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Course Descriptions

 
  

  • CAS 340 - Identity and Storytelling Through Documentary Film

    3 Credit Hours
    The power of documentary storytelling comes alive as we look at it through a lens of social activism and personal transformation.  Students will be exposed to interviewing and transcription techniques, learn the value of active listening in interviewing and engage with the local community by serving at a human services agency that works with immigrants. At the completion of the course, student work will be showcased through an exhibit to complement the Lund-Gill Lecture. 

  

  • CAS 344 - Health Literacy and Communication

    3 Credit Hours
    The work in this course will explore the role of communication in matters of health literacy, acquaint students with a broad understanding of health literacy in the United States, and examine the lived experiences of patients, families, and providers through theoretical constructs from the discipline of communication. This class focuses on applying health literacy principles to real life health phenomenon, in clinical encounters, as well as in community and public health contexts with an emphasis on underserved and vulnerable populations. CS
     

  

  • CAS 349 - Photojournalism

    3 Credit Hours
    In this course students will learn the basic elements of visual communication, reporting, and storytelling through digital photography. J

    Listed also as ART 359 .

    Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing.
  

  • CAS 350 - Persuasion

    3 Credit Hours
    This class applies social psychological theories to the construction of persuasive messages. Students learn how to conduct qualitative and quantitative audience analysis and to design visual and oral persuasive messages based on their research and social psychological theories. Analysis, synthesis, and communication skills are stressed. CC, RC/CS

  

  • CAS 351 - Propaganda

    3 Credit Hours
    This course examines the nature, use, history, and ethics of propaganda in modern society. Students will study how governments and movements harness the mass media to further their agendas, and how others try to resist and subvert it. J

    Listed also as SOC 351 .

    Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or consent of instructor.
  

  • CAS 352 - Social Media Campaigns

    3 Credit Hours
    This course focuses on a discussion of production practices that use multiple media technologies for strategic communication goals. During the course, case studies of these practices are discussed for journalism, marketing, and entertainment. Students will learn how to produce a strategic communication message across different media technologies. CC, J

    Prerequisite(s): CAS 234  
  

  • CAS 353 - Film and Fairytales

    3 Credit Hours
    This course will look at films like The Red Shoes, Beauty and the Beast, and Edward Scissorhands. Topics include the history and purpose of fairytales and how they have changed over time. The films will be approached in terms of politics, psychoanalysis, and gender.

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
  

  • CAS 356 - Reporting

    3 Credit Hours
    This class builds on the reporting, writing, and editing skills learned in CAS 256 - News Media Writing . Students will report real stories on deadline and publish their articles, photos and videos on the web. J

    Prerequisite(s): CAS 256 .
  

  • CAS 358 - Gender and Media

    3 Credit Hours
    All cultures recognize differences between the sexes. Yet “masculinity” and “femininity” are understood by anthropologists to be culturally determined. This course looks at theories and instances of gender differences as they are articulated in mass-mediated popular culture discourses. It considers the relationship between gender and genre, explores advertising and consumer ideologies, and considers historical and contemporary film, television, and print media texts. RC/CS

    Listed also as SWG 358 .
  

  • CAS 361 - Industrial/Organizational Psychology

    3 Credit Hours
    CC

    Listed also as PSYC 360 .

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 290  or QUAN 201 , or consent of instructor.
  

  • CAS 364 - Special Topics in Health Communication

    3 Credit Hours
    The course will focus on special topics of interest in health communication. Topics for this course will vary.

  

  • CAS 373 - Film Comedy

    3 Credit Hours
    This course is an overview of film comedy beginning with silent clowns like Charlie Chaplin through the sound pictures of the Marx Brothers and ending with a look at contemporary black and female performers. Discussion will include the unique aspects of film comedy, political implications, bromance, the use of obscenity, parody, and other topics.

    Listed also as AMST 386  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
  

  • CAS 385 - Politics and Film

    3 Credit Hours
    Listed also as POSC 262 
  

  • CAS 406 - Strategic Risk and Crisis Communication

    3 Credit Hours
     This course highlights the role of theory in risk communication, issue management, crisis communication, and image repair discourse. Students will learn to think strategically about the role of media in crisis communication planning and gain appreciation for the value of preparing for a crisis. Collaboration, team-learning and problem solving in risk and crisis situations will all be explored through inclass exercises and simulations. Students will also consider the legal and ethical issues that are often present and managed by crisis communication professionals.  
     

    Listed also as HLTC 753 .
  

  • CAS 411 - Newspaper Practicum

    3 Credit Hours
    Students will lead the Dominican Star newspaper and related online productions. J

    Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor.
  

  • CAS 435 - Communication Capstone

    3 Credit Hours
    This capstone course will provide students in the communication department with the opportunity to integrate the knowledge and skills they have acquired in their courses to engage in practical communication-related activities and an advanced capstone project related to their major. Additionally, this course will provide students with the opportunity to explore potential careers and post-undergraduate opportunities.

    Prerequisite(s): Communication studies and corporate communication majors need to have completed CAS 204  and CAS 262 . Digital Journalism majors need to have completed CAS 204  and CAS 356 . Students must have successfully completed a minimum of 15-credit hours in the communication arts and sciences department before they can enroll in this class.
  

