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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

Chemistry

  
  • CHEM 3399 - Senior Honors Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.
  
  • CHEM 4111 - Literature of Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEM 3222 , CHEM 3332 , and two semesters of elementary German.
  
  • CHEM 4115 - Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory II

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 4
    Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEM 4365 .
    Description
    Synthesis and characterization of inorganic compounds.
  
  • CHEM 4151 - Chemistry Internship

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHEM major with junior standing or higher and prior written approval of Department Chair or designee.
    Description
    Enhancement of concepts and techniques learned in the classroom and laboratory through work experience directly related to the chemistry profession. Employer evaluation and written report required.
  
  • CHEM 4173 - Problem Solving in Physical Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in CHEM 4373 .
    Description
    May not be applied towards a major or minor in chemistry. Development of problem solving skills for CHEM 4373  in small groups.
  
  • CHEM 4229 - Instrumental Methods of Analysis Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: CHEM 3119  and CHEM 3369 ; or equivalent.
    Description
    Credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEM 4369 . Advanced laboratory exercises in optical, electroanalytical, and chromatographic methods of analysis.
  
  • CHEM 4270 - Physical Chemistry Laboratory I

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 4
    Prerequisite: CHEM 3119  or CHEM 3222  and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEM 4370 .
    Description
    Experimental determination of thermodynamic and colligative properties of matter. Uses of digital computers and computer graphics in the laboratory. Written reports in standard professional formats.
  
  • CHEM 4272 - Physical Chemistry Laboratory II

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 4
    Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEM 4372 .
    Description
    Experimental determination of molecular structures via kinetic properties, spectroscopic properties and other instrumental methods. Uses of computers and computer graphics in the laboratory. Written reports in standard professional formats.
  
  • CHEM 4330 - Polymer Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHEM 3222  and CHEM 3332 .
    Description
    Principles of polymerization and degradation, characterization, morphology, rheology, and properties of organic macromolecules.
  
  • CHEM 4336 - Fundamental Biochemistry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHEM 3222 , CHEM 3332 , and CHEM 4372 .
    Description
    Credit may not be received for both CHEM 4336  and BCHS 3304  or BCHS 3305 . Organic and physical chemistry of biological molecules, metabolic pathways, and control mechanisms; organization of living cells.
  
  • CHEM 4340 - Research Methods

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CUIN 3351  and one of CHEM 1111 , CHEM 1117 ; BIOL 1161 , BIOL 1162 ; PHYS 1101 , PHYS 1121  or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Students perform four independent inquiries, combining skills from mathematics and science to solve research problems. Credit may not be received for CHEM 4340  and  PHYS 4340  or BIOL 4340 .
  
  • CHEM 4364 - Advanced Organic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHEM 3222 , CHEM 3332 , and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEM 4372 .
    Description
    Applications of physical principles of organic chemistry, including study of reaction mechanisms, structure determination, and design in syntheses.
  
  • CHEM 4365 - Inorganic Chemistry II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: completion of CHEM 2233 , CHEM 2133  and CHEM 4372  with a grade of at least C-.
    Description
    May not apply toward degree until CHEM 4115  is successfully completed. Quantum mechanical description of atoms. Group theory. Molecular orbital and valence bond theories of chemical bonding. Predicting molecular shapes and polarities. Solid state bonding of ionic compounds, metals, and semiconductors. Acidbase interactions. Crystal field and ligand field models of bonding in dblock metal complexes and organometallics. Reactions of metal complexes and catalysis. The role of inorganic compounds in biochemistry.
  
  • CHEM 4369 - Instrumental Methods of Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHEM 3119  and CHEM 3369 , or equivalent.
    Description
    May not apply toward degree until CHEM 4229  is successfully completed. Theory of optical, electroanalytical, and chromatographic methods of analysis, including electronic aspects of modern instrumentation.
  
  • CHEM 4370 - Physical Chemistry I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 3321 , PHYS 1322 , and CHEM 3332 , or consent of instructor.
    Description
    The gaseous state, thermodynamics, chemical equilibria, change of state, solutions, electrochemistry, and atomic and molecular structure. Credit may not be received for both CHEM 4370  and CHEM 4373 .
  
  • CHEM 4372 - Physical Chemistry II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 3321 , PHYS 1322 , and CHEM 3332 , or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Spectroscopy, kinetic theory, chemical kinetics, photochemistry, introductory quantum chemistry, crystalline and liquid states. May not apply toward degree until CHEM 4272 , or equivalent has been successfully completed.
  
  • CHEM 4373 - Survey of Physical Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHEM 3221  and CHEM 3331 , and MATH 1432 , or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Credit may not be received for both CHEM 4370  and CHEM 4373 . States of matter, thermodynamics, equilibria, kinetics, solutions, and molecular structure including biological applications.
  
  • CHEM 4396 - Research Project

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: CHEM 3396  and approval of the chair.
    Description
    Directed research project culminating in a departmentally approved report.
  
