Apr 18, 2024  
2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


Academic departments and programs are  generally listed in alphabetical order. All courses are listed under the department or program in which they are offered. Courses which are cross-listed will appear in more than one place.

Course Designations

Courses of instruction are designated by a system of four-digit numbers within each department. The first digit in the number indicates the class standing that a student must attain to be eligible for the course. To interpret the numbering system, students need to know that:

  • Courses generally for freshmen are numbered in the series beginning 1000. Freshmen may not register for any course numbered 2000 or above, except by placement or with the permission of the instructor. Similarly, sophomores may not register for courses numbered 3000 or above, or juniors 4000 or above, with exceptions permitted only by the instructor.
  • Cross-listed courses are courses appropriate to more than one department or area.
  • The number of credit hours per course is indicated below the course title. Courses which may be taken for variable credit (applied music lessons, independent studies, internships, etc.) or which can be repeated for credit are so indicated.
  • Prerequisites for each course are so indicated following the description.
  • Special Topics, Internships, and Independent Studies courses are listed with numbers separated by semicolons. These courses may be taken in any order.
  • The (FR) designation after a number indicates that the course is offered only as a first-year seminar.
 
  
  • CHE 3308 - Advanced Physical Chemistry

    Credits: 4
    An in-depth study of the theories of physical chemistry that extends beyond that  covered in the Foundations of Physical Chemistry course. The important theories  of physical chemistry are presented in a more detailed mathematical context. The core theoretical relationships are then derived from fundamental expressions to provide insight into the strengths and limitations inherent in each set of theories. Students will also benefit from exposure to experiments through integrated laboratory exercises designed to assess the applicability of these theories in describing the behavior of real chemical and biological systems.
    Prerequisites Chemistry 3307, Mathematics 1118, Physics 1102
  
  • CHE 3321 - Biochemistry I

    Credits: 4
    This course provides an exploration of cellular function on a molecular level. The major focus of the course is on protein chemistry; topics include protein structure, folding, synthesis, and function. Skills such as technical writing, database information retrieval, data analysis, and critical thinking are highlighted. The laboratory is research-based and will primarily explore the relationship between protein misfolding and human disease. Techniques include protein purification, electrophoresis, and spectroscopic characterization.
    Course includes a 4-hr laboratory.
    Prerequisites Chemistry 2217 and Biology 1111;
    Co-requisite Chemistry 3021
    Recommended Chemistry 2218 and 3205
  
  • CHE 3322 - Biochemistry II

    Credits: 4
    This advanced biochemistry course will highlight important topics at the interface of biology and chemistry. Topics may include an in-depth examination or extension of topics covered in  CHE 3321 (Biochemistry I), new cutting-edge topics and techniques, and/or historical perspectives of important developments in biochemistry. Past topics have included rational drug  design, complementary and alternative medicine, biomineralization, and the protein-folding problem. Oral presentation skills and critical analysis of the primary literature are emphasized.
    Prerequisites CHE 3321
  
  • CHE 3365 - Special Topics in Chemistry

    Credits: 4
    The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
  
  • CHE 3395 - Internships in Chemistry

    Credits: 0-4
    Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
  
  • CHE 3398 - Independent Studies in Chemistry

    Credits: 0-4
    Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
  
  • CHE 4465 - Special Topics in Chemistry

    Credits: 4
    The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
  
  • CHE 4493 - Chemistry Seminar

    Credits: 2
    Presentation of laboratory or literature findings on current topics of chemical interest by students, faculty, and visiting lecturers. This course is the Capstone Experience in Chemistry and is required of all senior Chemistry and Biochemistry majors and Exercise Chemistry dual majors. Juniors and non-majors may be admitted by permission of the department.
    This course satisfies the capstone requirement for all major programs of study offered by the Department of Chemistry.
    Prerequisites Chemistry 3205
  
  • CHE 4495 - Internships in Chemistry

    Credits: 0-4
    Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
  
  • CHE 4498 - Independent Studies in Chemistry

    Credits: 0-4
    Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
  
  • CHI 1101 - Elementary Chinese I

    Credits: 4.0
     

    This is an introductory course in Modern Standard Chinese Mandarin. Students will learn the basic skills (writing, reading, listening and speaking) needed to function in Chinese. They develop communicative competence through consideration of cultural themes, language functions, and authentic situations as they acquire the structures and lexicon to work with written language, conversations, and compositions.

