Course Syllabi

ACCT 1050 - Financial Record Keeping

Objectives: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify these rules and concepts.
2. Identify when and where various rules and concepts are used.
3. Demonstrate the use of rules and concepts in various record-recording situations.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to distinguish the various aspects of journalizing in accounting records.

Objectives: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Explain the process of journalizing.
2. Distinguish between debits and credits and their effect on increases and decreases.
3. Demonstrate the preparation and recording of journal entries.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to relate the various methods used to estimate values and expenses.

Objectives: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Calculate cost of sales and ending inventory.
2. Calculate depreciation expense.
3. Prepare adjusting journal entries associated with closing accounting records.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to prepare required financial statements and analyze business results.

Objectives: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify the three primary financial statements and what purpose each serves in presenting the business finances.
2. Demonstrate the ability to prepare each financial statement.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to use a computer program system to record and accumulate financial data in the business world

Objectives: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Explain the role of computer programs in a financial record-keeping system.
2. Demonstrate the ability to use a computer software system to record and maintain a set of financial records.

1. Accounting Concepts and Procedures
   1. Explain accounting and the accounting equation
   2. Record transactions into the equation
   3. Prepare 3 financial statements
2. Debits and Credits: Analyzing and Recording Business
   1. Transactions
   2. Explain T accounts and use to record transactions
   3. Prepare a trial balance and financial statements
3. Beginning the Accounting Cycle
   1. Analyze and record transactions in a journal
   2. Post to a ledger
   3. Take a trial balance
4. Accounting Cycle Continued
   1. Explain adjustments
   2. Record them on a worksheet
   3. Prepare financial statements
5. Accounting Cycle Completed
   1. Journalize and post adjusting entries
   2. Journalize and post closing entries
   3. Take a post-closing trial balance
6. Banking Procedures and Control of Cash
   1. Explain banking procedures and checking accounts
   2. Explain bank reconciliation
   3. Explain petty cash and chance funds
7. The Payroll Process
   1. Calculate gross and net pay
   2. Prepare a payroll register and employee earnings record
   3. Calculate employer taxes
   4. Make journal entries
   5. Prepare Quarterly and Annual Reports
8. Sales and Cash Receipts
   1. Make journal entries
   2. Post to general and subsidiary ledgers
   3. Prepare a schedule of accounts receivable
9. Purchases and Cash Payments
   1. Make journal entries
   2. Post to general and subsidiary ledgers
   3. Prepare a schedule of accounts payable
10. Accounting Cycle for a Merchandise Company
    1. Prepare adjusting entries
    2. Prepare financial statements

ACCT 1070 - Accounting for Entrepreneurs

Objectives: Given a set of exam questions, the student will be able to:

1. Describe the purpose and content of each financial statement.
2. Analyze business transactions.
3. Account for major transactions involving assets.
4. Account for major transactions involving liabilities.
5. Account for major transactions involving equity.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to summarize management accounting information used to make business decisions.

Objectives: Given a set of exam questions, the student will be able to:

1. Compute ratio analysis of statements.
2. Describe the three primary types of business activities and cash flows.
3. Define different types of costs used in managerial accounting.
4. Compute cost-volume-profit analysis.
5. Explain the importance of the budget process

1. Describe the types and forms of businesses, how businesses make money, and business stakeholders.
2. Describe the three business activities of financing, investing, and operating.
3. Define accounting and describe its roll in business.
4. Describe and illustrate the basic financial statements and how they interrelate.
5. Describe eight accounting concepts underlying financial reporting.

Basic Accounting Concepts

1. Describe the basic elements of a financial accounting system.
2. Analyze, record, and summarize transactions for a corporation’s first period of operations.
3. Prepare financial statements for a corporation’s first period of operations.

Accrual Accounting Concepts

1. Describe basic accrual accounting concepts, including the matching concept.
2. Use accrual concepts of accounting to analyze, record, and summarize transactions.
3. Describe and illustrate the end-of-period adjustments process.
4. Prepare financial statements using accrual concepts of accounting, including a classified balance sheet.
5. Describe how the accrual basis of accounting enhances the interpretation of financial statements.

Accounting for Merchandising Businesses

1. Distinguish the activities and financial statements of a service business from those of a merchandising business.
2. Describe and illustrate the financial statements of a merchandising business.
3. Describe the accounting for the sale of merchandise.
4. Describe the accounting for the purchase of merchandise

Sarbanes-Oxley, Internal Control, and Cash

1. Describe the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and its impact on internal controls and financial reporting.
2. Describe and illustrate the objective and elements of internal control.
3. Describe and illustrate the application of internal controls to cash.
4. Describe the nature of a bank account and its use in controlling cash.
5. Describe and illustrate the use of a bank reconciliation in controlling cash.

Receivables and Inventories

1. Describe the common classifications of receivables.
2. Describe the nature of and the accounting for uncollectible receivables.
3. Describe the direct write-off method of accounting for uncollectible receivables.
4. Describe three inventory cost flow assumptions and how they impact the financial statements.
5. Compare and contrast the use of the three inventory costing methods.
6. Describe how receivables and inventory are reported on the financial statements.

Fixed Assets and Intangible Assets

1. Define, classify, and account for the cost of fixed assets.
2. Compute depreciation using the straight-line and double-declining-balance methods
3. Describe the accounting for intangible assets.
4. Describe how depreciation expense is reported on an income statement and prepare a balance sheet that includes fixed assets and intangible assets.

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

1. Describe how businesses finance their operations.
2. Describe and illustrate current liabilities, notes payable, taxes, contingencies, and payroll.
3. Describe and illustrate the financing of operations through issuance of stock.
4. Describe and illustrate the accounting for cash and stock dividends.
5. Describe financial statement reporting of liabilities and stockholders’ equity.
6. Analyze the impact of debt or equity financing on earnings per share.

Financial Statement Analysis

1. Describe basic financial statement analytical methods.
2. Use financial statement analysis to assess the liquidity and solvency of a business.
3. Use financial statement analysis to assess the profitability of a business.
4. Describe the contents of corporate annual reports.

Accounting Systems for Manufacturing Businesses

1. Describe the differences between financial and managerial accounting.
2. Distinguish the activities of a manufacturing business from those of a merchandising or service business.
3. Define and illustrate materials, factory labor, and factory overhead costs.
4. Describe cost accountings systems used by manufacturing businesses.
5. Describe and illustrate a job order cost accounting system.
6. Use job order cost information for decision making.
7. Describe the flow of costs for a service business that uses a job order cost accounting system.

Cost Behavior and Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis

1. Classify costs as variable costs, fixed costs, or mixed costs.
2. Compute the contribution margin, the contribution margin ratio, and the unit contribution margin.
3. Determine the break-even point and sales necessary to achieve a target profit.

Differential Analysis and Product Pricing

1. Prepare differential analysis reports for a variety of managerial decisions.
2. Determine the selling price of a product, using the total cost, product cost, and variable cost concepts.

Budgeting and Standard Cost Systems

1. Describe budgeting, its objectives, its impact on human behavior, and types of budget systems.
2. Describe the master budget for a manufacturing company.
3. Describe the types of standards and how they are established.

ACCT 1080 - Principles of Accounting 1

Objectives:

1. Define owner’s equity for a sole proprietorship.
2. Identify the effect of an accrual adjustment on the financial statement.
3. Identify an effect of the closing process in the accounting cycle.
4. Identify a liability account and how it is shown on the balance sheet.
5. Identify characteristics of a corporation.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to apply accounting techniques at an introductory level.

Objectives:

1. Identify accounts having a normal debit/or credit balance.
2. Make journal entries using the perpetual inventory system.
3. Compute ending inventory using Fifo, Lifo, WA
4. Compute the adjusted book balance regarding a bank reconciliation.
5. Compute depreciation expense using straight-line method of depreciation.

1. Explain why accounting is important and list the users of accounting information
2. Describe the organizations and rules that govern accounting
3. Describe the accounting equation and define assets, liabilities, and equity
4. Use the accounting equation to analyze transactions
5. Prepare financial statements
6. Use financial statements and return on assets (ROA) to evaluate business performance

Recording Business Transactions

1. Explain accounts as they relate to the accounting equation and describe common accounts
2. Define debits, credits, and normal balances using double-entry accounting and T-accounts
3. Record transactions in a journal and post journal entries to the ledger
4. Prepare the trial balance and illustrate how to use the trial balance to prepare financial statements
5. Use the debt ratio to evaluate business performance

The Adjusting Process

1. Differentiate between cash basis accounting and accrual basis accounting
2. Define and apply the time period concept, revenue recognition, and matching principles
3. Explain the purpose of and journalize and post adjusting entries
4. Explain the purpose of and prepare an adjusted trial balance
5. Identify the impact of adjusting entries on the financial statements

Completing the Accounting Cycle

1. Prepare the financial statements including the classified balance sheet
2. Explain the purpose of, journalize, and post closing entries
3. Prepare the post-closing trial balance
4. Describe the accounting cycle
5. Use the current ratio to evaluate business performance

Merchandising Operations

1. Describe merchandising operations and the two types of inventory systems
2. Account for the purchase of merchandise inventory using a perpetual inventory system
3. Account for the sale of merchandise inventory using a perpetual inventory system
4. Adjust and close the accounts of a merchandising business
5. Prepare a merchandiser’s financial statements
6. Use the gross profit percentage to evaluate business performance

Merchandise Inventory

1. Identify accounting principles and controls related to merchandise inventory
2. Account for merchandise inventory costs under a perpetual inventory system
3. Compare the effects on the financial statements when using the different inventory costing methods
4. Apply the lower-of-cost-or-market rule to merchandise inventory
5. Measure the effects of merchandise inventory errors on the financial statements
6. Use inventory turnover and days’ sales in inventory to evaluate business performance

Internal Control & Cash

1. Define internal control and describe the components of internal control and control procedures
2. Apply internal controls to cash receipts
3. Apply internal controls to cash payments
4. Explain and journalize petty cash transactions
5. Demonstrate the use of a bank account as a control device and prepare a bank reconciliation and related journal entries
6. Use the cash ratio to evaluate business performance

Receivables

1. Define and explain common types of receivables and journalize sales on credit, credit card sales, and debit card sales
2. Apply the direct write-off method for uncollectibles
3. Apply the allowance method for uncollectibles and estimate bad debts expense based on the percent-of-sales, percent-of-receivables, and aging-of-receivables methods
4. Account for notes receivable including computing interest and recording honored and dishonored notes
5. Use the acid-test ratio, accounts receivable turnover ratio, and days’ sales in receivables to evaluate business performance

Plant Assets, Natural Resources, & Intangibles

1. Measure the cost of a plant asset.
2. Account for depreciation using the straight-line, units-of-production, and double-declining-balance methods
3. Journalize entries of the disposal of plant assets
4. Account for natural resources
5. Account for intangible assets
6. Use the asset turnover ratio to evaluate performance

Current Liabilities & Payroll

1. Account for current liabilities of known amount
2. Calculate and journalize basic payroll transactions
3. Account for current liabilities that must be estimated
4. Account for contingent liabilities
5. Use the times-interest-earned ratio to evaluate business performance

Long-Term Liabilities

1. Journalize transactions for long-term notes payable and mortgages payable
2. Describe bonds payable
3. Journalize transactions for bonds payable and interest expense using the straight-line amortization method
4. Journalize transactions to retire bonds payable
5. Report liabilities on the balance sheet
6. Use the debt to equity ratio to evaluate business performance

Corporation

1. Identify the characteristics of a corporation
2. Journalize the issuance of stock
3. Account for the purchase and sale of treasury stock
4. Account for cash dividends, stock dividends, and stock splits
5. Explain how net income and equity are reported for a corporation
6. Use earnings per share, rate of return on common stock, and the price/earnings, ratio to evaluate business performance

ACCT 1090 - Principles of Accounting 2

Objectives:

1. Identify how depreciation expense would be used in a cash flow statement under the indirect method.
2. Identify the relevant information for a special business decision.
3. Identify how changes in volume affect costs.
4. Distinguish financial accounting from management accounting.
5. Distinguish among operating, investing, and financing cash flows.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to apply accounting techniques at an introductory level.

Objectives:

1. Using financial ratios, compute the acid-test ratio for a given year.
2. Compute the ending balance in the work in process inventory account.
3. Compute the number of units that must be sold to earn a targeted operating income.
4. Compute the budgeted cash collections from customers for a given month
5. Compute the accounting rate of return on an investment.

1. Identify the purposes of the Statement.
2. Distinguish among operating, investing, and financing flows.
3. Prepare the statement by the direct method. (Appendix 1A)
4. Prepare the statement by the indirect method.

Financial Statement Analysis

1. Explain how financial statements are used to analyze a business.
2. Perform a horizontal analysis of financial statements.
3. Perform a vertical analysis of financial statements.
4. Compute and evaluate the standard financial ratios.
5. Complete a corporate income statement including earnings per share (Appendix 2A).

Introduction to Managerial Accounting

1. Define managerial accounting and understand how it is used.
2. Classify costs for service, merchandising, and manufacturing companies.
3. Prepare an income statement and schedule of goods manufactured for a manufacturing company and calculate cost per item.
4. Calculate cost per service for a service company and cost per item for a merchandising company.

Job Order Costing

1. Distinguish between job order costing and process costing.
2. Record materials and labor costs in a job order costing system.
3. Calculate the predetermined overhead allocation rate and allocate overhead costs.
4. Record the completion and sales of finished goods.
5. Adjust for over allocated and under allocated overhead.
6. Calculate job costs for a service company.

Process Costing

1. Calculate equivalent units of production for direct materials and conversion costs.
2. Prepare a production cost report using the weighted-average method.
3. Prepare journal entries for a process costing system.
4. Use a production cost report to make decisions.

Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis

1. Determine how changes in volume affect costs.
2. Calculate operating income using contribution margin and contribution margin ratio.
3. Use cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis for profit planning.
4. Use CVP analysis to perform sensitivity analysis.
5. Use CVP analysis to calculate margin of safety, operating leverage, and multiproduct breakeven points.

Master Budgets

1. Describe budgeting objectives, benefits, and procedures and how human behavior influences budgeting.
2. Define budget types and the components of the master budget.
3. Prepare an operating budget for a manufacturing company.
4. Prepare a financial budget for a manufacturing company.

Flexible Budgets and Standard Costs Systems

1. Prepare flexible budgets and performance reports using static and flexible budgets.
2. Identify the benefits of a standard cost system and understand how standards are set.
3. Compute the standard cost variances for direct materials and direct labor.
4. Compute the standard cost variances for manufacturing overhead.
5. Describe the relationship among and responsibility for the product cost variances.
6. Record transactions in a standard cost system and prepare a standard cost income statement.

Cost Allocation and Responsibility Accounting

1. Assign direct costs and allocate indirect costs using predetermined overhead allocation rates with single and multiple allocation bases.
2. Explain why companies decentralize and use responsibility accounting.
3. Describe the purpose of performance evaluation systems and how the balanced scorecard helps companies evaluate performance.
4. Use responsibility reports to evaluate cost, revenue, and profit centers.
5. Use return on investment (ROI) and residual income (RI) to evaluate investment centers.

Short-Term Business Decisions

1. Identify information that is relevant for making short-term decisions.
2. Make regular and special pricing decisions.
3. Make decisions about dropping a product, product mix, and sales mix.
4. Make outsourcing and processing further decisions.

