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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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CLSICS 289 - Rome in Hollywood
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses principally on the treatment of Rome in American films. It compares ancient sources with their adaptations into film. The ways Romans change in the transition from page to screen furnish clues to America’s view of itself, providing a case study of how ideology distorts history.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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CLSICS 290 - Lovers, Slaves, and Shipwrecks: The Origins of the Novel
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Novels of adventure, love, fantasy, travel, and social satire originated among the Greeks and Romans. The best known examples from antiquity are the Satyricon of Petronius and The golden Ass of Apuleius, but novels continued to be written in Latin well into the eighteenth century A.D., and were hugely popular. This course will introduce students to this long tradition. The course will focus on deep shifts in gender roles and sexuality, cultures, ethnicity, multiculturalism, fantasy, and science fiction.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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CLSICS 291 - Sport and Spectacle in Greece and Rome
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will examine the competitive games of antiquity-especially athletics, chariot racing, and gladiatorial combat-and analyze the place they had in the religious and cultural lives of Greeks and Romans. Topics include athletic training, the Pan-Hellenic festivals, praise poetry, prizes, professionalism, nudity, the participation of women, amphitheaters, and the cult of violence in Rome.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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CLSICS 292 - Alexander the Great and His Legacy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
At age twenty, Alexander became king of Macedonia; at age thirty-three, he died the master of an empire that stretched from Greece to India. This course explores the personality that shaped his achievements, his self-presentation, the responses of conquered people to overwhelming power, and cultural identity among Greeks, Macedonians, Persians, and Egyptians.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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CLSICS 294 - Magic and Science in Greece and Rome
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Magic and science constitute two competing ways of understanding and manipulating the natural world. Topics in this course include: astrology, witchcraft, necromancy, curses, erotic magic, voodoo dolls, legal restriction on magic, the philosophical basis of scientific thought, mathematical contribution of Euclid and Archimedes, Hippocrates and the emergence of medicine, scientific methods as shaped by Plato and Aristotle, natural development vs. intelligent design, Eratosthenes’ measurement of the globe, the astronomical theories of Aristarchus and Ptolemy, military technology, and Christian hostility to science.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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CLSICS 301L - Ancient Greek History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides a survey of the origin, rise and development of ancient Greek civilization from the arrival of the Greeks in Europe until the death of Cleopatra (approximately 1600-30 BC). Emphasis is placed on the rise of the Greek city-state and the spread of Greek culture to the East. CLSICS 301L and HIST 301L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: one 200-level or higher CLSICS or HIST course or permission of instructor.
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CLSICS 302L - Roman History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses on the Roman state from its origins until the triumph of Christianity from about 700 BC to 300 AD. Republic and Empire receive equal attention. CLSICS 302L and HIST 302L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One 200-level or higher CLSICS or HIST course or permission of instructor
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CLSICS 303L - The Archaeology of Ancient Greece
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides a survey of Greek archaeology and history from the Bronze Age through the Classical Era. Students are introduced to the methods and aims of archaeology. The course begins with the Minoan and Mycenaean eras; the Dark Age and emergency of the full Hellenic era are treated, with emphasis on the city-states of the Greeks. The course makes extensive use of images and surveys the art and architecture of the Greeks in the context of primary literary sources. CLSICS 303L and HIST 303L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One 200-level or higher CLSICS or HIST course or permission of instructor.
