Apr 23, 2024  
2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

Chinese

  
  • CHNS 3352 - Chinese Culture and Society Through Modern Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly CHNS 2352

    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Readings of the most important literary works from the 1919 May 4th Movement to the 1970’s.

    Note: Taught in English. May not apply as foreign language credit.
    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • CHNS 3354 - Chinese Culture and Language

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1303  and ENGL 1304 .

    Taught in English. Readings and discussions on Chinese language, culture and interactions between the language and the culture from the perspectives of history, geography, and linguistics.

  
  • CHNS 3355 - Roots of Chinese Culture through Classical Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Covers the most important literary works of China from antiquity to the fall of the last imperial dynasty.

    Note: May not apply as foreign language credit. Taught in Enlish.
    Typically Offered: Spring

  
  • CHNS 3356 - Chinese Anecdotes and Cultural Memory

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Explores Chinese anecdotal literature and casual storytelling as ways of remembering the culture of the past.

    Note: May not apply as foreign language credit. Taught in English.
    Typically Offered: Spring

  
  • CHNS 3357 - Legends, Tales and Fantasy: Boundaries of Reality in Chinese Literature and Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Readings cover legends, tales and fantasy, explore the boundaries of reality in Chinese literature and culture from all time periods.

    Note: May not apply as foreign language credit. Taught in English.
    Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • CHNS 3360 - A Look Into Modern China

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    China’s transformation in the last two decades and its understanding of modernity. Novels, essays, journals and films reveal conflicts between conventional Chinese values and modern legal systems, economic development and traditional living.

    Note: Taught in English.
    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • CHNS 3396 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: junior standing.

    Topics on Chinese language, literature, and culture. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • CHNS 3398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - ;
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

  
  • CHNS 4301 - Public Speaking in Chinese

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 3301  or equivalent.

    Includes giving an opinion, negotiating meanings, debates, proposals, and oral narrations. Designed for both heritage or nonheritage students of Chinese.

  
  • CHNS 4302 - Integrated Chinese

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 3301  or equivalent.

    Emphasizing four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students receive language input through reading, produce their output through conversation and composition. Designed for both heritage or nonheritage students of Chinese.

  
  • CHNS 4364 - Issues in Chinese Language and Linguistics

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1303 , CHNS 1501 , and CHNS 1502 .

    Issues of Chinese language and linguistics that will enhance appreciation of Chinese culture through analysis of language and linguistics. Taught in English.

  
  • CHNS 4371 - Principles of Teaching Chinese

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 2302  or consent of the instructor.

    Techniques for structuring Chinese classes, lesson planning, and curriculum implementation. Taught in English.

  
  • CHNS 4372 - Studies of Chinese Language Acquisition

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 2302  or consent of the instructor.

    Methods of teaching and strategies for learning Chinese as a second language. Readings include current research on second language theory acquisition and practices. Taught in English.

  
  • CHNS 4396 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: senior standing.

    Topics on Chinese language, literature, and culture. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • CHNS 4398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Topics on Chinese language, literature, and culture. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.


Civil and Environmental Engineering

  
  • CIVE 1100 - Introduction to Civil Engineering

    Credit Hours: 1.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 1 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: course required for freshmen and transfer students during their first fall semester enrollment in civil engineering.

    Overview of the various fields of civil engineering and career opportunities in civil engineering. Path to professional licensure and introduction to ethics.

  
  • CIVE 1331 - Computing for Engineers

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 2 ; Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Formerly (also CHEE 1331 and INDE 1331)

    Prerequisite: MATH 1431 .

    Credit may not be received for more than one of CHEE 1331 , CIVE 1331, and INDE 1331 . Introduction to the computing environment; matrix arithmetic; programming essentials; spreadsheets; symbolic algebra tools; solution of typical engineering problems using computer tools.

  
  • CIVE 2330 - Mechanics I (Statics)

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHYS 1321  and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CIVE 1331  and MATH 2433 .

    Composition and resolution of forces, free-body diagrams, analysis of forces acting on structures and machines, friction, centroids, and moments of inertia.

  
  • CIVE 2331 - Mechanics II (Dynamics)

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 2330  and MATH 2433 .

    Dynamics of rigid bodies; force-mass-acceleration, work-energy, impulse-momentum, and introduction to mechanical vibrations.

  
  • CIVE 2332 - Mechanics of Solids

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 2330 , MATH 2433 , and credit for or concurrent enrollment in MECT 3341 .

