2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog

May 05, 2024

2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Chemistry
	CHEM 399 - Pre-Pharmacy Internship Credit Hours: 1 Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 3 This course exposes students to the pharmacy field through shadowing and being mentored by a pharmacist in the community. The course offers students an opportunity to gain hands on experience, build community contacts, and acquire the complementary knowledge and skills needed for a future career as a pharmacist. Course taken for pass/ fail credit. Prerequisite: CHEM 311 and CHEM 311L Please click here for Book Information
	CHEM 400 - Computational Chemistry Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 2 This class introduces students to different computational methods and models to study electronic structure of molecules and materials. The topics that will be covered include Hartree-Fock, density functional theory, Moller-Plesset perturbation theory, coupled cluster and semi-empirical methods such as Huckel and expended Huckel calculations. The laboratory activities include computational experiments to illustrate the applicability of computational methods to chemistry, bio-sciences, and materials chemistry. These experiments will be carried out on Linux and UNIX-based workstations. Prerequisite: CHEM 225 and CHEM 226 and CHEM 314 Please click here for Book Information
	CHEM 410 - Seminar in Chemical Literature Credit Hours: 1 Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 3 A detailed examination of the chemical literature on a relatively narrow topic for presentation of written and oral reports. Prerequisite: CHEM 211 and CHEM 212 and CHEM 223 and CHEM 224 Please click here for Book Information
	CHEM 421 - Inorganic Chemistry Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 An advanced study of descriptive and synthetic inorganic chemistry, structure, and bonding. Prerequisite: CHEM 225 and CHEM 226 Please click here for Book Information
	CHEM 422 - Bioanalytical Chemistry Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 3 An advanced analytical chemistry course that involves the separation, detection, identification, and quantification of biological samples, such as proteins, peptides, DNA, and drugs. Topics include spectroscopy immunoassays, chromatography, electrophoresis, mass spectroscopy, biosensors, bioassays, DNA, and protein sequencing. Prerequisite: CHEM 211 and CHEM 212 and CHEM 225 and CHEM 226 Please click here for Book Information
	CHEM 423 - Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 3 A comprehensive introduction to the rapidly developing field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Topics cover the properties, synthesis, and characterization of nanomaterials and their applications to nanobiotechnology, nanomedicine, and nanoelectronics, as well as laboratory activities involving the synthesis and characterization of novel nanostructures. Prerequisite: (CHEM 211 and CHEM 212 and PHYS 122 ) or (MATH 260 and PHYS 122 ) Please click here for Book Information
	CHEM 424 - Separation Science Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 3 The course introduces the modern physical and chemical techniques used for analytical separations. The primary theme of chromatography, includes gas chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography, and supercritical fluid chromatography. Other important analytical separation techniques to be discussed include capillary electrophoresis, field-flow fractionation, size exclusion chromatography, and chromatographic measurements of physicochemical, biochemical, and geochemical processes. Prerequisite: CHEM 211 and CHEM 212 Please click here for Book Information
	CHEM 425 - Bioinorganic Chemistry Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course will provide students with a general overview of the role of elements and inorganic compounds in biological systems. Fundamentals of biochemistry and inorganic chemistry are included. Topics include enzyme kinetics, electron-transfer processes, ligand-field theory, and metal trafficking and exchange in proteins. Prerequisite: CHEM 225 and CHEM 226 Please click here for Book Information
	CHEM 426 - Medicinal Chemistry Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course provides an in-depth look at how pharmacologically active molecules are designed to treat human diseases. Topics covered include drug discovery, molecular design, organic synthesis of drug molecules, structure-activity relationships, drug interactions with receptors, enzyme inhibition and inactivation, pharmacokinetics, case histories, patents, and ethics. This course is designed for students who are considering careers in medicinal chemistry and pharmacological research, the pharmaceutical industry, pharmacy, and medicine. Prerequisite: CHEM 225 and CHEM 226 Please click here for Book Information
	CHEM 430 - Special Topics in Chemistry Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 An advanced, structured investigation in one of the specialty areas of chemistry. Please click here for Book Information
	CHEM 431 - Qualitative Organic Analysis Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 4 An advanced introduction to the principles of classification and identification of organic compounds by traditional and modern analytic techniques. Prerequisite: CHEM 223 and CHEM 224 Please click here for Book Information
	CHEM 490 - Chemistry Research and Ethics Credit Hours: 4 Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 6 A capstone research course for seniors that offers a comprehensive examination of the Chemistry curriculum. The course provides detailed training in ethics education, literature reading and review, research planning, hands-on research practicing, lab reports, and oral/ written presentations. Students must adopt a research area and work with a research advisor. Prerequisite: CHEM 310 or instructor approval Please click here for Book Information
	CHEM 491 - Research II Credit Hours: 2 Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 Active, original research under one or more of the chemistry faculty. Prerequisite: CHEM 390 Please click here for Book Information
	CHEM 492 - Research II and Thesis Credit Hours: 4 Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 12 A continuation of research culminating in a written thesis and an oral presentation. Prerequisite: CHEM 491 Please click here for Book Information