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CLSICS 306L - The Archaeology of Ancient Rome
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides a methodological approach to roman archaeology as a key to understanding the history and culture of Rome and its empire from the city’s origins in about 750 BC through the height and decline of Roman civilization during the first through fourth centuries AD. The course makes extensive use of images and surveys the art and architecture of the Romans in the context of primary literary sources. CLSICS 306L and HIST 306L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One 200-level or higher CLSICS or HIST course or permission of instructor
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CLSICS 310L - Greek and Roman Historians
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Through the examination of all of the major Greek and Roman writers of history from Herodotus to Ammianus Marcellinus, this course considers the development of historical writing. With support from secondary scholarship and through extensive reading of the ancient texts, students will evaluate the work of each author, with particular attention to the roles that audience, culture and historical context have in shaping narrative structure and approach. CLSICS 310L and HIST 310L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One 200-level or higher CLSICS course or HIST 211 or permission of instructor
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CLSICS 327L - Hellenistic Art and Culture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces students to the Hellenistic period–the three centuries between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the defeat of Cleopatra at Actium in 31 BC–particularly primarily through a close examination of the visual arts. Hellenistic art and architecture are examined in their political, social, religious, and multi-cultural contexts, in order to arrive at a fuller portrait of the age. ART 327L and CLSICS 327L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One 200-level or higher CLSICS course or one ART course or permission of instructor
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CLSICS 375 - Greek and Roman Tragedy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides a survey of the tragic drama of fifth-century Athens, including the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Focus in on both artistry and social, historical and cultural context, including the interplay between the universal and the culturally specific. Performance conventions, literary genre, and the subsequent tragic tradition (especially Seneca in Rome) are also studied.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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CLSICS 376 - Greek and Roman Comedy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The origins of Western comedy in Greece and Rome. We will read selected works of Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus and Terence, and compare them with Euripidean tragedy and later adaptations.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One 200-level or higher CLSICS course or permission of instructor.
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CLSICS 380 - Special Topics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers study of selected topics in the field of classical studies. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.
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CLSICS 383 - Heroes, Wars and Quests
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, the Aeneid of Virgil; intensive study of the background, meaning, and influence of ancient epic poetry, with some attention to minor ancient epics and developments of epic poetry in later periods.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
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CLSICS 385 - Greek & Roman Religion
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The ancients’ belief in, and worship of, the ancient gods; oracles, mysteries, cults. Both primary sources (ancient authors in translation) and modern secondary sources are used.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One 200-level or higher CLSICS course or permission of instructor.
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CLSICS 387 - The Golden Age of Athens
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An intensive study of the politics, society, culture, and philosophy of fifth-century Athens, which was revolutionized by the introduction of democracy. We also compare Athens with democratic institutions that have emerged in other cultures.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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CLSICS 388 - The Golden Age of Rome
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
“All roads lead to the Aeneid”: a consideration of Augustan literature, with attention to the literary, philosophical, and historical backgrounds contributing to its unique character. Readings in Cicero, Lucretius, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, the elegiac poets, and Livy.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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CLSICS 416L - Thucydides: War & Human Nature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The central event of classical Athens was the Peloponnesian War, and Thucydides’ history of it has helped define the writing of history ever since. This course, in addition to giving students an overview of ancient Greek political and military history, will also delve into his contributions to the history of political thought and international relations.
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CLSICS 478 - Independent Study
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Selected research topics organized in consultation with individual students.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
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CLSICS 479 - Independent Study
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Selected research topics organized in consultation with individual students.
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CLSICS 490 - Honors Program
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Extensive reading in one broad segment of classical culture culminating in an honors thesis.
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CLSICS 491 - Honors Program
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Extensive reading in one broad segment of classical culture culminating in an honors thesis.
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CLSICS 495 - Senior Seminar
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will focus on the history, materials, and methods of the study of the ancient Greek and Roman world, preparing students to be informed consumers of scholarly work in a variety of areas of Classical Studies and to do research of their own in accordance with the accepted standards and conventions of the discipline. Weekly class meetings in the fall semester and independent work with a faculty advisor in both fall and spring will lead to the completion of the capstone paper.
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COMM 100 - Introduction to Communication
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is designed to provide an introductory survey of the study of communication. The course begins with a general history of the evolution of human communication, and goes on to examine such areas as definitions, models, and basic concepts in communication; the range of verbal and non-verbal codes, and their complex interrelations in the message systems of modern electronic media; and various communication contexts, with emphasis on the structure and function of interpersonal communication and mass communication, particularly broadcast and cable television.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences
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COMM 105 - Public Speaking and Professional Communication
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This core course provides writing, oral, and collaborative skills necessary for future courses, internships, and professional endeavors. The major aims of this course are to make students more effective professional communicators, analytical thinkers and critical listeners. By the end of the course students will be able to plan and prepare professional meetings and presentations; deliver and effective speech; analyze and adapt to various audiences; and adjust to different speaking situations, purposes, and contexts.
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COMM 200 - New Media Society
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the relationship between media technologies and globalization. The focus is on the processes through which media shape economic, political, and cultural forces to produce an interconnected and interdependent society. The course will explore the social and psychological effects of the use of media technologies and their content on community, identity, relationships, health, and entertainment.
