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MATH (Mathematics)
  

  • MATH 535 - Complex Variables I

    Credits: 3
    Algebra of complex numbers, classifications of functions, differentiation, integration, mapping, transformations, infinite series. Prerequisites:
     


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  • MATH 540 - Mathematics of Finance

    Credits: 3
    An introduction to the fundamental concepts of financial mathematics. Topics include simple and compound interest, annuities, amortization, sinking funds, bonds, stocks, rates of return, term structure of interest rates, cash-flow duration and immunization. Prerequisites: STAT 225.


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  • MATH 571 - Numerical Analysis I (COM)

    Credits: 3
    Analysis of rounding errors, numerical solutions of nonlinear equations, numerical differentiation, numerical integration, interpolation and approximation, numerical methods for solving linear systems. Prerequisites: MATH 225.


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  • MATH 575 - Operations Research (COM)

    Credits: 3
    Philosophy and techniques of operations research, including game theory; linear programming, simplex method, and duality; transportation and assignment problems; introduction to dynamic programming; and queuing theory.  Applications to business and industrial problems.  Pre-requisites: Introductory statistics and one year of calculus; STAT 575 and CSC 575, or instructor consent.


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  • MATH 716 - Theory of Algebraic Structures I

    Credits: 3
    Abelian Groups, homomorphisms, permutation groups, Sylow theorems, group representations and characters. Prerequisites: MATH 413.


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  • MATH 717 - Theory of Algebraic Structures II

    Credits: 3
    Rings, Modules, Fields, Galois theory, solvable groups, commutative rings and modules. Prerequisites: MATH 716 .


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  • MATH 725 - Advanced Calculus I

    Credits: 3
    Topics will include set theory; point set topology in Rn and in metric spaces; limits and continuity; infinite series; sequences of functions. Prerequisites: MATH 425.


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  • MATH 732 - Ordinary Differential Equations

    Credits: 3
    Existence theorems for solutions of ordinary differential equations, theory of linear differential equations and systems of linear differential equations oscillation theory. Prerequisites: MATH 321and MATH 725  or MATH 321 and MATH 425.


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  • MATH 733 - Complex Variables I

    Credits: 3
    Algebra of complex numbers, classifications of functions, differentiation, integration, mapping, transformations, infinite series. Prerequisites: MATH 725 .


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  • MATH 741 - Measure and Probability

    Credits: 3
    Fundamentals of measure theory and measure-theoretic probability, and their applications in advanced probabilistic and statistical modeling.


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  • MATH 742 - Partial Differential Equation

    Credits: 3
    Series, solutions, total differential equations, simultaneous equations, approximate solutions, partial differential equations of first and second orders, applications. Prerequisites: MATH 321 and MATH 225.


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  • MATH 751 - Applied Functional Analysis

    Credits: 3
    Selected topics from functional analysis and its applications to differential equations and numerical methods, concept and theory of functional analysis, variational formulation of boundary value problem. Existence and uniqueness of solutions, variational methods of approximation, finite element methods.


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  • MATH 770 - Numerical Linear Algebra

    Credits: 3
    Analysis of numerical methods for solving linear systems of equations. Methods for solving underdetermined and overdetermined systems. Methods for numerically calculating eigenvalues and eigenvectors of symmetric and non-symmetric matrices.  Knowledge of programming language and of matrix algebra. Prerequisites: MATH 315 and MATH 571 .


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  • MATH 771 - Numerical Analysis II

    Credits: 3
    Continuation of MATH 571 including approximation theory, matrix iterative methods and boundary value problems for ordinary and partial differential equations. Prerequisites: MATH 571 .


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  • MATH 773 - Numerical Optimization

    Credits: 3
    This course will survey widely used methods for continuous optimization, focusing on both theoretical foundations and implementation using numerical software. Topics include linear programming (optimization of a linear function subject to linear constraints), line search and trust region methods for unconstrained optimization, and a selection of approaches (including active-set, sequential quadratic programming, and interior methods) for constrained optimization.  


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  • MATH 774 - Advanced Scientific Computation

    Credits: 3
    Advanced topics in scientific computation.  This course may cover topics such as matrix factorizations, finite element methods, multivariable optimizations, stochastic differential equations, and parallel programming for scientific computations. Prerequisites:  MATH 771 .


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  • MATH 775 - Operations Research II

    Credits: 3
    A continuation of Operations Research I. Topics include the theory of the simplex method, duality theory and sensitivity analysis, game theory, transportation and assignment problems, network optimization models, and integer programming. Prerequisites: MATH 475-575 .


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  • MATH 779 - Advanced Mathematics Synthesis

    Credits: 1
    Synthesis of concepts from advanced mathematics courses. Prerequisites: Instructor consent.