	CHEM 499 - Chemistry Capstone Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 5 A senior-level capstone course that provides detailed training in scientific ethics, literature review, research planning and practice, and oral/ written presentations. In this student-centered, self-directed course, students pursue focused research through active learning. This course requires students to recall what they learned in previous courses and to select the most appropriate methods and analytical techniques to complete the project. Students write a research thesis and present their research findings to a group of fellow chemists and chemistry faculty in a professional manner. Prerequisite: Grade of C or above in CHEM 310 or instructor approval Please click here for Book Information
Chinese
	CHIN 110 - Elementary Chinese I Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course introduces the basics of Chinese language - the pinyin, characters and grammar. Students are expected to learn about 150 single characters and 200 compound words of modern standard Chinese. The course emphasizes speaking and reading as well as writing. Please click here for Book Information
	CHIN 120 - Elementary Chinese II Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 The course is designed to build up basic vocabulary for conversation, reading, and writing, and improve students’ comprehension in speaking, listening, reading, and writing Chinese. Prerequisite: CHIN 110 Please click here for Book Information
	CHIN 210 - Intermediate Chinese I Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 The course is designed to enhance students’ abilities in speaking, reading, and writing Chinese. Students will not only learn complicated conversations but also use vocabularies and sentence structures to discuss social and political issues. They will also learn to write narratives and short essays. Prerequisite: CHIN 120 Please click here for Book Information
	CHIN 220 - Intermediate Chinese II Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course is designed to continue to enhance students’ abilities in speaking, reading, and writing Chinese. Students will not only learn complicated conversations but also use vocabularies and sentence structures to discuss social and political issues. They will also learn to write narratives and short essays. Prerequisite: CHIN 210 Please click here for Book Information
	CHIN 310 - Advanced Chinese I Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course is designed to further improve the students’ reading and writing abilities as well as spoken ability in Chinese. Students taking the course will be exposed to essays, prose, movies, short novels, and poems in their original forms either in classical Chinese or modern Chinese. They will discuss these readings in class and then write their argumentation papers in Chinese. Prerequisite: CHIN 220 Please click here for Book Information
	CHIN 330 - Classical Chinese Literature Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This survey course is examines the long tradition of Chinese literature, from its genesis to the mid-19th century before it was transformed under the influence from the West. We will look into the diversity and richness of this tradition while tracing its dramatic historical changes in a time period of nearly three thousand years. In addition to studying prose and poetry, we will also consider historical content as well as social and philosophical writings. Students are expected not just to learn the long and rich tradition but, more importantly, to reconstruct it through the texts they are to read and papers they are to write. All course materials are in English. Please click here for Book Information
	CHIN 331 - Modern Chinese Language Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 In this survey course, students will read key literary texts by important writers in modern Chinese writers, including Lu Xun, Yu Dafu, Ding Ling (Ting Ling), Shen Congwen (Shen Tsung-wen), Zhang, Ailing (Eilen Chang), and Wang Anyi. The course explores issues of nationalism, modernity and globalization as represented in Chinese Literature. By discussing these issues in literary contexts, students will gain a better understanding of cultural production and social change in modern Chinese history. All the texts are in English. Please click here for Book Information
	CHIN 332 - Cinema and Contemporary China Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course examines the technical, aesthetic, economical and historical interactions between contemporary Chinese cinema and contemporary Chinese society. Students will see the representative film works by contemporary Chinese directors from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and analyze the various cinematic styles in relation to the social and historical changes in which the films were made. They will also discuss such issues as modernity, nationalism, and globalization that the Chinese people have dealt with in contemporary China. For students learning the Chinese language, this course will also offer many authentic linguistic materials. All texts are in English and/or with English Please click here for Book Information
Community Health
	COHE 200 - Introduction to Community Health Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 An overview of complex social factors influencing community health and community resources for the prevention and elimination of community health problems. Special emphasis is placed on citizens’ responsibilities and participation at the local, state, national, and international levels. Twelve hours of field experience are required. Please click here for Book Information
	COHE 360 - Communication in Health Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course focuses on different forms of conveying health messages/ information using a variety of media. This course will utilize educational materials to design and produce health messages appropriate for use with different groups and/ or individuals. Prerequisite: COHE 200 Please click here for Book Information
	COHE 370 - Consumer Health Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 The selection and use of health produces and services within the free enterprise system. Increases awareness of consumer interests and fraud in the health system. Twelve hours of field experience are required. Prerequisite: COHE 200 Please click here for Book Information
	COHE 425 - Organization in Community Health Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Focuses upon the principles and practices of organizing and mobilizing a community for constructive health action. Selected case studies are used as specific and practical examples. Twelve hours of field experience are required. Prerequisite: COHE 200 and COHE 360 and COHE 370 Please click here for Book Information