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COMM 210 - Using Internet Communication
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Using Internet communications enhances students’ theoretical understanding of electronic communication and their ability to communicate as professionals, scholars, and citizens using the Internet. Participants learn core communication theoretical models and principles, and apply them to electronic communication methodologies that enhance interpersonal, small group, and public interactions. These methodologies include electronic meetings, discussion forums, co-authoring tools, audio, and video.
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COMM 215L - Gender & Communication
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores a variety of topics and concepts related to gender, sex, and communication using an intersectional, feminist approach. Specifically, this course examines the ways that individuals and society create, reinforce, and challenge the meaning of gender. This course will discuss and examine how we develop gender identities (and how these identities differ from biological sex), how this identity is shaped through the messages we receive from a number of communication systems (family, education, media, etc.), and how our gender identities in turn influence our communication patterns. As we go through the course, we’ll examine various masculine and feminine roles and stereotypes, and the impact of gender stereotypes on communication. We will also consider the limitations of gender binaries, and explore a diverse array of gender identification and expression.
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COMM 220 - Interpersonal Communication
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses on theory and research concerning communication in everyday interactions. It addresses the sense of self as influenced by others and one’s own communication. The course will address basic aspects of message production and interpretation. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to evaluate their own communication practices and improve upon their own communication skills.
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COMM 230 - Intercultural Communication
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines human communication in numerous intercultural and international contexts. Readings, discussion, assignments, and projects are designed to help students achieve cross-cultural competence in mediated communication, interpersonal and group dynamics, and organizational climates. Students will learn how to better exchange meaningful and unambiguous information across cultural boundaries, in a manner that maximizes understanding and minimizes antagonism.
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COMM 240 - Organizational communication
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores the understanding of human communication within complex organizations. It addresses the study of messages, interactions, and meaning in the process of managing organizations. Topics include, but are not limited to, superior-subordinate communication, technology in the workplace, message flow and diffusion, the construction and maintenance of organizational culture, communication in diverse organizations, and negotiation and conflict.
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COMM 250 - Analyzing Media
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Participants intensively examine mass media products, including print media, radio, television, and the visual and musical arts. They develop skills in deconstructing media products and evaluating them to arrive at a sophisticated understanding of how the various mass media are produced and how they interact with society and culture. The course makes use of both theoretical texts and the media products themselves.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences
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COMM 255 - Visual Communication
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Since the widespread use of Gutenberg’s printing press, there has always been the cultural assumption that information is best communicated through written formats. But since the invention of computers and desktop publishing, the role of visual messages in the communication process has expanded. This course is an exploration into the idea that memorable visual messages with text have the greatest power to inform, educate, and persuade an individual. It aims to discover and explain why some images are remembered while most are not.
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COMM 260 - Psychological Effects of Mass Media
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the effects of mediated communication on individual cognition. Course topics include the psychological impact of media on attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. These individual level effects are evaluated as they relate to entertainment media, news, and marketing. The course devotes particular attention to variability in these responses across audiences from diverse sociological and psychological backgrounds.
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COMM 270 - Introduction to Strategic Communication
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course presents an introduction to strategic communication. It focuses on the strategic communication industry (including advertising and public relations), ethics and regulation of the strategic communication industry, and the role of new media technologies in strategic communication.