Chapter 11. Capital Investment Decisions

1. Describe the importance of capital investments and the capital budgeting process.
2. Use the payback and the accounting rate of return methods to make capital investment decisions.
3. Use the time value of money to compute the present values of lump sums and annuities.
4. Use discounted cash flow methods to make capital investment decisions

ACCT 1150 - Microcomputer Applications in Accounting

Objectives:  1. Use basic Microsoft Excel functions

1. Create a worksheet
2. Create formulas and functions
3. Create charts
4. Manipulate a worksheet

Objectives: 2. Perform accounting applications using Microsoft Excel

1. Prepare an Income Statement and Balance Sheet
2. Prepare a Bank Reconciliation
3. Prepare a Depreciation Schedule
4. Compute financial ratios
5. Prepare a Software Amortization Loan schedule

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to use an accounting program to carry out setting up accounts, recording of transactions, posting to accounts and preparing typical reports with these program modules: Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Payroll and General Ledger.

Objectives:

1. Process sales and receivables
2. Process payables and purchases
3. Perform general accounting and end-of-period procedures
4. Process payroll

1. Introduction to Microsoft Excel
   1. General Microsoft Excel Navigation
   2. Formulas and Functions
   3. Charts
   4. Database Tools
2. Accounting Specific Applications using Microsoft Excel
   1. Income Statement and Balance Sheet
   2. Bank Reconciliation
   3. Statement of Cash Flows
   4. Depreciation Schedule
   5. General Financial Ratios
   6. Bond Amortization Schedule
3. Accounting Software
   1. Introduction to Computers and the Software
   2. Service Business
   3. Sales and Receivables
   4. Payables and Purchases
   5. End-of-Period Procedures
4. Merchandising Business
   1. Sales and Receivables
   2. Payables and Purchases
   3. End-of-Period Procedures
   4. Payroll
   5. Computerizing a Manual Accounting System

ACCT 2180 - Intermediate Accounting 1

Objectives: Given a set of exam questions, the student will be able to:

1. Identify generally accepted accounting principles.
2. Identify how items are reported on an Income Statement.
3. Identify how items are reported on a Balance Sheet.
4. Explain accounting for receivables.
5. Describe accounting for Property, Plant & Equipment.
6. Define accounting for Natural Resources.
7. Explain accounting for Intangible Assets.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to apply accounting techniques at a paraprofessional level.

Objectives: Given a set of exam questions, the student will be able to:

1. Describe how cash items are reported.
2. Compute a dollar value for inventory.

1. Understand basic accounting information system
2. Identify and perform steps in the accounting cycle
3. Differentiate the cash basis of accounting from the accrual basis
4. Understand the difference between adjusting, closing and reversing entries

Income Statement and Related Information

1. Understand the uses and limitations of an income statement
2. Understand the reporting of accounting changes and errors
3. Explain how to report irregular items
4. Explain intraperiod tax allocation
5. Explain how to report other comprehensive income
6. Prepare an income statement and statement of retained earnings

Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flows

1. Explain the uses and limitations of a balance sheet
2. Prepare a balance sheet and statement of cash flows
3. Identify the purpose and content of the statement of cash flows
4. Understand the usefulness of the statement of cash flows
5. Determine which balance sheet information requires supplemental disclosure
6. Use ratios to analyze financial performance

Accounting and the Time Value of Money

1. Identify accounting topics where the time value of money is relevant
2. Distinguish between simple and compound interest
3. Understand the difference between present and future value
4. Understand the difference between an ordinary annuity and an annuity due
5. Solve future value and present value problems

Cash and receivables

1. Identify items considered cash and cash equivalents
2. Define receivables and identify the different types of receivables
3. Explain accounting issues related to recognition and valuation of receivables
4. Explain the fair value option
5. Describe how to report and analyze receivables
6. Understand internal controls as it pertains to cash

Valuation of inventories: a cost basics approach

1. Understand inventory classifications and different inventory systems
2. Determine the goods and costs included in inventory
3. Identify the effects of inventory errors on the financial statements
4. Describe and compare the cost flow assumptions used to account for inventories
5. Identify special issues related to LIFO
6. Understand why companies select given inventory methods

Inventories: additional valuation issues

1. Describe and apply the lower-of-cost or net realizable value rule
2. Explain when companies use the relative sales value method to value inventories
3. Discuss accounting methods related to purchase commitments
4. Determine ending inventory by applying the gross profit method
5. Determine existing inventory by applying the retail inventory method
6. Explain how to report and analyze inventory

Acquisition and disposition of property, plant and equipment

1. Identify the costs to include in initial valuation of property, plant and equipment
2. Describe the accounting problems with self-constructed assets
3. Describe the accounting problems with interest capitalization
4. Understand the accounting issues related to acquiring and valuing plant assets
5. Describe the accounting treatment for the disposal of property, plant and equipment
6. Describe the accounting treatment for costs subsequent to acquisition

Depreciation, impairments and depletion

1. Understand depreciation concepts and methods of depreciation
2. Explain special depreciation methods and other depreciation issues
3. Explain the accounting issues related to asset impairment
4. Explain the accounting procedures for depletion of natural resources
5. Explain how to report and analyze property, plant, equipment and natural resources
6. Understand income tax depreciation

Intangible Assets

1. Describe the characteristics, valuation, and amortization of intangible assets
2. Describe the accounting for various types of intangible assets
3. Explain the accounting issues recording goodwill
4. Explain impairment procedures and presentation requirements for intangible assets
5. Describe accounting and presentation for research and development and similar costs

Accounting Changes and Error Analysis

1. Identify types of accounting changes and understand the accounting for changes in accounting principles
2. Describe the accounting for changes in estimates and changes in reporting entity
3. Describe the accounting for correction of errors
4. Analyze the effect of errors

Statement of Cash Flows

1. Describe the usefulness and format of the statement of cash flows
2. Prepare a statement of cash flows (direct and indirect format)
3. Contrast the direct and indirect methods of calculating net cash flow from operating activities
4. Discuss special problems in prepare a statement of cash flows

ACCT 2190 - Intermediate Accounting 2

Objectives:

1. Account for current & long-term liabilities
2. Compute EPS for a simple & complex capital structure
3. Account for long-term stock & bond investments
4. Account for reporting requirements for pension plans
5. Prepare a Statement of Cash Flow using the direct & indirect methods

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify accounting theory at a paraprofessional level.

Objectives:

1. Account for stockholder equity
2. Define full disclosure & revenue recognition principles
3. Account for income tax according to FASB
4. Account for capital leases by the lessee & lessor
5. Account for changes in principles, estimates, & error correction

1. Describe the nature, valuation and reporting of current liabilities
2. Explain the classification issues of short-term debt expected to be refinanced
3. Explain the accounting for gain and loss contingencies
4. Indicate how to present and analyze liabilities and contingencies

Long-term Liabilities

1. Describe the nature of bonds and indicate the accounting for bond issuances
2. Describe the accounting for extinguishment of debt
3. Explain the accounting for long-term notes payable
4. Describe the accounting for the fair value option
5. Indicate how to present and analyze long-term debt

Stockholders’ Equity

1. Describe the corporate form and the issuance of shares of stock
2. Describe the accounting and reporting for reacquisition of shares
3. Understand the accounting and reporting issues related to dividends
4. Indicate how to present and analyze stockholders’ equity

Dilutive Securities and Earnings per Share

1. Describe the accounting for the issuance, conversion and retirement of convertible securities
2. Contrast the accounting for stock warrants and for stock warrants issued with other securities
3. Describe the accounting and reporting for stock compensation plans
4. Compute basic EPS and diluted EPS

Investments

1. Understand the accounting for investments in debt securities
2. Understand the accounting for investments in equity securities
3. Explain the equity and consolidation methods of accounting
4. Evaluate other major issues related to investments in debt and equity securities

Revenue Recognition

1. Understand the fundamental concepts related to revenue recognition
2. Understand and apply the five-step revenue recognition process
3. Apply the five-step process to major revenue recognition issues
4. Describe presentation and disclosure regarding revenue

Accounting for Income Taxes

1. Understand the fundamentals of accounting for income taxes
2. Identify additional issues in accounting for income taxes
3. Explain the accounting for loss carrybacks and loss carryforwards
4. Describe the presentation of deferred income taxes in financial statements

Accounting for Pensions and Postretirement Benefits

1. Understand the fundamentals of pension plan accounting
2. Use a worksheet for employer’s pension plan entries
3. Describe the accounting and amortization of prior service costs
4. Explain the accounting and amortization for unexpected gains and losses
5. Describe the requirements for reporting pension plans in financial statements

Accounting for Leases

1. Explain the nature, economic substance, and advantages of lease transactions
2. Describe the accounting for leases by lessees
3. Describe the accounting for leases by lessors
4. Describe the accounting and reporting for special features of lease arrangements

ACCT 2270 - Managerial Accounting

Objectives: Given a set of exam questions, the student will be able to:

1. Describe the role of management accountants in an organization.
2. Compute a predetermined overhead rate and use the rate to assign overhead to work in process.
3. Compute the present value of future cash flows.
4. Prepare an operating budget.
5. Compute the materials price and usage variances and explain how they are used for control.
6. Compute the labor rate and efficiency variances and explain how they are used for control.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify accounting theory at a paraprofessional level.

Objectives: Given a set of exam questions, the student will be able to:

1. Explain the difference between variable and fixed cost behavior.
2. Compute the cost per equivalent unit.
3. Explain why activity-based costing produces more accurate product costs.
4. Define and explain the concepts of step-variable and step-fixed costs.
5. Compute the break-even point and targeted profit levels for a multiple-product setting.
6. Explain the differences between variable costing and absorption costing.
7. Distinguish between relevant and irrelevant costs.

1. The Role, History, and Direction of Management Accounting
2. Cost Concepts and Terminology
3. Job-Order Costing
4. Process Costing
5. Product Costing and Cost Management: The Advanced Manufacturing Environment
6. Special Pricing Decisions and Cost Behavior
7. Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
8. Variable Costing
9. Relevant Costs for Special Decisions
10. Capital Budgeting: Long-Run Investment Decisions
11. Budgeting for Planning and Control
12. Standard Costing: A Managerial Control Tool

ACCT 2300 - Federal Income Tax - Individual

Objectives:

1. Explain the principles used to determine who is taxed on a particular item of income, under both the cash and accrual methods of reporting.
2. Apply IRS rules to determine whether items such as compensation, dividends, Social Security and pensions and annuities are taxable.
3. Discuss the criteria for determining whether an activity is a hobby or a trade or business, and determine the tax consequences of vacation homes.
4. Compute the phase-outs of the itemized deduction, the personal exemption, and the child tax credit.
5. Discuss the tax treatment and requirements for various deferred compensation arrangement, including IRAs and 401(k)s.

Outcome 2:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to prepare a fairly complex tax return including Form 1040 and Schedules A, B, C, D, E, SE and 2106.

Objectives:

1. Determine the amount and correct number of personal and dependency exemptions.
2. Determine the correct filing status of individuals, and the amount allowable for the standard deduction.
3. Determine whether specific exclusions are available, including employment-related fringe benefit items.
4. Distinguish between deductions for and from AGI, and discuss the criteria for deducting business and investment expenses.
5. List substantiation requirements for deducting travel and entertainment expenses, and know how to show them.
6. Identify and determine the timing of itemized deductions for individuals, including medical, taxes, interest, charitable, and miscellaneous.
7. Identify deductible moving, education, and office in the home expenses.

Outcome 3:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to prepare a Michigan tax return based on the same data, with similar competence.

Objectives:

1. Be able to prepare a Michigan 1040, and related schedules, such as CR, Tuition Credit, and Homestead Credit.

1.  
   1. Chapter 1 Introduction to Taxation
   2. Chapter 2 Determination of Tax
   3. Chapter 3 Gross Income: Concepts & Inclusions
2.   
   1. C hapter 4 Gross Income: Exclusions
   2. Chapter 15 Tax Research, Tax research problem assigned
   3. Chapter 5 Property Transactions: Capital Gain & Loss
   4. Chapter 6 Deduction & Losses
3.  
   1. Chapter 7 Itemized Deductions
   2. Chapter 8 Losses & Bad Debts
   3. Chapter 9 Employee Expenses & Deferred Compensation
4.  
   1. Chapter 10 Depreciation & Cost Recovery
   2. Chapter 11 Accounting Periods & Methods
   3. Chapter 12 Property Transactions: Nontaxable Exchanges
   4. Chapter 13 Property Transactions: Section 1231 and Re- capture
   5. Chapter 14 Special Tax Computation Methods, Tax Credits and Payment of Tax

ANTH 1000 - Introduction to Anthropology

Objectives: The student will:

1. Identify the four primary subfields of anthropology and recognize essential methodology for each.
2. Discuss the concept of culture and be able to identify and interpret varied global cultural behaviors.
3. Recognize and utilize anthropological vocabulary to explain cultural behavior. This may include kinship terminology, status markers, gender markers, etc.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate basic knowledge of human genetics and describe the processes involved in human biological diversity.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Using Punnet squares or a parallel methodology, determine the possibility of various genetic outcomes for individuals.
2. Illustrate the biological makeup of genetic material within a human cell.
3. Describe and discuss the various methods by which genetic changes can affect whole populations.
4. Identify the social concerns arising from contemporary advances in genetic science.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to interpret the theory of human evolution within the context of current archaeological material.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Describe historical world views of the position of humankind within a natural environment.
2. Explain the theory of evolution and natural selection.
3. Identify and discuss the paleontological evidence for human evolution and the ancestry of humankind.
4. Compare and contrast human behavior with that of the living primates.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to employ knowledge of cultural relativism to explain cultural diversity among peoples.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Identify and discuss cultural and logistical aspects of several contemporary non-Western cultures.
2. Discuss contemporary issues for these cultures - the effects of globalization, contact with other cultures, and political and social homogenization.
3. Discuss and interpret cultural behaviors which may conflict with their own cultural moral code.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate an ability to examine contemporary issues from an anthropological perspective.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Interpret data and formulate an informed opinion through research and report production on contemporary cultural issues such as marriage practices, child rearing, euthanasia, drug use, etc.
2. Compare and contrast opposing theories of the validity of evolutionary science.
3. Discuss and analyze controversial issues arising from scientific and social changes in society.

Outcome 6: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate critical thinking skills as applied to anthropology.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Compare and contrast current cultural practices, both western and non-western, with each other and with past cultures.
2. Analyze inter-cultural behaviors such as, for example, artifact typologies, religious practices, marriage customs, burial practices, etc. to gain a more complete picture of the people and their belief systems.

1. The Nature of Anthropology
   1. Development of anthropology
   2. The uniqueness of anthropology
   3. Uses of anthropology as applied science.
   4. The “four fields”
   5. Methods of studying the human past; Ethnography
2. Human Evolution
   1. Evolutionary theory
   2. Evolutionary mechanisms; Human variation
   3. Primate evolution
3. Evolution of Homo and the Development of Culture
   1. The earliest hominids
   2. Early Homo and cultural origins
   3. Homo erectus and hunting-gathering
   4. Archaic Homo sapiens and the Middle Paleolithic
   5. Homo sapiens and the Later Paleolithic
   6. The Neolithic Revolution
   7. The Urban Revolution and the rise of the State
4. The Nature of Culture
   1. The cultural concept
   2. Characteristics of culture
   3. Functions of culture
   4. Personality and cultural
   5. Cultural change and survival
5. Cultural Variation
   1. Marriage and family
   2. Kinship and descent
   3. Gender
   4. Religion and the supernatural; The modern world system

ANTH 1100 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Objectives:

1. Acquire and institutionalize knowledge of non-Western, as well as Western cultures.
2. Identify, in a culturally relative way, behaviors that disagree with common Western/American means.
3. Understand that cultural norms differ from society to society.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to synthesize different approaches to the applications of ethnography, ethnology, and other anthropological techniques.

