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CHEM 5273 Instruction in the Chemical Sciences
(3 hours)
Provides directed experience in instruction in chemistry. Student will assume partial responsibilities for instruction of a class under the direction of a chemistry faculty member. Activities may include lesson preparation, class delivery, testing, and grading.
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CHEM 5283 Biochemistry of Nutrition
(3 hours)
Basic biochemistry of human nutrition and functional foods. Topics include vitamins and minerals and their relation to health and disease. Prerequisite: CHEM 4143 or equivalent.
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CHEM 5293 Biochemistry of Cancer
(3 hours)
Explore the biochemical basis of cancer. Identify interconnected biochemical systems underlying normal/abnormal cellular function. Develop a deeper understanding of the biochemical nature of cellular transformation. Recognize context and the limitations. Develop communication skills.
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CHEM 5313 Biochemistry of Nutraceuticals
(3 hours)
Biochemistry of functional foods and novel food compounds that promote health and combat disease. Prerequisite: CHEM 4143 with a grade of D or higher or equivalent.
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CHEM 5863 Advanced Topics in Chemistry and Biochemistry
(3 hours)
Advanced study of an area of research activity. Important concepts, the contribution of modern instrumentation, and relevance of the research will be emphasized. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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CHIN 1004 Beginning Chinese I
(4 hours)
Acquisition of basic communicative competence, including listening, speaking, reading, writing, and cultural skills. Strategies for functioning in situations at a level appropriate to novice learners. Study of grammar as aid to communication. Prerequisite: No previous training or experience in Chinese. All students with previous training or experience in Chinese, including native speakers, must consult the Department of Languages for placement advice.
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CHIN 1014 Beginning Chinese II
(4 hours)
Acquisition of basic communicative competence, including listening, speaking, reading, writing, and cultural skills. Strategies for functioning in situations at a level appropriate to novice learners. Study of grammar as aid to communication. Prerequisite: CHIN 1004 with a grade of C or higher, or permission of instructor. All students with previous training or experience in Chinese, including native speakers, must consult the Department of Languages for placement advice.
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CHIN 2003 Intermediate Chinese I
(3 hours)
Emphasis on increasing learners’ ability to use the language in a wider range of situations and with greater accuracy. Increased use of authentic materials. Study of grammar as aid to communication. Prerequisite: CHIN 1014 with a grade of C or higher, or permission of instructor. All students with previous training or experience in Chinese, including native speakers, must consult the Department of Languages for placement advice.
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CHIN 2013 Intermediate Chinese II
(3 hours)
Emphasis on increasing learners’ ability to use the language in a wider range of situations and with greater accuracy. Increased use of authentic materials. Study of grammar as aid to communication. Prerequisite: CHIN 2003 with a grade of C or higher or its equivalent. All students with previous training or experience in Chinese, including native speakers, must consult the Department of Languages for placement advice.
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CHIN 3003 Advanced Chinese I
(3 hours)
Development of skills in oral comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Strategies for functioning in situations at a level appropriate to advanced learners. Continued consolidation of character recognition and production, and pronunciation. Prerequisite: CHIN 2013 or its equivalent, departmental approval through placement, or permission of instructor.
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CHIN 3013 Advanced Chinese II
(3 hours)
Continued development of skills in oral comprehension, speaking, reading, writing and establishment of a solid base for more advanced language learning. Focus on speaking and writing in coherent and well-formed paragraphs. Prerequisite: CHIN 3003 or its equivalent, departmental approval through placement, or permission of instructor.
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CHIN 3113 Chinese through Literature I
(3 hours)
By exploring shorter original Chinese masterpieces that exemplify linguistic complexity, intellectual stimuli, and cultural characteristics, we will immerse ourselves in the authentic beauty of modern Chinese and expose ourselves to the most significant challenges for modern China (1917-1978). Content varies; may be repeated three times for credit. Prerequisite: CHIN 2013 .
