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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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This section of the Catalog includes course descriptions, listed alphabetically by discipline. The descriptions provide information on course numbers, titles, the level of instruction, credit, course sequence, content, and prerequisites as shown in the following example:
CHE 2100 Introduction to Organic and Biological Chemistry
Credits: 5
Prerequisite: CHE 1100
Description: A study of the elements of organic and biological chemistry. This course satisfies requirements for nursing programs and other fields requiring a survey of organic and biological chemistry.
The first two to four letters, called the course subject code, represent the area of study or discipline, e.g., CHE represents chemistry. The course number follows the course subject code, e.g., 2100. The first digit in a four-digit course number designates the level of instruction. Only courses numbered 1000 or above will be included in credits toward a degree. Courses with numbers up to and including 1999 are primarily for freshmen, 2000 through 2999 primarily for sophomores, 3000 through 3999 primarily for juniors, and 4000 through 4999 primarily for seniors. In general, students should not take courses above the level of their class (based upon semester hours earned), but they may do so at one level above if they have the specified prerequisites. In special cases, students may be permitted to take courses more than one level above that designated for their class if they obtain the permission of their advisor and of the faculty member teaching the course and if they meet the prerequisite requirements. Course descriptions provide a summary of the content of the course. If a prerequisite must be met before a student can register for a course, this information is listed above the course description. Attributes, such as Multicultural, General Studies, or Guaranteed Transfer, are listed after the course description. A list of courses being offered in a given semester, instructors, class meeting times, and locations is described in the Class Schedule.
Types of Courses
- Regular courses appear in this section of the University Catalog and are offered on a regular basis.
- Independent study courses provide students the opportunity to pursue in-depth study of a topic of special interest. Independent study courses are specified as 498_ and include an alpha character in the course number. Independent study courses are published in the Class Schedule.
- Special topics or omnibus courses are temporary courses that are not listed in the Catalog. They may be used to pilot-test a course, present a special topic, or provide a unique, experiential-learning opportunity. Omnibus courses use a specified range of course numbers: 190_, 290_, 390_, 490_ and include an alpha character in the course number. Omnibus courses are published in the Class Schedule.
- Variable topics courses allow courses of varying titles under an overall theme or “umbrella” course. Variable topic courses include an alpha character in the course number and are published in the Class Schedule.
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CDES 4001 - Zeromile and ‘Zines II
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CDES 4000 with “C-” or better; or permission of department. Student must supply a suitable laptop computer.
Description: This course builds upon the skills and knowledge acquired in CDES 4000 Zeromile and ‘Zines I. Zeromile is a self-funded, bi-annual, print and Internet magazine published collectively by students and faculty in the Communication Design program. Students are responsible for working in teams to lead the design and production of Zeromile, while offering mentorship to students in CDES 4000. Additional experiences include producing a numbered edition of self-published ‘zines or books. Emphasis is on developing a personalized vision for editorial content as delivered through a unique publication format derived by the student’s own design exploration.
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CDES 4051 - Sight Sound Syntax
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CDES 3215 with a C- or better, or permission of department
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): CDES 3222 with a C- or better, or permission of department
Description: Students in this course explore how communication design is enriched via the employment of sensory experiences. Through the multidimensional relationships among typography, photographic sequencing, and originally generated sound, students are introduced to shared elements of auditory and visual composition: theme, rhythm, harmony (including consonance and dissonance), texture, dynamics, color, and form. Exploration focuses on interpretive visualizations that include experimental interactive studies referred to as sonigraphics. Studies in abstract typography, grid systems, photographic sequencing, and sound experiments challenge students to arrive at associative and interactive solutions. Students work individually and in teams to synthesize and exhibit their understanding of the conceptual and structural relationships between visual and sonic media. They demonstrate the capacity to design engaging and compelling solutions as applied to real-world scenarios.
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CDES 4101 - Community-Based Design II
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CDES 4100 with “C-” or better; or permission of department. Student must supply a suitable laptop computer.
