Advanced-level courses covering specific topics in clinical laboratory sciences. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Credit Hours: 1 hr Prerequisites: permission of instructor
Advanced-level courses covering specific topics in clinical laboratory sciences. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Credit Hours: 2 hrs Prerequisites: permission of instructor
Advanced-level courses covering specific topics in clinical laboratory sciences. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Prerequisites: permission of instructor
Selected topics in photo communications, such as commercial and industrial photography, photo journalism, sensitometry and photography, and photo processing. The class schedule describes the specific topic being offered during a given semester.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Equivalent Courses:CMT 404 Cross-listed with:CMT 404 Last Updated: New Course 2/2015, effective Fall 2015
CMT 525 - Communication Technology and Social Change
The social implications of recent and future developments in communication technology. The effects upon education, research and scientific knowledge, business and entertainment.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Equivalent Courses:CMT 425 Cross-listed with:CMT 425 Last Updated: New Course 2/2015, effective Fall 2015
Provides for intensive study of selected topics drawn from current developments in the total field of business education. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Credit Hours: 1 hr Class Restrictions: Graduate standing or department permission Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
Provides for intensive study of selected topics drawn from current developments in the total field of business education. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Credit Hours: 2 hrs Class Restrictions: Graduate standing or department permission Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
Provides for intensive study of selected topics drawn from current developments in the total field of business education. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Class Restrictions: Graduate standing or department permission Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
Provides for intensive study of selected topics drawn from current developments in the total field of business education. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Credit Hours: 4 hrs Class Restrictions: Graduate standing or department permission Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
Provides for intensive study of selected topics drawn from current developments in the total field of business education. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Credit Hours: 1 hr Class Restrictions: Graduate standing or department permission Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
Provides for intensive study of selected topics drawn from current developments in the total field of business education. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Credit Hours: 2 hrs Class Restrictions: Graduate standing or department permission Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
Provides for intensive study of selected topics drawn from current developments in the total field of business education. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
An investigation into the risks, liabilities and responsibilities involved in today’s construction industry. The areas of liability, contract interpretation, changes, changed conditions, delays, damages, documentation and dispute resolution are addressed.
CNST 505 introduces the processes of modern project management, in particular, initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and close-out of projects and programs. Major topics include work breakdown structure, CPM/PERT, progress tracking, management reporting and resource management. CNST 505 features team activities and full group discussion.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Terms Offered: Fall Last Updated: Spelling Error 7/2014, Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
Methods of control used in the construction industry for production problems involving the estimate, bidding schedules, cost analysis, cost comparison, scheduling systems, evaluation and debriefing.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Equivalent Courses:CNST 403 Cross-listed with:CNST 403 Last Updated: New Course 2/2015, effective Fall 2015
CNST 511 - Construction Project Planning and Estimating
CNST511 introduces basic, intermediate and advanced project planning, estimating and cost budgeting techniques and their application within the construction industry. The course addresses techniques for improved project planning, execution and control on major construction programs, and includes the use of modern PM software.
CNST 512 - Construction Project Scheduling and Control
CNST 512 introduces basic, intermediate and advanced project scheduling and control techniques and their application within the construction industry. The course addresses techniques for improved project planning, execution and control on major construction programs and includes the use of modern PM software.
CNST 526 - Mechanical and Electrical Construction Applications
This course provides the student with a broad understanding of the principles and construction of plumbing, heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) and electrical systems for nonresidential buildings. Emphasis will be placed on project management issues relating to these systems including estimating, coordinating, change orders and commissioning.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Equivalent Courses:CNST 426 Cross-listed with:CNST 426 Last Updated: New Course 2/2015, effective Fall 2015
This lecture course provides an overview of the design, installation, and start-up of various industrial systems as they relate to construction management. Emphasis is placed on construction pertaining to: automotive, food & beverage, chemical/refinery, pharmaceutical, steel and cast metals, machining, plastic molding, power generation, electronics manufacturing and others.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Equivalent Courses:CNST 427 Cross-listed with:CNST 427 Last Updated: New Course 2/2015, effective Fall 2015
CNST 540 - LEED for New Construction and Major Renovations
This course provides an understanding of how green building intents, strategies and technologies are considered, coordinated, implemented, and verified while designing, constructing, commissioning, and using commercial buildings in particular, and the greater built environment in general. It expands on how LEED accredited professionals oversee building certification processes, and the documents and standards required to attain LEED certification at all levels. Materials for the course derive from the United States Green Building Council’s Green Building Rating System for New Constructions and Major Renovations, Reference Guides, Registered Project Checklist, and Green Building Certification Institute’s web resources. Required for Construction Management Major, this course also fulfills the Global Awareness General Education requirement.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Equivalent Courses:CNST 440 Last Updated: New Course 7/2014, effective Winter 2015
CNST 546 - Professional Issues and Ethics in Project Management
The course addresses the important elements of professionalism and professional conduct essentials for the starting professional to succeed in project-based industries. The course uses a seminar style and workshop format and focuses on building the appropriate professional skills including networking, work relations, technical communications, ethics, diversity sensitivity, professionalism, public speaking and communicate service.
