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CRJU 5450 - Law of All Hazards Management
This course conveys knowledge of the statutes, regulations and court decisions governing the management of hazards by governmental agencies. It covers local, state and federal agencies as they mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from naturally, accidentally and intentionally caused disasters. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 5510 - Contemporary Issues in Law Enforcement
Examines current thinking and experience with respect to changing and reforming police programs and practices. The course focuses primarily on the American police experience, reviewing major innovations, exploring their rationale, and examining organizational impediments to their implementation. Cross-listed with CRJU 7510. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 5520 - Corrections
Provides a critical examination of the development and implementation of correctional systems in America. The course presents the origins of correctional efforts and the evolution of the prison; reviews punishment and rehabilitation rationales in the context of sentencing models; examines the social organization of the prison, including inmate subcultures and staff work strategies; and assesses the inmates’ rights movement and the impact of judicial intervention in correctional settings. Cross-listed with CRJU 7520. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 5530 - Community Corrections
Analyzes the theories and practices of probation and parole, responses of paroling authorities to public pressures and court controls, and their implications for rehabilitation. Efforts to bridge institutional settings and community life, as well as the feasibility and effectiveness of treating individuals under sentence in the community, are reviewed. Cross-listed with CRJU 7530. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 5540 - Juvenile Justice Administration
Examines the policies and practices of agencies in processing youthful offenders through the juvenile court system, reviews trends in juvenile justice policymaking, and assesses changes in response to juvenile crime by both the juvenile justice and criminal justice systems. Cross-listed with CRJU 7540. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 5550 - Criminal Justice Policy and Planning
Provides a survey of conceptual and design strategies in criminal justice policy analysis. The logic and rationale of these various strategies are contrasted, and their relative merits are critiqued. Selected policy issues in the criminal justice system are utilized to illustrate the application and interpretation of alternative strategies. Cross-listed with CRJU 7550. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 5551 - Courts, Law & Justice
Analyzes judicial organization, court administration, and criminal court judicial decision making practices within the context of the broader operation of the criminal justice system. Special attention is paid to the social organization of the courtroom, examining the special roles of judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys. Cross-listed with CRJU 7551. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 5552 - Criminal Justice Ethics
Offers a normative framework within which to explore ways to increase sensitivity to the demands of ethical behavior among criminal justice personnel. The application of a normative perspective enhances the possibility that moral problems are better understood, more carefully analyzed, and rendered more tractable applied ethics forces a reflection not just on ethics, but also on the nature and operation of the criminal justice system itself. Cross-listed with CRJU 7552. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 5553 - Women and Crime
Explores issues surrounding women as offenders, victims, and criminal justice professionals. Investigates explanations for the involvement of women in illegal activities. Analyzes the plight of battered women, rape victims, and other female victims. Examines the participation of women in law enforcement judicial processes, corrections and lawmaking. Cross-listed with CRJU 7553. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 5555 - Profiling Criminal Behavior
This seminar examines the dynamics of individual criminal acts utilizing inductive and deductive methodology to profile criminal behavior, offender characteristics, crime scene investigation, evidence collection, and case linkage of specific categories of crimes. Topical areas in this seminar will include homicide, serial crime, stalking. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 5571 - The Social Organization of Crime
Explores the relationship of neighborhood social disorganization to the dynamics of crime from a social ecology perspective. The course examines the underlying social causes of phenomena such as criminal victimization, violent and property crime, neighborhood fear, neighborhood deterioration, and recidivism. The course examines social, structural, and ecological characteristics of neighborhoods and communities in affecting crime. Cross-listed with CRJU 7571. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 5572 - Race, Crime and Justice
Examines the role of race in criminal justice processing. This course examines the research findings, interpretations, issues, and implications in assessing the impact of race in the administration of criminal justice. Explores the policy implications concerning the nature and extent of racial disparities in the criminal justice system and lays out a research agenda to more strategically address these issues within criminal justice policy making. Cross-listed with CRJU 7572. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 5574 - White Collar Crime
