Jun 25, 2024  
2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

Chinese

  
  • CHIN 1398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • CHIN 1501 - Elementary Chinese I

    Credit Hours: 5
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Description
    Introduction to modern spoken and written Mandarin Chinese. Emphasis on oral skills with initial presentation of the written language.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Restricted to nonnative speakers of Chinese.
    TCCNS Equivalent: CHIN 1511
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 1502 - Elementary Chinese II

    Credit Hours: 5
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Prerequisite: Completion of CHIN 1501 with a minimum grade of C- in twelve months immediately prior to enrollment or placement by examination immediately prior to enrollment.
    Description
    Introduction to modern spoken and written Mandarin Chinese.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Restricted to nonnative speakers of Chinese.
    TCCNS Equivalent: CHIN 1512
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 2198 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 2207 - Conversational Chinese I

    Credit Hours: 2
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHIN 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.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 2208 - Conversational Chinese II

    Credit Hours: 2
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHIN 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.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 2298 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 2
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Approval of chair.
    Repeatability: Cr. 2 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment.

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 2311 - Intermediate Chinese I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Completion of CHIN 1502 completed with minimum grade of C- in 12 months immediately prior to enrollment or placement by examination immediately prior to enrollment.
    Description
    Introduction to modern spoken and written Mandarin Chinese.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Restricted to nonnative speakers of Chinese.
    TCCNS Equivalent: CHIN 2311
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 2312 - Intermediate Chinese II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Completion of CHNS 2311 with a minimum grade of C- in twelve months immediately prior to enrollment or placement by examination immediately prior to enrollment.
    Description
    Introduction to modern spoken and written Mandarin Chinese. Continued development of oral skills with increased emphasis on the written language.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Restricted to nonnative speakers of Chinese.
    TCCNS Equivalent: CHIN 2312
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 2398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Approval of chair.
    Repeatability: Cr. 3 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment.

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 3198 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 3298 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 2
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Approval of chair.
    Repeatability: Cr. 2 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment.

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 3301 - Advanced Mandarin Chinese I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 2312 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.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Restricted to nonnative speakers of Mandarin Chinese.
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 3302 - Advanced Mandarin Chinese II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHIN 3301.
    Description
    Continued development of communication skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and cultural understanding.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 3303 - Readings in Modern Chinese

    Credit Hours: 3
    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.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 3304 - Business Chinese

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHIN 2312 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Oral and written communication with attention to contemporary business practices in China.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 3305 - Survey of Chinese Literature

    Credit Hours: 3
    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.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 3342 - Tales of East Asian Cities

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    An examination of the literary and visual representations of various cities in East Asia: Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei, Tokyo and Seoul. Through close analyses of the fiction, films, and photographs that illuminate East Asian urbanism, we will extensively discuss the cultural representations of East Asian metropolises.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Taught in English.
    Additional Fee: N
  
  • CHIN 3343 - Chinese Popular Culture

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    Through discussing contemporary film, music, performance, fashion, art and internet culture, this course explores the changing role of socialist politics, the rise of consumerism, and China’s global cultural significance in the contemporary world.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Taught in English.
    Additional Fee: N
  
  • CHIN 3344 - Modern and Contemporary Global Chinese Literature

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    This course introduces students to the canon of Chinese literature, and traces the social-politial and cultural transformation of Chinese societies and the global Chinese diaspora through literature.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Taught in English.
    Core Category: (81) Core-Writing in Discipline WID, (40) Core-Language, Philosophy & Culture
    Additional Fee: No
  
  • CHIN 3346 - Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Contemporary China

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    This course explores various aspects of the contemporary Chinese society from sociolinguistic perspectives.
    Repeatability: Yes

    Note: Taught in English.
    Additional Fee: N
  
  • CHIN 3347 - Chinese Language, Pragmatics, and Communication

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    This course discusses the pragmatics of Chinese, the characteristics of Chinese communication, as well as general principles in intercultural communication.
    Repeatability: Yes