	COHE 426 - Program Planning and Evaluation in Health Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Intended for those planning to work in public health agencies. Emphasizes the need for planning, current settings for public health education, techniques used to identify health education components of health programs, program planning techniques, and evaluation methodologies. Twelve hours of field experience are required. Prerequisite: COHE 200 and COHE 360 and COHE 370 Please click here for Book Information
	COHE 430 - Health Behavior and Counseling Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A survey of the fields of health counseling with an emphasis on basic skills and knowledge of techniques to promote individual and group behavior change for well-being. The course is both didactic (theories) and experiential (role-playing in class). Prerequisite: COHE 200 and COHE 360 and COHE 370 Please click here for Book Information
	COHE 460 - Aging Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 An overview of current understanding of the biological, behavioral, cognitive, social, and cultural aspects of the aging process. This course will also emphasize the implications of the health and physical aspects associated with aging. Prerequisite: COHE 200 and COHE 360 and COHE 370 Please click here for Book Information
	COHE 470 - Seminar in Community Health Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 The course focuses on providing upper class students the opportunity to integrate and synthesize knowledge and skills into the discrete elements of community health education including ideas, concepts, methods, and techniques. Prerequisite: COHE 200 and COHE 360 and COHE 370 Please click here for Book Information
	COHE 480 - Field Work in Community Health Education Credit Hours: 10 Lecture Hours: 10 Lab Hours: 0 Experience in community health agency where opportunities are provided for observing and performing a variety of community health education functions under the supervision of professional public health educator and university personnel. Designed for seniors in community health education and other qualified students with permission of instructor. May be repeated for credit to maximum of ten hours. Prerequisite: COHE 200 and COHE 360 and COHE 370 Please click here for Book Information
Communication
	COMM 201 - Communication Activities Credit Hours: 1 Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 3 Practical supervised training through participation in departmental performance laboratories. Up to three hours of credit in COMM 201 can be applied to the 18 hour credit concentration in Mass Communication. Additional COMM 201 credit will be accepted as free electives Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 205 - Introduction to Communication Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 The study of communication in expediting learning, affecting social interaction and effective change, and an exploration of the components of interpersonal, small group, public and organizational communication. Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 210 - Introduction to Mass Communications Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A survey of the role of mass media in modern society. The process, functions, responsibility and effects of various forms of mass communication will be analyzed. Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 211 - Phonetics Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A study of the production and transcription of phonetic symbols used in the International Phonetic Alphabet, with attention to general American speech and Career speech. Prerequisite: SPEE 200 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 212 - Voice and Diction Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A study of proper breathing for good voice production, pause, stress, intonation, and control of resonance. Emphasis is placed on improving phonation, enunciation, and articulation. Prerequisite: SPEE 200 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 215 - Fundamentals of Journalism Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course presents the history and development of American journalism from colonial times to the present while focusing on its relationship to technical, political, social, and technological changes in America. Specific attention will be paid to events resulting in constraints to the media, attitudes of government toward the media, changes influenced by journalists and trends in journalism. Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 220 - Film & Video Appreciation Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Examination of basic film and video media techniques and basic methods of analysis. Emphasis on understanding and appreciating film and video media as major forms of communication. Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 230 - News Reporting and Writing I Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course is designed to help students develop their niche for news reporting and writing. Students will be exposed to news gathering practices, write and report the news, and learn in unique styles of print as well as on-line journalism. It will explore the constant writing of news stories and emphasizes policy, principles, and concepts basic to the field of journalism. Prerequisite: COMM 215 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 235 - Public Relations/Advertising Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course provides an introduction to the basic principles of public relations and advertising. Student will study the history and trends of the public relations and advertising industry focusing on principles, tools, techniques, practices, and ethics. Accepted standards used in public relations and advertising will be presented. Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 240 - News Editing Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course will focus on advanced and specialized public life news reporting for the print media. Employing sophisticated methods, including public records searches, computer-assisted reporting, and archival research, students will develop and polish their reporting and gain a greater understanding of how news is constructed in relation to institutions and people in public life. Students will learn the basis for crafting news stories that convey meaning as well as fact, and insight to the readers. Prerequisite: COMM 215 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 250 - Presentation Technologies Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A course offering students a detailed understanding of and specialized skills in the proper use of different presentation technologies. Students will be exposed to a wide variety of presentational media and will develop a critical awareness of these new media and their place in society. The overall goal is for students to learn how presentational technologies