Description: This course builds upon the skills and knowledge acquired in CDES 4100 Community-Based Design I. Focusing on design interventions that address underserved or marginalized audiences, this course brings real-world design problems into the classroom studio. Students work in teams as problem-seekers, identifying design deficiencies that can be the motivation for semester-long research, development, and actual implementation. Students demonstrate an evolving sophistication in solving triple bottom line issues through social, environmental and economic filters. Students are required to work in a highly inclusive manner with project participants, peers and members of the community, demonstrating sensitivity to a range of human-centered design issues. This is an integrated media course. (Service Learning)
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CDES 4151 - Design in Public Space
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CDES 3215 with a C- or better or permission of department
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): CDES 3222 with a C- or better or permission of department
Description: Students in this course develop critical and technical skills as they relate to contemporary design as practiced for both advertising and community based design in public space. Exploration of Communication Design for the public space focuses on developing skills that communicate to diverse urban communities and are relevant to contemporary design culture. Students foster a visual language that reflects the philosophical, conceptual, and technical demands of design for the public space through site-specific research, problem identification, ideation, and prototyping.
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CDES 4152 - Citizen Designers: Social Poster Design
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CDES 3215 with C- or better; or permission of department
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): CDES 3222
Description: Students in this course explore themes of social advocacy with emphasis placed upon research, process and production techniques through poster design. Social causes are addressed through large-scale print media as a platform for communication, applied to real-world scenarios. As a medium for social change, posters are persuasive, conceptual, educational and informational as platforms for advocacy through the public dissemination of ideas. Students demonstrate the designer’s role in social and political frameworks, integrating how to respond to cause-based contexts in relation to design and communication.
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CDES 4200 - User Interface Design I
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ARTH 2080 and CDES 3400, plus either CDES 2300 or ART 3393 or ART 3591 or ART 3631 or ART 4591 with “C-” or better in each; or permission of department. Student must supply a suitable laptop computer.
Description: This course explores the theory and practice of designing for multiple devices. It provides students with the knowledge of how to create and implement consistent design applications that function across multiple devices and scenarios. Students are encouraged to design interfaces that respond to changes in the current environment. Emphasis is on the exploration of trends in technology that are bridging disciplines and offering new opportunities to designers. This is an integrated media course.
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CDES 4201 - User Interface Design II
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CDES 4200 with “C-” or better or permission of department. Student must supply a suitable laptop computer.
Description: This course builds upon the skills and knowledge acquired in CDES 4200 User Interface Design I. Students continue to explore the theory and practice of designing for multiple devices and specific user interfaces with the introduction of advanced interface design variables. This course provides students with expanded knowledge of how to create design applications that function across multiple devices and scenarios. Students are encouraged to design interfaces that dynamically respond to changes in the current environment. Emphasis is on the exploration of trends in technology that are bridging disciplines and offering new opportunities to designers. This is an integrated media course.
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CDES 4202 - Interactive Design II
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CDES 3602 with “C-” or better or permission of department.
Description: Students in this course build upon the skills and knowledge acquired in CDES 3602 - Interactive Design I . Students continue to explore the theory and practice of designing for multiple devices as well as advanced user interface design and web development variables. This course provides students with expanded comprehension of how to create design applications that function across multiple devices by responding to changes in various environments and scenarios. Students demonstrate their ability to apply these skills to real-world scenarios based on industry expectations and procedures. Emphasis is on the advanced exploration of trends in technology that are bridging disciplines and offering new opportunities to designers. This is an integrated media course.
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CDES 4251 - Designing the Human Experience
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CDES 2222 and ART 1505 or ART 3301 or ARTH 2600 or ARTH 3690 or ARTH 4480 or CDES 3602 or CDES 3625 or IND 3000 with C- or better in each
Description: Students in this course learn that good design can serve to enrich the human experience. Students explore a spectrum of life experiences and/or personal events, which may include habit, memory, disaster, and imagination, as inspiration to create and implement positive design solutions. Students produce a series of intensive, multi layered projects with emphasis on tracking, recording, and journaling the human experience. Students build upon their knowledge of design discourse in the discipline through a mix of readings, writings, and development of rich, meaningful design projects. Design projects are presented in a variety of media. This is an integrated media course.