    Note: Taught in English.
    Additional Fee: N
  
  • CHIN 3350 - Chinese Culture Through Films

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    Reading film critics and viewing Chinese films produced in contemporary China within the historical, cultural, thematic, and aesthetic content.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Taught in English. Satisfies three hours requirement for the Minor in Chinese studies. May not apply as foreign language credit.
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 3352 - Chin Cul & Soc Thru Mod Lit

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly CHNS 2352
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    Readings of the most important literary works from the 1919 May 4th Movement to the 1970’s.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Taught in English. May not apply as foreign language credit.
    Core Category: (40) Core-Language, Philosophy & Culture
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 3354 - Chinese Culture and Language

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1301 and ENGL 1302.
    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.
    Repeatability: No

    Core Category: (81) Core-Writing in Discipline WID
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 3359 - Chinese Culture through History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    This course is restricted to students in the Chinese study abroad program. Studies of Chinese culture and history via course readings, Chinese museums and historical sites in China.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Taught in English. May not apply as foreign language credit.
    Additional Fee: N
  
  • CHIN 3360 - A Look Into Modern China

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    China’s social 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.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Taught in English.
    Core Category: (40) Core-Language, Philosophy & Culture
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 3396 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3
    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.
    Repeatability: Yes

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • CHIN 3398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Permission of department chair.
    Repeatability: Yes

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 4301 - Public Speaking in Chinese

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHIN 3301 or equivalent.
    Description
    Includes giving an opinion, negotiating meanings, debates, proposals, and oral narrations. Designed for both heritage or nonheritage students of Chinese.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 4302 - Integrated Chinese

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHIN 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.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 4364 - Issues in Chinese Language and Linguistics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1301, CHIN 1501, and CHIN 1502.
    Description
    Issues of Chinese language and linguistics that will enhance appreciation of Chinese culture through analysis of language and linguistics.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Taught in English.
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 4371 - Principles of Teaching Chinese

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHIN 2312 or consent of the instructor.
    Description
    Techniques for structuring Chinese classes, lesson planning, and curriculum implementation.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Taught in English.
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 4372 - Studies of Chinese Language Acquisition

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHIN 2312 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.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Taught in English.
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CHIN 4396 - Selected Topics

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

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • CHIN 4398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
    Description
    Topics on Chinese language, literature, or culture.
    Repeatability: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

    Additional Fee: Y

Civil and Environmental Engineering

  
  • CIVE 2332 - Mechanics of Solids

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGR 2301, MATH 2415, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in MECT 3341.
    Corequisite: 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.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y Fee Type Engineering Equipment Access Fee
  
  • CIVE 3331 - Environmental Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHEM 1312 and 1112, or CHEM 1372 and 1117, ENGR 2301, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ENGI 2334.
    Corequisite: ENGI 2334
    Description
    Introduction to air, water, and environmental pollutants, and concepts of design for treatment.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y Fee Type Engineering Equipment Access Fee
  
  • 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
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: MATH 1324 or MATH 2318 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.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • 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 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 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
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 3380 and ENGL 1302.
    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.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • CIVE 4397 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: None.
    Repeatability: 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 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
    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 1437 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.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • 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
    Repeatability: 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
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    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.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CLAS 3307 - Greek & Roman Myths of Heroes

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    The concept of the hero in ancient Greek culture with comparative consideration of Rome and other cultures.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Taught in English.
    Core Category: (40) Core-Language, Philosophy & Culture
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CLAS 3308 - Myths & Cult of the Greek Gods

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly CLAS 3307 Myths and Cult of Ancient Gods
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    Religious narratives, beliefs, and rituals in ancient Greek culture with comparative consideration of Rome and other cultures.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Taught in English.
    Core Category: (40) Core-Language, Philosophy & Culture
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CLAS 3341 - The Roman Republic

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    Social, political, and cultural history of Rome, from its foundation to the Fall of the Republic, 753-27BCE.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Taught in English.
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CLAS 3345 - Myth&Performance in Greek Trag

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    The reshaping of myths in the tragedies performed in the fifth century BCE and in modern productions of those plays. Critical appraisal of text and performance in the respective cultural contexts.
    Repeatability: No

    Core Category: (50) Core-Creative Arts
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CLAS 3350 - Law and Society in Ancient Rome

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL1302.
    Description
    A survey of key Roman legal ideas and texts from the archaic period to the late Republic and early Empire. Special attention paid to the law’s relation to Rome’s religion and changing social and political structures. Through Cicero the course explores the situation of the practicing advocate in complicated times. Ends with a look at later Roman jurisprudence.
  
