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2019-2020 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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LAW 895 The Business of Law: Creative Thinking for Lawyers and their Clients (2-3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of Lunsford Academy Director
This course prepares law students to address the competitive landscape of the legal services market. It provides them with the foundational skills required for operating a business, aiding clients in achieving business goals, and otherwise becoming a business-competent lawyer and business leader.
The course trains students in creative problem solving for businesses - either for their own law practice or for their clients’ businesses. Students will explore many of the methods, tools, and exercises that are the keys to unlocking business value. The skills the students are encouraged to develop in this course will help them design their law practices to better serve the needs of clients, regardless of whether their practice is solo, firm, or in-house.
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LAW 896 Law Practice Technology (2-3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of Lunsford Academy Director
This course trains students to become efficient users of standard office software typically used by lawyers in practice, such as word processing, spreadsheets, and pdf documents. In a competitive legal market, lawyers who are proficient in the use of office software will reduce costs for their employers and clients.
In addition, students will learn about software and other technologies designed for legal practitioners, providing students with a better practical foundation when they enter the modern legal market.
Finally, students will become familiar with technologies that compete with the services that lawyers provide, providing the students with a better understanding of how lawyers can distinguish their services from these products to provide value for their clients.
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LAW 897 Business Boot Camp (1 credit)
Business Boot Camp offers an overview of business concepts crucial to understanding client needs and analyzing their issues. Similar to a mini-MBA, this program is not “Accounting 101,” but introduces finance, accounting, and other business concepts such as markets and market intelligence, innovation, operations and logistics, risk analysis, pricing strategy, human resources. A combination of class presentations, many by faculty at the Haile/US Bank College of Business, in-class and out of class assignments. Includes at least 30 hours of class and offered on an intensive basis over a short time period. The culmination is an exercise where students work in teams which compete in presenting a business plan for a fictitious business to a panel of judges. Students with a strong business background should not apply.
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LAW 901 Accounting for Lawyers (2-3 credits)
This course will provide students with an understanding of basic accounting principles and their application to the practice of law. Topics covered will include balance sheets, income statements, statements of cash flow, and other related topics. The course is designed for students who have never taken accounting courses, or for students who have taken fewer than six hours of accounting classes at the undergraduate or graduate level.
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LAW 902 Administrative Law (3 credits)
This course covers procedural and constitutional law regulating units of government other than legislatures and courts, and legal principles of agency implementations of statutory programs. The course will also involve a selective examination of the powers of administrative agencies, and the legislative, executive, and judicial controls on and review of administrative action.
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LAW 904 Tax - Advanced Income Tax Concepts (3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): Tax - Basic Tax Concepts
This course is a study of advanced principles of federal income taxation not covered in Basic Income Tax Concepts, including tax accounting and other timing issues, choice of taxable year, time value of money, disallowances and restrictions of losses and deductions, charitable contributions, and the minimum tax.
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LAW 906 Bankruptcy (3 credits)
This course emphasizes personal bankruptcy and surveys creditors’ remedies and consumer credit protection legislation.
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LAW 907 Law Practice Management (2 credits)
After completing this course students will:
- Understand the structure of a private practice law office.
- Develop a business plan for beginning a law office.
- Create a reference manual containing law practice forms, policies and procedures used in the daily management of a law firm.
- Understand the technology used in a law office.
- Understand time and billing procedures used in a law office.
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LAW 908 Advanced Appellate Advocacy (3 credits)
This course involves advanced work in writing appellate briefs and arguing appellate issues, with particular emphasis on preparing students to compete in interscholastic moot court competitions. This course is required for students trying out for Chase’s Moot Court Board, and it is also available for any students interested in appellate advocacy.
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LAW 909 Children’s Law Clinic (3-4 credits)
Prerequisite(s): 30+ credit hours; 60+ credit hours if you want a license to appear in court
The NKU Chase Children’s Law Center Clinic represents children primarily in delinquency,
child custody and visitation, and school matters. Students typically work on 2-3 cases and at least one policy project during the course of a semester, under the supervision of the clinic faculty. The Clinic also includes a weekly seminar (Fridays from 10-11:30), which addresses substantive law, advocacy skills, and ethical issues in the representation of children. While the subject matter of the Clinic’s cases focuses on children’s issues, students develop skills transferrable to any practice setting. Enrollment in the clinic is limited to 8 students. Priority is given to students eligible for a student practice license and permission is required for enrollment. Participation in the Clinic requires a significant time commitment (150-200 hours) and some flexibility in the student’s schedule. All students will be expected to attend and conduct court appearances throughout the semester (frequently Wednesday mornings and Tuesday/Thursday afternoons), and to be available to attend to other client business during some regular business hours. Students who have concerns about their ability to maintain a flexible schedule should speak with Clinic faculty before applying. Additional information is listed on the Clinic application.
Clinic students must be available for Friday clinic class and some Monday/Wednesday mornings at 8:30am for court appearances. Clinic application will be posted on Symplicity. Please see Professor Halbrook with questions.