Credit Hours: 1 hr Equivalent Courses:CNST 446 Cross-listed with:CNST 446 Previously Listed as: CNST 546 - Senior Seminar on Professional Issues in Engineering, Technology, and Construction Last Updated: Change to course title and description 3/2015, effective Fall 2015; New Course 7/2014, effective Winter 2015
CNST 550 - Fundamentals of Construction Project Management
Students combine many previous concepts and skills into a single comprehensive project that includes estimating, scheduling, production control techniques and documentation procedures. Lecture and laboratory course.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Prerequisites:CNST 506, CNST 511 and CNST 512 Equivalent Courses:CNST 450 Last Updated: Updated prereqs 08/2014; New Course 7/2014, effective Winter 2015
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Credit Hours: 1 hr Prerequisites: department permission Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Credit Hours: 2 hrs Prerequisites: department permission Terms Offered: Fall and Winter Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Prerequisites: department permission Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
Opportunities are provided for the selection and completion of an individual study under the direction of a University faculty member. An approved written proposal is required. Both “independent study” and “research proposal format” guideline sheets are available from the department.
Credit Hours: 1 hr Prerequisites: department permission Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
Opportunities are provided for the selection and completion of an individual study under the direction of a University faculty member. An approved written proposal is required. Both “independent study” and “research proposal format” guideline sheets are available from the department.
Credit Hours: 2 hrs Prerequisites: department permission Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
Opportunities are provided for the selection and completion of an individual study under the direction of a University faculty member. An approved written proposal is required. Both “independent study” and “research proposal format” guideline sheets are available from the department.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Prerequisites: department permission Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
An investigation into the construction industry practices associated with the use of working drawings to analyze project requirements for bidding, planning, scheduling and controlling construction projects.
CNST 630 addresses current initiatives and research on improving the processes of construction management. The course allows the student to develop their research methods capability in modern construction management. The workshop format allows the student to work semi-independently on their scholarly course technical paper.
An exploration of occupational safety and health from a human behavior perspective. Attention will be given to the development of safety management systems. Legislative safety and health policies will be analyzed to determine their effectiveness.
Credit Hours: 2 hrs Terms Offered: Fall Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Credit Hours: 1 hr Prerequisites: department permission Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Credit Hours: 2 hrs Prerequisites: department permission Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Prerequisites: department permission Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
A field study of industrial theory and practice through internship experiences with cooperating industries. Designed for students desiring experiences beyond those obtained in their previous or present employment.
Credit Hours: 2 hrs Terms Offered: Offered on a credit/no-credit basis. Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
Opportunities are provided for the selection and completion of an individual study under the direction of a University faculty member. An approved written proposal is required. Both “independent study” and “research proposal format” guideline sheets are available from the department.
Credit Hours: 1 hr Prerequisites: department permission Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
Opportunities are provided for the selection and completion of an individual study under the direction of a University faculty member. An approved written proposal is required. Both “independent study” and “research proposal format” guideline sheets are available from the department.
Credit Hours: 2 hrs Prerequisites: department permission Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
Opportunities are provided for the selection and completion of an individual study under the direction of a University faculty member. An approved written proposal is required. Both “independent study” and “research proposal format” guideline sheets are available from the department.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Prerequisites: department permission Last Updated: Updated ‘create under’ 6/14
COSC 506 - Methods of Teaching Computer Science in the Secondary School
This course encompasses information and materials needed to prepare students for the teaching of computer science in grades seven through 12. Topics include curricular development, course content, laboratory arrangement, pedagogical methods, security and maintenance of equipment, software selection and evaluation and copyright considerations. In addition, the course presents approaches for dealing with diversity of student abilities and backgrounds, techniques and strategies for teaching problem-solving, algorithm development and program debugging. Time will be spent fitting previous teaching experiences and backgrounds into the computer science class and laboratory environments.