  
  • CHI 1102 - Elementary Chinese II

    Credits: 4.0
    Constitutes the second (continuation) semester of Elementary Chinese (1101). In this course, students continue to develop the ability to communicate in Chinese through the consideration of cultural themes, language functions, and authentic situations as they acquire the structures and lexicon to work with written language, conversation, and composition.
    Prerequisites/Co-requisites Chinese 1101 or by placement
  
  • CHI 2211 - Intermediate Chinese I

    Credits: 4.0
     

    This course is designed to build on the foundation created in the first two elementary Chinese courses and to help students achieve greater fluency in oral expression while learning to read short texts in Chinese.  Grammar will be taught through the use of sentence patterns, and character writing will be practiced.  Traditional and contemporary aspects of Chinese culture will be taught.
    Prerequisites/Co-requisites Chinese 1102 or by placement

  
  • CIN 1101 - Introduction to Cinema

    Credits: 4.00
    A survey of film history, theory, and aesthetics designed to introduce students to the language of motion pictures - including critical analyses of image, sound, montage, and narrative – and to the fundamental ideas of cinema theorists such as Arnheim, Bazin, Eisenstein, Kuleshov, Mulvey, Munsterberg, and Sarris [relevant film theorists]. This course includes a weekly three-hour film viewing session.
  
  • CIN 2201 - Television Production

    Credits: 4
    This course focuses on the pre-production, production, and post-production aspects of television. Specific emphasis is on lighting, filming, editing, and writing. Students are included in the creation of a weekly television show.
  
  • CIN 2265 - Special Topics in Cinema

    Credits: 4.00
    The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
  
  • CIN 2295 - Internship In Cinema

    Credits: 0 - 4.00
    Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
  
  • CIN 2301 - Basic Video Editing

    Credits: 4
    This course is designed to teach the theory and practice of digital video editing including capturing images and sound; manipulating them on a time line; designing titles, transitions, and effects; and finally outputting the project tape, web or DVD. Each student is required to script, shot-list, cast, and shoot a short, original narrative, and then electronically manipulate the sound and images to explore the vast flexibility of the medium, gain a greater understanding of how an editor generates causality, and develop a recognition of the connection between one’s own edit technique and successful story telling.
  
  • CIN 2401 - Audio Production

    Credits: 4.0
     

    This lecture/lab is an introduction to the concepts and techniques necessary to record, edit, mix, and master quality audio for cinema, radio, television, and the web. Emphasis on basic audio signal flow; the evolution of audio art and technology; and how dialog, sound effects, ambience, and music serve the narrative process.

     
    Prerequisites/Co-requisites Second-semester first-year standing, or above

  
  • CIN 3201 - Narrative Film Production

    Credits: 4
    Students, working collaboratively on small teams, will complete a series of short-form (3- to 7-minute) films from concept through execution. In the process, students will learn the art of shooting and assembling a dramatic/fiction film through gaining a mastery of story development, scene visualization, visual storytelling, character identification, emotional impact, screen composition, cinematography and editing, and sound. The course will examine how such techniques create an illusion of reality for film watchers, as well as how these methods of shooting and editing continue to evolve in our modern-day film and television environment.
     
    Prerequisites CIN-2201 or CIN-2301
    McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression

  
  • CIN 3301 - Film Analysis

    Credits: 4
     

    An advanced formal analysis of image, sound, montage and narrative of cinematic artifacts from a particular region, movement, era, auteur, or genre using a variety of theoretical, critical, and socio-historical perspectives. This course includes a weekly three-hour film viewing session.
    Prerequisites/Co-requisites Communication 1104; Junior or Senior standing

  
  • CIN 3302 - Fiction Into Film

    Credits: 4
    The process by which film adapts literary works. The course considers adaptations from short fiction, novels, and dramatic literature; exploring the formal traits unique to each individual genre, the formal traits shared by more than one genre, and the capacity of film adaptation to retain and transform narrative content. Students will write critical essays and a film script adapted from a piece of short fiction. The course includes a weekly three-hour film viewing session.
    Prerequisites Junior or Senior standing.
  