Objectives:

1. Read ethnographies written by anthropologists.
2. Actively engage in a participant observation assignment.
3. Summarize the alternative methods of study utilized in anthropology.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to interpret ethical issues in dealing with peoples of the past and present.

Objectives:

1. Examine the anthropological view of race as a cultural construct.
2. Describe the process by which biological traits are transferred throughout populations.
3. Define ethnocentrism and calculate its effect on global behaviors.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to give examples of the diversity in cultural systems.

Objectives:

1. Define culture, describing it in its broadest sense.
2. Illustrate the dynamics of difference in everyday relationships.
3. Differentiate between alternate forms of kinship, marriage, gender roles, and religions, in addition to other behaviors.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to apply critical thinking techniques to contemporary problems.

Objectives:

1. Analyze contemporary national critical issues of warfare, instability, and domination.
2. Interpret data and formulate an informed opinion through research, and report on an ethnological comparison of cultures.

What is cultural anthropology?
Anthropologist: Franz Boas

Week 2: What is Culture?

Anthropologist: E. B. Tylor & Ruth Benedict

Week 3: How do you study a culture? Ethnography

Ethical issues
Anthropologist: Alice Cunningham Fletcher, Robert Harry Lowie, Rosita Worl
Participant Observation project

Week 4: Is culture nature or nurture?

Understanding evolution & brain development
Anthropologist: Louis & Mary Leakey, Jane Goodall, Diane Fossey

Week 5: What is language? How do language and culture work together?

Anthropologist: Alfred Kroeber, Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Edward Sapir, Jean-Francois Champollion

Week 6: What do you eat and how do you get your food?

Modes of subsistence
Anthropologist: Audrey Richards & Marshall Sahlin
Food and culture project

Week 7: Does money make the world go around? Examination of gift exchange and valuation of products

Anthropologist: Bronislaw Malinowski

Week 8: Midterm

Week 9: How do we deal with conflict & power?

Anthropologist: Evans Pritchard, Sally Engle Merry, Laura Nader

Week 10: Do all cultures view race in the same way?

What is ethnicity?
Anthropologist: Hortense Powdermaker, Zora Neale Hurston

Week 11: Understanding who we are through gender and sex.

Anthropologist: Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman, Matilda Coxe Stephenson

Week 12: How are we organized?

Family and marriage systems
Anthropologist: Claude Levi-Strauss, Clifford Geertz
Kinship Chart project

Week 13: What do we believe?

Religion & spirituality
Anthropologist: Roy Rappaport, Michael Harner, Sir James Frazer

Week 14: What about art in culture?

How to ‘read’ objects
Anthropologist: Nancy Munn, John Collier Jr.
Reading object project

Week 15: Cultural change, globalization and globalization

Anthropologist: Eric Wolf, Gregory Bateson, Leith Mullings, Paul Farmer, Michelle Rosaldo

Week 16: Review & Final Exam

ANTH 1200 - Introduction to Physical Anthropology

Outcome:

1. Know the fossil evidence available for our hominid ancestors and what behaviors are shown through that evidence.
2. Understand the development of fossilized remains; how fossilization occurs, what conditions are necessary, what paleoanthropologists discover.
3. Analyze the inferred behaviors of early hominids and the rise of behaviors classified as human, such as cooking, tool making, hunting, burying the dead, caring for the sick and elderly, the rise of religion, the creation of art.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify the biological aspects of genetic diversity among populations of people.

Outcome:

1. Identify DNA, from Chromosome to Gene to Allele to Chemical Base Pairs and use the proper terminology to refer to the processes of meiosis and mitosis.
2. Describe and discuss the methods through which genetic material is transferred from individual to individual.
3. Describe and discuss the methods through which genetic material is transferred from population to population: Mutation, Natural Selection, Genetic Drift or Gene Flow.

OUTCOME 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to explain ethical issues arising from modern scientific advances as well as religion based belief systems.

Outcome:

1. Discuss why Evolution is a Creation Story and understand the cosmological basis for various ideas of where humankind came from.
2. Identify social problems arising from the current state of scientific knowledge - - the Human Genome Project conclusions, Stem Cell Ethics, the possible futures of evolution for humans.
3. Describe and discuss the current issues of primate study and testing. (Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and other primatologists)
4. Describe and discuss the social and biological issues facing primates in the wild.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will examine the anthropological belief that homo-sapiens is a member of the animal kingdom.

Outcome:

1. Recognize the characteristics of the various taxonomic categories that apply to homo-sapiens.
2. Identify the animal behaviors and physical characteristics that show similarities and differences from humankind.
3. Identify primate species and define the concept of common ancestor.
4. Analyze primate behaviors to attempt to define the separation (if so determined) between animal and human life.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to apply critical thinking skills to anthropological issues through the use of analytic reasoning techniques.

Outcome:

1. Analyze and evaluate scientific evidence from fossils, laboratories, and academia through written and verbal reports.
2. Interpret data and formulate informed opinions through research and report production comparing and contrasting taxonomic categories.
3. Identify and discuss the changing role of forensic anthropologist in today’s society.

1. Week One: What is Physical Anthropology? Why do we consider this a science?
2. Week Two: The Background for Evolution. Darwin and his predecessors.
3. Week Three: Evolutionary Genetics. How Traits are Inherited.
4. Week Four: The Processes of Evolution. Population Genetics.
   Mutation, Natural Selection, Gene Flow, Genetic Drift
5. Week Five: The Origin of Species and Catastrophic Extinctions
6. Week Six: Geologic Behaviors (Continental Drift). Chronology of Evolution.
7. Week Seven: The Primates. Physical Aspects
8. Week Eight: The Primates - Social Aspects
9. Week Nine: The Evidence for Human Evolution - Fossils, Molecular Clock,
   Creation Stories and Ethics
10. Week Ten: The Earliest Hominids. Bipedalism.
11. Week Eleven: The Rise of the Species “Homo”. Homo Habilis, Erectus, Neanderthal, Sapiens.
12. Week Twelve: Modern Human Adaptations. Population Variation. Disease.
13. Week Thirteen: Human Biological Diversity - Sex and Gender. Race.
14. Week Fourteen: Forensic Anthropology / Biological Archaeology
15. Week Fifteen: Modern Ethical Issues

ANTH 2220 - Introduction to Archaeology

Objectives: The student will:

1. Identify specific cultural materials from various cultures by style and type through video, photographic, and museum evidence.
2. Identify unique cultural characteristics of each society as well as the factors that led to their formation (i.e., mummification, immolation, architectural styles).
3. Analyze archaeological and material culture evidence from various sites through field study reports, worksheets, and photographic documentation to interpret cultural behaviors.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify and demonstrate knowledge of archaeological techniques and practices.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Identify archaeology as a sub-science of anthropology; identify the characteristics and areas of study within it.
2. Identify and discuss technical knowledge as to how to locate a site and set up a research project.
3. Identify and discuss various material evidence and the characteristics of each (Lithics, Fossils, Features, Ecofacts).
4. Utilize and identify methods of dating material finds from archaeological digs (i.e., stratigraphy, typology, Carbon 14, KA, etc.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to recognize anthropological and archaeological ethical issues arising from the study of past cultures.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Describe and discuss the ethical issues involved in artifact repatriation and NAGPRA.
2. Describe and discuss ethical issues involved in working with human remains.
3. Describe the potential issues facing anthropologists as they strive for cultural relativism (i.e., dealing with girl murder, female genital mutilation, differences in valuation of human life, etc.).

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to recognize alternative perspectives of previous human cultural behavior and how they compare and contrast with those of various living societies of today.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Describe and discuss the evolution of cultural practices as human society increased in complexity.
2. Identify environmental and societal reasons for behaviors no longer common in our society.
3. Compare and contrast those behaviors with those of societies at varying levels of complexity in more modern centuries.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to apply critical thinking skills to anthropology.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Analyze and evaluate archaeological information from various sites through written and verbal reports.
2. Interpret data and formulate an informed opinion through research and report production on a compare/contrast basis between various ancient cultures.

1. Orientation: Syllabus and course overview
   1. What is archaeology? Definition of archaeology and placement within the wider field of Anthropology
   2. Ancient Civilization: Neanderthal and Cro Magnon
2. How Do You Do It? Site location and setting up a dig
   1. Project: Setting up a dig
   2. Ancient Civilization: Catal Huyuk, Ur
3. What do you look for? The types of material culture and how to identify them
   1. Ancient Civilization: Egypt (mummification)
4. OK, now that you’ve found it, what are you going to do with it? Methods of dating
   1. Stratigraphy project
   2. Ancient Civilization: North and South American Rock Shelters
5. But what IS it? How do we place it in its context?
   1. Typologies
   2. Project: Burials of Bilj I
   3. Ancient Civilization: Minoan Crete
6. What was it used for? Object analysis. What does context tell us? What is “in situ”? Why is that important? How does ethnology and research help us?
   1. Project: Study of Mayan/Aztec/etc. Ball Courts
   2. Ancient Civilization: Mayan
7. Who the heck were these people? What can we know about them for sure? How does archaeological evidence help us know?
   1. Project: Comparisons of Rock Art
   2. Ancient Civilization: Indian - Harrapan
8. Midterm
   1. Architecture and Features - What can they tell us about lifeways?
   2. Ancient Civilization: Stonehenge and other henges
9. What did they do all day? Subsistence activities, domestication
   1. Project: Dentition and Anatomical Analysis
   2. Ancient Civilization: Native American Tribes - Southwest
10. What do they believe in? Religion. Who were the original shamans and priests?
    1. Project: Burials of Bilj II
    2. Ancient Civilization: Southeast Asia, Angkor Wat
11. Who did what? Archaeology and gender. What can we know about gender roles?
    1. Project: Participant Observation
    2. Ancient Civilization: The Moundbuilders
12. What do they think? Myths, Magic, Witchcraft, Creation Stories, Supernatural Explanations. What archaeology tells us.
    1. Project: Creation Stories
    2. Ancient Civilization: Aztec
13. What did they do all day II? Leisure activities through archaeological evidence
    1. Project: Egyptian game playing
    2. Ancient Civilization: Athenian Greece
14. What did they eat? How did they prepare it? Archaeological perspectives on cooking
    1. Project: Cook like a Roman!
    2. Ancient Civilization: Roman Pompeii
15. Who did they know? Trade and trade routes
    1. The diffusion of technology and traditions
    2. Ancient Civilization: China and Mongolia
16. Review and Final Exam

ANTH 2280 - Forensic Anthropology

Objectives:

1. Identify correlating fields of study in forensics.
2. Acquire interpretative techniques in dealing with human remains.
3. Perform the recovery, preparation, and analysis of human skeletal remains.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to use scientific language to describe skeletal osteology, bone biology, anatomy, and physiology of the human body.

Objectives:

1. Identify of all 206 bones of the human skeleton.
2. Identify age, sex, ancestry, and stature of human remains.
3. Identify of visible trauma on human remains.
4. Analyze manner of death.
5. Understand evidences of disease pathologies.
6. Recognize the process of positive identification, facial reconstruction, and the role of the expert witness.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to integrate the scientific knowledge and methodologies of forensic anthropology with regards to the medico-legal field.

Objectives:

1. Properly report and present human remains case information.
2. Examine the techniques and ethical sensitivities in the handling of human remains.

Outcome  4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to use analytical skills to create case reports for medico-legal investigations.

Objectives:

1. Identify the types of information required for closure of medico-legal investigations.
2. Complete a skeletal report.
3. Describe the goals and use of forensic anthropological information.

Week 2 - Techniques used in Forensic Anthropology

Week 3 - Mapping a Crime Scene; Skeletal Development and Growth.

Week 4 - Preparation of Human Remains.

Week 5 - The Cranium.

Week 6 - The Axial Skeleton

Week 7 - The Appendicular Skeleton

Week 8 - Case Studies

Week 9 - Midterm

Week 10 - Dentition. MNI and Relevance

Week 11 - Sexing Skeletal Material

Week 12 - Assessing Age for Skeletal Material

Week 13 - Assessing Ancestry and Stature.

Week 14 - Assessing Trauma and Providing Identification of Remains

Week 15 - The Expert Witness and Course Wrap-Up

ARAB 1260 - Introduction to Arabic Language & Culture

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Demonstrate approximate standard Arabic pronunciation (alphabet and phonology).
2. Initiate basic conversations with educated speakers of Arabic (fluency of speech).
3. Use basic vocabulary of Arabic (mastery of elementary lexical items).
4. Use basic grammar of Arabic (control of basic structures and forms).
5. Read and write simple sentences in Arabic.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to recognize and discuss aspects of Arabic culture.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Identify customs of Arabic people.
2. Compare cultural differences.

1. Introduction to the Arabic alphabet
   1. Handout of the alphabet with pronunciation
   2. Handwriting and drills
2. Handwriting and drills
   1. Review
   2. First quiz
3. Review
   1. Connect letters to form your words
   2. Group work and discussion “culture talks”
4. Handwriting and drills
   1. Culture lesson on “Meeting and greeting People” in the Arab world
5. Review
   1. New words used in daily life
   2. Connecting letters to form your words
6. Handwriting and drills
   1. How to address men and women in Arabic
   2. Group work and conversation
7. Review
   1. Handwriting and drills
   2. Culture lesson on “respect among Arabic speaking people”
   3. Group work and conversation
8. Review
   1. New words to learn and days of the week
   2. The seasons
9. Handwriting and drills
   1. Culture lesson on greeting males and females
   2. Verbs, nouns and adjectives
   3. Class work: write your own sentences
   4. Group work and conversation
10. Board work
    1. Handwriting and drills
    2. Writing numbers and names. Addressing envelops
    3. Culture lesson on “Family and coffeehouses”
11. Board work
    1. Drills
    2. Group work: translation, conversation and writing short sentences
    3. Handout on time and climate
12. Board work and group conversation
    1. Handwriting and drills
    2. Handout “In the city and at the Market”
    3. Write short sentences and translation
    4. Culture lesson on “Visiting and manners”
13. Board work and group conversation
    1. Handwriting and drills
    2. Handout on a list of adjectives, verbs and nouns
    3. Group work: make your own sentences
    4. Culture lesson on holidays and other occasions
14. Reading short passages
    1. Writing sentences and connecting letters
15. Review for the final
    1. Conversations and short sentences
16. Written and oral final exams

ARAB 1270 - Elementary Arabic 2

Objectives:

1. Pronounce individual sounds, including appropriate intonation and stress, with little or no interference in order to be understood by a Native Speaker.
2. Form and produce entire sentences with no hesitation and natural pauses.
3. Engage in conversations with a Native Speaker in the present, future, and past tense (includes both initiating conversations as well as responding appropriately to speech of a Native Speaker).

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the ability to use Arabic vocabulary beyond Introduction to Arabic Language & Culture.

Objectives:

1. Use vocabulary when speaking.
2. Respond to a Native Speaker who has used the vocabulary.
3. Use vocabulary in writing.
4. Demonstrate reading comprehension skills by discussing subject matter and/or answering questions based on the passage read.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the ability to use grammar structures beyond Introduction to Arabic Language & Culture 1 in speaking and writing.