work, why they have become so instrumental in public communications, and when they are appropriate as a presentational strategy. Prerequisite: SPEE 200 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 260 - Interpersonal Communication Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A study of the process of communication, including functions, models, and theories, with an emphasis on self-disclosure, empathic listening, relational communication, and conflict management. Prerequisite: COMM 205 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 275 - Crisis Communication Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course examines the nature of crises in organizations and the role of communication in managing and minimizing such crises. This course will discuss types of crises, risk evaluation, crisis preparation, communication crisis planning, media management and crisis mitigation strategies, and post-crisis response. Students will create a real-world crisis communication plan that will be tested and evaluated. Prerequisite: COMM 205 and COMM 210 or with permission of instructor Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 290 - Nonverbal Communication Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course provides an in-depth study of physical appearance, gesture and movement, facial expressions, eye contact, touch, use of time, and voice to communicate nonverbally in a variety of interpersonal relationships across personal, professional, public, and cultural contexts. Prerequisite: COMM 205 and COMM 210 or with permission of instructor Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 300 - Magazine and Feature Writing Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course works within journalistic standards to focus on the skills needed to write topical, in-depth, human interest stories. Students learn to gather materials through interviews, research, and observation while cultivating their own writer’s “voice” for the creation of comprehensive articles for publication in newspapers, magazines, Internet sites, and other media. Students will examine the discursive implications of magazine and feature writing, newspaper, radio, computer, polling, and advertising technologies. Students will assume a concrete understanding of editorial, sidebars, graphs, charts, and other supporting elements that enrich a story. Prerequisite: COMM 215 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 310 - News Reporting and Writing II Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course further develops research, organization, and composition skills for the production of professional-quality articles for publication in newspapers, magazines, Internet sites, and other media. The course will introduce students to the field of investigative journalism, including career prospects, ethical concerns, basic interviewing techniques, finding and following documented sources, and writing stories for maximum interest and impact. Students will practice organizing materials and writing with clarity and precision. Prerequisite: COMM 230 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 311 - Public Speaking Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A study of the principles of effective public communication, focusing on speech preparation and design, audience analysis, and speech presentation in a variety of public situations. Prerequisite: SPEE 200 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 315 - Computer Mediated Communication Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A class designed to initiate students to the field of study known as computer-mediated communication (CMC). Computers, their networks, and the content on them have significantly influenced our political, religious, commercial, personal, and professional lives. Students will explore both qualitative and quantitative scholarship that focuses upon the implications of online media in these settings. Prerequisite: COMM 205 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 320 - Audio Production I Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 An introduction to the planning and production of audio in mass media, including practical studies of the uses of sound and the planning, scripting, rehearsing, and directing process of audio production. Prerequisite: COMM 210 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 321 - Group Discussion Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Training and practice in the effective exchange of opinions on selected topics, with emphasis on studying group interactions during the process of discussion and observing the effects of parliamentary procedures on the conduct of groups in discussion. Prerequisite: COMM 205 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 330 - Writing For Mass Media Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A survey of the various forms of written expression in mass media. Prerequisite: COMM 205 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 332 - Problems in Media Communication Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course will examine contemporary problems of mediated communication, including gatekeeping, propaganda, agenda setting, cultural transmission, regulation and censorship, regulation and censorship, and commercialization. Students will examine the discursive implications of newspaper, radio, television, film, computer, polling, and advertising technologies. Students will assume a rhetorical perspective to evaluate the role of these technologies in shaping public opinion and our perceptions of reality. Prerequisite: COMM 210 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 335 - Media, Religion, and Spirituality Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course will examine the intersection between media and religion. The course will focus on two major areas: religion in media, including news coverage of religion and religious content in fictional media; and media in religion, how religious individuals and groups use media in their religious belief and practice. Through examination of this intersection, students will explore broader concepts, such as culture and identity. Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 340 - Community Journalism Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course will examine community journalism as a defined niche within mainstream journalism. It is designed to give students greater insight into the tools and skills needed to work at the community level. Course explores different forms of community journalism from small-town newspapers to new ideas of community, including virtual communities. This course will help students use traditional and new media tools to find sources and to report, gather, and disseminate stories of interest to specific audiences. This course will also introduce students to citizen journalism and how to interact with and leverage citizen journalists. Prerequisite: COMM 215 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 341 - Health Communication Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course provides an overview of the various areas of study within the health communication field. The class explores multiple communication issues relevant to health, including language, information processing, the social construction of health and illness, doctor-patient communication, and the relationship between professionals, patients, friends, families, and cultural institutions. In addition, the class has a strong practical aspect; emphasis is placed on assignments that require students to engage in projects involving the application of theoretical knowledge acquired during lectures and individual readings. Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 342 - Health Communication Campaigns Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course provides a hands-on introduction to the theories and practices of mediated health communication campaigns. Students learn the fundamental aspects of designing, implementing, and evaluating health campaigns, defined as systematic efforts to promote healthy behaviors and prevent disease, and to influence public opinion and policymaking about health and healthcare issues. Essential considerations for designing and implementing effective health campaigns are presented, including health behavior change theories; audience, message, and channel factors; the health and medical portrayals in news and entertainment media; and the role of PR in health communication campaigns. Prerequisite: COMM 341 or instructor approval Corequisite: COMM 250 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 350 - Telecommunications Management Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A course exploring management functions in a telecommunications environment. Economic support patterns, programming, promotion, advertising, determination of community needs and facility operations will be covered. Prerequisite: COMM 210 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 357 - Gender and Communication Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course is an intensive examination of topics and issues that come under the label of communication and gender. Topics range from wage inequality to gender symmetry, gender difference, sexual orientations, gendered patterns of communication, gender socialization, violence and gender, and social policies on gender. Prerequisite: COMM 205 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 360 - Video Production I Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 An introduction to the elements of television production, including cameras, audio, staging, lighting, graphics, recording, and special effects. Prerequisite: COMM 210 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 365 - Speechwriting Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A comprehensive look at the history of and current trends in speechwriting in America with an emphasis on persuasion and the strategic employment of language. Students will learn and practice the art of effective speechmaking by studying both effective and inadequate models of oratory. Students will learn how to prepare various types of speeches for a variety of audiences and rhetorical situations, including how to manage new technologies in those situations. Prerequisite: SPEE 200 and ENGL 120 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 367 - Electronic Broadcast Media Programming Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 An examination of the role of programming in electronic broadcast media in modern society and the analysis of the process, functions, responsibility, and effects of various forms of electronic broadcast media programming. Prerequisite: COMM 210 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 370 - Communication Practicum Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A practical study of an area of communications, with reading assignments supplementing course activities. Repeatable one time for Mass Communication Concentration elective credit. Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 375 - Organizational Communication Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Organizational Communication provides the student with a background in theory and research about communication within organizations. The course focuses on interpersonal communication within organizations, small group communication within organizations, leadership and management within organizations and communication conflict within organizations. Prerequisite: COMM 205 and COMM 210 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 380 - Non-Broadcast Telecommunications Systems Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 An introduction to the use of telecommunications media in corporate, industrial, medical, educational, military, governmental and public service institutions. Prerequisite: COMM 210 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 385 - International Communication Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course surveys the communication systems of the world focusing on major newspaper networks, broadcasting and film consortia, and the Internet. Theories of international communication are used to compare and contrast the communication systems of different nations. Prerequisite: COMM 210 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 390 - Cable Communications Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 An examination of the cable television industry including technical aspects, franchising, programming, and government regulation. Prerequisite: COMM 210 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 395 - Communication Theory Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Theoretical paradigms within the communication discipline are surveyed with attention given to the assumptions that undergird theoretical traditions and the types of research questions that can be studied from within different theoretical perspectives. Several traditional theoretical perspectives are presented, including Aristotelian analysis, symbolic interactionism, pragmatism, and technological determinism, along with modern theoretical approaches such as constructivism, discourse theory, and critical cultural approaches. Prerequisite: COMM 205 and COMM 210 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 400 - Advanced News Reporting and Writing Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course covers the process of gathering, writing, editing, and