  • CIN 3303 - European Film Art

    Credits: 4
    Theoretical approaches to the study of film, the analysis of film making techniques and styles with reference to the roots of European film (Fritz Lang, Eisenstein, and the early work of Bunuel), but focusing on the important schools and trends of European cinema in the post-war period. Subjects include the major works of leading film directors, such as Fellini, Visconti, Antonioni, Bunuel, Truffaut, Godard, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog, and Tarkovsky.

    McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression
    (taught only on the Budapest Campus)
    Prerequisites Junior or Senior standing.

  
  • CIN 3365 - Special Topics in Cinema

    Credits: 4.00
    The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
  
  • CIN 3395 - Internship In Cinema

    Credits: 0 - 4.00
    Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
  
  • CIN 3401 - Scriptwriting

    Credits: 4
    The principles, techniques, and requirements of scriptwriting. These are developed through the analysis of existing materials and through the construction and composition of original scripts.
    Prerequisites Junior or Senior standing
    McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression

  
  • CIN 4465 - Special Topics in Cinema

    Credits: 4.00
    The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
  
  • CIN 4495 - Internship In Cinema

    Credits: 0 - 4.00
    Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
  
  • CIN 4901 - Cinema Capstone

    Credits: 4
    This Capstone experience requires each student to write, direct, edit, produce, promote, and publicly screen an original 20-30 minute digital feature (fiction or documentary) which showcases the cinematic storytelling skills acquired in the major.
    Prerequisites CIN 1101, CIN 2201, CIN 2301, CIN 3401 and one additional 3000-level CIN course
  
  • COM 1101 - Introduction to Communication: Media

    Credits: 4
    This course studies how individuals use media to communicate, and how such media use affects public communication. Students will explore media’s economic, political, and cultural roles; media’s informative, persuasive, and entertainment functions; 1st amendment issues; and key theories.
  
  • COM 1102 - Introduction to Communication: Interpersonal

    Credits: 4
    A broad historical and theoretical introduction to the study of human communication in the context of face-to-face and small group interaction. Homework and classroom participation put a strong emphasis on writing and speaking.
  
  • COM 1112 - Comic Strips and the Communication of Culture; An International Perspective

    Credits: 2
    The course is an opportunity for students to learn the history and cultural significance of comic strips from an international perspective. Countries of interest will include Hungary, Germany, France, and Russia. Emphasis is placed on the cultural impact of comics and the analysis of themes evident within the strips (e.g., politics, pop culture, class, gender, etc.). The course will also explore the influence of U.S. comic strips in Europe. Additionally, the course will explore how Hungarian comic strips were controlled in post-war Hungary. Film and television representations of comic strips will be discussed. Students will learn the process and techniques of creating a comic strip.
  
  • COM 2201 - Quantitative Research Methods

    Credits: 4
    The purposes and methods of formal researching the study of human communication. The main focus of this course is the communication research process from a quantitative perspective. Specific topics include philosophy of science, research design, data collection, data analysis, statistics, and reasoning.
    Prerequisites Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 in COM-1101 and COM 1102.
  
  • COM 2202 - Qualitative Procedures

    Credits: 4
    The focus of this course is to learn qualitative research procedures, specifically ethnography, phenomenology and grounded theory. By performing a semester-long qualitative research study on the communication dynamics in a small group, students learn experientially how to perform qualitative procedures as well as library research. They also come away with increased insight into small group communication. The course places a strong emphasis on writing.
    Prerequisites Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 in COM-1101 and COM-1102
  
  • COM 2204 - Qualitative Procedures

    Credits: 4
    The purposes and methods of formal research in the study of human communication. The main focus of this course is the communication research process from a qualitative perspective.
    Prerequisites Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 in both Communication 1102 and Communication 1103.
  
