Fundamental physical, chemical and biological properties of soils as related to sustainable natural resource management. Both ABS 225 and ABS 226 must be taken to secure General Studies SQ credit.

Selected exercises to broaden the background and understanding of basic soil principles. Both ABS 225 and ABS 226 must be taken to secure General Studies SQ credit.

Principles and practices of horticulture, emphasizing development, growth, and propagation of horticultural plants and environmental factors that affect these processes.

Ecological foundations of sustainable biological systems, anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem structure and function, and ecological risk assessment. Examines climate change, water scarcity, deforestation, soil degradation, and human displacement on global ecosystem functions and utilization of natural resources.

Fundamentals of wildlife conservation and management through lectures, guest speakers and lab activities. Divided into three parts: (1) introduction to conservation, management and the scientific method; (2) themes of earth, water, fire and air; and (3) wildlife techniques and field methods.

Policy environment and ethics in the practice of biology. Covers ethical reasoning, policy formulation, and regulatory agencies with examples from biotechnology and the environment.

Overview of the biology of the cell; emphasizes structure and function of biomolecules within the cell and their applications associated with recombinant DNA technology, genetic engineering, plant and agriculture biotechnology, and human pharmaceutical development.

Surveys structural and functional attributes of plant and animals of particular importance in the applied biological sciences.

Statistical methods with applications in the biological sciences and natural resource management. Uses computers and the Internet.

Evolution, systematics, diversity, zoology, conservation and anatomical and physiological adaptations and specializations of the vertebrates.

Multimedia course for nonmajors surveying contemporary topics in Southwest home horticulture, including landscaping, flower and vegetable gardening, citriculture, interiorscaping, and others.

Theory and application of sexual and asexual propagation techniques. Considers plant materials used both for urban horticulture and ecological restoration applications.

Interactions between organisms and their environments; structure and dynamics of populations, communities, ecosystems, and landscapes, with emphasis on vegetation.

Natural animal behaviors during captive animal management including wild and domestic animal training and enrichment, exhibit design, husbandry, and livestock management.

Explores population biology, conservation genetics, habitat ecology, ecological communities, competition, invasive species, habitat fragmentation and connectivity, and other related topics. Students work in small groups to design, implement, and complete a field-based research project on the ASU Polytechnic campus.

Studies wildlife around the world including biogeography, biodiversity, conservation topics and the complexity of conserving wildlife in both developed and developing nations.

Principles of nutrient metabolism in animal species; emphasizes understanding the interaction of animals with their environment.

Important wildland plants, including invasive and endangered species, wildlife food species, and species used for ecosystem restoration such as rangeland revegetation and seeding.

Inventory, sampling and monitoring techniques of natural resources. Data evaluation and interpretation as related to management, restoration and conservation needs of natural resources.

Examines unique but also shared immunological characteristics of animals with the goal of understanding how different animals respond to microorganisms such as viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites. Presentation of material is guided by hierarchy of structural organization, using molecules, organelles, cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, whole animals and even ecosystems and the environment to convey important concepts related to our relationships with pathogens.

Hydrologic, physical, biological, and ecological principles applied to watershed management. Impact of ecosystem manipulations on water yield and quality.

Students learn about and practice the principles of sustainable horticulture in an arid climate. Includes capstone projects on sustainability issues related to horticultural practice in arid environments.

Evolution, classification, environmental, anatomical and physiological adaptations, ecology, and conservation of mammals worldwide. Emphasis on the identification, habitat relationships, conservation, and management techniques of Arizona and select North American mammals.

Systematics, evolution, ecology and life history of amphibians and reptiles emphasizing wildlife management methodologies.

Evolution, ecology, classification and life history of birds, emphasizing wildlife management methodologies.

Habitat management considerations and practices for small game and nongame wildlife species in North America.

Conservation and management issues focused on large mammals in North America. Topics include habitat ecology, nutrition, migration, predator-prey dynamics, trophic cascades, habitat management and restoration of populations.

