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2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED PUBLICATION]
Course Descriptions
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Many course descriptions include a designation of Term(s) Offered: with one or more of the following: Fall, Spring, Summer. This indicates the term(s) in which the course is typically offered and is intended to aid students in planning their programs of study. Departments reserve the right to change the term(s) in which a course is offered.
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Computer Information Systems |
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CIS 367 - Data Communications
Credits: 3
This course is designed to give the student a thorough understanding of the existing use of data communication networks as well as future developments in the area of telecommunications. The course topics will include the basic hardware needed for a functioning network, basic technical concepts of data communications, the various types of network configurations, and circuits. Also needed will be network design techniques, protocols, software, network architecture, local area networks, network management, and security and control issues related to networks.
Prerequisite(s): CIS 305 and junior standing
Effective spring 2018 - junior standing
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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CIS 377 - Introduction to Database Concepts
Credits: 3
Introduction to database theory. Discussion of data structures, indexed and direct file organizations, models of data including hierarchical, network, and relational. Discussion of data analysis, design, implementation, and database administrator functions. Application of database, data definition languages, data manipulation languages, and/or data manipulation through a host language.
Prerequisite(s): CIS 261
Effective spring 2018 - junior standing
Cross-Listed: Dual listing as CS 377.
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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CIS 454 - Managing Information Technology
Credits: 3
An introduction to the financial, technical, and strategic information systems planning process. Emphasis is on the relationship of the information systems planning process to overall business goals, policies, plans, management style, and industry conditions. The selection of large system projects, assessment of a currently installed system, determining approaches to staffing, software, hardware, processing, and financing an information system are studied.
Prerequisite(s): CIS 305
Effective spring 2018 - junior standing
Term(s) Offered: Fall
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CIS 477 - Applied Software Development Project
Credits: 3
Application of computer programming and system development concepts, principles, and practices to a comprehensive system development project. A team approach is used to analyze, design, document, and implement realistic systems of moderate complexity. Use of project management methods, project scheduling and control techniques, formal presentations, and group dynamics in the solution of informal systems problems.
Prerequisite(s): CIS 305 , CIS 375 , CIS 377 , and an advanced programming language. Senior standing
Effective spring 2018 - (CS 358 or CIS 376 ) and CIS 375 and CIS 377 ; senior standing
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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Computer Science |
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CS 365 - Operating Systems
Credits: 3
The course includes the fundamental principles of operating systems, resource allocation and use by applications, device organization, interrupts, concurrency, user/system state, and protection. It develops each of these areas in greater depth: scheduling and dispatch, preemptive and non-preemptive scheduling, processes and treads, file systems, buffering, encryption, virtual memory, paging, swapping, security, protection, and related topics. Both Microsoft and Unix systems will be covered.
Prerequisite(s): CS 311 .
Term(s) Offered: Fall
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CS 377 - Introduction to Database Concepts
Credits: 3
Introduction to database theory. Discussion of data structures, indexed and direct file organizations, models of data including hierarchical, network, and relational. Discussion of data analysis, design, implementation, and database administrator functions. Application of database, data definition languages, data manipulation languages, and/or data manipulation through a host language.
Prerequisite(s): a program language, e.g., Visual Basic, Java, C#, etc.
Cross-Listed: Cross-listed as CIS 377 .
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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CS 411 - Network Management
Credits: 3
This course provides an overview of computer networking. It covers topics in communication technologies, communication design, communication protocols, and communication system planning and development. It includes distributed computing and collaboration technology. It will introduce the levels of the OSI and TCP/IP stacks and discuss the protocols at each level. At the highest level applications such as Web services and email as well as potential security issues will be presented. Additional protocols will be presented including HTTPS and SSL. The physical level will also be covered including switches, hubs, routers, gateways, and firewalls. Hands-on assignments with system and firewall configuration.
Prerequisite(s): CS 311
Term(s) Offered: Spring
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CS 483 - Senior Software Development Project
Credits: 3
This course applies computer programming and software engineering concepts, principles, and practices to a comprehensive system development project. A team approach is used to analyze the problem, and then specify, design, implement, test, validate, and deliver a software package that solves the problem. Teams will use software engineering techniques and project management techniques, including milestones and formal presentations, to create and test the package solution to the system problem.
Prerequisite(s): CS 478 and Senior Standing.
Term(s) Offered: Spring
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Criminal Justice |
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CRIM 234 - Introduction to Corrections
Credits: 3
This course will examine the historical, philosophical, and theoretical foundations of the correction systems and organizations. Topics include but are not limited to sentencing options, treatment of prisoners, prisoner subcultures, prison, life, rehabilitative programming for prisoners, prisoner healthcare, prisoners’ rights, community-based corrections, prisoner release and reentry, and the nature of working in and managing prisons.
Term(s) Offered: Spring
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CRIM 411 - Criminal Procedure
Credits: 3
This course is an examination of the common law and federal rules of evidence. Topics include but are not limited to the law of searches and seizures, the exclusionary rule, confessions, types of evidence, chain of custody, examination of witnesses, hearsay, and testimony.
Prerequisite(s): two of the following courses: (CRIM 224 or SOC 225 ), CRIM 234 , CRIM 244 , (CRIM 254 or POLS 208 )
Term(s) Offered: Fall
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Decision Sciences |
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DSCI 351 - Introduction to Operations Research
Credits: 3
This course introduces the student to the discipline of Operations Research/Management Science (OR/MS) so that he/she may appreciate, understand, and utilize the principal techniques of OR/MS in his/her organizational as well as personal decision-making. The course stresses the use of the scientific methodology in decision- making and problem-solving. Specific topics include decision theory, linear programming, the transportation problem, the assignment problem, network models, and queuing theory. Excel and other computer software are used throughout the course.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 265 , CIS 151 , and MATH 215 .
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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DSCI 445 - Operations Management
Credits: 3
This course presents the basic fundamentals of managing operations. It covers issues in selecting, operating, controlling, and updating systems so that goods or services are produced on time, at minimum cost, and according to customer specifications. Topics include forecasting, capacity planning, facility location, inventory management, material requirements planning, Just-in- Time, and total quality management.
Prerequisite(s): MNGT 305 , ECON 265 , and MATH 215 .
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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Dental Assisting |
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Dental Hygiene |
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DTHY 327 - Introduction to Evidence-Based Dental Hygiene Care
Credits: 1
This course will provide foundational knowledge for the dental hygiene student to select and implement evidence-based decision-making strategies in the provision of patient/client care. In addition, it proposes to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills necessary for patient centered care. It includes basic knowledge and skills related to research terminology and design, library and computer-based information retrieval systems, approaches for analysis and evaluation of scientific literature and will provide an introduction to dental indices used in the description of oral health status and disease states.
Prerequisite(s): Admission into the Dental Hygiene Program.
Term(s) Offered: Spring
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DTHY 351 - Dental Hygiene Theory II
Credits: 4
This course explores professional writing, cultural competence, and concepts of evidence based clinical practice. Solutions to oral health care discrepancies in our society are examined. By engaging in interviews, research, case studies, reflection, and inquiry, students will develop a project addressing culturally competent approaches to oral health care. Students demonstrate synthesis of course objectives through a sustained writing project. The use of supportive dental hygiene treatment in providing comprehensive care is introduced. Weekly seminar addresses current clinic issues and trends connecting theory and clinical practice.
USI Core 39: Embedded Experience Diversity; Embedded Experience-Writing.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 201 and DTHY 341 .
Lecture-Lab (ex: 3-1 means 3 hrs lecture and 1 hr lab): (3-1 [seminar])
Term(s) Offered: Spring
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