Complexity measures of algorithms; searching, sorting, string matching and graph algorithms; design and analysis of greedy algorithms, backtracking, divide and conquer approach, dynamic programming; NP-complete and NP-hard problems are studied.
Principles of logical reasoning and their application to the development of reliable software, propositional and predicate logic, mathematical induction, semantics of control and data structures are studied. Examples are drawn from various applications areas. Emphasis is on the use of formal methods as practical tools that aid in software development.
Computer Organization II. Topics include: machine language and arithmetic; assembly language programming; implementation of high-level run time structures; structure of assemblers, loaders and command interpreters. Logic design and computer architecture. No credit for
COSC 522 - Computer Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
A study of networks of interacting computers. Topics covered: principles of data communication; major national and international protocols; models for network design and analysis; local and long-haul networks; distributed processing, distributed databases and distributed operating systems. A laboratory project involving a network of microcomputer systems is included.
Processor design, fixed and floating point arithmetic processing and nonarithmetic processing are studied. Topics covered: control design and microprogramming; memory organization and input-output; system organization. Case studies will be drawn from computer systems designed to make special types of processing more efficient: stack computers, pipelined processors and vector computer multiprocessing.
The fundamentals of small-system software development as it applies to microprocessors and minicomputers. Introduction to microprocessors and peripheral hardware; software and software development; applications. Students will have access to both microcomputers and a minicomputer to gain first-hand knowledge of this field.
Computer operating systems functions and concepts. Processor allocation: multiprogramming and scheduling algorithms. Memory tasks and data management. The deadlock problem. Virtual memory, allocation strategies and analysis of their algorithms. Design, implementation and protection of I/O files. Survey of available computer operating systems.
This course involves the study of wireless communication technologies and standards. Communication issues such as frequency reuse, signal coding, error control coding and spread spectrum technology as well as technologies including cellular telephony, personal communications systems and wireless local area networks and international wireless standards will be discussed.
Students will learn how to set up and configure a web server and associated services. Topics covered will include: CGI, JavaScript, Web security tools, server-side programming multifiles applets, data description languages, database connectivity, scripting languages and distributed applications. Exposure to security and efficiency issues.
COSC 541 - Automata, Computability and Formal Languages
A survey of the principal mathematical models of computation and formal languages. Finite automata, regular languages and sets, the Chomsky hierarchy, context-free languages, computability and undecidable problems, computational complexity and NP-completeness are studied.
Review of programming language structures, translation, loading, execution and storage allocation. Compilation of simple statements. Organization and overall design of a compiler. Use of compiler writing languages.
Introduction to the LISP language with emphasis on artificial intelligence applications. Pure LISP, built-in and user-defined functions, PROG feature, MAP-functionals and property lists.
An introduction to one of the most widely used languages of artificial intelligence. Topics include Prolog’s inference procedure, assertions of facts and rules, recursion, list structures, functors, the cut, numerical operations and principles of good Prolog style.
Methods for modeling, designing, implementing and evaluating dialogues between people and computer systems, taking into account modern interface technologies, human limitations and trade-offs between competing design objectives.
Topics covered: mathematics for 3-D graphics; polygon clipping; polygon filling; modeling methods; 3-D transformations; parallel and perspective projections; hidden line and hidden surface removal algorithms; shading and color models.
Introduces the central components of 3D computer game programming: game design, using a 3D graphics engine (lighting, shading, textures, etc.), terrain modeling, solid modeling, kinematics, collision detection, real-time animation, simple AI agency, sound integration.
This course introduces the student to basic concepts and techniques of artificial intelligence. Topics covered: strategies for choosing representations, notational systems and structures; search strategies; control issues; examples of current systems in natural language processing, pattern recognition, problem-solving, learning and information retrieval. Students with no prior knowledge of LISP should take
COSC 562 - Information Retrieval and Recommendation
Explores the fields of information retrieval and recommendation. Searching for and recommending relevant information to a user. Topics include set-theoretic, algebraic and probabilistic models common to both fields, evaluation of retrieval and recommendation techniques, queries, indexing and issues related to format (text, multimedia, etc.).