Principles of ecosystem management, with emphasis on economic and policy constraints on the planning process. Risk assessment and management. Includes the process of complying with NEPA while developing rangeland management plans.

Principles of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) utilized in natural resource management. Use of computers for spatial inventory and analysis of natural resources.

Remote sensing is an important source of environmental information that can support a deeper understanding of trends and clarify management strategies in a wide range of ecological application. Focuses on the application of satellite and aerial/drone remote sensing in environmental science and management. With this basic background, course participants use remote sensing data to make spatial decision. Presents the concepts of biodiversity and wildlife management parallel to the remote sensing information. Image processing instruction and exercises begin with an analysis of digital imagery and proceed through the three broad classes of processing techniques: preprocessing, enhancement and information extraction.

Current literature and significant developments related to applications of the biological sciences. May be repeated for credit.

Dynamics of vegetation linking physiological, population, and community ecology. Collection and analysis of vegetation data.

Explores major concepts in population and community ecology with an emphasis on their application to the study and management of wildlife species. Explores the theory and sometimes controversial nature of these concepts in the form of lectures and discussions. Instructor and student workshops and oral presentations of student research.

Introduces the uses of accounting information focusing on the evolution of the business cycle and how accounting information is used for internal and external purposes.

Develops an understanding of the theory, concepts, principles and practices underlying preparation, interpretation, and use of external financial reports. Emphasizes interpreting the economic substance of events and transactions and their association with contemporaneous and prospective events, relationships, and outcomes. Gains understanding of the accounting information model and develops an ability to analyze and record business transactions and analyze basic financial statements. Meant for prospective accounting and finance majors (and students who plan current majors in these areas) and develops skills and abilities facilitating success in higher-level accounting courses.

Introduces the uses of accounting information focusing on the evolution of the business cycle and how accounting information is used for internal and external purposes.

Develops an understanding of the theory, concepts, principles, and practices underlying managerial accounting. Emphasizes three functions managers must perform within their organizations: plan operations, control activities, and make decisions. Explains what accounting information is necessary, how to collect it, and how to interpret it. Meant for prospective accounting and finance majors and students who plan current majors in these areas and develop skills and abilities facilitating success in higher-level accounting courses.

Covers basic financial accounting concepts and applications. Develops an understanding of the environment in which financial reporting choices are made.

Intermediate-level financial accounting course with in-depth focus on asset, liability and owner's equity measurement, revenue determination, investments accounting, lease accounting, financial statement preparation, presentation and analysis. Emphasizes the statement of cash flows and interpreting footnote disclosures. Where appropriate, compares International Financial Reporting Standards and U.S. GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles).

Covers internal reporting systems for planning, control, and decision making. Deals with conceptually and computationally understanding the various accounting, economic and/or business models, frameworks and methods in order to be more knowledgeable and literate in these areas while building overall stronger decision-making skills.

Explores accounting concepts through the application of data analytics. Focuses on developing an analytics mindset and learning how to use big data analytical tools to examine and analyze data, and then effectively interpreting results to make business decisions.

Equips students to understand, evaluate and participate in corporate governance. Surveys best practices in corporate governance including internal controls, enterprise risk management (ERM), fraud deterrence, and ethical organizational culture. Emphasizes the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) framework. Provides the necessary background and understanding of key internal control and ERM concepts and tools for corporate accountants.

Introduces nonbusiness majors to financial accounting concepts related to operating, financing, investing, and ethical decisions.

Focuses on core knowledge and skills essential to financial statement analysis. Topics covered include strategic ratio analysis, cash flow analysis, forecasting, pro-forma financial statements and firm valuation.

Covers the higher-level managerial accounting topics and uses of accounting data to assist corporate accountants in their plans and decisions regarding complex resource allocation, organizational control, and performance evaluation issues.