Employs both the social science and legal approaches to examine crime committed by corporations as well as by individuals in white collar occupations. The course covers how such crimes are socially defined, who commits them, who is victimized by them, which social contexts promote them, and how society and the criminal justice system respond to them. Cross-listed with CRJU 7574. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 5575 - The Mentally Disordered Offender
Examines the offender who may be mentally disordered. A survey is made of the various phases of the criminal justice system where psychiatrists are involved, e.g., diversion, fitness, insanity and sentencing. Dangerous sex offender legislation, “not guilty by reason of insanity” and “guilty but mentally ill” statutes, and issues concerning confidentiality, informed consent, and treatment are addressed. Cross-listed with CRJU 7575. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 5576 - Social Science in the Criminal Justice System
Examines the use of social science as a tool for legal analysis within the criminal justice system. The course examines how social science research is used to resolve relatively simple factual disputes, then moves on to more complex issues that arise when social science is invoked to make or to change law, both constitutional law (particularly the First, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth amendments) and common law, particularly the construction of procedural rules that govern the operations of the criminal justice system. Cross-listed with CRJU 7576. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 5650 - Public Policies for Homeland Security and Disasters
Examines public policymaking and administration related to homeland security and disasters in the United States, including the interplay between security and traditional hazards management concerns. Assesses the role of institutional processes, governmental and nongovernmental organizations in policy development and implementation. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 5655 - Principles of Emergency Management
This course is an introduction to the practice of emergency management. It provides instruction on the discipline of emergency management and covers not only administrative practice, but how public policy shapes how governments at all levels address hazards, emergencies and disasters. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 5910 - Nature and Scope of Interpersonal Violence
This course will analyze the social, historical, political, legal, and psychological aspects of gender based violence. Topics addressed include: definitions of the problem, demographics, children and youth exposed, national and global perspectives. Strategies for prevention, intervention, treatment, and social change are explored. Cross-listed with CRJU 7910, PUAD 5910 and 7910. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 5920 - The Psychology of Interpersonal Violence
This class addresses the contributions and limitations of current empirical and clinical psychological literatures about interpersonal violence (IPV). The primary focus of the course is on the effects of IPV on adult and child survivors, on their psychological needs, and on the contribution of psychological knowledge to practice in IPV. Cross-listed with CRJU 5920, PUAD 5920 and 7920. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 5930 - Interpersonal Violence Law and Public Policy
This course provides insight into public policy and law affected by or affecting interpersonal violence, (welfare reform, child maltreatment, criminal and civil court responses). Students will understand the role of law enforcement agents and the practice of victim advocacy, and describe and engage in methods to change law and policy. Cross-listed with CRJU 7930, PUAD 5930 and 7930. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 5940 - Interpersonal Violence Advocacy and Social Change
Students will gain an understanding of different models of social change and the various approaches to public address, including social movements and campaigns, that accomplish change. Strategies for engaging diverse individuals, systems and communities to address interpersonal violence will be examined at individual to societal levels. Cross-listed with CRJU 7940, PUAD 5940 and 7940. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 6600 - Special Topics in Criminal Justice
This highly specialized seminar addresses cutting-edge and emerging developments in the field of criminal justice and provides students and faculty with the opportunity to explore significant themes, issues, and problems from a broad interdisciplinary perspective. Topics vary from semester to semester. Course may be taken for credit more than once, provided subject matter is not repeated. Cross-listed with CRJU 7600. Max hours: 7 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 6840 - Independent Study: CRJU
Affords the student the opportunity to pursue creative research activities under the individual supervision of a full-time faculty member. No more than six semester hours of credit for independent study may be applied toward the MCJ degree. MCJ Prereq: 12 semester hours of criminal justice course work and permission of instructor. Max hours: 9 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3
