis can help Summer, 1-6 credits, S/U grading of their work suitable for a departmental us better manage fisheries and conserve May be repeated for credit. seminar. Faculty and students will provide endangered marine species. This course is constructive criticism of the presentation as designed to expose graduate students to the MAR 593: Atmospheric Physics well as participate in a discussion of the work.. burgeoning field of molecular ecology and the Advanced cloud physics. atmospheric May be taken more than once for credit. application of molecular analyses to fisheries convection, and other moist processes. Fall, 1 credit, S/U grading management and conservation. Lectures will Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, May be repeated for credit. be supplemented by a group laboratory project, etc.) where students will apply techniques such as MAR 585: Coastal Geology Seminar DNA extraction, polymerase chain reaction, MAR 594: Atmospheric Dynamics An assessment of recent developments in DNA sequencing and computer based analysis This course covers atmospheric waves, quasi- coastal geology. Discussion of advances in the of genetic data to address a contemporary geostrophic theory, and atmospheric dynamic application of sedimentology, stratigraphy, marine conservation or fisheries issue. instability. and geomorphology to the study of coastal 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) environments. Modern-ancient analogues are Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, emphasized where appropriate. MAR 589: Capstone Project in Marine etc.) Conservation and Policy Prerequisite: Stratigraphy and sedimentary MAR 595: Graduate Seminar in marine geology Students will conduct an in depth capstone Atmospheric Sciences Fall, 2 credits, S/U grading study involving independent analysis of Discussion of special research topics centered May be repeated for credit. available data and produce an original on monographs, conference proceedings, or synthesis paper based on a committee- journal articles. Topics include climate change, MAR 586: Introduction to Ecological approved, consequential topic in marine atmospheric chemistry, radiation transfer, and Modeling conservation. All students will also planetary atmospheres. This course is intended This course will provide students with a present their project at the annual Program primarily for students who have passed the familiarity of the major concepts, approaches, Symposium. written qualifying examination in atmospheric and underlying rationale for modeling in Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor sciences, although other students may enroll the ecological sciences. Topics will include Summer, 1-6 credits, S/U grading with permission of the faculty seminar leader. reviews of theoretical and empirical models, May be repeated for credit. the use of models in adaptive management, Fall and Spring, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, and how to confront models with data to MAR 590: Research for MS Students A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. evaluate alternative hypotheses. Roughly Original investigation undertaken with the 1/3 of the course will be devoted to the supervision of the advisor. use of models in management, focusing on MAR 596: Principles of Atmospheric Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading the problems of fitting models to data and Chemistry May be repeated for credit. management pitfalls that follow. Course work The application of photochemistry and reaction will consist of readings, in class exercises, kinetics to the atmospheres of the Earth and

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 190 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 planets. The composition and structure of recognition and measurement, separating and MAR 699: Dissertation Research for G5 various regions of atmospheres, including the clustering data, graph and representation and Research course exclusively for students troposphere, stratosphere, and ionosphere. spectral clustering. who have been advanced to candidacy (G5). Incorporation of chemical rate processes and 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Major portion of research must take place on physical transport into models. Production of SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the airglow and auroral emissions. MAR 602: Marine Invasive Alien Brookhaven National Lab. Species in Tropical and Temperate Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Climates Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded May be repeated for credit. (A, A-, B+, etc.) The course is designed to instruct students in the biology and ecology of marine MAR 700: Dissertation Research off MAR 598: Synoptic and Mesoscale invasive species using real examples from Campus - Domestic Meteorology the Caribbean and the temperate areas of Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Course examines the structure and evolution the US Atlantic coast. Additionally, it will (G5). Major portion of research will take place of synoptic and mesoscale systems using include management strategies to control off-campus, but in the United States and/ observations, modern dynamical analysis, current invasive species, as well as strategies or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven and numerical weather prediction models. to prevent future invasions. Topics in this National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Diagnosis of synoptic systems includes course will span policy and legislative are considered on-campus. All international applications of quasi-geostrophic theory requirements, marine conservation and students must enroll in one of the graduate to baroclinic waves; jet stream and frontal planning, scientific research, biological student insurance plans and should be advised circulations. A survey of the concepts of and ecological characteristics, survey and by an International Advisor. mesoscale systems includes convective monitoring methods, public outreach and Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading systems, gravity waves, and terrain-coastal education strategies. These topics will enable May be repeated for credit. circulations. The student will investigate the students to provide sound technical and such phenomena in the laboratory as well as scientific guidance to the management and MAR 701: Dissertation Research off individual projects. prevention of marine invasive species in the Campus - International Wider Caribbean and the Atlantic Regions. Spring, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) (G5). Major portion of research will take place outside of the United States and/or MAR 599: Atmospheric Boundary MAR 603: Ocean Physics Seminar U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the Layer Processes This course explores topics in ocean physics option of the health plan and may also enroll This course provides the theoretical foundation as chosen by the instructors and participants. in MEDEX. International students who are for a quantitative understanding of transport The seminar series is organized around themes in their home country are not covered by processes and chemical transformations such as estuarine physics, or coastal dynamics, mandatory health plan and must contact the in the atmospheric boundary layer. Topics ocean and climate, ocean circulation, etc. Insurance Office for the insurance charge to covered in this course include the equations Students are required to lead at least one of be removed. International students who are of motions for the lower troposphere; the the seminars and to participate in discussions. not in their home country are charged for the budget of turbulent kinetic energy; turbulent Prerequisite: MAR 509 or permission of mandatory health insurance. If they are to be fluxes of momentum, heat and mass; instructor Fall and spring, 1 credit, ABCF covered by another insurance plan they must treatment of chemical transformations; and the grading, May be repeated for credit file a waiver be second week of classes. The representation of these processes in numerical 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) charge will only be removed if other plan is models. May be repeated for credit. deemed comparable. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) All international students must received MAR 650: Dissertation Research for clearance from an International Advisor. MAR 601: Dynamic model with Matlab PhD Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading This course is designed to provide basic Original investigation undertaken with the May be repeated for credit. programming skills with the use of selected supervision of research committee. Matlab toolboxes to analyze marine and Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading MAR 800: Summer/Winter Research atmospheric science data, to perform May be repeated for credit. Summer/Winter Research. 0 credits, S/U challenging simulations, and to explore grading. May be repeated. selected problems in marine and atmospheric MAR 655: Directed Study for PhD S/U grading and related fields. The course will emphasize Individual studies under the guidance of May be repeated for credit. functionalities and applications of the a faculty member. Subject matter varies matrix manipulations, signal processing, according to the needs of the student. statistical, and mapping toolboxes within Prerequisite: Permission of instructor the context of marine science problems. MAR-S Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading The goal is to give the students exposure to Marine Sciences - Southampton May be repeated for credit. tools and programming techniques to enable them to work individually or in a group MAR 670: Practicum in Teaching MAR-S 550: Topics in Marine Sciences on a final project relevant to their research This is used to present special interest courses, interest. Topics will include efficient Matlab Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading including intensive short courses by visiting programming techniques, simple numerical May be repeated for credit. and adjunct faculty and courses requested by modeling and learning to build a classifier for

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 191 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 students. Those given in recent years include including contributions from diverse cultures. as psychology, sociology, political science, Nature of Marine Ecosystems, Science and Prerequisite: MAT 511 Fall, Spring, or economics, business, engineering, physics, Technology in Public Institutions, Plutonium Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, chemistry, biology, and medicine. Primarily in the Marine Environment, and Problems in etc.) for secondary school teachers of mathematics. Estuarine Sedimentation. Fall, Spring, or Fall and Spring, 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, MAT 514: Analysis for Teachers II Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, A-, B+, etc.) Topics in calculus, its foundations, and its etc.) May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. applications. Emphasis is on integration and on numerical techniques. This course MAT 519: Seminar in Mathematics in MAR-S 570: Methods of Multivariate is designed for teachers and prospective Teaching and Learning Statistics in Atmospheric and Marine teachers of advanced placement calculus. Seminar format. This course involves Sciences Mathematical topics integrate the study of the deliberative group inquiry - through This course on multivariate statistical historical development of calculus, including reading, writing and intensive discussion methods of interest in marine and atmospheric contributions from diverse cultures. Analysis - into mathematics teaching, learning and sciences discussesPrincipal component (EOF) for Teachers I is not a prerequisite for this mathematics education research; analysis and analysis, canonical correlation analysis, course. Prerequisite: MAT 511 Fall, Spring, or design of cognitively demanding mathematical maximum covariance analysis, discrimination Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, tasks; and analysis of students' mathematical and classification, and cluster analysis. etc.) thinking, written responses, and common Applications of the topics to oceanographic/ misconceptions in the mathematics classroom. atmospheric data are shown using MATLAB. MAT 515: Geometry for Teachers Each student completes an action research The class provides a hands-on experience A re-examination of elementary geometry project focused on a topic selected with requiring each student to apply the techniques using concepts from analysis and algebra. guidance from the instructor. to his/her own data and the results are Mathematical topics integrate the study of the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) discussed in class with feedback from the historical development of Euclidean and non- instructors and other students. Euclidian geometries, including contributions MAT 520: Geometry for Teachers II 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) from diverse cultures. Prerequisite: MAT 511 Vector algebra on the plane and in the 3-space; Fall, Spring, or area and volume of geometric figures; analytic Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, geometry. Prerequisite: MAT 511 MAT etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Mathematics etc.) MAT 516: Probability and Statistics for MAT 511: Fundamental Concepts of Teachers MAT 521: Introduction to Number Mathematics A priori and empirical probabilities; Theory Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics. conditional probability; mean and standard Congruences, quadratic residues, quadratic Brief history of mathematics; sets, functions deviation; random variables; financial forms, continued fractions, Diophantine and logic; constructions of number systems, distributions; continuous distributions; equations, number-theoretical functions, and including their historical development; sampling; estimation; decision making. properties of prime numbers. mathematical induction. The main focus of the Mathematical topics integrate the study of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course will be on the construction and writing the historical development of statistics and of mathematical proofs. Fall, Spring, or probability, including contributions from MAT 522: Introduction to Measure diverse cultures. Prerequisite: MAT 511 Fall, Theory Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, or etc.) Introduction to Lebesgue measure and Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, integration. Aspects of Fourier series, function MAT 512: Algebra for Teachers etc.) spaces, Hilbert spaces, Banach spaces. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Linear algebra, the algebra of polynomials, MAT 517: Calculators and Computers algebraic properties of the complex numbers, for Teachers number fields, solutions of equations. MAT 523: Analysis in Several Mathematical topics integrate the study Calculators and Computers for teachers. Dimensions of the historical development of algebra, Graphing calculators, programming, Continuity, differentiation and integration including contributions from diverse cultures. computing and curve sketching; Geometers in Euclidean n-space. Differentiable maps. Prerequisite: MAT 511 Semesters Offered: Sketchpad or other computer based classroom Implicit and inverse function theorems. tools; educational use of the world wide web. Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B Differential forms and the general Stokes' +, etc.) Fall, Spring, or theorem. Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MAT 513: Analysis for Teachers I etc.) MAT 524: Abstract Algebra I Topics in differential calculus, its foundations, MAT 518: Seminar on the Uses of Groups and rings together with their and its applications. This course is Mathematics designed for teachers and prospective homorphisms and quotient structures. Unique teachers of advanced placement calculus. This seminar explores the ways in which factorization, polynomials, and fields. secondary school and elementary college Mathematical topics integrate the study 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of the historical development of calculus, mathematics are used in such diverse areas

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MAT 525: Abstract Algebra II MAT 533: Real Analysis II inhomogeneous Cauchy-Riemann Equations A continuation of MAT 524, covering modules Representations and decomposition theorems and applications. over rings (including the structure theorem for in measure theory; Fubini's theorem; L-p 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Modules over Principal Ideal Domains), theory spaces; Fourier series; Laplace; heat and of fields, field extensions, and an introduction wave equations; open mapping and uniform MAT 538: Riemann Surfaces to Galois theory. boundedness theorems for Banach spaces; Basic definitions and examples. Holomorphic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) differentiation of the integral; change of differential forms. Riemann-Hurwitz Theorem. variable of integration. Spring The Riemann-Roch Theroem. The Dirichlet MAT 526: Linear Algebra 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Problem. The Hodge Theorem for Riemann Finite dimensional vector spaces over a field, surfaces. Embeddings into Projective Space. linear maps, isomorphisms, dual spaces, MAT 534: Algebra I Uniformization theorem(s). Abel's Theorem quotient vector spaces, bilinear and quadratic Groups: normal subgroups, quotient groups, and Jacobi's inversion theorem. Further topics functions, inner products, canonical forms of Lagrange's theorem, class formula, finite p- may include: Sheaves and cohomology. Fields linear operators, multilinear algebra, tensors. groups and solvable groups, Sylow's theorems, of meromorphic functions, valuations and connections with algebraic number theory. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) finitely generated abelian groups. Rings and modules: subrings, fields, prime and Monodromy and classification of branched MAT 529: Basic Topology and maximal ideals, quotient rings, ID's, PID's, covers. Geometry (for Masters Program) UFD's, polynomial rings, field of fractions, the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A broadly based introduction to topology Wedderburn theorem, Hilbert basis theorem, MAT 540: Advanced Topology, and geometry, the mathematical theories finitely generated modules over a PID. Vector Geometry I of shape, form, and rigid structure. Topics spaces: basis, linear maps and matrices, dual include intuitive knot theory, lattices and spaces, determinants, eigenvalues and vectors, Homotopy, fundamental group and higher tiling, non-Euclidean geometry, smooth curves inner products, spectral theorem for normal homotopy groups, fiber bundles and and surfaces in Euclidean 3-space, open sets operators. covering, homotopy exact sequences of pairs, and continuity, combinatorial and algebraic Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) fiber bundles, classification of coverings, invariants of spaces, higher dimensional CW-complexes, homotopy excision, spaces. MAT 535: Algebra II suspension, topological manifolds, topological classification of 1- and 2-manifolds. There will be a required short paper on the Vector spaces: Cayley-Hamilton Theorem, fundamental group of a topological space or Jordon normal form, bilinear forms, signature, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) some similar topic. tensor products, symmetric and exterior MAT 541: Algebraic Topology Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) algebras. Homological algebra: categories and functors, universal and free objects, exact Singular and simplicial homology, their MAT 530: Topology, Geometry I sequences, extensions. Representation theory properties and equivalence, calculations Basic point set topology; connectedness, for finite groups: irreducible representations for CW-complexes. Eilenberg-Steenrod compactness, continuity, etc. Metric and Shur's Lemma, characters, orthogonality. axioms, cohomology, cup and cross products, spaces, function spaces, and topological Galois theory: splitting fields, finite fields, Poincare, Lefschetz and Alexander dualities. manifolds. Introduction to algebraic topology; extension fields of various types, Galois Prerequisites: MAT 530, MAT 531, Fall fundamental group and covering space; polynomial and group, fundamental theorem of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) homology; applications. Galois theory, symmetric functions. May be repeated for credit. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MAT 543: Representation Theory MAT 531: Topology, Geometry II [will alternate with MAT 544] An introduction MAT 536: Complex Analysis I Foundations of differentiable manifolds: to representation theory, with a focus differentiable maps, vector fields and flows, Elementary functions, holomorphic functions. on explicit examples. Representations and differential forms and integration on Cauchy theory, power series, classification of finite groups (in characteristic zero), manifolds. Stokes' theorem. Froebenius of isolated singularities, calculus of residues, especially symmetric and alternating groups. theorem. Lie derivatives. Immersions and open mapping theorem, Riemann mapping Representation theory of compact Lie groups submersions. DeRham chomology, cochain theorem. and semisimple Lie algebras (which may also complexes, degree of a map, Mayer-Vietoris Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, be covered in MAT 552). Representations of Theorem. etc.) classical groups, esp. GL(n) and orthogonal groups. Schur-Weil duality for representations Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, MAT 537: Several Complex Variables of S_n and GL(n), Young diagrams. Other etc.) Definition and basic properties of holomorphic possible topics include spin representations MAT 532: Real Analysis I functions and mappings. Analytic sets: Basic and Clifford algebras, representations of exceptional groups, applications to physics Ordinary differential equations; Banach definitions, Local theory of Weierstrass, (e.g. hydrogen atom, spin, quarks), or an and Hilbert spaces; inverse and implicit Meromorphic functions. Hartogs Phenomenon. introduction to invariant theory. Sample function theorems; Lebesque measure; general Domains of convergence of power series. textbooks: - W. Fulton and J. Harris, measures and integrals; measurable functions; Domains of holomorphy. Pseudoconvexity Representation Theory: A First Course - convergence theorems for integrals. and the Levi Problem. Complex manifolds, holomorphic vector bundles and Hermitian A. Kirillov, Introduction to Lie Groups and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) metrics. Cousin problems. L2 estimates for the Lie Algebras - T. Bröcker, Representations

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 193 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 of compact Lie groups - P. Etingof et al, second order linear elliptic equations: weak include: Chern-Simons and topological field Introduction to representation theory (https:// solutions, existence and regularity theory; theories; Classical theory of spinor fields and bookstore.ams.org/stml-59/) - G. Heckman, L^p and Schauder estimates; de Giorgi- supergeometry. Lie Algebras in Mathematics and Physics Nash-Moser theory; introduction to nonlinear 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) (https://www.math.ru.nl/~heckman/Lie.pdf) equations" Prerequisite: MAT 531, MAT 536 Prerequisites: MAT 535. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MAT 561: Mathematical Physics II Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Quantum mechanics: Heisenberg and MAT 552: Introduction to Lie Groups Schrodinger formalism, examples. Feynman MAT 544: Commutative and and Lie Algebras path integral. Quantum field theory: Canonical Homological Algebra Lie algebras Foundations of Lie groups quantization, Fock space and creation/ An introduction to the techniques of and Lie algebras, classical groups and annihilation operators. Relativistic particles commutative and homological algebra useful homogeneous spaces. Abstract Lie algebras. and unitary representations of the Poincare in algebra, algebraic geometry, number Basic representation theory of compact Lie group. Path integral formalism for fields. theory, and related fields. Review of rings and groups. Quantization of gauge fields, gauge fixing. modules, tensor products and localization. Prerequisite: MAT 531, MAT 534 Optional topics may include: Dirac equation Spectrum of prime ideals, Noetherian and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and spinors, integration over anticommuting Artinian rings and modules, completion, variables. Supersymmetric quantum field dimension theory, local rings, discrete MAT 554: Harmonic Analysis theories. Topological quantum field theories valuation rings and Dedekind domains, An introduction to the methods and ideas and other examples, localization. integral dependence. Chain complexes, of modern harmonic analysis, including: 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) projective and injective resolutions, examples Fourier series and integrals (convergence, of derived functors (Ext and Tor), basic summability, L^p); Maximal functions, weak MAT 562: Symplectic Geometry category theory (adjoint functors, natural type inequalities, interpolation; the Hilbert Hamilton's equations and their physical transformations, limits and colimits), abelian transform; singular integrals with Calderon- origin, symplectic manifolds and various categories. Prerequisite: MAT 535 Zygmund kernels; H^1 and Bounded Mean submanifolds; Moser arguments including Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Oscillation; Muckenhoupt (A_p) weights; Darboux theorem and Moser neighborhood Multipliers; the T(1) theorem. Offered every theorems, contact manifolds, contact MAT 545: Complex Geometry second year. hypersurfaces, symplectizations, Legendrian Foundational material and techniques in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) front diagrams, topological Legendrian complex algebraic and differential geometry: knot invariants, almost complex structures Review of basic results in several complex MAT 555: Ergodic Theory and Smooth compatible with symplectic form, Hamiltonian variables/analytic geometry, sheaves and Dynamics group actions and symplectic reduction, cohomology of sheaves, complex vector This course will give an overview of the symplectic toric manifolds, h principle with bundles, Chern classes, positivity, Kaehler main known topological, geometrical, and emphasis on holonomic approximation manifolds, projective manifolds, Hodge measure theoretical phenomena of smooth theorem along with applications to symplectic decomposition for Kaehler manifolds, Kodaira dynamics: 1) Zero entropy of dynamics: Circle and contact geometry , Gromov non squeezing vanishing theorem, Hard Lefschetz Theorem, diffeomorphisms, KAM, period doubling, theorem and a summary of pseudoholomorphic divisors and line bundles, Bertini's theorem, renormalization. 2)Hyperbolic dynamics: curve theory. Prerequisite: MAT 531 Lefschetz theorem on (1,1) classes, blowing stable manifold theorem, structural stability, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) up, Kodaira's embedding theorem. central limit theorem, symbolic dynamics. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3)General smooth ergodic theory: Oseledec, MAT 566: Differential Topology May be repeated for credit. Pesin, Birkhof theorems. 4)Non-hyperbolic Vector bundles, transversality, and examples: non-uniform hyperbolic examples, characteristic classes. Further topics such MAT 550: Introduction to Probability homoclinic theory, Newhouse phenomenon, as imbeddings and immersions, intersection [will alternate with MAT 551] Introduction aspects of unimodal dynamics, aspects of theory, surgery, and foliations. to probability theory: independence, laws Henon dynamics. Prerequisites: MAT 531, Prerequisite: MAT 531 of large numbers, central limit theorems, MAT 533, MAT 536 3 credits. Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) martingales, Markov chains, and a selection of Spring. other topics such as ergodic theory, Brownian 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MAT 568: Differential Geometry motion, random walks on graphs and groups, Connections, curvature, geodesics, parallelism, percolation, mixing times, randomized MAT 560: Mathematical Physics I and completeness. Riemannian manifolds, algorithms. Classical mechanics: Lagrangian and geometry of sub-manifolds; method of integral 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Hamiltonian formalism, Hamiltonian group formulas; applications to global extrinsic actions. Special relativity and Lorentz and theorems. Riemannian curvature. Gauss- MAT 551: Introduction to PDE Poincare groups. Classical field theories: Bonnet theorem, Hopf-Rinow theorem. Introduction to basic types of partial Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation, Prerequisite: MAT 531 differential equations and techniques for Noether theorem, examples. Relativistic Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) studying them. First order equations; theories. Gauge theories: electrodynamics The Cauchy problem and the Cauchy- and Yang-Mills theories. General relativity: MAT 569: Differential Geometry Kovalevskaya Theorem; Laplace, heat, and Einstein-Hilbert action, Einstein equations and A broad introduction to the fundamentals wave operators; Sobolev and Holder spaces; Schwarzchild solution. Optional topics may of modern Riemannian geometry, including

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 194 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 major ideas and useful techniques: holonomy Typical topics are drawn from analytic number Prerequisite: Permission of instructor MAT groups, symmetric spaces; Riemannian theory, algebraic number theory, diophantine 626 - Fall, MAT 627 - submersions; constructing manifolds of equations, and transcendental number theory, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, non-negative sectional curvature; Ricci with indications of methods from algebra, etc.) and scalar curvature; Weyl curvature and geometry, analysis, and logic. May be repeated for credit. conformal geometry; harmonic forms and Prerequisite: Permission of instructor the Hodge theorem; the Bochner technique; Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MAT 632: Topics in Differential the Bishop-Gromov inequality; the Cheeger- May be repeated for credit. Equations Gromoll splitting theorem; Gromov-Hausdorff Typical topics are hyperbolic or elliptic convergence. Prerequisite: MAT 568 MAT 614: Topics in Algebraic systems, parabolic equations, spectral theory, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Geometry finite difference equations, Cauchy-Riemann etc.) Typical topics are drawn from varieties equations and complex vector fields, equations and schemes, algebraic curves, and their with constant coefficients, solvability of linear MAT 589: Introduction to Algebraic arithmetics. Fall equations, Fourier integral operators, nonlinear Geometry 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) equations. This course offers a systematic introduction to May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor algebraic geometry, from a modern, scheme- Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, theoretic perspective. Prerequisite: MAT MAT 615: Topics in Algebraic etc.) 536, or permission of instructor. Familiarity Geometry May be repeated for credit. with material covered by MAT 545 would be Typical topics are drawn from varieties helpful, but is not required. and schemes, algebraic curves, and their MAT 633: Topics in Differential 3 credits, S/U grading arithmetics. Fall Equations 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Typical topics are hyperbolic or elliptic MAT 598: Teaching Practicum May be repeated for credit. systems, parabolic equations, spectral theory, Seminar and workshop for new teaching finite difference equations, Cauchy-Riemann assistants. MAT 620: Topics in Topology equations and complex vector fields, equations Fall, 3 credits, S/U grading Topics of current interest such as foliations, with constant coefficients, solvability of linear surgery, singularities, group actions on equations, Fourier integral operators, nonlinear MAT 599: M.A. Research manifolds, and homotopy theory. equations. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, MAT 602: Topics in Algebra etc.) etc.) Typical topics are drawn from group theory, May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. ring theory, representation theory of groups MAT 638: Topics in Real Analysis and algebras, fields and commutative algebra, MAT 621: Topics in Topology homological algebra. Topics of current interest such as foliations, Topics selected from functional analysis, harmonic analysis, Banach algebras, operator Prerequisite: Permission of instructor surgery, singularities, group actions on theory. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) manifolds, and homotopy theory. MAT 638 - Fall, MAT 639 - May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, MAT 603: Topics in Algebra etc.) etc.) Typical topics are drawn from group theory, May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. ring theory, representation theory of groups MAT 639: Topics in Real Analysis and algebras, fields and commutative algebra, MAT 626: Topics in Complex Analysis homological algebra. Topics selected from Riemann surfaces, Topics selected from functional analysis, harmonic analysis, Banach algebras, operator Prerequisite: Permission of instructor quasiconformal mappings, several complex theory. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) variables, Fuchsian groups, Kleinian groups, MAT 638 - Fall, MAT 639 - May be repeated for credit. moduli of Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups, analytic spaces, singularities. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, MAT 608: Topics in Number Theory Prerequisite: Permission of instructor MAT etc.) Typical topics are drawn from analytic number 626 - Fall, MAT 627 - May be repeated for credit. theory, algebraic number theory, diophantine Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, MAT 641: Topics in Lie Groups Theory equations, and transcendental number theory, etc.) with indications of methods from algebra, May be repeated for credit. Typical topics are universal enveloping geometry, analysis, and logic. algebras; free, solvable and nilpotent Lie MAT 627: Topics in Complex Analysis algebras; Lie theory and formal groups; root Prerequisite: Permission of instructor systems, Dynkin diagrams, classification and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Topics selected from Riemann surfaces, representations of complex semisimple Lie May be repeated for credit. quasiconformal mappings, several complex variables, Fuchsian groups, Kleinian groups, algebras; method of orbits; representations of MAT 609: Topics in Number Theory moduli of Riemann surfaces and Kleinian non-compact Lie groups; loop groups. groups, analytic spaces, singularities. Prerequisite: MAT 552

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Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Typical topics are drawn from holomorphic Prerequisite: Permission of instructor etc.) and low-dimensional dynamics, hyperbolic MAT 670 - Fall, MAT 671 - May be repeated for credit. dynamics, theory of Hamiltonian systems, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, ergodic theory, and bifurcation theory. etc.) MAT 644: Topics in Differential Prerequisite: Permission of instructor May be repeated for credit. Geometry Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Typical topics will be drawn from areas such etc.) MAT 674: Advanced Topics in as comparison theorems, pinching theorems, May be repeated for credit. Differential Equations Morse theory, characteristic classes, minimal Prerequisite: Permission of instructor varieties, Hodge theory, spectrum of the MAT 656: Topics in Dynamical MAT 674 - Fall, MAT 675 - Laplacian, and geometry of general relativity. Systems Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Typical topics are drawn from holomorphic etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and low-dimensional dynamics, hyperbolic May be repeated for credit. etc.) dynamics, theory of Hamiltonian systems, May be repeated for credit. ergodic theory, and bifurcation theory. MAT 675: Advanced Topics in Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Differential Equations MAT 645: Topics in Differential Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Geometry etc.) MAT 674 - Fall, MAT 675 - Typical topics will be drawn from areas such May be repeated for credit. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, as comparison theorems, pinching theorems, etc.) Morse theory, characteristic classes, minimal MAT 662: Advanced Topics in Algebra May be repeated for credit. varieties, Hodge theory, spectrum of the Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Laplacian, and geometry of general relativity. MAT 662 - Fall, MAT 663 - MAT 678: Advanced Topics in Real Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Analysis Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Permission of instructor etc.) May be repeated for credit. MAT 678 - Fall, MAT 679 - May be repeated for credit. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, MAT 663: Advanced Topics in Algebra MAT 648: Topics in Mathematical etc.) Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Physics May be repeated for credit. MAT 662 - Fall, MAT 663 - Typical topics are mathematical methods of Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, MAT 679: Advanced Topics in Real classical and quantum mechanics; methods etc.) Analysis of functional integration and its applications; May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor infinite-dimensional Lie algebras, quantum MAT 678 - Fall, MAT 679 - groups and representations; conformal field MAT 666: Advanced Topics in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, theories; super-symmetry; topological quantum Topology field theories; gauge theories and geometry etc.) Prerequisite: Permission of instructor in four-dimensions; supergravity and mirror May be repeated for credit. symmetry; strings. MAT 666 - Fall, MAT 667 - Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, MAT 682: Advanced Topics in Prerequisite: Permission of instructor etc.) Differential Geometry Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, May be repeated for credit. etc.) Prerequisite: Permission of instructor MAT 682 - Fall, MAT 683 - May be repeated for credit. MAT 667: Advanced Topics in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Topology MAT 649: Topics in Mathematical etc.) Physics Prerequisite: Permission of instructor May be repeated for credit. Typical topics are mathematical methods of MAT 666 - Fall, MAT 667 - classical and quantum mechanics; methods Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, MAT 683: Advanced Topics in of functional integration and its applications; etc.) Differential Geometry infinite-dimensional Lie algebras, quantum May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor MAT groups and representations; conformal field 682 - Fall, MAT 683 - MAT 670: Advanced Topics in Complex theories; super-symmetry; topological quantum Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Analysis field theories; gauge theories and geometry etc.) in four-dimensions; supergravity and mirror Prerequisite: Permission of instructor May be repeated for credit. symmetry; strings. MAT 670 - Fall, MAT 671 - Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, MAT 685: Advanced Topics in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Dynamics etc.) May be repeated for credit. An advanced topic selected from holomorphic May be repeated for credit. and low-dimensional dynamics, hyperbolic MAT 671: Advanced Topics in Complex dynamics, KAM theory, smooth ergodic MAT 655: Topics in Dynamical Analysis theory, geodesic flows, bifurcation theory. Systems

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Prerequisite: Permission of instructor May be repeated for credit. transactions and the preparation and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, presentation of the basic financial statements. etc.) MAT 701: Dissertation Research off Other topics will include valuation methods May be repeated for credit. Campus - International for cash, accounts receivable, inventory and Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy property, plant and equipment. This course is MAT 686: Advanced Topics in (G5). Major portion of research will take also offered as EMP 502. Dynamics place outside of the United States and/or 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) An advanced topic selected from holomorphic U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the and low-dimensional dynamics, hyperbolic option of the health plan and may also enroll MBA 505: Marketing dynamics, KAM theory, smooth ergodic in MEDEX. International students who are A survey course covering the foundations theory, geodesic flows, bifurcation theory. in their home country are not covered by of the marketing discipline. The course Prerequisite: Permission of instructor mandatory health plan and must contact the is designed to give students conceptual Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Insurance Office for the insurance charge to frameworks and tools to help firms meet etc.) be removed. International students who are demands of the marketplace in a profitable May be repeated for credit. not in their home country are charged for the way. A wide range of marketing strategy mandatory health insurance. If they are to be topics (e.g., segmentation, positioning) and MAT 690: Advanced topics in algebraic covered by another insurance plan they must marketing tactics (the Four P's of Marketing geometry file a waiver be second week of classes. The -- Product, Price, Place and Promotions) charge will only be removed if other plan is Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will be covered, as well as development deemed comparable. May be repeated for credit. of the discipline's foundations (definition, All international students must received philosophy, and the history of marketing). MAT 691: Advanced topics in algebraic clearance from an International Advisor. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) geometry Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. MBA 506: Leadership, Team Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Effectiveness and Communications etc.) MAT 800: FULL TIME SUMMER RES May be repeated for credit. The purpose of the course is to introduce May be repeated for credit. you to the multifaceted phenomenon of MAT 696: Mathematics Seminar leadership, teams, and communications. It seeks to answer the following three questions: May be repeated for credit. MBA What do leaders really do? What makes teams effective? How do you create persuasive MAT 697: Mathematics Colloquium Business Administration communications? The course addresses May be repeated for credit. such topics as leadership styles, building MBA 502: Finance motivated teams, and developing strategic MAT 698: Independent Study How firms meet and manage their final communications. It examines these topics objectives. Today's financial environment, May be repeated for credit. with a goal of not only imparting knowledge the fundamental trade-off between risk and about evidence-based managerial practices MAT 699: Dissertation Research on return, the time value of money, and valuing but also assisting students to acquire the skills Campus future cash flows are discussed. Financial tools necessary to become business leaders, team and techniques, which can be used to help Dissertation research under direction of builders and articulate communicators. firms maximize value by improving decisions advisor. Prerequisite: Advancement to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) related to capital, are explained. Bond and candidacy (G5). Major portion of research stock valuations are introduced. must take place on SBU campus, at Cold MBA 507: Ethics in Management Spring Harbor, or at the Brookhaven National Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course examines the main ethical Lab. problems facing the modern manager. MBA 503: Data Analysis and Decision Emphasis is placed on the moral and ethical Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U Making grading responsibilities that relate to investors, An introduction to statistical techniques useful May be repeated for credit. employees, customers, and the community. in the analysis of management problems. Students will learn the basic vocabulary of MAT 700: Dissertation Research off We motivate each topic by managerial business ethics. applications, and we analyze actual data sets Campus - Domestic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) using modern statistical software. Topics Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy include probability estimation, hypothesis (G5). Major portion of research will take place MBA 509: Continuous Quality testing, and regression analysis. off-campus, but in the United States and/ Improvement or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course provides students with National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab understanding of concepts of TQM and MBA 504: Financial Accounting are considered on-campus. All international quality improvement methods to attain world- students must enroll in one of the graduate Introduction and exploration of basic financial class performance in business operations. student insurance plans and should be advised accounting terminology, principles, concepts, Topics include policy deployment, process by an International Advisor. and their relevant business applications. improvement methodology, daily work This course will include the recording, Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading management, quality story methodology, six summarization, and adjustment of financial

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 197 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 sigma, poka-yoke, ISO, Deming and Baldridge analysis, design, and implementation of and mediation play a significant role in modern Awards criteria. information systems. Recent developments life. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in information technology and its impact on 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) existing and future information systems. MBA 511: Technological Innovations Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MBA 531: New Developments in Innovation drives the modern firm by Human Resource Management the interaction of technical invention and MBA 521: Industry Project This is an advanced course, designed to managerial entrepreneurship. This course Under faculty supervision, groups of students examine new developments and professional explores the variety of sources of new work for clients on management issues in concerns in human resource management. The products, processes, and services, such a variety of areas such as health care, MIS, course focuses on such topics as productivity as inventors, universities, research and marketing, data analysis, business plans, and in the American workplace; developing union/ development departments in industry, and the like. The course provides students with management cooperation for productivity; government labs. In addition, the course the opportunity to apply the analytic skills methods of training in the workplace; impact explores the variety of ways of bringing they have learned in the classroom to actual of the computer revolution on the personnel new products, processes, and services to management problems. Students also gain field; and specialized personnel needs of the market, including startup firms, acquisitions, practical experience in business writing, giving new workforce in a high-tech and service mergers, and entrepreneurship within the formal presentations, and working in teams. economy. firm. Case studies showing the interaction of The format for the course is a combination 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) invention and entrepreneurship are analyzed. of work in the classroom and "lab" work. A term project is required in which the student The lab work consists of visits with a client, MBA 538: Organizational Development either analyzes the history of invention and developing a formal proposal, generating a and Change Management entrepreneurship in a major firm or writes a final report, and various other elements of a This course will acquaint students with business plan for high technology startup firm. professional consulting arrangement. types of organizational change and the roles Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Fall, 6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of human resources managers as change etc.) agents and internal consultants. Cases, group MBA 522: Business Project exercises, and class discussions are used MBA 512: Business Planning and Students will work in consultation with to examine change methods, employees' Strategic Management the instructor to identify and then define a reactions to change, facilitation techniques, The principles and techniques of strategic business problem, at which point they will and evaluation methods. Roles of leaders, management by which an organization sets write a formal business proposal to study the managers, employees, and human resources and implements its long-range direction. problem using published data. After educating professionals are considered. Targets of This includes the processes of environment themselves thoroughly about the variables change include job designs, interpersonal scanning, self-assessment of organizational involved with the business problem, students relationships, downsizing/rightsizing purpose and comparative advantage, and will apply high-level critical thinking to and organizational structures. Quality synthesis of organizational mission, plans, and develop a written recommendation to solve improvement, employee involvement, and strategic initiatives. Extensive use is made of or mitigate the business problem. Students professional development are studied as case studies and in-class exercises. will then create a video presentation of their examples of change strategies. Students learn Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, recommendation. The course is operated as how to help their co-workers cope, as well etc.) a mixture of lectures during which students as how to become trusted business advisors will receive instruction about critical thinking, within the organization. This course is offered MBA 515: Managing in a Global data analysis, evaluation of published research, as both HRM 538 and MBA 538 (formerly Economy business writing, and business presenting, and CEX 538). Prerequisite: MBA 532/HRM 532. Because both the similarities and differences seminars during which students will consult 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of organizations and management across with the instructor during every phase of their national boundaries must be a part of the specific projects. MBA 540: Data Mining knowledge base of tomorrow's manager, this 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The recent advances in the Internet and course examines proprietorships, partnerships, information technologies have resulted in an corporations, governmental regulatory MBA 530: Employee Dispute explosion of demand for ¿big data¿ analytics. agencies, public authorities, voluntary social Resolution and Conflict Management The importance of data mining has already services, multinational corporations, and The methods and procedures for reaching been recognized widely in the industry strategic alliances, as well as combinations negotiated agreements. Topics include including many business areas, such as of these organizations, across sectoral and reducing conflict and confrontation between marketing science, financial analysis, and national boundaries. contending parties, analysis of the techniques corporation management. In this course, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, of win-lose and win-win negotiation, and we will be focusing on both key concepts etc.) mediation. Students are expected to participate and models of data mining and their in a series of workshop activities and simulated implementations based on real-world data in MBA 517: Information Systems for cases to reveal how negotiation and mediation business. Students will learn to process data Management are applied to resolving difficulties in business using Excel, and apply data mining models Information systems and its role in strategic management, labor relations, international using Weka, a data mining software. planning and managerial operations in and domestic affairs, patient/doctor/hospital 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) business. The systems approach to the relations, and other areas where negotiation MBA 543: Business Analytics