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CDES 4252 - Mobile Prototyping
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ARTH 2080, CDES 2602 and CDES 2302 with “C-” or better in each; or permission of department
Description: Students in this course create mobile applications via user experience, user interface design, and interactive prototyping. Exploration and emphasis is placed upon usability, accessibility as well as user-centered design methodologies and processes in this growing digital medium. Students utilize design thinking to better respond to diverse audiences, implement mobile strategy and content in order to create a working design system for mobile applications, inclusive of prototyping and testing. Human-centered design, dependent on the psychology and intersection of usability within digital mediums, is discussed, evaluated and applied to interactive prototyping in response to technology’s continual diversification of end-user products. This is an integrated media course.
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CDES 4300 - Variable Topics in Communication Design
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CDES 2222 and CDES 2225 with a “C-” or better, or permission of department
Corequisite(s): CDES 2226
Description: This course provides a thematic forum in communication design for advanced-level students to develop critical and technical skills as they relate to contemporary design practices. Exploration within the theme focuses on developing skills that communicate to diversified communities and are relevant to contemporary design culture. Students foster a visual language that reflects thematic course content. Projects may be produced in a variety of design applications based on course content. Variable topics: may be repeated for up to 9 credits under different topics.
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CDES 4400 - Thesis Preparation
Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): CDES 2226 and CDES 3215 with C- or better in each; or permission of department
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): CDES 3222 and ARTH 3690 with C- or better in each; or permission of department
Description: Students in this course develop a thesis topic supported by a research question, which becomes the basis for a thesis project exhibition the following semester in CDES 4721 . Students research and propose a topic for investigation: they craft a research question, refine an abstract, and create visual studies of a project concept in an exhibition context. This course is restricted to Communication Design majors.
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CDES 4450 - Professional Practices in Communication Design
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CDES 3215 and CDES 2302 with “C-” or better in each.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): CDES 3222 and CDES 3225 with “C-” or better in each.
Description: Students in this course are provided an overview of professional practices in communication design. Professional practices range from resume writing and job application material development to best practices in conducting contract and freelance work and pitching concepts in front of clients. Topics include strategies for personal communications packages, networking, applying for jobs, interviewing skills, and ethical practices in the work place as a design employee or proprietor in a wide variety of workplace settings. Entrepreneurial initiatives are covered from starting a business to negotiating contract and/or freelance work and bidding on jobs. This course is restricted to communication design majors.
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CDES 4600 - Communication Design Portfolio Development
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing; completion of Written Communication, Oral Communication, and Quantitative Literacy General Studies requirements; ARTH 2080, CDES 3225, CDES 3623, CDES 3625, and CDES 4450 with “C-” or better in each; or permission of department.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): ARTH 3690 and CDES 3001 or CDES 3101 or CDES 3602 or CDES 4051 or CDES 4151 or 4152 or CDES 4202 or CDES 4251 or CDES 4252 or CDES 4300
Description: Students refine an existing body of work for to generate final portfolio solutions. Students explore the critical nature of their work by clarifying project results, and as necessary, redeveloping outcomes, for presentation in both web and print-based portfolios. Writing and critical inquiry skills supporting portfolio development are emphasized. The portfolio work generated in this course will be used in the course CDES 4721 - Communication Design Senior Experience: Exhibition and Thesis .
University Requirement(s): Senior Experience
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CDES 4650 - Studio M
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CDES 3225 and CDES 4450 with “C-” or better and permission of department
Description: This course operates as a functioning design studio where communication design students work collaboratively with course faculty and peers and a range of university and/or community sponsors. Sponsored projects are taken from initiation and planning through to final production and implementation based on the requirements of the design brief. This unique mentored opportunity requires students to apply for a limited number of available design positions in Studio M. Studio M requires a minimum of 150 contact hours for three semester hours. The course fulfills the senior level internship requirement in the Communication Design major. (Service Learning)
Note: This course may be repeated once for up to 6 credits total.
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CDES 4721 - Communication Design Senior Experience: Exhibition and Thesis
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Satisfaction of Written Communication, Oral Communication, and Quantitative Literacy course requirements; ARTH 3690 and ARTH 4480 and CDES 4400 with “C-” or better in each; senior standing; or permission of department.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): CDES 4600, and CDES 4625 or CDES 4650, and CDES 4450 with C- or better in each
Description: Students in this BFA in Communication Design capstone course create a thesis project, research and write a thesis paper, participate in a public exhibition, and defend their work in a formal, final review setting. Students synthesize learning from previous coursework and articulate meaning in their thesis investigations relative to art and design theories, movements, and conceptual and philosophical frameworks. Students work in teams to conceptualize, organize, and present an exhibition consisting of the work of participating art and design students. A blend of team and individual activities punctuate the semester experience culminating in the public thesis exhibition.