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CHIN 3133 Untimely Meditations: A Chinese Perspective
(3 hours)
Dedicated to Lu Xun, China’s most profound writer, whose “untimely meditations” on modern civilization, world history, and the human condition resonate with those of Nietzsche and Kafka, and prove to be timely and timeless. Exploring his writings opens avenues of thought that revolutionize our understanding of Chinese language and culture. Prerequisites: CHIN 2013 or its equivalent and permission of instructor.
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CHIN 3143 Modern Poetry and Prose
(3 hours)
By exploring modern Chinese poetry and prose that exemplify linguistic complexity, intellectual stimuli, and cultural characteristics, we’ll immerse ourselves in the beauty of modern Chinese. Prerequisite: CHIN 2013 or its equivalent and permission of instructor.
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CHIN 3903 Topics in Chinese Literature and Culture
(3 hours)
Exploration of shorter original Chinese texts that exemplify linguistic complexity, intellectual stimuli, and cultural characteristics. Readings drawn from modern poetry and prose, contemporary novel, and short story. Approaches include translation strategies, criticism, and comparative examinations. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Prerequisite: CHIN 2013 with a grade of C or higher or permission of instructor.
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CHIN 4123 Chinese Microblogging
(3 hours)
Sina Weibo 新浪微博, a Chinese hybrid of Twitter and Facebook, has attracted more than 140 million registered users as of August 2011 and become a gigantically influential voice in China. This course will motivate students to improve their mastery of Chinese through reading and discussing aesthetically, ethically, socially, and politically subversive Chinese microblogs.
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CHIN 4143 Contemplative Cinema: The Chinese Contribution
(3 hours)
A spectrum of films from Mainland China that address issues such as the tension between family and society, the vacillation between nostalgia and anticipation, and the concurrency of evolution and degradation. Examining each film’s leitmotifs and strategies of representation and argumentation will help improve Chinese skills in all aspects. Prerequisites: CHIN 2013 or its equivalent and permission of instructor.
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CHIN 4303 Topics in Chinese Media
(3 hours)
Exploration of the culture of contemporary China. Subjects include microblog posts on national and international issues, films, and TV programs from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Emphasis on Chinese perspectives of emerging social, political, and artistic events. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Prerequisite: CHIN 3003 with a grade of C or higher or other 3000-level CHIN course with a grade of C or higher or permission of instructor.
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CHIN 4993 Independent Study
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Communication |
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COM 1103 Persuasive Influences in America
(3 hours) Block 2
The processes whereby persuasive messages are created, targeted for particular audiences, and evaluated for their effects.
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COM 2013 Communication Systems
(3 hours)
Introduces theory and research on the relations between symbol systems, culture, and communication.
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COM 2113 Public Communication
(3 hours)
Examines and provides guided experience in two person, group, and public communication in several common professional and community situations. Emphasis on listening, adapting messages to different audiences, organizing messages, and providing support for one’s positions on issues.
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COM 2123 Mass Communication and Society
(3 hours)
Analyzes the social, economic, and political implications of modern societies’ reliance on mass communication, including ways in which the mass media provide images of our world.
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COM 2353 Political Communication
(3 hours) Block 2
Addresses the central problems that have puzzled scholars over the centuries, and continue to puzzle them, concerning the communication of political matters: issues such as the relationship between rhetoric and manipulation, the differences between communication in democratic vs. nondemocratic societies, and the role that various technologies play in changing how we think both about politics and about communication.
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COM 2423 News and Society
(3 hours) Block 2
Examines the role of news and journalism in the history and development of American democracy and analyzes the political origins of the U.S. news media as well as the ideology of journalism and the social consequences of news making as it has evolved over the course of U.S. history.
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COM 2523 Communication Technology and Society
(3 hours) Block 2
Addresses the role of new communication technologies and society by exploring the nature and consequences of shifts from oral to print to electronic communication systems.
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COM 2723 Native Americans and the Popular Imagination
(3 hours) Block 2
Explores myths, stereotypes, and cultural patterns that have affected Native Americans for the past 500 years. Discusses the complex relationship between Native Americans and American culture since Columbus, focusing on the history and evolution of European culture’s imagination of and interaction with native peoples of the Western Hemisphere.