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CRJU 6910 - Field Study in Criminal Justice
For students who have not had practitioner experience, a full- or part-time internship is required. Prereq: 18 hours of criminal justice course work and permission of instructor and/or advisor. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 6950 - Master’s Thesis
Independent original research project supervised and evaluated by a thesis committee. Prereq: 33 semester hours of course work and permission of MCJ director, program advisor and thesis chair. Max hours: 6 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 6
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CRJU 7200 - Wrongful Convictions
This seminar examines the dark figure of the criminal justice system; wrongful convictions of innocent people. This course explores the continuum of justice-system errors ranging from persons who are falsely accused (arrested, prosecuted, and tried) to those who are wrongly convicted and imprisoned, to death row inmates who are erroneously executed. Cross-listed with CRJU 5200. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7210 - Prisoner Reentry
This seminar examines the harsh realities of prisoner reentry and offers solutions to prepare inmates for release, reduce recidivism, and restore them to adjustment once back in the community, while simultaneously meeting the demands of public safety. Cross-listed with CRJU 5210. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7220 - The American Jury System
The aim of this seminar is to raise most of the issues that have to be considered by anyone who wants to understand the American jury. This course attempts to determine what kind of complex matrix of legal functions, social symbols, practical reforms, political philosophy and human psychology the jury can be located. Cross-listed with CRJU 5220. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7250 - Criminal Offenders
Crime can have a devastating effect on the lives of victims, families and communities with extraordinary costs to society as a whole. Documented evidence suggests that community safety is best achieved though promoting rehabilitation of offenders rather than relying solely on prisons and containment. This course introduces the core principles and tools of motivational interviewing as it is used currently with the offender population. Students learn how to utilize these skills working with specific offender populations and how to motivate these often resistive clients to change their thinking patterns and behaviors. Cross-listed with CRJU 5250. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7260 - Crime and Literature
This seminar focuses on non-fiction literature as it relates to criminality and the Criminal Justice System. A substantial number of people in the United States form impressions and evaluate the effectiveness of the Criminal Justice System based on accounts presented within various types of nonfiction literature, either as social commentary or in biographical/autobiographical form. This course explores samples of these types of commentary, in order to more fully understand and appreciate their impact on shaping public opinion of the Criminal Justice System. Cross-listed with CRJU 5260. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7270 - Case Studies in Criminal Justice
This seminar attempts to examine the lives of people who live on the margins of a society that perceives them as outsiders. Ethnographic studies which utilized observation, participant observations and interviews as their primary research methodology are assigned in order to develop a critical understanding of the social marginalization and cultural aspects of the lives of real human beings living on the constant edge of the law. Cross-listed with CRJU 5270. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7280 - Leadership in the Modern Criminal Justice System
The course is designed to enhance interest, experience and knowledge in leadership that promotes professionalism and ethical behavior. Individual and organizational dynamics are explored through a critical perspective, focusing on criminal justice roles and responsibilities. The class teaches effective leadership skills in areas such as team building, strategic planning, and decision making. Cross-listed with CRJU 5280. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7301 - Crime and Media
This course surveys the relationship between mass media and the U.S. criminal justice system. Special attention is given to the role of media in the social construction of reality. Emphasis is placed on the application of social constructionism to criminal justice related social problems. Cross-listed with CRJU 5301. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7320 - Seminar: Police Administration
Considers the major issues confronting police executives, such as professionalism, recruitment, selection, training, deployment, innovation, evaluation, and charges of brutality, in efficiency and corruption. Cross-listed with CRJU 5320. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7325 - Qualitative Methods for Criminal Justice
Focuses on qualitative methods applicable to research in the field of criminal justice. The primary focus is on ethnographic approaches employing such fieldwork techniques as observation, participant observation, interviews, content analysis, life histories and case studies. Cross-listed with CRJU 5325. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7330 - Gangs and Criminal Organizations