  • CLAS 3366 - Greek Art and Archaeology: In Search of the Trojan War

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly CLAS 3366 Greek Art and Archaeology: In Search of the Trojan War
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    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.
    Repeatability: No

    Core Category: (40) Core-Language, Philosophy & Culture
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CLAS 3371 - Ancient Comedy & Its Influence

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    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 Shakespheare.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Taught in English.
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CLAS 3373 - Ancient Satire & Its Influence

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CLAS 3374 - Women in the Ancient World

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    Women’s lives from the Graeco-Roman world. Analysis and comparisons of literary texts and archeological evidence in their cultural and historical context.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Taught in English.
    Core Category: (40) Core-Language, Philosophy & Culture
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CLAS 3375 - Roman, Jew, and Christian

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    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.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Taught in English.
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CLAS 3380 - Epic Masculinity

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    Ideologies of masculinity in ancient Greek and Roman epic as compared to modern cinema (e.g., Spartacus, Gladiator, and Braveheart).
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Taught in English.
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CLAS 3381 - From Homer To Hollywood

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly CLAS 3381 From Homer to Hollywood: Ancient Greek Themes in the Modern Cinema
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    Examination of the way modern cinema adapts themes from Greek literature and uses them to explore modern conflict.
    Repeatability: No

    Core Category: (50) Core-Creative Arts
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CLAS 3397 - Sel Topics Gr & Rom Civ

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: sophomore standing.
    Description
    May not apply toward foreign language requirement. Topics from the literature, art, philosophy, religion, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Taught in English.
  
  • CLAS 3398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Cr. 3. Prerequisite: approval of chair. May be repeatedfor 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.
    Description
    Independent research and writing for the senior honors thesis.
  
  • CLAS 4305 - Fifth-Century Athens: Readings in Intellectual, Literary, and Political History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    Overview of intellectual trends and political history of fifth-century BCE Athens. Topics include development of Democracy, birth of tragedy, Persian Wars, Athenian Empire, court system, Peloponnesian Wars, and death of Socrates.
    Repeatability: No

    Core Category: (81) Core-Writing in Discipline WID
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CLAS 4350 - Age of Augustus

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    Exploration of the political, literary, architectural, and artistic changes introduced during the reign of Caesar Augustus, first Emperor of Rome (27BC - 14AD).
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Taught in English.
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CLAS 4353 - Classics and Modernity:The Uses of Antiquity in Modern & Postmodern Contexts

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    Use of ancient Greek and Roman concepts by modern and postmodern thinkers, artists, and authors.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CLAS 4370 - Comparative Epic

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly CLAS 3370
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 and junior standing.
    Description
    Epic poetry from ancient Greece and Rome with a comparative approach drawing on other cultures, including the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, medieval Europe, and /or modern oral epic traditions.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Taught in English.
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CLAS 4374 - Sex and Gender in Antiquity

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 and junior standing.
    Description
    Issues of sex and gender in ancient Greece and Rome through the study of literature, art, and science.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CLAS 4375 - Gender and Race in Greek Myths

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302. Credit for CLAS 4375.
    Description
    Greek myths and rituals, focusing on dynamicsof exclusion that parallel modern definitions of ethnicity and gender.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Taught in English. May not be applied toward a degree by students who have credit for CLAS 3306. May not apply toward foreign language requirement.
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CLAS 4380 - Greek Classics in Translation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CLAS 4381 - Latin Classics in Translation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly (also ENGL 4381)
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
    Description
    Works of Latin literature read in conjunction with modern text inspired by them.
    Repeatability: No

    Core Category: (81) Core-Writing in Discipline WID
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • CLAS 4398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Cr. 3. Prerequisite: approval of 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
    Description
    Independent research and writing for the senior honors thesis.