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COM 2893 Media and Popular Culture
(3 hours) Block 2
Analyzes the origins and significance of modern debates over popular culture. Offers methods by which to interpret mass media products such as news, television, films, and recorded music as forms of culture.
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COM 2913 Organizational Communication and Society
(3 hours)
Communication as affecting and affected by organizational climate, policies, structures, and environment, including barriers to communication flow and accuracy, interpersonal dynamics and hierarchies, intra-and inter-group conflicts, and personal and organizational change. Prerequisite or corequisite: COM 2013 .
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COM 2943 Introduction to Digital Studies
(3 hours)
Introduces and examines the emerging field of digital studies, particularly digital media and communication studies. The course examines ways that information, technologies, tools, and media impact modern society. It simultaneously teaches critical thinking, theory, history and practice central to life and work in the digital age.
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COM 3013 Mediated Meaning: Celebrity, Tourism and Style
(3 hours)
Explores three key elements in postmodern experience: celebrity, tourism and style. Through reading, discussion and applied examples of these topics, we analyze how we shape, and are shaped by, mediated meaning in the postmodern era.
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COM 3023 Documentary Expression in Film and Video
(3 hours)
Hands-on experience and editing skills for documentary video production. Students analyze documentary structure and become more critical viewers; learn the traditions of documentary; and learn to select subjects, edit material to achieve the strongest effects, and devise sound and music as crucial elements of documentary filmmaking. Same as FLM 3023 .
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COM 3103 Theories of Communication
(3 hours)
A survey of dominant theories of language and meaning, information and persuasion, as well as contextual theories of interpersonal, group, organizational, and mediated communication. Theorizing as a useful logical tool for extending the findings of research. Prerequisite: COM 2013 .
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COM 3113 Inquiry in Communication
(3 hours)
A survey of approaches to acquiring and validating knowledge about human communication. Examines how research questions are posed and appropriate methods of inquiry selected. Assesses the strengths and limitations of critical, qualitative, and quantitative methods. Student projects integrate inquiry methods with research and analysis of published literature. Prerequisite: COM 2013 .
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COM 3163 Advocacy Journalism
(3 hours)
Explores the emergence of, and rationale for, participatory journalistic practice as well as the resistance to community-oriented, subjective journalism.
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COM 3193 Media, Culture and Power
(3 hours)
Explores the contribution of the Frankfurt School to contemporary cultural and social criticism. Begins with key works by German-Jewish émigré intellectuals, continues with essays from the 1950s and 60s, and ends with current books on media, culture and power. Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor.
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COM 3223 Bestselling Feminisms
(3 hours)
Feminism, as a social movement, offers us a powerful example of how ideas circulate and develop in and through the media. Using readings, discussion, interviews and media analyses, this course explores widely popular accounts of women’s personal, social, cultural and political options from 1960 to the present. Same as WS 3223 .
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COM 3233 Writing Nonfiction
(3 hours)
A creative writing workshop focused on telling true stories.
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COM 3243 Advertising Design Concepts
(3 hours)
Explores how art directors and copywriters work together in the formulation of advertising creative. Promotes understanding of the correct target market(s) in terms of identifying and creating the proper strategic communication for all required media vehicles. Prerequisite: ART 3243 . Same as ART 3343 .
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COM 3293 Media and Games
(3 hours)
The purpose of the course is to examine the relationship between media and the human activity of play. The latter concept, being a fairly abstract one, will be discussed in this course mainly in reference to distinctively modern forms of human play, such as sports and computer games.
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COM 3313 Theory and Practice of Persuasion
(3 hours)
Principles and methods of persuasion and social influence, with practice in the preparation and analysis of persuasive messages, persuasive campaigns, and media persuasion.
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COM 3323 Interpersonal Communication
(3 hours)
Analyzes processes involved in interpersonal communication; includes examination of communication variables that define, sustain, and change interpersonal relationships. Same as WS 3323 .