  • CAS 450 - Independent Study

    1-8 Credit Hours
    Open to majors with the consent of the instructor.

  

  • CAS 455 - Internship

    1-8 Credit Hours
    Independent study, internships, and practicum courses are offered in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences for from 1 to 8 semester hours of total credit; however, at least 28 of the 48 minimum number of semester hours required for the major must come from traditional academic courses. Practicum courses, moreover, may be offered for no more than 2 semester hours of credit during any single semester, may be taken only on a satisfactory/fail basis, and require explicit permission of the instructor.

  

  • CATH 103 - Introduction to Roman Catholicism

    3 Credit Hours
    In this course, students will study the central beliefs and practices of Roman Catholicism using the sources and methods of theology. Students will also consider how other disciplines (e.g., the arts, the social sciences) illuminate dimensions of this multifaceted tradition. This course stands alone as a survey course of Roman Catholicism and as a foundation for further exploration through the Catholic Studies Program.

    Listed also as THEO 103 .

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
  

  • CATH 395 - Independent Research or Creative Investigation

    3 Credit Hours
    Independent Research or Creative Investigation is a course in which students collaborate with faculty mentors on an ongoing faculty research project or conduct an independent project under the guidance of a faculty member. This directed undergraduate research or creative investigation culminates in a capstone essay or other creative/scholarly project that will satisfy the Catholic Studies Minor capstone requirement.

    Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior Standing and consent of instructor.
  

  • CATH 410 - McGreal Center Research Practicum

    3 Credit Hours
    Students will develop and execute a semester-long research project making use of the McGreal Center archives on Dominican History in the U.S under the direction of the center’s director. This course will satisfy the Catholic Studies Minor capstone requirement.

    Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
  

  • CATH 495 - Independent Research or Creative Investigation

    3 Credit Hours
    Independent Research or Creative Investigation is a course in which students collaborate with faculty mentors on an ongoing faculty research project or conduct an independent project under the guidance of a faculty member. This directed undergraduate research or creative investigation culminates in a capstone essay or other creative/scholarly project that will satisfy the Catholic Studies Minor capstone requirement.

    Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior Standing and consent of instructor.
  

  • CHEM 101 - Introductory General Chemistry

    3 Credit Hours , 1 Lab Hours
    Introductory chemistry course intended primarily for nutrition sciences majors and non-science majors. This course is particularly suited for those who wish to fulfill the general liberal arts requirement in science by increasing their interest in and concern for the relationship of chemistry to life and society. Includes lecture (3 hours) and laboratory (1 hour). Students in degree programs who have not already completed the laboratory must take the lecture and laboratory concurrently; laboratory requires concurrent enrollment in the lecture.

    Prerequisite(s): one year of high school algebra

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in natural sciences.
  

  • CHEM 104 - Introductory Organic Chemistry

    3 Credit Hours , 1 Lab Hours
    An elementary course that focuses on the role of structure in chemical identity, the reactivity of organic compounds, and the application of reactivity and structure to the understanding of living systems and natural phenomena. Recommended for nutrition sciences and nursing majors. Includes lecture (3 hours) and laboratory (1 hour). Students in degree programs who have not already completed the laboratory must take the lecture and laboratory concurrently; laboratory requires concurrent enrollment in the lecture.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 101  or CHEM 120  with a minimum grade of C-.
  

  • CHEM 120 - General Chemistry I

    3 Credit Hours , 1 Lab Hours
    Fundamental principles of chemistry, including atomic theory, stoichiometry, classification of reactions, states of matter, bonding theory, and molecular shape. Intended primarily for science majors and post-baccalaureate pre-medical certification students. Includes lecture (3 hours) and laboratory (1 hour). Students in degree programs who have not already completed the laboratory must take the lecture and laboratory concurrently; laboratory requires concurrent enrollment in the lecture.

    Prerequisite(s): One year of high school chemistry or CHEM 101  with a grade of C- or higher; MATH 130  or placement into MATH 250  or MATH 261 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in natural sciences.
  

  • CHEM 121 - General Chemistry II

    3 Credit Hours , 1 Lab Hours
    A continuation of CHEM 120  including aqueous solution equilibria, kinetics, thermodynamics, and nuclear chemistry. Lecture (3 hours) and laboratory (1 hour) must be completed concurrently.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 120  with a minimum grade of C-.
  

  • CHEM 221 - Environmental Chemistry

    3 Credit Hours
    Basic principles of aquatic, atmospheric, and lithospheric chemistry, including the source, fate and reactivity of compounds in natural and polluted environments.

    Listed also as NSC 221  and ENVS 221 .

    Prerequisite(s): One year of high school chemistry.

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in natural sciences.
  

  • CHEM 222 - Topics in Lab Safety

    1 Lab Hours
    This course will focus on safety education for students pursuing undergraduate chemistry research or careers in fields where chemicals and chemical processes are involved. In this course, we will address the areas of safety awareness, health and safety information, and safety procedures and standards. Course methods will involve lecture, onsite laboratory observations, and guest speakers when possible. This course will be a required prerequisite or corequisite for students pursuing an independent undergraduate research or creative investigation project in chemistry.