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An introduction to mathematical models useful from the humanities, will add to experiential allocation of corporate resources. From in the analysis of management problems. learning, emphasized in contemporary business developing new products to implementing We motivate each topic by managerial education. customer loyalty programs, managers must applications, and we analyze problems using 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) understand business processes including modern software. Topics include forecasting, their associated tasks, inter-relationships linear, nonlinear, and integer optimization, MBA 566: Business law and transformations. Project management simulation, Markov processes, decision This course provides an understanding of involves three primary activities: defining analysis, and multi-criteria decision making. the nature of law and its role in business and manageable tasks, mapping their logical 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) surveys some of the regulatory issues faced flow, and creating an implementation by businesses. The law of business contracts process. In the course, we will explore ways MBA 544: Supply Chain Management will be examined in depth. Other topics to manage these functions successfully to and Analytics include property rights, bailments, and agency increase the probability of achieving desired Businesses engage in a diverse set of activities concepts, business organizations, securities results. We will use the latest software tools in their daily operations including production law and regulation, and laws and regulations including: MS Project, MS Visio, @Risk planning, resource procurement, inventory impacting technology development. This Project Simulation, Business Plan Pro 2007, management, distribution, and interaction course requires case analysis, problem solving, WIP Information System - online and C- with other firms. The goal of supply chain development of critical thinking skills, and oral Commerce tools such as Instantstream. We management is to maximize the economic and written communication. will use Blackboard extensively to interact (c-commerce), post grades, assignments, value of these activities through system level Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, information and notices. Access Blackboard coordination. A successful supply chain etc.) streamlines the flow of materials, goods, using blackboard.sunysb.edu. information, and capital along each component MBA 570: Entrepreneurship 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of the supply chain. This course helps the student develop a MBA 586: Virtual Communications and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) business plan for his or her own business Meetings idea or a plan for an entrepreneur. With the MBA 548: Fundamentals of the support of visiting practitioners, students Analyzes the growth of and interaction Bioscience Industry take a business idea through all the planning among wireless markets. These markets A 4-module course set up to provide students steps. A business plan suitable for presentation include devices and services for wide area with a comprehensive introduction to the to potential investors will be written and broadband networks and 802.11b wireless complexities of the bioscience business presented orally at the end of the class. local area networks. Growth factors include business strategies executed by major environment. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) firms and startups, and roles played by Prerequisite: Must be either a BME or MBA government regulations and community groups graduate student (West Campus). All other MBA 571: Social Entrepreneurship in development and delivery of network students must obtain permission from the Students explore the concept of social technology. Student projects for clients instructor. entrepreneurship including motivation and or one's own startup investigate wireless Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, skills for advocacy, entrepreneurship, and strategies in consumer, home, commercial, etc.) leadership. Topics include forms of social educational or health care markets. entrepreneurship (private, public, and not- MBA 553: Simulation and Modeling for-profit), venture capital and fund raising, Prerequisites: MBA 517, MGT 571, MGT580. A comprehensive course in formulation, market analysis, marketing, communications, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, implementation, and application of simulation human resources and human relations, etc.) models. Topics include data structures, including negotiation and conflict resolution MBA 587: Decision Support Systems simulation languages, statistical analysis, methods. Students will explore models of pseudo-random number generation, and design corporate social responsibility, university An advanced project-oriented course of simulation experiments. Students apply service to the community, and grass-roots focusing on the interrelationships among simulation modeling methods to problems of ventures spawned by perceived need and the management information systems, statistics, their own design. This course is offered as will to make a difference. Students work in and management science. Both model- CSE 529, AMS 553 and MBA 553. teams to develop a strategic business plan for driven and data-driven decision support systems will be considered. Students will 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) their own venture and present their proposals to the class. identify an appropriate business application, select suitable management science and MBA 563: Business Ethics through Offered statistical methodologies, build the required Film: Thinking, Acting, Managing Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) information system, and demonstrate how their Using real world business cases, and fictional MBA 574: Project Management decision support system addresses the stated scenarios from films exemplifying behavior management problem. Prerequisite: MBA 503 in challenging social and business situations, This course will explore the theory and & MBA 543 students will engage in critical thinking, practice of managing a project. We will evaluation of moral standards, and display examine the various tools that are available 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of various ethical positions pertaining to to monitor and measure managerial tasks and MBA 588: Database Management contemporary society and management of to define common business processes. Every business operations. A simulated situation as aspect of business entails the execution of Database processing is the foundation presented in a film and supported by research a series of defined tasks and the associated upon which all current applications rely and represent the repositories of business

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 199 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 intelligence that play a crucial role in the MBA 599: Internship Practicum term in the laboratory of each of four different strategic success or failure of a corporation. Designed to accommodate College of Business members of the staff selected in consultation Even though they vary in size, complexity and MBA graduate students working on their with the course director. In each laboratory organizational scope, there is an underlying internship project requirement while under the student participates in some aspect of common database engine that can be supervision of an advisor. the ongoing research pursued by the faculty used to manipulate and analyze the stored member. Prerequisite: matriculation in MCB Fall, Spring and information. The purpose of this course is graduate program or permission of instructor. Summer, 0-1 credits, S/U grading to introduce the business professional to the May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, fundamental concepts of database creation, A-, B+, etc.) design, application integration, maintenance, MBA 800: Summer Research management and subsequent analysis. MCB 517: Biomembranes May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Examines the molecular architecture of membranes; the structure, organization, MBA 589: Operations Management functions, and assembly of lipids and proteins A managerial approach to the concepts, MCB in biological membranes. issues, and techniques used to convert an Molecular and Cellular Biology Prerequisite: Matriculation in Graduate organization's resources into products and Program or permission of instructor. services. Through the course, students will MCB 500: Directed Readings in Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) develop an ability to understand key concepts Molecular and Cellular Biology in operations management, analyze the Directed readings in topics of current interest, MCB 520: Graduate Biochemistry I performance of systems quantitatively, gain under supervision of a faculty sponsor. Several topics in modern biochemistry are insights into performance characteristics, Prerequisite: matriculation in MCB graduate treated at an advanced level. Topics covered recognize various trade-offs in operations program or permission of instructor. will include protein structure, enzyme kinetics management decisions, and apply concepts Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, and mechanisms, and enzyme regulation. and analytical methods to help improve A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: undergraduate biochemistry organization¿s operational performance May be repeated for credit. course, matriculation in graduate program or Prerequisite: MBA 503, working knowledge of permission of instructor probability, and statistics is necessary. MCB 503: Molecular Genetics Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Introduces the classical work and current developments in lower and higher genetic MCB 531: Graduate Seminar in MBA 592: Organizational Behavior systems. Covers gene structure and regulation Molecular & Cellular Biology An approach to understanding the behavior in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, Seminars are given by graduate students of individuals in organizations is developed, mutational analysis and mapping, transposable on current literature in the fields of with emphasis on implications for effective elements, and biological DNA transfer biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology management. This approach is used to analyze mechanisms. Bacteriophage as well as lower or developmental biology. Prerequisite: decision problems encountered in managing and higher eukaryotic systems are used matriculation in graduate program or human resources. Topics include individual to illustrate aspects of molecular genetic permission of instructor. and group decision-making skills, recruitment structure and function. This course is offered 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and selection, employee ability, motivation as both MCB 503 and HBM 503. Prerequisite: and incentive systems, job satisfaction, matriculation in graduate program or MCB 532: Graduate Seminar in performance assessment and management, permission of instructor Molecular & Cellular Biology retention, training, and employee development. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Seminars are given by graduate students Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) on current literature in the fields of MCB 509: Experimental Molecular & biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology MBA 595: Individual Directed Research Cellular Biology or developmental biology. Prerequisite: in Business An introduction to modern biochemical matriculation in graduate program or Designed to accommodate independent research techniques. The student spends a half permission of instructor research projects on an individual basis with term in the laboratory of each of four different Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) faculty guidance. members of the staff selected in consultation May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. Fall and Spring, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, with the course director. In each laboratory A-, B+, etc.) the student participates in some aspect of MCB 550: Entering Mentoring May be repeated for credit. the ongoing research pursued by the faculty This seminar series is designed for graduate member. Prerequisite: matriculation in MCB students and postdoctoral researchers of MBA 596: Special Topics in Business graduate program or permission of instructor. biology who may become science faculty. These courses are offered on topics that are Fall and Spring, 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, The goal is to help them become effective timely and significant to the profession. The A-, B+, etc.) mentors through discussions, collective courses are led by experts in the particular experiences, and novel strategies to improve topic. MCB 510: Experimental Molecular & mentoring skills. This course is comprised 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Cellular Biology of eight one-hour sessions in which topics May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. An introduction to modern biochemical related to the role and responsibilities of a research techniques. The student spends a half mentor are discussed. Topics touch on ethical,

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 200 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 intellectual, personal, and interpersonal issues Prerequisite: matriculation in MCB graduate Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading that are associated with effective mentoring. program or permission of instructor. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Must be MCB graduate student Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MCB 700: Dissertation Research off or permission of instructor. Summer only, 1 May be repeated for credit. credit, S/U grading Campus - Domestic 1 credit, S/U grading MCB 604: Student Seminar in Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Molecular and Cellular Biology (G5), matriculation in MCB graduate program MCB 555: Big Data in Biology Seminars given by MCB graduate students or permission of instructor. Major portion of An introduction to big data in biology, with an on the progress of their own thesis research. research will take place off-campus, but in the emphasis on the concepts, research questions, Required of all students every term in which United States and/or U.S. provinces. Please methods, and data analysis. Particular they are registered in Graduate Studies note, Brookhaven National Labs and the Cold emphasis is placed on sequencing methods in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. Spring Harbor Lab are considered on-campus. and analysis, genomics, transcriptomics, Attendance is mandatory. Visitors welcome. All international students must enroll in one proteomics, cellular networks, high-throughput Prerequisite: matriculation in MCB graduate of the graduate student insurance plans and phenotyping, and systems genetics. program or permission of instructor. should be advised by an International Advisor. 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: matriculation in MCB graduate May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. program or permission of instructor. Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading MCB 599: Dissertation Research MCB 656: Cell Biology May be repeated for credit. Original investigation under the supervision Introduction to the structural and functional MCB 701: Dissertation Research off of a member of the staff. Prerequisite: organization of cells and tissues and to Campus - International matriculation in MCB graduate program or the way structure relates to function. permission of instructor. Particular emphasis is placed on nuclear and Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy (G5) in MCB graduate program or permission Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading chromosomal structure, signal transduction, of instructor. Major portion of research will May be repeated for credit. protein translocation, the cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix. The interaction of take place outside of the United States and/ MCB 601: Colloquium in Molecular and cellular structures and components and their or U.S. provinces. Domestic students have Cellular Biology regulation is stressed as is the organization the option of the health plan and may also enroll in MEDEX. International students who A weekly series of talks and discussions by and interaction of cells in tissues. The course are in their home country are not covered by visiting scientists covering current research is comparative and includes examples of cells mandatory health plan and must contact the and thinking in various aspects of molecular and tissues from vertebrates, invertebrates, Insurance Office for the insurance charge to and cellular biology. Required for all MCB plants, and prokaryotic systems. Prerequisite: be removed. International students who are graduate students. Attendance is mandatory. matriculation in graduate program or not in their home country are charged for the Visitors welcome. Prerequisite: matriculation permission of instructor. mandatory health insurance. If they are to be in MCB graduate program or permission of Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, covered by another insurance plan they must instructor. etc.) file a waiver by second week of classes. The May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading charge will only be removed if other plan is May be repeated for credit. MCB 657: Principles of Development deemed comparable. MCB 602: Colloquium in Molecular and This course deals with developing systems All international students must receive Cellular Biology at all levels from the morphological to the clearance from an International Advisor. molecular. Illustrative material from both Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading A weekly series of talks and discussions by May be repeated for credit. visiting scientists covering current research animal and plant kingdoms is used. Special attention is given to gametogenesis, genetic and thinking in various aspects of molecular MCB 800: Summer Research and cellular biology. Required for all MCB control of early development, transcriptional Prerequisite: matriculation in MCB graduate graduate students. Attendance is mandatory. and translational control of protein synthesis, program or permission of instructor. Visitors welcome. Prerequisite: matriculation the role of cell division and cell movements, in MCB graduate program or permission of and cell-to-cell interactions in defining Summer, S/U grading instructor. developing systems. May be repeated for credit. Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading Prerequisite: MCB 656, matriculation in May be repeated for credit. graduate program or permission of instructor. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MCR MCB 603: Student Seminar in Clinical Investigation Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 699: Dissertation Research on Campus Seminars given by MCB graduate students MCR 501: Experimental Clinical on the progress of their own thesis research. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Research Required of all students every term in which (G5). Major portion of research must take This course will (1) introduce trainees to they are registered in Graduate Studies place on SBU campus, at Cold Spring formulation of a research question and in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. Harbor, or at the Brookhaven National Lab. hypothesis testing and; (2) introduce trainees Attendance is mandatory. Visitors welcome. Prerequisite: matriculation in MCB graduate to various research methodologies and how program or permission of instructor. they are used to answer clinical research

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 201 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 questions. This is not a clinical trials design Biomedical Informatics, Imaging and Big Offered course but rather is focused on how a clinical Data. Lunch will be provided. Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) paradigm is used to formulate a research 1 credit, S/U grading MCR 601: Ethics and Professionalism question and develop a hypothesis. May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. in Clinical Research Offered Summer, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, MCR 549: Legal and Regulatory Issues Using an interative case-based format, the etc.) in Clinical Research topics covered include the justification of Major contemporary legal and regulatory human research and reasonable balance of MCR 506: Biostatistics 1 for Clinical issues associated with scientific research will risk versus benefits; the use of animals in Scientists be discussed. Additionally, this course will biomedical research; issues of informed This is Part One of a two-part biostatistics introduce students to the history behind the consent and IRB paperwork processing; training sequence. This course serves regulations that safeguard human subjects, the ethical challenges of clinical research; as an introduction to the principles and will educate students in detail about their ethical concerns associated with genetic methodologies of biostatistics for clinical responsibilities as clinical investigators. testing and screening; research involving minors and adults of questionable capacity researchers. The material covered includes Offered to consent; conflict of interest and funding probability and distribution, descriptive Summer, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, of research for individuals and institutions; statistics, point and interval estimation, etc.) hypothesis testing, correlation, linear investigator responsibilities with regard to regression, ANOVA, ANCOVA, logistical MCR 562: Data Management and fulfilling government regulations; scientific regression, survival analysis, and non- Informatics for Clinical Scientists fraud and whistle blowing; the scientific community and mentoring; authorship and parametric tests. This course provides students with computer attribution; special populations and inclusion Prerequisite: High school algebra and data management skills required to of minorities and; mergency research-related Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) complete a research project. Questionnaire special requirements. development, data processing and analysis, MCR 507: Biostatistics II and issues surrounding data security are 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The second course in biostatistics in the covered. Students will learn to use Excel, MCR 630: Technology Transfer clinical scientists training sequence is intended Access and Velos eResearch for data input to further aquaint the traniees with the and management, SPSS for data processing Students will be exposed to concepts including commonly used procedures covered in the first and analysis, and powerpoint and Word for disclosing inventions, protecting intellectual course and to learn to apply these procedures presentations and report generation. Hands-on property, working with industry/working with to real and simulated datasets using statistical exercises are used to develop skills. university faculty, licensing, collaborative agreements, intellectual property protection software. As part of the course requirement, Offered and management and commercialization. the trainees will need to complete a course Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) project analyzing an appropriate research data Offered set. MCR 566: Clinical Research Methods Spring, 0-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Offered This course aims to introduce trainees to etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, the different aspects of clinical trial design, MCR 650: Molecular and Laboratory etc.) conduct, management and analysis; and to Methods in Clinical Research provide trainees with a basic understanding of MCR 514: Epidemiology for Clinical the key elements of clinical trial design and The aims of this course are to introduce Scientists practice.. 2 credits, Fall term, Professor Leslie trainees to laboratory methods relevant The aims of this course are to introduce Hyman, PhD to clinical research with an emphasis on molecular medicine. trainees to basic epidemiologic concepts, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) methods and topics, and to provide them with Offered skills to critically evaluate published literature, MCR 567: Research in Population Fall, 2-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, interpret data, and develop and evidence Health and Clinical Outcomes Research etc.) based approach to medical practice. Upon This course provides an overview of research MCR 684: Writing a Research Proposal completion, trainees will be able to apply methods as applied to questions raised in the basic epidemiologic principles and methods fields of population health and clinical science. This course will help students develop to problems encountered in clinical medicine. It covers the topics of risk adjustment, cost the skills necessary to design a research Co-requisite: MCR 506 Offered assessment, access to, utilization and quality of proposal including framing the specific Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) care, outcomes and health status measurement, aims, evaluation of the literature, description and health system performance. of preliminary data and research methods, MCR 525: Contemporary Topics in proposed biostatistical analysis and power Offered Clinical and Translational Research calculations, defining eligibility criteria, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This monthly lunchtime seminar is designed and development of a safety plan, issues of to expose clinical and basic science students MCR 580: GCRC/SAC Scientific Review recruitment including under-represented ethnic to contemporary topics in clinical and Process and racial groups. translational research. Topics include. "- Students will understand and participate in the Offered Omics", Biobanking and Biorepositories, process of scientific review of human subject Summer, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, research protocols submitted to the GCRC. etc.)

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MCR 692: Research in Progress MCR 698: Practicum in Teaching solutions, external and internal flows, laminar This course meets weekly and is attended The course provides hands-on experience and turbulent convection, and forced and free by all trainees and mentors. Trainees present in classroom teaching and mentoring convection. updates of their research endeavors and receive students in the conduct of clinical research. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, input from experienced mentors. Trainees Other activities may include preparation etc.) are exposed to discussion among mentors on and supervision of class projects, exams, research design and interpretation. homework assignments, creation of voice MEC 502: Conduction and Radiation Heat Transfer Offered over PowerPoint lectures, and participation Fall and Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading in interactive Blackboard student discussions. Heat conduction and conservation laws; A final report that summarizes the activities formulation of conduction equations in MCR 693: Clinical Research completed and provides a self-reflection on differential and integral forms; analytical Opportunities at Stony Brook the experiences gained during the practicum solution techniques including Laplace University and Affiliated Institutions is requires at the conclusion of the course. transforms and separation of variables; scaling The aims of this series are to familiarize Participation by advanced graduate student analysis; black body radiation, Kirchoff's law, trainees with the range and breadth of under the supervision of program faculty. analysis of heat conduction problems; analysis multidisciplinary clinical research carried out Prerequisite: Permission of the supervising of radiative exchange between surfaces and at Stony Brook and its affiliated institutions, faculty. 3 credits, S/U grading May be repeated radiative transport through absorbing, emitting, and to provide examples of successful team 2 times FOR credit. and scattering media. approaches to study design, data analysis and 3 credits, S/U grading Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ethical issues in clinical research. At each May be repeated for credit. semester, a research team will be highlighted MEC 506: Energy Management in that will describe how the team came to be MCR 699: Masters Thesis Commercial Buildings formed followed by a presentation about Original investigation in clinical research Topics include basic heating, ventilating, and the research hypothesis, study design, data undertaken with the supervision of the air-conditioning (HVAC) system design and collection and analysis, and future work to student's Thesis Committee. 1-6 Credits, selection for commercial buildings (includes follow. ABCF Grading both low-rise and high-rise buildings); Offered 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) selection of central plant components and Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1 credit, Letter May be repeated 4 times FOR credit. equipment; calculation of space heating graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and cooling load; computer techniques for estimating annual energy consumption; design MCR 694: Seminars in Clinical MEC tools for reducing energy consumption; Research ASHRAE codes; building controls; BACnet. Mechanical Engineering Offered Prerequisite: B.S. in mechanical engineering or related fields Fall and Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, MEC 500: Modeling and Control of Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded B+, etc.) Manufacturing Systems (A, A-, B+, etc.) MCR 695: Defining and Developing Introduction to manufacturing system a Career Path in Clinical and modeling and analysis. Fundamental MEC 507: Mathematical Methods in Transnational Research principles of production systems. Analytical Engineering Analysis I and simulation approach to production An introduction to the use of mathematical Students will read and discuss chapters from system performance analysis, continuous the Howard Hughes Medical Institute "Making analysis techniques for the solution of improvement, and design. Topics include engineering analysis problems and the the Right Moves" online textbook and develop mathematical modeling of production a career plan. Topics include how to set up simulation of engineering systems. Both systems, production lines with various continuous and discrete methods are covered. your lab, networking, conflicting resolution statistic distribution models of machine and managing your staff. Initial and boundary value problems for reliability, improvement analysis and real- ordinary and partial differential equations are 1 credit, S/U grading time decision making. Includes both the treated. relevant fundamental concepts and the MCR 696: Presenting Research Results extensive practical knowledge base on which Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to Peer Audiences manufacturing research, development, and MEC 508: Mathematical Methods in Students will have reading assignments on design depend. The students are expected to Engineering Analysis II designing and giving a great talk as well as complete a project, in which they will interpret how to write a paper suitable for publication in real-life manufacturing plant operation in A continuation of the material covered in a peer reviewed journal. Students will have an the light of course principles and suggest MEC 507. Introduction to and application opportunity to practice giving a talk about their improvement solutions. of numerical analysis techniques used in engineering such as finite elements and research projects. Masters students will present 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a summary of their thesis project to date. Each fast Fourier transforms. Determination of student in the Masters in Clinical Research MEC 501: Convective Heat Transfer response characteristics of dynamic systems. Program will present a final project as part of and Heat Exchange Combinatoric methods and techniques for the Annual Research Symposium help the last optimization of engineering design and Differential and integral formulation. Exact systems/process analysis problems. day of class. and approximate solutions. Topics include 1 credit, S/U grading parallel and boundary layer flows, similarity Prerequisite: MEC 507

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Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter Phenomenological theories of turbulent shear This course begins with a review of the graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) flows are introduced. fundamental concepts and laws of classical Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) thermodynamics. Then the thermostatic theory MEC 509: Transport Phenomena of equilibrium states and phase transitions is Introduction to differential and integral MEC 514: Advanced Fluid Mechanics: treated, followed by the thermodynamic theory formulation of mass, momentum, and Introduction to Turbulence of processes of simple systems and composite energy transport in fluids and solids. Topics Introductory concepts and statistical systems, including heat engines. Special topics include viscosity, laminar flow, turbulent descriptions: kinematics of random velocity may include istatisical thermodynamics, flows, conduction, convection, heat transfer fields; equations of motion; experimental irreversible thermodynamics, radiation and coefficients, radiation, boundary layers, techniques: isotropic turbulence, closure photovoltaic energy conversion,, biological diffusion, and applications to energy problem; transport processes. thermodynamic processes, and other topics of technology. current interest. Prerequisite: MEC 512 Offered Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.)

MEC 510: Object-Oriented MEC 516: Energy Technologies MEC 522: Building Energy Dynamics Programming for Scientists and Laboratory and Technology Engineers Experiments in the areas of infrared imaging, Building is treated as a time-dependent energy Practical introduction to C++ and object- heat pumps, batteries/power electronics, system, with its interactive components oriented programming for a first programming solar thermal, thermal conductivity, and coupled through energy and mass flows under course for scientists and engineers. Covers insulation. The focus is on system efficiencies, an environment defined in terms of sunlight, basics of application software development system integration, and design for residential ambient air and wind and with its equipment such as problem decomposition, structure markets. The fundamentals of the relevant which assist in meeting building-dwellers charts, object modeling, class diagrams, technologies will be presented and utilized comfort requirements. Major components incremental code building, and testing at a in the laboratory sessions. Student groups discussed are thermal mass (both interior beginner's level. Features the concepts of are assigned laboratory projects focused on mass and envelope mass) and their thermal abstract data types (ADT), encapsulation, applying various energy technologies to solve capacities, building envelopes and their heat inheritance, composition, polymorphism, engineering problems. transfer resistances, room air including its operator and function overloading besides circulation and heat exchange with thermal 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) studying UML (Unified Modeling Language) mass, and the transparent part of the envelope as a graphical representational design MEC 517: Energy Technologies the glazing or windows and the solar system technique. The course follows the evolution Laboratory II passing through it during the day and the heat of programming ideas from the use of a single loss during the night time. Major equipment Experiments in the areas of thermoelectric function to the use of structural charts and include lighting, air circulation system, cooling power, fuel cells, photovoltaics, wind turbines, functions to modularize and finally to the use and heating equipment, solar thermal panels hydrogen storage, hydrogen generation, and of object-oriented programming. and solar PV panels, and other equipment power electronics in addition to related project Prerequisite: B.S. in science or engineering including integrated electric and control units. work. The focus is on system efficiencies, Of the comfort requirements only temperature- Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter system integration, and design for residential graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and-humidity and illumination are studied with markets. Student groups are assigned the objective of creating, through a system- laboratory projects to build experience MEC 511: Mechanics of Perfect Fluids understanding of the building, buildings that applying various energy technologies to solve in the short run meet these requirements Lagrangian and Eulerian frames. Dynamical problems. equations of momentum and energy transfer. involving minimal use of energy and in Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Two-dimensional dynamics of incompressible the long run are benchmarked against the A-, B+, etc.) and barotropic perfect fluids and of the environmentally regenerative capabilities of wilderness. compressible perfect gas. Conformal mapping MEC 518: Energy Harvesting applied to two-dimensional fluid dynamics. Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, MEC 518 Energy Harvesting is designed to Jets and cavities. Surface waves, internal A-, B+, etc.) systematically disseminate recent advances waves. Perfect shear flows. in various energy harvesting technologies MEC 523: Internal Combustion Engines Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, in the last decade. The topic will include etc.) Combustion fundamentals. Carnot cycle; mechanical vibrations, piezoelectric materials, reversible internal combustion engine cycle; electromagnetic transducers, thermoelectric MEC 512: Mechanics of Viscous Fluids introduction to practical internal combustion. materials, electromechanical system design, The role of viscosity in the dynamics of engine cycles. Internal combustion piston power electronics, and control, as well as the engines; engine combustion and emission fluid flow. The Navier-Stokes equations, applications of energy harvesting to vehicles, low Reynolds number behavior including processes; engine operating characteristics. transportations, civil structures, and ocean Gas turbine engines. Composite engines: lubrication theory, percolation through porous waves. media, and flow due to moving bodies. turbocharging piston engines; gas generator 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) High Reynolds number behavior including engines; turbocompounding engines. Method of exhaust heat recovery for improvement of steady, unsteady, and detached boundary MEC 521: Thermodynamics layers, jets, free shear layers, and wakes. thermal efficiency. Method of intercooling-

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 204 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 supercharging for thermal efficiency Designing high performance buildings requires MEC 536: Mechanics of Solids improvement. the application of building energy modeling A unified introduction to the fundamental 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) (BEM) that uses computer-based software to principles, equations, and notation used in simulate thermal processes in buildings. In finite deformation of solids, with emphasis MEC 524: Computational Methods for applying building energy modeling, this course on the physical aspects of the subject. Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer emphasizes the importance of formulating the Cartesian tensor representation of stress, Introduction of finite difference, finite volume, problem in terms of assumptions: The two principal values, finite strain, and deformation. and finite element methods for incompressible alternative assumptions are the static building Conservation of mass, momentum, and energy. flows and heat transfer. Topics include explicit load assumption and the dynamic building Formulation of stress-strain relations in and implicit schemes, accuracy, stability process assumption. The resistor-capacitor (RC elasticity, and compatibility relations. The use and convergence, derived and primitive- model is introduced. With a 3D building model of general orthogonal coordinate systems in variables formulation, orthogonal and non- developed in Autodesk Revit, energy analysis the equations governing solids. Principles of orthogonal coordinate systems. Selected is carried out with a series of software. Popular virtual displacement and virtual work. whole-building energy simulation programs, computer assignments from heat conduction, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) incompressible flows, forced and free such as EnergyPlus and TRNSYS, are then convection. explained briefly. MEC 537: Combustion Research Prerequisite: MEC 507 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Laboratory Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded Experimental methods for testing and MEC 529: Introduction to Robotics: (A, A-, B+, etc.) development of internal combustion engines. Theory and Applications Methods for measuring engine performance MEC 525: Product Design Concept Topics: robot components and mechanatronic and emissions. Review of combustion Development and Optimization aspects of robotics (sensors, actuators, and chemistry and thermodynamics. Engine cycle This graduate course will concentrate on the effectors, system integration); rotation, quantities measurements. Students will apply design concept development of the product translation, rigid-body transform; robotics these methods to reciprocating engines and gas development cycle, from the creative phase of foundations in kinematics and inverse turbines. kinematics, dynamics, serial and parallel solution development to preliminary concept 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) evaluation and selection. The course will then manipulators and their duality, introduction cover methods for mathematical modeling, to mobile robots and LEGO Robotics, MEC 539: Introduction to Finite computer simulation and optimization. The control theories, motion planning, trajectory Element Methods generation, grasping and manipulation, robotic concept development component of the course (formerly Finite Element Methods in Structural programming language, industrial robotics, will also cover intellectual property and patent Analyses) issues. The course will not concentrate on manufacturing automation, and societal Theory of finite element methods and their the development of any particular class of impacts. Include hands-on projects. application to structural analysis problems. products, but the focus will be mainly on Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Matrix operations, force and displacement mechanical and electromechanical devices and etc.) methods. Derivation of matrices for bars, systems. As part of the course, each participant beams, shear panels, membranes, plates, will select an appropriate project to practice MEC 530: Applied Stress Analysis and solids. Use of these elements to model the application of the material covered in the Advanced mechanics of solids and structures. actual structural problems. Weighted residual course and prepare a final report. Elastic boundary value problems are analyzed techniques and extension of the finite element with various solution techniques including Prerequisites: Undergraduate electrical method into other areas such as heat flow finite element method. Major topics are or mechanical engineering and/or science and fluid flow. Laboratory sessions introduce stress and strain, FEM formulations, material training. use of the computer in solving finite element behavious, 2D elastic problems, stress function Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) problems. Programs for the solution of force and fracture. Detailed studies of structural and displacement method problems are MEC 526: Modern Power Cycles components are carried out with FEM with configured. A computer project consisting of emphasis on optimal mesh design and proper First and second law design and analysis of the solution and evaluation of a structural interpretations of computed results. modern power cycles including Rankin Steam problem is required. Cycles, Bryton Gas Turbine cycles, Combined 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter Cycles, Cogeneration, Central Heat and Power graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Generation (CHP), Tri-generation and current MEC 532: Vibration and Control advances in thermal power systems design Fundamentals of vibrations and control of MEC 540: Mechanics of Engineering and analysis. Cycle efficiency and factors vibrations of structures and dynamic systems. Structures effecting performance and plant efficiency. Topics include one dof systems and responses, An introduction to variational principles Thermodynamic analysis of proposed as well frequency response, multiple dof systems and of mechanics and the development of as existing thermal energy systems. responses, relevant classical control theory, approximation methods for the solution of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) modern state-space feedback control theory, structural mechanics problems. Linear and May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. application of control methodology in systems nonlinear theories of beams and thin plates with dynamics and vibration, eigenvalue are developed along with their framework MEC 527: Introduction to Building problems and modal analysis, vibration for numerical solutions. An introduction of Energy Modeling analysis of various continuous systems. the general theory of structural stability is 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) presented along with its application to the

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 205 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 buckling and initial postbuckling behavior of MEC 556: Introduction to Engineering systems to random input; stochastic state beams and plates. Mechanics of Composites estimator (Kalman filter); separation principle 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Introduction to the engineering mechanics of stochastic control and estimation; system of fiber reinforced composites. Brief history robustness. MEC 541: Elasticity of the development of fiber composites, Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Formulation of boundary value problems. their properties, advantages, limitations and Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Compatibility equations and reciprocal applications. Overview of the different types theorem. Torsion of noncircular cross-sections. of composites but with focus on long fiber MEC 564: Fundamentals of Fundamental solutions for two- and three- reinforced composites; particularly, lamina Aerodynamics dimensional domains. Potential function and laminate concepts characteristics and Kinematics and dynamics of incompressible formulations. Use of integral transforms and configurations. Topics covered include: irrotational flow; stream function and the complex variable approaches. Formulation and elastic properties of unidirectional lamina, potential functions; Euler and Bernoulli solution of problems in thermoelasticity. strength of unidirectional lamina, elastic equations. This-foil theory; lift and moment Prerequisite: MEC 536 behavior of multidirectional laminates and for symmetric and cambered airfoils. Finite- Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, stress and failure of multidirectional laminates. wing theory; induced drag. Compressible etc.) Design methodologies and considerations for flow, small disturbance theory; thin wings at structural composite materials. The students subsonic and supersonic speeds. MEC 543: Plasticity are expected to complete a project, in which 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Stress and deformation of solids: yield criteria they will design a real-life structural part out of and flow rules for plasticity deforming solids; composite materials using course principles. MEC 565: Aerospace Propulsion the notion of a stable inelastic material; static 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fundamentals of propulsion; performance and dynamic analysis of plastic bodies under parameters, thermodynamic cycles. mechanical and thermal loading; use of load MEC 557: Introduction to Fiber Introduction to combustion and combustors. bounding theorems and the calculation of Composites Fabrication and Performance and cycle analysis of various collapse loads of structures; the theory of the Characterization flight propulsion systems: turbojets, turbofans, slip-line field. Overview of fiber reinforced composites, turboprops, ramjets, scramjets, rockets, Prerequisite: MEC 541 applications and mechanical properties. propellers. Design of supersonic inlet nozzles, Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded Introduction to fiber composites fabrication component matching and map. (A, A-, B+, etc.) methods as well as experimental 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) characterization methods used in acquiring MEC 550: Mechatronics their relevant mechanical properties. MEC 567: Kinematic Analysis and An introduction to the design, modeling, Fabrication topics include: Impregnation of Synthesis of Mechanisms analysis and control of mechatronic systems fibers; Prepregs; Stacking; Curing; Vacuum Introduction, mechanism structure, basic (smart systems comprising mechanical, bagging; Autoclave technology; Out-of- concepts of mechanisms, canonical electrical, and software components). autoclave manufacturing processes; Molding; representation of motion. Kinematic analysis, Fundamentals of the basic components needed Processing; Cutting and Joining. Topics algebraic method, vector-loop method, for the design and control of mechatronic in mechanical characterization include: complex number method, spherical and systems, including sensors, actuators, data Experimental methods; Characterization of spatial polygon method, matrix method, acquisition systems, microprocessors, the elastic properties and failure strengths of dual-number quaternion method, screw programmable logic controllers, and I/O unidirectional lamina; Characterization of coordinate method, line coordinate method, systems, are covered. Hands-on experience in the elastic properties and failure strengths of motor algebra method, type synthesis, number designing and building practical mechatronic multidirectional laminates. Course is divided synthesis, coupler curves, curvature theory systems are provided through integrated lab into in-class lectures and laboratory sessions. path generation, finite displacement theory, activities. The students are expected to complete a rigid body guidance, function generation, project, in which they will design, fabricate Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) computer-aided mechanisms analysis and and test a real-life structural part made out of synthesis. composite materials using course principles. MEC 552: Mechanics of Composite Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Materials 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The course is concerned with the analysis MEC 560: Advanced Control Systems of layered composite materials subject to mechanical loads. Cartesian tensor calculus Analytical methods applied to the design MEC 568: Advanced Dynamics is used. Homogeneous anisotropic media are of multivariable linear control systems. Newtonian and Lagrangian mechanics of rigid studied first. The effect of layering is then Introduction to linear system theory: bodies; kinematics, inertia tensor, principle of analyzed. Applications to plates and shell are linearization, solution of linear matrix momentum, principle of virtual work, potential studied and analytical methods of solution are differential equations, stability, controllability, and kinetic energy, equations of motion, given. Numerical analysis of composite solids observability, transformations to canonical extraction of information from the equations is also considered using finite difference and forms. Formulation of control objectives. of motion, and application to engineering finite element methods. Deterministic state observer. Full-state problems. feedback control based on pole assignment Prerequisite: MEC 536 and linear quadratic optimization theory. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Linear systems with stochastic inputs and Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) measurement noise. The response of linear

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MEC 570: Introduction to Engineering emphasized via various engineering principles MEC 631: Special Topics in Heat Tribology ranging from mechanical and electrical Transfer Focus is on the fundamentals of tribology, to materials and chemical engineering. The subject matter of each special topics the science of surfaces in relative motion, Introduction of the working principles of micro course varies from semester to semester, with an introduction to friction, lubrication, actuators, sensors, and transducers. depending on the interests of students and and wear. The basics of tribology science: Prerequisite: Permission of instructor staff. Advanced topics and specialized topics engineering surfaces, contact mechanics, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, will be discussed, particularly those of current lubrication theory, wear processes and etc.) interest. modeling, wear properties of materials, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MEC 579: Optical Measurement and tribology test methods will be covered. May be repeated for credit. Analysis of tribological aspects of machine Introduction to optical measurement and its components and bearings. Industrial case applications to the fields of solid mechanics, MEC 633: Special Topics in studies will be presented to place the topics in design and manufacturing, and thermal and Thermodynamics context to industry and society. fluid systems. Topics include fundamentals The subject matter of each special topics Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, of optics, lasers, and detectors, dimensional course varies from semester to semester, etc.) and surface metrology, machine vision, depending on the interests of students and measurement of temperature, concentration, staff. Advanced topics and specialized topics MEC 571: Analysis and Design of and density, and optical techniques for stress will be discussed, particularly those of current Robotic Manipulators analysis and nondestructive testing. interest. Introduction to robot manipulators from 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the mechanical viewpoint, emphasizing May be repeated for credit. fundamentals of various mechanisms and MEC 585: Total Quality Management design considerations. Kinematics on 2D and Concepts of TQM and quality improvement MEC 634: Advanced Topics in 3D manipulators; statics and dynamics; motion methods to attain world-class performance Kinematics and Dynamics of Machines planning; control fundamentals; algorithms in business operations. Topics include The subject matter of each special topics development; computer-graphics simulation of policy deployment, process improvement course varies from semester to semester, manipulators; current applications. methodology, daily work management, quality depending on the interests of students and Prerequisite: Permission of instructor story methodology, six sigma, poka-yoke, ISO, staff. Advanced topics and specialized topics Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Deming and Baldridge Awards criteria. will be discussed, particularly those of current Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, interest. etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MEC 572: Computer-Aided Design of May be repeated for credit. Shapes and Motions MEC 596: Projects in Mechanical This class would focus on presenting a Engineering MEC 635: Advanced Topics in unifying treatment for the design of geometric Conducted jointly by graduate students and Nonlinear Dynamic Systems shapes, such as curves and surfaces as well one or more members of the faculty. The subject matter of each special topics as motions of entities, such as lines, planes, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course varies from semester to semester, and rigid bodies. It will be shown that in the May be repeated for credit. depending on the interests of students and language of projective geometry, one can staff. Advanced topics and specialized topics design curves, surface, and motions utilizing MEC 597: Graduate Research and will be discussed, particularly those of current same algorithms and similar data structures. Study in Manufacturing interest. In the process, the students will learn the Independent research or project in the area of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) theory of NURBS (Non- Uniform Rational B- manufacturing processes or systems. May be repeated for credit. splines), which is the standard representation 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in existing CAD/CAM system, and extend MEC 636: Advanced Topics in it to the space of rigid body displacements MEC 599: Research Mechanical Vibration for the design of motions. Students will implement shape and motion design algorithms Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-12 credits, S/U The subject matter of each special topics in graphical computer programs. grading course varies from semester to semester, May be repeated for credit. depending on the interests of students and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) staff. Advanced topics and specialized topics will be discussed, particularly those of current MEC 575: Introduction to Micro MEC 630: Special Topics in Fluid interest. Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Mechanics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) An introduction to the fundamental knowledge TThe subject matter of each special topics May be repeated for credit. and experience in the design and manufacture course varies from semester to semester, of microsystems. Emphasis will be placed on depending on the interests of students and staff. Advanced topics and specialized topics MEC 637: Special Topics in Precision the methodologies for design, fabrication, and Engineering packaging of microsystems. An overview on will be discussed, particularly those of current fabrication and manufacturing technologies for interest. The subject matter of each special topics producing microsystems will also be covered. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course varies from semester to semester, Interdisciplinary nature of MEMS will be May be repeated for credit. depending on the interests of students and staff. Advanced topics and specialized topics

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 207 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 will be discussed, particularly those of current and spring. 0 credits, S/U grading. May be MEC 701: Dissertation Research off interest. repeated. Campus - International 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) S/U grading Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. (G5). Major portion of research will take place outside of the United States and/or MEC 641: Fracture Mechanics MEC 695: Mechanical Engineering U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the The mechanics of brittle and ductile fracture Internship option of the health plan and may also enroll in engineering materials are studied. Major Participation in off-campus engineering in MEDEX. International students who are subjects are linear elastic fracture, elastic- practice in private corporations, public in their home country are not covered by plastic fracture, and fatigue crack analysis. agencies, or non-profit institutions. Students mandatory health plan and must contact the Topics also include stress intensity factor, will be required to have faculty coordinator Insurance Office for the insurance charge to energy release rate, J-integ. as well as a contact in outside organization, to be removed. International students who are Prerequisite: MEC 536, participate with them in regular consultations not in their home country are charged for the Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, on the project, and to submit a final report to mandatory health insurance. If they are to be Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) both. A maximum of 3 credits can be accepted covered by another insurance plan they must toward the M.S. degree. file a waiver be second week of classes. The MEC 651: Advanced Finite Element Fall, 1 credit, S/U grading charge will only be removed if other plan is Analysis May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. deemed comparable. Finite element method for the analysis of All international students must received continuous media. In-depth discussion of MEC 696: Special Problems in clearance from an International Advisor. penalty method, integration techniques, Mechanical Engineering Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading and differential equation solvers. Computer Conducted jointly by graduate students and May be repeated for credit. implementation of finite element code in one or more members of the faculty. MEC 800: Full Time Summer Research nonlinear elastic, elastic-plastic materials, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and dynamic problems. Major topics are May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. 2-D and 3D element formulations, stress update algorithms, Newton-Raphson MEC 697: Practicum in Teaching I iterative technique, and explicit/implicit time Every TA must register for the course MGT integration schemes. Fall, Spring, S/U grading Harriman School Prerequisites: MEC 541, MEC 539 May be repeated for credit. Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, MGT 535: Financial Accounting Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MEC 698: Practicum in Teaching II Introduction and exploration of basic financial Practicum in teaching under faculty MEC 656: Aerospace Propulsion accounting terminology, principles, concepts, supervision Fundamentals of propulsion; performance and their relevant business applications. 1-3 credits, S/U grading parameters, thermodynamic cycles. This course will include the recording, May be repeated for credit. Introduction to combustion and combustors. summarization, and adjustment of financial Performance and cycle analysis of various transactions and the preparation and MEC 699: Dissertation Research on presentation of the basic financial statements. flight propulsion systems: turbojets, turbofans, Campus ramjets, scramjets, rockets, propellers. Design Other topics will include valuation methods of supersonic inlet nozzles, component Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). for cash, accounts receivable, inventory and matching and map. Major portion of research must take place on property, plant and equipment. This course is SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the also offered as EMP 502. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Brookhaven National Lab. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MEC 662: Advanced Vibration and Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U Analysis grading May be repeated for credit. Principle and techniques of vibration analysis MKT of structures and machines. Includes free MEC 700: Dissertation Research off Marketing and forced vibration responses of linear Campus - Domestic limped-parameter, multiple dof systems; MKT 516: Strategic Brand Management model analysis of distributed, continuous Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy (G5). Major portion of research will take place Highly interactive course. Hands-on, practical systems; non-linear vibration analysis; random exploration of product, service, and enterprise- vibrations. off-campus, but in the United States and/ or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven wide brand building and management. Course 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab is structured along daily responsibilities and are considered on-campus. All international challenges faced by working brand/marketing MEC 691: Mechanical Engineering students must enroll in one of the graduate managers and will provide experience with Seminar student insurance plans and should be advised proven strategies for building successful This course is designed to expose students by an International Advisor. brands in the competitive marketplace, to cutting-edge research and development the decisions and options faced by brand Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading activities in mechanical engineering. Speakers managers, and the tools to effectively manage May be repeated for credit. are invited from both on and off campus. Fall brands.