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LAW 910 Kentucky Innocence Project (2 credits)
Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission required; 2 semester externship
This clinical program is a partnership between NKU Chase College of Law and the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy. Students will actively participate in the criminal justice system and perform the functions of an Assistant Public Advocate by investigating cases of inmates claiming to be innocent of the crime(s) of which they have been convicted. Students will perform many of the duties related to post-conviction client representation by carefully investigating claims and legal arguments. Students will engage in extensive fact investigation, interviewing clients and witnesses, visiting and examining crime scenes, and retrieving, preserving and analyzing evidence. In addition, students will prepare legal documents related to innocence claims. Students will further develop competency in investigative and advocacy skills as well as the substantive knowledge required to serve as effective and ethical attorneys through a combination of experiential learning and classroom instruction.
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LAW 912 Constitutional Litigation Clinic (4 credits)
Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission required; must have at least 60 credit hours to register; 2 semester externship
The Constitutional Litigation Clinic offers eight Chase students a hands-on experience litigating civil rights cases on behalf of prisoners and former offenders in Ohio state and federal courts. The Ohio Justice & Policy Center created this Clinic in partnership with the Greater Cincinnati Foundation and the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University. Students handle all aspects of cases, from client interviews through trials and appellate brief writing and argument.
The Constitutional Litigation Clinic requires a year-long commitment. Each student must be certified as a legal intern by the Supreme Court of Ohio. Through this Clinic, students and supervising OJPC attorneys open doors for clients and provide real opportunities for second chances - helping reclaim their lives and restore our communities.
Interested students should submit a letter of interest, a transcript, and a writing sample to Sheila Donaldson Johnson, OJPC Office Manager, via email (sdonaldson@ohiojpc.org) or by faxing to 513.562.3200.
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LAW 914 Conflict of Laws (3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): Students must complete 30 hours of courses before enrolling in this course.
This course covers principles of selecting the law to govern transactions and events that occur or have effects in multiple states, including common law traditional choice of law and modern approaches; constitutional aspects of choice-of-law theory; recognition and enforcement of judgments; and special choice-of-law problems such as those arising in family law or in international law contexts.
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LAW 915 Constitutional Law Seminar (3 credits)
Because it is a seminar, there will be a 6000 word (including footnotes) paper in the course, not a final exam. This paper may also qualify for the AWR Research requirement. You may write your paper on any of the cases or topics we cover in the seminar. Students enrolling in this course should have previously taken Constitutional Law I & II or else be taking Constitutional Law I concurrently with this seminar (students who have taken both courses at the same time in the past have found that the seminar helps them better understand Constitutional Law). In the seminar, we will discuss the theory of originalism in constitutional interpretation - the theory that constitution should be interpreted according to its original meaning. We will read three books (with a total cost less than a typical casebook) for, against and about originalism. We will debate the relation of originalism and its main competition - living constitutionalism (the theory that constitutional meaning evolves over time) and we will also apply originalism to important constitutional provisions and controversies.
If you have any questions, please e-mail Professor Valauri.
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LAW 916 Facts, Storytelling & Persuasion (3 credits)
Facts, Storytelling & Persuasion will teach the skills and way of thinking necessary to litigate cases persuasively and effectively. The overarching principle of the course is that facts - their investigation and development, and the way they are presented - are the most important weapons in the trial lawyer’s arsenal. Trial lawyers who understand this principle have a clear advantage over lawyers who do not. Lawyers who think creatively about the facts and how to present them are far more likely to achieve successful outcomes for their clients. Core concepts that will be taught include how to develop and investigate the facts, how to create a fact-based theory of the case with supporting emotional themes, and how to tell a good story. Simulations will allow the students to practice these skills.
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LAW 918 Advanced Field Placement Clinic (2-3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): A student must (1) have completed 30 credit hours for placements which do not require a student license to practice or 60 credit hours for placements which do require a student license to practice; and (2) have completed Professional Responsibility or be contemporaneously enrolled in Professional Responsibility. Certain placements have specific GPA or coursework requirements beyond these prerequisites
Chase’s clinical externship program offers students practical, hands-on experience in handling actual cases and learning aspects of the law in supervised judicial, civil, and criminal law settings. A student must expect to work 50 hours for every credit-hour earned. First-time placements of 3 credits or less qualify for the field placement clinic. Second or subsequent externships of 3 credits or less qualify for the advanced field placement clinic. All externships of 4 or more credits will be enrolled in the semester in practice course. These externships have a mandatory classroom component, even though these are listed under “non-classroom courses.” The class sessions will not meet every week, and some sessions will be conducted on-line. See Professor Kinsley for details.
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LAW 919 Entertainment Law (3 credits)
This course will provide an in-depth introduction to the field covering the legal and practice issues related to popular music, television, and feature films, as well as the development of the legal skills required of entertainment lawyers. Also included in the course are U.S. copyright law and the Berne Convention. The course will also cover negotiating, drafting, and interpreting recording agreements, music publishing agreements, and film distribution agreements.
This is an online course. Students will study and apply the reading materials through a series of research, drafting, and negotiating exercises. While there are no live sessions, students are expected to stay current on all reading assignments, participate actively each week, complete CALI and drafting exercises, and work closely with their partners on collaborative projects. There is also a final exam.
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LAW 920 Environmental Law (3 credits)
This course provides an introduction to environmental law, focusing primarily on federal statutory law. It covers the historical development of environmental law, including the transition from common law to statutory law; the role of courts, the legislature, the executive branch, and private parties in the development and implementation of environmental policy; and the major regulatory strategies used to control environmental harm. Major statutes discussed include the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act.
