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2011-2013 Undergradate & Graduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED PUBLICATION]

Course Descriptions

 

Chemistry

Following certain course descriptions are the designations: F, Sp, Su. These indicate the semesters fall, spring, summer in which the course is normally offered and are intended only as an aid to students planning their programs of study.

Lecture and laboratory breakdown of courses is indicated at the end of each description. For example, (3-1) indicates three credit hours lecture, one credit hour laboratory per week.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • CHEM 490 - Undergraduate Teaching Experience in Chemistry

    Credits: 1-3

    Course designed to provide students with practical exposure to and experience with the college teaching profession. Students will work closely with individual faculty to learn and experience first-hand the range of duties performed by college professors in chemistry. Students will assist faculty in activities such as laboratory instruction, exam preparation, grading, and development of course materials and exercises. Intended for academically talented chemistry majors who aspire to careers in the professorate or high school teaching. Tuition waiver provided. Prereq: Junior or senior standing plus consent of supervising instructor and department chair. This course does not satisfy any requirement in the Core Curriculum and will not be counted toward the chemistry major. Term(s) Offered (F=Fall, Sp=Spring, Su=Summer): F, Sp, Su.


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Chinese

Following certain course descriptions are the designations: F, Sp, Su. These indicate the semesters fall, spring, summer in which the course is normally offered and are intended as an aid to students planning their programs of study.
  
  
  
  
  

Communication Studies
  
  
  

  • CMST 201 - Introduction to Communication Studies

    Credits: 3

    This course is designed to introduce students to the academic discipline of Communication Studies. For decades, Communication Studies has been mistaken as a discipline that focuses solely on presentational speaking, speechmaking, and public address. However, these elements within CMST represent only a small fraction of the discipline. This course will be an exploration of all the major areas of the field, the history of CMST as a discipline, the research and writing style associated with CMST, the practical and theoretical tools expected of CMST graduates, and the many careers CMST graduates can explore. Term(s) Offered (F=Fall, Sp=Spring, Su=Summer): Sp.


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  • CMST 400 - Independent Study in Communication Studies

    Credits: 1-3

    This course is designed to provide an opportunity for upper division communications majors and minors to research subject areas in the discipline. A maximum of six hours may be taken; only three may be taken in any one semester. Students who wish to take independent study courses in the Communication Studies curriculum should be aware of the following points: 1) Only six hours of independent study may apply toward a major in communications; 2) No more than three hours of CMST 400 may be directed by the same instructor; 3) Students wishing to enroll in independent study courses must receive written permission from their instructors prior to registration. Prereq: 21 hours of Communications Studies courses, upper division status, and written consent of instructor. Term(s) Offered (F=Fall, Sp=Spring, Su=Summer): F, Sp, Su.


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  • CMST 407 - Communication and Healthcare

    Credits: 3

    In this course, students will be introduced to the many ways that we, as human beings, communicate about our health. This seminar has been designed to integrate numerous theoretical and methodological perspectives on health communication in order to give students a broader scope of how health messages and health communication processes are enacted, mediated, conceptualized, and studied. In this course, students will read and analyze how we communicate health messages interpersonally, organizationally, rhetorically, and through the mass media. Furthermore, through studying diverse health communication processes, students should become more aware of how these processes influence and impact each other (e.g., television messages about smoking impact how people discuss tobacco use interpersonally). Prereq: CMST 107  and junior standing. Term(s) Offered (F=Fall, Sp=Spring, Su=Summer): F.


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Communications
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • COMM 611 - Communication and Personal Relationships

    Credits: 3

    The course is an introduction to the contemporary research, topics, theories, and methodologies of communication and personal relationships. In the course, students will explore interpersonal communication in a variety of contexts including, but not limited to: (a) marital communication and relational satisfaction; (b) dialogic communication in romantic relationships; (c) family communication systems; (d) friend and social network systems; (e) disclosure of private information; (f) relational dialectics; and (g) problematic/abusive behavior within interpersonal communication. The course will focus on current research trends in the area, paradigmatic shifts in the field of personal relationships over the past decade, and how interpersonal communication scholarship lends itself to improving social interactions and communication competence in a number of venues.


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  • COMM 612 - Health Communication

    Credits: 3

    An introduction to the many ways that we, as human beings, communicate about our health. This seminar has been designed to integrate numerous theoretical and methodological perspectives on health communication in order to give students a broader scope of how health messages and health communication processes are enacted, mediated, conceptualized, and studied. Students will read and analyze how health messages are communicated interpersonally, organizationally, rhetorically, and through the mass media. Through studying these diverse health communication processes, students should become more aware of how these processes influence and impact each other (e.g., television messages about smoking impact how people discuss tobacco use interpersonally).


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  • COMM 615 - Communication and Culture

    Credits: 3

    This course explores the intersection between rhetoric and public culture. Traditionally, rhetoric scholarship has focused on the conception, composition, presentation, and reception of messages that tend to be persuasive in nature. Scholarship in cultural studies, on the other hand, has tended to analyze the production of meanings and how they relate to social practices. Drawing from the two fields, we will explore how different cultural texts and their meanings are produced, interpreted, and circulate. Specifically, we will investigate such issues as: ideology, hegemony, polysemy, discourse, text/context, rhetor/audience, publics, place/space, collective memory, narrative, and power. In addition, we will learn about the different research practices of rhetorical criticism and cultural ideas.


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Computer Information Systems
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • CIS 499 - Computer Information Systems Professional Practice

    Credits: 3

    A cooperative work-study program designed to: (1) provide undergraduate business students realistic work experience to improve the depth of understanding of the nature of American and international business; (2) develop student maturity and confidence to determine in which areas of business they should seek their professional careers; and (3) create a work situation where advanced business courses are made more meaningful as a result of the perspective that comes from such a professional experience. From one to three hours may be earned in an academic term, repeatable to a maximum of six credit hours applied as electives in a business bachelor’s degree program. Prereq: students must have completed or be enrolled in 63 credit hours of credit including the following courses: CIS 151 , ACCT 201  and ACCT 202 , ECON 265 , ECON 208  and ECON 209 , ENG 201 , and SPCH 101. Students must have a minimum overall GPA of 2.75 and minimum GPA of 2.75 in all business courses. Consent of the dean, Director of Professional Practice Program, and appropriate department chairperson is required. Grades assigned as Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory only.


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