  • COM 2205 - Public Speaking

    Credits: 4.00
    Students will learn to compose and deliver oral extemporaneous speeches and presentations by selecting and organizing ideas, supporting ideas logically, backing claims with research, adapting to specific audiences, and delivering messages effectively using appropriate nonverbals. The course will be informed by various communication theories. Emphasis is placed on developing skills in persuasion, critical thinking, and information literacy.
  
  • COM 2265 - Special Topics in Communication

    Credits: 4.00
    The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
    Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
  
  • COM 2295 - Internship in Communication

    Credits: 0-4
    Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
  
  • COM 2298 - Independent Studies in Communication

    Credits: 0-4
    Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
  
  • COM 2350 - Communication and Culture

    Credits: 4.00

    Focusing on current communication issues, this course looks for ways to practically apply communication theory while bridging the gap between interpersonal & media theory traditions. Communication issues include topics such as how social media are used in various cultures; globalization of media; the history and cultural effects of political campaign ads; children’s television around the world; uses of video-sharing technology; internet dating; privacy and the internet.
    Prerequisites/Co-requisites COM 1102 or COM 1103

  
  • COM 3105 - Relational Communication

    Credits: 4.00
    This course explores how we affect, and are affected by, the personal relationships that we create, maintain, and sometimes terminate. Specific topics include significant others, the media, sexuality, social support, abusive
    relationships, romance, friendships, family. 
     
    Prerequisites Junior or Senior standing.
  
  • COM 3150 - Organizational Communication

    Credits: 4
    An examination of the communicative practices employed by organizations in their internal and external activities. Topics include: historical and current approaches to the study of organization communication; the development and application of theory to organizational communication problems; research methods used to evaluate organizations and their communicative practices. Students conduct on-site field studies and prepare written and oral presentations of their findings.
    Prerequisites Junior or Senior standing.
  
  • COM 3160 - Health Communication

    Credits: 4
    The communication of health care with a focus on physicians and other providers, health care organizations, special interest groups, and government agencies. Particular issues include social support, gender, agenda setting, persuasive health campaigns, health policy, and media.
    Prerequisites Junior or Senior standing.
  
  • COM 3220 - Intercultural Communication

    Credits: 4
    This course presents an overview of current issues in communicating across cultures. The course examines how people from various ethnic, gender, generational, racial, cultural, national and religious backgrounds exchange meaning. Study will focus on many of the cultural variables in communication as well as how those variables work holistically within cultural systems. Topics include how the interaction between language,
    thinking patterns and culture affect communication, the nature of culture, issues of power, verbal and nonverbal codes.
     
    Prerequisites COM-1102 and 57 or more credit hours
    McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern

  
  • COM 3221 - Gender in Communication

    Credits: 4
    This course examines current research from a critical cultural theoretical perspective on the role gender plays in communication, and how communication works to construct the notions of masculinity and femininity. Considering gender construction particularly in relation to power, we look at, for example, how language helps enshrine ways we talk and think about the sexes, how gendered behaviors like masculine violence and feminine submission become institutionalized, how pop culture and advertising circulate the messages of appropriate gendered behaviors throughout the media, and how cultural institutions like family, schools, sports, religion and the workplace reinforce gendered communication.
    Prerequisites COM-1101 and COM-1102 and 57 or more credit hours
    McDaniel Plan: Multicultural

  
  • COM 3304 - History of Animation

    Credits: 4
    Critical and historical survey of animation as a form of communication and cultural expression. Emphasis is placed on the process and forms of animation, influential animators and animation studios, and noteworthy  animated films. The course covers both U.S. and foreign animation.
     
    McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression

  
  • COM 3334 - Semiotics

    Credits: 4

    Symbols and signs occur in systems and relate to each other within those systems. Film editing techniques and television schedules provide structures in which symbols appear. Viewers interpret the signs and symbols in television and film, usually outside their conscious awareness.  Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols and structures in which they appear, and how we make sense of them.