Objectives:

1. Use pronouns, including possessive.
2. Form questions.
3. Use adverbs.
4. Use prepositions with pronouns.
5. Conjugate the superlative and future tenses.
6. Shape subject-verb agreement.
7. Conjugate and use the verb to wish.
8. Use the comparative.
9. Use feminine plural.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to recognize and discuss aspects of Arabic culture beyond Introduction to Arabic Language & Culture 1.

Objectives:

1. Recognize and discuss some geographical, economical and cultural aspects of some Arabic speaking countries and/or communities such as universities and schools, food, sports, Ramadan, and clothes.
2. Compare cultural differences.

1 pgs 1-19
Masculine and feminine
The definite article
The Nisba adjective
The question
Arabic names

2 pgs 21-35
Pronouns - Grammar
Reading and Culture

3 pgs 39-53
Possessive pronouns - Grammar
Reading about Arab universities

4 pgs 55-68
The present tense
More about questions
Reading and Culture

5 pgs 77-88
Grammar - adverbs
Non-adjective phrases
Reading - climate and the seasons
Culture - song for Fayrouz

6 pgs 89-102
Grammar
Reading and Culture
The Arabic foods

7 pgs 106-125
Culture and Grammar
Prepositions with pronouns
Reading - Arabic money

8 pgs 129-151
Grammar - the past tense - negation of past tense - roots and patterns
The Arabic dictionary
Numbers 11-100
Reading and Culture - soccer game

9 pgs 154-168
Grammar - non-human agreement
What time is it?
Reading - American TV programs

10 pgs 174-191
Grammar - object pronouns
Reading - King Fouad

11 pgs 195-216
Review verb chart
Reading - hotels in Cairo

12 pgs 217-240
Grammar - the superlative - the future
Future negation - subject-verb agreement
Reading - school in Egypt
Culture - song for Fayrouz

13 pgs 241-260
Grammar - verb to wish
Reading - apartment for rent

14 pgs 263-284
Reading - Kholid’s grandmother and job wanted

15 pgs 285-301
Grammar - verbs and pronouns
Reading - private window and Tounis

16 pgs 308-324
Grammar - the comparative
Case markings
Culture - Nizar Kobani the love poet
Reading - the letter

17 pgs 331-351
Grammar - the nouns
Culture - The Quoraan
Reading - Time of Study in Ramadan

18 pgs 352-368
Culture - Jamal Abud El Nasar and oum Kalthoom
Reading - The other half

19 pgs 375-392
Grammar - feminine plural
Culture - clothes
Reading - Najib Mahfouz

20 pgs 395-411
Grammar - reading dates - review
Reading - Malek speaks

ARAB 2360 - Intermediate Arabic 1

Objectives:

1. Pronounce individual sounds, including appropriate intonation and stress, with little or no interference in order to be understood by a Native Speaker.
2. Form and produce entire sentences with no hesitation and natural pauses.
3. Engage in conversations with a Native Speaker in the present, future, or past tense about the following topics (includes both initiating conversations as well as responding appropriately to speech of a Native Speaker).
   1. Tourism, past travels and planning a trip to the Arab world.
   2. Study abroad options for Arabic language students.
   3. The workplace and applying for a job.
   4. Dilemmas and problem-solving.
   5. Religious holidays in the Arab world and authentic celebrations.
   6. Differences and similarities within different Arabic countries.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the ability to use Arabic vocabulary beyond Elementary Arabic 2.

Objectives:

Regarding topics such as travel in the Arabic world, study abroad, job applications, directions, religious holidays and the diversity of the Arabic world:

1. Use vocabulary when speaking.
2. Respond to a Native Speaker who has used the vocabulary.
3. Use vocabulary in writing.
4. Demonstrate reading comprehension skills by discussing subject matter and/or answering questions based on the passage read.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the ability to use grammar structures beyond Elementary Arabic 2 in speaking and writing.

Objectives:

1. Conjugate the present, past and future tense using the system of prefixes, suffixes and verb patterns.
2. Use of the descriptive sentence.
3. Use of adjectives, nouns, and adverbs; make comparisons using comparatives and superlatives.
4. Understand the grammatical function and employ nouns ending in double open vowels.
5. Review personal, object and possessive pronouns.
6. Understand and employ the definite and indefinite construct phrase.
7. Use relative pronouns.
8. Use the impersonal construction.
9. Use different case marking of nouns.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to recognize and discuss aspects of Arabic culture beyond Elementary Arabic 2.

Objectives:

1. Recognize and discuss some geographical, economical and cultural aspects of some Arabic speaking countries and or communities such as city life, work, holidays and celebrations, higher education.
2. Compare cultural differences and underline similarities.

1. Travel and tourism in the Arab world
   1. Vocabulary of the textbook story and travel
   2. Verb conjugation and the system of prefixes and suffixes
   3. Personal, object and possessive pronouns
   4. The descriptive sentence (joumlat a-Sifa)
   5. Two new verb patterns
   6. Study of travel itineraries and maps
   7. Planning a trip to the Arab world
2. Exploring potential Arabic study abroad programs.
   1. Vocabulary of the textbook story and study travels
   2. The future verb and its negation
   3. Nouns ending in double open vowels (al-ism almanSoub)
   4. Verb-Subject agreement in a verb-sentence
   5. The Superlative
   6. Researching potential study abroad programs and comparing different programs and destinations.
3. Applying for admission in a study abroad program in the Arab world
   1. Vocabulary of the textbook story and letter writing
   2. The continuation of an action into the present
   3. Sentence Complements
   4. The past tense and its different forms of negations
   5. Review of all tenses and their negations: the Present, the Past and the Future
   6. Writing a letter of application to a study abroad program in the Arab world
4. Creating a resume and looking for a job
   1. Vocabulary of the textbook story and job search
   2. Roots, patterns and the usage of the Arabic dictionary
   3. The noun-sentence and description of places
   4. Expressing wishes and hopes
   5. The definite and indefinite construct phrase
   6. Creating a resume
5. Expressing dilemmas and giving advice
   1. Vocabulary of the textbook story
   2. Relative pronouns
   3. Review of all the different negations
   4. Conditionals
   5. The impersonal construction “It is….” As in “It is necessary to, it is difficult to, it is important to…”
   6. Expressing a detailed account of a problem and offering solutions and advice
6. Preparing and presenting an exposé on an Arabic country
   1. Vocabulary of the story and country presentations
   2. The comparative
   3. Two new verb patterns
   4. Part I : Case marking of nouns
   5. Exposé on an Arabic country
7. Muslim and Christian Arabic religious holidays
   1. Vocabulary of the story and celebrations of religious holidays in the Arab world
   2. Two new verb patterns
   3. Part II : Case marking of nouns
   4. Reading and study of fully vocalized Arabic religious texts.
   5. Review of the oral and written final exam

ARTT 1060 - Basic Drawing 1

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Learn the drawing terminology.
2. Keep a sketchbook/ journal of drawing terms and practice.
3. Identify the different drawing media

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create several fundamental charcoal drawings.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Discuss the benefits of using charcoal.
2. Discuss the limitations of using charcoal.
3. Create a significant charcoal drawing from observation.
4. Identify a charcoal drawing.

Outcome3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create a fundamental graphite drawing.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Discuss the benefits of using graphite.
2. Discuss the limitations of using graphite.
3. Create a significant graphite drawing from observation.
4. Identify a graphite drawing.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create a fundamental drawing using perspective techniques

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Create a drawing using 1 point perspective.
2. Create a drawing using 2 point perspective.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create a fundamental composition

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Create a drawing using formal composition techniques.
2. Create a drawing using informal composition techniques.
3. Explain how composition is used in fine art.

Outcome 6: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to understand the long history of drawing and its relevance in art history.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Identify the proper tools for drawing.
2. Identify significant artists who have used drawing.

Outcome 7: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the importance of properly presenting artwork.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Present drawings in a professional manner
2. Discuss the merit of drawings in front of the class.
3. Prepare drawings for portfolio review
4. Prepare drawings for exhibition

Outcome 8: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate safe work habits and use proper shop etiquette in a studio environment.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Use appropriate safety standards.
2. Use tools and materials properly.
3. Follow proper studio methodology.

Outcome 9: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the importance of working from direct observation.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Work directly from a still life in class
2. Set up a still life at home to work from
3. Identify techniques for drawing from direct observation
4. Identify basic proportional techniques for drawing from direct observation

Outcome 10: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify the different drawing papers and their use.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Create a drawing using charcoal paper
2. Create a drawing using drawing paper
3. Create a drawing using newsprint

ARTT 1070 - Basic Drawing 2

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Learn the drawing terminology.
2. Keep a sketchbook/ journal of drawing terms and practice.
3. Identify the different black and white drawing media
4. Identify the different color drawing media

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create several advanced charcoal drawings.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Discuss the benefits of using charcoal.
2. Discuss the limitations of using charcoal.
3. Create a significant charcoal drawing from observation.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create an advanced graphite drawing.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Discuss the benefits of using graphite.
2. Discuss the limitations of using graphite.
3. Create a significant graphite drawing from observation.
4. Identify a graphite drawing.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create an advanced drawing using 2 and 3 point perspective techniques

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Create a drawing using 2 and 3 point perspective.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to convey emotion by using drawing techniques.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Create a group of drawings that convey emotion based on the use of media.

Outcome 6: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to develop use of creativity.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Illustrate a story or poem to develop a concept.
2. Create a drawing based on their own concept.

Outcome 7: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the importance of properly presenting artwork.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Present drawings in a professional manner
2. Discuss the merit of drawings in front of the class.
3. Prepare drawings for portfolio review
4. Prepare drawings for exhibition
5. Matte and frame artwork

Outcome 8: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate safe work habits and use proper shop etiquette in a studio environment.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Use appropriate safety standards.
2. Use tools and materials properly.
3. Follow proper studio methodology.

Outcome 9: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the importance of working from their own imagination.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Work directly from a still life in class in abstract
2. Develop a drawing based on their own imagination
3. Identify basic proportional techniques for drawing imagination

ARTT 1360 - Color & Design 1

Objectives:

1. Design projects using the elements of line, shape and form
2. Incorporate hue, value, and intensity in their projects
3. Use texture and perspective in their projects

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to apply the basic principles of design art projects.

Objectives:

1. Recognize elements of design and organization in works of art, contemporary and traditional
2. Apply these principles by incorporating them into their projects

1. Sources of Design
   1. Nature
      1. Selected examples in films and slides, lectures and discussions.
      2. Design problems involving studies in:
         1. Natural design formation
         2. Simplifying nature
         3. Abstraction in natural sources
         4. Design project from above
   2. Man-made geometric and/or architectural forms
      1. Selected examples in films and slides, lectures and discussions
      2. Sources of man-made and/or non-objective design forms
      3. The man-made environment
      4. Design project involving above concepts
2. Studies in Visual Design
   1. Elements of art
      1. Line
         1. Shape
         2. Form
         3. Design project involving above concepts
      2. Color
         1. Hue
         2. Value
         3. Intensity
         4. Design project involving above concepts
   2. Texture and perspective as result of color and line
      1. Texture - selected examples in many materials
         1. Actual
         2. Implied
         3. Design problem
      2. Perspective (including volume)
         1. Actual
         2. Implied
         3. Design problem in volume
         4. Design problem in perspective
      3. Actual
      4. Implied
   3. Organization or composition
      1. Unity and variety, and design problem
      2. Harmony and contrast, and design problem
      3. Critique of designs
         1. Student
         2. Contemporary
         3. Traditional
   4. Audiovisual aids, field trips, and demonstrations as supplement to program

ARTT 1370 - Color & Design 2

1. List and reference various colorist theorists
2. Resolve problems dealing with color techniques and strategies
3. Apply color theory to their individual projects

Outcome 2 - Upon completion of this course, students will be able to exhibit technical control within various media

1. Utilize various design techniques to create advanced designs
2. Utilize various collage elements to formulate a susatined color collage strategy.

a. Relationship of two colors each altering the perception of a third

b. Slides of impressionists

c. Collect color papers, etc.

Week 3.

a. Relationship of two colors each made to look similar by placement next to two other subtly altered colors

b. Slides of impressionists

c. Collect color papers, etc.

Weeks 4. & 5.

a. Study and produce the effects of transparency in painted color/forms

b. Slides of cubism

c. Collect examples of transparency in art, advertising, etc.

Weeks 6. & 7.

a. Application of transparency to developed plate derived from a natural object or portrait

b. Slides of Avery, Bacon, expressionists

c. Self-portraits

Weeks 8. &  9.

a. Study of chroma changes; drawing the intensity out of previous plate - toward paleness, toward middle grey, toward dark

b. Expressionists

c. Self-portraits

Weeks 10., 11. & 12.

a. Project involving colored linear space with string, wire, straws, dowels

b. Modern sculpture Lachaise/Giacometti

c. Self-portraits

Week 13.

a. Project involving colored linear space with string, wire, straws, dowels

b. Brancusi, Moore, Bauhaus

Week 14.

a. Project involving color / form planar modular units

b. Constructivists

c. Visit Detroit Institute of Arts

Week 15.

a. Self-portrait in either 2-D or 3-D with color and form restrictions and encouragement to use original means of definition

b. Portrait in 20th century art

c. Local gallery exhibit

ARTT 1460 - Ceramics 1

Objectives: The student will complete:

1. A coil built ceramics piece.
2. A wet slab constructed ceramics piece.
3. A wheel thrown ceramics piece.
4. A reductive (carved) ceramic piece.

Outcome 2: Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate competence in clay body usage.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Make a clay body from raw materials.
2. Make a glaze from raw materials.
3. Demonstrate and utilize basic ceramics terminology.

Outcome 3: Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate competence in studio tools and equipment.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Use various hand tools for creating a ceramics piece.
2. Demonstrate various firing temperatures in clay body firings.
3. Load and unload ceramics kilns
4. Load and unload raku kilns
5. Demonstrate proper use of the ceramics wheel process.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate safe work habits and use proper studio etiquette in a studio environment.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Use appropriate safety standards.
2. Use tools properly.
3. Follow proper shop methodology.

1. Class introduction to ceramics studio and safety practices
2. Coil building
3. Clay bodies
4. Slab building
5. Slips and glazes
6. Wheel throwing
7. Kiln and firing
8. Reductive ceramics
9. Raku firing

ARTT 1470 - Ceramics 2

Objectives: Students will:

1. Use additive ceramics techniques for creation of an advanced ceramics form.
2. Use formative ceramics techniques for creation of an advanced ceramics form.
3. Use reductive ceramics techniques for creation of an advanced ceramics form.
4. Use a combination of ceramics techniques for creation of an advanced ceramics form.
5. Create a large ceramic piece.

Outcome 2: Upon the completion of this course, students will demonstrate competence in glaze compositions.

Objectives: Students will:

1. Mix and maintain class glaze recipes.
2. Document various glaze properties and results.

Outcome 3: Upon the completion of this course, students will demonstrate competence in the operation of electric and gas fired kilns.

Objectives: Students will:

1. Load a bisque kiln.
2. Load a glaze kiln.
3. Load a gas fired kiln.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate safe work habits and use proper shop etiquette in a studio environment.

