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2019-2020 Florida Tech Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Florida Tech Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


Courses are listed alpha-numerically. The 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 series are undergraduate courses. The 5000 series are graduate courses that can also be taken by undergraduates with cumulative grade point averages of 2.75 or higher, who have satisfied all listed prerequisites and whose registration is approved by the department head or program chair responsible for the course. The 6000 series courses are restricted to graduate students only. Courses below 1000 are developmental in nature, are not counted in GPA calculations and do not count toward any Florida Tech degree.

Courses that may be taken in fulfillment of Undergraduate Core Requirements are designated as follows: CL: computer literacy requirement, COM: communication elective, HU: humanities elective, LA: liberal arts elective, Q: scholarly inquiry requirement, SS: social science elective, CC: cross-cultural, Hon: course may include honors sections during some semesters. These designations follow the course descriptions. Other courses that satisfy Undergraduate Core Requirements are identified by the course prefix: any MTH course can be used toward meeting the mathematics requirement; and any AVS, BIO, CHM or PHY course, or EDS 1031  or EDS 1032 , toward meeting the physical/life sciences requirement.

 

Operations Research

  
  • ORP 5010 Mathematical Programming

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys popular optimization techniques. Topics chosen from linear, integer, nonlinear, dynamic and network flow programming; combinatorial graph algorithms.
    Prerequisite: MTH 5102  or ORP 5001  
  
  • ORP 5011 Discrete Optimization

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies combinatorial optimization and integer programming.
    Prerequisite: MTH 5051  and ORP 5001  
  
  • ORP 5020 Theory of Stochastic Processes

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces stochastic models, discrete- and continuous-time stochastic processes, point and counting processes, Poisson counting process, compound Poisson processes, nonstationary Poisson processes, renewal theory, regenerative processes and Markov chains.
    Prerequisite: MTH 5411  
  
  • ORP 5025 Stochastic Analysis of Financial Markets 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lays the foundation for mathematical concepts widely applied in financial markets. Uses economic theory with stochastics (martingales, Wiener, Markov, Ito processes, stochastic differential equations) to derive fair option prices and hedge call options. Also uses fluctuation theory to predict stocks’ crossing of critical levels.
    Prerequisite: MTH 5411  or MTH 5425 
  
  • ORP 5026 Stochastic Analysis of Financial Markets 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Offers multidimensional stochastics applied to financial markets. Continues with multivariate Ito processes and multidimensional Feynman-Kac theorems, hedging of American and exotic call options and forward exchange rates. Introduces time-sensitive analysis of stocks, and risk theory.
    Prerequisite: MTH 5434   or ORP 5025  
  
  • ORP 5030 Decision Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers normative models of decisions under certainty, risk and uncertainty; assessment of subjective probability and utility functions; Bayesian decision analysis and the value of information; influence diagrams; and descriptive aspects of decision making.
    Recommended: Undergraduate statistics course
  
  • ORP 5040 Quality Assurance

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the principles and application of statistical quality control and statistical process control.
    Recommended: Undergraduate statistics course
  
  • ORP 5041 Reliability Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the principles of reliability analysis and assessment; reliability probability models; combinatorial and system reliability; and reliability estimation.
    Prerequisite: MTH 5411  
  
  • ORP 5042 Reliability, Availability and Maintainability

    Credit Hours: 3
    Discusses maintainability concepts relating to system effectiveness and support-system design. Includes basic mathematical concepts, design concepts and data analysis used in quantifying availability, maintainability and reliability as measures of operational readiness and system effectiveness.
    Prerequisite: ORP 5041 
  
  • ORP 5050 Discrete System Simulation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the principles of building and using a discrete event simulation; construction and statistical testing of random variate generators; statistical analysis and validation of results; design of simulation projects; and variance reduction methods.
    Prerequisite: MTH 5411  
  
  • ORP 5090 Special Topics in Operations Research 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Content variable depending on the fields of expertise of the faculty and the desire and needs of the students.
  