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LAW 922 Employment Law (3 credits)
This course examines many of the federal and state statutes and common law doctrines that affect the employment relationship, including the employment-at-will doctrine, contract and tort incursions into that doctrine, privacy issues, wage and hour legislation, and unemployment insurance. The course does not cover issues involving unions, collective bargaining, or unfair labor practices under the National Labor Relations Act.
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LAW 924 Elder Law (3 credits)
This course presents an overview of legal practice and policy relating to aging individuals and an older society. Topics may include an aging population; the challenge to the law; ethical issues and legal assistance; age discrimination in employment; income maintenance; health care; and elder abuse, neglect, and crime.
There will be guest speakers. On days on which a guest speaker is scheduled, absences will count twice when computing possible grade penalties.
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LAW 925 Family Law (3 credits)
This course covers courtship; marriage; husband and wife; family breakdown; annulment; divorce; dissolution; parent-child rights and relationships; custody; and support.
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LAW 928 Tax - Business Organizations and Business Planning (3 credits)
The course explores the various tax and business issues transactional lawyers confront in the life cycle of a business. To that end, the course will study the tax consequences that flow from transactions between a corporation and its shareholders and between a partnership and its partners during the life cycle of the business. Topics of study include the choice of entity upon formation, growth issues and the operation of the business, distributions, redemptions and liquidations, taxable and tax-free acquisitions and restructuring of the business, and exit strategies.
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LAW 930 Legal History (3 credits)
This course surveys significant issues in legal history. It not only covers legal history in general, but enables students to study subjects in depth by writing research papers on topics of their choosing. In addition, students acquire understanding of the practice of law in the times of Abraham Lincoln, and of the changes in the federal government that occurred during the Civil War.
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LAW 931 Intellectual Property Survey (3 credits)
The course provides an introduction to copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and publicity rights, with an emphasis on how these five discrete fields interact. The course materials are inherently comparative in nature, allowing students to see how very different legal doctrine can be used separately or in combination to develop problem solving approach, solve client problems, and appreciate how these different regimes create economic, ethical and sociological structures.
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LAW 932 Insurance Law (3 credits)
This course addresses the types of insurance contracts; definitions; governmental supervision; insurable interests; measures of indemnity and rights of subrogation; rights and obligations of parties; use of particular clauses to control risks; adjustment of claims; no-fault automobile plans; and new areas of insurance.
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LAW 933 Inter-School Competition (ABA Tax Competition) (1 credit)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
An alternative to traditional moot court competitions, the ABA Law Student Tax Challenge asks two-person teams of students to solve a cutting-edge and complex business problem that might arise in everyday tax practice. Teams are initially evaluated on two criteria: a memorandum to a senior partner and a letter to a client explaining the result. Based on the written work product, six teams receive a free trip (including airfare and accommodations for two nights) to the Section of Taxation Midyear Meeting, where each team will defend its submission before a panel of judges consisting of the country’s top tax practitioners and government officials, including tax court judges. The competition is a great way for law students to showcase their knowledge in a real-world setting and gain valuable exposure to the tax law community. Further competition information can be found here.
The competition problem is usually distributed in late August, the memorandum and client letter is due to be submitted in early November and, if selected, the team will be invited to defend its submission sometime the following January. Please contact Prof. Nacev if you have any questions or if you are interested.
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LAW 933 Inter-School Competition (Appellate Advocacy/Moot Court) (1-2 credits)
This course is reserved for those students competing in interscholastic moot court competitions. Students must join the Chase Moot Court Board and complete Advanced Appellate Advocacy in order to enroll in this course. Students must receive approval from the Moot Court Board faculty Advisor to enroll in this course.
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LAW 933 Inter-School Competition (Client Counseling) (2 credits)
In conjunction with students’ participation in the ABA Client Counseling Competition, this course addresses the practical, legal, and ethical dimensions of initial interviews with prospective clients.
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LAW 934 International Law (3 credits)
International law is a three-credit course for upper class students. This course will introduce the student to public international law, including the creation and enforcement of treaties, the role of custom, the efficacy of international institutions (e.g., courts and non-governmental organizations), the legality of using force, and the act of state doctrine. Class meetings will include lecture, discussion and group exercise. (Students will solve problems as purported members of the United States National Security Council and the United Nations Security Council; and resolve legal disputes between nations as purported justices of the International Court of Justice.) Each class will involve ample use of technology, e.g., PowerPoint presentations and film clip viewings.
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LAW 935 Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiating (3 credits)
This course emphasizes the development of skills required of lawyers in interviewing clients, witnesses, and others to obtain relevant information; counseling clients; and negotiating such matters as case settlements and contracts. Role playing, simulation and videotaping will be used in this course.
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LAW 936 Jurisprudence (3 credits)
Jurisprudence is a legal philosophy seminar. It studies general questions such as the nature of law, the relation between law and morality, and how judges should go about deciding individual cases, as well as more specific and controversial topics in areas as diverse as constitutional law and torts. Instead of using a casebook, we will read several important original works of Anglo-American legal philosophy written since 1960. The book cost and total pages assigned will be comparable to a course with a casebook. Jurisprudence is a seminar, so there is a course paper (which can satisfy the AWR-Research component), but there is no final exam. Papers may be written on any topic or author we cover in class or any area reasonably related to course topics and authors. There are no prerequisites for this course and no background in philosophy is necessary. Since Jurisprudence is not a bar course, some students wonder what practical use this course can be to them as future lawyers. I answer that question in this way–it is the only course that you can take in law school that can help you acquire a very important legal skill, that of making legal arguments when all the usual grounds of argument (precedent, statute, tradition, etc.) are on the other side.