Objectives: Students will:

1. Use appropriate safety standards.
2. Use tools properly.
3. Follow proper shop methodology.

1. Introduction to the ceramics studio and safety practice
2. Additive ceramics
3. Reductive ceramics
4. Mixing and maintaining glazes
5. Kiln methodology
6. Working in large scale

ARTT 1480 - Ceramics 3

Objectives: Students will complete:

1. Select varied media and use various techniques to execute conceptual ceramics pieces.
2. Use mixed media in creation of a significant ceramics piece.
3. Create a large free standing ceramics piece to be utilized in an architectural setting.

Outcome 2: Upon the completion of this course, students will demonstrate competence in glaze composition and firing.

Objectives: Students will:

1. Learn empirical formulas.
2. Load glaze kiln and tend firing.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate safe work habits and use proper shop etiquette in a studio environment.

Objectives: Students will:

1. Use appropriate safety standards.
2. Use tools properly.
3. Follow proper shop methodology.

1. Class introduction, ceramic studio orientation, safety agreement, in class assignment
2. Project #1 Create a mixed media ceramics piece
3. Project #2 Critical thinking paper
4. Project #3 Create a significant architectural scale ceramics piece
5. Project #4 Field trip to see professional ceramics studio
6. Project #5 Create a significant additive ceramics piece
7. Project #6 Create a significant ceramics piece
8. Project #7 Create a significant ceramics piece
9. Project #8 Kiln methodology
10. Project #9 Glaze methodology
11. Final critique, last day of class

ARTT 1620 - Fine Art Appreciation

Objectives: The student will:

1. Identify the components of two-dimensional art: drawing, painting, printmaking, photography & film.
2. Express the components of three dimensional art: sculpture, craft media, and architecture.
3. Identify the various periods and the language of architecture.
4. Identify the movements in Western art.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to apply fundamental art vocabulary:

Objectives: The student will:

1. Critically analyze visual art forms through writing.
2. Articulate the context of particular works of art.
3. Identify the various periods.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to identify the formal elements of design in art.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Recognize the organizing principles of design.
2. Analyze the elements of design in context.
3. Exercise critical evaluation of the elements.
4. Identify form and content.

1. Learning to See
   1. Understanding Art
   2. Visual Elements
   3. Organizing Principles
2. Two-Dimensional Media & Methods
   1. Drawing
   2. Painting
   3. Printmaking
   4. Photography & Film
3. Three-Dimensional Media & Methods
   1. Sculpture
   2. Craft Media
   3. Architecture
4. Art in Time
   1. Art Movements
   2. Western Art

ARTT 1625 - Fine Art Appreciation: Travel Abroad

Objectives: The student will:

1. Identify the components of two-dimensional art through authentic example: drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, and film.
2. Express the components of three-dimensional art through authentic example: sculpture, craft media, and architecture.
3. Identify the movements in Western art and where they exist in context.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to apply fundamental art vocabulary while observing actual artworks through a historical context:

Objectives: The student will:

1. Critically analyze visual art forms through writing.
2. Complete a visual journal of their observations obtained through travel.
3. Articulate the historical context of the artwork of a particular international location through presentation.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to identify the formal elements of design in art.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Recognize the elements of design through authentic examples.
2. Analyze the elements of design through authentic examples.
3. Exercise critical evaluation of the elements.
4. Identify form and content.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of the course, the student will show a greater global competency through the appreciation of art in its original context.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Articulate the importance of visual art in the world through travel.
2. Express the cultural significance of art in its location.
3. Grasp their position as a global citizen through international travel.

1. Introduction to the class
2. What to expect when travelling
3. Introduction to the Arts
4. How to appreciate art

Week 2: Abroad

1. Curriculum aligned with travel destinations

Week 3: Abroad

1. Curriculum aligned with travel destinations

Week 4: On Campus

1. Evaluation of trip
2. Presentations

ARTT 2060 - Life Drawing 1

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Identify a series of drawing terms within art historical images.
2. Create an awareness of how to express thoughts and emotions using the figure in 2 dimensional drawings.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of drawing concepts, materials and techniques.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Produce a figure or portrait study in charcoal.
2. Exhibit proper studio etiquette.
3. Understand the different materials of drawing throughout art history.
4. Apply modeling principals to visualized solid form.
5. Apply compositional concepts in figure drawing.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate a basic knowledge of proportion of the human form.

Objectives:

1. Understand basic knowledge of skeletal anatomy.
2. Understand basic knowledge of muscular anatomy.

1. Introduction to class, studio/ proper studio etiquette
2. Project #1 the figure in space
3. Project #2 skeletal anatomy
4. Project #3 muscular anatomy
5. Materials demonstration
6. Project #4 compositional concepts
7. Project #5 producing a portfolio
8. Critical thinking paper

ARTT 2070 - Life Drawing 2

Objectives: During the course the student will:

1. Apply advanced modeling principals to visualized solid form.
2. Express an advanced awareness of how to express thoughts and emotions using the figure in 2 dimensional drawings

Outcome 2: Upon the completion of the course, the student will demonstrate advanced ability to apply concepts and techniques to significant drawings.

Objectives: During the course the student will:

1. Produce advanced figure studies in charcoal.
2. Apply significant compositional concepts in figure drawing.
3. Produce advanced portrait studies in pastel.

Outcome 3: Upon the completion of the course, the student will demonstrate an advanced knowledge of skeletal and muscular anatomy.

Objectives: During the course the student will:

1. Identify the skeletal structure of the human form in drawing
2. Identify the muscular anatomy of the human form in a drawing

Outcome 4: Upon the completion of the course, the student will demonstrate the different materials and techniques of drawing throughout art history.

Objectives: During the course the student will:

1. Identify a series of terms and art historical images
2. Exhibit proper studio etiquette

1. Introduction to class, studio/ proper studio etiquette
2. Project #1 the figure in space
3. Project #2 skeletal anatomy
4. Project #3 muscular anatomy
5. Project #4 Portraiture.
6. Project #5 compositional concepts
7. Project #6 producing a portfolio
8. Critical thinking paper

ARTT 2160 - Basic Painting 1

Objectives:

1. Define and list basic painting volcabulary including identifciation of materials and tools.
2. Use a variety of painting materials and tools.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to apply basic principles of painting.

Objectives:

1. Demonstrate the use of various paiting pallettes (e.g. grisaille, glazing, and tint)
2. Demonstarte the use of various painting techniques (e.g. washes, flat tones, and gradations)    

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to appreciate the traditional richness and versatility of teh history of painting.

Objectives:

1. Develop skills based on awareness of the respresentation of such skills in historical works
2. Reference great artistic works in their own developmental projects

1. Introduction of materials and course outline
2. 2-3 weeks of basic painting principals and vocabulary in notebook form (paper painting)
3. 2-3 weeks in layering techniques (paper and board)
4. 2-4 weeks in limited palette processes (paper and board or panel)
5. 3-5 weeks in stretched canvas sustainment (one required)
6. 1-2 weeks of research from painters in history
7. 1 week in review for written exam

ARTT 2170 - Oil Painting - Painting 2

Objectives:

1. Learn about different types of supports (e.g. canvas, panels)
2. Treat different types of supports with a variety of preparational priming methods
3. Produce a final product that incorporates these strategies

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate an ability to paint color harmonies with compositional schemes and convert drawings into paintings.

Objectives:

1. Transcribe preliminary painting studies into a final sustained painting
2. Apply competently specific palettes (e.g. flesh use of compliments for tonal applications, shadow, etc.) in the students’ final products

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to explain ideas and criteria in various works of art.

Objectives:

1. Define ideas and criteria within historical references
2. Develop ideas in their creative abilities that parallel those within an historical reference.

1. Intro of materials and course outline.
2. 2 weeks in preparation of panels and stretched canvasses.
3. 3 - 4 week on intro assignments rotations (one from observation/one from photo source.
4. 3 - 4 week planning a composition for sustainment using preliminary studies.
5. 2 - 3 weeks converting a drawing to a painting.
6. 2 - 3 weeks practicing with figurative apalettes.
7. 2 - 3 weeks in reading and experimenting in paint from an artist of choice.

ARTT 2200 - Jewel & Metalwork

Objectives: During the course the student will:

1. Create original jewelry designs.
2. Create original metalwork designs.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will become familiar with critical evaluation of their work and the work of others.

Objectives: During the course the student will:

1. Participate in a group critique.
2. Evaluate and critique the merit of their work.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will demonstrate competence in the basic skills needed to construct and fabricate a piece of jewelry and/or metalwork.

Objectives: During the course the student will use the following techniques:

1. Cutting.
2. Piercing.
3. Soldering.
4. Annealing.
5. Casting.
6. Finishing.
7. Gas Welding.
8. Forging techniques.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will become familiar with and demonstrate competence in basic studio etiquette and safety practices.

Objectives: During the course the student will:

1. Follow proper studio etiquette.
2. Demonstrate hand tool safety practices.
3. Demonstrate safe equipment use.

1. Introduction to class, studio/ safety orientation
2. Project: Design
3. Project: Riveting and soldering
4. Tool demonstration
5. Forming and rolling
6. Project: Welding basics
7. Project: Finishing
8. Critical thinking paper
9. Project: Forging basic

ARTT 2210 - Jewel & Metalwork 2

Objectives: During the course the student will:

1. Create advanced original jewelry designs drawings.
2. Create advanced original metalwork designs drawings.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will become familiar with critical evaluation of their work and the work of others.

Objectives: During the course the student will:

1. Participate in a group critique.
2. Evaluate and critique the merit of their work.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will demonstrate knowledge of the advanced skills need to construct and fabricate a piece of jewelry and/or metalwork.

Objectives: During the course the student will use the following techniques:

1. Cutting
2. Piercing
3. Soldering using intermediate and advanced techniques
4. Annealing
5. Lost wax casting
6. Stone setting
7. Finishing
8. Welding

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will demonstrate competence in studio etiquette and safety practices.

Objectives: During the course the student will demonstrate:

1. Follow proper studio etiquette
2. Hand tool safety practices
3. Demonstrate safe equipment use

1. Continue class, studio/ safety orientation
2. Product Design
3. Riveting and soldering
4. Stone Setting
5. Tool usage
6. Repousse
7. Forming and rolling
8. Advanced Welding techniques
9. Forging

ARTT 2560 - Sculpture 1

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Discuss the limits of clay.
2. Produce a figure or portrait study in clay (sculpture).
3. Explain the kiln firing process.
4. Make a one- and/or two-piece plaster mold.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create a fundamental welded steel sculpture.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Identify welding equipment.
2. Produce a welded work (sculpture).

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create a fundamental constructed wood sculpture.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Identify different types of wood.
2. Identify tools used in wood sculpture.
3. Produce a constructed wood (sculpture).

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create a fundamental cast sculpture.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Make a wax positive.
2. Explain the lost wax process.
3. Explain the mold making process for casting in bronze.
4. Produce a bronze (sculpture).
5. Produce a variety of surfaces patinas.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create a fundamental carved stone sculpture.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Identify different types of stone for carving.
2. Identify the proper tools for stone carving.
3. Produce a stone carving (sculpture).

Outcome 6: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate fundamental knowledge of how to express thoughts and emotions in 3-dimensional form.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

1. Discuss the importance of finish and presentation to the total process of making sculpture.
2. Discuss the materials of sculpture throughout history.

Outcome 7: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate safe work habits and use proper shop etiquette in a studio environment.

Objectives: During the course, students will:

Use appropriate safety standards.
Use tools properly.
Follow proper shop methodology.

1. Introduction to class, studio/safety orientation
2. Project #1 Relief sculpture
3. Project #2 Three-dimensional fundamentals
4. Project #3 Wood constructed sculpture
5. Tool demonstration
6. Project #4 Figurative sculpture
7. Basic anatomy
8. Project #5 Welded steel sculpture
9. Project #6 Lost Wax casting
10. Critical thinking paper

ARTT 2570 - Sculpture 2

Objectives: The student will:

1. Discuss the limits of clay.
2. Produce a figure or portrait study in clay (sculpture).
3. Explain the kiln firing process.
4. Make a one- and/or two-piece plaster mold.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create an advanced welded steel sculpture.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Identify welding equipment.
2. Produce a welded work (sculpture).

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create an advanced constructed wood sculpture.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Identify different types of wood.
2. Identify tools used in wood sculpture.
3. Produce a constructed wood (sculpture).

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create an advanced cast sculpture.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Make a wax positive.
2. Explain the lost wax process.
3. Explain the mold making process for casting in bronze.
4. Produce a bronze (sculpture).
5. Produce a variety of surfaces patinas.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create an advanced carved stone sculpture.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Identify different types of stone for carving.
2. Identify the proper tools for stone carving.
3. Produce a stone carving (sculpture).

Outcome 6: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the materials of sculpture throughout history.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Identify art terminology.
2. Discuss art historical images.

Outcome 7: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate advanced knowledge of how to express thoughts and emotions in 3-dimensional form.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Discuss the importance of finish to the total process of making sculpture.
2. Discuss the importance of presentation to the total process of making sculpture.

Outcome 8: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate safe work habits and use proper shop etiquette in a studio environment.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Use appropriate safety standards.
2. Use tools properly.
3. Follow proper shop methodology.

1. Introduction to class, studio/safety orientation
2. Project #1 Flexible rubber mold and bronze casting
3. Project #2 Metal fabrication
4. Project #3 Wood constructed sculpture
5. Tool demonstration
6. Project #4 Figurative sculpture
7. Basic anatomy
8. Project #5 Working independently
9. Project #6 Producing a portfolio
10. Critical thinking paper

ARTT 2580 - Sculpture 3

Objectives: The student will:

1. Select varied media and use various techniques to execute conceptual sculptures
2. Create advanced sculptures using welding techniques.
3. Create advanced sculptures using the casting process.
4. Create advanced sculptures using the lost wax casting process.
5. Create a large free standing sculpture.

Outcomes 2: Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to prepare a proposal and portfolio for a sculpture exhibition.

Objectives: The student will

1. Document their sculpture using current standards.
2. Write an artist’s statement.
3. Write a proposal for a sculpture exhibition.

Outcomes 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate safe work habits and use proper shop etiquette in a studio environment.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Use appropriate safety standards.
2. Use tools properly.
3. Follow proper shop methodology.

1. Class introduction, sculpture studio orientation, safety agreement, in class assignment, model etiquette
2. Project #1 advanced welding
3. Project #2 critical thinking paper
4. Project #3 Bronze casting
5. Project #4 Lost wax bronze casting
6. Project #5 documentation of art work
7. Project #6 writing an artist statement
8. Project #7 writing a exhibition proposal
9. Project #8 Aluminum welded sculpture
10. Project #9 Cast Aluminum sculpture
11. Additional sculpture
12. Additional sculpture
13. Final critique, last day of class

ARTT 2600 - Figurative Sculpture 1

Objectives: The student will:

1. Identify basic skeletal anatomy and structure.
2. Identify basic muscular anatomy and structure.
3. Reduce the human form at an exact scale and proportion.
4. Select varied media and use various techniques to execute figurative sculptures.
5. In clay, create a seated human figure showing the basics of the human sculptural form.
6. In clay, create a muscular structure of the human form and translate that to a standing figurative sculpture.
7. Create a figurative sculpture using the lost wax casting process.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify the history of the human form in sculpture.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Describe the history of figurative sculpture.
2. Identify the significance of the history of figurative sculpture.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate safe work habits and use proper shop etiquette in a studio environment.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Use appropriate safety standards.
2. Use tools properly.
3. Follow proper shop methodology.