  • ORP 5091 Special Topics in Operations Research 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Content variable depending on the fields of expertise of the faculty and the desire and needs of the students.
    Prerequisite: ORP 5090 
  
  • ORP 5899 Final Semester Thesis

    Credit Hours: 0 - 2
    Variable registration for thesis completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Approval by Office of Graduate Programs and accepted petition to graduate
  
  • ORP 5999 Thesis Research

    Credit Hours: 3 - 6
    Individual research under the direction of a major advisor approved by the chair of the program.
    May be repeated for a maximum of six credits
  
  • ORP 6010 Advanced Topics in Mathematical Programming

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews selected topics in the theory of optimization. Unifies much of the field by use of a few principles of linear vector space theory. The concepts of distance, orthogonality and convexity play fundamental roles in this development.
    Prerequisite: MTH 5101  and MTH 5102  and ORP 5010  
  
  • ORP 6095 Preparation for Candidacy/Operations Research

    Credit Hours: 1 - 6
    Research under the guidance of a member of the operations research faculty in a selected area of operations research. Repeatable as required.
    Requirement(s): Program director approval
  
  • ORP 6899 Final Semester Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 0 - 2
    Variable registration for dissertation completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Approval by Office of Graduate Programs and accepted candidacy
  
  • ORP 6999 Dissertation Research

    Credit Hours: 3 - 12
    Research and preparation for the doctoral dissertation.
    Requirement(s): Admission to doctoral candidacy

Physical Education

  
  • PED 1020 Introduction to Sailing

    Credit Hours: 1
    Introduces sailing small boats, and acquaints beginners with boat and sail forms and racing.
  
  • PED 1035 Introduction to Archery

    Credit Hours: 1
    Emphasizes target shooting with information about its history, shooting techniques, equipment and safety.
  
  • PED 1046 Introduction to Weightlifting

    Credit Hours: 1
    Provides a source of information about safe and reliable habits of weight training to help the student plan a personalized fitness program.
  
  • PED 1050 Introduction to Fencing

    Credit Hours: 1
    Introduces the fundamentals of fencing, including the basic elements of footwork, attack and defense.
  
  • PED 1060 Introduction to Tennis

    Credit Hours: 1
    Develops basic tennis skills. Includes performance and the application of basic skills, rules and etiquette.
  
  • PED 1070 Introduction to Team Sports

    Credit Hours: 1
    Introduces the history, basic skill techniques, rules, terminology and participation in team sports. Includes volleyball, soccer, softball, basketball, flag football, badminton and Ultimate Frisbee. Also focuses on the five components of health-related fitness.
  
  • PED 1080 Introduction to Golf

    Credit Hours: 1
    Designed for beginning golfers. Teaches the fundamentals of golf. Emphasizes stance, swing and grip of the various clubs (wood, iron and putters). Also studies rules, strategy and scoring.
  
  • PED 1090 Introduction to Karate

    Credit Hours: 1
    Teaches the basics of Korean Karate (Tang Soo Do), including basic hand technique, foot technique, noncontact sparring and philosophy, emphasizing self-defense.
  
  • PED 1091 Advanced Karate

    Credit Hours: 1
    Advanced training in hand technique, foot technique and self-defense. Emphasizes mental aspects and defense against weapons, as well as board-breaking.
  
  • PED 1160 Intercollegiate Athletics

    Credit Hours: 1
    Meets the breadth requirement for participants in any approved intercollegiate varsity team sport. Requires participation as athlete or athletics trainer for a full season of the sport. Also requires a sports journal and completion of the Intercollegiate Athletics Participation form (IAP).
    Requirement(s): Should be taken during semester covering end of season
  
  • PED 1200 Basic Swimming

    Credit Hours: 1
    Provides novice swimmers the skills needed to increase swimming ability. Includes freestyle swimming with rhythmic breathing, treading water, floating and basic safety skills.
  
  • PED 2160 Coaching Theory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the theory and applied practice of athletics coaching for prospective athletics coaches and physical education teachers. Identifies characteristics and motivations associated with athletes, components of character development, and the risk and effects of drug use, especially performance enhancing drugs.
    Minimum student level - sophomore
  
  • PED 2161 Care and Prevention of Athletics Injuries

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the procedures involved in the prevention of athletics injuries. Includes the effects and dangers of drug use, especially as they relate to performance enhancing drugs. Focuses on the coach’s role in limiting the potential for injury. Emphasizes the recognition, care and treatment of injuries. Requires completion of CPR certification.
    Minimum student level - sophomore
  
  • PED 3160 Theory and Practice of Coaching Basketball

    Credit Hours: 2
    Prepares future basketball coaches with the knowledge, techniques and skills required to be successful. Emphasizes the development of proper training programs and specific game strategy. Includes the history of the game of basketball and the development and implementation of designed plays.
    Prerequisite: PED 2160  
  