    Prerequisite(s): One year of high school chemistry.
  

  • CHEM 223 - Introduction to Clinical Chemistry

    3 Credit Hours 1 Lab Hours

    This course offers an introduction to the theoretical chemistry principles as they apply to the diagnostic techniques and procedures of the Clinical Laboratory. Primary focus will be on student understanding of methods of testing and the clinical correlation to disease states, preventive medicine, and healthcare. Major topics covered will include electrolytes and acid base balance, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, enzymes, metabolites, endocrine function, and toxicology. Additional topics will include laboratory certification, quality control, and bio-safety.

    The lab portion of the course will provide an introduction to the various tests performed in the clinical chemistry laboratory, presenting the physiological basis, principle and procedure, and clinical significance of test results, including quality control and reference values. Weekly experiments will cover a variety of clinical tests including blood type, glucose, vital minerals, kidney function, and toxicology testing.

    Lecture (3 hours) and lab (1 hours); students enrolled in the lab must be concurrently enrolled in the lecture.

    Listed also as NSC 223  

    Prerequisite(s): One year of high school chemistry or CHEM 101 .

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in natural sciences.
  

  • CHEM 224 - Cosmetic Chemistry

    3 Credit Hours
    Societies throughout history have employed various forms of cosmetics and toiletries to improve appearance, scent and health. Ancient civilizations used cosmetics for purposes as varied as religious rituals and class demarcation. Though used for different purposes, cosmetics have remained a historical constant from the ancient Egyptians to modern-day Americans. Today, the cosmetic industry is a multibillion-dollar enterprise that relies on chemists (and other scientists) to accomplish a multitude of key functions. This course covers topics related to developing, formulating, manufacturing, testing, and marketing cosmetics and personal care products such as lipstick, eye shadow, shampoo, hair coloring, and other products for adults, children and babies.  It will also be a source for information on personal care products: how they work, their safety, and the science behind their ingredients.

    Prerequisite(s): One year of high school chemistry.

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in natural sciences.
  

  • CHEM 225 - A Cosmos of Color

    3 Credit Hours
    This course will explore the history, science and social expressions of color. Scientifically, color is created by the interactions between light and matter. We will study 1) the physical nature of color production, 2) the biological process of perceiving and interpreting color, 3) the role of color in personal expression, 4) the function of color in biases, and 5) the structures of institutional oppression and injustice linked to the production of colorants.

    Listed also as BWS 226  

    Prerequisite(s): One year of high school chemistry.

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in natural sciences.

    This course will satisfy the core requirement in multicultural studies.
  

  • CHEM 253 - Organic Chemistry I

    4 Credit Hours , 1 Lab Hours
    An introduction to the study of carbon compounds. Topics include synthesis, structure, stereo-chemistry, reaction mechanisms, and the use of spectroscopy in the study of carbon compounds. Includes lecture (4 hours) and laboratory (1 hour). Students in degree programs who have not already completed the laboratory must take the lecture and laboratory concurrently; laboratory requires concurrent enrollment in the lecture.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 121  with a minimum grade of C-.
  

  • CHEM 254 - Organic Chemistry II

    4 Credit Hours , 1 Lab Hours
    A continuation of CHEM 253 with further studies on synthesis, structure, and reaction of carbon compounds. Includes lecture (4 hours) and laboratory (1 hour). Students in degree programs who have not already completed the laboratory must take the lecture and laboratory concurrently; laboratory requires concurrent enrollment in the lecture. 

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 253  with a minimum grade of C-.
  

  • CHEM 256 - Natural Products Chemistry in Traditional Medicine and Modern Health Care

    3 Credit Hours
    This course will explore the religious, ethnic, and scientific interactions of health care originating from diverse practices such as African, Amerindian, Eastern, and Western medical traditions. Herbal medicines create a connection between ancient health care practices and modern allopathic medicine. Living organisms continue to be a rich source of therapeutic preparations in the practice of both mainstream and alternative medicines. The scientific approach to the discovery, classification, and testing of pharmacological agents present in natural sources will be investigated. Lecture only.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 253  with a minimum grade of C-.
  

  • CHEM 291 - Forensic Chemical Analysis

    3 Credit Hours
    The evidence collected at a crime scene can often tell the true story of the criminal act if interpreted properly. This course covers various criminalistic detection and analysis techniques involving DNA, fiber, hair, body fluids, pigments, fingerprints, footprints, toxic substances, and illegal drugs. Analytical techniques such as qualitative chemical analysis, refractive index, infra-red spectroscopy, UV/VIS spectrophotometry, microscopy, mass spectrometry, thin layer chromatography, and gas chromatography will be introduced, explained, and practiced. The proper handling of evidence, careful observation, and logical interpretation of crime scene evidence will also be stressed.

    Listed also as NSC 260 .

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 253  or CHEM 104 .
  

  • CHEM 295 - Independent Undergraduate Research or Creative Investigation

    1-3 Credit Hours
  

  • CHEM 351 - Medicinal Chemistry

    3 Credit Hours
    Structures, models of action, and physicochemical properties of drugs. General approach to the design and evaluation of new drugs.