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COMM 280 - Special Topics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
Selected topics in Communication Studies
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COMM 300 - Information Technology and Human Communication
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the relationship between information technology and human communication. Readings, discussion, assignments and projects address IT’s potential to enhance and constrain communication; its role in the promotion or dissolution of community; its implications for social policy; its place among other media; and many more issues for which IT, particularly cyber-technology, is a lightning rod.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: COMM 200
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COMM 305 - Communication in Diverse Organizations
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will explore organizational issues such as organizational assimilation, the impact of the digital divide in the workplace, intercultural dynamics in organizations, and diversity considerations in managing decision-making, conflict, and change.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: COMM 100
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COMM 315 - New Media, Identity & Self
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines individuals’ exploration, construction, and expression of identity in a variety of new media spaces, and the impact of interactive media on the self and related variables. Course topics include selective self-presentation, social comparison, online self-disclosure, online disinhibition, virtual communities and support, and hashtag activism. Particular attention is devoted to exploring a variety of personal and social identities, including traditionally marginalized identities.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: COMM 200
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COMM 320 - Social Influence and Compliance Gaining
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will examine research and theory on persuasion, compliance gaining, and social influence. Topics include message characteristics, credibility, compliance-gaining strategies, advertising, marketing, public health campaigns, decision-making, and motivational appeals. The course will also explore the applicability of research and theory to everyday practice.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: COMM 100
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COMM 325 - Relational Communication
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is designed to examine communication in intimate relationships such as friendships, dating, and marital relationships. The goal of the course is to help students become familiar with the topics and theories related to communication over the course of these intimate relationships from the beginning stages to relational termination. Specifically, this course addresses the communication involved in: attraction, intimacy, relational transgressions, relational maintenance and repair, conflict and social support.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: COMM 220
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COMM 330 - Health Communication
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course addresses research and theory concerning communication in health care contexts. It focuses on health literacy, provider/patient interactions, public health campaigning, risk communication, and entertainment/education. These concepts will be discussed in their relation to health interventions at the individual, community, and population levels.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: COMM 100
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COMM 335 - Lying & Deception
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Deception occurs in communication behavior across species and lying (i.e., intentional deception) is a pervasive phenomenon in human communication. This course explores the varieties of deceptive communication, their causes and consequences in a wide range of contexts (advertising, art, interspecies contact, family and romantic relationships, journalism, mass media, politics, etc.), and the strategies used to detect their occurrence (behavioral cues, interrogations, integrity testing, polygraphs, etc.). Examines the nature of lying and deception, truth, and various ethical perspectives associated with truth telling and deception.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: COMM 220
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COMM 340 - Communication and Community Mobilization
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will focus on community organization, defining power through relationships, communicating across differences, and the limits of community organizing. It focuses on moving from theory to action in the campaign development. It culminates in a group or individual project wherein students must identify a problem, research solutions, and outline a campaign for a real organization or campus group.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: COMM 100
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COMM 345 - Environmental Communication
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this course, we explore environmental communication, including the field’s origins and scope as both a crisis and care discipline. Students examine how communication constructs values and relationships with the biophysical world and how it defines and frames issues, culprits, and solutions as well as inspires change. The course delves into environmental issues via media and film, journalism, public relations, advertising, rhetoric, and public participation and activism. Students interpret and analyze the voices of various players and discourses struggling to define major environmental topics, such as: climate change and pollution, energy, water, food and agriculture, biodiversity and extinction, ocean life, wilderness habitat, environmental racism/justice, human population growth, war, and consumerism/commerce.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: COMM 100 or ENVSCI 101 or ANTH 263 or ENVSCI 120
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COMM 350 - Political Communication
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will present an overview of the role of communication in the manipulation of political opinions. It explores research on a range of political communication and the cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral effects of this communication on the public and examines changes brought about by advances in communication media. It will also explore research concerning the role of political communication in an international context.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: COMM 200
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COMM 351 - Communication Research Methods
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides an overview of the various techniques used by communication researchers in designing, conduction, reporting, and evaluation research. These techniques include quantitative, qualitative empirical, and critical/cultural methodologies. Students will receive the preparation necessary for both research comprehension and writing in upper level electives within the major. They will also gain the skills necessary to become intelligent consumers of research in both academic and applied settings.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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COMM 370 - Advertising/PR Campaign Planning
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this course, students will explore processes for developing a comprehensive integrated marketing communication (IMC) campaign, including research, planning, creative, media, and evaluation aspects. Students will construct and execute research plans and learn about the way the advertising/PR industry operates. Students will compile findings and recommendations into a final written plan and oral presentation that comprehensively outlines the integrated marketing campaign developed during the course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: COMM 270
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COMM 372 - Social Media and Strategic Communication
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Social Media and Strategic Communication is a course dedicated to exploring the new emerging technologies and mediums influencing business, marketing, public relations, and advertising practices and research. This course acquaints you with practical knowledge and analytical skills necessary to create, evaluate, and execute social media campaigns. This course also provides lectures, iconic and current case studies using social media, team and individual assignments, and engaged activities that will help you in developing a strong social media skill set to take a future job and/or internship interviews in your respective field of study.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: COMM 270
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COMM 380 - Special Topics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
Selected topics in Communication.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: COMM 100
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COMM 478 - Independent Study
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Individual student projects in Communication Studies.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
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COMM 479 - Research Practicum
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Participation in supervised research.