    Stress and strain in elastic bodies; statically determinate and indeterminate members; axial force, shear, moment and torsion; beam deflections; columns; combined stresses.

  
  • CIVE 3331 - Environmental Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHEM 1332  and CHEM 1112 , or CHEM 1372  and CHEM 1117 , CIVE 2330 , and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ENGI 2334 .

    Introduction to air, water, and environmental pollutants, and concepts of design for treatment.

  
  • CIVE 3332 - Engineering Materials

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 2 ; Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: CIVE 2332  and ENGI 2304 .

    Analysis of properties of solid materials related to engineering design, introduction to metallurgical processes, and materials testing.

  
  • CIVE 3337 - Structural Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 2332 .

    Structural analysis of determinate and indeterminate trusses, beams and frames; influence lines; deflections.

  
  • CIVE 3339 - Geotechnical Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 2 ; Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: CIVE 2332 , ENGI 2304 , and credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 3321 .

    Principles of solid and fluid mechanics applied to soils. Physical-chemical and mechanical properties of soils and introduction to geotechnical engineering concepts.

  
  • CIVE 3399 - Senior Honors Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

  
  • CIVE 3434 - Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Engineering

    Credit Hours: 4.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: CIVE 2331 , ENGI 2304 , MATH 3321  and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CIVE 2332  and ENGI 2334 

    Fluid properties, hydrostatics, basic equations of fluid mechanics, inviscid and viscous flows, flow through pipes, pipeline systems, and open channel flow.

  
  • CIVE 4198 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0 - ;
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

  
  • CIVE 4298 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 2.0 - ;
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

  
  • CIVE 4311 - Professional Practice in Civil Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Two CIVE 3000 level courses.

    Professional practice in civil engineering including ethics, professional responsibility and licensure; legal issues; business and management principles; leadership; public policy concerns.

  
  • CIVE 4312 - Civil Engineering Design Project

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 4311 , INDE 3333  and either CIVE 4332 , CIVE 4333  and CIVE 5362  for the water/environmental project or CIVE 4363 , CIVE 4364 , and CIVE 4369  for the structural/geotechnical project.

    Civil engineering design, including constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, constructability, and sustainability.

  
  • CIVE 4332 - Hydrology

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 3434 .

    Hydrologic cycle, rainfall and runoff, water losses, snowmelt, ground water, unit hydrograph, floods and flood routing, stream flow records, reservoir design, and sedimentation.

  
  • CIVE 4333 - Water and Wastewater Treatment

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 3331  and CIVE 3434 .

    Principles of municipal water and wastewater treatment processes.

  
  • CIVE 4337 - Transportation Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: INDE 2333  and two CIVE 3000 level courses.

    Introduction to transportation engineering, emphasizing highway engineering, including geometric design, traffic engineering, transportation planning, and safety.

  
  • CIVE 4363 - Concrete Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 3332  and CIVE 3337 .

    Analysis and design of concrete structures and their components.

  
  • CIVE 4364 - Structural Steel Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 3332  and CIVE 3337 .

    Analysis and design of steel structures and their components.

  
  • CIVE 4365 - Bridge Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 4363 .

    Classification, history, aesthetics of highway bridges; bridge design methods; influence lines for girders and trusses; loads and load distribution; pier and bearing types; concrete deck slab design; composite action.

  
  • CIVE 4369 - Foundation Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 3339  and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CIVE 4363 .

    Applications of soil mechanics principles to foundation engineering. Exploration techniques, foundation selection criteria, design principles, and construction methods.

  
  • CIVE 4398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - ;
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

  
  • CIVE 4399 - Senior Honors Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - ;
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

  
  • CIVE 5362 - Water Quality Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly CIVE 4331 Water Quality Engineering

    Prerequisite: CIVE 3331  and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CIVE 3434 .

    Environmental chemistry and biology applications and implications to engineered and natural waters. Emphasis on physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of water and analytical methods for water quality management.

  
  • CIVE 5380 - Introduction to Geomatics and Geosensing

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 2 ; Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Two CIVE 3000 level courses or consent of instructor.

    Introduction to plane surveying and differential leveling; horizontal and vertical curves computation; fundamentals of geodesy and map projection; Global Positioning System (GPS); principles of LiDAR and remote sensing.

  
  • CIVE 5397 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.