  • PED 3161 Theory and Practice of Coaching Soccer

    Credit Hours: 2
    Prepares future soccer coaches with the knowledge, techniques and skills required to be successful. Emphasizes the development of proper training programs and specific game strategy. Includes the history of the game of soccer and the development and implementation of designed plays.
    Prerequisite: PED 2160  
  
  • PED 3200 Advanced Swimming

    Credit Hours: 1
    Increases swimming abilities and safety skills in the water. Reviews and refines basic strokes and develops skills for advanced strokes. Provides exercise and the general principles of fitness.
    Prerequisite: PED 1200  

Physics

  
  • PHY 0002 Final Program Examination

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
  
  • PHY 0003 Final Program Examination 2

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: PHY 0002   Corequisite: PHY 0002  
  
  • PHY 0004 Final Program Examination 3

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: PHY 0003   Corequisite: PHY 0003  
  
  • PHY 1000 Physics Review

    Credit Hours: 1
    Provides a physics review for transfer students who have only completed a three-credit-hour equivalent class for PHY 1001 (four credit hours). Includes supplementary materials from PHY 1001.
    Requirement(s): For transfer students only
  
  • PHY 1001 Physics 1

    Credit Hours: 4
    Includes vectors; mechanics of particles; Newton’s laws of motion; work, energy and power; impulse and momentum; conservation laws; mechanics of rigid bodies, rotation, equilibrium; fluids, heat and thermodynamics; and periodic motion.
    (Hon)
    Prerequisite: (MTH 1001  or MTH 1010 ), and (MTH 1002  or MTH 1020 ) Corequisite: MTH 1002  or MTH 1020  
  
  • PHY 1050 Physics and Space Science Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1
    Introduces some of the major contemporary problems and research areas in physics and space sciences.
    Must be enrolled in physics or space sciences (7101, 7139, 7191, 7192, 7193)
  
  • PHY 1999 Physical Concepts for Construction

    Credit Hours: 4
    Presents the basic concepts of physics as an essential foundation for understanding technical ideas such as statics, structures, materials, and electrical and mechanical systems. Provides a basis in physical science required for field work in the construction industry.
    Prerequisite: MTH 1001  or MTH 1010  
  
  • PHY 2002 Physics 2

    Credit Hours: 4
    Includes electricity and magnetism, Coulomb’s law, electric fields, potential capacitance, resistance, DC circuits, magnetic fields, fields due to currents, induction, magnetic properties; and wave motion, vibration and sound, interference and diffraction.
    (Hon)
    Prerequisite: PHY 1001  
  
  • PHY 2003 Modern Physics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes quantum mechanics of atoms, molecules, nuclei, solids and fundamental particles. Planck and de Broglie’s laws, the Bohr model of hydrogen, elementary examples of Schrodinger’s equation, relativity, elementary particles and symmetry, quantum electrodynamics and chromodynamics.
    Prerequisite: (MTH 2001  or MTH 2010  or MTH 2201  or MTH 3200 ) and PHY 2002  
  
  • PHY 2091 Physics Laboratory 1

    Credit Hours: 1
    Experiments to elucidate concepts and relationships presented in PHY 1001 , to develop understanding of the inductive approach and the significance of a physical measurement, and to provide some practice in experimental techniques and methods.
    Prerequisite: PHY 1001  Corequisite: PHY 1001  or PHY 1999  
  
  
  • PHY 3011 Physical Mechanics

    Credit Hours: 4
    Fundamental principles of mechanics and applications in physics. Includes Newton’s Laws, equations of motion, types of forces, conservation laws, potential functions, Euler and Lagrange equations and Hamilton’s Principle.
    Prerequisite: (MTH 2001  or MTH 2010 ) and (MTH 2201  or MTH 3200 ) and PHY 2002  
  
  • PHY 3035 Quantum Mechanics

    Credit Hours: 4
    Schrodinger equation, the uncertainty principle, one-dimensional potentials, harmonic oscillator, operator methods, tunneling, angular momentum and spin. Discusses three-dimensional problems, such as one-electron atom and N-particle systems. Introduces approximation techniques, including perturbation theory.
    Prerequisite: (MTH 2201  or MTH 3200 ) and PHY 2003  
  
  • PHY 3060 Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory and Statistical Mechanics