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3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MKT 535: New Product Development and intermediaries). The second half of New products are a very important part of the course will examine tools available to MKT 518: Principles of Sales most all modern companies, particularly those marketers to execute strategic decisions. Management having to compete on a global level. This 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course prepares students to manage a course looks at the specific challenges in sales force. Through lectures, discussions, both coming up (conceptualization, design, MKT 569: Digital Marketing assignments, and case analysis, students will and development) with new products and Marketing on the internet is constantly understand principles and best procedures of how to market them to different marketplace changing. This course will give you a sales force management as they apply to both segments. Target marketing techniques theoretical understanding of different digital small and large organizations. and quantitative and qualitative approaches marketing activities, current trends and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to assessing markets and product/market changes, and the skills to perform vital daily fits will be examined in depth. This course digital market functions. We will cover Search MKT 519: Social Media Marketing will incorporate a combination of formats - Engine Optimization and Search Engine Strategy including lectures, computer labs, and team Marketing (SEO/SEM), Email Marketing, Social Media Marketing Strategy covers projects. It is recommended that Marketing Social Media Campaigns, Reputation theoretical and practical perspectives for Research be taken before this course. Management and E-mail marketing. By the developing and implementing social media 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) end of the course, students will have earned marketing strategies. The course is designed two certificates: 1) Digital Marketing from to expose students to state-of-the-art practices MKT 565: Consumer Insights Stukent and 2) Google Analytics. Both of these in social media marketing with an emphasis Marketing is the business function that deals certificates are well-respected and regarded on leveraging insights from social media to with customers¿ needs and wants. Thus, in industry and will place students in a good inform strategic firm decisions. an essential component of marketing is position for the Digital Marketing job market. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) understanding consumers and to develop a 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) deep understanding of consumers¿ needs MKT 521: Industry Project in Marketing and wants, you need to conduct marketing MKT 580: Integrated Marketing The Industry Project course in Marketing is a research. Psychological and social science Communications capstone course that facilitates the transition research has produced numerous theoretical Integrated Marketing Communications is from University to the workplace through and technological advances that offer access the practice of developing an overall media the development of a "real world" semester to the inner workings of the mind, providing and messaging strategy with a consistent long client project which is mentored by a marketers with research tools to more message to the marketplace. This course faculty supervisor. Students will work in effectively discover and fulfill consumer provides students an opportunity to gain teams to learn how to manage themselves and needs. This course provides an overview of the an understanding of how to effectively others when developing solutions to real world marketing, psychological, and social science communicate with consumers. Topics may business problems. Students will enhance their knowledge relevant to consumer behavior include communication theory, appropriate use leadership skills as well as conduct research, and also provides an introduction to research of different media (e.g., television, radio, print, analyze information, and present their findings. methods for marketers to utilize when pursuing online), and media planning. The format of the course will be a combination organizational goals. In this course, students 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of classroom work and independent work in will learn about qualitative and quantitative the form of consulting and site visits with marketing techniques such as how to conduct the client. The course culminates with a a focus group, how to conduct high-quality MST professionally written marketing plan and survey research, how to conduct conjoint presentation to the client. Should be taken analysis, and how to use the IAT to develop a Medical Scientist Training during the student's final semester. deeper understanding of consumers' implicit Program 6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) beliefs. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MST 501: Selected Topics in MKT 534: Marketing and Society Translation/Research and Clinical This course applies traditional marketing MKT 567: Integrated Marketing Pathological Correlations principles and techniques to the challenges Management The learning goals of this course are for the and rewards of promoting positive public Marketing managers must be able to determine students to gain an appreciation of examples behavior. We will first examine arguments for which customers their organization should of research by physician scientists and its marketing being used as a force for bad or as a serve, which products and services it should clinical application. A clinical case will be force for good before exploring concepts and offer them, and how. This course is intended presented by faculty or senior students and theories from the behavioral sciences including to develop an analytical framework for these this case will be discussed in the light of psychological, sociological, economic, and decisions that permits managers to maximize a recent biomedical research publication. cultural perspectives and analyzing their their organization's return on marketing The publications are presented, analyzed usefulness for promoting public welfare. By expenditures. Emphasis will be placed on and discussed by the students as a group. the end of the course, students will propose developing a position in the marketplace Topics are selected from the recent biomedical a comprehensive social marketing plan for that provides value to customers that is literature and can involve any clinical enhancing consumer welfare in their domain of not readily duplicated by competitors. As discipline, basic life science research topics as interest. a result, the first half of the course will well as bioengineering topics. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) develop models for understanding customers, 0-1 credits, S/U grading competitors, and collaborators (e.g., suppliers

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May be repeated for credit. Seminar reports and research papers on works Study of an instrument or voice as a of major significance. supplement to other work in a graduate music MST 502: Clinical Scientist Seminar Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) program. This course is designed for students Series who require piano study in order to pass The learning goals of this course are for the MUS 504: Analysis of Music of the 20th the piano proficiency requirement, and for students to gain an appreciation of examples and 21st Centuries students not in a performance degree program of research by physician scientists and its Detailed analyses of various works that are who wish to study voice or an instrument. clinical application. A clinical case will be representative of the significant compositional Prerequisite: Audition presented by faculty or senior students and systems of recent music. Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, this case will be discussed in the light of Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A-, B+, etc.) a recent biomedical research publication. May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. The publications are presented, analyzed and discussed by the students as a group. MUS 505: Foundations of Musicianship MUS 513: Workshop in Instrumentation Topics are selected from the recent biomedical and Orchestration An intensive workshop in the skills of sight literature and can involve any clinical singing and dictation of tonal melodies, Studies in writing for specific instruments discipline, basic life science research topics as rhythm, and diatonic harmony. Repertoire and ensembles through practical exercises well as bioengineering topics. is drawn from diverse styles and periods. and examination of the repertory. Faculty and 0-1 credits, S/U grading Qualified students may be exempted from this student performers discuss the capabilities May be repeated for credit. course through a placement exam given at the of their instruments and perform and discuss beginning of the fall semester. exercises written for the class. Fall, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, MUS B+, etc.) Music MUS 506: Graduate Musicianship MUS 514: Audio Engineering An intensive workshop in the development MUS 500: Introduction to Music of musicianship skills in advanced tonal and Technical fundamentals of audio engineering Research atonal music. The course includes dictation in for the serious practitioner, with primary An introduction into the scholarly study a variety of harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic emphasis on sound reinforcement and of Western music. Topics may include: categories and prepared singing and sight- recording arts. The course focuses on bibliographic tools for research; historical, singing of complex tonal and atonal melodies measurement and critical listening, and theoretical, and analytical methodologies; (in bass, alto, tenor, and treble clef). Qualified investigates the basic operational theory of textual scholarship; organology and students may be exempted from this course principal devices and systems. iconography; performance practice; aesthetics through a placement exam given at the Prerequisite: permission of instructor and criticism; sociology of music; perception beginning of the fall semester. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and cognition; gender and sexuality; Spring, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) musicology in today's academia and society. etc.) Overview of the history of the field. Emphasis MUS 515: The Fundamentals of on recent trends in American musicology. MUS 507: Studies in Music History Electronic Music Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Concentrated study of the works of a single A short survey of the history and literature composer, or of repertories that represent of the medium is followed by study of the MUS 501: Compositional Skills of single compositional tendencies in Western pertinent background in theoretical acoustics Tonal Music music. Recent topics have included Mozart's and practical engineering. Students are An intensive course in chorale harmonization operas, Goethe's Faust and the symphonic instructed in the basic techniques of electronic and counterpoint. (Enrollment limited to 12.) tradition, Bach cantatas, virtuosity, Stravinsky, sound production and modification. Permission of instructor required. music and nationalism, and introduction to Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) popular music studies. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MUS 516: Electronic Music Workshop 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MUS 502: Proseminar in Tonal May be repeated for credit. Individual short experimental works or Analysis specific assignments. Uses of electronic music The application of various techniques of MUS 508: Studies in Composition and equipment. analysis to tonal works. Rhythmic, harmonic, Theory Prerequisite: MUS 515 or the equivalent linear, thematic, and other elements of Study of contemporary or traditional Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, musical structure are considered. Preparation compositional techniques or styles, including etc.) equivalent to MUS 501 is assumed. both analysis and exercises in writing. Not more than eight credits of MUS 507, 508, and MUS 517: Introduction to Computer Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Music etc.) 509 combined may be counted toward the May be repeated for credit. degree. A hands-on introduction to the uses of Fall or Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, computers in the creation and performance MUS 503: Music in the 20th and 21st A-, B+, etc.) of music. Topics include software synthesis, Centuries May be repeated for credit. computer manipulation of natural sound, MIDI An intensive course in contemporary musical instruments and their use, and interactive styles, focusing on historical problems. MUS 509: Performance Studies

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Operas have traditionally 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) absorbed narratives from mythology and MUS 518: Advanced Projects in history but have also been characterized by MUS 538: Phenomenological Computer Music freely-invented plots. Operas have often Approaches to Music Analysis Advanced projects, individual or collaborative, generated political, philosophical, and artistic Concepts from phenomenological philosophy in computer music. debates, and provide today's scholars with a are used as a basis for the study of music from unique window into historical, ideological, Prerequisite: MUS 517 and permission of various periods and cultures, with an emphasis sociological, and aesthetic issues. The hybrid instructor on recent music in the Western classical genre par excellence, opera continues to be Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, tradition. Readings include Heidegger, a catalyst for creativity in various arts, and A-, B+, etc.) Husserl, and later writings in phenomenology; in present-day production often features the May be repeated for credit. philosophies of space and time; and music most advanced media and technologies. This theoretic studies by Clifton, J. Kramer, Lewin, MUS 519: Composer's Forum seminar will capitalize on both the continuity and others. and the diversity of the genre, bringing Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Practicum for student composers to learn how together graduate students in music history, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to present their music in a professional context. theory, and performance. 1-2 credits, S/U grading Offered MUS 539: Proseminar in May be repeated for credit. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Ethnomusicology etc.) MUS 520: Introduction to Music An introduction to the field of May be repeated for credit. Research for DMA Students ethnomusicology as practiced in Europe and North America over the past century. An introduction to music research and MUS 535: Lecture-Workshop in the Theoretical and methodological approaches in bibliography for DMA and MA students in Performance of Baroque Music ethnomusicology are examined as they relate their first year of study. Introduces students to An examination of problems confronting music research databases and searching, proper to major periods in the history of ethnographic the performer of music from the period disciplines. bibliographic practices, score editions and ca. 1600-1750, from both musicological Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) other information relevant to doctoral research. and practical points of view. The basso Administered as an asynchronous tutorial with continuo, its function and realization; phrasing synchronous components added as needed. MUS 540: Studies in Cultural and articulation; ornaments, notated and Historiography May be waived by proof of comparable course improvised; period instruments; aspects of in earlier study. notation; bibliography. The course meets in This course is intended to promote the S/U grading lecture for two hours each week with a third student's knowledge and reflection about the hour devoted to the coaching of a rehearsal or study of the history of the arts as history. MUS 523: Advanced Composition performance of music prepared by members of It is organized on the following topics: Individual projects for graduate students in the class. origins and philosophical foundations composition. of the modern historical consciousness; Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, the nature of historical knowledge and Fall and Spring, 2-6 credits, Letter graded (A, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) explanation; historiographic models; and A-, B+, etc.) origins, philosophical foundations, and genres May be repeated for credit. MUS 536: Area Studies in of historical musicology. Ethnomusicology Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, MUS 524: Topics in Music Composition Examination of the music of a selected Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Topics in Music Composition treats specific world area, combining musical analysis with genres and techniques of music composition- a consideration of historical, social, and MUS 541: Topics in the Cross-Cultural such as composing for string quartet, opera, performance contexts. Recent topics have Study of Music orchestra, wind ensemble, Pierrot ensemble- included Brazilian music from 1822 to the in any given semester and is intended as a present; music, politics, and society in Eastern Examination of a topic of current interest in practical course for composers. Students will Europe; and a century of Middle Eastern the cross-cultural study of music. Readings compose for an ensemble, workshop their musics. May be repeated for credit. from various intellectual traditions in the humanities and social sciences provide a music, and study relevant scores by other Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, composers. 1-3 credits. context within which to appraise recent B+, etc.) research in ethnomusicology, historical 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. musicology, and popular music studies, and May be repeated for credit. to formulate possible directions for future MUS 537: Research Methods in research. Representative topics include music MUS 534: Opera Studies Ethnomusicology and gender, music and the media, music and One of the most resilient and popular genres A practicum covering both the theoretical power, and performance and performers. of spectacle in the West, opera has seen a foundations and practical components remarkable continuity as an institution since of ethnomusicological field research and

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Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Historical, analytical, and critical issues in the teachers, elementary school classroom teachers B+, etc.) music of the 19th century. Recent topics have and professional musicians. Participants are May be repeated for credit. included Italian opera, the unfinished works of expected to be able to read and notate simple Schubert, and genre in Chopin's oeuvre. rhythms and melodies. (formerly: Musical MUS 542: Ethnomusicology and Social Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Learning, the Body, and Eurhythmics) Theory Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) An introduction to major schools of social May be repeated for credit. theory as they may be applied to the MUS 563: Advanced Choral analysis of music and related performance MUS 555: Topics in 20th-Century Conducting A forms. Theoretical writings in sociology, Music Advanced training in preparing and conducting anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies and Focused study of selected issues in music choral works. Students spend a semester related fields will be paired with case studies of the 20th century. Recent topics have in score study, receive individual private that situate musical creation, performance and included primitivism and exoticism; quotation, instruction, and are expected to participate in dissemination within the unfolding of societal borrowing, and collage; the music of Roger the rehearsing of the University Chorus, the processes. Sessions; and the Second Viennese school. University Chorale, and the Chamber Singers. Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Open only to students enrolled in graduate Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) B+, etc.) conducting programs. May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 3-6 credits, Letter graded (A, MUS 543: Topics in Medieval Music A-, B+, etc.) Study of a focused area in medieval music, MUS 557: Topics in Theory such as the works of Guillaume de Machaut, Studies in the writings of music theorists from MUS 564: Advanced Choral transmission processes, and the Notre Dame the Middle Ages through the present day in the Conducting B repertory. context of contemporary repertoires. Recent Advanced training in preparing and conducting Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, topics have included modal theory as a model choral works. Not open to students enrolled in B+, etc.) for melodic construction; efforts to adapt the graduate conducting programs. May be repeated for credit. modal theory to polyphonic practice; rhythm in Prerequisite: Instructor consent theory and practice; theories of tonality from Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, MUS 545: Topics in Renaissance Music Rameau to Schenker; theoretical approaches to A-, B+, etc.) Historical, analytical, and critical issues related post-tonal and 12-tone music; and theories of to Renaissance music. Recent topics have timbre and texture. MUS 565: Stony Brook Symphony included early 15th-century song repertories, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Orchestra the boundaries of the Renaissance, and the B+, etc.) Study and performance of orchestral works works of Ockeghem. May be repeated if topic May be repeated for credit. from the Baroque period to the present. is sufficiently different. Fall and Spring, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, MUS 559: Topics in Analysis Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, A-, B+, etc.) B+, etc.) Intensive analytical study of selected works May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. and exploration of analytical problems. Recent topics have included analysis and performance, MUS 566: Camerata Singers MUS 547: Topics in Baroque Music melody, Xenakis and Ligeti, Beethoven's late Study and performance of choral works for Historical problems in music of the Baroque quartets, Berg's Lulu, and the string quartet chamber chorus from all periods of music era. Recent topics have included German since 1945. history. Passion settings, theories of expression and Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, May be repeated. representation, and musical rhetoric. Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall and Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, May be repeated for credit. B+, etc.) B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. MUS 562: Dalcroze Method: Music Pedagogy for Children MUS 567: Master Class in Orchestral MUS 549: Topics in 18th-Century A focus on the unique approach of Emile Repertory Music Jacques-Dalcroze, which takes into Study of orchestral parts for sections (brass, Investigation of critical, analytical, and consideration his approach in light of recent strings, woodwinds) or for individual historical issues in 18th-century music, such as developments in early childhood music instruments. The course emphasizes overall the interpretation of sketches and fragments, education. The idea that students experience ensemble skills and audition preparation. counterpoint teaching in the 1790s, and the music physically before they wrestle with Different sections directed toward specific music of Mozart. symbols and theoretical abstraction is at the groups. See the course listing for offerings in Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, heart of Dalcroze work. The Dalcroze music any particular semester. pedagogy includes: Eurhythmics-developing B+, etc.) Fall and Spring, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, a sense of rhythm and musical expression May be repeated for credit. A-, B+, etc.) through whole-body movement; Solfége- May be repeated for credit. MUS 553: Topics in 19th-Century developing a sense of harmony and rhythm Music through singing games; and Improvisation. MUS 568: Jazz Big Band This class is designed primarily for music

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Study and performance of works for jazz MUS 573: Chamber Music comprehension, and musical values. Course ensemble from the early 20th century to the Chamber ensembles such as the string quartet, work includes coaching in appropriate song present. wind quintet, solo vocal ensemble, two- and operatic literature. The specific language Fall, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, piano team, and other special groups meet, studied rotates from semester to semester. etc.) each under the direction of a member of the Fall and Spring, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, May be repeated for credit. performance faculty, for the study of works A-, B+, etc.) from the repertories of the respective groups, May be repeated for credit. MUS 569: Perspectives on the with particular attention given to the music of Performance of Music Since 1945 the 20th and 21st centuries. MUS 581: Harpsichord for Pianists (Beginning) The course focuses on issues of performance Required: Presence at coaching sessions, of music written after 1945 from technical, at least three hours per week of uncoached Fundamentals of harpsichord techniques, conceptual and aesthetic perspectives. rehearsal, and at least one performance per touch, and repertoire for students already Weekly assignments will be focused semester possessing a keyboard background. around topics such as: notation; extended Fall and Spring, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, Fall, alternate years, 2 credits, Letter graded techniques; rhythmic practices; performing A-, B+, etc.) (A, A-, B+, etc.) with electronics; structure and analysis; the May be repeated for credit. theatricality of performance; music and the MUS 582: Harpsichord for Pianists political; interpretation and style, including MUS 575: Master Class in Solo (Advanced) cross-cultural and cross-gentre works; and Repertory for Instrument or Voice Continuation of MUS 581: Further exploration indeterminacy/choice/improvisation. Performance techniques and problems in of techniques and repertoire. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, works for instrument or voice, drawn from all Prerequisite: Piano major or strong keyboard etc.) historical periods. The instructor is a teacher background. of the specific instrument in each case, except Spring, alternate years, 2 credits, Letter MUS 570: Introduction to the History that his or her section may be open to students graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and Performance of the String Bass in of certain other instruments with his or her Jazz permission. Not offered each semester in every MUS 583: Continuo Realization Study of the historical development of the instrument. Practical and theoretical instruction in figured string bass in jazz and other related improvised Fall and Spring, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, bass realization, based on the study of vocal musics through a selection of reading and A-, B+, etc.) and instrumental scores from 1600-1750. listening projects. Practical assignments May be repeated for credit. Required of students in harpsichord. Open, will include making transcriptions of classic with consent of the instructor, to other records and then learning to play them on MUS 576: Instrumental Repertoire qualified students who have some knowledge bass, employing the time-proven method of before 1750 of figured bass realization. "copying the masters." Exploration of instrumental repertoire in the Fall or Spring, alternate years, 2 credits, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 17th and 18th centuries. Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall or Spring, alternate years, 2 credits, MUS 571: Advanced Instruction in Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MUS 584: Baroque Chamber Ensemble Instrument or Voice Study and performance of instrumental and Individual guidance in technique and MUS 577: Master Class in Performance vocal music, 1600-1750. Participants work repertory, with 30 practice hours required each Pedagogy from scholarly editions and original sources week. Each student is required to perform Guidance and supervision in the teaching of an whenever possible and have the possibility of at least one solo piece per semester, unless instrument or voice. performing on replicas of early instruments. excused by the instructor in a written note to 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A concert is given at the end of the class term. the department's graduate program committee. Acceptance by audition. Fall and Spring, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, MUS 579: Opera Workshop Fall and Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, A-, B+, etc.) Study and performance of scenes and complete B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. operas from the standard and 20th-century May be repeated for credit. repertories. An interdisciplinary approach MUS 572: Improvisation involving the departments of Music and MUS 585: Early Music Performance Practical study of the skills and sources of Theatre Arts. Practice musical improvisation, including playfulness, Fall and Spring, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, Study and implementation of Renaissance emotion, courage, concentration, risk, A-, B+, etc.) and Baroque performance practices. Areas instrumental and vocal technique, patience May be repeated for credit. include brass ensemble music and lute and and trust. Improvisational skills will not guitar repertories. be limited to any single musical style. All MUS 580: Vocal Diction Fall and Spring, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, students will be required to improvise vocally A thorough study of the rules of pronunciation A-, B+, etc.) or instrumentally. and International Phonetic Alphabet May be repeated for credit. Fall, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, transcription in a major language of the voice etc.) repertory: Italian, French, or German. Special MUS 586: Collaborative Keyboard May be repeated for credit. attention to lyric projection of the language Performance as it relates to voice production, listener

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Study and performance of the keyboard parts including teaching, solo and ensemble MUS 623: Directed Study in of instrumental and vocal recital repertoire. performance, conducting, internships and Composition 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) related musical work, both on and off-campus. Intended for doctoral students in composition. All off-campus activities in fulfillment of this May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, Letter graded course must be approved by the Graduate (A, A-, B+, etc.) MUS 587: Collaborative Keyboard Program Director, who acts as supervisor for May be repeated for credit. Study and performance of the keyboard parts this course. This course is only to be used of instrumental and vocal recital repertoire. for Winter and Summer sessions. Winter and MUS 661: Directed Study in Summer only, S/U grading May be repeated. 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Conducting May be repeated for credit. S/U grading Intended for doctoral students in conducting. May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, Letter graded MUS 590: Masters Practicum in (A, A-, B+, etc.) Professional Skills MUS 596: Contemporary Chamber Players May be repeated for credit. Practical training in activities related to the professional work of a performing musician, The study and performance of music of MUS 671: Directed Study in including teaching, solo and ensemble the 20th and 21st centuries for ensemble, Instrumental and Vocal Performance ranging from duos to larger conducted groups. performance, conducting, internships and Intended for doctoral students in instrumental Repertoire includes 20th-century classics as related musical work, both on and off-campus. and vocal performance. Required of all full-time students in the well as new works, including compositions Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, Letter graded M.M. performance program. All off-campus written by Stony Brook students. A full (A, A-, B+, etc.) activities in fulfillment of this course must be schedule of public performances takes place. May be repeated for credit. approved by the Graduate Program Director, Prerequisite: Permission of instructors who acts as supervisor for this course. Fall Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, MUS 690: Doctoral Practicum in and Spring only, 1 credit, S/U grading May be A-, B+, etc.) Professional Skills repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. Practical training in activities related to the 1 credit, S/U grading MUS 597: Jazz Chamber Ensemble professional work of a performing musician, May be repeated for credit. including teaching, solo and ensemble Study and performance of works for jazz performance, conducting, internships and MUS 591: Practicum in Teaching ensemble. Prerequisites: Permission: Audition related musical work, both on and off-campus. required. Fall and Spring Instruction in the department under the Required of all full-time students in the supervision of the faculty. (MUS 591 may not 0-1 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) D.M.A. performance program, except for be included in the courses taken in fulfillment May be repeated for credit. students taking MUS 701. All off-campus of degree requirements.) activities in fulfillment of this course must be MUS 599: Independent Studies Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading approved by the Graduate Program Director, May be repeated for credit. Individual studies under the guidance of a who acts as supervisor for this course. faculty member. Each student must submit 1 credit, S/U grading MUS 592: Seminar on the Teaching of to the graduate studies committee of the May be repeated for credit. Music department a written prospectus of the work Discussion of fundamental problems he or she intends to pursue, with the amount MUS 694: Doctoral Intersession in teaching music. Topics may include of credit proposed, together with the written Practicum endorsement of the prospective instructor. the explanation of musical processes; Practical training in activities related to the Approval of the graduate studies committee communication to nonprofessionals; and professional work of a performing musician, is required; hence this material should be integration of aspects of performance, theory, including teaching, solo and ensemble submitted as soon as possible, and in any case history, and analysis with one another. performance, conducting, internships and within the first two weeks of the semester (or Required of all students who teach one of related musical work, both on and off-campus. the first week of a summer session). the introductory undergraduate courses in All off-campus activities in fulfillment of this musicianship, theory, or literature; to be taken 0-16 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course must be approved by the Graduate during the first semester of teaching. May be repeated for credit. Program Director, who acts as supervisor for Fall, 1 credit, S/U grading this course. This course is only to be used MUS 615: Seminar in Electronic Music May be repeated for credit. for Winter and Summer sessions. Winter and Composition Summer only, S/U grading May be repeated. MUS 593: Practicum in Performance Individual compositions of substantial S/U grading proportions in electronic or concrete music Individual instruction and/or coaching for May be repeated for credit. professional performing experience. media. The course may be repeated. Open only to qualified students in a music degree Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading MUS 695: Doctoral Essay Tutorial program. May be repeated for credit. Development of an essay to fulfill Prerequisite: MUS 516 or the equivalent requirements in either DMA or PhD programs. MUS 594: Masters Intersession Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Students may enroll in this course only after Practicum A-, B+, etc.) completing the required graduate seminars or Practical training in activities related to the May be repeated for credit. proseminars (see program requirements) with a professional work of a performing musician,

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 214 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 grade of "B" or better in both the seminar and in their home country are not covered by design and basic experimental techniques the essay to be developed. mandatory health plan and must contact the used in neuroscience research including Prerequisite: MUS 502, 503, 504, 507, 535, Insurance Office for the insurance charge to electrophysiology, behavioral testing, 537-555, 557, or 559 be removed. International students who are molecular and cellular techniques, imaging Fall and Spring, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, not in their home country are charged for the and computational approaches. Prerequisites: A-, B+, etc.) mandatory health insurance. If they are to be Matriculation in MS program or permission of May be repeated for credit. covered by another insurance plan they must instructor Summer 3 credits, Letter graded (A, file a waiver be second week of classes. The A-, B+, etc.) MUS 696: Doctoral Colloquium or charge will only be removed if other plan is 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Lecture-Recital deemed comparable. Students are required to enroll in MUS 696 in All international students must received NEU 502: Reading, Writing, and the semester in which the Ph.D. colloquium clearance from an International Advisor. Speaking Neurobiology or the D.M.A. lecture-recital is given. The Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Seminar course for master's students in instructor, chosen in consultation with the May be repeated for credit. Neuroscience that will provide the student with directing committee, acts as an advisor or practical instruction in analyzing the literature, tutor, and signals to the graduate program MUS 800: Summer Research written and oral presentation skills. Course committee that the colloquium or lecture- Students who receive support for summer exercises will focus on the student's thesis recital may be given. research must register for this course, which research. Fall and Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading gives them full-time status. 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. S/U grading May be repeated for credit. NEU 517: Principles of Cell Signaling MUS 697: Directed Reading Nervous system function is dependant on the Intended for preparation for the preliminary MUS 850: Summer Teaching ability of signals to flow between and within examinations and related requirements. Students who receive support for summer cells. The basic principles of cellular signaling Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading teaching must register for this course, which and maintenance of cellular and organismic May be repeated for credit. gives them full-time status. homeostasis through intra and intercellular S/U grading signaling mechanisms will be covered. MUS 699: Dissertation Research on Emphasis will be placed on relationships Campus between nuclear events and ongoing processes Intended for work in the area of the NET of the cell. The roles of membrane receptors dissertation. and second-messenger pathways in mediating Independent Project such diverse events as bacterial chemotaxis, Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). protozoan locomotion, and secretion are Major portion of research must take place on NET 508: OBJ.ORIENTED SYS DEV discussed. Semesters Offered: Summer SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Brookhaven National Lab. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) NET 509: ADVANCED VLSI DESIGN Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U NEU 521: Introduction to Cellular grading Neuroscience May be repeated for credit. NET 510: ADV.PROD:SCHED.CNTRL The course introduces students to basic MUS 700: Dissertation Research off NET 512: INTRO TO ELOPTICS principles of cellular neuroscience. Topics Campus - Domestic covered include the ionic basis of resting potentials and electrical excitability, the Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy NET 513: PRIN ENGR MGT II (G5). Major portion of research will take place structure, function and molecular biology off-campus, but in the United States and/ of voltage-and ligand-gated ion channels. or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven NET 514: SEM DEVICE PROCESIN Semesters Offered: Fall National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab 2-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) are considered on-campus. All international NET 515: SEMICONDUC DEVCE PRO students must enroll in one of the graduate NEU 522: Introduction to Molecular Neuroscience student insurance plans and should be advised NET 516: Man Machine Systems by an International Advisor. The course introduces students to basic Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading principles of molecular neuroscience. Topics May be repeated for credit. covered include the signal transduction, NEU regulation of neural gene expression and MUS 701: Dissertation Research off Neuroscience human neural genetic diseases. Semesters Campus - International Offered: Fall Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy NEU 501: Introduction to Neuroscience 2-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) (G5). Major portion of research will take Research NEU 531: Sensory and Motor Systems place outside of the United States and/or A series of talks, discussions, and practical U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the exercises to address topics related to research This course introduces students to current option of the health plan and may also enroll in neurobiology including laboratory etiquette, debates on sensory and motor systems. Topics in MEDEX. International students who are the laboratory notebook, experimental and areas covered include: general principles