1. Class Introduction, Sculpture Studio Orientation, Safety Agreement, In-Class Assignment, Model Etiquette
2. Introduction to anatomy project #1, Demonstration, Work on #1
3. Start Seated Model #1
4. Work on #1
5. Work on #1
6. Work on #1
7. Work on #1
8. Work on #1, Paper Assigned
9. Introduction to #2 Standing Figure, Armature
10. Build Armature
11. Start Standing Figure #2
12. Work on #2
13. Work on #2
14. Work on #2
15. Work on #2
16. Work on #2, Mid-term Critique, Introduction to Reclining Figure #3
17. Work on #3
18. Work on #3
19. Work on #3
20. Work on #3
21. Work on #3
22. Introduction to Bust #4
23. Create Bust Armature, Work on Measurements
24. Work on #4
25. Work on #4
26. Work on #4
27. Work on #4
28. Work on #4
29. Introduction to Reproduction #5
30. Work on #5
31. Work on #5, Sketchbooks Due

ARTT 2602 - Figurative Sculpture 2

Objectives: The student will:

1. Select varied media and use various techniques to execute figurative sculptures.
2. In clay, create a seated human figure showing the basics of the human sculptural form.
3. In clay, create a muscular structure of the human form and translate that to a standing figurative sculpture.
4. Create a figurative sculpture using the lost wax casting process.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify the history of the human form in sculpture.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Describe the history of figurative sculpture.
2. Identify the significance of the history of figurative sculpture.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate safe work habits and use proper shop etiquette in a studio environment.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Use appropriate safety standards.
2. Use tools properly.
3. Follow proper shop methodology.

1. Class Introduction, Sculpture Studio Orientation, Safety Agreement, In-Class Assignment, Model Etiquette
2. Introduction to Anatomy Project #1, Demonstration, Work on #1
3. Start Seated Model #1
4. Work on #1
5. Work on #1
6. Work on #1
7. Work on #1
8. Work on #1, Paper Assigned
9. Introduction to #2, Standing Figure, Armature
10. Build Armature
11. Start Standing Figure #2
12. Work on #2
13. Work on #2
14. Work on #2
15. Work on #2, Mid-Term, Critique, Introduction to Reclining Figure #3
16. Work on #3, Introduce Lost Wax Casting
17. Work on #3
18. Work on #3
19. Work on #3
20. Introduction to Bust #4
21. Create Bust Armature, Work on Measurements
22. Work on #4, Work on Bronze Casting
23. Work on #4, Work on Bronze Casting
24. Work on #4, Work on Bronze Casting
25. Work on #4, Work on Bronze Casting
26. Work on #4
27. Introductions to Reproduction #5
28. Work on #5
29. Work on #5, Sketchbooks Due
30. Work on #5
31. Work on #5
32. Final Critique

ARTT 2650 - Art of the Western World: Prehistory to Gothic

Objectives: The student will:

1. Recognized stylistic characteristics of Western and Islamic art historical periods from Prehistory through Gothic
2. Define stylistic characteristics of Western and Islamic art historical periods from Prehistory through Gothic
3. Compare stylistic characteristics of Western and Islamic art historical periods from Prehistory through Gothic

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to apply the vocabulary of art history as it pertains to art from Western and Islamic periods from Prehistory through Gothic.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Define key terms used in art historical analysis for periods of Western and Islamic art from Prehistory through Gothic
2. Use key terms in an analysis of Western and Islamic art historical periods from Prehistory through Gothic

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify the formal elements of art.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Recognize the elements of form
2. Recognize the elements of compositional design
3. Analyze the relationship between form and content
4. Evaluate the relationship between form and content

1. Prehistory
2. Ancient Near East
3. Egyptian
4. Aegean
5. Early and Classical Greece

Unit 2

1. Hellenistic
2. Etruscan
3. Roman
4. Early Roman Christian
5. Byzantine

Unit 3

1. Early Medieval
2. Romanesque
3. Gothic
4. Late Gothic/Early Renaissance

ARTT 2660 - Art of the Western World: Renaissance To Modern

Objectives: The student will:

1. Recognize stylistic characteristics of Western art historical periods from the Renaissance through modern times
2. Define stylistic characteristics of Western art historical periods from the Renaissance through modern times
3. Compare stylistic characteristics of Western art historical periods from the Renaissance through modern times

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to apply the vocabulary of art history as it pertains to art from Western periods from the Renaissance through modern times.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Define key terms used in art historical analysis for periods of Western art historical periods from the Renaissance through modern times
2. Use key terms in an analysis of Western art historical periods from the Renaissance through modern times

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify the formal elements of art.

Objectives: The student will:

1. Recognize the elements of form
2. Recognize the elements of compositional design
3. Analyze the relationship between form and content
4. Evaluate the relationship between form and content

1. Renaissance Italy
2. Northern (Netherlands)
3. England
4. Germany
5. Venice

Unit 2

1. Baroque & Rococo
2. Neoclassical
3. Romantic & Realism

Unit 3

1. Post-Impressionism
2. Early 20th Century
3. Mid to Late 20th Century

ASTR 1030 - General Astronomy 1

Outcome 1: The student will analyze the nature of scientific laws, models, and theories.

Objectives:

1. Identify the physical laws, models, and theories that are applicable to astronomical objects and phenomena.
2. Describe physical laws, models, and theories that are applicable to astronomical objects and phenomena.
3. Analyze and apply the physical laws, models, and theories that are applicable to astronomical objects and phenomena.
4. Assess the testability of a hypothesis.
5. Develop appropriate astronomical hypotheses.
6. Analyze and interpret the success or failure of astronomical hypotheses.

Outcome 2: The student will use appropriate specialized scientific vocabulary.

Objectives:

1. Define astronomical terminology.
2. Recall astronomical terminology.
3. Employ astronomical terminology.

Outcome 3: The student will analyse the techniques used in observing and collecting data on astronomical objects and phenomena and how astronomical observations and data are analysed and interpreted.

Objectives:

1. Identify properties of electromagnetic radiation.
2. Compare astronomical techniques of data acquisition.
3. Interpret the observations and data acquired through various techniques.
4. Perform calculations relevant to the phenomena of temperature conversions, stellar parallax, and basic carbon dating.
5. Identify techniques used to study various astronomical objects and phenomena.
6. Describe methods astronomers use to analyze collected data.

Outcome 4: The student will identify the techniques for extending scientific laws and models from the laboratory setting to the observed universe.

Objectives:

1. Identify the scientific law or model to which the laboratory setting can be applied.
2. Identify the laboratory setting that applies to particular scientific law or model.

Outcome 5: The student will explain the earth’s place in the solar system, and the solar systems place within the universe.

Objectives:

1. Recall that the Earth is located in a spatial hierarchy consisting of the Solar System, the Milky Way Galaxy, the Local Group, and the Local Supercluster.
2. Describe the organization of the Solar System. .

Outcome 6: The student will interpret the sky.

Objectives:

1. Discern the color and magnitude differences between planets, the Sun, and the Moon.
2. Describe the motion of the planets.
3. Recognize that there are more objects in the solar system than can be viewed with the naked eye, and that there are objects that are viewable that are not within the solar system.
4. Recognize the importance of telescopes for data acquisition, and recall the primary functions of the various types of telescopes.

Outcome 7: The student will explain the historical perspective of the development of the scientific method and scientific laws.

Objectives:

1. Reconstruct the development of our understanding of the Earth’s place in the Universe from the historical beginnings to modern times.
2. Describe the evolution of the scientific method and scientific laws.
3. Describe the catalysts for the evolution of the scientific method and scientific laws.
4. Identify the principle investigators of astronomical concepts.
5. Describe the contributions of the principle investigators to the development of the scientific method and scientific laws.
6. Identify the primary differences between the pseudoscience astrology and the science of astronomy and the evolution of astrology to astronomy.

1. Historical Astronomy
   1. Prehistoric Astronomy
   2. Development of Calendars and other Early Discoveries
   3. Origin of the Constellations
   4. The Seasons
   5. Eclipses
   6. Astrology and the Origin of other Superstitions
   7. Egyptian Cosmology
   8. Early Greek Cosmologies
   9. The Ptolemaic System
   10. Islamic Astronomy
2. The Layout of the Solar System
   1. Problems with the Ptolemaic Model
   2. The Copernican Revolution
   3. Tycho Brahe
   4. Kepler’s Laws
   5. Galileo’s Observations
   6. Newton’s Synthesis
3. Light and Telescopes
   1. Nature of Light
   2. The Electromagnetic Spectrum
   3. The Origin of Light
   4. Emission Lines and Bands
   5. Absorption Lines and Bands
   6. Design of Optical Telescopes
   7. Photometry
   8. Image Processing
   9. Spectrophotometry
   10. Interferometry
   11. Telescopes in Space
4. Earth as a Planet
   1. Age of the Earth
   2. Internal Structure
   3. Earth’s Magnetic Field
   4. Earth’s Evolution and Outside Catastrophic Events
   5. Earth’s Atmosphere and Oceans
   6. The Magnetosphere
5. The Moon
   1. The Earth-Moon System
   2. Historical Observations of the Moon
   3. The Development of Space Exploration and Moon Exploration
   4. Surface Features of the Moon
   5. Lunar Rocks: Moon-Earth Comparison
   6. Interior of the Moon
   7. Evolution of the Moon
   8. Origin of the Moon
   9. Return to the Moon
6. Mercury
   1. Rotation and Revolution of Mercury
   2. Historical Observation from the Earth
   3. Spacecraft Observations
   4. The Surface of Mercury
   5. Internal Structure of Mercury
   6. Mercury’s Atmosphere
   7. Mercury’s Magnetic Field
   8. Mercury’s Evolutionary History
   9. Comparative Planetology of Mercury
7. Venus
   1. Slow Retrograde Rotation of Venus
   2. Historical Observations from the Earth
   3. Spacecraft Observations
   4. The Surface of Venus
   5. The Atmosphere of Venus
   6. The Internal Structure of Venus
   7. Comparative Planetology of Venus
8. Mars
   1. Historical Observations from the Earth
   2. Spacecraft Observations
   3. Surface Geology of Mars
   4. The Atmosphere of Mars
   5. Current and Ancient Climate
   6. Martian Internal Structure
   7. The Search for Life
   8. Martian Satellites: Phobos and Demos
   9. Comparative Planetology of Mars
9. Jupiter
   1. Rotation Rate
   2. Historical Observations from the Earth
   3. Spacecraft Observations
   4. The Atmosphere of Jupiter
   5. Internal Heating of Jupiter
   6. Internal Structure of Jupiter
   7. Jupiter’s Magnetosphere
   8. Jupiter’s Rings
   9. The Moons of Jupiter
   10. Comparative Planetology of Jupiter
10. Saturn
    1. Rotation Rate
    2. Historical Observations from the Earth
    3. Spacecraft Observations
    4. The Atmosphere of Saturn
    5. Internal Heating of Saturn
    6. Internal Structure of Saturn
    7. Saturn’s Magnetosphere
    8. Saturn’s Rings
    9. The Moons of Saturn
    10. Comparative Planetology of Saturn
11. Uranus, Neptune, and the Dwarf Planets
    1. Discovery of these Planets
    2. Spacecraft Observations
    3. Physical Nature of Uranus and Neptune
    4. Interiors of Uranus and Neptune
    5. Atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune
    6. Rings of Uranus and Neptune
    7. Magnetosphere of Uranus and Neptune
    8. Comparative Planetology of Uranus and Neptune
    9. The Satellite Systems of Uranus and Neptune
    10. Pluto and the other Dwarf planets and their moons
12. Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids
    1. Origin of Asteroids
    2. Nature of Asteroids
    3. Origin of Meteoroids
    4. Distinction Between Meteoroids, Meteors, and Meteorites
    5. Historical Concepts of Comets
    6. Origin of Comets
    7. Nature of Comets

ASTR 1040 - General Astronomy 2

Objectives:

1. Identify the physical laws, models, and theories that are applicable to astronomical objects and phenomena.
2. Describe physical laws, models, and theories that are applicable to astronomical objects and phenomena.
3. Analyze and apply the physical laws, models, and theories that are applicable to astronomical objects and phenomena.
4. Assess (or Evaluate) the testability of a hypothesis.
5. Develop appropriate astronomical hypotheses.
6. Analyze and interpret the success or failure of astronomical hypotheses.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to use specialized scientific vocabulary.

Objectives:

1. Define astronomical terminology.
2. Recall astronomical terminology.
3. Employ astronomical terminology.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to analyze the techniques used in observing and collecting data on astronomical objects and phenomena, and how astronomical observations and data are analyzed and interpreted.

Objectives:

1. Identify properties of electromagnetic radiation.
2. Compare astronomical techniques of data acquisition.
3. Interpret the observations and data acquired through various techniques.
4. Perform calculations relevant to the phenomena of Wien’s Law, the Inverse Square Law, temperature conversions, and stellar magnitudes.
5. Identify techniques used to study various astronomical objects and phenomena.
6. Describe methods astronomers use to analyze collected data.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify the techniques for extending scientific laws and models from the laboratory setting to the observed universe.

Objectives:

1. Identify the scientific law or model to which the laboratory setting can be applied.
2. Identify the laboratory setting that applies to particular scientific law or model.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to explain the Earth’s place in the universe.

Objectives:

1. Recall that the Earth is located in a spatial hierarchy consisting of the Solar System, the Milky Way Galaxy, the Local Group, and the Local Super cluster.
2. Describe the Solar System, the Milky Way Galaxy, the Local Group, and the Local Super cluster.

Outcome 6: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to iInterpret the sky.

Objective:

1. Discern the color differences between stars.
2. Describe the diurnal motion of the stars.
3. Recognize that there are more stars in the sky than are viewable with the naked eye.
4. Locate Polaris, the North Star.

Outcome 7: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to explain the historical perspective of the development of the scientific method and scientific laws.

Objectives:

1. Reconstruct the development of the Stellar Magnitude System, Hubble’s Law, the Big Bang Theory, Stellar Evolution, and our understanding of the Earth’s place in the Universe from the historical beginnings to modern times.
2. Describe the evolution of the scientific method and scientific laws.
3. Describe the catalysts for the evolution of the scientific method and scientific laws.
4. Identify the principle investigators of astronomical concepts.
5. Describe the contributions of the principle investigators to the development of the scientific method and scientific laws.