presenting the news on radio and television. Subject areas embrace the changing industry, finding the news, broadcast news writing mechanics, broadcast news writing style, the interview, writing broadcast copy, color, radio news, writing for the television newscast, delivering the news, broadcast news reporting, covering assignments, reporting planned events, reporting live, ethical issues, producing, hardware. Prerequisite: COMM 230 and COMM 240 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 401 - Argumentation and Debate Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A study of the process of argumentation, with special attention to the structure of argument, reasoning, and the nature of evidence. Prerequisite: SPEE 200 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 410 - Communication Internship Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A course providing students with opportunities for combining theory and practice by their arranging, outlining, and engaging in a program of practical experiences under the joint supervision of a communications organization or agency, and the course instructor. This course is repeatable for up to six hours of course credit. Prerequisite: Junior Standing Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 425 - Rhetorical Theory and Criticism Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course focuses on basic rhetorical theory and a variety of rhetorical criticism methodologies. Students will study the importance of rhetoric as the field of study that investigates all forms of public persuasion. Students will learn about rhetoric as one of the oldest public professions and academic fields of study, the evolution of thought regarding rhetoric in society, how to conduct research in the field of communication using a rhetorical approach to communication, and how to apply these basic concepts in their own communication activities. Prerequisite: SPEE 200 and COMM 205 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 430 - News and Public Affairs Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A study of the principles, techniques, and forms of journalism, with students gaining experience in preparing, editing, and delivering news and public affairs materials for a variety of media. Prerequisite: COMM 215 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 440 - Audio Production II Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 An advanced course in audio production techniques including remote setups, studio operations, and multi-track recording. Prerequisite: COMM 320 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 450 - Telecommunications Law Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Principles and case studies in communications law including constitutional guarantees, libel, privacy, contempt, privilege, copyright, and governmental regulatory agencies. Prerequisite: COMM 210 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 460 - Video Production II Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 An advanced course in video production techniques providing a laboratory experience in production and direction of video projects. Prerequisite: COMM 360 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 470 - Intercultural Communication Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 The course provides basic principles and rules for understanding intercultural communication and provides instruction on how to apply the principles when communicating in intercultural situations. The course also provides a wide range of examples and cases of communication practices in different cultures to increase the student’s knowledge base about communication diversity in the world. Prerequisite: COMM 205 and COMM 210 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 480 - Communication, Technology, and Society Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This reading and discussion course is designed to examine the connections among communication, technological development, and society. Students will explore how persuasive communication has affected our perception and employment of technology in society and how those technologies have, in turn, affected public discourse and interaction. Students will adopt a rhetorical perspective in evaluating and understanding classical primary and secondary readings in technological and scientific discourse. Prerequisite: COMM 205 and COMM 210 Please click here for Book Information
	COMM 490 - Communication Research Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 The development of mass communication theory is studied with attention given to the emergence of major paradigms of theory including the development of process and effective perspectives, the development of social learning perspectives, the development of uses and gratifications perspectives, and the development of critical and cultural perspectives. Prerequisite: COMM 395 Please click here for Book Information
Cooperative
	COOP 431 - Cooperative Education I Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A program integrating the classroom curriculum with planned periods of in-service professional work related to the student’s declared major. Cooperative Education is offered on a competitive basis through the Student Academic Services Center in conjunction with the Academic Advisors, Department Chairpersons and Academic Deans. The students ordinarily begin their first in-service experience at the end of the sophomore year. Please click here for Book Information
	COOP 432 - Cooperative Education II Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A continuation of the cooperative work experience program. Prerequisite: COOP 431 or COOP 433 Please click here for Book Information
	COOP 433 - Cooperative Education III Credit Hours: 6 Lecture Hours: 6 Lab Hours: 0 A program integrating the classroom curriculum with planned periods of full-time in-service professional work related to the student’s declared major. Cooperative Education is offered on a competitive basis through the Office of Career Services & Placement in conjunction with the Academic Advisors, Department Chairpersons and Academic Deans. The students ordinarily begin their first in-service experience at the end of the sophomore year. Please click here for Book Information
	COOP 434 - Cooperative Education IV Credit Hours: 6 Lecture Hours: 6 Lab Hours: 0 A continuation of the cooperative work experience program. Prerequisite: COOP 433 Please click here for Book Information
	COOP 435 - Cooperative Education V Credit Hours: 6 Lecture Hours: 6 Lab Hours: 0 A continuation of the cooperative work experience program. Prerequisite: COOP 434 Please click here for Book Information
Criminal Justice