    Prerequisite(s): Either CHEM 254  or CHEM 255  with a minimum grade of C- or concurrent enrollment.
  

  • CHEM 352 - Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior

    3 Credit Hours
    This class will examine drugs and drug use from a variety of perspectives: pharmacological, clinical, behavioral, historical, social, and legal. It will also provide the latest information on drug use and its effects on society as well as on the individual. This class will cover many timely topics such as: 1) drugs and drug use today, 2) regulation of pharmaceuticals, 3) marketing a new drug, 4) drug actions, 5) the nervous system, 6) drugs and the brain, 7) stimulants, and 8) chemical theories of behavior.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 254  or concurrent enrollment.
  

  • CHEM 360 - Biochemistry

    3 Credit Hours
    An intermediate level general biochemistry course focusing on the four major classes of bio-molecules (proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and lipids), their characteristics and their functions in living systems. Lecture only.

    Prerequisite(s): Either CHEM 254  or CHEM 255  with a minimum grade of C- or concurrent enrollment.
  

  • CHEM 361 - Biochemistry Laboratory

    1 Lab Hours
    The central techniques and practices related to the four major classes of biomolecules (proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and lipids) are addressed, including spectrophotometry, enzyme kinetics, chromatography, liquid-liquid extraction and optical rotation. Laboratory and discussion only.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 360  with a grade of C- or higher (or concurrent enrollment).
  

  • CHEM 371 - Physical Chemistry I

    3 Credit Hours 1 Lab Hours
    Principles of theoretical chemistry, thermodynamics, kinetic theory, solutions, electrochemistry, kinetics, quantum theory. Lecture (3 hours) and lab (1 hour).

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 121  with a minimum grade of C- and PHYS 221 -PHYS 222 .
  

  • CHEM 372 - Physical Chemistry II

    3 Credit Hours 1 Lab Hours
    Principles of theoretical chemistry, thermodynamics, kinetic theory, solutions, electrochemistry, kinetics, quantum theory. Lecture (3 hours) and lab (1 hour).

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 371  with a minimum grade of C-.
  

  • CHEM 380 - Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

    3 Credit Hours
    A study of the elements and their inorganic compounds with particular emphasis on their structure, bonding, periodic trends, synthesis, and their reactions and mechanisms. Lecture.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 121  with a minimum grade of C-.
  

  • CHEM 390 - Advanced Analytical Chemistry

    4 Credit Hours
    Advanced analytical chemistry is a survey of modern methods of chemical analysis, with a particular emphasis on the operating principles and applications of analytical instruments. Measurements are a vital part of all modern science, and analytical chemistry has played a particularly important role in many of the most significant technological advances of the past 20 years. This course will thus include both detailed descriptions of the science of chemical analysis as well as discussions of applications in areas such as molecular biology, materials science, environmental and earth sciences, pharmaceuticals, and nutrition and human health. Topics include: 1) calibration of analytical instruments, 2) data acquisition and signal enhancement; 3) optical spectroscopy methods and instrumentation; 4) atomic and molecular mass spectrometry; 5) chromatography and electrophoresis; 6) electrochemistry. Lecture and laboratory.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 121  with a minimum grade of C-.
  

  • CHEM 391 - Instrumental Analysis

    4 Credit Hours
    The aim of the course is to introduce you to the main methods of instrumental analysis. You will gain an understanding of the chemical principles behind the instrumental techniques, a working knowledge of instrument operation, and cognizance of the applications of instrumental analysis. Given the rapid growth in the type and complexity of chemical instrumentation, it would be difficult to cover every technique available. However, this course should provide you with the fundamental background on the workings of many important types of instruments that you will likely encounter in the future, including absorption and emission spectroscopy, electrochemical techniques, and chromatographic separation. Lecture and laboratory.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 390  
  

  • CHEM 395 - Independent Undergraduate Research or Creative Investigation

    1-3 Credit Hours
  

  • CHEM 455 - Internship

    1-8 Credit Hours
    Introductory, Intermediate, Advanced, Senior Thesis Independent Research or Creative Investigation is a course in which students collaborate with faculty mentors on an ongoing faculty research project or conduct an independent project under the guidance of a faculty member. This directed undergraduate research or creative investigation culminates in a conference presentation, journal article, or other creative/scholarly project.  Independent Undergraduate Research or Creative Investigation courses will not count towards advanced electives.

  

  • CHEM 495 - Independent Undergraduate Research or Creative Investigation

    1-3 Credit Hours
  

  • CHS 260 - Introduction to Human Pathophysiology

    3 Credit Hours
    This course focuses on the pathophysiology, etiology, and associated clinical findings of selected diseases. Diseases include those selected from the Health People 2020 objectives according to their prevalence. Acquisition of this core knowledge and its application in clinical nursing practice and health sciences are emphasized. 

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 101   or CHEM 120 ; BIOL 252  (or concurrent enrollment).
  