University Requirement(s): Senior Experience
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CDES 4801 - Communication Design Studio Assistantship
Credits: 1-4
Prerequisite(s): Permission of department
Description: This studio course allows the advanced student to put into use the studio skills learned in previous courses to assist faculty and other students. Students learn to assist in laboratories, maintain tools and equipment, mix chemicals (if appropriate) and handle and stock supplies in an appropriate manner. They demonstrate techniques and assist other students with technical and creative questions.
Note: Variable credit; course may be repeated once for a maximum of 6 semester hours of credit with different duties.
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CDES 4802 - Letterpress Assistantship
Credits: 1-4
Prerequisite(s): Permission of department
Description: This studio course allows the advanced student to put into use letterpress printing operation and skills learned in previous courses and through specialized training workshops to assist faculty and other students. Students learn to assist in laboratories, maintain letterpress tools and equipment, and handle inks and stock supplies in an appropriate manner. They demonstrate techniques and assist other students with technical and creative questions.
Note: Variable credit; course may be repeated once for a maximum of 6 semester hours of credit.
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CDES 4842 - Directed Studies in Communication Design
Credits: 1-4
Prerequisite(s): CDES 3625 with “C-” or better and permission of department; student must provide a suitable laptop computer.
Description: This course provides advanced, independent studio work in communication design with emphasis on the production of finished work in preparation for either senior portfolio or thesis exhibition. The student integrates techniques and skills learned in previous courses to develop an individual voice and create a coherent body of work.
Note: Variable credit; this course may be repeated once for a maximum of 6 semester hours total credit.
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CDES 4848 - Directed Studies in Letterpress
Credits: 1-3
Prerequisite(s): CDES 2225 or Art 2683 with “C-” or better and permission of department
Description: Students in this course create advanced, independent studio work in communication design with emphasis on the production of finished work in letterpress printing through an emulation of the traditional Letterpress apprenticeship model in which knowledge is continually passed on to those with less experience. Skills learned in previous courses and through specialized training workshops are used to produce advanced studio work. Students become familiar with type and presses through ongoing maintenance training and activities. Students learn to assist in laboratories, maintain letterpress tools and equipment, handle inks and supplies in an appropriate manner. They demonstrate techniques and assist other students with technical and creative questions.
Note: Variable credit; course may be repeated once for a maximum of six hours of credit.
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CAS 1010 - Public Speaking
Credits: 3
Description: This course integrates both the theory and practical skills of topic research, composition, delivery, and criticism of public speaking. Skill development includes effective public presentation strategies and audience analysis. Students develop critical listening skills by evaluating their own public-speaking style, as well as the effectiveness of their peers and professional speakers. This course builds public-speaking confidence, and introduces the student to the power of public rhetoric in social and professional contexts. May be taught as hybrid.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: CAS or HON.
General Studies: Oral Communication
Cross Listed Course(s): HON 1013
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CAS 1020 - Communication in Action
Credits: 3
Description: Communication in Action provides a unique opportunity for first-year students to examine and demonstrate the significance of effective oral communication. The power of words and self-expression in effecting social change is a guiding theme of the course. Drawing on scholarship, relevant research, and practical experience through service learning, students articulate the significance of communication in fulfilling responsibilities to the community.
General Studies: Oral Communication
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CAS 1301 - The Communication Perspective
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): ENG 1010 or CAS 1010 or permission of instructor
Description: This course introduces students to the assumptions, topics, and approaches that contribute to communication as an academic discipline. Research and theory about messages, meaning, media, relationships, and their connections to social issues are addressed. This course provides students with insight into communication as it works in interpersonal, group, organizational, rhetorical and media contexts.
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CAS 1710 - Interpersonal Communication
Credits: 3
Description: This is an introductory course in the art and process of communicating with people in a variety of environments. This class provides students with the insight and tools of interpersonal communication theory and the opportunity to develop basic communication skills in listening, assertive communication, self-analysis and dealing appropriately with conflict.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: CAS or HON.