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NEU 532: Neural Plasticity Learning A broad introduction to neural computation. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and Memory This course will discuss what counts as This course introduces students to the link ¿computation¿ and in what sense the brain NUR 631: Concepts, Theories and between plasticity, learning and memory. computes, how it computes, and whether Knowledge Development in Nursing Topics covered include: synaptic plasticity, those computations look anything like Science synaptic homeotasis, brain connectivity, those performed by digital computers. This course will provide doctoral students neurogenesis, aversive and reward learning, These ideas and concepts will be introduced with a systematic overview of concepts addiction. through examples of computation in the and theories as a foundation for knowledge 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) brain, including the neural bases of sensory development in nursing. Conceptual and perception, decision making, learning and analytical skills are developed through analysis NEU 534: Principles of Neurobiology memory, and motor control. Students will and critique of nursing concepts, clinical Neuroscience investigates how the brain learn through in-class demonstrations and phenomena and science-based theories. The functions. This course begins with a review activities, as well as homework assignments course examines the theoretical and empirical of cellular and molecular mechanisms of that give students the opportunity to analyze foundation of nursing, approaches to the brain function, considers brain systems for real neural recordings relevant to each of the analysis and development of nursing concepts, motor control and sensory processing, and topic modules. Students taking this class will the role of concepts in nursing science, and then finishes with a description of the cellular be expected to have basic working knowledge the applicability of nursing concepts and and molecular underpinnings of higher brain in undergraduate-level calculus and statistics. theories to clinical practice. Focus will be on functions such as learning, emotion, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) development and use of conceptual language, cognition. Semester Offered: Summer critical thinking skills, and in analyzing NEU 548: MS Research Practicum in literature portraying key nursing concepts. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Neuroscience 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) NEU 536: Introduction to The student will be introduced to modern Computational Neuroscience neuroscience research techniques through NUR 635: Biostatistics This course will introduce students to participation in ongoing research in the This course will provide the student with the fundamental principles and methods laboratory of a Program in Neuroscience knowledge of statistical approaches used underlying computational modeling of Faculty member for one semester. Student in research. Applying statistical methods to neurobiological systems, spanning a range must obtain permission to register from the critically evaluate & evidence used in clinical of topics from the biophysics of excitable sponsoring faculty member. Prerequisite: decision making will be an important aspect of membranes to models of learning and Matriculation in MS program or permission of this course. memory. A major focus of the course will instructor Semesters Offered: 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) be on the process by which a model of a Fall, Spring, Summer, 0-9 credits, S/U grading neurobiological system is developed. Students May be repeated for credit. NUR 636: Advanced Statistical will be introduced to the mathematical Methods methods required for the modeling of such NEU 549: MS Thesis Research This course will build on the foundations of systems, as well as to tools for numerical and The student will conduct Neuroscience NUR 635 and extend the doctoral student¿s computational simulation. The students will research in the laboratory of a program in exposure to more complex inferential statistics also learn programming skills in the Matlab Neuroscience Faculty. Student must obtain used in healthcare research. Statistical computing environment and will be required permission to register from the sponsoring applications will be explored in the context of to perform Matlab projects to complement the faculty member. Prerequisite: Matriculation in nursing research. Practical application of these material learned in the lectures. MS program or permission of instructor. statistical methods will be conducted using 2-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 0-9 credits, S/U grading SPSS statistical software. May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) NEU 537: Nuerotransmission and Neuromodulation NUR 647: Doctoral Research Seminar Exploration of fundamental concepts of NUR This course builds on research and nursing neurotransmission and neuromodulation of Nursing core in the development of doctoral-level synaptic transmission. The subject matter academic skills essential for conducting a includes an overview of the basic principles of thorough literature search in the development NUR 630: Philosophical Foundations neurotransmission and of the neuromodulatory of a scholarly paper on the state of the science of Nursing Science systems in the brain. The involvement of these on a selected topic. Emphasis is place on systems in behavior and neurological disorders This course explores historical and establishing a scientific foundation of nursing is emphasized. We will discuss how specific current views of knowledge development practice, policy, and research. neurological disorders can be investigated underpinning philosophies of science, social science, and nursing science. Underlying 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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NUR 660: Quantitative Designs and be evaluated by participation in the class NUR 691: Dissertation Seminar II Methods in Nursing Research exercises, homework assignments, quizzes, on- This course focuses on the conduct of the Students will explore and analyze quantitative line course discussions through Blackboard, doctoral dissertation under the guidance of the research methods used in the biomedical, development of an individual simulated student's dissertation committee. Students will behavioral, social and nursing sciences project, and an individual oral presentation secure applicable human subjects protection, that are appropriate for the investigation of the student¿s simulated project describing carry out their research methodologies, of nursing research questions. This course their choices for data management methods and complete analyses of data. The course explores the major designs and methods used and results to be presented during the last two culminates in a scholarly paper (Dissertation) for the investigation of problems requiring classes. The individual project will include that exemplifies the student's expertise quantitative approaches. Types of research development of a questionnaire, codebook, and their new and creative contribution to designs are analyzed including major strengths database and creation of a test data set for nursing. Using a seminar format, teaching- and limitations of each. Population sampling, use in conducting analyses and the final learning strategies are designed to promote participant selection, data collection and presentation. critical/analytical thinking and scholarly analysis methods are compared and contrasted. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) discourse. Students are required to provide Data analysis will be incorporated using SPSS regular updates of the study's progress to the and other software programs. NUR 670: Independent Studies dissertation committee chairperson. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This student-initiated elective course provides 0-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) an opportunity to use enhance the depth May be repeated for credit. NUR 661: Qualitative Methods in of a student's chose area of research. The Nursing Research independent student can be in specific NUR 697: Research Practicum This course explores the major approaches to content areas or methodological or analytical The course introduces graduate students to qualitative inquiry. Philosophical or theoretical approaches. Independent Studies cannot significant and methodologically rigorous underpinnings specific to each approach replace courses for a degree. research. School of Nursing faculty and are analyzed. Selected frameworks for data 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) affiliated faculty from Stony Brook Medicine collection and analysis are presented. Selection May be repeated 4 times FOR credit. and Stony Brook University will serve as of participants, data collection and analysis of preceptors as students engage in a supervised, each tradition are compared and contrasted. NUR 680: Integrating Big Data to hands-on practicum with ongoing research. The elements of rigor in qualitative inquiry are Evaluate Population Health Students will develop contracts that identify explored. This course will focus on available sources individualized learning outcomes of the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of population data, how to access them, and practicum that will be facilitated by direct begin to explore geographic regions through advisement and mentorship of School of NUR 662: Data Management and data. Students will be introduced to the field Nursing and affiliated faculty. Opportunities Informatics for Clinical Scientists of Biomedical Informatics. Innovative tools during the practicum will include subject The aims of this course will be achieved by developed at Stony Brook by informaticians to recruitment and screening, data collection participation in a 45-hour (3 credit) course evaluate population health will be presented. and analyses, interpretation of results, consisting of lectures, hands-on computer Students will learn how to use data to identify research report writing an preparation of application training/labs, hands-on exercises/ populations at risk ¿ who they are, where they products for scholarly dissemination. While assignments, discussions and quizzes, and live and to identify key focus areas to target the research practicum may not necessarily an individual final presentation. The course intervention. With this knowledge students expose students to the specific population or will provide training in questionnaire design, will be able to outline programs that may problem of greatest interest to them, the skills the use for REDCap for data input and reduce health disparities, as well as evaluate or competencies mastered can prepare students managements, Excel for budget management, other health risks in regional populations. methodologically to carry out their dissertation SPSS for data processing and analysis, and 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) research strategy. Power Point for print/slide presentations and 3 credits, S/U grading report generation. Trainees will be instructed NUR 690: Dissertation Seminar I in the conduct for good clinical practice as it This course focuses on the development of NUR 698: Teaching Practicum relates to data collection and data management. the doctoral dissertation proposal. Students The course introduces graduate students to Trainees will be introduced to available will apply their theoretical knowledge and the major pedagogical theories and practices comprehensive systems for collaborations, research proficiency to transform their general in academia. Students will develop contracts data management and data capture (e.g., ideas about their dissertation topic into a that identify individualized learning outcomes REDCap, on Core) and issues of data security research strategy. Students will prepare key of the practicum that will be facilitated as it relates to clinical research. The hands-on elements of the dissertation proposal, including by direct advisement and mentorship of exercises/assignments, discussions, quizzes, Statement of the Problem, Research Questions School of Nursing faculty. The practicum and homework assignments will help to and/or Hypotheses Conceptual/Theoretical will include the student teaching part of a develop skills in questionnaire design, methods Framework, Literature Review, and Research course, developing learning modules and of data study collection, data capture, and Methods. Using a seminar format, teaching- student assignments, evaluating student data management while enforcing skills learning strategies are designed to promote performance, and evaluating their own for data analysis and presentation of study critical/analytical thinking and scholarly teaching performance. results. This course includes issues related discourse. 3 credits, S/U grading to data management and data collection 0-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) for a clinical research project to meet the May be repeated for credit. NUR 699: PhD Dissertation Research - needs of this group of trainees. Trainees will On Campus

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May be repeated for credit. This course further develops language skills and Gender, is one of the most fundamental at the supra segmental level, teaching skills, markers of identity. Using interdisciplinary NUR 700: PhD Dissertation Research- cultural awareness and presentation skills. and comparative methods and perspectives, Off Campus Intonation is taught with self-monitoring ethnicity's role in the constitutions of identities strategies. The teaching skills examine will be studied. May be repeated for credit. strategies for introducing yourself, your Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) NUR 701: PhD Dissertation Research- syllabus, explaining a visual, defining terms, May be repeated for credit. Off Campus (International) giving presentations and giving successful lectures. Analysis of presentations is given to PHI 504: Intersections of Race, May be repeated for credit. each student throughout the semester. Cultural Ethinicity, and Gender awareness is centered on some assumptions This course, which is analogous to an honors affecting teaching in the American classroom. senior seminar, seeks to integrate into a OAE Success completion of this course (a B or productive dialogue the different methods, Oral Academic English better) clears the student from the oral/aural traditions and perspectives used to analyze ESL requirements. Prerequisites: IELTS score Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, while also OAE 590: Oral Academic English of 6.5 or iBT Speak score of 21-22) juxtaposing and comparing the similarities and (Intermediate) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) differences between them. The approach, as in The purpose of this course is to do intensive the whole program, will be inderdisciplinary work in aural and oral language skills. and comparative. Emphasis is on the segmental level: vowel/ PHC Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) consonant work, syllable work and word Philosophy May be repeated for credit. stress as well as rhythm on the sentence level. Summarizing and questioning are PHI 500: Feminist Theories PHI 505: Core Course in Philosophy practiced with work on learning styles. and the Arts: History of Aesthetic This course is designed to introduce students Theory Students' awareness of American teaching to the most recent developments in feminist and cultural patterns are stressed. Observing theory, covering different currents as well The basic course will investigate some of the American professors and students in class is as traditions. The seminar may focus on most important and influential theories of art encouraged. A student will receive a diagnostic moral and political questions, the intersection in the West from Plato to the present. Readings assessment of her/his language segmental and between the social and the psychological, or and discussion in depth of major figures suprasegmental difficulties from the instructor culture and representation as it is negotiated will make up the content of the course: e.g., and will be expected to work on improvement in different cultural media (film, literature, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, in these speech areas both in the classroom and architecture, music, etc.) Nietzsche, Heidegger, Collingwood, Langer, independently in the language laboratories. Merleau-Ponty, Dufrenne. The focus Successful completion (A- or higher) of the Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, throughout will be on central issues in course leads to OAE 594; B+ or below leads to etc.) aesthetics such as imitation, truth, beauty, OAE 592. Prerequisite: IELTS score of 5-5.5 May be repeated for credit. expression, emotion, and imagination. or iBT Speak score of 15-17 PHI 501: Theories of Race Fall, Spring, every year, 3 credits, Letter 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course is designed to introduce the graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. OAE 592: Oral Academic English (High student to different currents of analyses of Intermediate) race and racism. It focuses particularly on PHI 506: Art and Its Problems the relationship between philosophy and the The emphasis of this course is threefold: development, legitimacy and legimation of A consideration of basic problems in the developing language skills, teaching skills racial categories. The seminar may focus on creation and appreciation of art. What is the and cultural awareness. Language skills will moral and political philosophy, questions of creative process? Who is the artist? How is focus on sentence stress, phrasing, linking epistemology or metaphysics, the intersections art to be compared with other symbolic forms and pausing with field specific language between the social and the psychological, or (e.g. language, science, technology)? What practice. Teaching skills stressed include culture and representations of raced subjects as does art offer that philosophy does not, and questioning techniques for discussion and they are negotiated in different cultural media vice-versa? In what ways does the gender or assessment, leading effective discussions (film, literature, architecture, music, etc.) racial identity of the artist affect the creation and assessing student learning. The cultural of the work? What are the cultural, social, and awareness focuses on idioms, American Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) political dimensions of the art work and its cultural values and norms as well as non- May be repeated for credit. reception? verbal communication. Successful completion PHI 503: Theories of Ethnicity 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of this course (B or higher) leads to OAE 594. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: IELTS score of 6.0 or iBT Speak This course focuses on the category of score of 18-20. ethnicity. Using an inter-cultural, comparative PHI 507: Inquiries into Art Criticism and historical approach, it seeks to expose 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and Theory the student to the uses and misuses of this category. The category of ethnicity will also be This course deals with the theoretical OAE 594: Oral Academic English approaches to the study of art that cross (Advanced) studied in conjunctions with questions relating to individual identity, national, cultural and historical boundaries. Topics vary from civilizational identities. Ethnicity, like Race semester to semester. They may be an

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 218 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 expansion of one of the areas generally May be repeated for credit. such exemplary works as Plato's Republic, covered in ARH 540, such as psychology of Aristotle's Politics, Machiavelli's The Prince, art or the iconography of architecture. Other PHI 510: Ancient Philosophy Hobbes's Leviathan, Locke's Second Treatise investigations may focus on subjects requiring An in-depth reading of few fundamental texts of Government, and Marx's Communist a special methodological approach, such as the of classical antiquity that conceptualize mind/ Manifesto. theory and history of ornament and design or soul as object of rational investigation. These 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the role of public art. ancient theories contain within themselves all Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, the principal elements of later philosophies PHI 553: Philosophy of Education B+, etc.) of mind. This course aims at making these The purpose of the course is to develop May be repeated for credit. elements explicit through the study of the curricula which not only bridge educational following: Anaxagoras, selected fragments gaps but which also develop within all PHI 507: Aesthetic System on "mind"; Plato, Republic (selection) and students a sense of civil responsibility toward A concentrated reading of a single major work, Phaedo; Aristotle, De Anima (Peri Psyche); community issues and problems. This course with attention both to its detailed structure Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations; Lucretius, critically examines such issues of ethnicity and and to its larger significance. Candidates for On the Nature of Things. 3 credits, ABCF race, family systems, affirmative action, and such reading include Aristotle's Poetics, Kant's grading, offered Fall/Spring alternate years multiculturalism through the vehicle of Asian Critique of Judgement, Hegel's Lectures on 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) American studies. The Philiosophy of Art, Adorno's Aesthetic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Theory, Collingwood's Principles of Art, PHI 511: Modern Philosophy Langer's Feeling and Form, Dewey's Art as This is an advanced course that investigates PHI 555: Perspectives on the Person Experience, Heidegger's "The Origin of the pivotal connections between seventeenth and The focus of this course will be the question of Work of Art", and Danto's Transfiguration of eighteenth-century theories of knowledge, how the results of current research are related the Commonplace. metaphysics, aesthetics, and ethics. It surveys to our understanding of human development Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) key developments in these areas of philosophic and whether they require us to revise our May be repeated for credit. inquiry during the sixteenth and seventeenth understanding of what a person is. Readings centuries. It also involves careful explicative from classic philosophical texts, such as Plato, PHI 508: Contemporary Issues in the work on texts written by major thinkers of Locke, Kant, and from contemporary research Arts the period, e.g., Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, in philosophy, psychology and other relevant With an eye on artworks accessible in Spinoza, Malebranch, Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, sciences will be used. Offered as both CEI 587 the public sphere - museums, galleries, Hume, Rousseau, and Kant. and PHI 555 concerts, readings, dance performances, film 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) - philosophical questions will be raised: Why these works now? How do they compare with PHI 520: Advanced Studies in PHI 562: Concepts and Methods in their predecessors? What do they portend Philosophy Evolutionary Biology for the future of art? Visits to the sites and Investigations into specialty areas led and The course aims at achieving two related performances of such works will be integrated directed by accomplished philosophers in objectives: first, to provide graduate students into an ongoing discussion of the issues they the discipline involved. Instructor consent in Ecology & Evolution and other biology raise within the context of aesthetic theory required. No more than six credits of PHI 520 departments, as well as Philosophy, with a - and what new theories they suggest. This may count towards the fulfillment of degree basic understanding of the varied methods course will be co-scheduled with ITL571, requirements in the MA program. (both experimental and statistical) that make FRN571, and EGL603 Offered: up the body of evolutionary quantitative 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, Spring, Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded biology. The focus will be in particular on May be repeated for credit. (A, A-, B+, etc.) quantitative genetics and its interface with May be repeated for credit. more modern approaches, including QTL PHI 509: Special Seminar in Aesthetics mapping, bioinformatics and the various This is an advanced seminar in aesthetics that PHI 521: Contemporary Moral Issues "omics" (genomics, proteomics, etc.). Second, focuses on a single question that arises in This examination of the radical nature of students will become familiar with the the philosophy of art. This question may be traditional moral theory in its contemporary fundamental concepts of philosophy of science approached through the writings of a single applications will look at the ideas of Mill, particularly as they relate to the conceptual author, or else by consulting texts of several Kant, and Aristotle as variations on traditional analysis of the ideas that shape modern thinkers (including practicing artists as well Judeo-Christian moral theory. Students will evolutionary and ecological theory. In this as philosophers). Examples of such questions write short papers on contemporary moral respect, the focus will be both on philosophical would be: What is the place of form in art? issues as these are portrayed in short fiction. concepts such as falsificationism, induction, How does emotion figure into the creation or 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) deduction, hypothesis testing and the nature appreciation of art? To be taught on the main of evidence, as well as on the meaning of key campus by a regular faculty member. Ideally, PHI 535: Political Philosophy ideas in evolutionary ecology, like natural this course would be taken during the second This course will take up classics of political selection, genetic drift, and constraints. year of master's degree work at Stony Brook philosophy and discuss contemporary Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter Manhattan. social life and ideologies in the light of the graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, Spring, every year, 3 credits, Letter theoretical frameworks they have achieved. graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Readings and assignments will be drawn from

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PHI 571: American Philosophy: May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Philosophical Foundations of American May be repeated for credit. Politics PHI 599: Master's Thesis Research PHI 621: Independent Study Readings from Emerson, C.S. Peirce, G.H. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Mead, W. James, G. Santayana, J. Dewey, J.H. May be repeated for credit. Randall, and J. Buchler will give the student PHI 600: Ancient Philosophy PHI 622: Supervised Teaching a grasp of the classic American tradition in May be repeated for credit. philosophy and the plural strands that go to May be repeated for credit. make it up, such as: the turn from idealism to PHI 601: Medieval and/or Renaissance semioticism, neo-realsim and critical realism, Philosophy PHI 623: Teaching Practicum pragmatism and pragmaticism, the historical interest and the social interest, individualism May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. and voluntarism, and the centrality of art and PHI 602: Modern Philosophy PHI 624: New York Consortium Study science in human affairs. This course designation should be used by 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. students who enroll in seminars at participating PHI 572: ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY PHI 603: 19th-Century Philosophy universities of the New York Consortium of Graduate Schools. No more than six credits May be repeated for credit. of consortium study (and none for first-year PHI 575: Philosophy of Religion PHI 604: Special Topics in the History students at Stony Brook) may count toward Several aspects of the Judeo-Christian tradition of Philosophy the fulfillment of requirements in the doctoral raise philosophical questions worthy of further program. reflection and consideration. The first is the May be repeated for credit. Prereguisite: Completion of first year in relation of religious faith to other sorts of doctoral program (Philosophy) PHI 610: Philosophy and the Arts knowledge and commitment: is religious Fall, 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, belief more like belief in scientific experts or May be repeated for credit. etc.) more like belief in one's spouse? A second May be repeated for credit. is what sort of God is worth believing in and PHI 611: Philosophy and Literature whether we can talk intelligibly about the PHI 625: Prospectus Seminar May be repeated for credit. deity. The third is whether and how any God This seminar is taken by all doctoral students worth believing in could be compatible with PHI 612: Philosophy and Psychology in the Spring semester of their third year. the obvious ills of our world. The primary goal is to have each write a May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) dissertation proposal. PHI 576: ETHICS AND VALUES PHI 613: Philosophy and Politics Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading PHI 630: Seminar in Continental PHI 614: Philosophy and Linguistics PHI 582: Philosophy of Art Philosophy The purpose of this course is to encourage May be repeated for credit. students to explore and enrich their aesthetic PHI 615: Philosophy and Feminism experience through reading, analyzing, Co-scheduled with WST 611. PHI 631: Seminar in Analytic discussing, and writing about various theories 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Philosophy put forth by philosophers in the western May be repeated for credit. tradition. Among topics to be considered May be repeated for credit. are representation, expression, form, the PHI 616: Philosophy and Technology PHI 632: Seminar in Comparative aesthetic attitude, beauty, taste, criticism and Co-scheduled with WST 611. Philosophy interpretation of art, and the relation of art to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) other areas of experience. The course does not May be repeated for credit. assume previous familiarity with philosophy PHI 633: American Pragmatism and Naturalism or art; however, it does assume an intellectual PHI 617: Philosophy and commitment to the examination of difficult Environmental Studies May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. ideas. This course is offered as both CEI 573 and PHI 582. PHI 634: Eastern Philosophy PHI 618: Philosophy and the Sciences 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PHI 635: Philosophy of Science and PHI 619: Special Topics in Interface PHI 587: DIRECTED READINGS Logic Studies

PHI 588: DIRECTED RESEARCH May be repeated for credit. PHI 636: Metaphysics

PHI 590: DIRECTED READINGS PHI 620: Advanced Problems in Philosophy PHI 637: Epistemology Delivery: Variable and repetitive credit A study of selected conceptions of the nature, PHI 595: DIRECTED RESEARCH structure and content of knowledge, as found

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Ethinicity, and Gender PHI 639: Social and Political Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading This course, which is analogous to an honors Philosophy May be repeated for credit. senior seminar, seeks to integrate into a productive dialogue the different methods, May be repeated for credit. PHI 800: Full Time Summer Research traditions and perspectives used to analyze PHI 640: Ethics 0 credits, S/U grading Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, while also S/U grading juxtaposing and comparing the similarities and May be repeated for credit. differences between them. The approach, as in PHI 641: Aesthetics the whole program, will be inderdisciplinary and comparative. PHI 642: Philosophy of Religion PHI Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Philosophy May be repeated for credit. PHI 643: Semiotics PHI 505: Core Course in Philosophy PHI 500: Feminist Theories and the Arts: History of Aesthetic PHI 644: Special Topics in This course is designed to introduce students Theory Contemporary Philosophy to the most recent developments in feminist The basic course will investigate some of the May be repeated for credit. theory, covering different currents as well most important and influential theories of art as traditions. The seminar may focus on in the West from Plato to the present. Readings PHI 699: Dissertation Research on moral and political questions, the intersection and discussion in depth of major figures Campus between the social and the psychological, or will make up the content of the course: e.g., Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). culture and representation as it is negotiated Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Major portion of research must take place on in different cultural media (film, literature, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Collingwood, Langer, SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the architecture, music, etc.) Merleau-Ponty, Dufrenne. The focus Brookhaven National Lab. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, throughout will be on central issues in Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading etc.) aesthetics such as imitation, truth, beauty, May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. expression, emotion, and imagination. Fall, Spring, every year, 3 credits, Letter PHI 501: Theories of Race PHI 700: Dissertation Research off graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Campus - Domestic This course is designed to introduce the May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy student to different currents of analyses of (G5). Major portion of research will take place race and racism. It focuses particularly on PHI 506: Art and Its Problems off-campus, but in the United States and/ the relationship between philosophy and the A consideration of basic problems in the or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven development, legitimacy and legimation of creation and appreciation of art. What is the National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab racial categories. The seminar may focus on creative process? Who is the artist? How is are considered on-campus. All international moral and political philosophy, questions of art to be compared with other symbolic forms students must enroll in one of the graduate epistemology or metaphysics, the intersections (e.g. language, science, technology)? What student insurance plans and should be advised between the social and the psychological, or does art offer that philosophy does not, and by an International Advisor. culture and representations of raced subjects as vice-versa? In what ways does the gender or they are negotiated in different cultural media Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading racial identity of the artist affect the creation (film, literature, architecture, music, etc.) May be repeated for credit. of the work? What are the cultural, social, and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) political dimensions of the art work and its PHI 701: Dissertation Research off May be repeated for credit. reception? Campus - International 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PHI 503: Theories of Ethnicity Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy May be repeated for credit. (G5). Major portion of research will take This course focuses on the category of place outside of the United States and/or ethnicity. Using an inter-cultural, comparative PHI 507: Aesthetic System U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the and historical approach, it seeks to expose A concentrated reading of a single major work, option of the health plan and may also enroll the student to the uses and misuses of this with attention both to its detailed structure in MEDEX. International students who are category. The category of ethnicity will also be and to its larger significance. Candidates for in their home country are not covered by studied in conjunctions with questions relating such reading include Aristotle's Poetics, Kant's mandatory health plan and must contact the to individual identity, national, cultural and Critique of Judgement, Hegel's Lectures on Insurance Office for the insurance charge to civilizational identities. Ethnicity, like Race The Philiosophy of Art, Adorno's Aesthetic be removed. International students who are and Gender, is one of the most fundamental Theory, Collingwood's Principles of Art, markers of identity. Using interdisciplinary

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Langer's Feeling and Form, Dewey's Art as An in-depth reading of few fundamental texts of Government, and Marx's Communist Experience, Heidegger's "The Origin of the of classical antiquity that conceptualize mind/ Manifesto. Work of Art", and Danto's Transfiguration of soul as object of rational investigation. These 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the Commonplace. ancient theories contain within themselves all Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the principal elements of later philosophies PHI 553: Philosophy of Education May be repeated for credit. of mind. This course aims at making these The purpose of the course is to develop elements explicit through the study of the curricula which not only bridge educational PHI 507: Inquiries into Art Criticism following: Anaxagoras, selected fragments gaps but which also develop within all and Theory on "mind"; Plato, Republic (selection) and students a sense of civil responsibility toward This course deals with the theoretical Phaedo; Aristotle, De Anima (Peri Psyche); community issues and problems. This course approaches to the study of art that cross Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations; Lucretius, critically examines such issues of ethnicity and historical boundaries. Topics vary from On the Nature of Things. 3 credits, ABCF race, family systems, affirmative action, and semester to semester. They may be an grading, offered Fall/Spring alternate years multiculturalism through the vehicle of Asian expansion of one of the areas generally 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) American studies. covered in ARH 540, such as psychology of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) art or the iconography of architecture. Other PHI 511: Modern Philosophy investigations may focus on subjects requiring This is an advanced course that investigates PHI 555: Perspectives on the Person a special methodological approach, such as the pivotal connections between seventeenth and The focus of this course will be the question of theory and history of ornament and design or eighteenth-century theories of knowledge, how the results of current research are related the role of public art. metaphysics, aesthetics, and ethics. It surveys to our understanding of human development Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, key developments in these areas of philosophic and whether they require us to revise our B+, etc.) inquiry during the sixteenth and seventeenth understanding of what a person is. Readings May be repeated for credit. centuries. It also involves careful explicative from classic philosophical texts, such as Plato, work on texts written by major thinkers of Locke, Kant, and from contemporary research PHI 508: Contemporary Issues in the the period, e.g., Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, in philosophy, psychology and other relevant Arts Spinoza, Malebranch, Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, sciences will be used. Offered as both CEI 587 With an eye on artworks accessible in Hume, Rousseau, and Kant. and PHI 555 the public sphere - museums, galleries, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) concerts, readings, dance performances, film - philosophical questions will be raised: Why PHI 520: Advanced Studies in PHI 562: Concepts and Methods in these works now? How do they compare with Philosophy Evolutionary Biology their predecessors? What do they portend Investigations into specialty areas led and The course aims at achieving two related for the future of art? Visits to the sites and directed by accomplished philosophers in objectives: first, to provide graduate students performances of such works will be integrated the discipline involved. Instructor consent in Ecology & Evolution and other biology into an ongoing discussion of the issues they required. No more than six credits of PHI 520 departments, as well as Philosophy, with a raise within the context of aesthetic theory may count towards the fulfillment of degree basic understanding of the varied methods - and what new theories they suggest. This requirements in the MA program. (both experimental and statistical) that make course will be co-scheduled with ITL571, Offered: up the body of evolutionary quantitative FRN571, and EGL603 Fall, Spring, Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded biology. The focus will be in particular on 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) (A, A-, B+, etc.) quantitative genetics and its interface with May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. more modern approaches, including QTL mapping, bioinformatics and the various PHI 509: Special Seminar in Aesthetics PHI 521: Contemporary Moral Issues "omics" (genomics, proteomics, etc.). Second, This is an advanced seminar in aesthetics that This examination of the radical nature of students will become familiar with the focuses on a single question that arises in traditional moral theory in its contemporary fundamental concepts of philosophy of science the philosophy of art. This question may be applications will look at the ideas of Mill, particularly as they relate to the conceptual approached through the writings of a single Kant, and Aristotle as variations on traditional analysis of the ideas that shape modern author, or else by consulting texts of several Judeo-Christian moral theory. Students will evolutionary and ecological theory. In this thinkers (including practicing artists as well write short papers on contemporary moral respect, the focus will be both on philosophical as philosophers). Examples of such questions issues as these are portrayed in short fiction. concepts such as falsificationism, induction, would be: What is the place of form in art? 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) deduction, hypothesis testing and the nature How does emotion figure into the creation or of evidence, as well as on the meaning of key appreciation of art? To be taught on the main PHI 535: Political Philosophy ideas in evolutionary ecology, like natural campus by a regular faculty member. Ideally, This course will take up classics of political selection, genetic drift, and constraints. this course would be taken during the second philosophy and discuss contemporary Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter year of master's degree work at Stony Brook social life and ideologies in the light of the graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Manhattan. theoretical frameworks they have achieved. Fall, Spring, every year, 3 credits, Letter Readings and assignments will be drawn from PHI 571: American Philosophy: graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) such exemplary works as Plato's Republic, Philosophical Foundations of American May be repeated for credit. Aristotle's Politics, Machiavelli's The Prince, Politics Hobbes's Leviathan, Locke's Second Treatise PHI 510: Ancient Philosophy

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Readings from Emerson, C.S. Peirce, G.H. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. May be repeated for credit. Mead, W. James, G. Santayana, J. Dewey, J.H. Randall, and J. Buchler will give the student PHI 600: Ancient Philosophy PHI 622: Supervised Teaching a grasp of the classic American tradition in May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. philosophy and the plural strands that go to make it up, such as: the turn from idealism to PHI 601: Medieval and/or Renaissance PHI 623: Teaching Practicum semioticism, neo-realsim and critical realism, Philosophy pragmatism and pragmaticism, the historical May be repeated for credit. interest and the social interest, individualism May be repeated for credit. PHI 624: New York Consortium Study and voluntarism, and the centrality of art and PHI 602: Modern Philosophy science in human affairs. This course designation should be used by May be repeated for credit. students who enroll in seminars at participating 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) universities of the New York Consortium of PHI 572: ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY PHI 603: 19th-Century Philosophy Graduate Schools. No more than six credits of consortium study (and none for first-year May be repeated for credit. students at Stony Brook) may count toward PHI 575: Philosophy of Religion PHI 604: Special Topics in the History the fulfillment of requirements in the doctoral Several aspects of the Judeo-Christian tradition of Philosophy program. raise philosophical questions worthy of further Prereguisite: Completion of first year in reflection and consideration. The first is the May be repeated for credit. doctoral program (Philosophy) relation of religious faith to other sorts of Fall, 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, PHI 610: Philosophy and the Arts knowledge and commitment: is religious etc.) belief more like belief in scientific experts or May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. more like belief in one's spouse? A second is what sort of God is worth believing in and PHI 611: Philosophy and Literature PHI 625: Prospectus Seminar whether we can talk intelligibly about the May be repeated for credit. This seminar is taken by all doctoral students deity. The third is whether and how any God in the Spring semester of their third year. worth believing in could be compatible with PHI 612: Philosophy and Psychology The primary goal is to have each write a the obvious ills of our world. dissertation proposal. May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading PHI 613: Philosophy and Politics PHI 576: ETHICS AND VALUES PHI 630: Seminar in Continental Philosophy PHI 582: Philosophy of Art PHI 614: Philosophy and Linguistics May be repeated for credit. The purpose of this course is to encourage PHI 615: Philosophy and Feminism students to explore and enrich their aesthetic PHI 631: Seminar in Analytic experience through reading, analyzing, Co-scheduled with WST 611. Philosophy discussing, and writing about various theories 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. put forth by philosophers in the western May be repeated for credit. tradition. Among topics to be considered PHI 632: Seminar in Comparative are representation, expression, form, the PHI 616: Philosophy and Technology Philosophy aesthetic attitude, beauty, taste, criticism and Co-scheduled with WST 611. interpretation of art, and the relation of art to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) other areas of experience. The course does not PHI 633: American Pragmatism and May be repeated for credit. assume previous familiarity with philosophy Naturalism or art; however, it does assume an intellectual PHI 617: Philosophy and May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. commitment to the examination of difficult Environmental Studies ideas. This course is offered as both CEI 573 PHI 634: Eastern Philosophy and PHI 582. PHI 618: Philosophy and the Sciences 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PHI 635: Philosophy of Science and Logic PHI 587: DIRECTED READINGS PHI 619: Special Topics in Interface Studies PHI 636: Metaphysics PHI 588: DIRECTED RESEARCH May be repeated for credit.

PHI 620: Advanced Problems in PHI 637: Epistemology PHI 590: DIRECTED READINGS Philosophy A study of selected conceptions of the nature, Delivery: Variable and repetitive credit structure and content of knowledge, as found PHI 595: DIRECTED RESEARCH in classical and contemporary theories of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) knowledge. May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PHI 599: Master's Thesis Research PHI 621: Independent Study May be repeated for credit.

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PHI 638: Philosophical Psychology All international students must received Electrostatics and Magnetostatics in clearance from an International Advisor. vacuum and medium; Green's functions; May be repeated for credit. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Maxwell's equations and gauge invariance; PHI 639: Social and Political May be repeated for credit. Electromagnetic wave propagation; Radiation, Philosophy scattering, interference, and diffraction; PHI 800: Full Time Summer Research Special relativity; Radiation by relativistic May be repeated for credit. 0 credits, S/U grading charges; Additional topics as time permits. Three lecture hours plus two recitation hours PHI 640: Ethics S/U grading May be repeated for credit. per week. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PHI 641: Aesthetics PHY PHY 510: Introduction to Nonlinear PHI 642: Philosophy of Religion Dynamics Physics This course concentrates on developing the tools used to analyze models of dynamical PHI 643: Semiotics PHY 501: Classical Mechanics systems associated with physical phenomena, Analytical classical mechanics including such as coupled electrical mechanical, PHI 644: Special Topics in Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations chemical and biological oscillators, amplitude Contemporary Philosophy and the Hamilton-Jacoby theory. Variational equations, symplectic maps, etc. There is a May be repeated for credit. principles, symmetries and conservative discussion of the basic theorems, as well as laws. Selected advanced problems such methods used to derive perturbation solutions PHI 699: Dissertation Research on as parametric and nonlinear oscillations, for differential equations and maps using the Campus planetary motion, classical theory of scattering, method of normal forms. rigid body rotation, and deterministic chaos. Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Basic notions of elasticity theory and fluid Major portion of research must take place on B+, etc.) SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the dynamics. Brookhaven National Lab. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PHY 511: Quantum Mechanics I First course in a two-part sequence. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading PHY 503: Methods of Mathematical Topics include basic quantum physics and May be repeated for credit. Physics I mathematical apparatus; application to one PHI 700: Dissertation Research off A selection of mathematical techniques dimensional examples and simple systems. Campus - Domestic useful for physicists. Topics are selected Symmetries, angular momentum, and spin. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy from: linear algebra, complex variables, Additional topics as time permits. differential equations, asymptotic analysis, (G5). Major portion of research will take place Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) off-campus, but in the United States and/ special functions, boundary value problems, or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven integral transforms, perturbation theory as PHY 512: Quantum Mechanics II applied to linear and nonlinear systems. This National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Second course in a two-part sequence, are considered on-campus. All international course should be taken by entering graduate students seeking enrichment in these areas. covering variational principles, perturbation students must enroll in one of the graduate theory, relativistic quantum mechanics, student insurance plans and should be advised Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, quantization of the radiation field, many-body by an International Advisor. A-, B+, etc.) systems. Application to atoms, solids, nuclei and elementary particles, as time permits. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading PHY 504: Computational Methods in May be repeated for credit. Physics and Astrophysics Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PHI 701: Dissertation Research off An introduction to procedural and object- Campus - International oriented programming in a high-level language PHY 514: Current Research Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy such as C++ or modern Fortran with examples Instruments and assignments consisting of rudimentary (G5). Major portion of research will take In a series of distinct units, various members place outside of the United States and/or algorithms for problems in physics and astronomy. Students will use the UNIX/ of the experimental research faculty describe U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the the nature of their work, explain the major option of the health plan and may also enroll Linux operating system to write programs and manage data, and the course will include an principles of their laboratory instruments, in MEDEX. International students who are discuss how these instrument systems function, in their home country are not covered by introduction to parallel computing and good programming practices such as version control and conduct tours of their laboratories showing mandatory health plan and must contact the the apparatus in action. The student becomes Insurance Office for the insurance charge to and verification. The course will prepare students for courses in algorithms and methods familiar with most of the experimental be removed. International students who are research instrumentation in the department. not in their home country are charged for the that assume a knowledge of programming. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading mandatory health insurance. If they are to be Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, covered by another insurance plan they must B+, etc.) PHY 515: Methods of Experimental file a waiver be second week of classes. The Research I charge will only be removed if other plan is PHY 505: Classical Electrodynamics deemed comparable.

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An experimental course required for all atmospheres in hydrostatic and radiative Introduction to modern atomic physics for the graduate students. The goal of the course is to equilibrium described. Models for the laser era for graduate students. Emphasis on provide firsthand experience with the nature calculation of stellar spectra are discussed. the interaction between atoms and light, as of experimental work. For students oriented Stellar winds are studied. Next, theoretical well as on atomic structure and how it affects toward theory, the course gives a background studies of stellar interiors and evolution, this interaction. Modern applications such for reading and evaluating experimental including equations of state, energy transport, as laser cooling, atom trapping, precision papers. The course is based on classic and nuclear energy generation, are developed. spectroscopy with frequency comb, quantum measurements in nuclear, particle, atomic, Structures of main sequence, red giant, pre- information, and others will be discussed. Not condensed matter physics, and astronomy. main sequence, and white dwarves are studied for satisfying physics Ph.D. breadth course Students can gain experience in handling and compared to observations. The evolution requirements. Spring every year, 1-3 credits, cryogenic liquids, vacuum systems, lasers, of single stars up to supernovae and the ABCF grading pulse counting and coincidence methods, peculiar evolution of close binary systems are 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) resonance measurements, and electronic also studied. instrumentation, such as lock-in amplifiers, Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded PHY 534: Radio Astronomy particle detectors, coincidence counters, (A, A-, B+, etc.) Topics covered include continuum and computer control, etc. Numerical analysis of spectral-line radio astronomy. Within data, presentation of results in written, graphic, PHY 522: Interstellar Medium the Milky Way Galaxy topics include and oral form, and meaningful comparison of A study of the interstellar medium with the interstellar medium, the physics and experiments and theory are part of the course. emphasis on physical processes. Topics kinematics of molecular clouds, star formation Working alone or with, at most, one partner, include kinetic theory, equation of transfer, in giant molecular clouds, chemistry of each student must do one experiment from spectral lines, non-thermal emission, ionization molecular clouds, galactic structure, spiral each of four different groups. effects of dust, and formation and spectroscopy structure, and pulsars. Extragalactic topics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of molecular clouds. The components of include radio galaxies and jets, radio loud May be repeated for credit. the interstellar medium and the interactions quasars, molecular and atomic gas in galaxies, between them are discussed in detail, as well luminous infrared galaxies, the missing PHY 517: Laboratory Course in as the process of star formation. mass problem in spiral galaxies, and cosmic Astronomical Techniques Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter microwave background radiation. Radio A course designed to introduce the theory, graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) astronomy measurement techniques for single design, and operation of modern astronomical telescopes and aperture synthesis techniques instrumentation and to familiarize the PHY 523: Galaxies are also covered, although the emphasis is on student with the use of telescopes. Current A basic course on the observational and scientific results. astronomical techniques will be discussed theoretical aspects of the content, morphology, Fall or Spring, alternate years, 1-3 credits, with emphasis on methods of observational kinematics, and dynamics of galaxies. Topics Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) measurements and reduction of data. Emphasis include the size, shape, and location of the sun is given on optical techniques appropriate in the Milky Way; stellar populations; the disk PHY 536: The Physics of Free Electron for wavelengths shorter than one micron. and spheroidal components; galactic rotation; Lasers Extensive laboratory and observing exercises distance determination in the Milky Way and The purpose of this course is to introduce the may be expected. to external galaxies; galaxy classification and students to the physics of Free Electron Lasers Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter the Hubble Law. Theoretical topics center and Synchrotron Radiation. This course is graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) on stellar dynamics, including potential suitable for graduate students who want to theory; stellar orbits; and spiral structure. The learn more about Free Electron Lasers and PHY 518: Applications of Synchroton course also includes a brief introduction to Synchrotron Radiation physics. Radiation cosmology. Offered: Summer, 1-2 credits, Letter graded An introduction to the principles of Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) synchrotron radiation is followed by a series (A, A-, B+, etc.) of lectures given by graduate faculty and guest PHY 537: Measurement and Control of lecturers with expertise in using synchrotron PHY 524: Cosmology Charged Particle Beams radiation for research in physics, chemistry, A basic course on cosmology: Hubble The course provides a comprehensive and materials science, biology and medicine. expansion, Friedmann universes, age of the systematic review of the methods used for Most of these presentations are followed universe, microwave background radiation, measurement, correction, and control of by hands-on experience with synchrotron big-bang nucleosynthesis, inflation, growth charged particle beams in modern particle instrumentation at Brookhaven National of gravitational instabilities and galaxy accelerators. By way of illustration, theoretical Laboratory. Access to user facilities, including formation, correlation functions, local density principles are applied in the evaluation safety requirements, preparation of user and velocity perturbations, and dark matter. of experimental data obtained at various proposals, user training and other issues, and Prerequisite: PHY 523 or permission of accelerator laboratories including CERN, also covered. instructor BNL, DESY, SLAC, IUCF, KEK, LBNL, Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter and FNAL. This course aims to bridge the graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) link between experimental observations and PHY 521: Stars theoretical principles in accelerator physics. A study of the atmospheres, interiors, and PHY 529: Quantum Electronics Upon completion of this course, the students evolution of stars. The contact between theory are expected to be able to apply the principles and observations is emphasized. Stellar and methods presented to their research.