  • CHS 400 - Disability as Diversity: Implications for Health, Wellness and Medicine

    3 Credit Hours
    This course is designed to provide information on best practices, perspectives, and engagement to broaden understanding of health care system practices, experiences and health/wellness needs for/of individuals with disabilities. Explores a multilayered and interdisciplinary approach to understanding disability models and individual experiences to reframe access, advocacy and empowerment in health, wellness and medicine for individuals with disabilities. Examines historical and contemporary issues for individuals with disabilities and their families from the healthcare, wellness, and medical fields. Includes a civic engagement requirement. Offered Variable Semesters.

    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or consent of instructor.
  

  • CHS 500 - Disability as Diversity: Implications for Health, Wellness and Medicine

    3 Credit Hours
    This course is designed to provide information on best practices, perspectives, and engagement to broaden understanding of health care system practices, experiences and health/wellness needs for/of individuals with disabilities. Explores a multilayered and interdisciplinary approach to understanding disability models and individual experiences to reframe access, advocacy and empowerment in health, wellness and medicine for individuals with disabilities. Examines historical and contemporary issues for individuals with disabilities and their families from the healthcare, wellness, and medical fields. Includes a civic engagement requirement. Requires advanced research and readings. Offered Variable Semesters

    Prerequisite(s): Graduate status.
  

  • CIS 120 - Introduction to Computer Applications

    3 Credit Hours
    An introduction to computer applications and their use in today’s world. This course emphasizes a hands-on approach and uses some of the leading software applications available for personal computers today. Major topics include word processing, spreadsheets, and database management systems. The course also covers creating web pages and electronic portfolios, cloud document applications, video editing, and presentation software.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 120  or placement above MATH 120 .
  

  • CIS 246 - Creating Mobile Apps

    3 Credit Hours
    Students in this course will explore and utilize tools that enable the creation of mobile apps.  Students will build apps for a variety of devices, including the Google Android, Apple iPhone, and Windows Mobile devices.  Students will also acquire an understanding of mobile app design and implementation issues, as well as an appreciation for the advantages and limitations of various mobile app building tools available today.

    Prerequisite(s): CIS 120  
  

  • CPSC 140 - Introduction to Computer Programming for Non-Majors

    3 Credit Hours

    NOTE: This course is designed for interested students who are not planning a computer science major or minor.  It does not count toward the computer science major or minor.

    An introduction to the principles and practice of computer programming using a modern high-level object-oriented programming language.  Students will design, program, and debug programs of increasing complexity while learning about important concepts such as variables and data types, arrays, input/output, iteration, conditionals, functions, and file handling. This course assumes no prior programming experience.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 120  or placement above MATH 120 .
  

  • CPSC 155 - Computer Programming

    3 Credit Hours
    An object early introduction to programming. The course emphasizes the fundamentals of object-oriented programming (classes, objects, methods, inheritance, libraries, encapsulation) and at the same time introduces other software engineering and programming concepts (conditional statements, iteration, input/output, arrays, types, files, collections, GUIs).

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 120  or placement by exam above MATH 120 .
  

  • CPSC 165 - Computer Programming II - Data Structures

    3 Credit Hours
    This course focuses on commonly used data structures, including stacks, queues, linked lists, and binary search trees. Students will study each data structure’s design and implementation, use data structures in applications, and consider data structures from a comparative perspective. Topics covered include array handling, sorting and searching algorithms, recursion, inheritance, abstract classes, and interfaces.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 155 .
  

  • CPSC 220 - Discrete Structures

    3 Credit Hours
    This course is designed to introduce students to the topics from discrete mathematics that are relevant to computer science. The topics include propositional and predicate logic, number systems, sets, functions and relations, mathematical deduction and induction, combination and permutation, probability, and graph theory. All topics are presented with their practical programming implementations.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 155
  

  • CPSC 245 - Operating Systems

    3 Credit Hours
    This course provides an introduction to computer operating systems and their role, organization, and control. Topics discussed include resource allocation and management, scheduling algorithms, process management, memory management, process synchronization mechanisms, concurrent programming, and techniques employed in multiprogramming and multiprocessing environments. In addition, a special emphasis is placed on contemporary operating systems.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 165 .
  

  • CPSC 275 - Windows-Based Application Development

    3 Credit Hours
    Students will learn how to create Windows-based applications using Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. This course teaches the fundamental concepts behind these applications including event-driven programming, using the C# language. Students will also create front ends to databases and write programs that interact with Microsoft Office software. Students will also be introduced to the Python language, and get experience “scraping” websites to collect data using Python.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 165 .
  

  • CPSC 280 - Web Development

    3 Credit Hours
    Students will design and develop web sites using client-side web technologies. The course provides an overview of clients and servers, browsers, scripting, and multimedia web applications. The primary focus of the course is the development of websites using client technologies including HTML5 and CSS3, JavaScript, Bootstrap, and jQuery. Time permitting, additional topics will include some database applications and an introduction to web commerce applications, basic ASP.NET and Ajax.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 155  and sophomore standing.
  

  • CPSC 285 - Database Design and Programming

    3 Credit Hours
    The study of relational database systems. Topics include SQL, the relational model, security, normalization, functional dependency and entity relationship diagrams, database design, recovery, transaction processing, ethics, and client server systems. The course also covers DBMS packages, report generators, and the use of Visual Studio and .NET languages as a front-end to database systems.