General Studies: Oral Communication
Cross Listed Course(s): HON 1710
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CAS 2301 - Communication Theory
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): CAS 1301
Description: This course surveys the major theories that support research and study of communication. Starting with the broad overview theories in communication the course explores theories in interpersonal communication, relationship development, relationship maintenance, influence, group decision making, organizational communication, rhetoric, media, culture, and gender. The course gives students a foundation in communication vocabulary, basic knowledge of key theories, an introduction to reading research journals, and practical application of theory to human communication.
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CAS 2400 - Electronic Media and Society
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010 or permission of instructor
Description: This course surveys the radio, television, cable, satellite, and Internet distributed electronic media. It focuses on the function, organization, programming, and personnel involved as well as the effects electronic media has upon society.
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CAS 2710 - Team and Group Communication
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010 or CAS 1710 or Permission of Instructor
Description: This course introduces students to communication-related group dynamics and team processes that are essential in today’s workplaces and communities. Students learn skills and strategies for communicating with different kinds of people, for diverse purposes, and in a variety of contexts.
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CAS 2720 - Nonverbal Communication
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010 and CAS 2301
Description: Designed to explore the nature of the so-called “silent language” of the human communication process, this course focuses on the classes of nonverbal communication, their impact on human perception, patterned behavior in groups, organizational systems, and cultures.
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CAS 2730 - Communication and Conflict
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010 or CAS 1710 or permission of instructor
Description: This course develops strategies for managing conflict dynamics in communication interactions at work, home, and school. Effort is made to pinpoint individual communication conflict styles and to assess their effectiveness in conflict interaction.
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CAS 2760 - Intercultural Communication
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010 or CAS 1710 or permission of instructor
Description: This course applies communication approaches and perspectives to intercultural communication processes within and outside of the United States. The major emphasis in the class is on face-to-face communication within and between members of different cultures and the impact of popular culture on those communications. Living in a global society, it is imperative to know how different cultures communicate around the world. In the course, students will examine the complex relationship between culture, communication, power, and context from three conceptual perspectives: the social scientific perspective, the interpretive perspective, and the critical perspective.
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CAS 2770 - Gender and Communication
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1710 or permission of instructor
Description: This course explores the relationship of gender to the communication process by examining issues of power, conflict, sex role stereotypes, and cultural patterns of interaction on relationships and identity. Students explore the multiple ways that masculinity and femininity are created and sustained through communication in such contexts as families, schools, the workplace, and the media. Students will use feminist theoretical perspectives and interpretive approaches from communication studies to analyze cultural assumptions and the relationships of notions of gender to class, sexuality and race.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: CAS or GWS.
General Studies: Arts and Humanities
Cross Listed Course(s): GWS 2770
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CAS 2990 - Introduction to Health Communication
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010 or CAS 1710 or Permission of Instructor
Description: This course explores the essential connections between communication processes and human health. Different modes of communication are considered in contexts that range from one-on-one conversations to information exchange with large groups. The importance of relationships, culture, technology, and media for health practices are also explored.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix, CAS or SLHS.
Cross Listed Course(s): SLHS 2990
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CAS 3060 - Introduction to Organizational Communication
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010 or CAS 1710 or Permission of Instructor
Description: This course provides an overview of organizational communication theory and practice. It introduces students to the study of communication-related phenomena such as organizational identity, culture, leadership, systems, and networks. Internal, external, everyday, and strategic communication processes are addressed. This course is a prerequisite for several other Organizational Communication courses.
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CAS 3080 - Great American Speakers
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010 and ENG 1010
Description: This course critically examines selected U.S. American speeches using critical rhetorical analysis. Each speech is evaluated in its historical, cultural and media context that includes an examination of U.S. American ideology and democracy as expressed thematically throughout historical time periods. Persuasive models (Aristotle, Burke, Black, Foss, and others) are used to critique the rhetorical skills and strategies of each speech. Students will analyze the influence and effectiveness of the examples of great speeches on public policy and civic engagement in each era of speech.
General Studies: Arts and Humanities
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CAS 3090 - Arguing Constructively
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010 and ENG 1010 or permission of instructor
Description: In this course, students focus on the principles of critical thinking and reasoning in the use of oral and written argumentation in a range of communication contexts such as political, public, interpersonal, global, mass media, organizational, small group, and technological. Special emphasis is placed on how to argue constructively and how to build, refute, support, and critically evaluate arguments across a variety of fields.