    Credit Hours: 4
    Includes temperature, heat and heat engines, work, internal energy, entropy, laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic potentials, equations of state, phase changes, viscosity, thermal conductivity, diffusion, Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics and partition functions.
    Prerequisite: PHY 2003 
  
  • PHY 3152 Electronic Measurement Techniques

    Credit Hours: 4
    Includes modern electronic measurement and data collection methods, circuit analysis, integrated and digital circuits, noise reduction techniques, signal conditioning in experimental physics and computer interfacing. Includes a laboratory section considering the design, construction and testing of analog and digital circuits.
    Prerequisite: PHY 2002 
  
  • PHY 3440 Electromagnetic Theory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes geometry of static electric and magnetic fields, electric charges and currents, calculating electric and magnetic fields from potentials, static electric and magnetic fields inside matter, Faraday’s Law of Induction and Maxwell’s Equations, and propagation and radiation of electromagnetic waves.
    Prerequisite: (MTH 2001  or MTH 2010 ) and PHY 2002  
  
  • PHY 3901 Research Experience in Physics

    Credit Hours: 1
    Individual research directed by a faculty member. May not be used in place of any named courses in the major program. Requires the preparation and presentation of a report on the research.
    Minimum student level - sophomore
    Requirement(s): GPA of 3.0 or higher, and instructor and department head approval
    May be repeated for a maximum of four credits
  
  • PHY 4020 Optics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Applications to physics, space sciences and engineering. Includes geometrical optics (briefly), physical optics including Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction; interactions with dielectric materials; Fresnel equations; and applications including lasers, holography, polarization and nonlinear optics materials.
    Prerequisite: (MTH 2201  or MTH 3200 ) and PHY 2002  
  
  • PHY 4021 Experiments in Optics

    Credit Hours: 1
    Experiments include basic optical systems, interference and diffraction. Studies interferometers, spectrometers, lasers and detectors. Enrollment limited to physics and space sciences majors, and on a space-available basis to electrical engineering majors with an emphasis in electrooptics.
    Corequisite: PHY 4020 
  
  • PHY 4030 Introduction to Subatomic Physics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces elementary particles, fundamental forces, nuclear structure and reactions. Includes classification and properties of particles (the Standard Model) and nuclei, particle interactions, nuclear models, nuclear decays, radiation and particle detection.
    Prerequisite: PHY 3035 
  
  • PHY 4033 Introduction to Solid State Physics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes crystal structure, crystal diffraction and the reciprocal lattice, crystal binding; lattice vibrations, phonons, thermal properties of insulators; free electron Fermi gas, energy bands in metals; and Fermi surfaces.
    Prerequisite: PHY 3035  and PHY 3060  
  
  • PHY 4050 Advanced Research Techniques and Data Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the skills and tools necessary to perform active research in physics, particularly in data-oriented astrophysics. Describes manipulation of data to extract physically meaningful quantities and their associated uncertainties. Includes the use of statistical inference, numerical calculations and visualization of quantitative information.
    Prerequisite: (CSE 1502  or CSE 1503 ), and (MTH 3210  or MTH 3220 ) and PHY 2003  
  
  • PHY 4071 Senior Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 2
    Experiments in optics, and atomic nuclear and solid state physics.
    Must be enrolled in physics or space sciences (7101, 7139, 7191, 7192, 7193). Minimum student level - senior
  
  • PHY 4200 Senior Seminar 1

    Credit Hours: 1
    Reports and discussions on selected topics in contemporary experimental and theoretical physics and space sciences.
    (Q)
    Requirement(s): Student must be within three semesters of graduation
  
  • PHY 4201 Special Topics in Physics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Topics announced before each course offering.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  
  • PHY 4210 Senior Seminar 2

    Credit Hours: 1
    Reports and discussions on selected topics in contemporary experimental and theoretical physics and space sciences.
    (Q)
    Requirement(s): Student must be within three semesters of graduation
    Prerequisite: PHY 4200 
  
  • PHY 4301 Independent Studies

    Credit Hours: 1 - 3
    Individual study of specific problems in physics.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  
  • PHY 4901 Undergraduate Research

    Credit Hours: 3
    Individual research directed by a faculty member.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  
  • PHY 4902 Undergraduate Research

    Credit Hours: 3
    Individual research directed by a faculty member.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  
  • PHY 5015 Analytical Mechanics 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    A general treatment of dynamics of particles and rigid bodies, rotational dynamics, potential theory; Hamilton’s principle and principle of least action, Lagrange’s equations; and applications.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent PHY 3011 Physical Mechanics  
  