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LAW 937 Juvenile Law (3 credits)
This course examines, among other topics, the legal and philosophical bases for a separate juvenile court system, and of the state’s right as parens patriae to interfere in the parent-child relationship; juvenile court jurisdiction over the delinquent child; and the status offender and the dependent and neglected child through the entire court process.
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LAW 938 Labor Relations (3 credits)
This course covers the rights, duties, and liabilities of employers and organized labor under the applicable federal and state legislation.
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LAW 939 Employment Discrimination (3 credits)
This course examines of the basic doctrines protecting individuals from employment discrimination, principally Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (race, color, sex, religion, national origin), and also the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and various state statutes.
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LAW 940 Essential Quantitative Skills for Lawyers (3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of Lunsford Academy Director
In the first part of this course, students will develop a strong working knowledge of accounting concepts and mechanics. Students will also learn to read financial statements, analyze them, and understand how they are relevant to the practice of law.
The second part of this course will explore important basic concepts of finance, such as present value, future value, compound interest, risk and rates of return, discounted cash flow, bond valuation, and the foundations of business and equity valuation.
In the final part of the course, student will learn the foundations of statistical analysis, including central tendency, distribution, dispersion, hypothesis testing, statistical significance, correlation, and basic regression analysis.
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LAW 942 Art Law (3 credits)
This seminar emphasizes intellectual property, artistic integrity, and issues facing the contemporary artist, such as artists’ liability, rights and integrity pertaining to the First Amendment, censorship, copyright, trademark, Traditional Knowledge intellectual property concepts, the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990, the Right of Publicity, moral right and droit de suite statutes, forgery, authentication, agreements for the commission and transfer of works of art, theft, and valuation problems in sales and charitable contribution of works of art.
It complements Cultural Property Law, which emphasizes legal issues applicable to the art market and museums, including ancient art and art dispersed in times of war, regardless of the era in which the art was created.
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LAW 943 Law Review (3-6 credits)
Academic performance at the College of Law or a writing competition determines which students are selected as members of the editorial staff of the Northern Kentucky Law Review, which trains students in disciplined legal research and writing.
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LAW 945 Employee Benefits Litigation (1 credit)
This course examines the evolving area of employee benefits litigation. Students will study litigation involving claims for benefits as well as claims for breaches of the fiduciary duty of those who administer the plans. Cases involving the risks employees face when purchasing employer stock from their employer, discretion accorded the employer in making decisions regarding claims for benefits, the elimination of retiree health benefits, the limitation of damages for medical claims, as well as other topics, will all be studied.
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LAW 946 Modern Real Estate Transactions (3 credits)
This course covers brokers, commissions, duties to buyer and seller, contracts of sale, financing, damages, specific performance, warranties, recording acts, abstracts of title, title insurance and Torrens registration, cooperatives and condominiums, closing a real estate transaction, and the drafting of real estate instruments.
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LAW 949 Advanced Small Business & Nonprofit Law Clinic (1-3 credits)
Only students who have successfully completed one semester of the Small Business and Nonprofit Law Clinic may register for this course. Students may sign up for 1 (50 total hours), 2 (100 total hours) or 3 credits (150 total hours), subject to availability. Students complete similar work to the SBNLC; they are not required to attend all SBNLC classes, but must attend a specified number of the scheduled SBNLC class meetings, to be arranged with the Professor. In addition, students must spend at least 4 hours per week in the clinic. Apply through Symplicity.
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LAW 950 Patent Law (3 credits)
This course focuses exclusively and intently on patent law. It covers the history, theory, and constitutional basis of the U.S. patent system; patentable subject matter; and rights, obligations, and liabilities of investors, patentees and infringers.
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LAW 951 Patent Prosecution (3 credits)
This course introduces students to the preparation and prosecution of patent applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Students will learn practical aspects related to drafting the various portions of a patent application, as well as advocating before the USPTO during the prosecution of the application.
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LAW 952 Complex Problem Solving (3 credits)
Complex Problem Solving will teach the skills students need to analyze and develop interdisciplinary action plans to address multi-faceted problems. The overarching principle of the course is that effective client-centered advocacy requires a diverse array of skills - both legal and non-legal. Working from a hypothetical fact pattern based on an actual case, students will work collaboratively to develop strategies to address the problem in the following areas: litigation, public relations, coalition-building and lobbying. The course will offer numerous opportunities for students to develop the necessary skills through simulations.
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LAW 955 Remedies (3 credits)
This course covers remedies available in contract, tort, and real and personal property actions, including damages, equitable remedies, specific performance, injunction, constructive trusts, restitution, reformation, and rescission.
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LAW 958 Securities Regulation (3 credits)
This course involves the study of primary and secondary securities markets under the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and related rules and regulations; the definition of a “security”; registration requirements relating to offerings; secondary distributions and the resale of restricted securities; exemptions from registration requirements; proxy solicitations; and civil liabilities to purchasers and sellers of securities.