	CRJC 200 - Introduction to the Criminal Justice System Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A survey course designed to familiarize students with the functions, structure, and organization of the agencies that are responsible for the administration of justice. Specifically, the course introduces students to the institutions and processes of law making and enforcement, the judicial system, corrections and the juvenile justice system. Please click here for Book Information
	CRJC 201 - Introduction to Law Enforcement Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A study of the history and philosophy of local, state, and federal law enforcement entities in the U.S. with emphasis on the interdependence of law enforcement and other components of the criminal justice system. The course also examines the roles of the police in the administration of justice and the critical issues that affect law enforcement in contemporary society. Please click here for Book Information
	CRJC 202 - Legal Aspects of Criminal Justice Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A study of procedural aspects of the legal process and administration of justice including constitutional rights, participants in court processes, rules of evidence and the exclusionary rule, and expert testimony. Please click here for Book Information
	CRJC 203 - Criminal Justice Ethics Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A critical examination of the diverse ethical issues encountered in the American criminal justice system with a focus on comparing and contrasting the principles of moral philosophy and ethical theory to the practices of criminal justice agencies. Please click here for Book Information
	CRJC 210 - Introduction to Criminology Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course introduces students to the basic concepts and principles of criminology, an interdisciplinary field of study within the social and behavioral sciences. Students will explore trends and patterns in crime and delinquency and societal responses to these social phenomena. Please click here for Book Information
	CRJC 212 - Juvenile Justice System Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A survey course designed to provide an overview of the juvenile justice system, with particular emphasis on the agencies, institutions, procedures, law, programs, and philosophies that guide the administration of juvenile justice. Please click here for Book Information
	CRJC 215 - Introduction to Criminal Courts Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course focuses on the structural outlay and philosophy of the court system, with special emphasis on criminal law and procedure, court processes, and structures, constitutional guarantees, the trial process, and the roles of judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys and juries. Please click here for Book Information
	CRJC 220 - Introduction to Corrections Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course examines the historical development, current changes, and future trends in correctional policies and strategies including analysis and evaluation of concepts and theories of retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, incapacitation, and other purposes of correctional reform. Special emphasis will be placed on the underlying social, legal, and ethical issues that affect various correctional strategies. Please click here for Book Information
	CRJC 222 - Community Corrections Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 An in-depth theoretical perspective of the social, legal, and ethical issues which gave rise to the development of contemporary strategies of corrections in the community including programs such as probation, parole, other alternatives to incarceration, intermediate sanctions, and diversionary programs Prerequisite: CRJC 200 and CRJC 220 Please click here for Book Information
	CRJC 230 - Criminal Evidence Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A course focusing on the various types of evidence used in both civil and criminal proceedings with emphasis on the rules governing the admissibility of evidence and the procedures for handling evidentiary issues in the courtroom. Please click here for Book Information
	CRJC 243 - Writing for Criminal Justice Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Emphasis is placed on the development of writing skills required for careers in criminal justice, including various forms of correspondence, interoffice memos, informal reports, minutes of meetings, summaries, briefings, and presentations; proofreading, revising, and editing; writing for culturally diverse audiences; and criminal justice terminology. Please click here for Book Information
	CRJC 300 - Criminal Law Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 An involved philosophical analysis of criminal law principles and concepts focusing on both the procedural aspects and the substantive elements of the various crimes, criminal court decisions, and the practical application of such principles and concepts in the courtroom. Prerequisite: CRJC 200 Please click here for Book Information
	CRJC 302 - Prisons and Society Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 An advanced corrections course in which students explore the far-reaching impacts of prisons on society. The course examines the consequences of mass incarceration in the United States, not only for prisoners and ex-prisoners, but also for families and communities who have committed no crimes. The course further considers the impact of mass imprisonment on democracy and whether the social costs of incarceration have produced benefits to society in quality of life, safety, or justice. Prerequisite: CRJC 220 and CRJC 200 Please click here for Book Information
	CRJC 304 - Criminological Theory Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course exposes students to different theoretical perspectives in the study of crime and criminal justice. It acquaints students with various explanations that have been offered in an effort to understand criminal behavior and criminal justice practices within social contexts. Prerequisite: CRJC 200 and PSYC 210 and SOCI 210 Please click here for Book Information
	CRJC 305 - Race, Class, and Gender in Criminal Justice Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A comprehensive examination of the concepts of race, class, and gender as determinants of the structure and function of the American criminal justice system, including the relationship between race, class, gender, and crime; issues of race, class, and gender discrimination; and the ideological and political debates that both integrate and segregate theories of race, class, gender, and crime. Prerequisite: CRJC 200 Please click here for Book Information

