Finance

ENGL4998 Communication and Media Studies Senior Seminar This course serves as the capstone course for senior students in the Communication and Media Studies major. The senior seminar pulls together key theoretical perspectives in the field while providing students with an opportunity to explore, synthesize and apply those theories to specific issues, themes and hypotheses. This course also provides a historical context to recent and contemporary media events, linking these to scholarship and debates within the field and to past developments in content, technology, and research. Finally, the senior seminar reviews methodological practices, introduced in ENGL1502, and provides students with the opportunity to apply these methods in their own original research projects. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisites: ENGL1205 and senior status or instructor permission

ENGL4999 English Senior Seminar Students will examine how different texts (e.g., popular and classic literature, movies, television, etc.) present and shape a variety of issues such as gender, race and class throughout all levels of culture. Specific topics and texts will be determined by the instructor, but will include theoretical and critical material as well as primary sources. “Texts” could be all of one kind or a combination of different media, also to be determined by the instructor. Active student participation and a major research project are required. Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: ENGL1502 and senior status or instructor permission

FINAN3356 Applied Corporate Finance Students will apply concepts and analytical tools that are used to solve problems and make decisions in corporate finance. In particular, we will focus on applications related to three essential strategic decisions that every firm faces-the investment decision, the financing decision, and the dividend decision. Cases will be used, in part, as a problem-solving context. Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: MGMT3305 and junior standing

FINAN3366 Portfolio Management Students will develop and understanding of the portfolio management process. Emphasis will be on equities and will include discussions on fixed income securities. In this course the students will simulate a real world management process covering the research and analysis of individual securities, formulation of these securities into portfolios and the use of derivative securities to modify the risk /return profile of the portfolio. Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: MGMT1101, ACCT1201, ACCT2201, ECON1101, ECON1103, MATH1111 or MATH1121, MATH1118, ECON2010, ECON 3105, FINAN3356, MGMT3105, MGMT2301, MGMT3305

FINAN3496 Finance Internship The Finance Internship involves experiential learning in a firm related to the student’s major and prospective career. The course requires that students apply theory to practice while gaining experience in their chosen career. In addition to working at their internship site, students attend seminar or individual sessions that cover the theory, practice and ethical aspects of work. Together with the internship supervisor, a