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LAW 961 Supervised Independent Study (2-3 credits)
A student may earn credit for independent study in two ways. The first is by researching and writing a paper in an area of law approved by a faculty member. Proper Bluebook citation is required. Upon the student’s completion of the paper, the faculty member will determine the final letter grade for the course. A minimum paper length of 5000 words (excluding footnotes) is required for the award of two credits; a minimum paper length of 7500 words (excluding footnotes) is required for the award of three credits. Supervised Independent Study credit earned for writing a research paper may satisfy the student’s AWR-Research requirement so long as the paper complies with all prerequisites for obtaining AWR-Research credit.
The second way a student may earn credit for independent study is by participating in specialized moot court competitions such as the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, the Tax Law Moot Court Competition, the Intellectual Property Law Moot Court Competition, and the National Telecommunications Law Moot Court Competition. Upon completion of the competition, the supervising faculty member will determine the final letter grade based upon the written brief and the student’s final practice oral argument prior to attending the competition. A student will receive two credits for brief writing and participating in the oral argument, and one credit for brief writing only.
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LAW 962 Tax Litigation (3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): Tax - Basic Concepts
Provide participants with knowledge of the procedures applicable to tax litigation in the various available judicial forums as well as advocacy skills for successful litigation in those forums.
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LAW 963 Worker’s Compensation (3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): 2L, 3L, or 4L
In this course, students can expect to learn the laws concerning employees who suffer workplace injuries in Ohio and Kentucky. This class will take a practical approach, with a strong emphasis on learning the administrative and court process and how to complete various workers’ compensation forms and motions. The goal of this course is to enable each student to be ready to represent clients in this practice area after completing the course.
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LAW 964 Advanced Criminal Law: Sentencing (3 credits)
This course covers various topics every general practitioner should know. The course will cover probate law, disability law, domestic relations law, and other areas of practice. There will be several guest speakers.
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LAW 965 Trial Advocacy (3 credits)
Day - This course is designed to develop the skills involved in the conduct of a trial. Role playing, simulation, and videotaping will be used.
Evening - Students who have taken Pre-trial litigation with Thomas/Wirthlin will be given preference for cap purposes. This course is a hands-on skills course. Students will be making presentations each week, including opening statements, direct and cross examinations, voir dire, and closing arguments. Students will try a bench trial and a jury trial during the course of the semester.
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LAW 966 Trial Advocacy Competition (2 credits)
The National Trial Advocacy Team promotes excellence in trial advocacy through training, education, and participation in mock trial competitions. The National Team competes in mock trial competitions throughout the year. While preparing for competition, team members have the opportunity to develop trial advocacy techniques in one-on-one settings with faculty and litigators. Competitors are selected through an intra-school competition. Class/Practice usually takes place on one weeknight and one weekend day. However, the days and times may vary depending on the schedules of coaches and students. Students who are chosen for the team must register for and will receive 2 credits for their successful participation. Evidence is recommended, but not required for students wishing to tryout for the team.
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LAW 970 Sports Law (3 credits)
This course involves the overall study of the sports industry world-wide, with specific emphasis on the collective bargaining issues in the NFL and NBA; college coach contracts; player contracts; regulation of sports agents; issues relative to the NCAA and major college sports; international rules and contracts for basketball players; sports marketing contracts; and miscellaneous other issues that will give the student a broad, general knowledge of the sports industry. Students will have to complete a take-home exam and a paper for the course.
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LAW 971 Drafting International Business Transactions (2 credits)
This is a drafting course focusing on an international distribution agreement. In learning to draft a distribution agreement students will also learn many of the necessary drafting considerations for agency, franchise and licensing agreements. The legal problems to be addressed in certain clauses will be discussed. Students completing the course will be able to draft a sophisticated distribution agreement between a U.S. manufacturer and a European Union distributor.
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LAW 972 Mediation (3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): 3L or 4L with some exposure to litigation
This course provides students with the critical skill sets associated with the lawyer serving as an advocate in the negotiation and mediation processes, both forms of dispute resolution apart from traditional litigation. Students study and practice negotiation and mediation advocacy techniques as well as processes commonly employed by mediators, ethical and practical problems associated with these topics, and the application of theses techniques and processes to disputes in both the public and private sector.
This is a hands-on, skills course with lots of role-playing. Students need to participate actively in class.
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LAW 973 Legal Drafting (2 credits)
This course provides practice in the drafting of basic documents encountered in the general practice of law. The course may focus on litigation documents, transactional documents, or a combination thereof.
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LAW 974 Pretrial Litigation (3 credits)
This course involves the study of complex litigation matters using the case simulation method from inception to the beginning of trial. Students will act as litigation associates, with one half of the students representing plaintiffs and the other half representing defendants. The students will perform drafting and other assignments.
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LAW 976 Kentucky Practice and Procedure (3 credits)
This skills course teaches students the “nuts and bolts” of practicing law in Kentucky. The course covers pleadings, discovery, and trial issues such as impeachment of witnesses, authentication of evidence, and opening statements.
This course is pass/fail.