  
  • COM 3352 - Intercultural Communication

    Credits: 4
    This course presents in an overview of current issues in communicating across cultures. The course examines how people from various ethnic, gender, generational, racial, cultural and religious backgrounds exchange meaning. Study will focus on many of the cultural variables in communication as well as how those variables work holistically within cultural systems. Topics include how the interaction between language, thinking patterns and culture affect communication, the nature of culture, issues of power, verbal and nonverbal codes.
    Prerequisites Junior or Senior standing.
    McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern

  
  • COM 3365 - Special Topics in Communication

    Credits: 4
    The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
    Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
  
  • COM 3371 - Communication Systems

    Credits: 4.0
     

     

    A communication system is a collection of individuals who relate to one another by means of shared messages and media networks. This course investigates the fundamental methods of thinking about such systems by intermixing a basic theoretical description of system theory (Weinberg) with case studies of its practical application (Lakoff).  Topics include interaction in connected systems, the role of the environment, networks, complexity and self-reference.

  
  • COM 3395 - Internship in Communication

    Credits: 0-4
    Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
  
  • COM 3398 - Independent Studies in Communication

    Credits: 0-4
    Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
  
  • COM 3410 - Critical Theories and Popular Culture

    Credits: 4
    This course examines the relationship between pop culture texts,  the media used to propagate them and the dominant culture in which both exist. Using critical theoretical tools, students examine media content and pop culture formations. Topics include an historical overview of critical social theory, and the ways identities are formed in and in reaction to popular music, film, and television.
    Prerequisites COM-1101 and COM-1102 and 57 or more credit hours
    McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.

  
  • COM 3420 - Media Analysis and Criticism

    Credits: 4
    Rather than passive spectators, audiences actively interpret media messages. This class examines the complex dialogue in the U.S. corporate commercial media system among media producers telling their fiction and nonfiction stories, commercial interests looking to make a profit, and individuals seeking information, entertainment and identity. We examine the social role of media with a focus on the symbolic nature of media messages. Rooted in a political economy theory of media and drawing from critical theories and postmodernist perspectives, approaches include semiotics, structuralist, narrative, and ideological analyses.
    Prerequisites COM-1101 and COM-1102 and 57 or more credit hours
  
  • COM 3501 - Communication and Interactive Media

    Credits: 4

    Communication and Interactive Media examines how information and communication technology affect the nature and the quality of human communication. The course specifically addresses how use of technology influences the free flow of information, access to and construction of information, online relational development, and online community development. The course is theory and research based and students will be expected to reflect and draw upon their own experiences with technology.
    Prerequisites Communication 2203 and 2204
    McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding

  
  • COM 3610 - Visual Communication

    Credits: 4.00
    We live in an increasingly visual world. It is important to understand how visuals can be used to communicate information and meaning, and how visuals influence sense making and subsequent behavior. This course explores visual means of
    representation, aspects of visual design, and methods used for visual communication research.
    McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Experiential

  
  • COM 3901 - Research Proposal

    Credits: 1.00
    During junior year, students work one-on-one with faculty, developing a proposal and gaining faculty approval for their senior seminar research project.
  
  • COM 4465 - Special Topics in Communication

    Credits: 4
    The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
    Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
  
  • COM 4495 - Internship in Communication

    Credits: 0-4
    Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
  
  • COM 4498 - Independent Studies in Communication

    Credits: 0-4
    Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
  
  • COM 4901 - Senior Seminar

    Credits: 4.00
    This Capstone seminar requires each student to design, execute, and present a significant research project, which focuses on a specific Communication phenomenon and uses either a quantitative or qualitative methodology.
    Prerequisites COM-2201, COM-2202 and COM-3901
  
  • CSC 1106 - The Art of Programming

    Credits: 4
    An introduction to the use of algorithms for problem solving. The course will focus on finding algorithmic solutions for a given problem and expressing these solutions in a programming language.
    This course includes a laboratory.
    Prerequisites Placement above Mathematics 1002.
    Offered: All Years - Fall Semester
    McDaniel Plan: Quantitative Reasoning.

  
  • CSC 1108 - Raspberry Pi Maker

    Credits: 2
    Learn to make a mini computer system from the ground up using Raspberry Pi. Exam computational thinking by hands-on operations with the Pi, and design automatic interactions by  scripts to drive digital devices. Explore many technology possibilities by converting the Pi to be an autonomous agent. The course offers opportunities for everyone to discover  fundamentals of computers and practices of engineering. It also offers introductory computer science excursions with maker experiences.
     