Classical Studies

  
  • CLAS 2366 - Who Owns Antiquity? The Battle Over Our Cultural Heritage

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Current controversies surrounding the ethics of cultural property together with an exploration of why history matters to us, what purposes historical narratives and artifacts serve, who gets to interpret them, and why.

  
  • CLAS 3307 - Greek and Roman Myths of Heroes

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    The concept of the hero in ancient Greek culture with comparative consideration of Rome and other cultures.

    Note: Taught in English.
    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • CLAS 3308 - Myths and Cult of the Greek Gods

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly CLAS 3307 Myths and Cult of Ancient Gods

    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Religious narratives, beliefs, and rituals in ancient Greek culture with comparative consideration of Rome and other cultures.

    Note: Taught in English.
    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • CLAS 3341 - The Roman Republic

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Social, political, and cultural history of Rome, from its foundation to the Fall of the Republic, 753-27BCE. Taught in English.

  
  • CLAS 3345 - Myth and Performance in Greek Tragedy

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    The reshaping of myths in tragedies performed in the fifth century BCE and in modem productions of those plays. Critical appraisal of text and performance in the respective cultural contexts.

    Core Category: [50] Creative Arts
  
  • CLAS 3366 - The Trojan War

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly CLAS 3366 Greek Art and Archaeology: In Search of the Trojan War

    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Survey of ancient Greek art and archaeology connected to the Trojan War from the Bronze Age to the Classical Period with emphasis on its relationship to traditional myths and Classical literature.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • CLAS 3371 - Ancient Comedy and Its Influence

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Comic drama from its origins in ancient Greece, to its Roman transformation, ending with its Renaissance adaptions. Readings from Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence, Machiavelli, and Shakespeare. Taught in English.

  
  • CLAS 3374 - Women in the Ancient World

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Women’s lives from the Graeco-Roman world. Analysis and comparisons of literary texts and archeological evidence in their cultural and historical context.

    Note: Taught in English.
    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • CLAS 3375 - Roman, Jew, and Christian: The Politics and Sociology of Religion in the First Century A.D.

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Political and social interactions of religions in the Roman Empire ca. 31 BC to 150 A.D. Special focus on emperor worship, Second Temple Judaism and the Jewish War of 66-70, and the early Jesus movement. Taught in English.

  
  • CLAS 3380 - Epic Masculinity: Ideologies of Manhood in Ancient Epic and Modern Film

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Ideologies of masculinity in ancient Greek and Roman epic as compared to modern cinema (e.g., Spartacus, Gladiator, and Braveheart). Taught in English.

  
  • CLAS 3381 - From Homer to Hollywood: Archaic and Classical Greek Themes in Modern Cinema

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly CLAS 3381 From Homer to Hollywood: Ancient Greek Themes in the Modern Cinema

    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Examination of the way modern cinema adapts themes from Greek literature and uses them to explore modern conflict.

    Note: Taught in English.
    Core Category: [50] Creative Arts
  
  • CLAS 3397 - Selected Topics in Greek and Roman Civilization

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: sophomore standing.

    May not apply toward foreign language requirement. Topics from the literature, art, philosophy, religion, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome. Taught in English. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • CLAS 3398 - Independent Study in Classical Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - ;
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • CLAS 3399 - Senior Honors Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 0 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: permission of Director of Classical Studies.

    Independent research and writing for the senior honors thesis.

  
  • CLAS 4305 - Fifth-Century Athens: Readings in Intellectual, Literary, and Political History

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Overview of intellectual trends and political history of fifth-century BCE Athens. Topics include the development of Democracy, birth of tragedy, Persian Wars, Athenian Empire, court system, Peloponnesian Wars, and death of Socrates.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • CLAS 4350 - Age of Augustus

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Exploration of the political, literary, architectural, and artistic changes introduced during the reign of Caesar Augustus, first Emperor of Rome (27BC - 14AD). Taught in English.

  
  • CLAS 4353 - Classics and Modernity: The Uses of Antiquity in Modern and Postmodern Contexts

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Use of ancient Greek and Roman concepts by modern and postmodern thinkers, artists, and authors.

  
  • CLAS 4370 - Comparative Epic

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly CLAS 3370

    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  and junior standing.

    Epic poetry from ancient Greece and Rome with a comparative approach drawing on other cultures, including the ancient Near East, the Hevrew Bible, medieval Europe, and /or modern oral epic traditions. Taught in English.

  
  • CLAS 4374 - Sex and Gender in Antiquity

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  and junior standing.