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COM 3333 Small Group Communication
(3 hours)
Application of theory and research, with emphasis on decision-building groups, group development processes, leadership and followership, conflict management, alternatives to group discussion, and consensus process and outcomes. An extended simulation and shorter exercises provide application opportunities.
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COM 3343 Communication and Conflict Management
(3 hours)
The relationship between communication and human conflict, and communicative strategies that may be used to manage conflict situations.
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COM 3413 News Gathering
(3 hours)
Development of skills and understanding in communicating news and information to various audiences. Emphasizes the role of news gatherer and reporter in organizing and presenting facts and background for audiences. Offers experience in many types of news. Two hours lecture and two hours lab each week.
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COM 3433 Principles of Advertising
(3 hours)
Introduction to principles of advertising and advertising’s relationship to both the mass media and the marketing process. Surveys the historical aspect of advertising, creative production, and media planning.
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COM 3443 Advertising Campaigns
(3 hours)
Students are divided into “real world” advertising agency teams. Teams are assigned legitimate accounts and are challenged with semester-long projects that, if executed properly, may actually be used by the clients. Perfect opportunity for portfolio building. As close to working in an advertising business environment as possible.
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COM 3453 Media and Concept Strategy
(3 hours)
Utilizing “real world and real time” clients (mostly pro bono accounts), students are elevated to the next level of creative concept and media evaluation; emphasis placed on market/consumer/media research, concept brainstorming, competitive analysis, and print and broadcast creative executions, culminating in a full scale, comprehensive presentation to the client(s).
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COM 3473 Video Production: Studio
(3 hours)
Writing, performance, and technical production of video programs and program segments in the studio. Emphasis on a studio-laboratory setting. Applications include broadcast or corporate television news writing, interviewing, and production. Same as FLM 3473 .
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COM 3483 Principles of Visual Communication
(3 hours)
The nature of visual communication, including perceptual limitations, visual literacy, and visual communication’s impact on social reality. Emphasis on the evolution, emergence, and impact of visual media as well as strategies for analyzing visual media. Same as WS 3483 .
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COM 3493 Feature Writing
(3 hours)
Writing features for newspapers, magazines, and in-house publications, with examination of the requirements, objectives, and readership of each.
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COM 3523 Editing for Print Media
(3 hours)
Preparation of written copy for such media as newspapers, magazines, and newsletters. Includes editing of photographs for publication and a study of the principles, standards, practices, and ethical responsibilities of editors. Prerequisite: COM 3413 or COM 3633 or permission of instructor.
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COM 3573 Video Production: Location
(3 hours)
Writing, performance, and technical production of video programs in non-studio settings. Applications include broadcast or corporate script writing, electronic news gathering, training videos, and television ‘magazine’ features. Same as FLM 3573 .
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COM 3623 Public Relations Cases and Campaigns
(3 hours)
Analysis and critique of actual and simulated public relations problems, programs, and campaigns. Student teams research, plan, and make proposals for campaigns or programs. Emphasizes analysis, goal setting, planning, and awareness of multiple roles of assessment and evaluation. Prerequisite: COM 3633 or permission of instructor.
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COM 3633 Writing for Public Relations
(3 hours)
Entry-level professional course covering basic techniques of news writing as well as strategies for researching, organizing, and writing effective memos, letters, and reports.
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COM 3733 Global Media
(3 hours)
Introduces and examines the global development of media history and international contexts. Critical emphasis is paid to globalization theories and the comparative history of information technologies, economics, and political, cultural, and media systems.
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COM 3863 Media History
(3 hours)
Analyzes social and political consequences of historical changes in communication technology, from oral communication to writing and print to electronic media. Topics include oral communication, the nature of literacy, printing and the rise of democracy, and the mythos of the information society.
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COM 3873 History and Philosophy of Free Expression
(3 hours)
Survey of the history of ideas concerning free expression. Examination of the history and philosophy of such issues as the ideology of journalism, media ethics, the First Amendment, broadcast regulation, and the many discourses concerning expression, control, and regulation.