  • CHEM 4397 - Selected Topics in Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • CHEM 4398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Cr. 3 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisites: CHEM 4370  or CHEM 4373 , consent of instructor, and approval of chair.
  
  • CHEM 4399 - Senior Honors Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: CHEM 3399  and approval of department chair.

Chinese

  
  • CHNS 1198 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Cr. 1 or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of instructor.
  
  • CHNS 1209 - Chinese Calligraphy

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Description
    Techniques of writing Chinese characters with a brush-pen. Integrates the Chinese language and culture by studying the formation of characters, and basic styles of Chinese calligraphy. Taught in English.
  
  • CHNS 1298 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 2.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of instructor.
  
  • CHNS 1309 - Chinese Writing and Calligraphy

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: None.
    Description
    Integrates the Chinese language and culture by studying the formation and development of characters, and basic styles of Chinese calligraphy. Techniques of writing Chinese characters with a brush-pen.
    Note: Taught in English.
  
  • CHNS 1398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of instructor.
  
  • CHNS 1501 - Elementary Chinese I

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Description
    Restricted to nonnative speakers of Chinese. Introduction to modern spoken and written Mandarin Chinese. Emphasis on oral skills with initial presentation of the written language.
    TCCNS Equivalent: CHIN 1511
  
  • CHNS 1502 - Elementary Chinese II

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Prerequisite: completion of CHNS 1501  with a minimum grade of C- in twelve months immediately prior to enrollment or placement by examination immediately prior to enrollment.
    Description
    Restricted to nonnative speakers of Chinese. Introduction to modern spoken and written Mandarin Chinese.
    TCCNS Equivalent: CHIN 1512
  
  • CHNS 2198 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CHNS 2207 - Conversational Chinese I

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 1501  or equivalent.
    Description
    Students will develop communicative competence. Trains listening and speaking skills. Students will use cognitive strategies and learning skills in their listening comprehension and expression. Use of Chinese language functionally in daily situations.
  
  • CHNS 2208 - Conversational Chinese II

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 2207  or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Students will develop communicative competence. Trains listening and speaking skills. Students will use cognitive strategies and learning skills in their listening comprehension and expression. Use of Chinese language functionally in daily situations.
  
  • CHNS 2298 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 2.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.
  
  • CHNS 2301 - Intermediate Chinese I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Prerequisite: completion of CHNS 1502  completed with minimum grade of C- in 12 months immediately prior to enrollment or placement by examination immediately prior to enrollment.
    Description
    Restricted to nonnative speakers of Chinese. Introduction to modern spoken and written Mandarin Chinese.
    TCCNS Equivalent: CHIN 2311
  
  • CHNS 2302 - Intermediate Chinese II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Prerequisite: completion of CHNS 2301  with a minimum grade of C- in twelve months immediately prior to enrollment or placement by examination immediately prior to enrollment.
    Description
    Restricted to nonnative speakers of Chinese. Introduction to modern spoken and written Mandarin Chinese. Continued development of oral skills with increased emphasis on the written language.
    TCCNS Equivalent: CHIN 2312
  
  • CHNS 2398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Cr. 3 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of chair.
  
  • CHNS 3198 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CHNS 3298 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 2.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.
  
  • CHNS 3301 - Advanced Mandarin Chinese I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 2302  with a minimum grade of C- in twelve months immediately prior to enrollment or placement by examination immediately prior to enrollment.
    Description
    Continued development of communication skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and cultural understanding.
    Note: Restricted to nonnative speakers of Mandarin Chinese.
  
  • CHNS 3302 - Advanced Mandarin Chinese II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 3301 .
    Description
    Continued development of communication skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and cultural understanding.
  
  • CHNS 3303 - Readings in Modern Chinese

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: placement by examination immediately prior to enrollment or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Essays, stories, biographies, and criticisms from Chinese literary genres. Development of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and cultural understanding. Designed for Chinese-American students and other students from a Chinese-speaking background.
  
  • CHNS 3304 - Business Chinese

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 2302  or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Oral and written communication with attention to contemporary business practices in China.
  
  • CHNS 3305 - Survey of Chinese Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: placement by examination or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Essays, stories, and poems from Chinese literature. Designed for Chinese-American and other students from a Chinese-speaking background.
  
  • CHNS 3306 - Chinese through Poetry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 2302 .
    Description
    Readings in Chinese. Close readings of selected poetry from all time periods of Chinese literature.
    Note: May apply as foreign language credit.
    Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • CHNS 3307 - Chinese through Classical Stories

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 2302 .
    Description
    Readings in Chinese. Close readings of short classical stories from all time periods of Chinese literature.
    Note: May apply as foreign language credit.
    Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • CHNS 3340 - Global Mandarin

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1303 , ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    This course examins the theories sustaining the spread of many localized and indiginized forms of Mandarin. Students will also study the socio-historical reasons behind the emergence of these various forms of Mandarin and their linguistic implications.
    Note: This course will be taught in English.
    Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • CHNS 3341 - Chinese Language and Identity

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1303  , ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    This course explores the myriad ways that the Chinese language contributes to Chinese identity. The lens of shared social practices shapes social identities, notions of gender, ethnicity, class and nationality.
    Note: This class will be taught in English.
    Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • CHNS 3350 - Chinese Culture Through Films

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    Satisfies three hours requirement for the Minor in Chinese studies. May not apply as foreign language credit. Reading film critics and viewing Chinese films produced in contemporary China within the historical, cultural, thematic, and aesthetic content. Taught in English.
  