This course examines extent, nature and trends of gangs and criminal organizations. We focus on contemporary studies and theories of gang behavior and organized crime. The course examines types of crime, gender and race issues, transnational violence, and public policies regarding criminal organizations. Cross-listed with CRJU 5330. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7391 - Sex Offenders and Offenses
This course will focus on challenges practitioners face in the management of sex offenders. It covers development of programs and partnerships that can effectively assess inform, manage and treat sex offenders through all phases of the system and reduce recidivism. Cross-listed with CRJU 5391. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7410 - Victimology
This course examines victim-offender relationships, the interactions between victims and the criminal justice system and the connections between victims and other social groups and institutions among various populations. This course addresses the theory, history, research, legislation and policy implications related to the social construction of “the victim.” Cross-listed with CRJU 5410. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7420 - Violence in Society
This course examines various aspects of violence including distribution over time and space, situations and circumstances associated with violent victimization and offending, and how social institutions, community structure and cultural factors shape violent events. Cross-listed with CRJU 5420. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7430 - Drugs, Alcohol and Crime
This course provides an interdisciplinary overview of theory, research and policy issues surrounding the relationship between drugs, alcohol and crime; and the criminal justice system response. The course explores the socially constructed nature of illegal substances and connections to U.S. drug policy. Cross-listed with CRJU 5430. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7510 - Seminar: Contemporary Issues in Law Enforcement
Examines current thinking and experience with respect to changing and reforming police programs and practices. The course focuses primarily on the American police experience, reviewing major innovations, exploring their rationale, and examining organizational impediments to their implementation. Cross-listed with CRJU 5510. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7520 - Seminar: Corrections
Provides a critical examination of the development and implementation of correctional systems in America. The course presents the origins of correctional efforts and the evolution of the prison; reviews punishment and rehabilitation rationales in the context of sentencing models; examines the social organization of the prison, including inmate subcultures and staff work strategies; and assesses the inmates’ rights movement and the impact of judicial intervention in correctional settings. Cross-listed with CRJU 5520. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7530 - Seminar: Community Corrections
Analyzes the theories and practices of probation and parole, responses of paroling authorities to public pressures and court controls, and their implications for rehabilitation. Efforts to bridge institutional settings and community life, as well as the feasibility and effectiveness of treating individuals under sentence in the community, are reviewed. Cross-listed with CRJU 5530. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7540 - Seminar: Juvenile Justice Administration
Examines the policies and practices of agencies in processing youthful offenders through the juvenile court system, reviews trends in juvenile justice policy making, and assesses changes in response to juvenile crime by both the juvenile justice and criminal justice systems. Cross-listed with CRJU 5540. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7550 - Seminar: Criminal Justice Policy Analysis
Provides a survey of conceptual and design strategies in criminal justice policy analysis. The logic and rationale of these various strategies are contrasted, and their relative merits are critiqued. Selected policy issues in the criminal justice system are utilized to illustrate the application and interpretation of alternative strategies. Cross-listed with CRJU 5550. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7551 - Courts, Law & Justice
Analyzes judicial organization, court administration, and criminal court judicial decision making practices within the context of the broader operation of the criminal justice system. Special attention is paid to the social organization of the courtroom, examining the special roles of judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys. Cross-listed with CRJU 5551. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7552 - Seminar: Criminal Justice Ethics
Offers a normative framework within which to explore ways to increase sensitivity to the demands of ethical behavior among criminal justice personnel. The application of a normative perspective enhances the possibility that moral problems are better understood, more carefully analyzed, and rendered more tractable. Applied ethics forces a reflection not just on ethics, but also on the nature and operation of the criminal justice system itself. Cross-listed with CRJU 5552. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7553 - Seminar: Women and Criminal Justice