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CHEM 399 - Pre-Pharmacy Internship

CHEM 400 - Computational Chemistry

CHEM 410 - Seminar in Chemical Literature

CHEM 421 - Inorganic Chemistry

CHEM 422 - Bioanalytical Chemistry

CHEM 423 - Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

CHEM 424 - Separation Science

CHEM 425 - Bioinorganic Chemistry

CHEM 426 - Medicinal Chemistry

CHEM 430 - Special Topics in Chemistry

CHEM 431 - Qualitative Organic Analysis

CHEM 490 - Chemistry Research and Ethics

CHEM 491 - Research II

CHEM 492 - Research II and Thesis

CHEM 499 - Chemistry Capstone

CHIN 110 - Elementary Chinese I

CHIN 120 - Elementary Chinese II

CHIN 210 - Intermediate Chinese I

CHIN 220 - Intermediate Chinese II

CHIN 310 - Advanced Chinese I

CHIN 330 - Classical Chinese Literature

CHIN 331 - Modern Chinese Language

CHIN 332 - Cinema and Contemporary China

COHE 200 - Introduction to Community Health

COHE 360 - Communication in Health

COHE 370 - Consumer Health

COHE 425 - Organization in Community Health

COHE 426 - Program Planning and Evaluation in Health

COHE 430 - Health Behavior and Counseling

COHE 460 - Aging

COHE 470 - Seminar in Community Health

COHE 480 - Field Work in Community Health Education

COMM 201 - Communication Activities

COMM 205 - Introduction to Communication

COMM 210 - Introduction to Mass Communications

COMM 211 - Phonetics

COMM 212 - Voice and Diction

COMM 215 - Fundamentals of Journalism

COMM 220 - Film & Video Appreciation

COMM 230 - News Reporting and Writing I

COMM 235 - Public Relations/Advertising

COMM 240 - News Editing

COMM 250 - Presentation Technologies

COMM 260 - Interpersonal Communication

COMM 275 - Crisis Communication

COMM 290 - Nonverbal Communication

COMM 300 - Magazine and Feature Writing

COMM 310 - News Reporting and Writing II

COMM 311 - Public Speaking

COMM 315 - Computer Mediated Communication

COMM 320 - Audio Production I

COMM 321 - Group Discussion

COMM 330 - Writing For Mass Media

COMM 332 - Problems in Media Communication

COMM 335 - Media, Religion, and Spirituality

COMM 340 - Community Journalism

COMM 341 - Health Communication

COMM 342 - Health Communication Campaigns

COMM 350 - Telecommunications Management

COMM 357 - Gender and Communication

COMM 360 - Video Production I

COMM 365 - Speechwriting

COMM 367 - Electronic Broadcast Media Programming

COMM 370 - Communication Practicum

COMM 375 - Organizational Communication

COMM 380 - Non-Broadcast Telecommunications Systems

COMM 385 - International Communication

COMM 390 - Cable Communications

COMM 395 - Communication Theory

COMM 400 - Advanced News Reporting and Writing

COMM 401 - Argumentation and Debate

COMM 410 - Communication Internship

COMM 425 - Rhetorical Theory and Criticism

COMM 430 - News and Public Affairs

COMM 440 - Audio Production II

COMM 450 - Telecommunications Law

COMM 460 - Video Production II

COMM 470 - Intercultural Communication