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COMM 480 - Communication Seminar
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A seminar on a particular problem, issue, or technique in the study of communication, approached from a variety of disciplines and perspectives. The topic of the seminar varies from offering to offering and reflects the research interests of the sponsoring faculty member.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: COMM 100 and COMM 200 and COMM 230 and COMM 351 and completion of the Writing Proficiency Requirement .
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COMM 490 - Communication Internship
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
This course offers an independent project undertaken at an off-campus location under the guidance of a faculty advisor and an off-campus supervisor. Internships must be approved by the supervising faculty member in the Communication Department. Students will submit a written final report and, at the discretion of the faculty advisor, an interim report. Details may be obtained from the department chairperson. Grading is “Pass/Fail.”
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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Computer Science |
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CS 105 - An Introduction to Computer Concepts
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course presents an overview of the role of computers in society: their application and misapplication, their capabilities and limitations. Applications may include artificial intelligence, medical, aerospace and business use of computers. Computer hardware and associated technologies are discussed. Computer programming is taught from a non-mathematical, problem-solving point of view; the course objective is to help students acquire an understanding of the programming process, rather than to develop complex or extended computer programs. This survey course is not part of the computer science major sequence. Students planning to major in computer science should start with CS 110 .
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Mathematics and Technology
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: MATH 115 or appropriate math placement score
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CS 109 - Computer Programming for Engineers
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to computer programming for engineering students. This course is not intended for computer science majors. Credit cannot be used to satisfy any requirement of computer science majors.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: MATH 130 or equivalent math placement
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CS 110 - Introduction to Computing
4 Credit(s) | Lecture & Discussion | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to computer programming: the concepts involved in use of a higher level language and the program development process. The goal of this course is proficiency in the design and implementation of programs of significant size and complexity. This course is quite demanding because of the length of the programming exercises assigned. This is the first course in the computer science sequence. Note: Credit toward a UMass Boston degree may be awarded for only one elementary programming course. No credit will be given for CS 110 to a student who has already completed a similar course. For instance, a student who has received the equivalent of CS 110 as transfer credit cannot take CS 110 for credit here. Students who are barred from receiving credit for CS 110, but who are not fully prepared for CS 210 , should request permission to take CS 119 as a means of remedying the deficiency.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Mathematics and Technology
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: MATH 130 with a grade of B or higher in the previous semester or placement into MATH 140 on ALEKS
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CS 114L - Introduction To Java
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introductory course in Java programming that exposes students to the concepts involved in using a higher-level, object-oriented programming language. The course will explain the program development process and give students lots of hands-on experience writing small Java programs. The course serves as a prerequisite to other IT courses. CS 114L and IT 114L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Mathematics and Technology
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: MATH 115 or higher or placement into MATH 130 or higher
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CS 115L - Introduction to Java Part 2
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A second course in Java programming that exposes students to the concepts involved in using a higher-level, object-oriented programming language. This course, a continuation of CS 114L , covers more advanced Java topics and gives students hands-on experience writing small and medium-size Java programs. This course and CS 110 may not both be taken for credit. CS 115L and IT 115L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Mathematics and Technology
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CS /IT 114L
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CS 119 - Computer Language Supplement
2 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course addresses the dilemma of students who studied the equivalent of CS 110 in a language other than the one currently used in our CS 110 course. These students may want to learn the current language of CS 110 , or may be interested in the material of CS 110 as a means of preparing for the follow-up course, which is CS 210 . Such students can, with permission of the department, register for CS 119 for two credits. They then make arrangement to attend a section of CS 110 . They are required to do all the assignments, examinations, etc., of regular CS 110 students. Thus, in virtually all respects, students who register for CS 119 are really CS 110 students, except that CS 119 meets no core curriculum requirement and does not count towards any computer science major requirement.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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CS 187SL - Science Gateway Seminar I
2 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This is a two-semester course on technology, in particular information technology (IT) and how it relates to our lives. Students will read both fiction and non-fiction where technology is an issue, and discuss it in written work and orally, both individually and in small groups. The overall goal is to learn about and discuss various facets of information technology and its social implications.