    McDaniel Plan: January Term

  
  • CSC 1109 - Discrete Mathematics

    Credits: 4
    An introduction to mathematical reasoning, discrete structures, and foundations of algorithm analysis. Possible topics include propositional and predicate logic, proof techniques including mathematical induction, recurrences, sets, relations, pigeonhole principle, combinatorics, graphs, discrete probability, and number theory.
    Prerequisites/Co-requisites Computer Science 1106 and Mathematics 1107 or placement
    Offered: All Years - Spring Semester
    McDaniel Plan: Quantitative Reasoning.

  
  • CSC 1141 - Computer Ethics

    Credits: 2
    This course provides students the opportunity to consider, and reflect upon, various topics concerning the humanitarian, social, and professional use of computer technology.  Ethical decision-making issues related to the use of computers and the responsibilities of those who work with computers are of special concern.  This is a discussion based course with required readings, personal research and written expression of ideas.
    Prerequisites CSC-1106
    McDaniel Plan: Jan Term

  
  • CSC 2206 - Intermediate Java

    Credits: 4
    This course introduces students to intermediate features of the Java programming language. Students will learn about object-oriented programming concepts such asencapsulation, inheritance, interfaces, abstract classes, abstract methods, exception handling, and polymorphism; will learn how to write and read Java primitive types to and from files; other topics as time allows.
    Prerequisites CSC-1106 with a grade of C or better
  
  • CSC 2209 - Computer Organization

    Credits: 4
    Introduction to interaction between software and hardware levels in modern computers. Possible topics include Moore’s law, von Neumann architecture, data representation, error correction, digital circuits, CPU design, memory, input/output, file systems, data compression, operating systems, virtual machines, and programming tools.
    Prerequisites Computer Science 1106.
    Recommended Computer Science/Mathematics 1109.
    Offered: All Years - Spring Semester
  
  • CSC 2217 - Data Structures

    Credits: 4
    Study of data structures, recursion, searching and sorting algorithms. Introduction to complexity analysis of algorithms using Big-Oh notations.
    Prerequisites Computer Science 1106 and Computer Science/Mathematics 1109.
    Offered: All Years - Fall Semester
  
  • CSC 2222 - Database Design

    Credits: 4
    An introduction to database management systems that examines both the relational and semi-structured data models. Topics will include design principles, query languages, data dependencies, and optimization techniques.
    Prerequisites Computer Science 1106 and either Computer Science/Mathematics 1109 or Mathematics 2224.
    Offered: On Demand - As Needed
  
  • CSC 2265 - Special Topics in Computer Science

    Credits: 0-4
    The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
    Different topics are chosen for each offering.
    Prerequisites permission of the instructor.
    Offered: On Demand - As Needed
  
  • CSC 3305 - Artificial Intelligence

    Credits: 4
    The study of computer algorithms inspired by nature and algorithms imitating human reasoning. Possible topics include: heuristic search, neural networks, genetic algorithms, expert systems, fuzzy logic, automated theorem proving, and data mining.
    Prerequisites Computer Science 2217.
    Offered: On Demand - As Needed
  
  • CSC 3314 - Theory of Computation

    Credits: 4
    This course studies the abstract models of machines and languages recognized by them, and introduces the concept of computability. This course not only serves as the theoretical foundation of computer science, but also has wide application to programming languages linguistics, natural language processing, compiler design, and software design. Topics include finite automata and regular languages, pushdown automata and context-free grammars, grammar transformations and normal forms, Turing machines and computable functions, and unsolvable problems including the halting problem.
    Prerequisites Computer Science/Mathematics 1109 or Mathematics 2224.
    Recommended Computer Science 2217.
    Offered: All Years - Fall Semester
  
  • CSC 3317 - Algorithms

    Credits: 4
    Advanced study of tree and graph algorithms and algorithm complexity. Introduction to computational complexity classes P and NP.
    Prerequisites Computer Science 2217.
    Offered: All Years - Spring Semester
  
  • CSC 3365 - Special Topics in Computer Science

    Credits: 0-4
    The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
    Different topics are chosen for each offering.
    Prerequisites permission of the instructor.
    Offered: On Demand - As Needed
  