Federal income taxation of sole proprietors, partnerships, corporations, fiduciaries, and individuals with an emphasis on tax consequences of business and investment decisions.

Continuation of ACC 340 with emphasis on the recognition, research, and resolution of financial reporting issues.

Focuses on the flow of data through ERP systems and discusses the difference between several types of data and the flow of data from various transactions through the database.

Standards and procedures in auditing. Planning, evidence gathering and accumulation, and reporting. Ethical and legal considerations.

Integrates tax compliance, tax planning, accounting, economics and finance. Examines current tax rules while developing the ability to think about taxes in a way that is not specific to the current federal system.

Covers contemporary financial accounting and reporting systems; emphasizes the interpretation and evaluation of a company's external financial reports. Designed for students with limited business experience and without an undergraduate business degree.

Contemporary financial accounting and reporting systems; emphasizes the interpretation and evaluation of a company's external financial reports.

Managerial accounting concepts and procedures for internal reporting applied to the decision making activities of the professional managers.

Covers managerial accounting concepts and procedures for internal reporting applied to the decision-making activities of the professional managers. Designed for students with limited business experience and without an undergraduate business degree.

Addresses theories of probability and uncertainty through the use of statistics including descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analyses as well as regression and other models to support audit decisions and conclusions. This heavily quantitative course starts with a realization that probability and uncertainty can be alleviated (or compounded) with different statistical decision making and so starts with theories of probability and uncertainty to properly understand these concepts. Once these concepts are grounded, this class focuses on data, techniques and technologies that can aid in appropriate decision making with accounting. Emphasizes formulating real-world models--driven by descriptive, predictive and prescriptive statistics--to represent complex real-world accounting decision problems and on using a variety of tools to gain better insight into properly addressing these problems.

Addresses internal control frameworks and U.S. Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS) related to an auditor's consideration of internal controls for purposes of financial statement audits and audits of internal control over financial reporting. Covers various schemes pertaining to misappropriation of assets, corruption and fraudulent financial reporting.

Primarily the comprehensive study of financial accounting for income taxes. The core content focuses on ASC740, including preparation, review and audit of a corporate tax provision. Course is particularly valuable for students interested in a career in either audit or tax.

Builds on the skills obtained in the beginning auditing (assurance) course and focuses on audit planning, risk assessment, evidence, and reporting procedures and fraud.

Focuses on advanced financial accounting topics along with their application in the financial reporting process. Topical coverage includes consolidations, mergers and acquisitions, derivatives, foreign currency translation, fair value accounting, and equity-based compensation. Addresses the implications of these topics for earnings management and earnings quality.

Addresses analytics in accounting, auditing and tax contexts. Focuses on the introduction of methods and techniques to analyze data sets while also making it easier to interpret, present and utilize the results for financial decision making. Presents frameworks and approaches to equip students to recognize and interpret patterns in data and models and recommend actions. Teaches multiple concepts to improve decision making related to accounting data. Also serves as a practical introduction to the extraction, cleaning and transformation of data for accounting applications.

Addresses analytics in accounting, auditing and tax contexts. Focuses on the methods and techniques to analyze data sets while also making it easier to interpret, present and utilize the results for financial decision making. Presents additional frameworks and approaches to equip students to recognize and interpret patterns in data and models and recommend actions. Students learn multiple concepts to improve decision making related to accounting data. Also serves as a continuation of the extraction, cleaning and transformation of data for accounting applications.

Focuses on understanding the role of technology-related innovations on audits and auditing performance. Looks at both capturing data from recent innovations in technologies for audit applications (e.g., IoT) as well as examining the roles of these recent technology innovations for audit performance (e.g., cognitive computing).

Tax aspects of the formation, operation, reorganization, and liquidation of corporations and the impact on shareholders.

Tax aspects of the definition, formation, operation, liquidation, and termination of a partnership. Emphasizes tax planning.

