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2014-2015 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED PUBLICATION]
Course Descriptions
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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.
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
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 .
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.
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 201 , CS 215 , CS 301 , 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 .
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CS 411 - Network Management and Security Credits: 3
This course provides an overview of network management and security. It covers topics in communication technologies, communication design, communication protocols, and communication system planning and development. It includes distributed computing, encryption technology, and collaboration technology. It will introduce security sites representing the state of the art in security. It will cover major security concerns of IP security, network security, security in distributed object systems, security in distributed systems, Web security, email security, viruses, trojans and worms, firewalls, and denials of service. Hands-on assignments with system and firewall configuration.
Prerequisite(s): CS 201 , CS 301 , and CS 365 .
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 201 , CS 301 , CIS 305 , CS 365 , CIS 367 , CIS 375 , and CIS 377 and Senior Standing.
Term(s) Offered: Spring
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Criminal Justice Studies |
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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.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 101 and CMST 101 or CMST 107 .
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CRIM 311 - Convict Criminology Credits: 3
This course introduces the “Convict Criminology Perspective” as a means to educate students, prisoners, and general public. Convict Criminology is a new way of thinking about crime and corrections. Convict criminology is a developing field in critical criminology that “… consists primarily of essays and empirical research conducted and written by convicts or ex-convicts, on their way to completing or already in possession of a Ph.D. or by enlightened academics who critique existing literature, policies, and practices, thus contributing to a new perspective on criminology, criminal justice, corrections, and community corrections” (Ross and Richards, 2003, p. 6) Students will complete required readings, and develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills through interaction with the professor and other students in the classroom. This course provides students with opportunities to discuss course topics and material both in class and through email.
Prerequisite(s): two of the following CJS courses: CRIM 234 , CRIM 244 , POLS 208 , SOC 225 .
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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 CJS courses: CRIM 234 , CRIM 244 , POLS 208 , SOC 225 .
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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.
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DTHY 341 - Dental Hygiene Theory I Credits: 4
This course introduces the theory of the dental hygiene process of care, including assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Emphasis is on providing the student with an ethical and scientific foundation to use in applying appropriate infection control procedures, introductory client assessment procedures, and basic instrumentation skills. The use of the dental hygiene diagnosis in developing a care plan is introduced. Current clinic issues are addressed in a one-hour weekly seminar.
Prerequisite(s): Admission into the dental hygiene program.
Lecture-Lab (ex: 3-1 means 3 hrs lecture and 1 hr lab): (3-1 [seminar]) Term(s) Offered: Fall
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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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DTHY 457 - Professional and Current Issues in Oral Healthcare Credits: 3
This course presents professional oral healthcare topics from a historical, economic, legal/ethical, global, political, social, interdisciplinary, and multicultural framework. Students will investigate current issues in oral healthcare and examine ethical and legal concerns in the practice of dental hygiene, and explore the accelerating need for access to care for all population groups. Students will develop evidence-based solutions which could be used to influence organizational, institutional, and governmental decisions impacting oral health care. In addition, discussions and exploration of current dental hygiene practice will be included to prepare the student for transition into the profession.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 201 and DTHY 351 (grade of C or better).
Term(s) Offered: Spring
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Diagnostic Medical Sonography |
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DMS 301 - Patient Care for Imaging Sciences Professionals Credits: 2
This course provides basic concepts of nursing procedures in order to maintain continuous, smoothly integrated patient care with due regard to necessary diagnostic and therapeutic techniques. The topics of the course include the healthcare team; attitudes and communication in patient care; patient interactions; psychological considerations; interactions with the patient; patient safety; transferring techniques; trauma and reactions to contrast agents; patient tubes, lines, and catheters; care of patients during and following special procedures; and patient care during mobile or surgical procedures. The role of the radiologic and imaging science professional in patient education will be identified.
Prerequisite(s): acceptance into the Radiologic Technology or DMS program.
Term(s) Offered: Spring
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DMS 312 - Introduction to DMS Principles and Procedures Credits: 2
This course provides the beginning sonography student with a thorough understanding of the ultrasound department, key terms and definitions pertaining to the field of diagnostic sonography, important laboratory values, and surgical procedures. Students will gain a beginning understanding of the value of diagnostic medical sonography in a healthcare setting, survey the role of sonographers in a variety of settings, recognize national and state credentialing requirements, identify sonography association functions at all levels, and recognize ARDMS standards, ethics, and policies and their effects on practicing sonographers’ conduct and patient treatment.
Prerequisite(s): DMS 301 or consent of the instructor.
Term(s) Offered: Spring
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DMS 323 - Obstetric Procedures Credits: 3
This course provides the student with a study of the clinical applications within the specialty of obstetric sonography. Emphasis is placed on the correct use of all technical and medical terms that are necessary for a complete discussion of sonographic procedures within the field of obstetrics. Topics include the related clinical symptoms and laboratory tests used in obstetrics, fetal embryology, normal vs. abnormal sonographic patterns of fetal anatomy, related maternal and fetal disease processes, fetal anomalies and their sonographic appearance, and sonographic protocol for each of the registry exams covered in the course.
Prerequisite(s): DMS 312 or consent of the instructor.
Term(s) Offered: Fall
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DMS 324 - Gynecology Procedures Credits: 3
This course provides the student with a study of the clinical applications within the specialty of gynecologic sonography. Emphasis is placed on the correct use of all technical and medical terms that are necessary for a complete discussion of sonographic procedures within the field of gynecology. Topics will include the related clinical symptoms and laboratory tests, embryology of the female reproductive and genitourinary systems, female reproductive anomalies and their sonographic appearance, normal vs. abnormal sonographic patterns of female anatomy, related disease processes and their sonographic appearance, and sonographic protocol for each of the registry exams covered in the course.
Prerequisite(s): DMS 312 or consent of the instructor.
Term(s) Offered: Fall
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