    Issues of sex and gender in ancient Greece and Rome through the study of literature, art, and science.

  
  • CLAS 4375 - Gender and Race in Greek Myths

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Credit for CLAS 4375 may not be applied toward a degree by students who have credit for CLAS 3306 . May not apply toward foreign language requirement. Greek myths and rituals, focusing on dynamics of exclusion that parallel modern definitions of ethnicity and gender. Taught in English.

  
  • CLAS 4381 - Latin Classics in Translation

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly (also ENGL 4381)

    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Works of Latin literature read in conjunction with modern text inspired by them.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • CLAS 4397 - Selected Topics in Greek and Roman Civilization

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: junior standing.

    Topics from the literature, art, philosophy, religion, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome. Taught in English. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • CLAS 4398 - Independent Study in Classical Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - ;
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • CLAS 4399 - Senior Honors Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 0 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: permission of Director of Classical Studies

    Independent research and writing for the senior honors thesis.


Communication

  
  • COMM 1301 - Media and Society

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    [TCCN-COMM 1307]

    Consumer oriented study of mass communications. Provides overview of media structures, media messages, mass audiences, and impact of media on society.

  
  • COMM 1302 - Introduction to Communication Theory

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in ENGL 1303 .

    Perspectives in communication theory and process.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • COMM 1332 - Fundamentals of Public Speaking

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 1 ; Lab Contact Hours: 2
    [TCCN-SPCH 1315]

    Taught in large lecture and small group format. Beginning theory and practice of informative and persuasive communication.

  
  • COMM 1333 - Interpersonal Communication

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    [TCCN-SPCH 1318]

    Theories and research relating to the initiation, growth, and deterioration of interpersonal relationships in contemporary society.

  
  • COMM 2300 - Communication Research Methods

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MATH 1310 .

    Social science and qualitative research methods in communication: problem formation, hypothesis testing and theory building; fundamentals of measurement; research designs and approaches; data collection and analysis; and ethics in academic and professional applications.

  
  • COMM 2310 - Writing for Print and Digital Media

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 2 ; Lab Contact Hours: 3
    [TCCN-COMM 2311]

    Prerequisite: cumulative GPA of 2.33 or better average in: ENGL 1304 , HIST 1377 , HIST 1378 , POLS 1336  and POLS 1337 .

    Ability to type 30 words per minute. Cognitive and mechanical skills required to produce news, public relations, and advertising messages that are ethical, clear, concise, complete, compelling, and accurate. Gathering information from online and traditional sources. Laboratory required.

  
  • COMM 2320 - Fundamentals of Media Production

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMM 1301 , at least a C in each of the following: ENGL 1304 , HIST 1377 ,  , POLS 1336 , and POLS 1337 .

    Fundamentals of current and emerging production techniques in media industries.

  
  • COMM 2322 - Television Production I

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 2 ; Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: COMM 2320  and at least a C in each of the following: ENGL 1304 , HIST 1377 , HIST 1378 , POLS 1336 , and POLS 1337 .

    Television as a medium of influence and expression. Application of professional video techniques in programming. Emphasis on studio operation.

  
  • COMM 2328 - Broadcast and Film Writing

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMM 1301  and at least a C in each of the following: ENGL 1304 , HIST 1377 , HIST 1378 , POLS 1336 , and POLS 1337 .

    Script writing for the broadcast and film media.

  
  • COMM 2370 - Introduction to Motion Pictures

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Introduction to the art, technology, economics, and social aspects of film.

  
  • COMM 3300 - Health Communication

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly COMM 4333

    Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.

    Examination of the nature, contexts, theories, and selected research shaping health care consumers understanding of health communication issues.

  
  • COMM 3301 - Doctor-Patient Interaction

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.

    Explores the nature of physician-patient interaction focusing on communication skills and advocacy development for both groups across the spectrum of healthcare delivery and examining selected theories.

  
  • COMM 3302 - E-Health and Telemedicine

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMM 3353  or consent of instructor.

    Examination of how health information is communicated and disseminated through various technologies and delivery channels such as health internet sites, television programming, kiosks, and other elated technology-based materials.

  
  • COMM 3303 - Health Literacy

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMM 3300  or consent of instructor.

    The role of diverse communication skills and knowledge in making appropriate heath decisions.

  
  • COMM 3304 - Multicultural Health Communication

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMM 3300  or consent of instructor.