Explores issues surrounding women as offenders, victims, and criminal justice professionals. Investigates explanations for the involvement of women in illegal activities. Analyzes the plight of battered women, rape victims, and other female victims. Examines the participation of women in law enforcement, judicial processes, corrections and lawmaking. Cross-listed with CRJU 5553. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7571 - Advanced Seminar: The Social Organization of Crime
Explores the relationship of neighborhood social disorganization to the dynamics of crime from a social ecology perspective. The course examines the underlying social causes of phenomena such as criminal victimization, violent and property crime, neighborhood fear, neighborhood deterioration and recidivism. The course examines social, structural, and ecological characteristics of neighborhoods and communities in affecting crime. Cross-listed with CRJU 5571. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7572 - Advanced Seminar: Race, Crime and Justice
Examines the role of race in criminal justice processing. This course examines the research findings, interpretations, issues, and implications in assessing the impact of race in the administration of criminal justice. Explores the policy implications concerning the nature and extent of racial disparities in the criminal justice system and lays out a research agenda to more strategically address these issues within criminal justice policy making. Cross-listed with CRJU 5572. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7574 - Advanced Seminar: White Collar Crime
Employs both the social science and legal approaches to examine crime committed by corporations as well as by individuals in white collar occupations. The course covers how such crimes are socially defined, who commits them, who is victimized by them, which social contexts promote them, and how society and the criminal justice system respond to them. Cross-listed with CRJU 5574. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7575 - Advanced Seminar: The Mentally Disordered Offender
Examines the offender who may be mentally disordered. A survey is made of the various phases of the criminal justice system where psychiatrists are involved, e.g., diversion, fitness, insanity and sentencing. Dangerous sex offender legislation, “not guilty by reason of insanity” and “guilty but mentally ill” statutes, and issues concerning confidentiality, informed consent, and treatment are addressed. Cross-listed with CRJU 5575. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7576 - Advanced Seminar: Social Science in the Criminal Justice System
Examines the use of social science as a tool for legal analysis within the criminal justice system. The course examines how social science research is used to resolve relatively simple factual disputes, then moves on to more complex issues that arise when social science is invoked to make or to change law, both constitutional law (particularly the First, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments) and common law, particularly the construction of procedural rules that govern the operations of the criminal justice system. Cross-listed with CRJU 5576. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7600 - Special Topics in Criminal Justice
This highly specialized seminar addresses cutting-edge and emerging developments in the field of criminal justice and provides students and faculty with the opportunity to explore significant themes, issues, and problems from a broad interdisciplinary perspective. Topics vary from semester to semester. Course may be taken for credit more than once, provided subject matter is not repeated. Cross-listed with CRJU 6600. Max hours: 7 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7910 - Women and Violence: a Sociological Perspective
This course is a sociological, feminist analysis of violence against women and girls that addresses the intersection of sexism and other forms of oppression such as racism, classism and heterosexism within historical, cultural, social and institutional contexts. Topics covered focus on overt and covert forms of sexual coercion, harassment and assault, battering and stalking. Cross-listed with CRJU 5910, PUAD 5910 and 7910. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7920 - Psychology of Violence Against Women
This class addresses the contributions and the limitations of current empirical and clinical psychological literatures about domestic violence. Topics covered include: distinguishing among mental health professionals regarding work with DV clients; the psychological impacts of domestic violence; services useful for responding to the needs of women and children; and an introduction to the psychology and treatment of batterers. Cross-listed with CRJU 5920, PUAD 5920 and 7920. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7930 - Battered Women and the Legal System
This course provides a practical understanding of how the following relate to battered women and their children; a) major developments in federal, state, tribal, administrative, statutory and case law; b) the role and responses of the law enforcement, judges, attorneys, victim assistance providers and other legal system agents; and c) the role and process of victim advocacy. Cross-listed with CRJU 5930, PUAD 5930 and 7930. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 7940 - Domestic Violence Social Change and Advocacy
Info on theories & strategies behind contemp social change movements & skills necessary to organize & implement actions to influence public awareness & policy. Values of US society are complex & require advocates/activists to develop a heightened sense of self, community, & ethical framework while confronting sexism, racism & oppressions. Cross-listed with CRJU 5940, PUAD 5940 and 7940. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CRJU 8840 - Independent Study