    Prerequisite(s): CIS 120  and CPSC 275 
  

  • CPSC 299 - Community-Based Learning

    1 Lab Hours
    Students will perform computer-related volunteer work for one semester under the supervision of an instructor. Students will work for at least 45 hours on their service learning project. This course can only be taken on a satisfactory/fail basis.

    Prerequisite(s): CIS 120  and CPSC 280 .
  

  • CPSC 320 - Information Security

    3 Credit Hours
    This course is an examination of information security, including discussion of network security and application security. The course covers the theory and practice of information security, including security principles, practices, methods, and tools. The course covers the spectrum of information security, from risk assessment to preventing, detecting, and responding to breaches of security.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 165 .
  

  • CPSC 321 - Web Development II

    3 Credit Hours
    Students will continue to design and develop server-side web applications with a focus on server- side technologies. Students will code applications using PHP and ASP.NET CORE MVC, with a focus on web applications that create front ends for databases.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 275 ,  CPSC 280 , CPSC 285   (or concurrent enrollment), and junior standing.
  

  • CPSC 323 - Advanced Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis

    3 Credit Hours
    This course focuses on the design and analysis of efficient algorithms. Major topics include advanced data structures; tree- balancing algorithms; graph theory; dynamic programming; additional techniques for sorting and searching, including hash coding techniques; automata theory; NP-completeness, and program verification.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 165  and ( CPSC 220  or MATH 240  or MATH 262  )
  

  • CPSC 336 - Computer Gaming

    3 Credit Hours
    This course introduces basic concepts of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional game development.  The genres of 2D games discussed here include maze games, platform games, scrolling shooter games, decision-making games, multiplayer games, and two-dimensional multiplayer network-based games that are implemented on LANs and WANs. In the 3D realm, we apply isomorphic and depth techniques to implement games having a 3D appearance, while also discussing how to develop a ’true’ 3D first person shooter game that employs 3-D graphics. Throughout the course, techniques for adding sound, 2D and 3D graphics, and ‘viewing’, animations, particle systems, and ancillary features (e.g. images from a DVD) to games are also presented. In implementing games, the student uses a software game-development package called GameMaker Studio. While the target platform for the games developed in the classroom is a Windows based laptop or desktop machine, discussion is given for implementing the games on other devices. 

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 165  
  

  • CPSC 340 - Network Programming

    3 Credit Hours
    This course focuses on developing Windows software that communicates over the Internet. The course will cover creating network connections and using standard protocols for communicating information over those connections, as well as creating our own. It will cover technology like XML and JSON for sending that information, as well as multi-threading and asynchronous calls to allow the programs to perform other tasks while they communicate. We will discuss and implement encryption and secure passwords to secure the communication. Additionally, the course will introduce some related technologies such as web scraping and cloud computing.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 275 .
  

  • CPSC 361 - Computer Architecture

    3 Credit Hours
    This course presents an introduction to the functional elements and structures of digital computers. Topics include basic gates and circuits, CPU design and organization, registers, buses, I/O device interfaces, hardware interrupts, pipelining, memory structures and organizations.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 165  and MATH 240 .
  

  • CPSC 415 - Advanced Database Development

    3 Credit Hours
    This course explores advanced topics in client server and database development. It covers the programming and administration of database systems and includes views, stored procedures, triggers, indexes, constraints, security, roles, logs, maintenance, transaction processing, XML, reporting, and other relevant topics. Students will be exposed to several database packages and will do considerable database programming.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 285 
  

  • CPSC 416 - Data Mining

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to basic concepts behind data mining. Survey of data mining applications, techniques and models. Discussion of ethics and privacy issues with respect to invasive use. Introduction to data mining software suite.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 415  
  

  • CPSC 423 - Web Technologies

    3 Credit Hours
    This course covers PHP web development, web hosting, content management systems, RESTful services, performance issues in web applications, Java Server pages, web security issues, Apache Hadoop, and GIS. 

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 285  and CPSC 321  
  

  • CPSC 425 - Artificial Intelligence

    3 Credit Hours
    This course introduces the student to the basic concepts and techniques of artificial intelligence (AI), combining focus on both the theory and practice of AI. Topics may include intelligent agents, knowledge representation, knowledge engineering, natural language, vision systems, robotics, and machine learning.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 275  
  

  • CPSC 428 - Applied Machine Learning

    3 Credit Hours
    This course explores the basic ideas, principles and methods of machine learning along with some of the social and ethical issues that can arise from the widespread use of this technology. This hands-on application-oriented course will cover the terminology and underlying concepts of machine learning using mostly Python, scikit-learn, and various scientific libraries. The focus of the course is broad, rather than narrow, providing a survey of the machine learning landscape. Topics include supervised vs unsupervised learning, classification and regression, model selection, training and evaluation. Algorithms covered include Linear and Logistic Regression, K-Means clustering, K-Nearest Neighbors, and Decision Trees, among others.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 275  
  

  • CPSC 430 - Information Systems Development Practices

    3 Credit Hours
    Study of information systems development processes, methods and practices, from scope definition through delivery, with focus on methods for defining scope, capturing and modeling system requirements, and building software iteratively and incrementally. Competing methodologies for systems development are examined. The central component of the class is a systems development project where student teams develop software for a client, during which there is substantial interaction with future system users as well as other team members. Additional topics include use case/user story development, data modeling, object-oriented analysis and design, and user interface design.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 285  (or concurrent enrollment) and senior standing.
  