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1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PHY 541: Advanced Statistical the dynamics of spin in charged particle Mechanics accelerators, and to the accelerator components PHY 538: Cyclotrons: Beam Dynamics Topics are selected from cluster expansions, and spin manipulation techniques which enable and Design elementary theory of quantum fluids, and allow preserving beam polarization. The Cyclotrons are circular machines where a phase transitions, transfer matrix, Ising course material will provide the basic tools fixed magnetic field bends particles through a and ferroelectric models, polymers and for the design of practical polarized beam spiraling path that maintains resonance with membranes, disordered systems, and accelerator components and structures, and RF accelerating fields. They are attractive fluctuation and nonequilibrium phenomena. will convey an understanding of the essential for particle acceleration where efficiency of underlying physics of polarized beams. Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, conversion from electric power to beam power etc.) 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) is a figure of merit. Cyclotrons historically drove many advances in high energy and PHY 542: Fundamentals of Accelerator PHY 545: Practical Issues in Cyclotron nuclear physics and have seen a recent Physics and Technology with Design and Construc. resurgence for radioisotope production, Simulations and Measurements Lab Cyclotrons are versatile accelerators whose use medical treatment facilities, and industrial This course is an introduction to the underlying continues to expand in basic research, industry, applications. This course provides students principles and uses of the nearly 14,000 medicine, and education. This course provides with an introduction to the physics of charged particle accelerators that are used worldwide students with an introduction to the physics particle dynamics in cyclotrons and their in medicine, industry, and scientific research. and technology of cyclotrons and their design. design. Students will learn how to calculate The course is suitable for senior undergraduate Issues associated with the construction of cyclotron orbits from a given magnetic field and entry-level graduate students in physics practical facilities for prototypical applications configuration, predict the space charge and and engineering or students from other fields are reviewed. Upon completion of this course, brightness limits, and devise mitigation for with a particular interest in accelerator-based students are expected to apply cyclotron theory betatron resonances. science. and practical constraints to propose a complete 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) cyclotron design for a prototypical application. Summer, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PHY 539: Laser Applications to Particle etc.) Accelerators PHY 543: RF Superconductivity for PHY 546: Python for Scientific Lasers have become essential tools widely Particle Accelerators Computing used in the world of accelerators and particle This graduate level course covers application Python has seen wide adoption in the scientific beams with applications ranging from of superconducting radio frequency community for data analysis, simulation, high quality electron and ion sources, to (SRF) technology to contemporary high-ß prototyping and visualization. It provided sophisticated beam diagnostics. This course is accelerators: storage rings, pulsed and CW a simple, yet powerful means to build an introduction to the basic laser technology, linacs, including energy recovery linacs applications. This seminar introduces python with the focus on applications of the laser (ERLs). The course will address physics and its use in scientific computing. Students techniques in areas of particle accelerators. and engineering aspects of using SRF in will learn the standard python libraries for Upon completion of this course, the students accelerators. It will cover beam-cavity array manipulation, visualization, numerical are expected to understand the basic laser interactions issues specific to superconducting analysis and symbolic mathematics, as well as techniques, laser beam interactions, become cavities, a systems approach to designing SRF how to interface python with other languages, familiar with use of lasers for beam diagnostics systems and engineering of superconducting build applications, and good software and beam manipulations, and gain useful cavity cryomodules. The course is intended engineering practices (including version hands-on experience with laser simulations and for graduate students pursuing accelerator control and testing). Students are encouraged lab work. physics and graduate engineers and physicists to share examples for their discipline 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) who want to familiarize themselves with 0-1 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) superconducting RF systems. PHY 540: Statistical Mechanics PHY 547: Classical Mechanics and Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Brief review of thermodynamics, principles of E&M in Accelerator Physics etc.) physical statistics, systems of non-interacting The course focuses on the topics of classical particles: Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac, and Bose- PHY 544: Spin Dynamics in Particle mechanics and electrodynamics that are Einstein statistics. Applications to ideal gases, Accelerators of importance for accelerator physics. On electrons and phonons in solids, and black Polarization is a possible property of charged completion of this course, students are body radiation. Approximate treatment of non- particle beams, which has been used and expected to have a broad understanding of the ideal gases. First-order and second-order phase developed from the early times of particle dynamics of particles in electromagnetic fields transitions. Ising model, transfer matrix, and accelerator developments. It is a property of as well as the physical principles that underpin renormalization group approach. Fluctuations paramount interest in future nuclear and high particle accelerator technology. Along with in thermal equilibrium, fluctuation-dissipation energy physics accelerator projects, as well the graduate-level PHY554 Fundamentals theorem, brief review of non-equilibrium as in several existing accelerator facilities. of Accelerator Physics course, this course is fluctuations. Basic notions of ergodicity, Polarization requires sophisticated beam intended to prepare students for specialized classical and quantum chaos. and spin manipulations, from production to USPAS courses and advanced study of cutting- Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, utilization, based on dedicated accelerator edge accelerator topics. etc.) design rules and technological components. 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course will introduce students to

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PHY 548: Timing and Synchronization interaction calculated from meson exchange; Introduction to elementary particle physics. for Accelerators effective forces between nucleons in nuclei Symmetries and invariance in particle Course Description: This course is intended for and nuclear matter; the renormalization physics. The properties of particles in terms of accelerator physicists who are interested in the group approach to these interactions; Fermi- quarks and leptons and their interactions. An design of timing systems and synchronization liquid theory of the nuclear many-body introduction to the electroweak and for strong techniques for particle accelerators and light problem; thermodynamics of hadrons at interactions. Interactions at high energies. sources. The course focuses on transmission, high temperature; RHIC physics with heavy Interactions between particles and matter, measurement and control of highspeed ions including transition from hadrons experiments in particle and experimental electromagnetic signals in transmission lines to quark gluon plasma, restoration of results. Survey of particle accelerators. or waveguides, whether RF/microwave or chiral symmetry, equation of state, initial Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, optical. These systems are important in the conditions, thermodynamics of hadrons at high B+, etc.) distribution of timing reference information temperature. in accelerating systems, and diagnostic 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PHY 558: Physical Biology techniques to measure beams with respect Topics of this course include but are to RF or ultrafast pulse signals. Examples PHY 554: Fundamentals of Accelerator not limited to: Time and space in cells; include ultrafast pump/probe experiments in Physics Structural basis of biology; Molecular accelerator-based light sources, or diagnostics History of accelerators, basic principles solvation and lattice models; Chemical for short particle bunches. The course enables including centre of mass energy, luminosity, potential; Electrostatics, potentials, dipoles, students to understand how precise timing accelerating gradient; Characteristics of electrochemical potentials[ Poisson-Boltzmann signals are transmitted and used in state-of- modern colliders: RHIC, LEP, LHC, b- and Born models; Acids, bases and salts; the-art systems. Concepts and technology for factories; Transverse motion, principles Intermolecular potentials and force fields; subpicosecond, and even sub-femtosecond of beam cooling, Strong focusing, simple Phase transitions; Lattice and Ising models; synchronization of ultrafast pulse optical lattices; Circulating beams, synchrotron Adsorption; Binding polynomials; Binding sources, RF, and particle beams will be radiation; Longitutdinal dynamics; Non- cooperativity; Semigrand ensemble, molecular discussed. linearities and resonances; Radio Frequency machines; Molecular motors, energy 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) cavities, superconductivity in accelerators; conversion and transduction; Polymer theory; Applications of accelerators: light sources, Flory-Huggins; Random flights; Elasticity; PHY 549: Optimization and Machine medical uses, Future Accelerators: eRHIC, Helix-coil theory; Collapse transitions; Protein Learning for Accelerators ILC, neutrino factories, muon collider, laser folding equilibria; Protein folding kinetics; Optimization techniques are key to both the plasma acceleration. Sequence space; Protein evolution; Protein design and operation of contemporary charged Offered elasticity and biological mechanics of proteins; particle accelerator systems. In addition, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Biophysics of the cell; Proteome stabilities, machine learning techniques are now being aggregation, kinetics. increasingly used, either to augment the PHY 555: Solid-State Physics I Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, capabilities of standard optimization (e.g. This course concentrates on the basic notions etc.) through surrogate modeling), or to address of solid state physics, treated mostly within entirely new tasks (e.g. anomaly detection, the single-particle approximation. Main topics PHY 559: Biological Dynamics and fault classification). This course will introduce include: crystal lattices and symmetries, Networks a number of optimization and machine reciprocal lattice and state counting, phonons, This course will provide a solid foundation learning techniques that are commonly used electron energy band theory, bonding and in key theoretical concepts for the study of for particle accelerators, as well as their range cohesion (semi-quantitatively), electron dynamics in biological systems and networks of applicability and limitations. dynamics and electron transport in metals at different scales ranging from the molecular 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and semiconductors, screening, optical level to metabolic and gene regulatory properties of solids, and an introduction to networks. Topics of this course include PHY 551: Nuclear Physics I superconductivity and magnetism. but are not limited to: Physical kinetics; Nucleon structure, conservation laws and the Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Diffusion/Smoluchowskii; Random flights; static quark model; nuclear force and the two Waiting times; Poisson; Brownian ratchets; nucleon system; bulk properties of nuclear PHY 556: Solid State Physics II Chemical kinetics; Transition states; Stability, matter, charge distribution, spin, isospin, mass, The course focuses on the many-particle bifurcations, pattern development; Noise alpha decay, nuclear fission; electromagnetic aspects of solid state physics addressing in cells: intrinsic and Extrinsic; Feedback; and weak interaction; collective motion; classical topics such as superconductivity Biological Osciillators; Recurrence, period microscopic models of the nucleus; nuclear and the transport properties of disordered doubling, chaos; Networks; Topologies; matter under extreme conditions, high conductors, as well as more modern subjects Degree distribution, betweenness; Models of rotational states, heavy ion physics at RHIC, including the fractional quantum Hall nets: Erdos-Renyi, scale-free, social, Watts- nuclear astrophysics. effect, dissipative quantum mechanics, and Strogatz, agents; Robustness, highly-optimized tolerance, bowties, epidemics; Biological Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, problems of mesoscoptic physics. Both networks: Protein-protein nets, regulatory and etc.) phenomenological and theoretical descriptions are discussed. metabolic nets; Known biological circuits and their behaviors; How networks evolve: PHY 552: Nuclear Physics II Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Preferential attachment, rewiring; Power Nucleon-nucleon scattering and effective etc.) laws; Fluxed through networks; Information range approximation; the nucleon-nucleon PHY 557: Elementary Particle Physics and communication, entropy; Metabolic flux

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 227 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 analysis; Artificial and Natural selection Quantum electronics is a synthesis of quantum advanced problems than those considered for traits; Darwinian evolution; Population physics and electrical engineering, and is in introductory physics. The Lagrangian dynamics. introduced in two independent semesters. A and Hamiltonian methods are then derived Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, description of simple atoms and molecules and from the Newtonian treatment and applied to etc.) their interaction with radiation includes atoms various problems. An oral presentation of a in strong and/or weak external fields, two- relevant topic suitable for a high-school class PHY 561: Biology for Physical photon spectroscopy, superradiance, Rydberg is required. Not for PhD credit. Scientists states, lasers and laser spec-troscopy, coherent Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Topics of this course include but are not transients, etc. restricted to: Overview of living things; Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, PHY 576: Thermodynamics and Six kingdoms, animal phyla. Physiology etc.) Statistical Mechanics for Teachers and organs; Chemistry of life; Noncovalent This course consists of two parts. Those interactions; Hydrogen bonds; Solvation; PHY 566: Quantum Electronics II: relations among the properties of systems Biochemistry: reactions, catalysis, ATP amino Quantum Optics at thermal equilibrium that are independent acids, nucleic acids, lipids; Cell structures: Quantum electronics is a synthesis of quantum of a detailed microscopic understanding are Nucleus, mitochondria, chromosomes, physics and electrical engineering, and is developed by use of the first and second membranes; Basic paradigm: DNA makes introduced in two independent semesters. This laws of thermodynamics. The concepts of RNA makes protein; How cell machines and course focuses on the quantum properties of temperature, internal energy and entropy are circuits work; Cell cycle; The processes of light. The quantized electromagnetic field analyzed. The thermodynamic potentials are evolution; Genetics and heredity; Diseases: and its correlations are used to understand introduced. Applications to a wide variety how biological systems fail; How drugs nonclassical states from various sources such of systems are made. The second portion of are discovered; Tight-binding inhibitors; as two-level atoms and nonlinear systems the course, beginning with the kinetic theory Antibodies; Current research: Cell division interacting with radiation fields. of gases, develops elementary statistical and cancer, genomics, bioinformatics, high Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, mechanics, relates entropy and probability, throughput sequencing, systems and synthetic etc.) and treats simple examples in classical and biology. quantum statistics. An oral presentation of a Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, PHY 567: Theoretical Chemical relevant topic suitable for a high-school class etc.) Physics is required. Not for PhD credit. This course stresses the physical theory Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, PHY 562: Lasers and Modern Optics underlying chemical phenomena. Special etc.) Introduction to the theory of lasers including emphasis is given to advanced topics in resonance conditions, normal modes, optical electronic structure theory, molecular PHY 577: Physical and Mathematical cavities and elementary quantum mechanics. dynamics, condensed matter and surfaces, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics for Description of types of lasers, methods of many-body and quantum ensemble theory, and Teachers control, limitations of power, precision, the interaction of light and molecules. Physical and mathematical foundations of wavelength, etc. Applications to research and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) quantum mechanics. Maxwell waves and industry. Throughout the course, there will be their properties: intensity, energy density, many problems that involve writing computer PHY 570: Introductory Physics and momentum density. Planck-Einstein programs to solve simple differential equations Revisited for Teachers relation between energy and frequency for and model different aspects of laser operation. This seminar allows students to explore the light quanta. De Broglie relation between Not for satisfying physics Ph.D. breadth course fine points of topics normally covered in high momentum and wavelength. Number density requirements. school physics. Not for PhD credit. and probability density of photons. One- photon quantum mechanics, with Maxwell Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, field as wave function. Diffraction phenomena. etc.) etc.) Uncertainty relation between wavelength PHY 564: Advanced Accelerator PHY 571: Electromagnetic Theory for and position, hence between momentum and Physics Teachers position. In addition to the requirements for Types and Components of Accelerators, the undergraduate course PHY 307, students The course reviews vector calculus and taking this course must prepare and present a Relativistic Mechanics and EM for develops Maxwell's equations relating Accelerators, Accelerator Hamiltonian talk on quantum physics suitable for a general electric and magnetic fields to their sources. (non-physics) adult audience. This course and N-dimensional phase space, Poincare Applications for time-independent fields diagrams, Lie algebras and symplectic maps cannot be taken for credit toward the PhD are developed for solving boundary value degrees in Physics. Approval of the Program and matrices; exact parameterization of linear problems and the interactions of fields in bulk motion in accelerators; matrix functions, Director is required for taking this course for matter. An oral presentation of a relevant topic credit toward a Master Degree. Sylvester's formula; non-linear effects, suitable for a high-school class is required. Not Collective instabilities & Landau Damping, for PhD credit. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Radiation damping and Excitation, natural Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Emittance; Spin motion in accelerators. PHY 578: Quantum Physics for Teachers 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PHY 573: Mechanics for Teachers The concepts, historical development and The Newtonian formulation of classical PHY 565: Quantum Electronics I: mathematical methods of quantum mechanics. mechanics is reviewed and applied to more Atomic Physics Topics include Schroedinger's equation in

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 228 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 time-dependent and time-independent forms, PHY 595: Master's Degree Thesis symmetric spaces, supergroups and their and one- and three-dimensional solutions, Research invariant measure may be discussed as well. including the treatment of angular momentum Independent research for Master's degree PS. The accent on the "e" of Poincare is and and spin. Applications to simple systems, students. Open only to those approved by acute accent denoted by\' Offered Fall or especially the hydrogen atom, are stressed. An individual faculty for thesis work. This course Spring oral presentation of a relevant topic suitable also includes a minimum of two hours person 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) for a high school class is required. Not for PhD to person discussion of ethics and conduct credit. in research and scholarship which addresses PHY 604: Computational Methods in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, among others integrity in scholarship, Physics and Astrophysics II etc.) academic honesty, authorship, plagiarism, This course discusses numerical methods mentoring and collaborations. These topics used in physics and astrophysics. Topics PHY 579: Special Topics for Teachers will be illustrated with case studies and issues include but are not limited to the following: Topics of current interest to high school that arise in current research projects. Numerical integration and differentiation, teachers are discussed in order to bring the 1-18 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) differential equations, interpolation, root- teachers up to date on the latest developments May be repeated for credit. finding, linear algebra, eigenvalues, Fourier in various areas of research. Examples could transforms, Monte Carlo methods, hyperbolic include the standard model of particle physics, PHY 598: Graduate Seminar I and parabolic partial differential equations, nanofabrication techniques, atomic force Special research topics centered on parallel computing. All methods will be microscopy, etc. Not for PhD credit. monographs, conference proceedings, or illustrated by examples from physics or Fall or Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, journal articles. Topics include solid-state astrophysics. Familiarity with Computational A-, B+, etc.) physics, atomic physics, quantum optics and Methods in Physics and Astrophysics (PHY May be repeated for credit. applications of synchroton radiation. Required 504) is assumed. for all first-year graduate students. 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PHY 580: Special Research Projects Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, Letter graded (A, PHY 610: Quantum Field Theory I Research under the direction of a faculty A-, B+, etc.) member. Not open to Ph.D. candidates. May be repeated for credit. Quantization of relativistic fields: Lorentz Fall and Spring, 1-18 credits, Letter graded and gauge symmetries, relativistic spin, the (A, A-, B+, etc.) PHY 599: Graduate Seminar II S-matrix and scattering; the standard model; May be repeated for credit. Special research topics centered on perturbation theory, renormalization and monographs, conference proceedings, or effective field theories; path integrals and PHY 582: Optics Rotation journal articles. Topics include elementary relations to condensed matter physics. Optical science students experience three particles, nuclear physics, galactic and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to eight week periods in each of several extragalactic astronomy, and cosmology and appropriate research groups. At the end of each accelerator physics. Required for all first-year PHY 611: Quantum Field Theory II period a report is required that describes the graduate students. Quantization of relativistic fields: Lorentz topics studied or project done. May not be Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, Letter graded (A, and gauge symmetries, relativistic spin, the taken for credit more than two semesters. A-, B+, etc.) S-matrix and scattering; the standard model; Fall and Spring, 0-2 credits, Letter graded (A, May be repeated for credit. perturbation theory, renormalization and A-, B+, etc.) effective field theories; path integrals and May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. PHY 600: Practicum in Teaching relations to condensed matter physics. This course provides hands-on experience in Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, PHY 584: Rotation in Physical Biology teaching. Activities may include classroom etc.) A two-semester course in which students teaching, preparation and supervision of spend at least 8 weeks in each of three laboratory experiments, exams, homework PHY 612: Theoretical Particle Physics different laboratories actively participating assignments, and projects. Applications of quantum field theory to in the research of faculty associated with the Fall and Spring, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, interactions between elementary particles. Laufer Center. At least one of the rotations A-, B+, etc.) Topics are chosen from perturbative quantum must be in experimental physical biology. May be repeated for credit. chromodynamics, the standard electro-weak Participants will give a research talk at the end model, lattice field theory, grand unified of each eight week period. PHY 601: Group Theory for Physicists models, supersymmetry, and current research Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, This course provides an introduction to problems. A-, B+, etc.) group theory and discusses topics that are Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, May be repeated for credit. important for applications in physics. Topics etc.) that will be discussed include but are not PHY 585: Special Study restricted to the following: finite groups, PHY 613: Advanced Particle Theory Reading course in selected topics. Lie groups, Lie algebras, Clifford algebras, This course is a continuation of PHY Fall and Spring, 1-18 credits, Letter graded Cartan generators, Dynkin diagrams, Young 612 and prepares students for research in (A, A-, B+, etc.) tableaux, noncompact groups such as the theoretical particle physics. Topics that will be May be repeated for credit. Poincar\'e group, invariant measures and discussed include the properties of Quantum coset manifolds. Additional topics such as Chromodyanamics, Electorweak Symmetry Kac-Moody algebras, Virasoro algebras, Breaking, Cabbibbo-Kobayahi-Maskawa

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 229 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 quark mixing, Effective Field theory, Neutrino theory; tree-level and one-loop amplitudes; for one credit will be expected to present at masses, the hierarchy problems, dark matter, partition functions; spacetime supersymmetry least one seminar. early universe cosmology and primordial and supergravity; compactification & Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading nucleosynthesis. Physics beyond the standard duality; winding & Kaluza-Klein modes; May be repeated for credit. model will be discussed as well including 11-dimensional supergravity; branes in models of quark and lepton masses, grand supergravity; D-branes in string theory; T- PHY 668: Seminar in Astronomy unified theories and baryon number violation. duality; M-theory; complex geometry and A weekly series of research seminars presented Semesters Offered: Spring and Calabi-Yau manifolds; string field theory; by visiting scientists as well as by the faculty. Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, other advanced topics if time permits. PHY Required every semester of all astronomy etc.) 610/611 or equivalent is prerequisite. graduate students. Fall or Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading PHY 620: Modern General Relativity May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. General theory of relativity; tensor analysis, Einstein's field equations, experimental PHY 655: Advanced Graduate Seminar PHY 669: Nuclear Astrophysics tests, black holes, gravitational waves, in Theoretical Physics Seminar cosmology. May also include topics such as A weekly seminar on advanced theoretical A weekly seminar concentrating on topics in spinor methods, conformal invariance, and concepts. The discussion starts with a graduate nuclear astrophysics, including dynamics of introduction to string theory or supergravity. student presentation and it is conducted under supernova collapse, structure and evolution Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, the guidance of a faculty supervisor. of neutron stars, equation of state, the role of B+, etc.) 1-3 credits, S/U grading neutrinos in nucleosynthesis, etc. May be repeated for credit. 0-1 credits, S/U grading PHY 621: Advanced Quantum Field May be repeated for credit. Theory PHY 664: Astronomy Journal Club Proofs of renormalizability and unitarity on Presentation of preliminary research results PHY 670: Seminar in Theoretical non-Abelian guage theories using modern and current research problems by students Physics methods of Becchi-Rouet-Store-Tyutin and faculty. Required every semester of all Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading (BRST) symmetry; descent equations for astronomy graduate students. May be repeated for credit. anomalies; classical instantons and their 0-1 credits, S/U grading quantum corrections, including integration May be repeated for credit. PHY 672: Seminar in Elementary over zero modes; background field methods, Particle Physics other topics if time permits. PHY 610/611 or PHY 665: Journal Club in equivalent is prerequisite. Computational Biology Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. Fall or Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, The goal of this course is for students to A-, B+, etc.) hone critical reading and analytic skills PHY 673: Seminar in Cosmology May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. through discussions of literature in the area of Computational Biology. Participants This seminar discusses current topics in PHY 622: String Theory I take turn being a "discussion leader" who cosmology. Each semester consists of a formal This course is intended for graduate students informally guides the group through a peer- talk followed by an informal discussion of who have familiarity with guage & quantum reviewed manuscript for which all Journal active areas of cosmology research. field theory. Topics will be selected from: Free Club members will have to read in advance Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading bosonic & spinning strings and heterotic & of the meeting. Meetings in the Spring May be repeated for credit. Green-Schwarz superstrings; conformal field semester will include in Person Training theory; tree-level and one-loop amplitudes; (IPT) in Responsible conduct of Research and PHY 674: Seminar in Nuclear Physics partition functions; spacetime supersymmetry Scholarship (RCRS) on topics that comprise Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading and supergravity; compactification & (1) Integrity in Scholarship, (2) Scientific duality; winding & Kaluza-Klein modes; Misconduct, (3) Mentoring, (4) Ownership PHY 676: Seminar in Solid-State 11-dimensional supergravity; branes in and Authorship, (5) Plagiarism, (6) Data Physics supergravity; D-branes in string theory; T- Management, (7) Journalism and Science, (8) Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading duality; M-theory; complex geometry and Human Subjects, and (9) Laboratory Animals. May be repeated for credit. Calabi-Yau manifolds; string field theory; 0-1 credits, S/U grading other advanced topics if time permits. PHY May be repeated for credit. PHY 678: Atomic, Molecular and 610/611 or equivalent is prerequisite. Optical Physics Seminar Fall or Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading PHY 666: Cool Stars Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. A weekly seminar concentrating on May be repeated for credit. observational and theoretical studies of cool PHY 623: String Theory II stars and related objects. Emphasis is on PHY 680: Special Topics in Theoretical This course is intended for graduate students ongoing research and recent results in this Physics who have familiarity with guage & quantum area. Speakers include faculty, students, Fall and Spring field theory. Topics will be selected from: free and visitors. Topics anticipated in the near bosonic & spinning strings and heterotic & future include results from the Hubble Space 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Green-Schwarz superstrings; conformal field Telescope and ROSAT. Students registering May be repeated for credit.

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PHY 681: Special Topics in Statistical this area. For a long time accelerator physics graduate engineers and physicists who want to Mechanics courses have been taught as "PHY 584: familiarize themselves with cryogenics. Special Topics in Nuclear Physics", but this Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) is improper use of the course listing. The A-, B+, etc.) purpose of this course is two-fold. First, it PHY 698: Colloquium May be repeated for credit. is a special topic course that is taught full Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading time at Stony Brook. Second, it is special PHY 682: Special Topics in Solid-State May be repeated for credit. Physics topics course which is taught in collaboration with the United States Particle Accelerator PHY 699: Dissertation Research on Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, School (USPAS), which is taught on a rotating Campus A-, B+, etc.) basis at various universities and National May be repeated for credit. Laboratories in the US. If that is the case, Independent research for Ph.D. degree students will prepare for the USPAS course candidates. Open only to students who have PHY 683: Special Topics in Astronomy during the semester, and will particioate in advanced to candidacy (G5). Major portion of research must take place on SBU campus, Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, the USPAS school in the following Winter at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Brookhaven A-, B+, etc.) or Summer break. The grade for the course National Lab. This course also includes a May be repeated for credit. will be determined by the grade in the USPAS school. Funding to participate in the USPAS minimum of two hours person to person PHY 684: Special Topics in Nuclear course will be provided by USPAS if students discussion of ethics and conduct in research Physics are registered for such course at their local and scholarship which addresses among university. others integrity in scholarship, academic Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, honesty, authorship, plagiarism, mentoring and A-, B+, etc.) 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) collaborations. These topics will be illustrated May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. with case studies and issues that arise in current research projects. PHY 685: Special Topics in PHY 690: Special Topics in Atomic and Mathematical Physics Optical Physics Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, May be repeated for credit. A-, B+, etc.) A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. PHY 700: Dissertation Research off Campus - Domestic PHY 691: Computational Accelerator PHY 686: Special Topics in Elementary Independent research for Ph.D. degree Physics Particles candidates. Open only to students who have The course prepares graduate students in Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, advanced to candidacy (G5). Major portion a comprehensive and systematic way for A-, B+, etc.) of research will take place off-campus, but applying numerical methods to solve problems May be repeated for credit. in the United States and/or U.S. provinces. for which analytical methods have limitations. Please note, Brookhaven National Labs and PHY 687: Topics in Biological Physics This knowledge will be applied to producing, the Cold Spring Harbor Lab are considered on- collecting, analyzing and understanding The "Topics" courses in the 680 sequence do campus. This course also includes a minimum numerical simulation data, and presenting and not have specific description, since the subject of two hours person to person discussion of reporting results using appropriate media. This matter within the broadly defined topic may ethics and conduct in research and scholarship course will allow students to attain the level change from one semester to the next. which addresses among others integrity in of knowledge needed to thrive in the field of scholarship, academic honesty, authorship, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) particle accelerators, including cyclotrons, plagiarism, mentoring and collaborations. May be repeated for credit. synchrotrons, storage rings, linear accelerators, These topics will be illustrated with case colliders and industrial accelerators. PHY 688: Special Topics in studies and issues that arise in current research Astrophysics 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) projects. All international students must enroll in one of the graduate student insurance plans Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, PHY 695: Cryogenic Systems and their and should be advised by an International A-, B+, etc.) Design Advisor. May be repeated for credit. This course covers fundamental aspects 1-9 credits, S/U grading of cryogenics system and engineering PHY 689: Special Topics in Accelerator May be repeated for credit. properties of materials and fluids at low Physics temperatures. Cryogenic heat transfer and fluid PHY 701: Dissertation Research off Recently we established the Center for dynamics, low temperature refrigeration and Campus - International Accelerator Physics with Vladimir Litvinenko system engineering, application of helium Independent research for Ph.D. degree appointed as Director (with a shared cryogenic technology to contemporary particle candidates. Open only to students who have appointment at BNL), and with a second accelerators, detectors and sensors. The advanced to candidacy (G5). Major portion faculty position in accelerator physics being course will address physics and engineering of research will take place outside of the added in the near future, we expect that the aspects of using helium cryogenics. It will United States and/or U.S. provinces. Domestic number of students working on accelerator cover fundamentals of normal and superfluid students have the option of the health plan physics will increase significantly and there cryogenics. The course is intended for graduate and may also enroll in MEDEX. International will be much more demand for courses in students pursuing accelerator physics and

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 231 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 students who are in their home country are not surveys and questionnaires, and methods for This course examines the development of covered by mandatory health plan and must studying various psychological characteristics civil service and other bureaucratic personnel contact the Insurance Office for the insurance of attitudes such as reaction time and lexical systems in American government. It focuses charge to be removed. International students decision tasks. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, on the knowledge that managers must have who are not in their home country are charged B+, etc.) to utilize human resources appropriately in for the mandatory health insurance. If they 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the constrained public sector environment. are to covered by another insurance plan they The focus of this course will be on state and must file a waiver before the second week of POL 506: Big Data & Visualization local government, but federal agencies may classes. The charge will only be removed if The goal of the course is to apply state-of- also be considered to provide a comparative other plan is deemed comparable. This course the-art techniques to analyze social problems perspective. also includes a minimum of two hours person using and combining large quantities of data 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to person discussion of ethics and conduct from a variety of different sources. The course in research and scholarship which addresses also emphasizes communicating through the POL 515: Health Economics among others integrity in scholarship, visual presentation of data. Students may be The course provides an overview of general academic honesty, authorship, plagiarism, asked to critique existing work and to practice economic principles, an understanding of how mentoring and collaborations. These topics creating visualizations of their own with data markets function, and why markets fail in will be illustrated with case studies and issues visualization software and programs. 3 credits, order to understand the effects of economic that arise in current research projects. All Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) principles on health care and the effect of international students must receive clearance 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) health policy and economic forces on the from an International Advisor. health care delivery system. Students will be 1-9 credits, S/U grading POL 508: Public Policy Experiments taught to use economic concepts to analyze May be repeated for credit. Randomized experimental interventions-in health policy in its ability to improve the the field and elsewhere-are increasingly being delivery of health care services. PHY 800: SUMMER RESEARCH conducted to learn about the effects of public 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. policies on a wide range of issues such as education and health care. This course reviews POL 516: Storms & Seas: Coastal Land experimental procedures and protocols, Management POL lessons from past policy experiments, and Many areas of the world, like Long Island, Political Science ethical considerations. Students may also be are surrounded by water and are vulnerable asked to critique existing studies as well as to increasing weather -related threats and to apply course concepts to policies. Natural sea-level rise. This course dives into the POL 501: Introductory Statistics experiments and quasi-experiments may also challenges related to public policy design This course acquaints student with statistics. be examined during the course. and implementation as climate changes It begins with the basics of applied statistical 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) force planners to consider novel solutions to analysis, including probability and hypothesis increasingly complex situations. testing, and builds to simple regression POL 509: Public Budgeting and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) analysis. Requires use of computer packages. Finance Prerequisites: Some elementary mathematics/ POL 518: Law & Public Policy statistics background helpful This course develops the rationale for public taxation and spending programs. It examines Public policies are often written in the form of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the role of public finance in the economy, and legal statutes and laws. This course considers explores the use of program and functional the role of the law in public policy from a POL 502: Intermediate Statistics budgets, capital and operating budgets, domestic perspective. Topics include various This course utilizes multivariate regression intergovernmental expenditures, etc. Focuses forms of discrimination as well as contracts analysis and explores violations of the linear on state and local governments (Fall) or and historical precedent. model. Requires use of computer. National and International Finance (Spring). 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. POL 519: State & Local Politics POL 503: Survey Research Methods States are frequently described as " This course studies the techniques of POL 510: Personnel Systems for laboratories of democracy" because there is survey research and their application in the Public Policy great variation in the policies and practices of development of public policies. Topics include his course examines the development of civil state governments across the United States. survey design, survey population sampling, service and other bureaucratic personnel This course examines political institutions, use of survey data to frame policy choices and systems in American government. It focuses actors, and issues within American state and attitudes towards existing policies. on the knowledge that managers must have local governments. Among other topics, the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to utilize human resources appropriately in class will discuss federalism, political culture, the constrained public sector environment. state campaigns and elections, political parties, POL 504: Research Design Focuses mainly on state and local government. constitutional provisions, and government This course will cover a variety of research 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) branches (legislative, executive, and judicial). methods that can be used to study attitudes and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) opinions: Experimental methods (in laboratory POL 514: Personnel Systems & and field settings), quasi-experimental designs, Bureaucracies

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POL 520: Applied Economics & Public Many public policy issues are moral issues, Actual cases are analyzed, as well as the Policy such as capital punishment, same-sex broader set of precedents that have emerged Public policies are often created to address marriage, gun control, public health care, in federal, state, and local administrative law private market failures or imbalances. This affordable housing, and progressive taxation. proceedings. course focuses attention on how economic This class examines how moral judgment 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) concepts manifest in public policy planning, differs from judgments based on self-interest, delivery, and outcomes. economics, or altruism. It also examines how POL 538: The Politics of Local moral condemnation affects policy debates and Economic Development 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) how moral accusations clash with arguments This course examines the process of local POL 521: Behavioral Economics & based on non-moral considerations such as economic development with an emphasis Public Policy economics, group loyalty, or authority. on the interaction of political and economic People often behave in ways that deviate from 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) factors. It explores the extent to which local classical economic theories. This course helps (as compared to state and federal) officials POL 534: Intergovernmental Relations students learn about these deviations and to can influence business location decisions, the and Policy Delivery construct public policies around such empirical specific strategies often utilized, and the way regularities. The examination of the formulation, they have changed over time. It also considers implementation, and impact of the winners and losers from the "economic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) intergovernmental policy are the core concepts development game" with a focus on New York POL 522: Economic Issues & Public to be covered in this course. Several policies and Long Island. Policy are examined in-depth, including grant-in-aid 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) programs, General Revenue Sharing, housing Many public policies have their roots in and community development, and employment POL 540: Data Applications in Public economic decisions or outcomes. This course programs. The historical, economic, and Policy considers recurring and important aspects of political foundations of intergovernmental the economy in relation to public policy. This course studies the strategic use of data policy delivery systems are examined. to support public policy proposal design 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and implementation. With a focus on U.S. POL 524: Housing Policy domestic policy, the class will gain proficiency POL 535: Public Policy Analysis and in the application of data to identify policy Where and how people live is one of the most Evaluation problems, determine causative factors, develop basic and important considerations when it This course concentrates on the strategies and implement persuasive policy proposals, comes to government planning and action. and methods of public policy analysis and and evaluate the policy effectiveness. This course explores the evolution of housing evaluation. Students debate the merits of policies, their effects, and future directions. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) proposed solutions to various policy issues Special consideration will be devoted to recent and discover the political constraints on the POL 542: Regional Planning issues as well as housing issues affecting the policy making process. Skills stressed in the New York metropolitan area. This course addresses the planning course include cost-benefit analysis, program process as a decision-making tool in the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) evaluation, and basic microeconomics. implementation of public policy in housing, POL 530: Topics in Public Affairs 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) land-use, transportation, and environmental management. The course also investigates Specially organized seminars are offered on POL 536: Public Management and intergovernmental relations and the impact of topics of particular importance to students Organizational Behavior citizen participation on policy changes. of public affairs. These courses are led by This course examines how public sector distinguished experts in those policy areas. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) organizations work and how managers can 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) operate in the public sector environment. A POL 543: Environmental Politics and May be repeated for credit. range of theoretical perspectives, including Policy sociological, economic, and institutional, Federal environmental policies, such as POL 531: Topics in Public Affairs: will be employed as real public organizations Planning the National Environmental Policy Act, are examined and analyzed. Public agencies the Coastal Zone Management Act, and This course addresses the planning will also be compared to their private sector the Federal Pure Waters Management Act process as a decision-making tool in the counterparts, and the nature of organizational are examined in this course. The policies, implementation of public policy in housing, efficiency will be explored. politics and administrative activities of land-use, transportation, and environmental Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, federal, state, and local levels are considered. management. The course also investigates etc.) Finally, the interaction of the public sector, intergovernmental relations and the impact of the private sector, and citizen groups in the citizen participation on policy changes. POL 537: Administrative Law for Policy implementation of environmental policy is Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Analysts discussed. This course is offered as both CES A-, B+, etc.) This course examines the role of 553 and POL 543. May be repeated for credit. administrative law in the formulation, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) implementation and evaluation of public May be repeated for credit. POL 532: Moral Politics & Public Policy policy. The role of legislation such as the Administrative Procedures Act is explored.