Affords the student the opportunity to pursue creative research activities under the individual supervision of a full-time faculty member. No more than six semester hours of credit for independent study may be applied toward the PhD degree. Prereq: 12 semester hours of criminal justice course work and permission of instructor. Max hours: 6 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3
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CRJU 8990 - Doctoral Dissertation
Upon admittance to candidacy, students must be continuously registered for dissertation credit each fall and spring semester or be automatically dropped from the program. Students must register for 7.0 credit hours per semester. In cases where students will not be using any university resources during a particular semester, they may petition the PhD director to register for only 3.0 credit hours to maintain continuous enrollment. Students must be registered for dissertation credit during the semester they have a colloquium or defense. Max hours: 10 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 10
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CSCI 1001 - Computer Forensics I
Topics covered: how to conduct a computer forensic exam; how an individual can hide data on a computer; how the investigator can find that hidden data.This course will also incorporate hands-on learning through the use of a forensic software package. (Non-CS majors) Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 1350 - Introduction to Computing in Society
This is an introductory course for individuals who would like to learn about the field of computer science, how modern computing is affecting society, and the basics of computer programming. We will explore how computing has changed society, how intertwined in our daily lives computer programs have become, and how these programs are created. We will explore these topics while learning the basics of computer programming with the Java programming language. Prereq: High School Algebra. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 1410 - Fundamentals of Computing
First course in computing for those who will take additional computer science courses. Covers the capabilities of a computer, the elements of the computer language C++, and basic techniques for solving problems using a computer. Coreq: CSCI 1411. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 1411 - Fundamentals of Computing Laboratory
This laboratory is taken with CSCI 1410 and will provide students with additional help with problem solving and computer exercises to compliment the course material covered in CSCI 1410. Prereq: Freshman status. Coreq: CSCI 1410. Max hours: 1 Credit. Semester Hours: 1 to 1
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CSCI 1510 - Logic Design
The design and analysis of combinational and sequential logic circuits. Topics include binary and hexadecimal number systems, Boolean algebra and Boolean function minimization, and algorithmic state machines. Lecture/lab includes experiments with computer-aided design tools. This course requires the level of mathematical maturity of students ready for Calculus I. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 1800 - Special Topics
Max hours: 9 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3
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CSCI 2002 - Computer Forensics II
This is a continuation of CSCI 1001 This course will cover: computer forensics for advanced operating systems (Mac, Linux, and Unix) and mobile device forensics. This course will incorporate hands-on-learning by utilizing a computer forensics software package. (Non CS majors) Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 2132 - Circuits and Electronics
This course is designed to serve as the basic course in CSE curriculum for second year bachelor students. It introduces the fundamentals of the analog and digit circuit abstraction and applications. Topics include: resistive elements, networks, sources, switches, MOS transistors, digital abstraction, amplifiers, energy storage elements. A web-based laboratory will allow students to have hands-on experiments. Prereq: MATH 2411, PHYS 2331, and CSCI 1510. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 2312 - Intermediate Programming
Programming topics in the C++ language. The emphasis is on problem solving using object oriented and Generic Programming. Topics include advanced I/O, classes, inheritance, polymorphism and virtual functions, abstract base classes, exception handling, templates, and the Standard Template Library. Prereq: ENGL 1020, CSCI 1410 and CSCI 1411 with a grade of C- or higher. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 2421 - Data Structures and Program Design
Topics include a first look at an algorithm, data structures, abstract data types, and basic techniques such as sorting, searching, and recursion. Programming exercises are assigned through the semester. Prereq: CSCI 1410 and 1411. Coreq: CSCI 2312. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 2511 - Discrete Structures
Covers the fundamentals of discrete mathematics, including: logic, sets, functions, asymptotics, mathematical reasoning, induction, combinatorics, discrete probability, relations and graphs. Emphasis on how discrete mathematics applies to computer science in general and algorithm analysis in particular. Prereq: MATH 1401. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 2525 - Assembly Language and Computer Organization