  • PHY 5017 Electromagnetic Theory 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces electrostatics, boundary-value problems in electrostatics, multipoles, electrostatics and macroscopic media, dielectrics, magnetostatics, Faraday’s law, Maxwell equations, plane electromagnetic waves and wave propagation.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to PHY 3440 Electromagnetic Theory  
  
  • PHY 5018 Electromagnetic Theory 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Continues PHY 5017 . Includes radiating systems, multipole fields and radiation, scattering and diffraction, special theory of relativity, dynamics of relativistic particles and electromagnetic fields, scattering of charged particles, Cherenkov radiation, radiation by moving charges, Bremsstrahlung and radiation damping.
    Prerequisite: PHY 5017 
  
  • PHY 5020 Optics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Applications to physics, space sciences and engineering. Includes geometrical optics (briefly), physical optics, including Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction; interactions with dielectric materials; Fresnel equations; and applications including lasers, holography, polarization and nonlinear optics materials. Additional graduate-level projects will be assigned including computer ray tracing and computer lens design.
  
  • PHY 5030 Quantum Mechanics 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Schrodinger equation, discrete and continuous eigenfunctions and eigenvalues, collision theory, matrix mechanics, angular momentum perturbation and other approximation methods, identical particles and spin, semiclassical theory of radiation, atomic structure.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to PHY 3035 Quantum Mechanics  
    Prerequisite: MTH 5201   Corequisite: MTH 5201  
  
  • PHY 5031 Quantum Mechanics 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Schrodinger equation, discrete and continuous eigenfunctions and eigenvalues, collision theory, matrix mechanics, angular momentum perturbation and other approximation methods, identical particles and spin, semiclassical theory of radiation, atomic structure.
    Prerequisite: PHY 5030  
  
  • PHY 5045 Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics

    Credit Hours: 3
    The fundamental laws and principles that govern the behavior and structure of matter on the subatomic scale. Definition and classification of elementary particles and fundamental forces; properties of elementary particles and their experimentally observable behavior; symmetries and invariance principles; Feynman diagrams; interaction of particles with bulk matter.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to PHY 3035 Quantum Mechanics  and PHY 4030 Introduction to Subatomic Physics  
  
  • PHY 5070 Special Topics in Physics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Topics announced before each course offering.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  
  • PHY 5082 Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the principles and applications of statistical thermodynamics, thermal and general interactions of macroscopic systems and parameter measurement. Also includes basic methods and applications of statistical mechanics, equilibrium conditions, quantum statistics of ideal gases, and the kinetic theory of transport and irreversible processes.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to PHY 3060 Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory and Statistical Mechanics  
  
  • PHY 5088 Graduate Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Experimental work under individual faculty supervision.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  
  • PHY 5089 Graduate Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Experimental work under individual faculty supervision.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  
  • PHY 5095 Advanced Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Experimental work at the research level in faculty research labs.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  
  • PHY 5899 Final Semester Thesis

    Credit Hours: 0 - 2
    Variable registration for thesis completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Approval by Office of Graduate Programs and accepted petition to graduate
  
  • PHY 5999 Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3 - 6
    Individual work under the direction of a member of the graduate faculty on a selected topic in physics.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  
  • PHY 6001 Individual Studies

    Credit Hours: 1 - 3
    Individual studies under faculty supervision.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  
  • PHY 6090 Research

    Credit Hours: 1 - 6
    Research leading to the doctoral dissertation.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  
  • PHY 6899 Final Semester Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 0 - 2
    Variable registration for dissertation completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Approval by Office of Graduate Programs and accepted candidacy
  
  • PHY 6999 Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 3 - 12
    Preparation of doctoral dissertation.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval and admission to doctoral candidacy

Forensic Psychology

  
  • PSF 2551 Survey of Forensic Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys the psychological theories and methods pertinent to the legal and criminal justice systems. Includes victimization, reliability of eyewitness testimony, jury selection, treatment vs. incarceration, insanity, family and drug court issues, and trial testimony. Also explores research and training roles in relation to the justice system.
    (SS)
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411  and SOC 1551  
  
  • PSF 3511 Introduction to Crime Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents the techniques, materials and methods of analysis of crime and criminal activity. Concentration areas include analyzing crime, forecasting criminal occurrences, mapping techniques, crime patterns, suspect identification and monitoring crime trends.
    (SS)
    Prerequisite: PSF 2551  and PSY 2512  
  