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LAW 979 Field Placement Clinic (2-3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): A student must (1) have completed 30 credit hours for placements which do not require a student license to practice or 60 credit hours for placements which do require a student license to practice; Certain placements have specific GPA or coursework requirements beyond these prerequisites.
Chase’s clinical externship program offers students practical, hands-on experience in handling actual cases and learning aspects of the law in supervised judicial, civil, and criminal law settings. A student must expect to work 50 hours for every credit- hour earned. These externships have a mandatory classroom component, even though these are listed under “non-classroom courses.” The class sessions will not meet every week, and some sessions will be conducted on-line. See Professor Kinsley for details.
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LAW 981 Sexuality, Identity, and the Law (3 credits)
This course aims to explore the socially constructed norms and frameworks enabling the legal regulation of human sexuality. This course will offer students an opportunity to analyze and develop a perspective on issues of sexual orientation, gender identity and justice, while providing the critical tools required to evaluate a host of legislative and judicial responses to gender and sexuality. This course will look at historical precedents and emerging case law to analyze how certain types of sexual behavior and gender identity are regulated (including freedom of assembly, association and expression, freedom of religion and nondiscrimination, asylum and immigration and universality and equality). The course will also examine the legislative, regulatory and judicial response to ‘deviant’ sexual bodies in action (including transgender identities, intersex bodies, same-sex marriage, new family forms, and the decriminalization of sodomy). In looking at case law and legal precedent, the course will allow students to begin to explore the multiple ways that legal regulation operates in the realm of sexuality and identity.
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LAW 982 Advanced Legal Research (3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): Students who have taken, or are taking, ‘Advanced Online Legal Research’ are not eligible to enroll in this course.
Advanced Legal Research offers students, particularly those getting ready to graduate, an opportunity to not only review basic research skills, but to delve more deeply into research as it is applied in practice. Particular attention will be given to updating students’ skills in online research.
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LAW 983 Broadcast/Telecommunications/Internet Law (3 credits)
This course will survey government regulation of facilities of mass communications. Topics to be covered include regulation of: business entity; pricing of services; content; ownership structure; and access to communications facilities owned by others. The course will focus primarily on the Federal Communications Commission, but state and local government regulation will also be covered.
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LAW 985 Tax - IRS Legal Counsel Externship (3 credits)
This is a clinical externship with the IRS regional office in Cincinnati dealing with tax issues. The IRS Chief Counsel Externship provides an excellent opportunity for students interested in practicing in the area of taxation generally and in tax litigation specifically. The student will clerk with the attorneys in the IRS Chief Counsel’s Office in Cincinnati, Ohio. Under the supervision of IRS Counsel, the extern will have the opportunity to do fact finding using the administrative file, do legal research, draft pleadings and motions, and generally become familiar with tax litigation and tax controversy practice.
The externship is a 3-credit course offered under the umbrella of the College of Law externship program. The IRS Externship is offered by the IRS Chief Counsel’s Office as part of the IRS Honors Program. The student will be required to work 150 hours to receive course credit.
This course adopts the apprenticeship model of externships and requires the student to keep a detailed log (subject to IRS confidentiality rules) of the projects and to reflect concurrently on the lessons learned from the experience.
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LAW 986 Tax - Tax Moot Court Inter-School Competition (0 credits)
This course prepares students for the inter-school appellate moot court tax competition. This competition is known as the Mugel Tax Competition.
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LAW 987 Small Business & Nonprofit Law Clinic (2-4 credits)
Clinic students must be available for a mandatory 4-hour training the week before the semester begins. This Clinic is located on the 3rd floor of Nunn Hall. Students may sign up for 2 credits (100 total hours), 3 credits (150 total hours), or 4. Students work with small businesses, entrepreneurs and nonprofit entities on basic legal matters of a business nature. Coursework includes one weekly class meeting. In addition, students must spend 4 hours per week in the clinic. Most students do work for 2-3 clients during a semester, providing exposure to a variety of business and legal issues. Preference is given to students who have completed 60 or more credit hours and who have taken professional responsibility, along with business organizations. Efforts are made to accommodate evening students. Registration requires interview; apply through Symplicity.
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LAW 991 Domestic Violence Law Seminar (3 credits)
This seminar will explore the current state of domestic violence law in the United States and other selected countries; the complex issues of domestic violence from the perspective of the victims, perpetrators, the legal community and governmental policies; and the manifestations of domestic abuse in different cultures and in same-sex relationships.
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LAW 992 Domestic Violence Law Prosecution and Trial (3 credits)
This is a skills-based course which explores the impact and application of domestic violence issues and theories to the preparation and presentation of a case for trial. The course uses a case file specifically designed for domestic abuse issues, produced by NITA, and the students are required to prepare various exercises and motions in limine, and to conduct a full jury trial.
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LAW 996 Death Penalty Seminar (3 credits)
This seminar will explore the statutory and constitutional rules regarding implementation of the death penalty in the United States. The course will begin with a brief discussion of arguments by proponents and opponents of the death penalty. We will then address the development of Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment restrictions on the use of capital punishment, including categorical exemptions from the death penalty for the insane, the mentally retarded, juveniles, certain felony-murderers, and those who do not commit homicide. We will examine the unique hallmarks of a capital trial including the selection of a “death qualified” jury, the use of aggravating and mitigating evidence in the punishment phase of the trial, and issues created by the use of victim impact evidence. The prominent issue of race and its relation to the death penalty will also be addressed. Traditional class discussion will be supplemented with: guest speakers; in-class exercises in which students take on the roles of prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, and state legislators; and, if possible, a moot court of a death penalty case currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, in which students will role-play the attorneys and the Justices. Students will write a research paper of at least 6000 words, including footnotes, on an instructor-approved topic and present the results of their research in class.