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MCOM (Mass Communication)
  

  • MCOM 513 - International Media (COM)

    Credits: 3
    This course is a survey of international media systems, news and related issues, the role and characteristics of international journalists, and issues facing media around the world.


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  • MCOM 516 - Mass Media in Society

    Credits: 3
    Rights and responsibilities of the press; relation of the media to individuals and society; role of media in a free society.


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  • MCOM 517 - History of Journalism

    Credits: 3
    Development, impact and importance of individual journalists and media in U.S.


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  • MCOM 519 - Women in Media

    Credits: 3
    This course examines contributions of women to the mass media from colonial era to present. It also studies the portrayal of women by the news media and by advertising, and it studies the roles currently played by women in the media and in supporting areas of advertising and public relations. Cross-Listed: WMST 519 .


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  • MCOM 530 - Media Law (COM)

    Credits: 3
    Study of the sources, processes, content and application of law and regulation in the mass communication context and of the ethics of communications practitioners.


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  • MCOM 574 - Media Administration and Management (COM)

    Credits: 3
    Business practices, newspaper, magazine, and broadcast management.


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  • MCOM 585 - Science Writing

    Credits: 3
    This class explores the process of science writing and examines various kinds of science writing through readings, guest speakers, and writing assignments.  A key emphasis is how to present scientific information to a lay audience.


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  • MCOM 615 - Opinion Writing

    Credits: 3
    Opinion function of periodicals; great editorials and editorial writers; writing editorials, shaping policy.


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  • MCOM 653 - Mass Communications Teaching Methods

    Credits: 1-4
    Techniques, materials and resources for teaching mass communication in the classroom and supervising student media.  For secondary school or college instructors and publication advisors. Notes: Mass Communications teacher education candidates are required to earn at least 3 credits.


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  • MCOM 682 - Travel Studies

    Credits: 1-5
    This travel study course is designed to provide extra-mural educational experiences, as approved by, and under the direction of a faculty member, and may be in cooperation with faculty and administrators of other institutions.  Students will participate in hands-on activities, and design educational activities for presentation at selected locations.  Includes pre-travel orientation, post-travel self-evaluation, and a written report.


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  • MCOM 704 - Introduction to Graduate Studies

    Credits: 3
    This course provides orientation to graduate studies in MCOM including graduate procedures and policies, online library resources, foundational literature, and an introduction to research.


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  • MCOM 705 - Introduction to Master of Mass Communication

    Credits: 3
    This course introduces students to the online professional master’s degree program in Mass Communication. Students will become familiar with graduate procedures, program requirements, coursework, D2L, and online university resources.


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  • MCOM 710 - Cross-Platform Storytelling

    Credits: 3
    In this course, students will explore several forms of professional journalistic and media writing. Students create a portfolio of writing samples.


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  • MCOM 730 - Media Law Case Studies

    Credits: 3
    In this course, students will examine current legal issues that effect professional media practice. Students produce a collaborative case study.


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  • MCOM 742 - Health Campaigns

    Credits: 3
    Health campaigns often cut across a number of disciplines including advertising, journalism and marketing for the health and wellness issues and the healthcare professions. This course provides both background and practical experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of multimedia health campaigns.


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  • MCOM 746 - Cross-Platform Campaigns

    Credits: 3
    In this course, students will investigate and create public relations, marketing and social media campaigns. Includes research, design, implementation and evaluation.


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  • MCOM 760 - Social Marketing for Health and Behavioral Change

    Credits: 3
    This course is designed to give students a thorough orientation to marketing for the public good and its application to a range of problems in health contexts. Students will acquire practical skills in the design, implementation, and evaluation of health intervention initiatives that use social marketing.


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  • MCOM 785 - Health Journalism

    Credits: 3
    In this course, students will learn to identify health news, translate medicalese, question experts, interview patients, and get published. In addition to many in-class exercises, you write a magazine-style article. Guest speakers introduce aspects of writing for various healthcare audiences.


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  • MCOM 786 - Conducting Professional Research

    Credits: 3

    In this course, students will learn the application of research methods commonly used in the media professions, including but not limited to surveys, elementary statistical procedures, focus groups and media analytics.


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  • MCOM 787 - Research Methods in Communication

    Credits: 3
    Application of social science research methods and techniques to the study of interpersonal and mass communication. Prerequisites: Elementary statistical procedures.


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ME (Mechanical Engineering)
  

  • ME 510 - Principles of HVAC Engineering

    Credits: 3
    Comfort and health requirements for space conditioning. Psychrometrics, steady-flow processes involving air-vapor mixtures. Heating and cooling load calculations. Basic air conditioning systems. Emphasis on systems design approach. Corequisites: ME 515. Prerequisites: Take ME 312 and EM 331 or ME 314 and EM 331.