  • CSC 3395 - Internships in Computer Science

    Credits: 0-4
    Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
    Offered: On Demand - As Needed
  
  • CSC 3398 - Independent Studies in Computer Science

    Credits: 0-4
    Directed study for qualified students in more advanced topics in computer science theory, systems, or application areas.
    Prerequisites permission of the instructor.
    Offered: On Demand - As Needed
  
  • CSC 4406 - Principles of Programming Languages

    Credits: 4
    A survey of programming language concepts, functional languages, logical programming, and programming language semantics.
    Prerequisites Computer Science 2217.
    Recommended Computer Science/Mathematics 3314.
    Offered: On Demand - As Needed
  
  • CSC 4413 - Modern Cryptography

    Credits: 4
    An introduction to data encryption and authentication in the modern age. The course covers both symmetric-key and asymmetric-key protocols. Topics may include block ciphers, pseudorandomness, message authentication codes, digital signatures, key distribution, and cryptanalysis. The course emphasizes mathematical rigor, including formal definitions of security goals and proofs of protocol security.
    Prerequisites Computer Science 1106 and Computer Science/Mathematics 1109.
    Recommended Computer Science/Mathematics 3314.
    Offered: On Demand - As Needed
  
  • CSC 4465 - Special Topics in Computer Science

    Credits: 0-4
    The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
    Different topics are chosen for each offering.
    Prerequisites permission of the instructor.
    Offered: On Demand - As Needed
  
  • CSC 4494 - Senior Project

    Credits: 4
    A study of software development models, requirements specification, and GUI design. Student will propose, design, implement, test, and document a substantial application or write a thesis containing original work in theoretical computer science. Projects and theses will be presented in class.
    Note: Senion standing required.
    Offered: All Years - Spring Semester
  
  • ECO 1101 - Introduction to Political Economy

    Credits: 4
    An introduction to economic reasoning and its application in analyzing economic problems and institutions.
    This course is not open to students who have taken Economics 2201. It is not normally taken by majors in Economics or Business Administration.
    Prerequisites Mathematics 1001 or placement above Mathematics 1001.
  
  • ECO 1102 - Economic Issues and Policy

    Credits: 4
    Exploration of the contributions made by economic theory towards understanding and solving major policy issues of our times. The principles of microeconomics and macroeconomics are studied and applied to such timely topics as the environment, health care, international trade, the minimum wage, and a variety of similarly critical issues. Student interest will play a role in topic selection.
    Prerequisites MAT 1001
  
  • ECO 1103 - Introduction to Economics

    Credits: 4
    The study of the economic foundations of any society: price theory - the market system and allocation of resources; and macroeconomic theory - national income, employment, inflation, business cycles, and international trade.
     
    Prerequisites Mathematics 1001, Mathematics 1002 or placement above Mathematics 1002.
    McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding

  
  • ECO 2205 - Environmental Economics

    Credits: 4
    The study of efficient use of natural resources and protection of the environment both in the short term and the long run. Basic economic principles are developed and applied to global topics such as biodiversity, global warming, ozone depletion and sustainable development and to more local and regional ones having to do with pollution of air and water.
    Cross-listed with Environmental Policy Science 2205.
  
  • ECO 2206 - Gender Roles in the Economy


    This course surveys some of the major discussions in feminist economics. It explores the gender dimensions of paid labor and how gender roles in unpaid work and in care labor impact how men and women participate in the formal economy, informal economy, and shadow economy. It looks at ways the household is modeled in economics and some of the policy implications of these different models. It also explores new research on sex differences in asset ownership, savings, and bankruptcy and their implications.
    Prerequisites ECO 1103 or ECO 2201
    McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding

  
  • ECO 2265 - Special Topics in Economics

    Credits: 0-4
    The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
    Different topics are chosen for each offering.
    Prerequisites Economics 2201 or permission of the instructor.
  