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LAW 997 Advanced Online Legal Research (2-3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): This course will be most beneficial to students who are preparing to practice or clerk in a legal job. To enroll in this course, students must have successfully completed at least 36 credit hours of classes.
Advanced Online Legal Research offers students an opportunity to review basic research skills and to delve more deeply into research as it is applied in practice. Particular attention will be given to practical online and computer-assisted legal research.
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MGT 605 Managing in Organizations (2 credits) 2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Admission to a graduate program or consent of program director.
Taught: Variable, check w/ department
Managing people is a challenge in an increasingly complex and interdependent work context. This course helps prospective managers develop the skills necessary to assess, analyze, and act upon the challenges of managing with people. For 3-credit option, see MGT 606 .
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MGT 606 Managing in Organizations - Applied (1 credit) 1 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Co-requisite(s): MGT 605 .
Taught: Variable, check w/ department
In this course, students will explore and apply topics of managing, motivating, collaborating with, influencing, and leading people in organizations. This course provides a 3-credit option for MGT 605 , Managing in Organizations.
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MGT 607 Strategies for High Performing Orgs (2 credits) 2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Admission to a graduate program or consent of program director.
Taught: Variable, check w/ department
Looks at the issues of analysis, implementation and evaluation of an organizational strategy. Students are exposed to issues involved in creating and managing the sustainable, high performance enterprise including operational activities such as financing, human resources, R&D, marketing, distribution and customer service. For 3-credit option, see MGT 608 .
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MGT 608 Strategies for High Perf. Orgs. - Applied (1 credit) 1 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Co-requisite(s): MGT 607 .
Taught: Variable, check w/ department
In this course, students will explore and apply issues of analysis, implementation and evaluation of an organizational strategy. This course provides a 3-credit option for MGT 607 , Strategies for High Performing Organizations.
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MGT 610 Operations Management (2 credits) 2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Admission to a graduate program or consent of program director.
Taught: Variable, check w/ department
Introduces concepts and techniques of modern operations and supply chain management. Topics include design and structuring of operating systems, production planning, inventory control, materials requirements planning, project management, facilities layout, quality control, process and job design. For 3-credit option, see MGT 611 .
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MGT 611 Operations Management - Applied (1 credit) 1 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Admission to a graduate program or consent of program director.
Co-requisite(s): MGT 610 .
Taught: Variable, check w/ department
In this course, students will explore and apply issues of modern operations and supply chain management. This course provides a 3-credit option MGT 610 , Operations Management.
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MGT 612 Managing People and Organizations (3 credits) Hours: 1-3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Taught: Variable, check with department
Organizational, situational, and human factors defining the context of managerial work in complex organizations; interactive business cases and readings from organizational and human behavior literatures are used to facilitate student interaction and group development.
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MGT 620 Leading Organizational Change (2 credits) 2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): MGT 605 or department approval.
Taught: Variable, check with department
Application of theories of leadership and organizational change to a variety of business organizations; personal assessment and reflection on leadership; planning and implementing of organizational change; use of simulations, cases, and/or projects to blend theory and practice. Component course in MBA Leadership Stack.
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MGT 621 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (2 credits) Hours: 2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): MGT 620 or department approval.
Taught: Variable, check with department
Provides a conceptual and practical understanding of the concepts, legal framework, theory, and practice of negotiation and conflict resolution. Includes the research and framing of issues, bargaining strategies, successful tactics, and methods of reaching a settlement. Component course in MBA Leadership Stack.
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MGT 622 Essentials of Project Management (2 credits) Hours: 2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): MGT 620 or department approval.
Taught: Variable, check with department
Qualitative and quantitative approaches to structuring projects in multi- functional organizational settings; planning, team development, software, quality improvement, completion; case analysis, internships, and/or term projects to blend theory with practice. Component course in MBA Leadership Stack.
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MGT 625 Operations Management and Decision Analysis (3 credits) Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Taught: Fall and spring
Structure and behavior of productive systems in organizations that produce goods and services; managerial viewpoint, using quantitative analysis to enhance quality of decisions; operations planning, productivity, quality improvement, production information systems, use of computer programs, and case simulations.
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MGT 640 Total Quality Management (3 credits) Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): MGT 612 or consent of MBA director.
Taught: Variable, check with department
Managerial focus on quality in diverse organizations, encompassing customer focus, employee involvement, measurement, continuous improvement, and performance management within a Baldrige Award framework. Case analysis and/or term projects blend theory with practice.
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MGT 650 Project Management Implementation (3 credits) Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): MBA 612 or consent of MBA director.
Taught: Variable, check with department
Approaches to applying project management; behavioral/organizational management, cost analysis, or project control techniques. Repeatable for a maximum of 6 semester hours if topics differ. Case analysis and/or term projects possible.