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  • ME 512 - Internal Combustion Engines

    Credits: 3
    Theory, design and operation of spark ignition and compression-ignition engines. Performance characteristics and efficiencies; combustion and thermochemistry of fuel-air mixture exhaust emissions as they pertain to air pollution. Prerequisites: ME 312 and EM 331.


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  • ME 513 - Turbomachinery

    Credits: 3
    Theory, design, operation and energy transfer in Turbo-machines. Steam, gas and hydraulic turbines. Pumps, fans and centrifugal and axial flow compressors. Prerequisites: ME 312 and EM 331.


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  • ME 514 - Air Pollution Control

    Credits: 3
    Control of particulates and gaseous pollutants. Design and operating characteristics of gravity settlers, cyclones, electrostatic precipitators, fabric filters, scrubbers, incinerators, adsorption beds and absorption towers. Prerequisites: ME 311.


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  • ME 516 - Renewable Energy Systems

    Credits: 3
    Students will learn to apply the principles of energy conversion, energy conservation, and value engineering to the analysis of energy conversion systems, renewable energy generation equipment and systems. Students will become familiar with energy consumption requirements for conventional systems and the applications of renewable energy systems to provide alternative energy sources. Energy efficiency and global environmental sustainability are emphasized. A background in basic thermodynamics is assumed.


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  • ME 517 - Computer-Aided Engineering

    Credits: 3
    Introduction to applied structural and thermal design and analysis using the ANSYS finite element software package.  One-, two-, or three-dimensional static structural problems modeled using the direct generation method as well as solid modeling techniques.  Steady-state and transient thermal analyses are performed.  Thermally-induced stressed and displacements that occur in non-uniform temperature structures, solutions of two- or three-dimensional fluid mechanics problems, and optimization techniques are discussed. Corequisites: ME 517L  required.


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  • ME 518 - Desgin of Thermal Systems

    Credits: 3
    Systems approach to design, mathematical modeling, simulation and optimization of systems, with particular emphasis on thermal systems. Prerequisites: ME 312, ME 415 and EM 331.


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  • ME 531 - Aerodynamics

    Credits: 3
    Airfoil characteristics, wing shapes, static and dynamic forces, viscosity phenomena, boundary layer theory, flaps and slots, propellers, stability, control and performance. Prerequisites: EM 331.


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  • ME 533 - Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation

    Credits: 3
    Various non-destructive testing techniques will be introduced with emphasis on ultrasound techniques. For ultrasound, physical principles of acoustic waves in solid media will be introduced, and acoustic sensor design and properties will be discussed. For other techniques, including eddy current techniques, X-ray techniques, acoustic emission, etc., basic physics of the method and modern applications will be introduced. Experiments and demonstrations will be conducted to enhance students’ understanding of the concepts and applications. Corequisites: ME 533L .


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  • ME 533L - Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation Lab

    Credits: 0
    Various non-destructive testing techniques will be introduced with emphasis on ultrasound techniques. For ultrasound, physical principles of acoustic waves in solid media will be introduced, and acoustic sensor design and properties will be discussed. For other techniques, including eddy current techniques, X-ray techniques, acoustic emission, etc., basic physics of the method and modern applications will be introduced. Experiments and demonstrations will be conducted to enhance students’ understanding of the concepts and applications. Corequisites: ME 533 .


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  • ME 537 - Gas Dynamics I

    Credits: 3
    Objectives, applications, and scope of the subject. Methods of fluid dynamics and thermodynamics. Compressible flow in ducts, nozzles and diffusers. Propagation of plane waves; shock dynamics, characteristics, interaction of waves. General theorems of gas dynamics. Prerequisites: EM 331and MATH 331.


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  • ME 539 - HVAC System Design

    Credits: 3
    Analysis of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning requirements. Design of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems. Economic, energy, and environmental considerations. Use of computers as design aids. Corequisites: ME 539L. Prerequisites: ME 410.


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  • ME 540 - Computer-Aided Design

    Credits: 3
    The use of digital computer as a design tool. Techniques and algorithms which increase the rationality of the design process. Design principles and optimization theory. General approach to constrained optimization. Probabilistic approaches to design. Computer-aided design to reliability specification. Application of computer graphics to engineering design. The emphasis is on extending the designer’s potential and not on automating those activities. Prerequisites: Competence of FORTRAN and instructor consent.


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  • ME 542 - Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics

    Credits: 3
    This course provides a background and working knowledge of software analysis tools, techniques and methodologies utilized in modern engineering practice in computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The course builds upon fundamental concepts of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and computer-aided design and analysis and applies these principles within high-fidelity computational models to solve theoretical and practical problems commonly encountered with thermal fluid and energy systems. This course provides students with team-centered collaborative opportunities to practice CFD analysis in engineering design applications.