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POL 544: Human Behavior as Rational POL 561: Dynamics of Public Opinion the interplay between cognition and emotion Action This course provides an overview of the in explaining social and political behavior. Rational behavior means choosing among literature on public opinion. The course will Traditionally, political science has viewed possible actions those that are most efficient start by considering the micro-foundations thinking as a conscious cognitive process in meeting one's goals. Whether people do of opinions and the psychology of opinion of intentional deliberation. Emotions and so is one of the oldest unresolved disputes holding. How much do people know about other feelings have been ignored or seen as in philosophy and the social sciences. We politics and other aspects of the social world? interfering with rational though. Moreover, will trace the main positions in this dispute as What are the consequences of differences in until recently there has been almost no they have evolved in philosophy, psychology, knowledge and attitude strength? Building consideration of what psychologists call economics, anthropology and sociology. from there, we will discuss the structure implicit or unconscious thought processes in Even if individuals do act rationally, can we of attitudes and opinions, specifically, the understanding public opinion. Psychologists assume that the large scale social patterns that nature of political ideology. A number of and communications researchers now result are necessarily effective? Readings will determinants of opinions will be discussed understand that implicit events and processes consider the topic abstractly, but also in the including values and personality. Finally, (e.g., symbol or music cues in political concrete settings of small intimate groups, the course will examine the dynamics of advertising) can have profound effects on formal organizations, and primitive and attitudes and opinions and their relationship how citizens evaluate political candidates, modern economic, social and political systems to government policy and larger social trends. groups, and issues. We will examine the in both stable and revolutionary situations. Offered traditional approach to political cognition and consider how this recent research may alter 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, our understanding of the formation of public A-, B+, etc.) POL 546: Comparative Public Policy & opinion. Politics POL 562: Passionate Politics: Offered Comparative studies of politics seek to identify Mobilization, Interest Groups, and Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, and understand the similarities and differences Social Movements A-, B+, etc.) among political systems by breaking broad This course discusses political mobilization: POL 564: Social Influences topics down into the factors found in the factors that motivate political involvement individual countries. Possible questions and the consequences that high levels of In studying public opinion, people often focus to be addressed are: Are certain forms of public engagement have on elections and the on the arguments, information, and overt representative democracy more effective than development of public policy. The course attempts to persuade. In doing so, we neglect others? Why are some countries prosperous, begins with several high profile examples of the impact of the social environment in which and others poor? How does authoritarian citizen engagement that have had noticeable an individual is situated. Friends, family, and control affect economic development? impact on American politics. This first section aspects of the broader social environment all deeply influence the attitudes people hold, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) also includes a discussion of the various ways in which Americans can be mobilized from the tenacity with which they hold them, and POL 553: Foundations: Comparative, involvement in election campaigns to the the political behaviors they engage in. Rather International distribution of political information via social than focusing on direct persuasion, this course emphasizes the effect social context can have Survey and evaluation of the major networks. The course then shifts focus to upon people's opinions even without overt theoretical approaches, issues, and problems cover the psychology of political mobilization argumentation or even information exchange. in comparative political analysis. The in detail, including the importance of group Students will learn about the influence of 1) course examines such areas as political memberships and identities, emotions, and other individuals (e.g. socialization, social development, empirical democratic theory, or values. An entire unit of the course is devoted network influence), 2) social roles (e.g. political socialization, along with a detailed to psychology of group membership in which power, obedience) 3) societal influence (e.g. examination of one or more selected non- the mobilizing power of identities and the normative influence, conformity, deviance American political systems. role of politically motivating emotions are discussed at length. Finally the last section of & rejection), and 4) influence from other 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the course is devoted to specific examples of environmental sources (e.g. priming). POL 560: American Democracy: Its political mobilization in the U.S. including the Offered Critics and Defenders environment/green movement, issue groups Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, such as the right-to-life movement, racial A-, B+, etc.) This course will examine the central politics, and highly polarized partisan politics. components of American democratic Overall, the course is designed to illuminate POL 565: Persuasion and Propaganda government. Critics and defenders of the the psychology of political mobilization Politics at its core is about persuasion. It over 200 year-old Constitution (Congress, and apply these principles to contemporary is about argumentation and debate, and President, Supreme Court) will be discussed, American politics. about bringing citizens to a particular way as will arguments surrounding the role of of thinking about an issue, candidacy, or political parties, pressure groups, and the Offered event. Given its centrality in the political bureaucracy. Most readings will be from Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, process, understanding the dynamics of contemporary authors and reference sources. A-, B+, etc.) political persuasion should be a high priority This course is offered as both CEI 560 and POL 563: Thinking and Emotion in for the discipline. In a more theoretical vein, POL 560. Public Opinion the concept of "attitude" is among the most 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course reviews recent research in indispensable in the social sciences. This cognitive, social, and political psychology on course is intended to provide a survey of

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 234 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 contemporary theory and research on attitude political behavior and change, the course weds Rational behavior means choosing among formation and change. It is not intended to individual level analysis and group behavior possible actions those that are most efficient be a general course on the mass media, but theories with rigorous empirical testing. We in meeting one's goals. Whether people do rather is concerned only with mass media will look at cross-national and longitudinal so is one of the oldest unresolved disputes research as it pertains to individual-level data sets to examine the evolving political in philosophy and the social sciences. We political attitude processes. The course is space stemming from new politics, identity will trace the main positions in this dispute as divided into the following three sections: (1) politics, immigration, and "new security" they have evolved in philosophy, psychology, A consideration of basic concepts (e.g., what threats in a global era. Finally, the course will economics, anthropology and sociology. is an "attitude"), methodological challenge, conclude by looking at how different levels of Even if individuals do act rationally, can we and recent developments (e.g., the distinction analyses (individual, group, and institutions) assume that the large scale social patterns that between implicit and explicit attitudes); (2) contribute to explain contentious politics, result are necessarily effective? Readings will An overview of major psychological theories `boundary-making ("us" and "them"), and the consider the topic abstractly, but also in the of persuasion that attempt to answer Harold `politics of difference across cultures. concrete settings of small intimate groups, Lasswell's classic question: Who says what, in Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, formal organizations, and primitive and which channel, to whom, and with what effect? A-, B+, etc.) modern economic, social and political systems (3) An examination of the major agents of in both stable and revolutionary situations. political persuasion - the mass media, political POL 568: Master's Thesis 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) elites, social context, and interpersonal This course entails a student thesis paper under processes. supervision of a faculty member on a research POL 591: Directed Policy Research Offered project related to methods used to study the Prerequisite: Permission of GPD Student Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, dynamics of public opinion. works under supervision of faculty member on A-, B+, etc.) 1-6 credits, research project related to public policy. 1-6 credits, S/U grading POL 566: The Psychology of Voting POL 569: Internship in MA in Political The course examines the key motivations, Science POL 596: Capstone Preparation attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs that guide The internship for the Political Science M.A. Seminar voters in the process of making up their minds is designed to provide first-hand experience This course introduces students to the various in choosing candidates in elections, including with the major research methods used to study paths students may take to complete the M.A. the decision to turn out at all in elections. the dynamics of public opinion. The student in Public Policy (MAPP) program. Except in The list of topics includes party identification is expected to work in the organization and rare circumstances, it will be taught as a zero- (acquisition, genetic basis, development over prepare a daily journal of activities, as well as credit, online course. the life cycle, and historic change); opinions paper at the conclusion of the course, apply 0-6 credits, S/U grading about policy issues and the conceptualization program knowledge to the internship activities. of politics in ideological terms; the impact Permission of Program Director is required. POL 597: Capstone Internship in of valence issues (the economy and national 1-6 credits, Public Policy security); perceptions of candidates (personal This course is an applied internship in a public, as well as political qualities); group influence POL 571: Moral Politics on individual decisions, particularly racial not-for-profit, or private sector organization attitudes; and the impact of the campaign Many political issues ranging from capital that deals with public policy. The student (media ads, debates etc.) on vote choices. punishment to same-sex marriage to wealth works in the organization and prepares a daily redistribution are moral issues. This course journal of activities, as well as a paper at the Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, will use moral psychology to better understand conclusion of the course, applying program A-, B+, etc.) public opinion, political debates, and political knowledge to the internship activities. behavior. We will examine how moral POL 567: Culture, Values, and Public 1-6 credits, S/U grading judgement differs from judgments based on Opinion May be repeated for credit. self interest and altruism. We will address This course investigates the evolution of the role of moral condemnation in political POL 598: Capstone Thesis Project in values, cleavages, political space, and debates and how moral accusations clash with Public Policy issues in cross-national perspective (with arguments based on non-moral considerations particular focus on the advanced industrialized This course is primarily for students already such as economics, group loyalty, or authority. employed in related field. In lieu of internship, countries of the US, Europe, Israel, Japan, Topics include alternative moral frames, and Australia). We begin our study with student completes a Master's project which liberal-conservative differences, moral goes beyond their normal employment duties the analysis of traditional socio-economic metaphors, and moral emotions. We will apply cleavages in determining issue positions, to apply theory and methods to a particular these concepts to understand public opinion policy issue. and the `end of ideology¿ theses propounded about political issues surrounding property, 6 credits, by comparative political scientists, such as fairness, sexuality, religion, and violence. Daniel Bell and Francois Fukuyama, and Semesters offered- Fall and Spring Must be a POL 600: Research Project elaborated by scholars of the behavioral student in POLMA program revolution such as Inglehart, Dalton, and A two-semester introduction to research for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Franklin. We then explore the strengths and first-year students. The course introduces issues of research design through lectures and weaknesses of paradigm shifts to values, POL 572: Human Behavior as Rational presentations of current research by faculty buttressed by public opinion data. Bringing in Action cultural and neo-institutional explanations of members. Each student designs his or her

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 235 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 own research paper under the guidance of a and behavior across the life span. Topics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) faculty member familiar with his or her area of include the stability of political attitudes- interest. Final papers are due in the beginning contrasting the greater durability of political POL 614: American Judiciary of May. partisanship and basic values with the A seminar on judicial process and behavior. 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) relative instability of issue positions; the Emphasis is placed on the Supreme Court, May be repeated for credit. social psychology of attitude change, which but trial courts and other appellate courts lends some insight into the conditions under are examined as well. Topics include POL 601: Foundations: Public Policy which attitudes are most likely to change; constitutional interpretation and both legal and Political Economy the importance of political period or era as a and extra-legal models of decision making. A systematic introduction to the principles of determinant of political attitudes and behavior; Students should possess basic methodological political economy. Develops a microeconomic and the existence and coherence of distinct skills. model and approach to public policy analysis. political generations. Some attention is also 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A major part of the course is devoted to given to the political changes that accompany student projects that analyze the political old age, including changes in attitude and POL 615: Legislative Process economy of a governmental policy. behavior linked to growing dependency on the A seminar on the legislative process, focusing Social Security and Medicare systems. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) on current research on the United States 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Congress. POL 602: Applied Data Analysis I 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) POL 608: Foundations: Political The application of statistical and mathematical Psychology, Behavior models to the analysis of political data: POL 616: Political Parties and Groups introduction to the research process and to A review and analysis of the political behavior A seminar on parties, campaigns, and elections topics in measurement, basic descriptive literature, including such topics as attitude in the United States. Topics covered include statistics, and inferential statistics. formation and change, belief systems, political party organization and leadership, nomination socialization, demographic and small group 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and general election campaigns, and the role of influences on political beliefs and conduct, parties in government. POL 603: Applied Data Analysis II political leadership, electoral behavior, elite vs. mass politics, decision making, personality and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The application of statistical and mathematical politics, political conformity, and protest. models to the analysis of political data: POL 617: Electoral Behavior regression analysis. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Models of voting choices; key attitudes such 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) POL 609: Advanced Research Design as party identification, issue orientations, and ideology; the impact of group affiliations, POL 604: Applied Data Analysis III A practical application of topics in the economic conditions; campaign strategies philosophy of science to research design. The application of statistical methods to the of candidates; congressional vs. presidential Students prepare their dissertation proposal as elections; historical change, e.g., party analysis of political data. The emphasis is a part of this course. on diagnosing and dealing with violations realignments. of assumptions of statistical models. Topics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) covered include advanced regression, models POL 610: Foundations II: Experimental for discrete dependent variables, systems of POL 618: American Political Ideology Design and Methods equations, and selection bias. This course examines American political An overview of experimental research with 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ideology as it is reflected in public opinion, an emphasis on experimental design, data political debate, and public policy. The goal is POL 605: Foundations: American analysis, and interpretation. Students develop to understand the underlying bases of conflict Politics the ability to critically evaluate experimental and consensus in American politics and the research. Students also participate in the A review of the basic political science ways in which they influence and constrain development, implementation, and analysis of debate over public policy. The course traces literature on American politics, with emphasis a laboratory experiment. on American political institutions. the development of political conflict in the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) United States and examines the basis of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) contemporary political debate. POL 613: Game Theory for Political 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) POL 606: Time Series Analysis Science This seminar will consider statistical models Introduction to formal models of strategic POL 620: Government Regulation of for political processes observed over time. behavior in static, dynamic, and repeated Business The major topics will include conintegration, games. Technical emphasis is formulation and An examination of the scope of government time varying parameter models and duration solution of games of complete and incomplete models. regulation of business in the United States information; a variety of equilibrium concepts today-regulation at both the federal and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will be introduced. Substantive applications state levels and by both economic and social include spatial models of candidate behavior agencies. The course compares market POL 607: Social Survey in in elections; agenda control and bargaining Contemporary Society vs. regulatory policies as well as possible in legislatures; lobbying by interest groups; explanations for why some regulatory This course on political socialization focuses common pool resource problems; and agencies change over time. Finally, the course on continuity and change in political attitudes cooperation between rivals. considers proposed reforms, such as clearer

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 236 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 legislative standards, curbs on "revolving of countries, for example. It is important to In-depth examination of the role of mass media door" practices, greater citizen participation in realize, however, that whole network data in the political process and the psychological agency proceedings, and deregulation. is often not available and, further, it is very dynamics of media influence. Effects of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) difficult to collect. We begin, therefore, by the media on public opinion and voting. considering methods that take account of the Implications of media influence on democratic POL 621: Theories of Policy Making interdependence of political actors without theory. An introduction to theories of policy making, analyzing the entire network within which 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) especially policy formulation, stressing reading those actors operate. The different methods and thinking about classics and acquiring and measures we discuss in this class could be POL 633: Social Influence and Group skills necessary for theorizing, including incorporated into almost all areas of political Processes in Political Decision Making mathematical modeling and formal theory. science. Thus, the ultimate goal of this class is Review of contemporary theories of social Laboratories focus on improving special to give students and a lexicon and a toolkit to influence processes and group decision skills (e.g., optimization) and theorizing use in their own research. making, with emphasis on applications about particular policy areas (e.g., pork barrel 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to decision making in politics. Special politics). focus on small-group methods and research POL 627: Legislative Behavior 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) applications. This course provides an overview of the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) POL 622: Bureaucracy and the Policy theoretical and empirical studies of legislative Process politics. The course will place a particular POL 634: Behavioral Decision Theory An examination of bureaucracy as part of the emphasis on rational choice institutional Emphasizes psychological theories of policy-making process. This course reviews perspectives. Briefly, this paradigm suggests judgment and choice and prediction of the theoretical explanations for the bureaucracy that individual-level strategic calculations errors that individual decision makers are as a political institution and implications of its are paramount in understanding political likely to make. These ideas are applied to a rapid growth since the New Deal. It also looks phenomena, and institutions both emerge variety of political contexts. from and serve to constrain these rational, inside bureaucratic organizations, examining 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) factors that influence the exercise of discretion utility maximizing political actors. While and policy implementation. the main focus of the course is the U.S. POL 661: Formal Models in American Congress, much of what we cover will have 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Politics direct relevance to the study of legislatures This course surveys research in the field of POL 625: Ecological Rationality more generally (both cross-nationally and American state legislatures). We will American Politics that employs the tools and Students will learn about the major theories of discuss congressional elections, the nature of concepts of formal theory (predominately ecological rationality and how they compare congressional representation, positive theories noncooperative game theory) to address to classical conceptions of rationality and of congressional organization, political parties, contemporary questions. The objective of the to bounded rationality. Students will learn the committee system, institutional change, course is to solidify students' understanding how this approach has influenced research in bicameralism, inter-branch relations, and of game theory as a modeling technique in political science, psychology, and economics. comparative legislatures. political science, and to enable students to use Course topics will include: theoretical formal methods in their own research. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) foundations of ecological rationality, political 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) decision making as a manifestation of POL 629: Experimental Game Theory ecological rationality, application to heuristics, POL 664: Advanced Institutions the relationship between ecological rationality Surveys experimental tests of formal models and prospect theory, applications to risk- derived from political economy and game theory, and applies behavioral and social- POL 670: Advanced Topics: Political taking, applications to behavioral economics, Economy I applications to trust and cooperation. At its psychological theories to explain deviations core, ecological rationality is a vision of from equilibrium behavior. The methodologies An intensive examination of major substantive human psychology. Thus, this course provides of psychological and economic experiments and methodological concerns involved in the a foundational perspective for our students are contrasted and explored. Substantive study of political economy. who are emphasizing political psychology in applications include social trust, bargaining 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) their studies. The nature of human rationality power, agenda control, committee decision May be repeated for credit. is also a core topic in behavioral economics making, common pool resource problems, and and political economy. Thus, this course is also political persuasion. POL 671: Advanced Topics: Political foundational for students emphasizing BPE. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Economy II 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Reading and research in the area of political POL 631: Political Cognition economy. POL 626: Social Networks Surveys the contemporary psychological 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The course is designed to introduce students literature on human memory and cognition, to the process of analyzing interdependent with emphasis on applications to political POL 673: Advanced Topics: American political actors. We will ultimately discuss information processing. Politics I using whole network data to conduct social 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A seminar in American institutions and network analysis'note, these networks need not processes, focusing on current research in such be social; they could be international networks POL 632: Mass Communication and Political Persuasion

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POL 691: Research Practicum I not in their home country are charged for the mandatory health insurance. If they are to be 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A course actively involving students in an covered by another insurance plan they must May be repeated for credit. ongoing research project under the direction of a principal investigator. Students participate file a waiver be second week of classes. The POL 675: Advanced Topics: in all stages of the research project and are charge will only be removed if other plan is Comparative Politics I required to prepare a research report on one deemed comparable. Readings and research papers on topics in aspect of the project. All international students must received comparative politics. Particular attention is 3 credits, S/U grading clearance from an International Advisor. given to concepts and methods identified with Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading the field. POL 692: Research Practicum II May be repeated for credit. A continuation of POL 691. Students actively 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) POL 800: Summer Research May be repeated for credit. participate in either a second research project, where they will again prepare a research May be repeated for credit. POL 676: Advanced Topics: Methods I report, or continue their participation in the A course reviewing the literature and same project, where they are then assigned methodology of specific areas of political a subset of data for analysis or carry out a POR science research. The course relates directly to specific research aim of the project. Portuguese research applications and provide students with 3 credits, S/U grading an opportunity to apply advanced research May be repeated for credit. POR 500: Reading Portuguese tools to selected substantive problems. POL 693: Practicum in Teaching Systematic instruction in the fundamentals 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of reading comprehension and in specialized May be repeated for credit. subject-oriented vocabulary. POL 699: Dissertation Research on Prerequisite: Permission of instructor POL 678: Political Decision Making Campus Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Review of the literature and methods related Dissertation research under direction of B+, etc.) to a topic or problem in contemporary advisor. political science, voting behavior, issue Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5); POR 511: Portuguese for Spanish formation, interest groups, political economy, permission of graduate program director. Speaker or personality. Major portion of research must take place on A one semester accelerated course in Brazilian 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Portuguese for students with a native of near- May be repeated for credit. Brookhaven National Lab. native command of Spanish. This course uses Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U Spanish as a base for study of Portuguese POL 679: Advanced Topics: Political grading grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. Psychology/Behavior I May be repeated for credit. By the end of the semester students will be Reading and research in the area of political prepared to read advanced materials and will psychology and behavior. POL 700: Dissertation Research off have acquired a basic proficiency in speaking, Campus - Domestic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) writing and comprehension of standard Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Brazilian Portuguese. A grade of B- or above POL 680: Directed Study (G5). Major portion of research will take place will satisfy the graduate language proficiency Individual studies under the guidance of off-campus, but in the United States and/ requirement in Portuguese for the MA or PhD. a faculty member. Subject matter varies or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven Department consent is required for enrollment. according to the needs of the student. National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) are considered on-campus. All international 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) students must enroll in one of the graduate POR 575: Luso-Brazilian Readings May be repeated for credit. student insurance plans and should be advised Major literary works from 19th-and 20th- POL 681: Directed Study by an International Advisor. century Portugal and Brazil, especially Individual studies under the guidance of Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading narratives. a faculty member. Subject matter varies May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Reading proficiency in according to the needs of the student. Portuguese and permission of instructor POL 701: Dissertation Research off Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Campus - International May be repeated for credit. B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy May be repeated for credit. POL 690: Research Colloquium (G5). Major portion of research will take place outside of the United States and/or

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POR 591: Portuguese Language Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, neurophysiological, and neuorcomputational Acquisition I etc.) theories. Specific questions will include: Elementary Portuguese I for graduate students "What is attention?" (is it a unitary thing or a PSY 506: Psychometric Methods with no previous study of the language. The grab-bag of assorted processes), "How does it course is designed to introduce the basics of This course surveys traditional and evolving work," and "What paradigms have researchers the language promoting the development of all views on item design, reliability, and validity, used to study attention?" (dichotic listening, language skills. 4 credits Letter graded reviews statistical methods related to test priming, search, etc.). construction, and applies this material to 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, the design and evaluation of observational, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) rating, and self-report methods in domains PSY of interest to psychologists. The course also PSY 514: Sensation and Perception examines the impact of test characteristics This course covers the sensory mechanisms Psychology on data analysis and the role of test design in that change physical stimuli (e.g., a picture of theory construction. your friend) into neural information, the major PSY 501: Analysis of Variance and Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, brain areas involved in processing this sensory Experimental Design Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) information for various perceptual abilities The design and analysis of factorial (eg., motion perception, color perception, experiments having a single dependent PSY 507: Meta-Analysis object perception, etc.), and the different variable. Topics include between- and within- This course is an introduction to research theoretical approaches to analyzing a given subjects designs, mixed-factor designs, synthesis and the use of meta-analytic perceptual phenomenon. interactions, trend analysis, and planned techniques. The content is intended to be Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, comparisons. Emphasis on applications a thorough yet practical coverage of basic Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in psychological research. Required of all principles, with an emphasis on leading Ph.D. students in psychology. Prerequisite: students through the steps of conducting their PSY 516: Judgment and Decision Undergraduate statistics, Co-requisite: PSY own meta-analytic project. A basic knowledge Making 508 of statistics commonly used in the social This course provides an overview of empirical Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and behavioral sciences is essential. Class and theoretical work on meetings will involve both didactic instruction judgment and decision making. Topics include PSY 502: Correlation and Regression and discussion of readings and homework what decision making is, assignments. Correlation, regression, multiple correlation, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, multiple regression, partial correlation, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) B+, etc.) and introductions to some of the following topics: factor analysis, mediational analysis, PSY 508: Introduction to Computer PSY 518: Memory Applications in Statistics structural equation modeling, relation of Review of theory and phenomena related to regression to analysis of variance, analysis of Computer protocol and introduction to human memory. Topics include representation covariance, discriminant function analysis, and statistical packages and necessary utility of schemas and categories, encoding, multivariate analysis of variance. Required of programs. Fall and Spring forgetting, implicit learning, and memory for all Ph.D. students in psychology. Spring 0-1 credits, S/U grading procedures. Several recent models of long- 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. term memory representation are discussed and compared. PSY 504: First Year Seminar PSY 510: History of Psychology Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, This course includes discussion of current Intensive reading in the history of psychology B+, etc.) research and research practices by faculty and from original sources. Emphasis is on class visiting speakers. This course is required of all discussion and relation to modern problems. PSY 520: Psycholinguistics first-year Ph.D. students and Masters students. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, The psychology of language, including 0-3 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for B+, etc.) the mental lexicon, sentence processing, credit. pragmatics, discourse, production and 0-3 credits, S/U grading PSY 511: Learning comprehension of utterances in conversation, May be repeated for credit. A consideration of the basic principles of language and thought, first-language learning. Analysis of the leading theories of acquisition, and computational approaches. PSY 505: Structural Equation Modeling learning as well as areas of controversy and Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, and Advanced Multivariate Methods dispute. B+, etc.) Thorough coverage of structural equation Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, modeling and brief coverage of other B+, etc.) PSY 524: Cognitive Development specialized techniques used in data analysis in This course presents the developmental psychology, such as multi-level modeling and PSY 513: Theories of Attention perspective as applied to human cognition. cluster analysis (topics for brief coverage vary This course covers some of the major Topics include (1) characteristics and from year to year). The course emphasizes theoretical perspectives that have shaped the constraints on cognitive abilities in infancy, hands-on work with real data sets, using attention literature, staring with historical childhood, and adolescence, (2) mechanisms of standard statistical software packages. distinctions of early versus late selection and developmental change, and (3) links between ending with more contemporary mathematical,

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Individual, couple, and family pathophysiology of internalizing disorders A critical review of how principles of general treatments are reviewed. such as mood and anxiety disorders. psychology apply to clinical psychology. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Fall, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The course material will be discussed etc.) within the context of the history of ideas PSY 546: Measurement and Scaling and major systems of thought as they relate PSY 541: Social Psychology of Close An historical introduction to the measurement to conceptualization, assessment, and Relationships of psychological variables and survey of intervention. High level overview of current theory and contemporary scaling methods with an Prerequisite: Psychology doctoral student. research on the social psychology of close emphasis on psychophysical scaling and Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, relationships. experimental applications. B+, etc.) Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) B+, etc.) PSY 534: Assessment: General Principles, Clinical Interviews, and PSY 542: Psychology of Addictive PSY 549: Prejudice and Discrimination Adult Psychotherapy Behaviors This course will provide an overview of General principles of assessment; clinical Study of psychological, behavioral and theoretical perspectives, research methods, interviewing; structured interviews for biological theories of addiction. empirical findings, and practical applications assessing axis-I and axis-II psychopathology; Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, of psychological research on prejudice, stigma, ethics and cultural diversity. Prerequisite: Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and intergroup relations. Critical thinking Clinical psychology doctoral student about theorizing and research in this area will Fall, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PSY 543: Attachment be emphasized during class discussions and This course examines current psychological through a course project. Students are admitted PSY 535: Advanced Research Methods theories of infant-parent and child parent with permission by instructor. Advanced research methods employed in relationships and adult-adult attachment with Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, clinical, personality, social, and behavioral special attention to assessment methods, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) research. Fall or Spring clinical applications and controversy regarding PSY 552: Social and Personality 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the importance of early experience. Development Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, PSY 537: Methods of Intervention: Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A survey of milestones and processes of Treatment of Internalizing Disorders social development in infancy and childhood. This course covers the theory and research PSY 544: Emotion & Cognition Relevance to understanding adult personality associated with the treatment of internalizing This course focuses on fundamental questions and social relationships is emphasized. disorders of adults, adolescents, and children. regarding the interaction between emotion Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Among the topics covered are the treatment and cognition, and how such this interaction B+, etc.) of phobias, school refusual, panic disorder, can be measured. Key topics will include: general anxiety disorder, social anxiety, post- differentiating emotions from other affective PSY 555: Social Psychology traumatic stress disorder, complicated grief, states, understanding the functions of discrete An introduction to social psychology, a field of obsessive compulsive disorder, and mood emotions, the role of the consciousness in study examining how people feel about, think disorders. In the treatment of each, particular emotional experience, and whether emotions about, and influence others. Topics include emphasis is placed on how therapy needs to be can be controlled ; additionally, the course attitudes, motivation, social judgements, and modified depending on whether one is working will address emotion-cognition interactions in interpersonal behaviors. Coursework focuses with a child, adolescent or adult. the domains of memory, attention, perception on identifying basic principles that transcend Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and reasoning/decision-making. We will also particular content domains. address developmental changes and cross- Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, PSY 538: Method of Intervention: cultural differences in emotion and cognition. Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Treatment of Externalizing Disorders The goal of the course is to be able to develop and Relationship Problems a translational research proposal rooted in PSY 556: Stress and Coping This course focuses on the treatment of basic research on emotion and cognition. In this course, we examine current issues, externalizing disorders of adults and children Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, challenges, and questions in two related as well as intimate partner problems like Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) areas of psychology: stress and coping. We relationship discord and partner abuse. A will cover classical approaches in addition developmental focus is taken as exemplified PSY 545: Psychopathology: to recent empirical research and theoretical by coverage of child externalizing problems Conceptual models and internalizing development. Students are not expected to such as Oppositional Defiant Disorder, disorders have prior familiarity with the topic areas.

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We will begin by reviewing definitions and computational neuroscience, and cognitive Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, major theoretical orientations. In subsequent psychology. In this course, we examine B+, etc.) weeks we will concentrate on issues relevant the current theories and empirical research to stress, coping, and related topics such findings on the neural basis of cognition. We PSY 564: Neuropsychopharmacology as social support, across a broad range of will cover anatomical, neurophysiological This course covers the mechanisms of circumstances, rather than focusing on specific and pharmacological correlates of behavioral transmitters and related drug action in the stressful contexts such as chronic illness or functions such as perception, attention, nervous system. In addition to exploring bereavement. For example, we will examine motivation, learning, memory, cognitive transmitter/receptor relationships, the course ways to define successful and maladaptive control, and communication. We will covers the sequence of events initiated by coping. We will also consider whether evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of this action. Through understanding of these social support is better conceptualized as a various approaches used to student the neural processes, the course then links drug action to commodity or as an individual perception. We substrates of higher-order cognition. nervous system outcomes such as movement, will compare contradictory evidence about 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) cognition, pain and mood. the benefits of perceived control, and we will May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter discuss problems of generalizing research graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) findings to different ethnic, cultural, and other PSY 561: Cognitive and Behavioral groups. Neuroscience I PSY 565: Functional Neuroanatomy Offered: Fall, Spring alternate years, 3 credits, This course introduces students to neural Just as a function can be derived from Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) elements responsible for processing the structure of everyday objects, so too information supporting sensation, perception, can function be derived from the study of PSY 558: Theories of Social cognition and movement. Starting with brain architecture and neural connectivity. Psychology: Health Applications the philosophy of the mind and the history Accordingly, this course takes a structural This course provides an overview of the of neuroscience, the course proceeds with approach to the understanding of the nervous ways in which social psychological theories an introduction of cells, neural signaling, system and behavior. To complement a and perspectives can be used to understand transmitters and receptors. How these disciplinary focus on cognition, affect and thoughts and behavior relevant to health elemental units are integrated to support emotions, this course will emphasize the and illness. It covers social influence, social emergent properties, usch as object connectivity of higher order brain regions. comparison, pluralistic ignorance, social recognition, is illustrated. Coversely, examples Students will first be introduced to the global support, cognitive dissonance, message of complex behavioral impairments resulting organization of the nervous system and a framing, and fear communication. The from dysfunction in elemental units illustrated. general framework for information processing. course also covers links between personality The course proceed to cover neral metabolism, Then sensory and motor pathways will be characteristics and health and how broader and its relation to disorders of memory and discussed imn more detail. The course will social and cultural environment affects health motor dysfunction. Last, stress and its role in end with topics such as the neurocircuitry of and illness. neuropsychological disorders is discussed. addiction, emotion, and memory. Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Offered Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PSY 559: Psychology of Women's PSY 562: Cognitive and Behavioral Health Neuroscience II PSY 581: Integrative Neuroscience This course covers a variety of Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Seminar I psychologically-important topics in women's illustrates how cellular circuits support This course includes discussion of current health based on current research findings. function. Classic experiments demonstrating research in Integrative Neuroscience by We address psychological contributors to function fro the use of electrophysiological faculty, students, and visiting scientists. This and consequences of women's health and data, lesions and transmitter manipulations are sequence is required of all students in the illness, focusing on diseases that affect women discussed. Students interested in understanding Integrative Neuroscience Program. differently or disproportionately than men how individual neurons and neural circuits and Fall, 0-3 credits, S/U grading (including coronary heart disease, cancer, integrated regional systems directly support May be repeated for credit. AIDS, and autoimmune diseases), women's specific behaviors will find this course of reproductive health (including menstruation, interest. A textbook is used for the readings. PSY 582: Integrative Neuroscience contraception, pregnancy, infertility, and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Seminar II menopause), health behaviors (including This course includes discussions of current substance abuse, exercise, and eating), and PSY 563: Neuropsychological research in Integrative Neuroscience by other topics such as violence against women, Assessment faculty, students, and visiting scientists. This women's mental health, and women as health Classroom discussions of issues in sequence is required of all students in the care providers and health researchers. neuropsychological assessment and design Integrative Neuroscience program. Co-scheduled with WST 559. of assessment batteries are combined with Spring, 0-3 credits, S/U grading Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, practical experience in the assessment of May be repeated for credit. B+, etc.) clinical populations. Each student is assigned to a supervisor to learn assessment techniques PSY 583: Cognitive Science Seminar I PSY 560: Human Brain Function for research and/or clinical practice. This course includes discussions of current Cognitive neuroscience is an interdisciplinary research in Cognitive Science by faculty, field, at the interface of systems neuroscience,

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The course will focus on special Center. In addition, methods of providing students, and invited scientists. This sequence education programs, childhood and adolescent documentation of change in individual cases is required of all students in the Cognitive psychiatric disorders, and societal issues. are discussed as well as means of obtaining Science program. Offered: corroborating evidence to support self-reported information. Students present case material Spring, 0-3 credits, S/U grading Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B to the group and receive peer and faculty May be repeated for credit. +, etc.) feedback about case conceptualization and PSY 585: Social and Health PSY 596: Psychopathology: treatment. Psychology Seminar I Externalizing & Psychotic Disorders Prerequisite: Clinical psychology doctoral This course includes discussions of current Theory and research of abnormal behavior in student research in Social and Health Psychology children, adolescents, and adults. A lifespan Summer, 3 credits, S/U grading by faculty, students, and visiting scientists. development approach is taken, with a focus May be repeated for credit. This sequence is required of all students in the on the phenomenology, epidemiology, course, PSY 608: Clinical Psychology Social and Health Psychology Program. etiology, pathogenisis, psychopathology, and pathophysiology of externalizing disorders Internship Fall, 0-3 credits, S/U grading (e.g., conduct, disorder, personality disorders, Qualified clinical students carry out supervised May be repeated for credit. substance use disorders) and psychotic clinical responsibilities in settings approved by PSY 586: Social and Health disorders. the faculty. Psychology Seminar II Prerequisite: Must be Psychology Graduate Prerequisite:Clinical psychology doctoral This course includes discussions of current Student student research in Social and Health Psychology Spring, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Fall and Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading by faculty, students, and visiting scientists. etc.) May be repeated for credit. This sequence is required of all students in the PSY 602: Assessment: Personality PSY 610: Seminars in Selected Topics Social and Health Psychology Program. Testing, Intellectual/Cognitive Testing; Topics selected on the basis of the needs of the Spring, 0-3 credits, S/U grading and Child Parent Assessment graduate program and research interests of the May be repeated for credit. Self-report and projective measures of staff. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor PSY 587: Clinical Psychology Seminar personality and psychopathology; targeted Fall, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, I assessments and measures; intellectual and etc.) cognitive assessment; assessment of children This course includes discussions of current May be repeated for credit. and parents; ethics and cultural diversity. research in Clinical Psychology by faculty, PSY 620: Seminars in Selected Topics students, and visiting scientists. Spring, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Topics selected on the basis of the needs of the Fall, 0-3 credits, S/U grading graduate program and research interests of the May be repeated for credit. PSY 603: Ethics and Professional staff. Issues PSY 588: Clinical Psychology Seminar Prerequisite: Permission of instructor II Ethics and professional issues. Required of Spring, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, all first-year clinical students. Prerequisite: This course includes discussions of current etc.) Clinical psychology doctoral student research in Clinical Psychology by faculty, May be repeated for credit. students, and visiting scientists. Spring, 2 credits, S/U grading PSY 621: Seminar in Teaching Spring, 0-3 credits, S/U grading PSY 604: Intervention Practicum Methods May be repeated for credit. Exposure of the application of clinical Theory and pragmatics of good college PSY 594: Psychology of Gender intervention procedures. teaching. Topics include lecturing, use of discussion, types of evaluation of students This class examines how gender affects and is Prerequisite: PSY 537 or PSY 538, Must be and teachers, factors affecting undergraduate affected by behavior, thoughts, and emotions. Psychology Graduate Student learning, ethics, student-faculty relations, We investigate gender differences and Fall, 2 credits, S/U grading course administration, and audio-visual similarities across the lifespan and consider PSY 605: Advanced Clinical Practicum devices. various perspectives on the study of gender, including psychobiology, social cognitive Exposure to the application of advanced Prerequisites: Matriculated psychology theory, social role theory, and cross-cultural intervention procedures. graduate student; permission of instructor research. Prerequisite: PSY 604 and Clinical psychology Fall or Spring, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, doctoral student A-, B+, etc.)