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MGT 660 International Management (3 credits) Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Taught: Variable, check with department
Management concepts in international settings; strategic and operational planning, organization design, motivation, leadership, quality, management systems, and control; case analysis, projects, and/or study tours abroad to blend theory with practice.
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MGT 675 Mediation and Conflict Resolution (3 credits) Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Taught: Spring only
Effective problem solving and conflict resolution skills are essential for to-day’s managers and administrators. In line with the trend toward cooperative problem solving, students study the use of interest based problem-solving to facilitate business disputes and to their preparation and participation as a party in a mediation and/or arbitration process. Classes will include lectures, active discussion and application of reading assignments, and role-plays.
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MGT 685 Business Strategy, Implementation, and Control (3 credits) Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Taught: Fall and spring
Strategic planning in the business department; social, political, economic, and ethical forces to which managers must respond; implementation of strategy and control process; use of cases and computers to develop and analyze strategic decisions.
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MGT 694 Topics: Management (1-3 credits) Hours: 1-3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): MGT 605 or departmental approval.
Taught: Variable, check with department
Various advanced graduate topics in Management. Repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits if topics differ.
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MGT 699 Independent Study: Management (1-3 credits) Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Taught: Variable, check with department
Specialized aspect or topic in management chosen by student and appropriate faculty member.
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MKT 605 Marketing in Organizations (2 credits) 2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Admission to a graduate program or consent of program director.
Taught: Variable, check w/ department
This course prepares students to solve problems faced by mid- and top-level marketing decision-makers, and to understand the consequences of their decisions. A variety of contemporary marketing issues will be studied in depth. May use case methodology and/or client-based projects. For 3-credit option, see MKT 606 .
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MKT 606 Marketing in Organizations - Applied (1 credit) 1 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Co-requisite(s): MKT 605 .
Taught: Variable, check w/ department
In this course, students will explore and apply solutions to problems faced by mid- and top-level marketing decision-makers and understand the consequences of their decisions. This course provides a 3-credit option for MKT 605 , Marketing in Organizations.
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MKT 620 Marketing Strategy (2 credits) 2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): MKT 605
Taught: Variable, check with department
Successful businesses evaluate their various environments and forge sustainable competitive advantages in the marketplace. It is critical to create a long-term strategy that builds, maintains, and ultimately grows market position. This course focuses on the evaluation of extant strategies and the creation and justification of alternative marketing strategies.
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MKT 621 Consumer Behavior and Insights (2 credits) 2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): MKT 620
Taught: Variable, check with department
The primary focus of the course is to explore the consumer path to purchase by studying the physical, physiological, social, and cognitive models and theories of consumer behavior.
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MKT 622 Marketing Analytics (2 credits) 2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): MKT 620
Taught: Variable, check with department
To properly design and engage marketing strategies, managers today need to understand the role that big data plays in the marketplace. In this course, you will be provided real-life examples of data and asked to develop and apply the appropriate insights needed to make a business decision.
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MKT 625 Marketing Management (3 credits) Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Consent of Chair.
Taught: Fall and spring
Problems faced by mid- and top-level marketing decision makers and the consequences of their decisions; case study and/or simulation. A variety of marketing areas will be considered in depth.
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MKT 630 Customer Behavior and Marketing Communication (3 credits) Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): MKT 625 .
Taught: Variable, check with department
Household and business customers; customer decision-making processes and the cultural, socio-economic, environmental, and inter- and intra-personal factors that influence it; principles of marketing communications planning and of conventional and emerging media and their interface with diverse customer response behaviors.
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MKT 640 Services Marketing (3 credits) Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): MKT 625 .
Taught: Variable, check with department
Service marketing processes and service delivery systems; managing the seven P’s of services - product, price, place, promotion, people, processes, and physical facilities; role of technology in service delivery; managing service quality and recovery from service failures.
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MKT 650 Marketing Strategy and Planning (3 credits) Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): MKT 625 .
Taught: Variable, check with department
Factors and concepts in decisions about a firm’s long-term strategy to build, maintain, and grow its market position; skills and hands-on experience (through project work) in developing a long-term strategy, and a five-year annualized marketing plan implementing that strategy.
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MKT 660 International Marketing (3 credits) Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): MKT 625 .
Taught: Variable, check with department
Concepts, perspectives, and analytical tools to assess opportunity and pre-pare marketing plans for a firm’s multi-country operations; researching cultures and customer behaviors in markets around the world; market analysis and planning in mature, growth, and emerging markets of the world; global marketing strategy and programs.
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MKT 694 Selected Topics in Marketing (1-3 credits) Hours: 1-3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): MKT 605 or department approval.
Taught: Variable, check with department
Various advanced graduate topics in Marketing. Repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits if topics differ.
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MKT 699 Independent Study: Marketing (1-3 credits) Hours: 1-3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): MKT 625 .
Taught: Variable, check with department
Specialized aspect or topic in marketing chosen by student and appropriate faculty member. Subject to academic regulations pertaining to independent study as given in the MBA catalog.
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MBA 610 Comprehensive MBA Essentials Review (2 credits) 2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): MGT 605 , ACC 610 , FIN 605 , MGT 607 , MGT 610 , MBI 600 , MKT 605 , BUS 605 .
Taught: Variable, check w/ department
Review and testing on MBA Essentials topics in Finance, Accounting, Management, Marketing, and Operations in preparation for MBA 611.
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