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  • ME 561 - Analysis and Design Industrial System

    Credits: 3
    Problems in product design and development, marketing, forecasting, capacity evaluation, plant layout, materials handling from standpoint of interrelated and integrated systems. Prerequisites: ME 362.


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  • ME 700 - Graduate Colloquium

    Credits: 0
    A topical course in which graduate students present the results of their work for review and critique by faculty members and peers prior to scheduling the final oral exam.  Students will normally enroll in this course in the final term of their graduate study.  Pre-requisite: Instructor permission


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  • ME 703 - Thermo-Fluid Energy Systems

    Credits: 3
    Review of viscous fluid, basic modes of heat transfer, thermodynamics, and energy conversion. Discussion of energy sources, uses, conversion, transmission, and economics. Analysis of conventional energy generation, storage, and transmission systems, criteria for design and analysis of energy systems such as nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal, etc.


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  • ME 711 - Advanced Heat Transfer I

    Credits: 3
    Review of principles of heat conduction.  Multidimensional steady and transient heat conduction in cartesian and cylindrical coordinates.  Separation of variables and integral transforms.  Review of principles of radiation.  Spectral and directional radiative properties.  Gaseous radiation.  Radiative transport equation.


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  • ME 712 - Convection Heat Transfer

    Credits: 3

    Scale Analysis.  Laminar Boundary Layer Flow.  Laminar duct flow. Laminar natural convection.  Natural convection in enclosures.  Turbulent boundary Layer Flow.  Turbulent duct flow.

     


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  • ME 721 - Viscous Flow I

    Credits: 3
    Review of fluid motion with friction.  Boundary layer theory.  Exact solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations.  Creeping flow and the theory of lubrication.  Exact similarity solutions and approximate integral methods for boundary layer flow.  Wall turbulence.  Logarithimic law of the wall.  Mixing length model.


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  • ME 731 - Advanced Analytical Methods

    Credits: 3
    Differential systems related to practical engineering problems.  Linear ordinary differential equations.  Series solutions; Fourier series.  Partial differential equations: parabolic, elliptic, hyperbolic.  Integral equations.


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  • ME 735 - Modeling and Simulation

    Credits: 3
    A systems approach to the analysis of electrical, mechanical and hydraulic systems.  Generalized modeling methods, governing equations, system response, synthesis and design of dynamic systems, and specific applications of modeling technique.  Corequisites: ME 735L .


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  • ME 739 - Advanced Metallurgy

    Credits: 3
    Crystal lattices and diffraction by crystals.  Structure determination, defects, registration by microscopic methods, single crystal orientation and analysis of stress caused by phase transformation.


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  • ME 741 - Advanced Stress Analysis Mechanical Design

    Credits: 3
    Introduction to the theory of elasticity.  Equilibrium equations, boundary conditions and compatibility relations.  Plane stress and strain.  Torsion and curved beams.  Rectangular and polar-coordinates.  Axisymmetric problems.  Energy methods.  Introduction to Finite Element methods.


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  • ME 745 - Advanced Machine Design

    Credits: 3

    Experimental, empirical and analytical methods in advanced design.  Thermal stresses.  Stability. Theories of failure.  Creep and fatigue considerations.  Introduction to fracture mechanics.  Plates and shells.

     


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  • ME 760 - Quality Control

    Credits: 3
    Application of statistical techniques to the control of quality and the development of economical inspection methods. Collection analysis, and interpretation of operations data; control charts and sampling procedure. Prerequisites: STAT 281 or STAT 381. Cross-Listed: OM 760 /STAT 760 .


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  • ME 761 - Operations Research

    Credits: 3
    History and organization of operations research, mathematical and statistical models in industrial decisions. The evaluation of alternatives by means of linear programming, queuing theory, deterministic and stochastic inventory models, game theory and simulation.


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  • ME 763 - Topics in Reliability Engineering

    Credits: 3
    Probability concepts and typical models involved in the statistical prediction of reliability. Methods for estimating required parameters from experimental data. Reliability and maintainability techniques in practice, and a survey of recent developments in the field.


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  • ME 765 - Systems Analysis

    Credits: 3
    Analysis of industrial problems as systems of servicing stations with deterministic and stochastic inputs and service times using queuing theory as a principal approach. Development of theoretical models. Digital computer simulation of complex systems.


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  • ME 767 - Decision Theory

    Credits: 3
    Examination and evaluation of modern techniques of decision making. Mathematical models and measurement theory. Certainty, risk, and uncertainty.


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MFL (Modern Foreign Languages)
  
  

MICR (Microbiology)
  

  • MICR 514 - Anaerobic Microbiology

    Credits: 3
    Anaerobic metabolism and ecology of bacteria, culturing techniques for anaerobic microorganisms.


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