  • ECO 2298 - Independent Studies in Economics

    Credits: 0-4
    Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
  
  • ECO 3303 - Microeconomic Theory

    Credits: 4
    The theory of demand, production, cost, and resource allocation in a market economy. Models of market structure are developed and various forms of market failure are analyzed. Also developed are models of risk and uncertainty and theories of factor pricing and income distribution.
    Prerequisites ECO 1103 or ECO 2201
  
  • ECO 3304 - International Economics

    Credits: 4
    The principles of international trade and finance: study of classic trade theories, trade policy, exchange rate markets, balance of payments, trade and growth/development, open economy business cycles, international organizations, and exchange rate policy.
    Prerequisites ECO 1103 or ECO 2201
    Offered in 2008-2009 and alternate years.
  
  • ECO 3305 - American Economic History

    Credits: 4
    This course is an interdisciplinary one which will use economic methods to analyze and interpret various episodes in U.S. History. Topics to be covered will include: colonial and antebellum money and banking; productivity growth and the secular change to manufacturing economy; slavery; the Civil War; growth of railroads; the gold standard; and the Great Depression.
    Prerequisites ECO 1101 or ECO 1103 or ECO 2201
    Offered in 2007-2008 and alternate years.
  
  • ECO 3306 - International Finance

    Credits: 4
    This course provides a detailed investigation of foreign currency markets and international monetary economics. By the time you complete this course, you will be well versed in open-economy macroeconomics and able to understand and critically interpret associated contemporary policy debates. Topics to be covered include: balance of payments accounting, FX markets and various theories of exchange rate determination,
    the macroeconomic aspects of trade in goods and capital, open-economy macroeconomic policy, the international monetary system, and the role of international organizations like the World Bank and IMF.
    Prerequisites ECO 1103 or ECO 2201
  
  • ECO 3318 - European Economic History

    Credits: 4
    This course will examine various issues in the evolution and development of the European economy from the middle ages to the early 20th century. Central topics to be explored include trends in population and income growth, agricultural productivity and land redistribution, industrialization, and the evolution of international monetary arrangements, and the economic aspects of the varied political and religious systems and conflicts observed in Europe since the Middle Ages.
    Prerequisites ECO 1101 or ECO 1103 or ECO 2201
  
  • ECO 3320 - Macroeconomic Theory

    Credits: 4
    The study of national income and price determination, growth, and business cycles; the consumption/ leisure tradeoff, expectations and dynamic decision making, asset markets and investment, nominal frictions, and the role of fiscal and monetary policy.
    Prerequisites ECO 1103 or ECO 2201
  
  • ECO 3324 - Managerial Economics

    Credits: 4
    The application of economic theory and quantitative methods for solving business problems. Emphasis is on analysis of demand, cost, and profit under conditions of imperfect information and uncertainty. Business pricing strategies receive special attention.
    Prerequisites ECO 1103 or ECO 2201 and STA 2215
    Cross-listed with Business Administration 3324.
  
  • ECO 3326 - Economic Development

    Credits: 4
    The theories of economic growth and development applied particularly to underdeveloped areas of the earth. The interrelationship of economic, political, sociological, historical, and technological factors in growth and development are examined.
    Prerequisites ECO 1103 or ECO 2201
  
  • ECO 3327 - Industrial Organization and Public Policy

    Credits: 4
    Study of structure, conduct, and performance of industry in the United States as they pertain to the goals and effects of public policy. Emphasis is on antitrust and regulation.
    Prerequisites ECO 1103 or ECO 2201
    Offered in 2007-2008 and alternate years.
  
  • ECO 3365 - Special Topics in Economics

    Credits: 0-4
    The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
    Different topics are chosen for each offering.
    Prerequisites ECO 1103 or ECO 2201
  
  • ECO 3387 - Reading List

    Credits: 1
    Reading is completed during the summer and tested by examination.
    Open only to students declaring Economics or Business Administration as a major.
  
  • ECO 3398 - Independent Studies in Economics

    Credits: 0-4
    Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
  
  • ECO 4310 - Money and Financial Markets

    Credits: 4
    The study of the financial sector and its importance: market structure and financial instruments, asset pricing and interest rate determination, the operations and behavior of banks and other financial institutions, money-creation and central banking, and the interrelationship between money and financial markets and the macro economy.
    Prerequisites ECO 1103 or ECO 2201 and a minimum of 96 credits
 

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