1. Light
   1. The Nature of Light
   2. The Electromagnetic Spectrum
   3. The Origin of Light
   4. Emissions Lines and Bands
   5. Absorption Lines and Band
   6. Design of Optical Telescopes
   7. Photometry
   8. Spectrophotometry
   9. Interferometry
2. The Sun
   1. Composition of the Sun
   2. Interior Structure
   3. The Photosphere
   4. The Chromosphere
   5. The Corona
   6. The Magnetic Field
   7. The Solar Wind
   8. Sunspots and Related Activity
   9. The Solar Constant
   10. Terrestrial Effects
   11. The Sun and the Theory of Relativity
3. Measuring the Basic properties of Stars
   1. Distance
   2. Apparent Brightness and the Magnitude System
   3. Luminosity and Absolute Magnitude
   4. Effective Temperature and Wien’s Law
   5. Diameter and Stephan-Boltzmann’s Law
   6. Mass and Kepler’s Laws
   7. Composition and Stellar Spectra
4. Classifying Stellar Types
   1. The Hertzsprung-Russel Diagram
   2. Main Sequence Stars
   3. White Dwarfs
   4. Giants and Supergiants
5. Early Stellar Evolution
   1. Molecular Clouds
   2. Bok Globules and the Protostar Stage
   3. Pre-Main Sequence Stars
   4. Cocoon Nebulae and Infrared Stars
   5. Brown Dwarfs
   6. T Tauri Stars
6. Middle Aged Stars
   1. Main Sequence Stage
   2. The Proton-Proton Chain
   3. Larger Stars and the Carbon Cycle
   4. Main-Sequence Lifetimes
7. Stellar Death and Transfiguration
   1. Red Giant Stars
   2. The Triple-Alpha Process
   3. Helium Flash
   4. Variable Stars
   5. Cepheid Variables
   6. Planetary Nebulae
   7. White Dwarfs
   8. The Chandrasekhar Limit
   9. Supernovae
   10. Type I and Type II Supernovae
   11. Neutron Stars and Pulsars
   12. Black Holes
   13. The Theory of Relativity and Detecting Black Holes
8. Interstellar Environments
   1. Interaction of Light with Atoms
   2. Interaction of Light with Molecules
   3. Interaction of Light with Dust Grains
   4. Rayleigh Scattering
   5. Interstellar Reddening
   6. Molecular Clouds
   7. HI Regions
   8. HII Regions
   9. Bubbles and Superbubbles
9. Multiple Star Systems
   1. Optical Doubles and Physical Binaries
   2. Visual Binaries
   3. Spectroscopic Binaries
   4. Eclipsing Binaries
   5. Astrometric Binaries
   6. Mass Transfer in Binary Star Systems
   7. Novae and Supernovae
   8. Origin of Binary Star Systems
   9. Planetary Systems
10. Star Clusters and Associations
    1. Open Star Clusters
    2. Associations
    3. Globular Star Clusters
    4. Distances to Clusters
    5. Cepheid Variables as Distance Indicators
11. The Milky Way Galaxy
    1. Size
    2. Stellar Surveys and the Galactic Shape
    3. Rotation
    4. Age
    5. Population I Stars
    6. Population II Stars
    7. The Nucleus
    8. Spiral Arms
12. Galaxies
    1. Measuring Distances to the Galaxies
    2. The Magellanic Clouds
    3. The Local Galaxies
    4. Dwarf Galaxies
    5. Elliptical Galaxies
    6. Spiral Galaxies
    7. Irregular Galaxies
    8. Peculiar Galaxies
    9. The Hubble Classification
13. The Expanding Universe
    1. The Red Shift of Galaxies
    2. Hubble’s Law
    3. The Static Universe
    4. The Expanding Universe
    5. The Big Bang
    6. Clusters of Galaxies
    7. Dark Matter
    8. Quasars
    9. The Age of the Universe
    10. Alternative Cosmologies
    11. The Search for Intelligent Life

ATAM 1150 - Mathematics - Shop Arithmetic

Objectives:

1. Using whole numbers, prime numbers, proper and improper fractions, solve problems with 80% accuracy.
2. Using the correct method of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, solve problems with 80% accuracy.
3. Using the correct method of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of decimal fractions, solve problems with 80% accuracy.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to describe applications of the arithmetic processes using numbers.

Objectives:

1. Using the correct method of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of signed numbers, solve problems with 80% accuracy.
2. Using the correct method of calculating percentages, solve problems with 80% accuracy.
3. Using the correct method of stating direct and indirect ratios, solve problems with 80% percent accuracy.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to describe applications of arithmetic processes with ratio and proportion.

Objectives:

1. Using the correct method of establishing ratio and proportion, complex ratio and proportion, solve problems for unknown quantities with 80% accuracy.
2. Using the correct method of establishing ratio and proportion, solve problems for mechanical tapers with 80% accuracy.
3. Using the correct method of establishing ratio and proportion, solve problems for simple gear ratios with 80% accuracy.

1. Review whole numbers; Prime Numbers; Fractions (proper/improper)
2. Fractions - Multiplication and Division
3. Fractions - Addition and Subtraction
4. Decimals - Addition and Subtraction
5. Decimals - Multiplication and Division of Decimal Fractions
6. Signed Numbers - Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division
7. Signed Numbers - Continued
8. Percent
9. Ratio and Proportion
10. Tapers
11. Simple Gear Ratios

ATAM 1160 - Mathematics - Algebra

Objectives:

1. Using signed numbers, exponents and square roots in algebraic expression, solve problems with 80% accuracy.
2. Using the proper order of operations for adding and subtracting algebraic expressions, solve problems with 80% accuracy.
3. Using the proper order of operations, solve simple algebraic expressions with 80% accuracy.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to describe applications in solving algebraic equations.

Objectives:

1. Using the proper order of operations, solve algebraic equations involving two operations with 80% accuracy.
2. Using the proper order of operations, solve for algebraic equation factoring and changing priorities with 80% accuracy.
3. Using the proper order of operations for solve industrial formulas with 80% accuracy.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to describe applications in solving algebraic expressions.

Objectives:

1. Using algebraic operations, solve industrial word problems with 80% accuracy.
2. Using the proper order of operations in algebra, solve problems with multiplication and division of positive and negative numbers and exponents.
3. Using the proper order of operations in algebra, solve problems with scientific notation, unit conversion and system equations.

1. Signed Numbers - Exponents and Square Roots
2. Algebraic Language; Order of Operations
3. Adding and Subtracting Algebraic Expressions; Like Terms
4. Solving Simple Equations
5. Equations Involving Two Operations
6. More Equations; Removing Parentheses; Factoring
7. Solving Formulas
8. Solving Word Problems
9. Multiplying and Dividing Algebraic Expressions; Positive and Negative Exponents
10. Multiplying Similar Binomials by Inspection
11. Scientific Notation; Conversions with Decimal; Multiplying and Dividing
12. Unit Conversions
13. Systems of Equations; Solution by Substitution; Dependent and Inconsistent Systems

ATAM 1170 - Mathematics - Geometry

Objectives:

1. Define the axioms and definitions in geometry for geometric angle measurement with 80% accuracy.
2. Using the propositions of geometry angular theorems, solve angular geometry problems with 80% accuracy.
3. Using the propositions of geometry of interior angles and triangles, solve geometry problems with 80% accuracy.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to describe applications in applying geometry propositions for problem solution.

Objectives:

1. Using the specific proposition of geometry, solve problems using the Pythagorean theorem with 80% accuracy.
2. Using the related propositions of geometry, solve problems using the projection formula with 80% accuracy.
3. Using the related propositions of circular geometry, solve circular problems with 80% accuracy.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to describe applications in applying geometry to solve mechanical problems.

Objectives:

1. Using the related propositions of geometry, solve mechanical problems with inscribed circles in triangles with 80% accuracy.
2. Using the related propositions of geometry, solve mechanical problems with tangents and intersecting chords with 80% accuracy.
3. Using the related propositions of geometry, solve mechanical problems with areas and volumes with 80% accuracy.

1. Introduction to Geometry, Axioms, Definitions, Points, Lines, Angles, Plane Figures
2. Propositions 1-10: Opposite and Vertical Angles, Congruency, Parallel and Perpendicular Lines and Sum of the Interior Angles of a Triangle = 180°
3. Propositions 11-15: Sum of Interior Angles = (N-2) x 180. Interior Angles = Sum of Opposite Interior Angles, Angles Equal if Sides Parallel Right to Right and Left to Left
4. Propositions 16-30: Angles Equal - Sides Perp rt/rt/lt/lt Isosceles Triangles, Congruent rt, Triangles, Sets of Parallel Lines Cut by Transversal and Similar Triangles
5. Proposition 31: Pythagorean Principles
6. Proposition 32: Projection Formulas
7. Propositions 33-37: Definitions #35-50 on Circles, Chords, Arcs, Diameter, Radius, Tangents, Secants, Central Angles, Inscribed Angles, and Polygons
8. Propositions 38-40: Inscribed Circles in Right Triangles and Inscribed Angle of Measure
9. Propositions 41-46: Square Inscribed in a Circle, Regular Hexagon Inscribed in a Circle, Circles, Tangents, External and Internal and Intersecting Chords
10. Area and Volume Formulas of Planes and Solid Figures

ATAM 1350 - Mathematics - Arithmetic & Introductory Algebra for Electrical & Allied Crafts

Objectives:

1. The learner will use a calculator to solve problems.
2. The learner will apply units and dimensions.
3. The learner will add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers, fractions and decimals - both longhand and with a calculator.
4. The learner will use powers of ten and scientific notation on the calculator.
5. The learner will transform and solve equations.
6. The learner will convert units and solve associated problems.

1. Introduction to Course, Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, Fractions and Decimals
2. Percentage, Powers, and Roots
3. Algebraic Addition, Signs of Grouping
4. Algebraic Multiplication
5. Algebraic Multiplication and Division
6. Equations
7. Ratio and Proportions
8. Powers of Ten, Scientific Notation
9. Units and Dimensions
10. Special Products and Factoring

ATAM 1360 - Mathematics - Electrical Circuitry - Algebra & Trigonometry

Objectives:

1. Utilize a calculator to solve math problems.
2. List the steps involved in solving an equation.
3. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers, fractions, and decimals, both longhand and with a calculator.
4. Use powers of ten and scientific notation on the calculator.
5. Transform and solve equations.
6. Convert units and solve associated problems.

1. Ohm’s Law, Series Circuits
2. Series Circuits
3. Algebraic Fractions: Addition and Subtraction
4. Algebraic Fractions: Multiplication and Division; Complex Fractions
5. Fractional Equations
6. Literal Equations, Fractional
7. Parallel Circuits
8. Series - Parallel Circuits
9. Simultaneous Equations Addition, Subtraction, Substitution and Comparison
10. Network Simplification
11. Angles
12. Trigonometry Functions
13. Right Triangles

ATAM 2150 - Mathematics - Trigonometry

Objectives:

1. Using the sine ratio, solve simple right triangle problems with 80% accuracy.
2. Using the cosine ratio, solve simple right triangle problems with 80% accuracy.
3. Using the tangent ratio, solve simple right triangle problems with 80% accuracy.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to describe the trigonometric ratios for mechanical problem applications.

Objectives:

1. Using applied mechanical geometric problems with the three trigonometric ratios, solve for unknown angles of right triangles with 80% accuracy.
2. Using applied mechanical geometric problems with the three trigonometric ratios, solve for unknown lengths of sides of right triangles with 80% accuracy.
3. Using applied mechanical geometric problems with the three trigonometric ratios, solve for lengths, widths and thickness of components with 80% accuracy.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to define component geometry applications using the three trigonometric ratios.

Objectives:

1. Using applied mechanical geometric problems with the three trigonometric ratios, solve for distances between features of size with 80% accuracy.
2. Using applied mechanical geometric problems with the three trigonometric ratios, solve for angles in circular geometry with 80% accuracy.
3. Using applied mechanical geometric problems with the three trigonometric ratios, solve for distances between features with 80% accuracy.

1. Introduction and Orientation to the course. Define 3 trigonometry ratios; review of problem set-up format. Finding unknown sides of right triangles.
2. Finding unknown sides of right triangles.
3. Finding the angle when two sides of a right tangle are known. Use set-up format.
4. Solution of practical right triangle problems. Use set-up format.

ATAM 2350 - Mathematics - A.C. Circuitry - Trigonometry & Vectors

Objectives:

1. Utilize a calculator to solve polar and rectangular vectors.
2. Utilize a calculator to solve right triangle problems.
3. Calculate trigonometry and vector problems for AC circuitry.
4. Solve triangular problems using the laws of sines and cosines.
5. Use vector addition and subtraction to solve electrical problems.
6. Solve angular velocity frequency problems.

1. Pre-Test 2. Post-Test1. Law of Sines
2. Law of Cosines
3. A.C. Fundamentals
4. Phasor Algebra
5. A.C. Series Circuits
6. A.C. Parallel Circuits
7. Equivalent Wye and Delta Circuits

ATAP 1030 - Feeds, Speeds, & Advanced Tools

Objectives:

1. Utilize rake geometry (positive and negative) for proper cutting methods.
2. Know which tools to select for rough and finish machining operations.
3. Know the proper use and difference between climb and conventional milling.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will know how to select proper tools and cutting grades for CNC high speed machining.

Objectives:

1. Select proper carbide grades.
2. Know how to use indexable and solid cutting tools.
3. Select tools based on workpiece materials types.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be know how to calculate federate, spindle speed, horsepower, and torque calculations for CNC high speed machining.

Objectives:

1. Calculate surface feet per minute.
2. Calculate spindle speed calculations.
3. Calculate federate calculations.
4. Calculate radial chip thinning.
5. Calculate horsepower calculations.
6. Calculate torque calculations.
7. Calculate chip load.

1. Tool Geometry
2. Components of High Speed Machining
3. Feed, Speed, Torque Calculations
4. Tool Material Selection
5. Advanced Mill Tool Geometry
6. Advanced Turning Tool Geometry

ATAP 1050 - CNC Essentials

Objectives:

1. Turn on a PC and navigate Windows.
2. Perform basic file management functions, such as create, rename, and move filenames and folders, move and copy files from drive to drive, including use of external drives, such as memory sticks.
3. Email files to the instructor and open emails from the instructor.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course the student will be able to identify the fundamentals of Computer Numeric Control.

Objectives:

1. The student will apply CNC mills, lathes, Electrical Discharge Machines, lasers, and waterjet machines in industry with 80% accuracy.
2. Given a part print, the student will map coordinates onto the Cartesian coordinate system with 80% accuracy.
3. Given previously developed CNC programs, the student will read and interpret CNC mill, lathe, and RAM EDM programs with 80% accuracy.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course the student will be able to apply the proper cutting tool technology to CNC applications.

Objectives:

1. Given a manufacturing application, the student will identify basic and advanced cutting tools used in CNC applications with 80% accuracy.
2. Given a cart of CNC tool holders, the student will identify basic tool holders used in CNC mill and lathe applications.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course the student will be able to operate all CNC controls in the lab, including mill and lathe.

Objecives:

1. Given a variety of CNC mills, lathes, and A. Given a variety of CNC mills, lathes, and EDM machines, the student will power up and power down each machine with 80% accuracy.
2. Given a variety of CNC mills, lathes, and EDM machines, the student will upload and download files to and from CNC controls using a floppy, memory stick and RS232 connections with 80% accuracy.
3. Given a variety of CNC mills, lathes, and EDM machines, the student will simulate programs with 80% accuracy.
4. Given a variety of CNC mills, lathes, and EDM machines, the student will load and unload tools into the magazine pouches and turrets.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course the student will be able to measure parts using precision measuring equipment.

Objectives:

1. Given an inch and metric micrometer, the student will measure with 80% accuracy.
2. Given a dial caliper, the student will measure with 80% accuracy.
3. Given a Faro Gage or equivalent, the student will measure and record part dimensions with 80% accuracy.
4. Given a Faro Gage, the student will inspect parts with 80% accuracy.