    Diverse ethnic meaning systems and their influences on health behaviors.

  
  • COMM 3305 - Communication and Catastrophic Illnesses

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMM 3300  or consent of instructor.

    Systematic inquiry into communication practices surrounding catastrophic illnesses such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, and HIV/AIDS.

  
  • COMM 3311 - Editing for Print and Digital Media

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: at least a C in COMM 2310 .

    Editing messages such as public relations, advertising, news, features for print, broadcast, digital media; headline and caption writing; introduction to publication design; photo use and cropping; graphics, visuals.

  
  • COMM 3314 - Intermediate Writing and Reporting

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 2 ; Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: C+ or better in COMM 3311 .

    Gathering and writing news with emphasis on publishing in the student newspaper.

  
  • COMM 3315 - News and Social Media

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite:
  • COMM 2310 - Writing for Print and Digital Media

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 2 ; Lab Contact Hours: 3
    [TCCN-COMM 2311]

    Prerequisite: cumulative GPA of 2.33 or better average in: ENGL 1304 , HIST 1377 , HIST 1378 , POLS 1336  and POLS 1337 .

    Ability to type 30 words per minute. Cognitive and mechanical skills required to produce news, public relations, and advertising messages that are ethical, clear, concise, complete, compelling, and accurate. Gathering information from online and traditional sources. Laboratory required.

  • or COMM 2328  or consent of instructor.

    Issues at the intersection of news and social media, including how social media is used to search and share news.

    Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

  
  • COMM 3316 - Electronic News

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: at least a C in both COMM 2310  and COMM 2320  and consent of instructor.

    Theory and practice of assembling, writing, and presenting news for the electronic media.

  
  • COMM 3317 - Media Production for Journalists

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMM 2310  or COMM 2328 .

    Fundamentals of producing video for websites and other online media to accompany print and digital news stories.

    Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • COMM 3319 - Preproduction Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMM 2320 .

    Principles of film and video preproduction and production management, including techniques of script breakdown, scheduling, budgeting, and producing of professional productions and student projects.

  
  • COMM 3320 - Audio Production

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 2 ; Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: at least a C in COMM 2320  and consent of instructor.

    Audio as a medium of influence and expression with applied emphasis on audio production techniques used in radio, TV/cable, and film industries.

  
  • COMM 3321 - Single Camera Studio Production

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 2 ; Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: at least a C in COMM 2320  and COMM 2322 .

    Single camera film-style studio production as a medium of influence and expression with an emphasis on motion picture production techniques incorporated into a High Definition Video environment.

  
  • COMM 3323 - Multimedia Production I

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: junior standing in communication and computer skills.

    Fundamentals aspects of computer-based multimedia production for mass media and corporate applications.

  
  • COMM 3324 - Photojournalism I

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.

    Techniques of taking and developing pictures for the mass media.

  
  • COMM 3326 - Graphics Applications

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 2 ; Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: at least a C in COMM 2320 .

    Application of graphics and type principles in print journalism, advertising, art, and public relations.

  
  • COMM 3327 - Desktop Publishing

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMM 3326  or consent of instructor.

    History, theory, and practice of page layout and design using a computer. Creation and manipulation of graphics for print media and use of desktop systems to produce camera-ready copy.

  
  • COMM 3329 - Media Performance

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 2 ; Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: at least a C in each of the following: COMM 2320 , COMM 2322 , and COMM 2328 .

    Performance techniques for media professionals in news, information, commercial, and entertainment programming.

  
  • COMM 3330 - Relational Communication

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMM 1333  or consent of instructor.

    Current research and theories concerning communication processes and dynamics involved in personal and professional relationships.

  
  • COMM 3331 - Communication in the Family

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMM 1333  or consent of instructor.

    Theories and research covering communication in the development of the family with an emphasis on parent-child and sibling communication.

  
  • COMM 3332 - Effective Meeting Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.

    Procedures for planning and conducting meetings, including large conventions, board meetings, and informal committees.

  
  • COMM 3337 - Argumentation and Debate

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Theory and practice in the art of advocacy involving analysis, arrangement, and presentation of arguments for the purpose of decision making and social control.

  
  • COMM 3339 - Advanced Public Speaking

    Credit Hours: 3.0 - Lecture Contact Hours: 3 ; Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMM 1332  or consent of instructor.

    Advanced experiences in research, development, presentation of public addresses with emphasis on rhetorical criticism.

 

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