  • CPSC 434 - Principles of Unix

    3 Credit Hours
    Students are introduced to a UNIX environment through a shared Linux system. While working in teams on a semester-long project on the Raspberry Pi platform, students will become proficient with the system through the use of diverse sets of tools. This project will require a substantial software development effort under a UNIX based environment to be coordinated via the use of Git and GitHub (these tools will be introduced in the course). In addition to creating basic bash shell scripts, students will also write basic programs in Python and C.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 245 .
  

  • CPSC 438 - Capstone Project Requirements Gathering

    1 Lab Hours
    This class involves weekly client meetings with the capstone project client, as well as associated requirements gathering work alongside project teammates. This class can only be taken on a satisfactory/fail basis. It is required for those who have successfully completed CPSC 430  in a previous year, but need to take CPSC 475  the following semester; enrollment is limited to these students only. It may not be counted as an upper-level Computer Science requirement.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 430  
  

  • CPSC 445 - LAN Administration

    3 Credit Hours
    This course is a thorough study of local area networks (LANs). The course covers the physical components that are essential to connect computers to a network, including the internet. Students will learn how to design, configure, install, maintain, troubleshoot and manage/administer LANs. A Windows server will be used. This is a hands-on course. Topics covered include how to deal with files, event logs, DNS, DHCP, security, the registry, and backup/restore.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 165 .
  

  • CPSC 446 - Android Mobile Apps Development

    3 Credit Hours
    Students will design and code Android apps using the latest Android SDK. Topics include mobile operating systems, app development issues and strategies, mobile data sources, and mobile web applications.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 280  and CPSC 285 .
  

  • CPSC 450 - Independent Study

    1-4 Credit Hours
    Independent reading and/or research on special topics in computer science.

    Prerequisite(s): Consent of faculty supervisor.
  

  • CPSC 455 - Internship

    3-8 Credit Hours
    Experience as a computer professional under the joint supervision of a faculty member and an assigned business manager. A student must work at least 40 hours per credit, with a minimum of 120 hours worked.

    Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing in computer science and the consent of the department.
  

  • CPSC 461 - Advanced Topics in Computer Science

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Topics of current interest. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 275  or consent of instructor.
  

  • CPSC 471 - Senior Project

    3 Credit Hours
    A comprehensive, independent project in the senior year under the guidance of a computer science faculty member. It includes design, development, coding, testing, and documentation of a software application.  Project proposal must be approved before the start of the semester in which this class is taken.

    Prerequisite(s): Concurrent enrollment in CPSC 321  and CPSC 430 , senior standing, and consent of department.
  

  • CPSC 475 - Senior Software Development Experience

    3 Credit Hours
    Students will work in teams to develop, test, and deliver substantial information systems begun during Systems Analysis and Design.

    Prerequisite(s): CPSC 321  CPSC 430  and senior standing.
  

  • CRIM 215 - Homelessness and Society

    3 Credit Hours
    This course explores homelessness through social, political, economic, and criminological/legal perspectives. Homelessness and non-conventional housing point to a dynamic relationship between individual agency and position within broader social structures. Through an examination primarily of ethnographic accounts the course examines what homelessness and other forms of non-conventional housing (such as SROs, squatting, and workcamping) reveal about the changing nature of family and work, the intersection of social identities, urban planning and rights to the city, and cultural ideas and practices concerning “home.” Attempts to solve homelessness will focus on the roles of the police, legal system, social work, and voluntary initiatives.

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 110  
  

  • CRIM 240 - Selected Topics in Criminology

    1-3 Credit Hours
    A special offering on a particular area of interest in criminology, offered as available.

    Prerequisite(s): Students with no previous criminology classes will need to arrange an additional meeting with the instructor.
  

  • CRIM 242 - Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice

    3 Credit Hours
    An examination of theories of delinquent behavior and an introduction to the field of juvenile justice practice. Explores the social construction of childhood, adolescence, deviance, and delinquency, and analyzes the social, historical, and legal contexts within which delinquency occurs.

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in social sciences.
  

  • CRIM 255 - Introduction to Criminology

    3 Credit Hours
    Study of criminal behavior, legal norms, and social attitudes toward crime and criminals. Criminology draws upon the sociology of law, analysis of conflict as theoretical explanations of the cause of crime, and the study of the social psychological determinants of crime. Methods of apprehension and punishment, individual and social reform, and the prevention of crime are emphasized.

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 110 , CRIM 242 , CRIM 265 , or consent of instructor.
  

  • CRIM 256 - Media and Crime

    3 Credit Hours
    This course will examine ideas about crime, criminals, and public safety in popular and news media. We will examine images of criminality, narratives of rising crime rates, the figure of the crime fighter, assumptions about the roots of crime, framings of justice and safety, and portrayals of utopic and dystopic societies. The class will give special focus to depictions of race, gender, and sexuality related to criminality and victimization, as well as media constructions of children and police. Finally, the class will consider the relationship between media and violence, along with the role of the media in moral panics.