1. Computer functions
   1. Power on and navigate PC Windows
   2. File management
   3. Upload to and from CNC control panels
   4. Email
2. Computer Numeric Control applications
   1. Overview of CNC mills, lathes, Electrical Discharge Machines, lasers, and waterjet machines
   2. Cartesian coordinate system
   3. Introduction to CNC programming
3. Advanced cutting tool technology
   1. Identification of cutting tools
   2. CNC mill, lathe, and EDM tool holders
4. CNC operation
   1. CNC Mill, Lathe, RAM, Wire, and Fast Hole
   2. Upload and download files
   3. Simulate programs
   4. Load and unload tools
5. Basic measuring tools
   1. Inch and metric micrometers
   2. Dial calipers

ATAP 2010 - Drafting - 2D CAD with MasterCAM

Objectives:

1. Zoom, pan, and rotate.
2. Manipulate pulldown menus and icons.
3. Import and Export various file types.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to construct two-dimensional geometry from prints and theories of geometry.

Objectives:

1. Create points, lines, arcs, and splines.
2. Create tangent curves.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to organize geometry.

Objectives:

1. Move geometry to levels.
2. Modify entity attributes (color, line weight, and line style).

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to modify geometry.

Objectives:

1. Trim geometry.
2. Break geometry.
3. Delete entities.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to transform geometry.

Objectives:

1. Move and copy entities.
2. Rotate entities

1. CAD Interface and Basic Layout
2. Visualization, Zoom, Pan, and Rotate Shaded Models
3. 2D Design Concepts
4. Edit Geometry
5. Basic Drawing Layout using the Drafting Module

ATAP 2020 - Art-To-Part - Digital Art to 3D CNC Machining

Objectives:

1. Zoom, pan, rotate, and shade.
2. Manipulate the pulldown menus and icons.
3. Organize CAD entities by layers.
4. Import and export various file types.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to convert artwork into digital format.

Objectives:

1. Understand digital formats.
2. Scan hardcopy drawings and photos into digital format.
3. Download picture files from internet.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create clean vector data for machining and relief creation.

Objectives:

1. Create lines, arcs, splines, and polygonal shapes.
2. Edit and manipulate vectors.
3. Convert pixel data to vectors.
4. Create text data.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create and modify relief (tessellated surfaces) from vectors.

Objectives:

1. Utilize the shape editor to extrude vectors.
2. Create surfaces using sweep command.
3. Smooth surfaces using texturing tools
4. Offset surfaces to create molds.
5. Add special textures to surfaces.
6. Wrap surfaces onto geometric shapes.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to program toolpaths for CNC machining.

Objectives:

1. Create 2D profiles and pocket operations.
2. Create rough and finish surface machining operations.
3. Post process toolpath data to CNC machines.

1. CAD Interface and Basic Layout
2. Visualization, Zoom, Pan, and Rotate shaded models
3. Design Concepts
4. Convert general 2D digital pictures to 3D CAD data
5. Convert digital photos of human faces into 3D CAD data
6. Create and edit surface data
7. Create and edit text (fonts)
8. “Wrap” two dimensional data around a cylindrical surface
9. Basic Drawing layout using the Drafting Module
10. CAM Interface and Basic Layout
11. Basic CNC 3D Toolpath Creation, including rough and finish surface machining
12. Toolpath Simulation and Verification
13. Toolpath Post Processing
14. 14. CNC Machining in the lab

ATAP 2030 - 2D MasterCAM - Mill Programming & Machining

Objectives:

1. Zoom, pan, rotate, and shade.
2. Manipulate the pulldown menus and icons.
3. Organize CAD entities by layers.
4. Import and export various file types.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create two dimensional toolpath operations.

Objectives:

1. Define drilling operations.
2. Define profiling operations.
3. Define pocketing operations.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to edit toolpath operations.

Objectives:

1. Modify cutting parameters.
2. Modify geometric chains.
3. Modify tool conditions.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to post-process toolpath operations to CNC machines.

Objectives:

1. Setup post-processing conditions.
2. Check post processed file for accuracy.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to simulate toolpath operations for final verification.

Objectives:

1. Backplot toolpath operations.
2. Compare toolpath operations to CAD model.

1. CAD Interface and Basic Layout
2. Visualization, Zoom, Pan, and Rotate shaded models
3. Design Concepts
4. Basic Drawing layout using the Drafting Module
5. CAM Interface and Basic Layout
6. Basic CNC 2D Toolpath Creation, including profile, drill, and pocket
7. Toolpath Simulation and Verification
8. Toolpath Post Processing
9. CNC Machining in the lab

ATAP 2310 - CNC Mill G & M Programming & CNC Machining

Objectives:

1. Program drilling operations.
2. Program rough and finish profile operations.
3. Utilize absolute and incremental style programming.
4. Program subroutines and subprograms.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to program tool offsets.

Objectives:

1. Define tool length offsets.
2. Define cutter diameter compensation.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to verify toolpath programs prior to machining.

Objectives:

1. Simulate programs on the machine controller.
2. Simulate programs using stand-alone simulators.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to operate CNC milling machine tools.

Objectives:

1. Upload CNC programs.
2. Setup tool length and cutter diameter compensation offsets.
3. Setup fixture offsets.
4. Run programs.
5. Edit, debug, and rerun programs.

1. CNC Mill Control Units
   1. Discuss the following topics
      1. Memory Management
      2. Program Management
2. Applied Operation of the following topics:
   1. Editing
   2. Program Saving
   3. Program Deletion
   4. Program Run
   5. Tool Offsetting
   6. Uploading Procedures
   7. Downloading Procedures
3. CNC Mill Programming
   1. The Cartesian coordinate system
      1. As used to relate the Machine to the Part
      2. As used to relate the Cutting Tool to the Part generated by the program
   2. Manual Programming
      1. M & G Code Formats using ISO Programming
      2. Incremental Positioning
      3. Absolute Positioning
      4. Specific Control Formats
      5. Cutting Tool Compensation
   3. Advance Techniques
      1. Sub-programs
      2. Coordinate system rotation
      3. Mirroring
      4. Datum offsets
      5. Multiple Part Programming
      6. Incremental repeat programming
4. CNC Mill Operation
   1. Mill Start up and Grid Procedures
   2. Program Run Procedures
   3. Basic Mill Set-Up Procedures
   4. Tool Changing Procedures
   5. Setting Tool Length Offsets

ATAP 2320 - CNC Lathe G & M Programming & CNC Machining

Objectives:

1. Program rough and finish facing operations.
2. Program rough and finish OD profile operations.
3. Program OD threading operations.
4. Utilize absolute and incremental style programming.
5. Program subroutines and subprograms.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to program tool offsets.

Objectives:

1. Define tool length offsets.
2. Define cutter diameter compensation.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to verify toolpath programs prior to machining.

Objectives:

1. Simulate programs on the machine controller.
2. Simulate programs using stand-alone simulators.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to operate CNC milling machine tools.

Objectives:

1. Upload CNC programs.
2. Setup tool length and cutter diameter compensation offsets.
3. Setup fixture offsets.
4. Run programs.
5. Edit, debug, and rerun programs

1. CNC Lathe Control Units
   1. Discuss the following topics
      1. Memory Management
      2. Program Management
2. Applied Operation of the following topics
   1. Editing
   2. Program Saving
   3. Program Deletion
   4. Program Run
   5. Tool Offsetting
   6. Uploading Procedures
   7. Downloading Procedures
3. CNC Lathe Programming
   1. The Cartesian coordinate system
      1. As used to relate the Machine to the Part
      2. As used to relate the Cutting Tool to the Part generated by the program
   2. Manual Programming
      1. M & G Code Formats using ISO Programming
      2. Incremental Positioning
      3. Absolute Positioning
      4. Specific Control Formats
      5. Cutting Tool Compensation
   3. Advance Techniques
      1. Sub-programs
      2. Datum offsets
      3. Incremental repeat programming
4. CNC Lathe Operation
   1. Lathe Start up and Grid Procedures
   2. Program Run Procedures
   3. Basic Lathe Set-Up Procedures
   4. Tool Changing Procedures
   5. Setting Tool Length Offsets

ATAP 2330 - EDM RAM - G & M Programming & Machining

Objectives:

1. Sharpen corners previously left round from milling operations.
2. Burn deep areas that conventional machining methods cannot perform.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to design RAM EDM electrodes.

Objectives:

1. Select proper grade of graphite.
2. Use existing CAD surfaces.
3. Extend electrode surfaces for clearance.
4. List burn locations for RAM EDM operation.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to machine RAM EDM electrodes.

Objectives:

1. Create and run CNC programs.
2. Drill holes for flush.
3. Mount in holders.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to program RAM EDM machines.

Objectives:

1. Define proper power settings.
2. Determine proper spark gap size.
3. Compare negative and positive polarity settings.
4. Design for speed, wear, or finish requirements.
5. Program burn locations.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to setup and operate RAM EDM machines.

Objectives:

1. Setu workpiece.
2. Define X0 Y0 Z0.
3. Dry run programs.
4. Execute live programs.

1. EDM Overview
   1. History
   2. RAM EDM
   3. Spark Gap Theory
2. RAM EDM Setup and Operation
   1. EDM Startup and Grid Procedures
   2. Mounting an electrode into a RAM EDM
   3. Setting work zero
3. CNC RAM EDM Operation
   1. Start up and Grid Procedures
   2. Program Run Procedures
   3. Basic Set-Up Procedures
4. Manual Programming
   1. G & M code programming

ATAP 2340 - EDM WIRE - G & M Programming & Machining

Objectives:

1. Follow CAD contours.
2. Wire through hole locations.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to program Wire EDM machines.

Objectives:

1. Define proper grade of wire.
2. Define power settings.
3. Determine proper spark gap size.
4. Design for Speed, wear, or finish requirements.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to setup and operate Wire EDM machines.

Objectives:

1. Setup workpiece.
2. Define X0 Y0 Z0
3. Execute live programs.

1. Wire EDM Overview
   1. History
   2. Wire EDM
   3. Spark Gap Theory
2. Wire EDM Setup and Operation
   1. Wire EDM Startup and Grid Procedures
   2. Threading the wire into a Wire EDM
   3. Setting work zero
3. Wire EDM Operation
   1. Wire EDM Start up and Grid Procedures
   2. Program Run Procedures
   3. Basic Wire EDM Set-Up Procedures
4. Manual Programming and CAM
   1. G & M code programming
   2. CAM programming

ATAP 2350 - 3D MasterCAM - Die/Mold CNC Machining

Objectives:

1. Zoom, pan, rotate, and shade.
2. Manipulate the pull down menus and icons.
3. Organize CAD entities by layers.
4. Import and export various file types.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create three-dimensional geometry.

Objectives:

1. Define 3D surface geometry.
2. Define 3D solid model geometry.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create three dimensional toolpath operations.

Objectives:

1. Define rough machining operations.
2. Define wide variety of finish machine operations.
3. Define pencil-milling operations.
4. Define remachine-milling operations.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to edit toolpath operations.

Objectives:

1. Modify cutting parameters.
2. Modify geometric chains.
3. Modify tool conditions.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to post-process toolpath operations to CNC machines.

Objectives:

1. Setup post-processing conditions.
2. Check post processed file for accuracy.

Outcome 6: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to simulate toolpath operations for final verification.

Objectives:

1. Backplot toolpath operations.
2. Compare toolpath operations to CAD model.

1. CAD Interface and Basic Layout
2. Visualization, Zoom, Pan, and Rotate shaded models
3. Design Concepts
4. Parametric design and constraints
5. Solid Modeling
6. Basic Drawing layout using the Drafting Module
7. Exporting Data to CAM and other applications
8. CAM Interface and Basic Layout
9. Basic CNC 2D Toolpath Creation, including profile, drill, and pocket
10. Basic CNC 3D Toolpath Creation, including rough and finish surface machining
11. Toolpath Simulation and Verification
12. Toolpath Post Processing
13. CNC Machining in the lab

ATAP 2360 - 3D Cimatron CAD/CAM - Die/Mold Machining

Objectives:

1. Zoom, pan, rotate, and shade.
2. Manipulate the pulldown menus and icons.
3. Organize CAD entities by sets.
4. Import and export various file types.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create 2D geometry using the sketcher.

Objectives:

1. Define points, lines, arcs, and rectangles.
2. Import sketches from library.
3. Edit sketches.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create three-dimensional solid model geometry.

Objectives:

1. Add and remove extrusions to solid model.
2. Create three-dimensional surfaces.
3. Create text geometry.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create two-dimensional toolpath operations.

Objectives:

1. Define profile-machining operations.
2. Define pocket machine operations.
3. Define tool library.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to edit toolpath operations.

Objectives:

1. Modify cutting parameters.
2. Modify geometric chains.
3. Modify tool conditions.

Outcome 6: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to postprocess toolpath operations to CNC machines.

Objectives:

1. Setup post-processing conditions.
2. Check post processed file for accuracy.

Outcome 7: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to simulate toolpath operations for final verification.

Objectives:

1. Simulate procedures in wireframe and shaded modes.
2. Compare toolpath operations to CAD model.

1. CAD Interface and Basic Layout
2. Visualization, Zoom, Pan, and Rotate shaded models
3. Design Concepts
4. Parametric design and constraints
5. Solid Modeling
6. Basic Drawing layout using the Drafting Module
7. Exporting Data to CAM and other applications
8. CAM Interface and Basic Layout
9. Basic CNC 2D Toolpath Creation, including profile, drill, and pocket
10. Basic CNC 3D Toolpath Creation, including rough and finish surface machining
11. Toolpath Simulation and Verification
12. Toolpath Post Processing
13. CNC Machining in the lab

ATAP 2370 - 3D Computer Aided Mold/Electrode Design

Objectives:

1. Zoom, pan, rotate, and shade.
2. Manipulate the pull down menus and icons.
3. Organize CAD entities by sets.
4. Import and export various file types.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create advanced three-dimensional geometry.

Objectives:

1. Define 3D wireframe surfaces.
2. Define sketches and 3D solid models.
3. Define runoff surfaces used in the mold industry.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to design EDM electrodes from CAD model.

Objectives:

1. Identify EDM geometry.
2. Define EDM parameters.
3. Create drawings for each electrode.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to design mold tools using Cimatron functionality.

Objectives:

1. Design mold bases from libraries.
2. Design tooling geometry.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to define 3D toolpath operations for CNC machines.

Objectives:

1. Define rough machining procedures.
2. Define finish machining procedures.

Outcome 6: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to stimulate toolpath operations for final verification.

Objectives:

1. Simulate procedures in wireframe and shaded modes.
2. Compare toolpath operations to CAD model.

1. Three dimensional surface modeling
2. Three dimensional solid modeling
3. Solid mold bases
4. Electrode design and extraction
5. 3D rough and finish toollpaths
6. 3D toolpath simulation and verification

ATAP 2380 - Rapid Prototyping & Reverse Engineering

Objectives:

1. Define 3D surfaces.
2. Define 3D solid models.
3. Export 3D geometry to STL format for rapid prototyping machines.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify STL format and structure.

Objectives:

1. Understand the mathematical makeup.
2. Create ASCII and binary formats.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify various types of rapid prototyping machines.

Objectives:

1. Post process STL files for RP machines.
2. Know the pros and cons of each machine type.
3. Define each RP machine’s characteristics.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to rapid prototype using the following methods.

Objectives:

1. CNC renshape part masters and molds.
2. Mix and pour silicon rubber molds over master parts.
3. Mix and pour casting materials into properly prepared molds (plaster, plastic, soap, etc.).

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to reverse engineer parts and molds.

Objectives:

1. Capture 3D point clouds using touch probe technology.
2. Capture 3D point clouds using laser technology.
3. Capture 3D point clouds using articulating arm.
4. Capture 2D data manually by tracing existing object.
5. Setup part to be scanned properly.