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May be repeated for credit. in MEDEX. International students who are on literary and philosophical traditions in their home country are not covered by common to Russia and Europe. PSY 695: Graduate Academic and mandatory health plan and must contact the Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Professional Skills Practicum Insurance Office for the insurance charge to Students enrolled in the M.A. program in be removed. International students who are RUS 511: Studies in Literary Genres Psychology may gain degree-relevant practical not in their home country are charged for the A seminar devoted to a specific genre (poetry, experience under the supervision of the mandatory health insurance. If they are to be novel, short fiction, drama) in Russian program advisor. This experience may include covered by another insurance plan they must literature. May be repeated. participation in public and private agencies file a waiver be second week of classes. The Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and organizations and experience in teaching charge will only be removed if other plan is etc.) support roles. Students are required to submit deemed comparable. May be repeated for credit. written progress reports and a final written All international students must received report on their experience to the faculty clearance from an International Advisor. RUS 513: 19th-Century Russian sponsor and department. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Literature Offered May be repeated for credit. A seminar on 19th-century Russian literature. Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-6 credits, S/U The course deals with prose, poetry, and drama PSY 800: Full Time Summer Research grading in the context of literary movements and May be repeated for credit. 0 credits, S/ grading traditions. S/U grading PSY 696: Readings Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor RUS 514: 20th-Century Russian 1-12 credits, S/U grading PSY 820: Summer Teaching-CED Literature May be repeated for credit. A seminar in turn-of-the-century, Soviet post revolutionary, and emigre Russian literature. PSY 698: Research RUS The course deals with prose, poetry, and drama Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Russian Language and in the context of literary movements and 1-12 credits, S/U grading traditions. Literature May be repeated for credit. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

PSY 699: Dissertation Research on RUS 500: Reading Russian RUS 520: Russian Syntax Campus Intensive introductory Russian for graduate A course in Russian syntax and advanced Dissertation research under direction of students in other programs. Practice in grammar from various theoretical frameworks. advisor. reading and translation; Russian prose; use of Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). dictionaries and reference materials; as much attention as possible to special problems of Major portion of research must take place on RUS 591: Language Acquisition I various disciplines. SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Elementary Russian I intended for graduate Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Brookhaven National Lab. students from other programs. Fall, 1-9 credits, S/U grading etc.) 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. RUS 504: Introduction to Cultural RUS 592: Language Acquisition II PSY 700: Dissertation Research off History Campus - Domestic Russian cultural history focusing on recurrent Elementary Russian II intended for graduate students from other programs. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy values and ideas. Topics explored include (G5). Major portion of research will take place issues of cultural identity, responses to 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) off-campus, but in the United States and/ the West and Asia (in such movements as or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven Slavophilism, pan-Slavism, and Eurasian RUS 593: Language Acquisition III National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab theory), gender, and ethnicity. Intermediate and Advanced Russian intended are considered on-campus. All international Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, for graduate students from other programs. students must enroll in one of the graduate etc.) The requirements for the course will include a student insurance plans and should be advised graduate-level component to be determined by by an International Advisor. RUS 508: Russian Authors the instructor. May be repeated for credit. Fall, Spring, 0-9 credits, S/U grading A seminar in selected Russian authors, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. focusing on one or two of the following: May be repeated for credit. Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, PSY 701: Dissertation Research off Tolstoy. May be repeated. RUS 595: Practicum in Teaching Campus - International Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. (G5). Major portion of research will take place outside of the United States and/or RUS 509: Dostoevsky and the West RUS 599: Thesis Research U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the Dostoevsky's major texts viewed in cross- RUS 599 Thesis Research. One to six credits. option of the health plan and may also enroll cultural perspective with particular emphasis S/U grading. May be repeated for credit.

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1-6 credits, progress within the context of teaching. This learners, including: high needs schools, May be repeated 6 times FOR credit. course demands an inquiry into the nature of students with disabilities or special needs, science and the nature of knowing. It requires English language learners, and diverse RUS 601: Studies in Cultural Genres one-half day per week of clinical practice with age groups. The field experience will Explorations in different forms of Russian follow-up seminars, out-of-class meetings with involve: observing instruction by sponsoring cultural representation offered by written texts, classmates, and micro-teaching assignments in teacher and other teachers using a structured the arts, architecture, and popular media such selected public schools. Prerequisite: SCI 510; observation protocol, assisting sponsoring as puppet theatres, the bard tradition, and entrance interview with the Science Education teacher with class activities, tutoring cinema. Interaction among aesthetic genres Committee; 3.0 cummulative graduate GPA; students, planning curriculum and negotiating will be explored with particular emphasis on matriculation in degree (MAT, MS, Ph.D curriculum with students, assessing student the roles of literature in the other arts. Fall or MA/LS) program; permission Science knowledge, and preparing written assignments 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Education program 631.632.7075 Remark: for the methods courses on the basis of the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) above activities. Prerequisite: Matriculation in RUS 602: Literature and Theatre Science Education Program, SCI 549, SCI 510 The relationship of literature and theatre with SCI 530: Applied Research in 1 credit, S/U grading specific examples taken from Russian cultural Educational Settings history. The stage adaptations of Stanislavsky, This course offers the pre-service teacher the SCI 551: Supervised Student Teaching Meyerhold, and contemporary directors will be opportunity to conduct a place of original High School Grades 10-12: Science studied as forms of aesthetic conjunction and research that will inform future practice. With Prospective science teachers will participate as responses to the social-ideological context. guidance from the PEP faculty and/or affiliated in a supervised student teaching experience Spring departmental faculty, pre-service teachers will in selected Long Island secondary schools, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) formulate a question, design a protocol, collect grades 10-12. The student teacher reports to data and analyze within research traditions the school to which he/she is assigned each RUS 603: Seminar in Cultural Theory appropriate to the question. full school day. Frequent consultation with Studies in cultural theory with particular 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the supervising teacher helps the student reference to the works of formalism, interpret and evaluate the teaching experience. structuralism, the Tartu school of semiotics, SCI 540: Clinical Experience and Applications must be filed in the semester and Bakhtinian theory. Fall Action Research preceding student teaching. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Within this course, students will engage in 3 credits, S/U grading weekly clinical practice experiences in campus teaching labs, outreach programs or regional SCI 552: Supervised Student Teaching SCI schools. In addition, students will design, Middle School Grades 7-9: Science implement, and present an action research Prospective science teachers will participate Science Teacher Preparation project. This course is intended to be taken as a in a supervised student teaching experience two-semester co-requisite of SCI 510 and SCI in selected Long Island secondary schools, SCI 510: Introduction to Science 520. grades 7-9. The student teacher reports to Teaching 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the school to which he/she is assigned each This course introduces the pre-service teacher full school day. Frequent consultation with to the requisite skills, culture, and demands SCI 549: Science Field Experience I the supervising teacher helps the student of the profession. The pre-service teacher This course requires teacher candidates interpret and evaluate the teaching experience. learns to design curriculum, write lesson plans, to complete 50 hours of supervised field Applications must be filed in the semester orchestrate classroom activity, probe student experience at various sites and with diverse preceding student teaching. Prerequisite: SCI thinking and assess student progress within the learners, including: high needs schools, 510, 520, 541, 542 CEE 505 and CEE 565; context of a pedagogy that promotes an inquiry students with disabilities or special needs, matriculation in degree (MAT, MS, Ph.D or approach to learning. This course requires one- English language learners, and diverse MA/LS) program, 3.0 cummulative GPA; half day per week of clinical practice with age groups. The field experience will submission of portfolio and interview with and follow-up seminar in the campus Discover involve: observing instruction by sponsoring permission of Science Education Committee Lab, out-of-class meetings with classmates, teacher and other teachers using a structured 631.632.7075 and periodic visits to local public schools. observation protocol, assisting sponsoring 3 credits, S/U grading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) teacher with class activities, tutoring students, planning curriculum and negotiating SCI 554: Supervised Teaching of SCI 520: Science Instructional curriculum with students, assessing student Science Seminar Strategies and Techniques knowledge, and preparing written assignments This seminar, which will focus on problems In this course, the pre-service teacher builds on for the methods courses on the basis of the encountered by student teachers and public the pedagogical foundations set in SCI 510 and above activities. school teachers at the secondary level, will prepares for student teaching in the following 1 credit, S/U grading include study and analysis of science teaching semester. Greater leadership in Discover Lab issues, including classroom management, programs and teaching assignments in local SCI 550: Science Field Experience II school culture, and social issues affecting the public schools is expected. Greater emphasis This course requires teacher candidates schools and student performance. Prerequisite: is placed on the integration of theory and to complete 50 hours of supervised field SCI 510, 520, 541, 542, CEE 505 and CEE practice, extension of scientific inquiry for experience at various sites and with diverse 565; submission of portfolio and interview diverse learners and assessment of student with and permission of Science Education

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Committee 631.632.7059; matriculation in SLV 581: Special Topic in Slavic SOC 505: Classical Sociological degree (MAT, MS, Ph.D or MA/LS) program; Languages II Theory completion of any content area deficiencies A continuation of the study of a Slavic A review of the intellectual development of the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) language other than Russian. May be repeated discipline, its epistemological foundations, and if different language is studied. classical theoretical statements. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) SLV etc.) Slavic Languages and May be repeated for credit. SOC 506: Contemporary Sociological Theory Literature A review of the current major theoretical SLV 501: Special Topics in Slavic SOC orientations and newly developing theoretical Literature Sociology perspectives. Special topics in Slavic literature investigating Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, an author, period, genre, or theoretical issue. SOC 501: Multivariate Statistics for etc.) Social Science Designed to provide a forum for advanced SOC 509: The Practice of Ethnography research in critical methodology. This course is an advanced treatment of descriptive and inferential statistics with This course has four major objectives: (1) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, to become familiar with contemporary etc.) emphasis on the latter. Students will gain practical experience in analyzing current data ethnogaphies; (2) to acquaint students with SLV 502: Problems of Literary from the social sciences through the use of the methodological literature on qualitative Translation statistical computer programs. Topics include: sociology; (3) to consider theoretical and sampling, measures of central tendency and epistemological issues in qualitative research; The course addresses theoretical and practical and (4) to put some data production techniques problems of translation from the Slavic dispersion, probability theory, hypothesis testing, point and interval estimation, the (observant participation, in-depth interviews, languages. Published translations of literary and life stories) into practice. texts as well as translations prepared by normal, binomial, and chi-square distributions, participants of the seminar will be compared parametric and non-parametric measures of This course is co-scheduled with WST 610. and analyzed. association and correlation, and bi-variate Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, regression. B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Advanced knowledge of Slavic May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. languages 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, SOC 502: Multivariate Regression SOC 510: Historical Methods in etc.) Techniques Sociology SLV 571: Comparative Slavic This course provides an in-depth overview Major approaches, philosophical problems Linguistics of regression analysis, primarily focused on of, and methods used in historical sociology. Topics covered include causal analysis, An investigation of the major West, East, OLS modeling. Topics include: inferences in regression analysis, dummy variables, macrosociological comparisons, case-oriented and South Slavic languages with particular versus variable-oriented approaches, ideal attention to their historical development. The interaction terms, and diagnostics and remedial measures. The course concludes with an types, comparative typologies, narrative, and course includes comparative and contrastive issues of significance and objectivity. Special studies in the areas of phonology, morphology, introduction to other regression techniques such as logistic and probability modeling. attention is given to the problem of concept and syntax. formation. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) SLV 578: Directed Independent Studies SOC 504: Logic and Practice of Sociology SOC 512: Global Sociology, Fall Identities and Organizations in Global This course provides an introduction to the May be repeated for credit. Perspective logic of empirical research in sociology. It takes a broad overview of both quantitative This course examines how increasing global SLV 579: Directed Independent Studies integration impacts human societies. It reviews II and qualitative methods; inductive and deductive reasoning; and the process of theory the broad trends that foster globalization Spring construction and testing, with an emphasis in the economic, political, cultural, and May be repeated for credit. on research design and the logic of causal social spheres, as well as the consequences analysis. A knowledge of advanced statistics global change has had on how individuals SLV 580: Special Topic in Slavic is not assumed. Topics covered include and communities identify themselves and Languages I survey research, participant observation how they organize for collective goals. Core The study of the phonology, morphology, and and field methods, the comparative method, issues on the global agenda such as conflict, syntax of a Slavic language other than Russian, experimental and quasi-experimental design, environment, technological and economic e.g., Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, content analysis, and the logic of multivariate development, demographic change, gender, or Bulgarian. May be repeated if different analysis. and human rights will be addressed; research language studied. methods for the study of global society will be 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) introduced. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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SOC 514: Advanced Topics in Global focus on the topics of personal perception Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Sociology and attitudes; and (3) social structure and B+, etc.) This course provides an advanced treatment personality with a focus on the topics of May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. of major topics and debates in the increasingly norms, roles and socialization. SOC 549: Social Change globalized social sciences. The course is Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, based on research activities of the faculty and B+, etc.) The image of technological, generational, and students. Topics may include global inequality; May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. cultural forces on social organization from globalization and gender; sociology of human historical and comparative perspectives. rights; war and revolution; transnational social SOC 523: Sociology of Education 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) movements; comparative political economy; Relationships between education and other globalization and immigration; globalization institutions. Internal dynamics of the school SOC 555: War and the Military and work; issues in global culture. and the classroom. A comparative and historical study of the Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) social organization of war and the military; B+, etc.) causes, conduct, and consequences of war. May be repeated for credit. SOC 531: Economic Sociology 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course reviews the fundamental principles SOC 516: Social Inequality of economic sociology and looks carefully at SOC 556: Political Sociology Causes, consequences, and explanations of the main areas of research in the resurgence The study of political institutions and of the a prevailing social, political, and economic that began in the 1970's. The course covers politically relevant actions and attitudes of phenomenon. The course assesses long-run classic texts and considers key areas that have individuals and groups. Particular stress is trajectories of inequalities in their various animated the field in the recent era. Subjects placed on the reciprocal relationship between forms and dimensions, and analytically and would include the rise of the large corporation, social movements and political institutions. theoretically considers the topic at the local, ownership and control debate (including the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) national, and global levels. overlapping issues of corporate interlocks Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, and finance capital), the issue of markets and SOC 561: Cultural Sociology B+, etc.) transactions costs, the development of the Cultural sociology is a multi-faceted approach May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. embeddedness perspective, labor markets and used to analyze phenomena as varied as the the nature and extent of globalization. arts and popular culture, social identities, SOC 518: Sociology of Gender Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, social movements, markets, and politics. In This course will familiarize students with the B+, etc.) this course the major theoretical approaches field through a broad survey. Topics include May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. are presented along with the most significant theoretical debates about construction of empirical work done in recent years. Classical gender identity, conceptual and empirical SOC 532: Organizations as well as contemporary texts are considered. issues in the study if gender dynamics and This course will review classic and current Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, empirical studies of the way gender constituted research in the area of organizations. It will B+, etc.) by social institutions such as family, education, cover internal dynamics of organizations, May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. workplace, and media. beginning with classic Weberian theory, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, and continue by reviewing contemporary SOC 562: Sociology of the Arts B+, etc.) approaches to human relations theory. It The relations between social structure, social May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. will address key debates about the dynamics change, and the development of major art of management-worker relations, and it forms. SOC 519: Advanced Topics in Gender will scrutinize the debate of corporate Studies control. Also it will survey the literature 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) on interorganizational relations and This advanced course will continue the SOC 566: Funding and Grant Writing in dynamics, such as interlock research to new discussion of the graduate seminar on Sociology institutionalism. Sociology of Gender, by examining theoretical This course will provide students with the debates or controversies, examining specific Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, skills necessary to write grant proposals for gender identities, examining the gender of B+, etc.) both government and private agencies. The a specific institution (i.e., labor,law), or the May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. main requirement will be to prepare a proposal gendered dynamics of social interaction (in for SOC 542: Deviance suitable for submission to a particular agency example, romantic relationships or sexuality). that funds the kind of research the student Co-scheduled with WST 602. Survey of recent research literature on various plans to do. kinds of deviance (crime, delinquency, and Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) morally stigmatized behavior). Controversial issues in theory and research methods. B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) SOC 521: Social Psychology SOC 568: Dissertation Seminar SOC 545: Social Movements An analysis of the three major domains of Under the direction of the seminar leader, social psychology: (1) symbolic interactionism Unorganized collectives and their role in students help one another (1) prepare for the with a focus on the topic of identity; (2) change. Studies of specific social movements Preliminary Specialty Field Exam (which psychological social psychology with a and other collective behavior episodes. includes putting together a reading list) and

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(2) work on a dissertation proposal and its Gender; Sociology of Culture; Development 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) defense. The details of selecting a dissertation of Capitalism; Film as a Sociological Research committee and writing a dissertation are also Tool; Funding and Grant Writing; The Three SOC 699: Dissertation Research on explored. Faces of Social Psychology; A Structural Campus Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Approach to Organizational Behavior; Dissertation research under direction of B+, etc.) Professionals and Professionalism; Sociology advisor. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. of Modernity; Globalization and Immigration; Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). Research Support in Sociology; Sociology of Major portion of research must take place on SOC 590: Independent Study Sexual Behavior; Global Sociology; Gender SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Intensive reading, under supervision of one or and the Law; Poverty and Homelessness. Brookhaven National Lab. more instructors, of material not covered in the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U formal curriculum. May be repeated for credit. grading 1-12 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. SOC 598: Research May be repeated for credit. Execution of a research project under the SOC 700: Dissertation Research off SOC 591: Special Seminars supervision of one or more faculty members. Campus - Domestic Topics to be arranged. The seminar is built 1-12 credits, S/U grading Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy around actual research activities of students May be repeated for credit. (G5). Major portion of research will take place and faculty. The following topics have been off-campus, but in the United States and/ covered: Cultural Theory; Sociology of SOC 603: Advanced Topics in or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven Technology; Micro-sociology; Advanced Quantitative Analysis National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Topics in Marxist Theory; Sociology of Mathematical and statistical methods in the are considered on-campus. All international Emotions; Historical Methods; Ethnic analysis of quantitative data. students must enroll in one of the graduate student insurance plans and should be advised Relations; Biosociology; Comparative 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) by an International Advisor. Stratification; Max Weber; Sociology of the May be repeated for credit. Future; Science of Sociology and Everyday Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Life; The Study of the World's Advanced SOC 604: Advanced Topics in May be repeated for credit. Societies; Methods of Behavioral Observation; Qualitative Analysis SOC 701: Dissertation Research off Social Structure; Sociology of the Family; The use of personal documents, official Campus - International Cognitive Sociology; Sociology of Work; records, field observations, and interviews. Transnational Social Movements; Economic Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Sociology; War and Revolution; Sociology of (G5). Major portion of research will take Gender; Sociology of Culture; Development SOC 691: Practicum for Teaching and place outside of the United States and/or of Capitalism; Film as a Sociological Research Graduate Assistants U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the Tool; Funding and Grant Writing; The Three option of the health plan and may also enroll Individualized supervision of initial Faces of Social Psychology; A Structural in MEDEX. International students who are (first two semesters) teaching assistance. Approach to Organizational Behavior; in their home country are not covered by Discussion, examination construction, student Professionals and Professionalism; Sociology mandatory health plan and must contact the consultation, and grading. Register for section of Modernity; Globalization and Immigration; Insurance Office for the insurance charge to of supervising instructor. Research Support in Sociology; Sociology of be removed. International students who are Sexual Behavior; Global Sociology; Gender 3 credits, S/U grading not in their home country are charged for the and the Law; Poverty and Homelessness. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. mandatory health insurance. If they are to be 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) covered by another insurance plan they must SOC 692: Practicum in the Teaching of May be repeated for credit. file a waiver by second week of classes. The Sociology charge will only be removed if other plan is SOC 595: Special Seminars The exploration of teaching goals, processes, deemed comparable. Topics to be arranged. The seminar is built and outcomes. Practice lectures are videotaped All international students must receive around actual research activities of students and discussed; classroom visits; planning, clearance from an International Advisor. and faculty. The following topics have been outlining, selection of course material; writing Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading covered: Cultural Theory; Sociology of of syllabus for Introductory Sociology section May be repeated for credit. Technology; Micro-sociology; Advanced to be taught as part of SOC 693 in following Topics in Marxist Theory; Sociology of semester. SOC 800: SUMMER RESEARCH 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Emotions; Historical Methods; Ethnic May be repeated for credit. Relations; Biosociology; Comparative Stratification; Max Weber; Sociology of the SOC 693: Practicum for Graduate Future; Science of Sociology and Everyday Teaching Interns SPN Life; The Study of the World's Advanced Supervised teaching of a section of Sociology Societies; Methods of Behavioral Observation; 105 using the outlines, materials, and Hispanic Languages and Social Structure; Sociology of the Family; techniques developed in SOC 692. Includes Literature Cognitive Sociology; Sociology of Work; weekly meetings of all persons registered for Transnational Social Movements; Economic SOC 693 and observation of classes by both SPN 500: Reading Spanish Sociology; War and Revolution; Sociology of faculty and fellow graduate students.

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Through an intensive study of language SPN 505: Hispanic Dialectology and difficult points in advanced Spanish grammar. structures and idiomatic usage, with extensive Sociolinguistics Classroom analysis and discussion. practice in written translation of literary Major theoretical issues involved in analysis Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, and scholarly texts, candidates for advanced of geographical and social variation and with B+, etc.) degrees are able to obtain the proficiency level the principal methods used in its investigation, of the graduate Spanish reading requirement. as applied to varieties of Spanish, Portuguese, SPN 523: Golden Age Literature Several programs grant exemption from further Catalan, and Galician. Major literary works within the Renaissance examination for successful completion of this Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, and/ or baroque periods are read and analyzed course (not for M.A. or Ph.D. candidates in B+, etc.) in depth, and their interrelation with the Spanish). May be repeated for credit. cultural context is discussed. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) SPN 506: Bilingualism B+, etc.) This course studies the phenomenon of May be repeated for credit. SPN 501: Historical Linguistics bilingualism both at the individual and General processes of language change, at the social level. It examines the nature SPN 532: Interdisciplinary Approaches as exemplified by the development of the of bilingual competence, theories of the to Hispanic Studies Romance languages, with particular reference representation/storage of bilingual knowledge, The critical analysis of selected themes to Spanish. the acquisition/learning of multiple languages, in Spanish and/or Latin American culture Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, social attitudes towards bilingualism, the and society as represented across different B+, etc.) consequences of language contact, and discourses and disciplines including literary May be repeated for credit. bilingual education policies and their effects. and cultural studies, film and media, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) documentary and historical sources. Offered in SPN 502: Methods in Linguistics Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Research SPN 510: Hispanic Cultures A-, B+, etc.) Methods for elicitation and collection of An introduction to the essential aspects of May be repeated for credit. linguistic data and their analysis. Relation Hispanic cultures both globally and within between theory and research design, and the U.S., designed to provide incoming SPN 542: Studies in Modern Spanish between qualitative and quantitative analysis. graduate students with sufficient background Literature Introduction to commonly used tests of to undertake the advanced study of Hispanic Major literary works of the 19th and 20th statistical significance, and to reasoning and languages and literature. centuries will be read and analyzed in depth in argumentation from limited data. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) relation to their broader cultural and historical Prerequisite: Permission of instructor May be repeated for credit. content. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Offered in B+, etc.) SPN 513: Spanish as a Second Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, May be repeated for credit. Language Acquisition A-, B+, etc.) This course examines how language May be repeated for credit. SPN 503: Spanish Linguistics development in bilingual individuals is Major issues related to the general structure of different from that of monolinguals, how SPN 551: Early Latin American the Spanish language (phonetics, phonology, individuals learn their first language (L1), how Literature and Culture morphosyntax, semantics, etc.) they learn their second language (L2), and the An introduction to the analysis of major works Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, relationship between both languages, including and concepts of the colonial period and their B+, etc.) how L1 affects the understanding of L2 in the relevance for contemporary debates in Latin May be repeated for credit. user's mind. American literary and cultural studies. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) SPN 504: Contrastive Analysis: B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. Spanish and English Topics vary, and may include linguistic SPN 514: Spanish Grammar SPN 573: Studies in Modern Latin interference and its basis and manifestations, The student will be introduced to important American Literature in-depth discussion of specific syntactic/ concepts in the study of grammar and syntax Major literary works of the 19th and 20th semantic areas with reference to possible of Spanish in view of modern linguistics centuries will be read and analyzed in depth in Spanish/English interference, major theories about our language facility. This relation to their broader cultural and historical phonological differences between Spanish and course also will describe the grammar of context. Offered in English and consequent learning difficulties, Spanish spoken in Spain and Latin America. Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, and nonlinguistic factors that may affect Offered in A-, B+, etc.) learning in different groups in different Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, May be repeated for credit. situations. A-, B+, etc.) Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, SPN 582: The Hispanic Tradition in the B+, etc.) SPN 515: Spanish Composition and United States May be repeated for credit. Translation A general historical analysis of the influence Theory and practice of problems in of Hispanic culture in the United States as composition and translation with revision of a consequence of the continuous interaction

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 248 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 between Spanish- and English-speaking SPN 609: Literary and Cultural Recent topics include Art and Resistance in people. Special attention is given to cultural Theories: Latin American and Iberian Times of Uprisings. manifestation in a bicultural setting. Contexts 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, An introduction to literary and cultural theory B+, etc.) centered on the central questions that animate SPN 643: Contemporary Iberian May be repeated for credit. theoretical discussion among literary and Cultures cultural scholars today. Special emphasis is A course dedicated to the analysis of twentieth SPN 585: Caribbean Literature placed on theoretical discourses and practices and twenty-first century literary and cultural A course devoted to major writers and works originating in Latin America and Spain as production and practices in Spain in relation to of the Caribbean area. Readings will be well as how scholars in these regions have the social and political context of the period. analyzed in relation to cultural contexts. incorporated, modified and enhanced theories Recent topics include Spain and its Others, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, produced elsewhere. A required course for tourists and immigrants, cultural and historical B+, etc.) students in the Spanish Ph.D. program. memory, the 1960s Spanish novel and the May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Latin American Boom. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) SPN 588: Directed Master's Research SPN 612: Topics Seminar For work toward the M.A. thesis or preparation A seminar course designed primarily for SPN 645: Topics in Transatlantic for the M.A. comprehensive examination only. doctoral students about any of the various Studies This course is mainly intended for students areas of Latin American and Iberian literatures Analysis of cultural, political and economic who are not continuing toward the Ph.D. and cultures. Recent topics include Latina relations between the Americas, Europe and Prerequisite: Permission of graduate program fiction, Cuba/Spain, Postdictadura, Fictions Africa, in a comparatist and transnational director, M.A. thesis director, and, or director of Power, A World of Cinemas, Art and frame. The course examines debates from both of the M.A. comprehensive examination literature, Politics and literature. Prerequisite: sides of the Atlantic, paying attention to the committee. Admission to the Spanish Ph.D. program or multidirectional flow of ideas, unequal power Fall and Spring, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, permission of instructor relations and hegemonic discourses regarding A-, B+, etc.) Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, war, nation, and experience that shape cultural May be repeated for credit. A-, B+, etc.) production and define the field of Transatlantic May be repeated for credit. Studies. Topics include relations between SPN 591: Spanish Language colony and metropolis in empire, exile, Acquisition I SPN 613: Medieval Iberian Cultures diaspora, and migration. The aim is to move Elementary Spanish I Intended for graduate Reading and analysis of literary and from a standard, avant-gardist approach to a students of other programs historiographical works of the medieval period more theoretical notion of transatlanticism that incorporates gender and sexuality, the 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) within their cultural and political context. postcolonial world and decolonial thought. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, SPN 592: Spanish Language B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Acquisition II May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. Elementary Spanish II intended for graduate SPN 652: Colonial Latin-American students from other programs. SPN 623: Early Modern Iberian Cultures Cultures 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Reading and analysis of literary, theatrical, and This seminar studies the textural culture SPN 593: Spanish Language historiographical works of the 16th and 17th of colonial Latin America, dealing with Acquisition III centuries within their historical and cultural a diversity of genres, from legal writing, contexts. Special attention will be devoted to historiography, autobiography and epic poetry Intermediate Spanish I intended for students of to visual materials, such as drawings, textiles, other programs. Spanish literature, theater and art of the era and its relationship with the literary and historical decorated vases, etc. The course explores the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) texts. Prerequisite: M.A. or permission of transatlantic Ibero-American traditions in instructor relation to native and local cultures. Major SPN 595: Directed Independent authors and historical events will be studied in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Individual Studies depth along with current criticism and theories. May be repeated for credit. For M.A. and Ph.D. candidates only. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Requires a written proposal signed by the SPN 641: 19th-Century Iberian Cultures May be repeated for credit. faculty member involved and the approval This course will focus on major issues of the graduate program director and the SPN 662: 19th-Century Latin-American regarding the multicultural and multilingual departmental chairperson. No more than a Cultures total of nine credits may be applied toward a characteristics of Iberian spaces that necessarily entail their transatlantic dimension. Course includes canonical literary works Spanish graduate degree or combination of as well as lesser known writers and genres. degrees. We will study both canonical and less-studied cultural objects, including literature, music, Readings will be analyzed within specific Prerequisite: Permissions mentioned above and visual culture in general. Special attention national and cultural contexts, but will also Fall and Spring, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, will be given to the materiality of those objects engage with transnational movements and A-, B+, etc.) e.g. newspapers, literature in installments, cultural productions. Recent topics include May be repeated for credit. manuscripts, digital communication, etc. "Desertificaciones: War and Representation in

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19th century Latin America" and "Queer fin de Prerequisite: Permission of instructor, SPN 701: Dissertation Research off siglo: Modernity, Sexuality, and Gender in the department chairperson, or graduate program Campus - International Southern Cone (1880-1910)." director Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) (G5). Major portion of research will take B+, etc.) place outside of the United States and/or SPN 693: Practicum in the Teaching of May be repeated for credit. U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the Spanish Language option of the health plan and may also enroll SPN 671: Contemporary Latin- This course is to be taken in conjunction with in MEDEX. International students who are American Cultures the student's teaching assignment. Each week's in their home country are not covered by Course draws comparatively from the discussion centers on problems of applied mandatory health plan and must contact the multiple literary and cultural traditions linguistics or grammar. Discussion will also Insurance Office for the insurance charge to of Latin American countries, taking into be focused on methodology (audio-lingual be removed. International students who are account significant aesthetic and political method, pattern drills, language laboratory, not in their home country are charged for the developments throughout the region. Focus on and preparation of examinations). mandatory health insurance. If they are to be time periods varies. Fall and Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading covered by another insurance plan they must 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. file a waiver be second week of classes. The May be repeated for credit. charge will only be removed if other plan is SPN 695: Dissertation Prospectus deemed comparable. SPN 675: Topics in Hispanic Cinema Required of all advanced PhD students at All international students must received and Media or near the end of their course work. The clearance from an International Advisor. A course featuring diverse approaches to course offers extensive practice in advanced Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading the history, theory, and practice of film, academic writing skills. The aim of the course May be repeated for credit. television and other audio-visual media in is to prepare the dissertation prospectus and a Latin America, Spain, and the Latino US. fellowship proposal. The various components SPN 800: Summer Research of a strong proposal will be addressed: the Recent topics include Women's cinema in May be repeated for credit. Spain and Latin America; Bunuel; Ripstein; narrative, keywords, the methodological Almodovar, Documentary Cinema in Spain or theoretical frame, the research plan, the SPN 850: Summer Teaching bibliography, and the personal statement. and Latin America, Cinema and Inter- Summer Teaching American Relations. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) S/U grading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) SPN 699: Dissertation Research on May be repeated for credit. SPN 681: Directed Readings Campus For students who have completed all doctoral For students who have already passed the SUS requirements and wish to dedicate themselves Ph.D. comprehensive examination and need to full-or part-time preparation for the to devote their time to preparation of their Sustainability Studies comprehensive examination. dissertation. SUS 503: Research Methods in Prerequisite: Coursework toward the Prerequisites: Ph.D. comprehensive Sustainability Ph.D. must be completed; permission of examination completed and advanced to the dissertation director, graduate studies candidacy (G5); permission of the dissertation This course will provide a survey of director, or department chairperson director, graduate program director, or quantitative and qualitative methods used in Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading department chairperson. Major portion of sustainability research in the natural sciences, May be repeated for credit. research must take place on SBU campus, at social sciences, and humanities. Students Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Brookhaven will read primary literature and analyze the SPN 685: Caribbean Cultures National Lab. research design. Students will formulate Course focuses on the modern cultural Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U research questions, identify appropriate productions of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the grading methods to investigate the question, and Dominican Republic, with some attention to May be repeated for credit. develop a research proposal. the Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) SPN 700: Dissertation Research off Topics include imperialism and colonialism, Campus - Domestic neocolonialism and postcolonialism, and raced SUS 543: Age of the Anthropocene and gendered aesthetics. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Anthropocene is the term coined to explain the (G5). Major portion of research will take place 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) current geologic era of our planet as shaped off-campus, but in the United States and/ May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. and defined by human activity. This course or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven provides a deeper understanding of the ways SPN 691: Practicum in the Teaching of National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab in which humans have interacted with and Spanish Language are considered on-campus. All international transformed the planet during recent geologic students must enroll in one of the graduate Theory and practice of language teaching. time, including the Holocene, Industrial student insurance plans and should be advised Applied methodology and linguistics in Revolution, and into the present. We consider by an International Advisor. classroom situations. A required course for Earth as a global ecosystem, characterized by teaching assistants. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading interacting and dynamic systems, including May be repeated for credit. biophysical and anthropogenic systems.

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This course critically examines the current prepare for, absorb, recover from, and adapt TAF 505: Dramaturgy I: Production interpretations and applications of the term to actual or potential future adverse events, Dramaturgy Anthropocene, and identifies the key tenants instead of bearing repeated damage and An introduction to production dramaturgy and societal outcomes of this powerful continuously demand for federal disaster in which students explore the types of and sometimes conflicting idea as applied assistance. This course explores the idea of research and concept development necessary today in science, socio-political discourse, resilience as an outcome and as a process to prepare already produced scripts for sustainability, and beyond. from different perspectives and in different performance. Research tools and methods, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) contexts. We will first study resilience through investigations of cultural and social history, the lens of sociopolitical ecology of risk and critical writing, and issues in adaptation and SUS 548: Urban Climate Change vulnerability. Then we will explore resilience translation are discussed. Means of facilitating Mitigation and Adaptation in the face of natural, social and economic communication within a production team Climate change, with its anthropogenic causes instabilities or shocks. Finally, we will discuss and between actors, designers, and directors and devastating effects on human societies, long term risk management, governance are examined. Other topics include season is the grand challenge of our age. This course models, policies and politics involved in planning, promotion and publicity, educational will consider how urbanized areas, especially making our communities more resilient. outreach materials, preparation of protocols, coastal communities, can reduce their negative 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) post-play discussion, and other audience environmental impact while simultaneously development techniques. SUS 566: Philosophy and the working to adapt to the harmful effects of Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Environment climate change that are already ¿baked in¿ to Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) earth¿s systems. Along the way we will Philosophical questions raised by human develop a better understanding of the feedback relations with the natural world, ranging from TAF 506: Dramaturgy II: Literary loops that connect human activity with natural basic concepts such as nature, ecology, the Management systems and human well-being, analyze which earth, and wilderness, to the ethical, economic, Examining the roles of the literary manager in varieties of urbanization actually have the political, and religious dimensions of current the contemporary theatre, this course explores worst environmental impacts, consider both environmental problems, including the the process of new play development and the incremental and extreme varieties of risk, question of whether there are values inherent preparation of a new play for production. The and delve deeply into strategies and tactics in nature itself beyond those determined by ability to read and write sensitively about for addressing the intertwined mitigation human interests alone. new plays, reading new plays and preparing and adaptation challenges of climate change. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) sophisticated play reports, how to talk to Our focus will be on public sector actions playwrights about their plays, and how to and the public policy, urban planning and SUS 580: Research Seminar facilitate discussions with directors and actors governance responses that will need to be A weekly series of seminars presented by as they encounter a play for the first time made to regain equilibrium in our natural visiting sustainability researchers, SBU are issues examined in this course. New systems and adapting our social systems to researchers, and sustainability graduate plays from a variety of venues, including new realities of life on Earth. students. professional theatres in New York City, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) S/U grading are read and discussed, and the process of May be repeated for credit. developing new plays from staged readings SUS 551: Soil Ecotoxicology Research through public performances are studied. Design and implement a unique project Prerequisite: Permission of instructor in ecotoxicology. Course covers literature TAF Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, review, experimental design, hypothesis etc.) formulation, data collection, data analysis, Theatre hypothesis testing and write up. Students TAF 507: Dramaturgy of Process: New will communicate their research orally and in TAF 500: Introduction to Graduate Play Development Workshop Theatre writing. Projects vary by year and will involve This course for advanced students of ecotoxins such as acid rain, heavy metals, This seminar course will introduce graduate Dramaturgy allows them to apply practical pesticides, plastics or herbicides and organisms theatre students in all tracks to each other, to theatre skills to the development of new work. such as soil microbes or earthworms. Course graduate faculty across disciplines, and will Students will assist in the workshop production may be repeated once with instructor encourage new collaborations and projects of a new play. This will explore NPD process 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) for development during the students' graduate as it exists in the American Regional Theatre, May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. careers. Theatre students will meet to discuss and learn the practical skills of running a play- the role of each artist, with emphasis on reading series, commissioning new plays, SUS 562: Resilient Communities the changing nature of collaboration and communicating with playwrights, casting and As population and investment increase in the expanding art form in today's theatre marketing. 3 credits, ABCF Grading profession. Readings, written assignments and hazard-prone areas across the world, risks 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and vulnerability are increasing as well. collaborative projects are required. Responding to increased risk and vulnerability 3 credits, Letter graded (A,B,C, etc.), TAF 510: Western Theatre History involves enhancing resilience or our ability Prerequisite: Permission of the Instructor, Theatre forms in the Western tradition, from to withstand major shocks without long-term, Southampton and Manhattan, Semesters ancient to modern. This course is centered on debilitating physical, social, or economic offered: a particular critical or theoretic problem or damage. Resilience as a process can be Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B embodied by communities who proactively +, etc.)