College Of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

  
  • LACP 2111 - Liberal Arts Career Planning

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: None.
    Description
    Self-marketing strategies to support the development of career skills for CLASS majors. Includes career exploration activities, guided practice, and engaged learning. Understanding the job search process, interviewing strategies, and the types of fields that are available to the wide range of CLASS majors.  Students interact with professionals from their areas of interest and learn how to maximize professional relationships. CLASS students will learn how to develop their brand, to identify and research careers and specific positions that meet their interests and skills, and to mobilize networking in their job search.

Communication

  
  • COMM 1302 - Introduction To Communication Theory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMM 1307 and COMM 1303.
    Description
    Perspectives in communication theory and process.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • COMM 1303 - Writing for Communicators

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: None.
    Description
    Students learn the form and style of writing needed to tell organizational stories to diverse audiences whose time and attention are limited. Emphasis is on creating copy that is both clear and interesting. Reviews of grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentence and paragraph construction rules are included in the course curriculum.
    Additional Fee: N
  
  • COMM 1307 - Media and Society

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Declared Communication major or minor.
    Description
    Consumer oriented study of mass communications. Provides overview of media structures, media messages, mass audiences, and impact of media on society.
    Repeatability: No

    TCCNS Equivalent: COMM 1307
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • COMM 2300 - Communication Research Methods

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MATH 1314, MATH 1332, MATH 1351 or MATH 1342.
    Description
    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.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • COMM 2311 - Writing for Print and Digital Media

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: COMM 1307, COMM 1303, ENGL 1302, HIST 1302, and GOVT 2305.
    Description
    Teaches cognitive and mechanical skills required to produce news, public relations, and advertising messages on deadline that are ethical, clear, concise, complete, compelling, and accurate. Students learn to gather information from online and traditional sources.
    Repeatability: No

    TCCNS Equivalent: COMM 2311
    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • COMM 2320 - Fundamentals of Media Production

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMM 1307, COMM 1303, HIST 1302, and GOVT 2305.
    Description
    Fundamentals of current and emerging production techniques in media industries.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • COMM 2322 - Television Production I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2.0    Lab Contact Hours: 3.0
    Prerequisite: COMM 2320 .
    Description
    Application of professional video techniques in programming. Emphasis on studio operation.
  
  • COMM 2326 - Introduction to Sports Broadcasting

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMM 1307 and COMM 1303 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Interactive study of 21st century sports broadcasting, including local high school sports live coverage. Students must be able to travel to games.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Equipment needed: A digital audio tape recorder or other device for audio recording, microphone optional but recommended (cell phones will work).
    Additional Fee: N
  
  • COMM 2327 - Introduction to Screen Writing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMM 1307, COMM 1303, ENGL 1302, HIST 1302, GOVT 2305.
    Description
    Introduction to the basics of dramatic structure and storytelling for film, television and/or digital productions. Students receive guidelines for writing professionally formatted dramatic scripts. Final assignment will be a feature-length script or two scripts for dramatic shorts, suitable for student or professional projects, submissions to screenwriting competitions and/or writing samples when applying for graduate programs.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: No
  
  • COMM 2328 - Broadcast Writing Basics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMM 1307, COMM 1303, ENGL 1302, HIST 1302, GOVT 2305.
    Description
    Script writing for broadcast media.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • COMM 2331 - Relational Communication

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMM 1307 and COMM 1303.
    Description
    Current research and theories concerning communication processes and dynamics involved in personal and professional relationships.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • COMM 2356 - Business & Professional Communication

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMM 1307, COMM 1303, ENGL 1302, or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Communication activities for business and professional settings with emphasis on emails, texts, posts, memos, letters and reports, how to make presentations and how to interact with peers and supervisors appropriately.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: N
 

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