  • PSF 3512 Forensic Behavior Investigation and Identification

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores the behavior of victims, suspects and witnesses of crime with respect to the psychological principles used in investigation; in particular kinesics, interview techniques, reliability of recall and legal implications of interview techniques.
    Prerequisite: PSF 2551 
  
  • PSF 3515 Special Topics in Forensic Psychology

    Credit Hours: 1
    Offers topics of particular general interest in forensic psychology, criminal justice or criminology when student interest and staffing permit.
    Prerequisite: PSF 2551 
    May be repeated for a maximum of four credits
  
  • PSF 3551 Integrated Theories of Crime

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores the basic questions concerning human nature, human behavior, crime and criminality from the perspectives of sociological, psychological and criminological theories.
    (SS)
    Prerequisite: PSF 2551  or PSY 3100 
  
  • PSF 4106 Crisis and Conflict Resolution

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines crisis and conflict resolution in interpersonal and organizational contexts. Uses theory from behavioral and social sciences to assess, manage and resolve crisis and conflict situations in a criminal justice environment. Includes nature of and responses to crisis and conflict, and strategies for resolving them.
    Minimum student level - third year
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: CRM 3012  or PSY 3012  
  
  • PSF 4491 Legal Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the intersection of law and psychology as an area of research and study. Covers topics such as Supreme Court decisions, arrest and trial, juror decision-making, and relevant problems or concerns that arise during investigation, trial and sentencing.
    Minimum student level - junior
    Prerequisite: PSF 2551  
  
  • PSF 4515 Advanced Special Topics in Forensic Psychology

    Credit Hours: 1
    Offers topics of particular general interest in forensic psychology, criminal justice or criminology when student interest and staffing permit.
    Minimum student level - junior
    Prerequisite: PSF 2551  
    May be repeated for a maximum of three credits
  
  • PSF 4551 Victim Studies and Advocacy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores the response to crime by law enforcement, the court system, social services and victim advocates. Primarily focuses on advocacy for individuals and the community. Examines domestic violence, crime prevention, delinquency, hate crimes and substance abuse in terms of best practices from the field.
    Minimum student level - junior
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411  
  
  • PSF 4562 Forensic Clinical Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews forensic clinical psychology, including forensic interviewing and assessment of children and adults, treatment of offenders and victims, legal procedures involving the interaction of clinical psychologists with the justice system, and expert testimony by mental health professionals.
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411 
  
  • PSF 4591 Critical Issues in Forensic Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines contemporary and critical issues in forensic psychology that are central to theoretical and applied areas of the field, such as racial profiling, sex crimes, jury consulting, correctional psychology, kinesics and advanced interviewing, international crime and terrorism.
    Minimum student level - junior
    Prerequisite: PSF 2551  
  
  • PSF 4791 Critical Issues in Child Advocacy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the history, comparative perspectives and legal framework as apply to the responses to child maltreatment. Addresses the necessary skills needed to work as a child advocate. Also includes other issues pertaining to child maltreatment.
    Minimum student level - junior
    Prerequisite: PSY 3551  

Psychology

  
  • PSY 0002 Final Examination

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
  
  • PSY 0003 Final Program Examination 2

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: PSY 0002   Corequisite: PSY 0002  
  
  • PSY 0004 Final Program Examination 3

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: PSY 0003   Corequisite: PSY 0003  
  
  • PSY 1400 Psychology Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1
    Offers discussions by members of the faculty about various areas of research in and practice of psychology to give freshmen an overview of the nature of the field and the people in it.
    (LA)
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in the School of Psychology  
  
  • PSY 1411 Introduction to Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews psychological processes, including both areas in which psychology is a natural science (physiological psychology, sensation and perception, basic learning and cognition) and a social science (motivation, human development, personality, social interaction, psychopathology and psychotherapy).
    (LA) (SS)
  
  • PSY 1461 Psychology of Adjustment and Personal Growth

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the relevance of psychological understanding in personal and interpersonal situations, including definitions and discussions of human adjustment factors, such as anxiety, stress, coping mechanisms and psychological adaptation.
    (LA) (SS)
  
  • PSY 1462 Substance Abuse

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines experimental evidence on the physical, physiological and psychological effects of drug use and conclusions relating to the real vs. alleged effects of drugs.
    (LA) (SS)
 

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