Provides an understanding of family financial planning, individual income tax, taxation of wealth transfers during life (gifts) and at death (estate) with emphasis on identifying planning techniques to maximize family wealth and financial security for individuals and their families.

Federal tax issues and consequences, tax authority, property transactions and tax consequences of acquiring, holding and disposing of property.

Prepares accounting and finance-oriented students to lead organizations. Explores corporate governance topics including sustainability reporting and related ethical issues from the perspectives of accounting and finance professionals. Corporations employ different governance structures each with its strengths, weaknesses and differing ethical norms. Corporate governance is changing quickly now with thousands of companies that are incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues and metrics into their internal finance and accounting operations and their external reporting. Utilizes cases supplemented with articles (no textbook) along with substantial discussion and writing components.

Covers advanced topics in strategic implementation and control, stressing their application to real-world settings. Topics include performance measurement, the design of compensation plans, and the design of information-based control systems to build winning organizations. Utilizes case studies drawn from a wide range of firms in various industries and countries, emphasizing the use of critical thinking to interpret data for solving managerial problems. Should be of interest to anyone thinking of a career in a corporate setting, consulting and private equity. Should also be useful for those interested in public accounting to develop an understanding of client organizations.

Develops skills necessary to exploit financial reporting information in a business environment and appreciation of reporting issues faced by management.

Multistate taxation and interplay between multistate tax issues and federal and state constitutional limitations.

Applies the technical knowledge of accounting theory and principles developed in other academic courses through the use of "real life" case studies, where such knowledge and professional judgment is applied in resolving advanced accounting problems and issues.

Addresses the U.S. taxation of U.S. individuals and businesses that do business outside the U.S. as well as the U.S. taxation of foreign persons and tax treaties, allocation of income, foreign tax credits, and transfer pricing. Emphasizes planning related to some of the tax issues that commonly arise in cross-border businesses.

Concepts of problem solving, structured and object-oriented programming in Java, fundamental algorithms, computer system concepts. Social and ethical responsibilities.

Object-oriented programming using introductory algorithms and data structures. Overview of concepts in computer science.

Static and dynamic data structures, recursive and iterative sorting and searching, object-oriented design and programming, software design models and implementation/testing strategies, professional responsibilities.

Entity-relationship and relational data models. Database design theory. Relational algebra, calculus and SQL query languages. Query optimization. XML fundamentals. Transactions, recovery and concurrency control.

Network architecture and protocols, principles of network applications, socket programming, flow and congestion control, switching and routing, link-layer technologies, traffic capture and analysis, security.

Fundamental principles of network forensics and traffic analysis, evidence acquisition, network intrusion detection and analysis, anomaly detection and analysis, malicious activity detection, network tunneling, and malware forensics.

Introduces operating systems as resource managers, processes, threads, memory allocation, file systems, protection, system calls, application program interfaces.

Secure software development process including designing secure applications, writing secure code that can withstand attacks, and security testing and auditing. Focuses on the security issues a developer faces, common security vulnerabilities and flaws, and security threats. Explains security principles, strategies, coding techniques and tools that can help make code more resistant to attacks. Students write and analyze code that demonstrates specific security development techniques.

Experience within the context of current faculty research projects. Student is assigned responsibility depending on qualifications.

Computational and machine learning methods to extract insights from data: data collection, data cleaning and transformation, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, and machine learning (supervised and unsupervised) algorithms.

Comprehensive course on wireless networks and security covering current industry standards, protocols, research and future trends. Topics include fundamentals of wireless communications, wireless LAN configuration and analysis, wireless security and cellular networks. Sets the groundwork for students to acquire professional certifications such as CWNA, CWAP and CWSP.

Digital threats and attacks, cryptography, confidentiality, authentication protocols, message integrity, security in network applications, intrusion detection, malicious software countermeasures, firewalls.

Distributed system models, distributed programming technique, clock synchronization, distributed snapshot, distributed mutual exclusion, concurrency control, fault tolerance, security, recent advances.