Course Attribute(s):
Gateway Seminar
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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CS 188SL - Science Gateway Seminar II
2 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This is a two-semester course on technology, in particular information technology (IT) and how it relates to our lives. Students will read both fiction and non-fiction where technology is an issue, and discuss it in written work and orally, both individually and in small groups. The overall goal is to learn about and discuss various facets of information technology and its social implications. CS 188SL and IT 188SL are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Gateway Seminar
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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CS 220 - Applied Discrete Mathematics
Formerly CS 320L
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to the mathematical structures and concepts used in computing: sets, mathematical induction, ordered sets, Boolean algebras, predicate calculus, trees, relations and lattice theory. Formal and informal theories and corresponding mathematical proofs are taught.
Students may not receive credit for both MATH 320 and CS 220.
Students may not take MATH 320 to receive a better grade in previously taken CS/MATH 320L.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: CS 110 and MATH 140 or permission of instructor
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CS 240 - Programming in C
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
C programming for programmers with prior knowledge of some high-level language (e.g., one semester of programming in Java). The course treats C as a machine-level language and as a general-purpose language; it covers number representation, masking, bitwise operations, and memory allocation, as well as more general topics such as dynamic data structures, file I/O, separate compilation, program development tools, and debugging.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CS 110 or CS /IT 115L or CS 119
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CS 271L - Introduction to Cognitive Science
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field fundamentally concerned with furthering our understanding of the development, underlying processes, and implementation of language, perception, problem-solving, learning, memory, and other intelligent capacities. This course offers an introduction to this science for all levels of undergraduate majors in psychology, computer science, biology, and other related fields. CS 271L and PSYCH 271L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences
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CS 285L - Social Issues and Ethics in Computing
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores some of the ethical and societal issues that are raised by computing. Topics include privacy, freedom of expression, intellectual property, liability, the effect of computing on social interaction, and human-computer interface issues. Students write an analytical paper on an appropriate topic and also present their findings to the class. CS 285L and IT 285L are the same course.
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CS 310 - Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A systematic study of the methods of structuring and manipulating data in computing. Abstract data types. The design and analysis of algorithms. Advanced techniques for program development and organization.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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CS 341 - Computer Architecture and Organization
3 Credit(s) | Lecture and Laboratory | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Computer hardware concepts and hardware-level programming for C programmers. Topics include digital logic circuits, computer organization of a microprocessor system (i.e., how CPU, memory, and i/o interface chips are interconnected), serial and parallel port interfacing, hardware programming in C and C/assembler, interrupt programming, device drivers. The necessary assembly language is also covered. The course includes a hands-on lab meeting one hour per week.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CS 240
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CS 410 - An Introduction to Software Engineering
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course covers all aspects of the software development process from initial specification to final validation of completed software design. Implementation methodologies are discussed in the context of a major team project, to be chosen according to student and instructor interest. Oral presentations by students are an important part of the course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: CS 220 and CS 310 and one 400-level CS course
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CS 413 - Applied Cryptography
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course aims to introduce fundamental and practical knowledge of cryptography and its applications. This course covers diverse topics on cryptography and network security techniques including conventional encryption, asymmetric and symmetric cryptology, digital signatures, certificates, key exchange, key management, authentication, network access control, cloud computing security, electronic mail security, advanced crypto primitives, bitcoin, blockchain, and differential privacy. This course focuses on both theoretical aspects and practical applications of cryptanalysis and network security techniques.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CS 310
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CS 414 - Blockchain Technology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Blockchain enables a digital decentralized society where people can contribute, collaborate, and transact without having to second-guess trust and transparency. It is the technology behind the success of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many disruptive applications and platforms that have impact in numerous sectors, including finance, education, health care, environment, transportation, and philanthropy, to name a few. This course covers a basic set of essential concepts, algorithms, and tools suitable for aspiring students who want to be technologically ready for a blockchain venture. Topics touch various issues in decentralized computing and networking. Students will learn programming skills sufficiently to develop a blockchain project from scratch.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CS 310 or permission of instructor
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CS 420 - An Introduction to the Theory of Computation
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces such theoretical aspects of computing as models of computation, inherent limits on computation, and feasible computation. Topics include definition of computable functions (recursive functions, functions computable by Turing machines, functions computable in a programming language), unsolvability of the halting problem and related problems, the classes P and NP, finite automata, and context-free grammars.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CS 220
