2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Sep 27, 2024  
2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived]

Courses


 
  
  • COMM 483 - Gender Communication


    3 credits

    Description
    This course examines the significant role of gender in human communication behaviors and culture. Students explore how sex roles and gender identity are enacted in social spaces and daily life and how they reflect normative and resistant cultural practices. The relationships of gender to other aspects of identity (ethnicity, class, sexuality) are also examined. Students will be expected to analyze real-world interactions.

    Note
    Open to graduate students. Graduate students are required to do additional work of a research nature.




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  • COMM 492 - Professional Internship in Communication


    3-6 credits

    Description
    This course provides qualified students with the opportunity to earn course credit while gaining experience in work environments related to professional careers in Communication.

     

    Prerequisites
    2.75 cumulative major or minor Comm gpa; minimum 61 earned credits at time of registration for the course; instructor approved contract.

    Repeatable
    Students may earn up to 12 credit hours as internships; however, a maximum of 6 credit hours will be accepted to meet elective requirements in the major.


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  • COMM 495 - Senior Capstone


    3 credits

    Description
    The Department of Communication aims to prepare articulate, adaptable, creative, ethical, and civic-minded communication professionals who are prepared to act as culturally competent leaders in their communities, workplaces, and everyday lives.  In this course, students will reflect upon, integrate, and synthesize the diverse theories, concepts, processes, and practices they have engaged through their work in communication primarily through a collaborative experiential learning project.  Along with developmental activities and a comprehensive exam, course work seeks to enhance the scholarly, personal, civic, and professional development of our graduating seniors. 

     

     

    Prerequisites
    COMM 204, 209, 211, 220, 290, 312, and 459


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  • COUN 310 - Transition from College to Career: Career Development and Job Search Strategies


    3 credits

    Description
    The purpose of this course is to engage students in career decision making, job search skills, and the transition to a professional career. The course provides opportunities and resources for students to seek career information related to their occupational pursuits and to form the foundation for sound career decision making. Students are guided through individual and group exercises that assist in identifying values, strengths, and abilities as well as resources to help them through the job search process and be successful in the first 6 months of their new employment.

    Note
    This course prepares students to effectively transition from college into a professional work environment. Students learn how to use their skills, values, and academic preparation to initiate a successful job search and transition smoothly into their new work environment.
     




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  • CRIM 100 - Individuals, Societies, and Justice


    3 credits

    Description
    Explores deviance, crime, law, justice, and civic life from historical, comparative, social science and contemporary cultural perspectives. This course introduces students to the broad foundations of interdisciplinary knowledge emphasizing the importance and function of ethical decision-making, social responsibility, and the effects of law and justice through complementary social science disciplines and experiential learning.

    Foundational Studies Credit
    [FS 2010: Ethics and Social Responsibility]


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  • CRIM 355 - The Economics of Crime


    3 credits

    Description
    This course surveys the intersection of two areas of human behavior: criminal and economic. Social science methodology and basic concepts from economics and criminology are reviewed. An economics framework is applied to analyze criminal behavior and to evaluate the economic burden that crime imposes on a society. Lessons are applied to specific types of crime: property, white collar, illegal markets, and organized crime.

    Prerequisites
    CRIM 200.

    Restrictions
    Upper Division Electives require 45 earned credit hours or more at time of registration.

    Foundational Studies Credit
    [FS 2010: Upper Division Integrative Elective]

    Cross-listed
    Also listed as ECON 355.


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  • CRIM 375 - Victimology


    3 credits

    Description
    This course provides an in-depth study of the many facets of crime victimization. Coverage will include the key social, economic, and demographic variables associated with crime victims as well as the differences in response to victimization in the United States and other countries. Crime victim assistance programs, victim compensation, and victim participation in the criminal justice process will be covered. Discussion will also include victim-oriented policy, legislation, and case law.

    Prerequisites
    6 hours of criminology or consent of instructor


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  • CS 452 - Software Engineering


    3 credits

    Description
    This course studies the software life cycle: specification, object-oriented programming and design, program development, validation, testing, debugging, documentation, maintenance, revision control, CASE tools.

    The course serves as a culminating experience in the CS major. Students complete a significant software project during the course that ties together much of what has been learned in other CS courses. Students give a presentation describing and demonstrating their project; these presentations are open to the rest of the department.

    Prerequisites
    Senior standing and a grade of C or better in CS 202, or consent of instructor.

    Note
    Open to graduate students. Graduate students are required to do additional work of a research nature.




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  • CS 456 - Systems Programming


    3 credits

    Description
    An introduction to both program translation and operating systems. There will be a survey of topics such as: top-down and bottom-up parsing, scanning, code generation, symbol table management, linkers and loaders, batch processing systems, interacting processes, multiprogramming systems, and memory management.

    Prerequisites
    A grade of C or better in CS 202 or consent of instructor.

    Note
    Open to graduate students. Graduate students are required to do additional work of a research nature.




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  • CS 457 - Data Base Processing


    3 credits

    Description
    Data independence, relational model, relational algebra and calculus, query languages and SQL, conceptual modeling, database design, data dependencies and normalization, access methods, tables, queries, forms, macros and reports, database administration, introduction to transaction processing, concurrent transactions, and recovery. Case studies of commercial database systems such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.

    Prerequisites
    A grade of C or better in CS 202 and CS 303

    Note
    Open to graduate students. Graduate students are required to do additional work of a research nature.




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  • CS 458 - Algorithms


    3 credits

    Description
    Among the topics covered are: review of basic data structures and their implementations; graphs, both directed and undirected; analysis of algorithms; sorting, searching, and merging, both internal and external methods; memory management algorithms; mathematical algorithms; and, as time allows, advanced topics such as NP-complete problems.

    Prerequisites
    A grade of C or better in both CS 202 and CS 303, or consent of instructor.

    Note
    Open to graduate students. Graduate students are required to do additional work of a research nature.




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  • CS 469 - Unix/Linux Administration and Networking


    3 credits

    Description
    Includes installation and configuration of Unix/Linux operating system software; set-up of hardware and software for Unix/Linux networking including TCP/IP, FTP, Telnet, DNS, DHCP, and Apache; Unix/Linux administration tasks including directories, users, tuning, backup, security, and networking.

    Prerequisites
    A grade of C or better in CS 201 or consent of instructor.

    Note
    Open to graduate students. Graduate students are required to do additional work of a research nature.




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  • CS 470 - Programming Languages


    3 credits

    Description
    The purpose of the course is to develop an understanding of the organization of programming languages and introduce the formal study of programming language specification and analysis. Topics covered usually include: language definition structure, data types and structures, control structures and data flow, run-time consideration, interpretative languages, lexical analysis, and parsing.

    Prerequisites

    A grade of C or better in CS 202 or consent of instructor.

    Note
    Open to graduate students. Graduate students are required to do additional work of a research nature.




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