PRODUCT MANAGER AT GEICO
Andrew Sungwoo Park
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Forbes America's Top Colleges 2015
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Ranked #16 among public colleges
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U.S. News & World Report Undergraduate Rankings 2015
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Ranked 19th among public institutions
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Ranked 21st overall for Most Innovative Schools
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Robert H. Smith School of Business
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Ranked 22nd nationally -- with four specialites ranking in the top 25
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Management Information Systems: ranked 9th
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Supply Chain Management/Logistics: ranked 10th
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Entrepreneurship: ranked 17th
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Management: ranked 19th
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Biological Sciences
BSCI 207: Organismal Biology
Bretton Kent & Jeffrey Firestone
The diversity, structure and function of organisms as understood from the perspective of their common physicochemical principles and unique evolutionary histories.
BSCI 222: Principles of Genetics
Thomas Kocher
Principles and mechanisms of heredity and gene expression. Considers plant, animal, and microbial organisms.
BSCI 223: Principles of Microbiology
Kevin McIver
Fundamental concepts in morphology, physiology, genetics, immunology, ecology, and pathogenic microbiology. Applications of microbiology to medicine, the food industry and biotechnology.
BSCI 370: Principles of Evolution
Sara Via
Understanding evolutionary processes in a natural and human environment including adaptation; DNA sequence, protein, and genome evolution; evolution of developmental mechanisms; mechanisms of evolutionary change (mutation, natural selection, drift); epidemiology; coevolution and biological control; speciation; comparative methods; extinction and conservation; human evolution.
BSCI 424: Pathogenic Microbiology
Volker Briken
The role of bacteria and fungi in the diseases of humans with emphasis upon the differentiation and culture of microorganisms, types of disease, modes of disease transmission, prophylactic, therapeutic, and epidemiological aspects.
BSCI 427: Principles of Microscopy
Stephen Wolniak
An introduction to optical principles that underlie light and electron microscopic image formation. Brightfield, darkfield, phase contrast, differential interference contrast, fluorescence and polarized light microscopy. Comparison of light and electron microscopy. The application of these techniques to problems in biological research.
General Business
BMGT 210: Foundations of Accounting
Eugene Cantor
An introduction to optical principles that underlie light and electron microscopic image formation. Brightfield, darkfield, phase contrast, differential interference contrast, fluorescence and polarized light microscopy. Comparison of light and electron microscopy. The application of these techniques to problems in biological research.
BMGT 345: Foundations of Financial Management
Susan White
Provides students an overview of financial management. Students will understand how to accomplish the firm goal of maximizing shareholder value, learn how to conduct a financial statement analysis, and recognize its various elements, including profitability, credit risk, revenue, assets, liability, and cash flows. Understand the relationship between risk and return and how it impacts investment and corporate decisions.
BMGT 355: Foundations of Marketing
Mary Harms
Introduces the concepts and principles of marketing. Provides an overview of all the concepts in marketing including relationship marketing, product development, pricing, promotion, marketing research, consumer behavior, international marketing, distribution and internal marketing to employees.
BMGT 395: Foundations of Management
Nicole Coomber
Introduces concepts related to organization behavior. Topics include leadership, team decision making and management, conflict resolution and negotiations, organizational culture, and organization change. Students will learn how to apply those concepts and theories to understanding and critically analyzing various individual, interpersonal, group, and organizational management processes.
BMGT 369A: Experiential Learning in Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Protiti Dastidar
Students will apply business concepts learned in BMGT 497 to work in teams to analyze a for profit business, its current strategy, challenges and propose potential solutions. Students will apply the following skills, Critically think and analyze a business processes including the critical evaluation of data; testing of assumptions; and the synthesis of data points and multiple perspectives, Transform research and analysis into strategic formulation; Build and present strategic analysis, including organizing the data and information, drafting executive reports, and making the presentations.
BMGT 497: Strategic Management
Protiti Dastidar
Focuses on how a firm can both formulate and implement effective business-level and corporate-level strategies to achieve competitive advantage and earn above average profits.
Secondary Education
EDPS 210: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Education
Steven Stakland
An examination of illustrative historical and philosophical examples of the interplay of ideas and events in the shaping of educational aims and practices from ancient cultures to modern technological societies.
Term Project: The Make Up of the Education System in South Korea
EDCI 411: Knowledge, Reasoning, and Learning in Science
Diane Jass Ketelhut & Ashley Coon
For prospective science teachers. Investigations of the nature of knowledge, reasoning, and learning in middle and secondary science. Readings from cognitive science and science education research; studies of student thinking in interview and classroom observations; analyses of curricula. Includes laboratory and field experiences.
EDCI 463: Reading in the Secondary School
Olivia Saracho
Provides secondary school teachers with understanding the need for and approaches to teaching students to read and learn from content area texts.
EDHD 413: Adolescent Development
Allan Wigfield
Adolescent development, including special problems encountered in contemporary culture. Observational component and individual case study.
EDHD 426: Cognition and Motivation in Reading: Reading in Content Areas
Angelica Smith
Students preparing for secondary teaching will learn the cognitive and motivational aspects of reading and learning from text in subjects of literature, science, history and mathematics. Different structured approaches to using text for content learning are presented. Classroom contexts that enable students to engage productively with diverse texts and internet resources are identified.
Other Relevant Coursework
COMM 107: Oral Communication - Principles and Practices
Jeff McKinney
A study of and practice in oral communication, including principles of interviewing, group discussion, listening, informative briefings, and persuasive speeches.
HONR 278K: Evolutionary Processes in Health Medicine
Charles Delwiche
Humans are living organisms, and as such our health is a biological phenomenon, structured by and subject to the constraints imposed by evolution. This is not just an abstract concept; an understanding of evolution can be used to help predict events that can mean life or death to millions of people every year. Despite this, many people are unaware that evolution plays a role in medicine. We will spend the semester exploring ways in which evolutionary phenomena influence health and medicine. Among the specific phenomena we will discuss will be: the emergence of multiple-drug resistant bacteria (''superbugs''); how natural selection governs the progression of cancer; diseases such as bubonic plague, AIDS, and influenza that have moved from animals to humans; human genetic variation and how it influences our health; and how our health is influenced by the bacteria that live in and on our bodies (the ''human microbiome'').
Term Project: Resistance to HIV due to the CCR5-Δ32 Mutation
HONR 228N: Evaluating Global Development Assistance
Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson
What, if anything, can rich countries do to assist poor people in the developing world? How can aid be targeted and managed to do the most good? Well-known and respected economists come to wildly different conclusions on these questions. The course will use readings, discussion, and writing assignments, to examine current debates about foreign aid specifically and about programs to help reduce poverty, more generally. Through concrete examples, students will be introduced to fundamental ideas in economics such as growth theory, public goods, and principal-agent problems. We will consider both theoretical arguments and empirical evidence, and critically evaluate some of the recent literature on aid effectiveness. We will also consider alternatives to aid such as reform of rich countries' trade and agricultural support policies.
Term Paper: Child Labor vs. Primary Education