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COM 3933 Organizations and Their Publics
(3 hours)
Theoretical perspectives on how organizations communicate with various publics and examination of how different organizational environments, structures, and technologies influence organizational communication programs with employees, media, consumers, local communities, investors, and government. Prerequisite or corequisite: COM 2913 or permission of instructor.
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COM 3943 Interviewers and Interviewing
(3 hours)
Planning, perceptual, and relational factors that affect interview success. Emphasis on information-gathering, information-giving, and supervisor-subordinate interviews. Role-plays, field depth interviews, and participation in a survey research project provide occasions to develop critical abilities and skills.
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COM 3993 Independent Study
(3 hours)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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COM 4113 Documentary Workshop
(3 hours)
History, philosophy and practice of documentary journalism in the United States. Interviewing, writing and producing publication-quality documentary journalism in the field. Same as FLM 4113 .
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COM 4443 National Student Advertising Competition
(3 hours)
By invitation only. Top marketing, advertising, graphics, and broadcast production students will represent The University of Tulsa at this prestigious event held each year in April. Destinations for presentations vary within the 10th District of the American Advertising Federation (AAF). Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Same as ART 4443 .
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COM 4543 Branding
(3 hours)
Humans make decisions and act on perceptions, real or imagined. In the marketplace, our perceptions of brands-products, and the companies behind them-drive our buying behaviors. Branding is the study of those perceptions, how they come to be, and how to influence them as communications professionals. The course is designed to teach how to see brands. Prerequisite: COM 3433 .
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COM 4613 Internship
(3 hours)
Applies knowledge and skills in approved organizations on or off campus within various media-related or communication-oriented settings. Some internships result from national, competitive programs. Prerequisites: Communication major, 75 hours, and at least 2.75 GPA in major or recommendation of major advisor.
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COM 4813 Analysis of Media
(3 hours)
Examines methods commonly used for analyzing the form and content of the mass media. Includes methods drawn from sociology, psychology, history, rhetoric, and literature. Prerequisite: COM 2123 .
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COM 4843 Topics in Communication
(3 hours)
Provides an opportunity for students and faculty to engage in thorough study of a substantial topic in communication. May be repeated with different topics.
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COM 4853 Topics in Communication
(3 hours)
Provides an opportunity for students and faculty to engage in thorough study of a substantial topic in communication. May be repeated with different topics.
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COM 4863 Topics in Communication
(3 hours)
Provides an opportunity for students and faculty to engage in thorough study of a substantial topic in communication. May be repeated with different topics.
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COM 4873 Topics in Communication
(3 hours)
Provides an opportunity for students and faculty to engage in thorough study of a substantial topic in communication. May be repeated with different topics.
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COM 4883 Topics in Communication
(3 hours)
Provides an opportunity for students and faculty to engage in thorough study of a substantial topic in communication. May be repeated with different topics.
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COM 4893 Topics in Communication
(3 hours)
Provides an opportunity for students and faculty to engage in thorough study of a substantial topic in communication. May be repeated with different topics.
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COM 4943 Analysis of Communication in Organizations
(3 hours)
Analyzes factors in communication policies, systems, attitudes, and practices that may affect organizational and individual performance, enhance change strategies, or justify current policies and practices. Examines and selects alternative diagnostic approaches and tools for a ‘pilot test’ of a communication audit. Prerequisites: Senior standing, COM 2913 , and COM 3113 .
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COM 4973 Senior Project
(3 hours)
Applies accumulated knowledge and skills to an individual communication project. Prerequisite: Senior standing.
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COM 4981-3 Independent Research
(1-3 hours)
For advanced undergraduates wishing to pursue their own program of research by specifying a problem, gathering and analyzing data, and producing a report under faculty guidance. Work may be as part of a research team. Prerequisites: Advanced standing and availability of an instructor to sponsor and evaluate the project.