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Students will write papers and develop projects a particular critical or theoretic problem or in conjunction with advanced reading and theme. It may be repeated as an independent TAF 523: Theatre in New York instruction. study with the permission of the instructor. A workshop seminar on contemporary, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) alternative performance forms and mainstream TAF 575: Adaptation Workshop May be repeated for credit. theatre. Emphasis on the development of critical perspectives and the writing skills This course is an intense examination of TAF 511: Far Eastern Theatre and needed to articulate them through seminar a playwright or group of plays with the Drama discussions and writing workshops relevant to object of preparing a new adaptation or Course surveys the traditional theatre of performances seen on trips to theatres in New stage version. The course will study a text or three Far Eastern (China, Korea, and Japan) York and the region. group of texts, important criticism, notable or as related to: its history, dramatic literature Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, significant translation and/or adaptations, stage (Yuan drama and Beijing Opera of China; etc.) productions and/or film versions. Students will Pongsan Korean Masked Dance-Drama; a submit an outline or rough draft of their new Noh play cycle, Kabuki, and Joruri Puppet TAF 525: Topics in Theatre and Drama version at the end of the course. Theatre of Japan), point of departure will be: Intensive studies of selected forms of theatre Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, the Eastern world view (namely Shemanism, and drama from various countries and periods, A-, B+, etc.) Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism) and designed to supplement rather than repeat May be repeated for credit. theatre; the concept of the actor's body and areas of study already undertaken in the mind as a microcosmic presentation of a curriculum. May be repeated. TAF 576: Theatre Workshop macrocosmic universe; his performance as an Prerequisite: Permission of instructor The workshops at Southampton Arts are act of becoming one with the macrocosm; and Fall or Spring, alternate years, 1-3 credits, intensive classes in various aspects of the craft the total nature of all performing arts elements Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of theatre and film, including playwriting, harmoniously operating together in creating May be repeated for credit. screenwriting, directing, acting, solo beauty on stage. performance, interdisciplinary collaboration Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, TAF 530: Directed Reading in Theatre (devising), and digital filmmaking, together etc.) and Drama with lectures, readings, seminars, and panels May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Students read and evaluate the literature on featuring nationally distinguished artists. a topic of special academic interest under These workshops encourage participation by TAF 520: Western Dramatic Literature the supervision of a faculty member. May be visiting students, new theatre and film artists, Course surveys forms of Western drama, with repeated. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor established artists, and teachers who will be admitted by application and may receive particular reference to theatrical performance. Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, academic credit upon request. Graduate Focus is placed on key periods and themes A-, B+, etc.) students may take any Theatre Workshop such as gender issues, political violence, death May be repeated for credit. and dying, love, etc. May be repeated once. sponsored by the MFA program for academic credit. Study may occur in Southampton, Spring, odd years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, TAF 535: Theories of Theatre Manhattan, or abroad. A submission of a A-, B+, etc.) Theories of the theatre, from the ancient workshop application, and permission of May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. to the contemporary, are read critically to instructor are required. May be repeated for develop a complex and varied conception of credit. TAF 520: Western Dramatic Literature the philosophical basis underlying approaches Course surveys forms of Western drama, with to the theatre. Theorists read might include 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) particular reference to theatrical performance. Aristotle, Plato, Diderot, Rousseau, Nietzsche, May be repeated for credit. Focus is placed on key periods and themes Artaud, Brecht, Stanislavski, Grotowski, TAF 590: M.A. Thesis such as gender issues, political violence, death Barba, Mnouchkine, Suzuki, and Zeami. Independent study and research for M.A. and dying, love, etc. May be repeated once. Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded students, on special topics, theoretical or Spring, odd years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, (A, A-, B+, etc.) cultural issues, or problems. Development of A-, B+, etc.) material for research paper. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. TAF 550: Teaching Seminar Supervised student teaching of undergraduate 1-3 credits, S/U grading TAF 521: South and Southeast Asian courses accompanied by a seminar in methods May be repeated for credit. Theatre and Drama and strategies of teaching theatre arts at the TAF 591: Independent Project Surveying the traditional and modern theatre University level. An independent teaching of South and Southeastern Asian (India, Sri project, in which the student works with a Special project allowing advanced individual Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Tibet, Nepal, particular faculty member, may be substituted. work in an area of theatre study or practice.

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Must be scheduled by arrangement with Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) which they have a major responsibility as instructor. Should result in an advanced paper an assistant dramaturg on a production or an or project report. May be repeated. TAF 651: Playwriting Workshop II equivalent position. All proposals for projects 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) With the instructor of record, the student outside of the university must be submitted in May be repeated for credit. will develop a plan for addressing problems writing to the faculty supervisor and graduate or the boundaries of approaches to creative program director for approval. TAF 635: Theories of Performance work specific to his or her needs for continued Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B This course examines different theories of development as a playwright. As deemed +, etc.) performance as they relate to theatre and appropriate by the instructor, the student will everyday life. Students explore ways of work on a full length or one-act play or scenes. TAF 692: M.F.A. Thesis thinking about the performing body and Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Independent study and research for M.F.A. different modes of cultural expression. There B+, etc.) students, on special topics, theoretical or is a performing component to the course in May be repeated for credit. cultural issues, or problems. Development of addition to a final paper. material for research paper. TAF 660: Acting Workshop 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1-3 credits, S/U grading May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Intensive advanced study in a particular acting May be repeated for credit. technique, such as Kutiyattam, Suzuki, musical TAF 638: Directing I - Principles of theatre, Brecht, etc. Offered in conjunction Directing with departmental productions. May be THR repeated. This course will focus on the analytical, Theatre Arts organizational and creative processes Prerequisite: Permission of instructor necessary to be a director. Topics include: Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, THR 500: Introduction to Graduate the role of the director and the collaborative Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Study in Dramaturgy process; the history of directing; script analysis May be repeated for credit. and interpretation/ concept; stage, space This course surveys the field of theatre and composition; visual interpretation and TAF 670: Directing Workshop scholarship, introducing students to research working with designers; casting and working Advanced training in directing, which may tools, research methods, critical writing, with actors; working with dramaturges; and involve concentrated scene work, formal and scholarly values. Discussions include rehearsal and technical process. experiments in performance, work on period reference to basic texts in dramatic literature and representative research problems. Offered styles and problems, or preparation of Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) performances for public showing. May be Prerequisite: Admission to graduate program repeated once. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) TAF 639: Directing II - Advanced Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor THR 505: Dramaturgy I: Production Directing Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Dramaturgy This course will build upon the work covered Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in Directing I and will focus on advanced May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. An introduction to production dramaturgy problems in Directing, including advanced in which students explore the types of scene work, period styles, alternative forms, TAF 680: Dramaturgy Workshop research and concept development necessary and the challenges of contemporary drama Students serve as dramaturgs for the to prepare already produced scripts for and or alternative performance. Prerequisite: production of a play, providing research performance. Research tools and methods, THR638 Offered support, studying editorial and interpretive investigations of cultural and social history, critical writing, and issues in adaptation and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, techniques, attending rehearsals, and developing program materials for the audience. translation are discussed. Means of facilitating etc.) communication within a production team Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, TAF 640: Theatre Design Workshop and between actors, designers, and directors B+, etc.) are examined. Other topics include season Advanced assignments in theatre design. May be repeated for credit. planning, promotion and publicity, educational May include design work on departmental outreach materials, preparation of protocols, TAF 690: Professional Internship productions. May be repeated once. post-play discussion, and other audience Prerequisite: Permission of instructor A full-term internship at a professional development techniques. theatre. Students should submit an internship Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Permission of instructor description in the first month of work, then a May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) journal or evaluation of their work experience. TAF 650: Playwrighting Workshop Prerequisite: Permission of graduate studies THR 506: Dramaturgy II: Literary Students write and discuss original plays, director Management evaluate their work, study techniques of Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading Examining the roles of the literary manager in composition and formal organization, the contemporary theatre, this course explores TAF 691: M.F.A. Project and develop strategies for audience the process of new play development and the communication. Advanced students may study The project is to be undertaken at a preparation of a new play for production. The techniques for revision and the development of professional theatre or as part of the mainstage ability to read and write sensitively about material for performance. Some plays may be production season at Stony Brook University. new plays, reading new plays and preparing selected for department production. Students submit a proposal for a project in sophisticated play reports, how to talk to

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 253 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 playwrights about their plays, and how to Focus is placed on key periods and themes Aristotle, Plato, Diderot, Rousseau, Nietzsche, facilitate discussions with directors and actors such as gender issues, political violence, death Artaud, Brecht, Stanislavski, Grotowski, as they encounter a play for the first time and dying, love, etc. May be repeated once. Barba, Mnouchkine, Suzuki, and Zeami. are issues examined in this course. New Spring, odd years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded plays from a variety of venues, including A-, B+, etc.) (A, A-, B+, etc.) professional theatres in New York City, May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. are read and discussed, and the process of THR 540: Design Theory and Practice developing new plays from staged readings THR 521: South and Southeast Asian Course surveys principal design areas, through public performances are studied. Theatre and Drama providing information about aesthetic theory Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Surveying the traditional and modern theatre and methods of stage design. Students address Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, of South and Southeastern Asian (India, Sri design problems and analyze a topic in design etc.) Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Tibet, Nepal, theory in conjunction with readings and and Bhutan) as related to: it's mythic origins, instruction. THR 507: Dramaturgy of Process: New history, dramatic literature, aesthetic theory, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Play Development Workshop ritual functions, conventions of productions This course for advanced students of and actor training. The point of departure will THR 550: Teaching Seminar Dramaturgy allows them to apply practical be cosmology, especially that of Hinduism, Supervised student teaching of undergraduate theatre skills to the development of new work. and world view of the people. courses accompanied by a seminar in methods Students will assist in the workshop production Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and strategies of teaching theatre arts at the of a new play. This will explore NPD prcess May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. University level. An independent teaching as it exists in the American Regional Theatre, project, in which the student works with a and learn the practical skills of running a play- THR 523: Theatre in New York particular faculty member, may be substituted. reading series, commissioning new plays, A workshop seminar on contemporary, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, communicating with playwrights, casting and alternative performance forms and mainstream B+, etc.) marketing. theatre. Emphasis on the development of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) critical perspectives and the writing skills THR 560: Acting Theory and Practice needed to articulate them through seminar Course surveys the field of acting-its history, THR 510: Western Theatre History discussions and writing workshops relevant to formal principles, primary techniques, and Theatre forms in the Western tradition, from performances seen on trips to theatres in New contemporary practice. Students develop ancient to modern. This course is centered on York and the region. course papers and, or projects in conjunction a particular critical or theoretic problem or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, with advanced readings and instruction. theme. It may be repeated as an independent etc.) Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter study with the permission of the instructor. graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) THR 525: Topics in Theatre and Drama May be repeated for credit. Intensive studies of selected forms of theatre THR 570: Directing Theory and and drama from various countries and periods, Practice THR 511: Far Eastern Theatre and designed to supplement rather than repeat Course surveys the art and craft of the Drama areas of study already undertaken in the Director, with focus on contemporary practices Course surveys the traditional theatre of curriculum. May be repeated. of directing and approaches to pedagogy. three Far Eastern (China, Korea, and Japan) Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Students will write papers and develop projects as related to: its history, dramatic literature Fall or Spring, alternate years, 1-3 credits, in conjunction with advanced reading and (Yuan drama and Beijing Opera of China; Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) instruction. Pongsan Korean Masked Dance-Drama; a May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Noh play cycle, Kabuki, and Joruri Puppet Theatre of Japan), point of departure will be: THR 530: Directed Reading in Theatre THR 575: Adaptation Workshop the Eastern world view (namely Shemanism, and Drama Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism) and This course is an intense examination of Students read and evaluate the literature on a playwright or group of plays with the theatre; the concept of the actor's body and a topic of special academic interest under mind as a microcosmic presentation of a object of preparing a new adaptation or the supervision of a faculty member. May be stage version. The course will study a text or macrocosmic universe; his performance as an repeated. act of becoming one with the macrocosm; and group of texts, important criticism, notable or Prerequisite: Permission of instructor the total nature of all performing arts elements significant translation and/or adaptations, stage Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, harmoniously operating together in creating productions and/or film versions. Students will A-, B+, etc.) beauty on stage. submit an outline or rough draft of their new May be repeated for credit. version at the end of the course. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, etc.) THR 535: Theories of Theatre May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. A-, B+, etc.) Theories of the theatre, from the ancient May be repeated for credit. to the contemporary, are read critically to THR 520: Western Dramatic Literature develop a complex and varied conception of THR 589: M.F.A. Thesis Course surveys forms of Western drama, with the philosophical basis underlying approaches particular reference to theatrical performance. Independent study and research for M.F.A. to the theatre. Theorists read might include Dramaturgy students, on practical or

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 254 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 theoretical topics related to the field of change, avant-garde performance, performing appropriate by the instructor, the student will dramturgy. Development of materials for this and cognitive science, virtual performance, work on a full length or one-act play or scenes. research paper may be related to the students performance and identity. Depending on the Offered in Fall, 3 credits, S/U grading M.F.A. Project or other dramaturgical pursuits. topic, there may be a performance component May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, S/U grading and/or computer based projects. 3 credits, S/U grading Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, THR 660: Acting Workshop May be repeated for credit. Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Intensive advanced study in a particular acting May be repeated for credit. technique, such as Kutiyattam, Suzuki, musical THR 590: M.A. Thesis theatre, Brecht, etc. Offered in conjunction Independent study and research for M.A. THR 638: Directing I - Principles of with departmental productions. May be students, on special topics, theoretical or Directing repeated. cultural issues, or problems. Development of This course will focus on the analytical, Prerequisite: Permission of instructor material for research paper. organizational and creative processes Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, 1-3 credits, S/U grading necessary to be a director. Topics include: Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. the role of the director and the collaborative May be repeated for credit. process; the history of directing; script analysis THR 591: Independent Project and interpretation/ concept; stage, space THR 670: Directing Workshop Special project allowing advanced individual and composition; visual interpretation and Advanced training in directing, which may work in an area of theatre study or practice. working with designers; casting and working involve concentrated scene work, formal Must be scheduled by arrangement with with actors; working with dramaturges; and experiments in performance, work on period instructor. Should result in an advanced paper rehearsal and technical process. styles and problems, or preparation of or project report. May be repeated. Offered performances for public showing. May be 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) repeated once. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor THR 639: Directing II - Advanced Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Directing THR 625: Theory and Criticism Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Study of major issues in dramatic theory and This course will build upon the work covered May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. criticism and in performance theory. May be in Directing I and will focus on advanced repeated for up to six credits with instructor's problems in Directing, including advanced THR 680: Dramaturgy Workshop permission. scene work, period styles, alternative forms, Students serve as dramaturgs for the and the challenges of contemporary drama Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter production of a play, providing research and or alternative performance. Prerequisite: graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) support, studying editorial and interpretive THR638 Offered May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. techniques, attending rehearsals, and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, developing program materials for the audience. THR 630: Dramaturgy Colloquium etc.) Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Through interaction with theatre professionals, B+, etc.) THR 640: Theatre Design Workshop students develop independent projects around May be repeated for credit. topics of common concern to the profession, Advanced assignments in theatre design. and develop strategies for implementing May include design work on departmental THR 690: Professional Internship alternate plans for improving and developing productions. May be repeated once. A full-term internship at a professional theatre. May be repeated. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor theatre. Students should submit an internship Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) description in the first month of work, then a Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. journal or evaluation of their work experience. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Permission of graduate studies THR 650: Playwrighting Workshop director THR 635: Theories of Performance Students write and discuss original plays, Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading This course examines different theories of evaluate their work, study techniques of performance as they relate to theatre and composition and formal organization, THR 691: M.F.A. Project everyday life. Students explore ways of and develop strategies for audience The project is to be undertaken at a thinking about the performing body and communication. Advanced students may study professional theatre or as part of the mainstage different modes of cultural expression. There techniques for revision and the development of production season at Stony Brook University. is a performing component to the course in material for performance. Some plays may be Students submit a proposal for a project in addition to a final paper. selected for department production. which they have a major responsibility as 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) an assistant dramaturg on a production or an May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. equivalent position. All proposals for projects THR 651: Playwriting Workshop II outside of the university must be submitted in THR 636: Topics in Performance With the instructor of record, the student writing to the faculty supervisor and graduate Studies will develop a plan for addressing problems program director for approval. The history and theories of performance or the boundaries of approaches to creative Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B are explored. Seminars may focus on the work specific to his or her needs for continued +, etc.) performing body, performance and political development as a playwright. As deemed

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THR 692: M.F.A. Thesis crises, building motivated teams, and stated ¿Behind every successful company is Independent study and research for M.F.A. developing strategic communications. It a superior strategy¿. Whether this strategy is students, on special topics, theoretical or examines these topics with a goal of not due to luck, position, incumbency, ¿vision¿, cultural issues, or problems. Development of only imparting knowledge about these instinct or a host of other internal & external material for research paper. managerial practices but also assisting students conditions will be discussed throughout to acquire the skills necessary to become the course. Utilizing a simulation to create 1-3 credits, S/U grading business leaders, team builders and srticulate an industry of successful corporations will May be repeated for credit. communicators. We will seek to bridge theory provide an insight into the dynamics of THR 800: Summer Research and managerial practice by using case studies competitive analysis, industry analysis, and inviting business executives to the class. the value chain, the integrative nature of a Independent study and research on special The readings for the course come largely from corporation and the strategic process. topics or problems related to work on the M.A. Harvard Business Review articles and case or M.F.A. degree. May be repeated. 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) studies on these topics. S/U grading Spring, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, TMP 548: Ethics, Corporate May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. etc.) Governance and Control Systems THR 850: Summer Teaching This course explores the values that TMP 544: Organizational Behavior govern corporate behavior. Topics include Supervised student teaching of undergraduate An approach to understanding the behavior understanding ethical behavior, corporate courses accompanied by a tutorial in methods of individuals in organizations is developed ethics programs, employees responsibilities, and strategies of teaching theatre arts at the with emphasis on implications for effective and codes of conducts and governance. University level. management. This approach is used to analyze Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) is examined as S/U grading decision problems encountered in managing watershed legislation that has implications human resources. Topics include individual for U.S. companies and non-U.S.-based, and group decision-making skills, recruitment multinational companies doing business in TMP and selection, employee ability, motivation the U.S. Examples of similar legislation in Technology Management Prog and incentive systems, job satisfaction, the EU and elsewhere are covered. Related performance assessment and management, topics are corporate social responsibility TMP 541: MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS retention, training, and employee development. (CSR) (with cases and examples from U.S. and abroad), ways to promote employee The techniques and approaches of Summer, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, engagement, human resource management risk microeconomic reasoning are applied to etc.) assessment, and human resource information issues of managerial decision making in the TMP 545: Basic Financial Accounting systems. The course also covers mechanisms corporation. The theory of the market and for developed a positive organizations the price system are closely examined for Introduction to financial accounting which culture and engaged workforce. This includes the purpose of identifying those areas where includes the accounting cycle, analysis and review of employee relations programs, neoclassical economics is helpful to the analyst preparation of financial statements, cash flow developing and learning a high performing and manager. Special attention is paid to cost- analysis, corporate accounting, investment in team, and developing a continuous learning benefit analysis and models of economic stocks, and international transactions. organizational culture. Case discussions and behavior. Summer Summer, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, exercises (e.g., developing a code of conduct) etc.) 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) provide hands-on learning experiences. TMP 542: International Business, TMP 546: Managerial Accounting for Spring, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Technology and the Economy High Technology Organizations etc.) Development and presentation of accounting International trade and investment in TMP 549: Negotiation Strategy technology-intensive fields is examined from information for managerial decision making This course is designed to equip students with the perspective of economic theory. Theories in a global technological environment. Topics the basic theories and skills of negotiation. of foreign direct investment and international include budgeting, forecasting, profit analysis Accordingly, it consists of several parts. The competitive advantage will be examined in and planning, performance evaluation, transfer first part is the introduction to the newly the context of the changing global economy. pricing, capital budgeting, performance development approaches to negotiation; how Summer measurement, and cost control. Special emphasis will be given to accounting issues you can improve your negotiation skills and 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) pertinent to high technology companies, such outcomes. Also some commonly encountered as valuation of intangible assets. Summer negotiation tactics will be introduced, not TMP 543: Leadership, Team to make you victims of those tactics. The 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Effectiveness and Communication second is simulation; students will engage This course focuses on business leadership, TMP 547: Business Strategy in several negotiation simulations with other teamwork and communications. It seeks to students under specific negotiation mandates answer the following three questions: What A capstone course that enlists a student¿s and the outcomes will be reviewed. The last do leaders really do? What makes teams general business knowledge in developing is a brief introduction to the game theory with effective? How do you create persuasive corporate strategy. Essential to performing an emphasis on the cooperative games; this communications? The course addresses this task is the introduction of guidelines part deals with the theoretical foundations of such topics as power and influence, leading and concepts of Strategic Thinking Strategic bargaining and dispute resolution. Knowledge organizational change, managing corporate Planning and Implementation. As often

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 256 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 from economics and mathematics will be fields in research and/or practice. The courses needs, demand forecasting and strategic helpful but not required. will be delivered as two modules. In the planning in technology markets, product Offered in Spring, 1.5 credits, Letter graded first module, we will focus on fundamental design and architecture, product platform (A, A-, B+, etc.) concepts of data mining and classification strategy, managing new product realization models. In the second module, we will discuss programs, and managing the technology TMP 551: Data Analysis for clustering, association analysis, outliner adoption lifecycle. Summer Technology Managers detection approaches, and the data mining 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The use and limitations of mathematical and applications business and management. statistical techniques, especially for the use of 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) TMP 575: Introduction to Management data in choosing between alternative strategies Information Systems for companies. Probability, estimation, TMP 555: Technology, Government The analysis and design of information hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, and and Business systems to aid in managerial decision making regression analysis are among the topics Examines the role of government as a and the effective operation of corporations. covered. Summer regulator of technological business activity, Pertinent computing, telecommunication 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a customer for technological products and systems technologies will be surveyed. and services, a source of funding for Summer TMP 552: Management Science for technological development, and a facilitator 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Technology Managers 1 of technological innovation. Special topics An introduction to the use of modeling in include technology assessment, technology TMP 576: Management Information management, particularly in high technology transfer, and frameworks for national and Systems for Accounting, Budgeting contexts. Basic concepts of management regional technology policy. and Human Resources Management science are covered, and various models Summer, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Examination of recent MIS options for are examined for application in quantitative etc.) specialized functions in an organization, decision making. Topics include optimization, such as accounting, budgeting and human linear programming, and their applications, TMP 556: Data Mining for Technology resources. Includes review and assessment of say network modeling, integer linear Management 2 integrated multi-function software suites for programming, and goal programming. Following the first module of data mining, organizational management, and comparison 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) this class module will provide students of packaged software systems versus web- more advanced data mining topics and on- based subscription software services. Summer TMP 553: Management Science for hand experience of data mining projects. 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Technology Managers 2 The key objectives are two-fold: (1) to help An introduction to mathematical models useful students understand advanced topics in data TMP 577: Business Project A in the analysis of management problems. mining (e.g., clustering, association analysis, First part of course-pair TMP577 & TMP578. We motivate each topic by managerial and outlier detection) and their business Students choose a project that focuses on applications, and we analyze problems applications, and (2) to provide students with technology management issues in their own using modern software. Topics include the necessary technical skills for a career in industry or organization and apply tools learnt nonlinear optimization, regression analysis, data analytics. Prerequisite: TMP 554: Data in other courses to analyze the issues. Part A and simulation. Mining for Technology Management 1 of this pair of courses concentrates on problem 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) formulation and the planning of research and analysis. This course is intended to commence TMP 554: Data Mining for Technology TMP 573: Basic Marketing Principles mid-way through the program and be taken Management 1 and the Information Economy concurrently with the next several courses in The recent advances in the Internet and Introduction to the basic principles of the program. Prerequisites: TMP 552 information technologies have resulted marketing, including: the influence of the Summer, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, in an explosion of demand for "big data" marketplace and the marketing environment on etc.) analytics. The importance of data mining marketing decision making; the determination has already been recognized widely in of a firm's product, prices, channels, and TMP 578: Business Project B the industry including many business communication strategies; and the firm's Second part of course-pair TMP577 & areas, such as marketing science, financial system for planning and controlling its TMP578. Students take the issues formulated analysis, and corporation management. In marketing effort. Special emphasis will during Part A of this pair of courses and this course, we will be focusing on both key be given to marketing in information proceed to implement the research plan also concepts and models in data mining and their industries and knowledge intensive industries. developed in that course. Part B of this pair implementations based on real-world data in Prerequisites: TMP 552 of courses involves detailed data collection, business. The key objectives are two-fold: Summer, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, analysis, and reporting of results. This course (1) to help students understand different data- etc.) is intended to commence three-quarters of driven predictive models and their applications the way through the program and to be taken in business, and (2) to provide students with TMP 574: Marketing of Technology concurrently with the next several courses. necessary technical skills for a career in data Based Products Submission of the project report and a formal analytics. At the end of the course, students Adaptation and extension of basic marketing presentation of results are required near the are expected to understand fundamental skills concepts for technological products. Topics end of the program. Summer to apply data mining techniques to their own include: understanding unarticulated user 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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TMP 585: Operations Management for enterprises. Examples would include trends 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Technology Organizations in electronic commerce, new approaches to TMP 597: Technology Management Introduction to the analysis and measurement product development strategy for technology, and Strategy of processes for creating and delivering information security and privacy, or trends in goods and services. Covers trade-offs in the biotechnology industry. The course will Concepts and techniques of strategic operations management decisions, product and involve field to companies and guest lectures management are examined and applied process planning, layout and location strategy, by executives from technology companies to relevant cases involving technology production scheduling, inventory control, wherever possible. management. The class synthesizes all quality management, computer integrated Summer, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, elements of the program and examines how an manufacturing, and cost justification, etc.) organization can plan and develop initiatives, especially in the adoption of new technologies. evaluate their effectiveness, and manage the TMP 594: Finance A change process with an emphasis on corporate Summer, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, strategy. etc.) The goal of the Finance course sequence is to introduce students to the modern finance 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) TMP 586: Human Resources theory and its application to the real world Management for High Technology financial decision-making. Finance A is the TMP 598: Technology and Environments first part of the sequence that focuses on the Entrepreneurship Survey of issues in personnel recruitment, first fundamental corporate finance issue: how Concepts and techniques of strategic employee selection and classification, to make investments that benefit shareholders. management are examined and applied workforce evaluation, wages, benefits, We will start with the analysis of financial to relevant cases involving technology regulations, unionization, training, quality statements to better understand measures of a management. The class synthesizes all management, and employee performance in company's financial performance. We will then elements of the program and examines how an high technology settings. introduce the concept of time value of money organization can plan and develop initiatives, and valuation of cash flows. Then we will evaluate their effectiveness, and manage Summer, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, apply the valuation concepts to learn how to the change process with an emphasis on etc.) choose investment opportunities that maximize entrepreneurial strategy. TMP 591: Technology Management shareholders' wealth. 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and Emerging Industries 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) TMP 599: Intellectual Property Strategy First part of course-pair TMP591 & TMP592. TMP 595: Developing Technology Introduction to salient issues facing managers Concepts and techniques of intellectual Management Solutions (B) of enterprises involved in the development property strategy are examined and applied and implementation of new technologies. Second part of course-pair TMP593 & to relevant cases involving technology Usp will be made of case histories and TMP595. Special course customized each management. The class synthesizes all presentations b~ technological managers year to address current trends and solutions elements of the program and examines how an and innovators, wherever possible. Part A of to management problems in technological organization can plan and develop initiatives, this pair of courses will concentrate on the enterprises. Examples would include trends evaluate their effectiveness, and manage the relationship between technological innovation in electronic commerce, new approaches to change process with an emphasis on managing and emerging industries. Summer product development strategy for technology, and deploying intellectual property. information security and privacy, or trends in 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the biotechnology industry. The course will TMP 592: Role of Technology involve field to companies and guest lectures Standards by executives from technology companies TNT wherever possible. Summer Second part of course-pair TMP591 & Technology and Training TMP592. Introduction to salient issues 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) facing managers of enterprises involved TMP 596: Finance B TNT 501: TECH COM MGT & ENGR in the development and implementation of new technologies. Use will be made of case The goal of the Finance course sequence is TNT 502: PROD & OPER MGT histories and presentations by technological to introduce students to the modern finance managers and innovators, wherever possible. theory and its application to the real world Part B of this pair of courses will concentrate financial decision-making. Finance B is the TNT 503: MIS on the role of technical standards in the second part of the sequence that focuses on dynamics of competition between firms in high the second fundamental corporate finance TNT 504: INTL MGT technology industries. Summer issue: how to finance investment opportunities. We will start with bond and stock valuation, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) recognizing that debt and equity are the main TNT 505: HITEC VENTURE TMP 593: Developing Technology sources of funds for a company. We will then Management Solutions (A) learn how to estimate the cost of debt and TNT 506: BASIC MGT equity for a company that wants to finance its First part of course-pair TMP593 & TMP595. investments. Finally, we will combine the cost Special course customized each year to TNT 515: APPL PROB & STATS of debt and equity into a unified framework address current trends and solutions to that estimates a company's overall cost of management problems in technological capital.

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native speakers of English. The class will VIP WNS examine in detail models of clear writing from scientific journals. Students will also bring Vertically Integrated Projects Women's Studies:Social their writing to class frequently for review by Sciences both the instructor and their classmates so that VIP 595: Graduate Multidisciplinary students will gradually internalize standards Project WNS 559: Psychology of Women's for writing and be able to write effectively in Students participate in a multi-term, Health all genres typically used by chemists. Offered multidisciplinary project, working with This course covers a variety of Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading team members ranging from sophomores psychologically-important topics in women's through seniors and graduate students. health based on current research findings. WRT 612: Theories in Composition Projects are advised by one or more faculty We address psychological contributors to This course explores the relationship between on topics of research, design, innovation and and consequences of women's health and reading and writing skills, the differences entrepreneurship. While a project is framed illness, focusing on diseases that affect women between speech production and writing within a faculty member's area of expertise, differently or disproportionately than men production, and the relationship between contributions are needed from a diverse array (including coronary heart disease, cancer, literacy, culture, and language politics. of disciplines. This course is intended for AIDS, and autoimmune diseases), women's master's students who can take a leadership Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, reproductive health (including menstruation, etc.) role in a project subtask. Students are expected contraception, pregnancy, infertility, and to maintain involvement with the same project menopause), health behaviors (including WRT 613: Research in Composition team for multiple terms. Students may add substance abuse, exercise, and eating), and This course provides an introduction to the up to 2-credits towards their effort by co- other topics such as violence against women, nature of empirical research in Composition registering for VIP 596. Prerequisites: VIP women's mental health, and women as health Studies. Students will survey landmark Program participant. care providers and health researchers. research studies, learn how to read research 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Co-scheduled with WST 559. reports critically, and conduct a mini-research May be repeated for credit. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, project in their own classrooms or tutoring B+, etc.) VIP 596: Graduate Multidisciplinary situations to analyze underlying causes of Project Practicum students' writing problems. The course is a supplement to VIP 595 for WRT Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, team members wishing to commit more etc.) effort towards their multidisciplinary project. Writing WRT 614: Topics in Composition and Students who enroll in 1-credit of VIP 595 Writing may register up to 2-credits of VIP 596 in WRT 506: Studies in Literary Theory a semester for a total of 3 VIP credits. This Prerequisite: Matriculation in a graduate This course will consist of directed readings course may be repeated for credit. program or the composition studies certificate. in particular areas of interest in rhetoric, the history of rhetoric and pedagogy, and teaching 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) strategies for teachers. May be repeated for credit. WRT 509: Studies in Language and Offered VIP 695: Multidisciplinary Project Linguistics Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Leadership A-, B+, etc.) Students participate in a multi-term, WRT 592: Problems in Teaching May be repeated for credit. multidisciplinary project, working with Writing or Composition WRT 621: Graduate-Level Writing team members ranging from sophomores This course provides an overview of writing This course, designed for a mixture of through seniors and graduate students. pedagogy as applied to tutoring in a Writing students from any of our graduate programs Projects are advised by one or more faculty Center or in an English classroom. Included in or departments, is a workshop in writing on topics of research, design, innovation and the course is fieldwork in the campus Writing academic papers, theses, or dissertations, entrepreneurship. While a project is frames Center. within a faculty member's area of expertise, with attention to research methods, drafting, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) contributions are needed from a diverse array organizing, revising, and editing work that the of disciplines. This course is intended for students have already been assigned in their WRT 605: Scientific Writing for primary departments. doctoral students who dissertation research is Chemists directly related to a project led by his or her 1-3 credits, S/U grading This course, taught primarily in a workshop faculty advisor. Students registered for this May be repeated for credit. format, will prepare students to write graduate course will take a leadership role and assist the papers, communications, journal articles, faculty advisor in management of the team. WRT 687: Independent Study and dissertations. Rhetorical principles May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: A student and faculty member agree on a topic of organization, attention to audience, Permission of Faculty Project Mentor. of student¿s interest which may not be offered conciseness, cogency, clarity, and using an in any seminars, creating a reading list to focus 0-3 credits, appropriate scientific voice will be stressed, as on. A final research paper or major annotated May be repeated for credit. will correctness of grammar and punctuation, bibliography will be required to demonstrate including grammatical issues particularto non- substantive knowledge of the field and/or

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It presents the ongoing Rather than begin with an exploration of "the" Writing debates concerning the interconnections feminist methodology in Women's and Gender of gender, race, and shifting identities. It This course provides hands-on experience and Studies, or an account of "the" history of will examine the relationships between the instruction in the basics of writing pedagogy, feminism, this course will explore what counts construction of personal identities, identity including designing writing assignments, as "history", as "method", and as "evidence" statuses, cultural and ideological meaning sequencing assignments, motivating writing, in feminist scholarship. Since its emergence systems, and the search for alternative images. writing skill development and evaluating as distinct knowledge project within the Permission from advisor required. writing. Students will also be given a academy, feminism has raised questions about preliminary overview of the major theories 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) how we know what we know, who gets to driving composition pedagogy. speak and for whom, and what are legitimate WST 559: Gender and Health fields of inquiry. Our goal will be to trace 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course explores gender differences in some of the ways in which feminist scholars physical and mental health through the study have sought to intervene in debates about of psychology, sociology, medicine, and disciplinary as opposed to interdisciplinary WST epidemiology. forms of knowledge, objective as opposed Women's Studies Co-scheduled with PSY 559. to "situated" knowledge, evidence versus Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, experience, history versus fiction, etc. WST 510: Gender and Culture B+, etc.) Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, A variable topics course on the many ways in May be repeated for credit. B+, etc.) which culture and gender interact. Possible May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. topics include women in multiethnic America, WST 595: Reading Colloquium in women in the labor movement, and women Women's History WST 601: Feminist Theories and social policy. A topics course dealing with such subjects This course will examine the key debates and Co-scheduled with HIS 515. as women in social movements, the place of concepts that have informed contemporary Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, gender in particular historical circumstances, articulations of feminist theory. We will focus B+, etc.) imperialism and woman, changing views of on how feminist theory is produced, along with May be repeated for credit. sexuality, or relations between family policies gender, through configurations of nation, race, and other political programs. This course citizenship, sexuality, and class in different WST 511: Gender and Culture offered as both HIS 595 and WST 595. historical and cultural contexts. Because of A variable topics course on the many ways in Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, the many varieties of feminist theories, this which culture and gender interact. Possible B+, etc.) course may focus on a particular theoretical topics include women in multiethnic America, tradition or conceptual problem. Some women in the labor movement, and women WST 597: Directed Readings for M.S. examples of past and possible future feminist and social policy. Students theories courses include: Feminist Theories/ Queer Theories; Feminist Theories: Race, Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Directed Readings must be approved in writing Gender, and Nation; Feminist Theories/Neo- Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, by the Advisor, Director of Graduate Studies, liberal Bio-logics; Feminist Literary Theory; B+, etc.) and the supervising professor. 1-3 credits each Feminist Science Studies; and Feminism and May be repeated for credit. semester, repetitive credit. Psychoanalysis. See addendum C for more Fall or Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading detailed descriptions of some sample focused WST 512: Advanced Topics in Gender May be repeated for credit. Studies theory classes. This advanced course will continue the WST 598: Thesis Research Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, discussion of the graduate seminar on Research and writing of M.A. thesis B+, etc.) Sociology of Gender, by examining theoretical supervised by faculty advisor. May be repeated for credit. debates or controversies, examining specific Offered Fall, Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading WST 602: Social Perspectives on gender identities, examining the gender of May be repeated for credit. Feminist Theory a specific institution (i.e., labor,law), or the This course introduces students to the gendered dynamics of social interaction (in for WST 599: Independent Study main currents of feminist social, political, example, romantic relationships or sexuality). A student and faculty member agree on a topic Co-scheduled with WST 602. and intellectual theory. It will explore not offered in any seminars and a reading theories and texts and the linkages between Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, list to study at weekly or biweekly meetings. developing feminism and such fields as B+, etc.) A final research paper or major annotated economics, sociology, history, and philosophy.

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Prerequisite: Admission to the Graduate WST 698: Practicing Women's and Insurance Office for the insurance charge to Certificate Program in Women's Studies Co- Gender Studies be removed. International students who are Scheduled with SOC 519. The teaching practicum is designed for not in their home country are charged for the Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, women's and gender studies certificate students mandatory health insurance. If they are to be B+, etc.) who anticipate teaching classes outside of, covered by another insurance plan they must May be repeated for credit. or in addition to, their disciplinary home. To file a waiver by the second week of classes. help students prepare for this likelihood, we The charge will only be removed if other WST 610: Advanced Topics in will spend several sessions working together plan is deemed comparable. All international Women's Studies to construct an introductory course syllabus students must have received clearance from an A variable topics seminar course in women's in Women's and Gender Studies. At the same International Advisor. Semesters offered: Fall, studies for the advanced student. Topics might time, we will consider broader questions Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading include feminist peace politics, women in about the university as an institution in the May be repeated for credit. Third World cinema, feminist theology, or current moment, and the place of Women's feminist philosophy. Course may be repeated and Gender Studies within the contemporary WST 800: Summer Research as topic varies. Sections of this course are co- university. Along with a consideration of the May be repeated for credit. Semesters offered: scheduled with SOC 509, PHI 615, and PHI changing practices and objects of feminist Summer 616. knowledge production, we will also discuss the S/U grading Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, changing politics and economics of academia, May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. B+, etc.) and the impact of the wider academic milieu May be repeated for credit. on what and how knowledge is produced. WST 850: Summer Teaching We will ask: what has women's studies May be repeated for credit Semesters Offered: WST 680: Interdisciplinary Research been; what kinds of interdisciplinarity or Summer Design transdisciplinarity are possible in women's and gender studies; and finally, what might S/U grading This seminar is designed as a workshop May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. to apply knowledge of methods and women's and gender studies become? methodologies in the interdisciplinary Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, area of Women's and Gender Studies to B+, etc.) students' own research. Course topics will include formulating and refining research WST 699: Dissertation Research on questions; developing appropriate theoretical Campus frameworks; articulating scholarly value; and Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). thinking critically about the methods used in A portion of dissertation research must take feminist interdisciplinary research, across the place on SBU campus. Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences. Fall, Spring, 3-9 credits, S/U grading Students are expected to work collaboratively, May be repeated for credit. presenting their individual works-in-progress to the class for constructive critique. Over WST 700: Dissertation Research off the semester, students will develop either a Campus research proposal for funding agencies and/or Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy their dissertation proposal (prospectus). (G5). Major portion of research will take place Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, off-campus, but in the United States and/ B+, etc.) or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab WST 690: Directed Readings for are considered on-campus. All international Doctoral Candidates students must enroll in one of the graduate A student and faculty member agree on a student insurance plans and should be advised corpus of texts to read and discuss at weekly by an International Advisor. Semesters or biweekly meetings. The reading list must be Offered: filed with the program¿s form before the add/ Fall, 1-9 credits, S/U grading drop period ends. May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. WST 701: Dissertation Research off Campus-International WST 696: Self-Directed Readings Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy For doctoral students who have completed (G5). Major portion of research will take all course requirements and wish to dedicate place outside of the United States and/or themselves to full- or part-time preparation for U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the the Comprehensive Examination. option of the health plan and may also enroll Fall and Spring, 3-9 credits, S/U grading in MEDEX. International students who are May be repeated 6 times FOR credit. in their home country are not covered by mandatory health plan and must contact the

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