  

  • CRIM 260 - Trauma Work

    3 Credit Hours
    First responders, professionals in the criminal legal system, community activists, and social workers deal extensively with traumatized populations and often experience vicarious trauma as part of their careers. This course will examine different definitions of and perspectives on trauma, addressing how trauma can affect communities, individual and group behavior, the brain, the body, and social relationships. The class will examine historical and systemic trauma, cultural factors in trauma and healing, and different methods for responding to trauma. Students will become familiar with the signs of trauma and how experiences of trauma are shaped by class, race, ethnicity, gender, age, and other social identities. The course will address how organizations and institutions can develop trauma-informed practices. Finally, the class will examine contemporary policy issues,including incarceration and detention that result in family separation. 

    Prerequisite(s): CRIM 255  or CRIM 265  or PSYC 101  or SOC 110  or SOC 240  or consent of instructor. 
  

  • CRIM 265 - Crime and Social Justice

    3 Credit Hours
    An inquiry into the relationship between state, crime, and social structure, with special emphasis on the linkages between social oppression, social inequality, and criminalization of social conduct as reflected in contemporary issues.

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in social sciences.
  

  • CRIM 270 - Police and Society

    3 Credit Hours
    This course examines the history and role of the police in the contemporary United States and to a lesser extent in other societies. The focus is on social forces that shape the demographic composition of police forces as well as the practice of policing and social control by a group of professionals. Topics include diversity and police, community and police relations, technology and policing, the media’s relationship to police and policing, police as a unionized workforce, the relationship between police, politics, and law; and police suffering.

    Prerequisite(s): CRIM 242 , CRIM 255 , CRIM 265 , or SOC 110 .
  

  • CRIM 275 - Criminal and Deviant Livelihoods

    3 Credit Hours
    This course examines ways of earning a living that may receive social acceptance but are still informal, marginal, and/or illegal. Social processes such as professional monopolization, cultural practices, globalization, and competing views about law as consensus or conflict, and law as morality are explored for their impact on the criminalization of certain income-generating activities. Topics can include panhandling/begging, forms of surrogacy, street vending, busking, financial fraud, sex work/prostitution/human trafficking, and the illegal trade in drugs, arms, animals, and organs.

    Prerequisite(s): CRIM 255 , CRIM 265 , or SOC 110 .
  

  • CRIM 295 - Undergraduate Research or Creative Investigation

    1-3 Credit Hours
  

  • CRIM 299 - Community-based Learning

    1 Lab Hours
    Taken in conjunction with a regularly listed criminology course, this one-credit-hour option involves community service and guided reflection.

    Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor.

  

  • CRIM 320 - Gender and Violence

    3 Credit Hours
    An examination of the structural roots of gender-based violence, including domestic abuse, sexual assault, hate crimes, colonization and genocide, law enforcement abuse, international violence, and war. Strong focus on anti-violence organizing. Required service learning component.

    Listed also as SOC 320  and SWG 320 .

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 110 , SOC 230 , SOC 240 , SOC 280 , or SOC 350 , or consent of instructor.
  

  • CRIM 325 - Conflict Resolution

    3 Credit Hours
    An examination of conflict resolution theory and practice including negotiation and mediation with an analysis of how emotion, power, culture, and other components affect conflict escalation, de-escalation, and resolution. This course will emphasize facilitative mediation process and skills through interactive exercises and simulations.

    Listed also as SOC 325 .
  

  • CRIM 331 - Peacemaking and Abolition in Practice

    3 Credit Hours
    This course explores the development of peacemaking and abolitionist perspectives from origins in indigenous responses to rule-breaking and in feminist, critical race, and radical/anarchist theories focused on dismantling racial, gender, and class inequality. 

  

  • CRIM 370 - Deviance and Social Control

    3 Credit Hours
    Analysis of norms related to the law, the origins and functions of deviance in society, the institutional production and categorization of deviance, the impact of deviance on personal identity, deviant careers, and deviance and social change.

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 110  and CRIM 255 , or consent of the instructor.
  

  • CRIM 372 - Law and Society

    3 Credit Hours
    Advanced analysis of the legal order from a critical, sociological perspective. The rise of modern law and its relationship to other social institutions is treated, with consideration given to social theories of legality and current controversies within the field. Examines conceptions of American citizenship through analysis of the African-American experience and issues of civic inclusion, including review of historically important trials, civil rights organizing, and contemporary racial issues in the criminal legal system.

    Listed also as SOC 372  and BWS 372 .

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 110 , CRIM 255 , and junior standing or consent of the instructor.
  

  • CRIM 406 - Theories of Crime Control

    3 Credit Hours
    An in-depth analysis of the U.S. prison industrial complex, including analysis of alternative sentencing structures in community-based corrections, theories of incapacitation and deterrence, consideration of surveillance and state disciplinary structures, and strategies for building healthy communities.

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 110 , either CRIM 255  or CRIM 265 , and senior standing or consent of instructor.
 

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