Topics include computer architecture, program execution at the hardware level, programming in assembly language, the assembly process, hardware support of some high-level language features, and a program’s interface to the operating system. Programming exercises are assigned in this course. These exercises involve the use of specific hardware in designated laboratories. Prereq: CSCI 1410 and 1510. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 2571 - Fundamentals of UNIX
Introduces the UNIX operating system and its family of related utility programs. History and overview, versions, and common features. File operations, utilities, shells, editors, filters and data manipulation. Shell programming communications and networking, windowing environments, mail and Internet. Programming tools. Simple system administration. Credit will not count toward BSCSE degree. Prereq: Familiarity with operating systems and/or a programming course. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 2800 - Special Topics
Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 2930 - Practical System Administration
Introduces students to essential system administration topics including, but not limited to, IT design and configuration methodologies, desktop support, building and configuring production level servers, network technologies and troubleshooting, security, virtualization, storage, and server operating systems. Prereq: CSCI 1410 or an equivalent introductory computer programming course. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 3287 - Database System Concepts
Introduces database design, database management systems, and the SQL standard database language. Includes data modeling techniques, conceptual database design, theory of object-relational and relational databases, relational algebra, relational calculus, normalization and database integrity. Prereq: CSCI 2421. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 3320 - Advanced Programming
The course will cover a wide range of advanced programming topics via focusing on development of cross-platform applications.The focus will be on problem solving and developing applications with modern languages (such as C++, Java, Objective-C) & frameworks, including Xcode, Angularjs (with Javascript, HTML5, CSS), Phonegap, & Webstorm. Prereq: CSCI 2421. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 3412 - Algorithms
Design and analysis of algorithms. Asymptotic analysis as a means of evaluating algorithm efficiency. The application of induction and other mathematical techniques for proving the correctness of an algorithm. Data structures for simplifying algorithm design, such as hash tables, heaps and search trees. Elementary graph algorithms. Assignments include written work and programming projects. Prereq: CSCI 2421 and CSCI 2511. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 3415 - Principles of Programming Languages
Introduces programming language design concepts and implementation issues. Includes language concepts such as control structures and data types, formal language specification techniques, and syntactic and semantic implementation issues. Prereq: CSCI 2421 and 2525. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 3453 - Operating System Concepts
Covers the principles of computer operating systems and the essential components of an operating system. Topics include: I/O devices, file systems, CPU scheduling and memory management. Prereq: CSCI 3412 (Algorithm). Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 3508 - Introduction to Software Engineering
Introduces principles and practices of software engineering: software life-cycle models, requirements engineering, analysis and design tools, human factors risk management, program certification, project management and intellectual property rights. Prereq: CSCI 3412. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 3511 - Hardware-Software Interface
Hardware and software techniques needed to control and program device interfaces. Input and output devices, computer peripherals, device drivers and interfaces are introduced. Specific programmable devices are used in class projects. Prereq: CSCI 2525. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 3560 - Probability and Computing
Events and probability. Discrete random variables and expectation. Moments and deviations. Chernoff bounds. The probabilistic method. Markov chains and random walks. Continuous distributions and the Poisson process. Entropy, randomness and information. Randomized algorithms. Statistical inference. Prereq: MATH 2411 and CSCI 2511. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 3800 - Special Topics
Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 3840 - Independent Study: CSCI
Max hours: 9 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3
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CSCI 3920 - Java Applications
This course introduces students to core Java, with a focus on design and implementation of GUI’s using JFrames and event driven programming. Topics include Java Collections Framework, java.io package, and topdown design of solutions to engineering applications. Prereq: CSCI 3320. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 3963 - Network Structures
This interdisciplinary course examines how the technological, social and economic worlds are connected and how the study of networks sheds light on these connections. Topics include: how opinions spread through society; the robustness and fragility of financial networks; the technology and economics of Web information and on-line communities. Prereq: MATH 2411. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 4034 - Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science