  • 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 .
    Description
    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 .
    Description
    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 .
    Description
    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 .
    Description
    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 .
    Description
    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 3359 - Chinese Culture through History

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 . This course is restricted to students in the Chinese study abroad program.
    Description
    Studies of Chinese culture and history via course readings, Chinese museums and historical sites in China.
    Note: Taught in English. May not apply as foreign language credit.
  
  • CHNS 3360 - A Look Into Modern China

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    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.
    Description
    Topics on Chinese language, literature, and culture.
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • CHNS 3398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Cr. 3 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of chair.
  
  • CHNS 4301 - Public Speaking in Chinese

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 3301  or equivalent.
    Description
    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.
    Description
    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 .
    Description
    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.
    Description
    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.
    Description
    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.
    Description
    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.
    Description
    Topics on Chinese language, literature, and culture.
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.


Civil and Environmental Engineering

  
  • 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 ENGI 1331  and MATH 2433 .
    Description
    Fundamentals of vector mechanics applied to systems of forces, resultants, free body diagrams, equilibrium and analysis of frames and other structures. Centroids of areas and mass, 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 .
    Description
    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 .
    Description
    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 .
    Description
    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 .
    Description
    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 .
    Description
    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 .
    Description
    Principles of solid and fluid mechanics applied to soils. Physical-chemical and mechanical properties of soils and introduction to geotechnical engineering concepts.
  
  • CIVE 3380 - Fundamentals of Plane Surveying

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: MATH 1313  or MATH 2331  or MATH 3321  .
    Description
    Level, theodolite and their components; Errors and adjustments of a theodolite and a level; Horizontal angles with a theodolite and total station; Geodetic leveling; EDM instruments and distance measurement; control survey computation by traverse.
  
  • 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  or MECE 3336 , ENGI 2304 , MATH 3321  and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CIVE 2332  and ENGI 2334 .
    Description
    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
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.
  
  • CIVE 4298 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.
  
  • CIVE 4311 - Professional Practice in Civil Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Two CIVE 3000 level courses and ENGI 2304  .
    Description
    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: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: CIVE 4311  , CIVE 4332  , CIVE 4333  , CIVE 4363  , CIVE 4369  ,and INDE 2333  .
    Description
    Capstone design project. Includes 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 .
    Description
    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 .
    Description
    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.
    Description
    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 .
    Description
    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 .
    Description
    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 .
    Description
    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 .
    Description
    Applications of soil mechanics principles to foundation engineering. Exploration techniques, foundation selection criteria, design principles, and construction methods.
  
  • CIVE 4381 - Advanced Geomatics and Geosensing

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 3380
    Description
    Horizontal and vertical curve computation; Lambert, Transverse and Universal Mercator projections; geodetic and state place coordinate conversions; adjustment in state plane coordinates; geometric geodesy; horizontal and vertical datums; geodetic computations; GPS.
  
  • CIVE 4382 - Legal Principles and Boundary Surveying

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 3380 and ENGL 1304  .
    Description
    Land surveying practice and legal principles of boundary survey of real property; lot survey; property descriptions, sectional survey; the water boundary survey; United State Public Land Survey System, metes and bounds, riparian and mineral rights surveys.
  
  • CIVE 4397 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: None.
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

    Note: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
  
  • CIVE 4398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 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 .
    Description
    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 5375 - Digital Photogrammetry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 4381 and COSC 1304  ,C Programming, COSC 1305  ,C++ Programming, COSC 1410  Introduction to Computer Science 1 , COSC 1430  Introduction to Programming, ENGI 1331  Computing for Engineers, or other programming course approved by instructor.
    Description
    Principles of photography and image measurement techniques; fundamentals of image coordinates to ground coordinates; digital photography and mapping, orthophotography, structure from motion.
  
  • 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.
    Description
    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 5386 - Survey Measurements & Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 4381.
    Description
    Matrices; non-linear equations and Taylor’s theorem; random vs. systematic errors; propagation of errors; weights; principle of least squares, adjustment of a 1D, 2D, and 3D network; error ellipses; optimization.
  
  • CIVE 5388 - Hazardous Waste Processes

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 4333  .
    Description
    Physical and chemical principles of solid and hazardous waste treatment processes; mass conservation equations, transport phenomena, phase equilibria, fluid flow in porous media with applications to soil vapor extraction, soil vapor extraction, soil leaching/flushing, stabilization, and bioremediation processes.
  
  • CIVE 5397 - Selected Topics

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

    Note: 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 .
    Description
    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 .
    Description
    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 .
    Description
    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 .
    Description
    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 .
    Description
    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
 

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