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COM 4991-3 Independent Readings
(1-3 hours)
Offered to advanced undergraduates who wish to undertake a guided program of readings concerning matters they have encountered in the regular curriculum. Prerequisites: Advanced standing and availability of an instructor to sponsor and evaluate the reading program as proposed by the student.
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CPLT 2043 American Culture on Film
(3 hours) Block 1
Popular film and fiction communicate perspectives essential to the functioning of contemporary culture. Students gain the analytical vocabulary with which to recognize and describe contemporary issues presented by entertainment media. Non-American films and texts give a sense of which issues are peculiar to American culture and which are shared internationally.Same as FLM 2043 .
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CPLT 2253 African Film
(3 hours) Block 1
Examines how African filmmakers have chosen to represent Africans, their civilizations, nations, histories and contemporary realities through films while challenging Euro- American stereotypical representation of the African continents.
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CPLT 2293 Thinking with Science Fiction
(3 hours) Block 1
Course consists in developing, through SF films and novels, a clearer understanding of notions such as time, artificial life, virtual reality, and utopia, in order to better comprehend some political, scientific, philosophical and ethical problems raised at the beginning of the 21st century.
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CPLT 2313 Gangster Films
(3 hours) Block 1
Explores the meaning of genre, including what the gangster topos makes available to filmmakers. Promotes awareness of the range of issues addressed by this genre. Because film presents its argument by means classified as aesthetic, analysis of gangster films enhances understanding of ways in which sense-perceptible messages influence thought, decision, and action. Same as FLM 2313 .
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CPLT 2343 The Dilemma of Modernity
(3 hours) Block 1
Intellectuals in Scandinavia, Germany, Japan, and China reached back to primal narratives and cultural legends to address contemporary problems at the turn of the last century. Exploring this strategy can give us insight into current global issues.
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CPLT 2403 Introduction to Creative Writing
(3 hours)
Offers instruction and practice in four main genres of imaginative writing: poetry, fiction, performance, and creative non-fiction. Geared for beginners in creative writing who may possess some limited knowledge and practice in theses genres but who want to learn more and bring more formal discipline to their writing. Same as ENGL 2403 /FLM 2403 .
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CPLT 2513 Colossus of the South: Brazil
(3 hours) Block 1
Introduction to the intersection of Brazilian literature and culture. Contextualization of key literary texts and artistic events in 20th-century Brazil such as the Modern Art Week (1922), Concrete Poetry (1950s-60s), and Tropicalia (1960s-70s). Course taught in English.
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CPLT 2613 Argentine Culture on Film
(3 hours) Block 1
Through the study of film, students acquire knowledge of contemporary Argentine cultural figures such as Juan and Eva Perón, Che Guevara, Charlie García, Flaco Spinetta, and Tanguito, and such issues as the Mother of the Plaza de Mayo, the Night of the Pencils, the Dirty War, and the Falklands/Malvinas War.
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CPLT 2713 The Faust Myth in German Literature and Film
(3 hours) Block 1
Examines the legacy of the Faust story in Germany, including its various adaptations since its original publication as a Volksbuch (chapbook) in 1587. Particular emphasis on the distinct historical and cultural contexts that helped give rise to each reworking of the legend.
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CPLT 2813 The Hero’s Journey: From Beowulf to Bilbo
(3 hours) Block 1
Examines the archetypal heroic journey as a universal theme and experience in Western culture. Particular emphasis on Germanic including English) texts, and on the mythological origins of the hero.
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CPLT 3023 French Feminism
(3 hours)
Existentialist and postmodern feminist philosophies within the historical and political context of the Women’s Liberation Movement (MLF) throughout 20th-century France. Attention to writings by French feminists such as Hélène Cixous, Catherine Clément, Claire Duchen, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Rosi Braidotti, and Simone de Beauvoir. Same as WS 3023 .