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CS 430 - Database Management
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Introduction to database systems, including database programming. The course covers relational algebra, SQL, object-relational systems, embedded programming, and basic transaction concepts. It covers database design, both entity-relationship modeling and normalization.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: CS 240 and CS 310
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CS 433 - Big Data Analytics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces methods and platforms for analyzing large amounts of data. Classical paradigms of parallel computing - such as multireading, message passing, and accelerator programming - are presented. Machine learning and data mining techniques - such as regression, clustering, classification, and deep learning - are discussed. Platforms of computing with big data - such as graph database, distributed file systems, and map-reduce - are introduced. This course prepares students to perform predictive modeling and explore large, complex datasets.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: CS 310 and MATH 260 and MATH 345 or permission of instructor
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CS 436 - Database Application Development
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A study of database applications, that is, software systems that solve a particular real-world problem and hold their data in a relational database. The systems under study will also have a realistic user interface. Students will work in small groups on a real-world project specified and implemented during the term. Topics include system specification from user needs, analysis of dataflow and workflow, object design, database design, and client-server techniques.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: CS 310 and CS 430
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CS 437 - Database-Backed Web Sites & Web Services
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Today, much programming is web-based. Web based programs serve up information from a Web site in a form that can be either read by a browser or processed by another program. This course introduces the student to the design and implementation of such web-based programs.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: CS 310 and CS 430 or permission of instructor
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CS 442 - Cybersecurity in the Internet of Things
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course aims to introduce the concept of IoT and its impact on our daily lives, to understand the architecture and components of IoT, and to address the challenges and solutions of deploying IoT in reality. Students will learn how to make design trade-offs between communication and computations costs and between hardware and software. In addition, cybersecurity is a critical design issue of the IoT system. From this course, students will become aware of the cybersecurity issues raised by IoT and gain the knowledge of related security techniques. Students will also gain hands-on experiences on building IoT devices and implementing security techniques through team projects.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CS 310
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CS 443 - Mobile Applications
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Mobile devices are becoming ubiquitous along with the high demand for mobile applications serving corporations and millions of end-users. In this course, students will learn programming skills for developing mobile applications on the Android platform, which is the fastest growing mobile operating system. Android is open source and includes many libraries that can help developers easily implement rich and complex applications. Students in this course will learn how to create, test,and deploy Android applications. Solid skills of Java programming and application development are necessary for successful completion of this course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CS 310
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CS 444 - An Introduction to Operating Systems
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Description of current operating systems, with focus on one or two in particular. Topics include defining the operating system as distinct from the hardware on one side and software systems on the other; process concepts; memory management; CPU scheduling; device management; file systems; network support.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: CS 310 and CS 341
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CS 449 - Introduction to Computer Security
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The course will provide an introduction to the fundamentals of computer security, and will cover both general theoretical aspects as well as applied methods of computer security. The course will address the general concepts of confidentiality, integrity and availability of digital information, and will focus on aspects such as: risks and vulnerabilities; models and policies for access control; program security - buffer overflow attacks, malware, viruses; browser security; authentication and authorization; encryption; and an overview of applied data, operating system and network security (with emphasis on Internet security). The course will also address the aspect of privacy, which is tightly related to security and is becoming increasingly important in today’s digital society.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: CS 310 and CS 341
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CS 450 - The Structure of Higher Level Languages
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The syntax and semantics of higher level languages. Mechanisms for parsing, parameter passing, scoping, dynamic storage allocation, and message passing are modeled by programs written in a suitably high-level language.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: CS 220 and CS 310
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CS 451 - Compilers
Formerly Compilers I
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is an introduction to compiler organization and implementation, including formal specifications and algorithms for lexical and syntactic analysis, internal representation of the source program, semantic analysis, run-time environment issues, and code generation. Participants write a compiler for a reasonably large subset of a contemporary language, targeted to a virtual machine.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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CS 460 - Graphics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Topics include segmentation, windows and viewports, clipping, hidden lines, geometric transforms and data structures for memory management and device-independent graphics specifications. The course also considers Raster graphics and the GKS and ACM Core. It covers both the practice of, and the underlying mathematical foundation for, interactive graphics programming. Students need good programming skills and a mastery of linear algebra.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: CS 310 and MATH 260