Introduces abstract models for computation, formal languages and machines. Topics include: automata theory, formal languages, grammars and Turing machines. Prereq: CSCI 3412. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 4172 - Complexity and Problem Solving
Theoretical and practical aspects of solving complex problems, in particular, but not limited to, NP-complete and PSPACE-complete problems. Various heuristic and approximation algorithms, including greedy, ant, and Genetic Algorithms will be studied. This course is by instructor’s permission only. Prereq: CSCI 4034 or 5446. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 4202 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Topics include heuristic search, games playing algorithms, application of predicate calculus to AI, introduction to planning, application of formal grammars to AI. Prereq: CSCI 3412. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 4287 - Embedded Systems Programming
Embedded Systems Programming happens across a spectrum of Domains. Embedded Systems Programming in the Small is characterized by the creation of small applications in high volumes. Embedded Systems Programming in the Large is characterized by the creation of medium to large applications in one-off or low volumes using specialized Operating Systems such as Real-time Operating Systems. Students will current languages, and are expected to have basic Operating Systems understanding. Prereq: CSCI 3453 Operating Systems Concepts. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 4408 - Applied Graph Theory
Introduces discrete structures applications of graph theory to computer science, engineering and operations research. Topics include connectivity, coloring, trees, Euler and Hamiltonian paths and circuits. Matching and covering problems, shortest route and network flows. Prereq: MATH 3000 or CSCI 2511. Cross-listed with MATH 4408. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 4411 - Computational Geometry
Many practical and aesthetic algorithmic problems have their roots in geometry. Applications abound in the areas of computer graphics, robotics, computer-aided design, and geographic information systems, for example. A selection of topics from convex hull, art gallery problems, ray tracing, point location, motion planning, segment intersection, Voronoi diagrams, visibility and algorithmic folding will be covered. Prereq: CSCI 3412. Cross-listed with CSCI 5411. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 4501 - Java
Comprehensive course on Java programming. Coverage of programming language constructs of Java and the core libraries that come with Java: coverage of advanced topics, including technologies for building distributed applications, and interacting with a database. Prereq: CSCI 2421. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 4555 - Compiler Design
Introduces the basic techniques used in translating programming languages: scanning, parsing, symbol table management, code generation, code optimization and error recovery. Prereq: CSCI 3412 and 3415. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 4565 - Introduction to Computer Graphics
Introduces two and three dimensional computer graphics. Topics include scan conversion, geometric primitives, transformation, viewing, basic rendering, and illumination. Emphasis is on programming using “C” and “C++” Open GL. Prereq: CSCI 3412 and MATH 3191 or 3195. Cross-listed with CSCI 5565. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 4591 - Computer Architecture
Deals with how assembly language maps to hardware, and basic hardware techniques implemented in computers. Topics include logic design of arithmetic units, data control path processor logic, pipelining, memory systems, and input-output units. The emphasis is on logic structure rather than electronic circuitry. Students must know basic control logic design and be familiar with an assembly language before taking this course. Prereq: CSCI 2525. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 4630 - Linguistic Geometry
Linguistic Geometry (LG) is a type of Game Theory in Artificial Intelligence, which permits to overcome combinatorial explosion and generate optimal strategies in real time. LG is currently changing the paradigm of military command and control in the USA and abroad. Prereq: CSCI 3412 or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with CSCI 5619. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 4640 - Universal Compiler: Theory and Construction
Theoretical foundations and step-by-step hands-on experience in the development of a compiler, which can tune itself to a new programming language. This is a must-take course for future software developers as well as those interested in applications of the theory of Computer Science. Cross-listed with CSCI 5640. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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CSCI 4650 - Numerical Analysis I
Methods and analysis of techniques used to resolve continuous mathematical problems on the computer. Solution of linear and nonlinear equations, interpolation and integration. Prereq: MATH 2411, MATH 3191 or MATH 3195, and programming experience. Cross-listed with CSCI 5660, MATH 4650, and MATH 5660. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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