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CPLT 3053 Introduction to Literary Analysis
(3 hours)
Introduction to the analysis and interpretation of literary texts through close reading. Students perform in English written and oral analyses of plays, novels, short stories, and poetry. Works selected to give historical and stylistic breadth are in English translation and the student’s major language. Prerequisite: One 3000 or 4000-level course in student’s language major (may be taken concurrently) or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
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CPLT 3723 Masterpieces of Russian Literature
(3 hours)
Study of major works in the Russian literary tradition. Same as ENGL 2353 .
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CS 1001 Introduction to Computer Science
(1 hour)
An overview introduction to the field of computer science.
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CS 1043 Introduction to Programming and Problem-solving
(3 hours)
A disciplined introductory approach to problem-solving methods and algorithm development using procedural and object oriented programming techniques. Course includes lecture and weekly laboratory assignments. Students learn to write, debug, test, and document code with the Java programming language. Corequisite: MATH 1163 or higher.
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CS 2003 Fundamentals of Algorithm and Computer Applications
(3 hours)
Continuation of CS 1043 . Further development of a disciplined approach to design, coding, and testing of programs written in an object oriented language. Various implementations of abstract data types, including lists, stacks, queues and introduction to trees. Introduction to algorithm analysis, sorting and searching. Prerequisite: Grade of ‘C’ or ‘P’ in CS 1043 or EE 2263 .
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CS 2033 Computer Architecture, Organization and Assembler
(3 hours)
Introduction to computer hardware organization, instruction execution, and relationships between higher-level programming languages and machine language. Information flow and control. Instruction and data representation. Assembly language features including control and communication with simple I/O devices and interfaces between assembly programs and high level languages. Survey of modern computer and microprocessor organization. Prerequisite: CS 1043 or permission of instructor.
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CS 2103 Computing Ethics
(3 hours)
Introduction to workable ethical frameworks: Kantianism; Relativism; Utilitarianism; Social Contract Theory. Case studies in professional ethics, codes of ethical behavior and responsibility for the professional societies; ethical standards relating to responsible computing, including thrust, privacy ownership, security, safety, honor codes and social responsibility. Prerequisite: ENGL 1033 and sophomore standing.
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CS 2123 Data Structures
(3 hours)
Concepts of data structures with analysis, B trees, AVL trees, Splay trees, etc. Recurrence formulas, hashing, and algorithm analysis. Emphasis on various algorithm techniques: backtracking, branch and bound, dynamic programming, simulated annealing, etc. Students will write programs in C++, Python or Java. Prerequisite: Grade of ‘C’ or ‘P’ in CS 2003 .
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CS 2163 Digital Systems Principles
(3 hours)
Boolean algebra, logic gates, combinational network design, flip-flops, sequential networks, synchronous and asynchronous systems.
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CS 2503 Scientific Programming
(3 hours)
An introduction to structured programming, object oriented programming, and understanding programming structures. Computer implementations of models, numerical methods, the analysis of algorithms, and computer visualization tools. Science and engineering related problems are emphasized. An introduction to MATLAB. Corequisite: MATH 2024 . Prior programming experience helpful but not required. Students may not receive credit for both CS 1043 and CS 2503 . Course includes lecture and weekly computer laboratory assignments.
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CS 3003 Comparative Programming Languages
(3 hours)
Detailed analysis of the concepts and constructs of modern programming languages. Comparative study of programming languages. Emphasis on imperative languages; discussion of functional, object-oriented and logical programming languages. Prerequisite: CS 2003 .
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CS 3013 Discrete Mathematics
(3 hours)
Theory and applications of mathematical models fundamental to analysis of discrete problems. Introduction to set theory, relations and functions. Principles of counting and other combinatorial problems. Introduction to graph theory and its application to algorithm analysis. Formal logic, methods of proof and correctness of algorithms. Recursion and recursive definitions. Prerequisite: MATH 2014 or permission of instructor. Same as MATH 3013 .
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CS 3023 Introduction to Game Programming
(3 hours)
Introduction to the design, writing, testing, and documentation of 2D and 3D computer games. Major topics include animation, physics, sound, user control, state maintenance and game artificial intelligence. An emphasis is placed on design and implementation. Prerequisite: CS 2123 .
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