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CS 461 - Computer Games Programming
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course covers the game development pipeline, from modeling of virtual environmental and gaming assets, to interactive rendering and real-time physics-based simulation in virtual environments. The syllabus i centered on the essential components of a game engine. Special technical issues in game development will also be discussed, such as real-time interactivity, scalability of modeling techniques and the use of the standard techniques adopted in common game engines. Students also need to team up to develop their own games using a game engine. The goal of this course is to prepare students for a career as a game developer.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CS 310
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CS 470 - An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to the main techniques of Artificial Intelligence: state-space search methods, semantic networks, theorem-proving and production rule systems. Important applications of these techniques are presented. Students are expected to write programs exemplifying some of techniques taught, using the LISP language.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: CS 220 and CS 310
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CS 478 - Independent Study
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Work done by a student or group of students under faculty supervision on material not currently offered in a regularly scheduled course. Students wishing to undertake such work must first find a faculty member willing to supervise it; the work to be completed must be approved by the department chairperson.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
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CS 480 - Special Topics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An advanced course offering intensive study of selected topics in computer science. Course content varies and will be announced prior to registration.
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CS 495 - Practicum in Computer Science
1 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 12 times/12 credits
Description:
This course is intended to enhance academic studies by providing an industrial context for learning new concepts and skills. It will help to prepare the student for the transition from an academic program to eventual employment in the computer industry. This course is not open to graduate students.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
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CS 498 - Honors Thesis
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 3 times/9 credits
Description:
The design and execution of a significant research project under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Successful completion and oral defense of the thesis is necessary to qualify for Honors in Computer Science. Both the instructor and the project must be chosen and approved prior to the start of the course. Offered every semester.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: CS 310 and CS 420
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Counseling & School Psychology |
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CSP 301 - Work & Play: Counseling Skills for Life
1 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is designed to facilitate undergraduate students in developing a plan for choosing a career path through a process of self-exploration, relationship skills training, and career planning. This course is offered as an elective course appropriate for both students starting out in their college careers and more senior students. The course involves activities, lecturing, and discussions that will promote students in making informed choices and decisions related to their career and relationship development.
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CSP 302L - Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will address current issues related to psychology of sexual orientation and gender identities. These concerns include research and theory on queer theory, affirmative counseling/therapy, identity development models, heterosexism, family and relationship issues, intersectionality in GLBTQI communities, developmental issues, minority stress, as well as positive psychology, well-being and resiliency found in GLBTQI communities.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
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CSP 461 - Career Development Facilitation and Training
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
CSP 301 The Career Development Facilitator (CDF) Training course provides students with knowledge and skills needed to effectively interact with clients and consumers of career development services across a variety of settings such as schools, colleges, college access agencies, and government agencies. This course is designed to meet the requirements of the CDF certificate by developing knowledge and competence in the following subject areas related to career development: helping skills, diverse populations, ethical and legal issues, consultation, career development models, assessment, labor market information and resources, technology, employability skills, training clients and peers, program management and implementation, and promotion and public relations.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CSP 301
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CRW 111 - Critical Thinking I
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses on the fundamental intellectual skills of critical thinking, reading, and writing needed to succeed in college level studies. Using materials drawn from various disciplines in the college curriculum, students develop their ability to recognize and discuss ideas. By learning to relate generalization to supporting ideas and to identify the patterns into which ideas are structured, students gain practice in applying effective strategies for understanding college material. The class meets on a regular basis in a computer lab where students use computers to develop these analytical capabilities and apply them to course work.
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CRW 112 - Critical Thinking II
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this course, students gain experience in the processes of intellectual inquiry as it is practiced in the liberal arts and sciences. Through both oral and written presentations, they analyze and interpret readings taken from college-level texts. They learn to distinguish the methods authors use in developing their ideas and the differences and similarities among perspectives of various authors, as well as to recognize implications and to question authors’ purposes. The class meets on a regular basis in a computer lab where students use computers to develop these analytical capabilities and apply them to course work.
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