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CAS 3100 - Business and Professional Speaking
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010 or CAS 1710 or Permission of Instructor
Description: This course prepares students to communicate competently in professional settings. Students practice communicating in simulated business, public, and employment-related settings. Communication challenges addressed may include employment interviews, online profiles and communication, informational presentations, and team presentations. This course does not satisfy the General Studies Oral Communication requirement.
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CAS 3110 - Leadership Communication
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010 or CAS 1710 or Permission of Instructor
Description: In this course, students learn leadership communication theories and hone skills for career advancement. Leadership functions, strategies, contexts, and ethics are explored. Students also reflect upon and develop their own leadership abilities.
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CAS 3150 - Crisis Communication
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010 or CAS 1710 or Permission of Instructor
Description: This course covers communication strategies for recognizing, assessing the risk of, identifying the sources of, and effectively responding to organizational crises. Stakeholder analysis, ethical concerns, and emerging trends in the profession of crisis communication are explored in this course. Interpersonal and public communication, traditional media, and new communication technologies are addressed.
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CAS 3160 - Communication in Politics
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010 or permission of instructor
Description: This course acquaints students with the complexities of communication issues and strategies used in and by a variety of governmental bodies. This course emphasizes communication patterns in government institutions, the role and strategies of public influence and change on policy creation, the nature and ethics of campaign strategies and propaganda tactics, the responsibility of media in public decision-making, and the impact of communication leadership and group dynamics on the resolution of political and social issues.
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CAS 3165 - Organizational Identity
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): CAS 2160 or CAS 3060 or Permission of Instructor
Description: This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary study of organizational and professional identity formation, maintenance, and change. Internal and external communication processes related to defining an organization/profession and its image are explored. Students apply theories and techniques for evaluating and crafting organizations’ and occupations’ socialization processes, cultures, and brands or images. Students engage with real-world case studies and original research in this course.
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CAS 3170 - Interpersonal Negotiation
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): CAS 2160 or CAS 3060 or Permission of Instructor
Description: This course focuses on skills and theories essential to the resolution of interpersonal, group, and organizational conflict. Distributive, integrative, collaborative, and mediated approaches to negotiation are covered. Topics such as conflict frames, cognitive biases, types and sources of power, and problematic communication styles are addressed. Students practice negotiation skills in simulation exercises.
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CAS 3172 - Mediating Conflict
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): CAS 2730 and CAS 3170; or permission of instructor
Description: This course examines conflict as a complex communication event with an emphasis on developing skills to engage in mediation. Students learn communication theories relevant to the practice of mediation, several approaches to the process of mediation, a dynamic mediation model that can be adapted to a variety of conflict situations, as well as the interpersonal skills necessary to manage the mediation process.
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CAS 3200 - Water Conflict: Applied Leadership Communication
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 2730 or GEG 1910 or MGT 2200
Description: This course will focus on the nature, analysis, and management of water resources conflict. Concepts and practices in the management of water as a resource will be explored with a focus on the use of negotiation, facilitation, and mediation skills in conflict situations. Special attention will be given to the way that effective leadership in these situations can prevent a negative spiral in the conflict communication and work toward resolving conflicts about water resources. Students will address current knowledge in water management and conflict management, conduct case work on water conflict scenarios, and practice communication skills useful for managing conflict.
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CAS 3301 - Rhetorical Foundations of Communication
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): CAS 2301 or Permission of Instructor
Description: This course is an historical survey of some of the major theories of rhetoric as they apply to the discipline of communication. Topics include rhetoric as it relates to ethics, broadcast media, organizations, small groups and teams, and interpersonal contexts. Students in the course will apply contemporary rhetorical theory to understand power, identity, and knowledge.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: CAS or HON.
Cross Listed Course(s): HON 3304
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CAS 3400 - Media Industries
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 2400 or permission of instructor
Description: This course examines media industries with an intensive focus on the theory, economics, political influences, and methods involved in their study. Media industries are examined in light of key concepts used in understanding their roles in shaping domestic culture, driving technological change, and shaping global media. Particular attention is paid to the economic aspects which determine much of what is produced and distributed across various forms of media in an ever-changing communications environment.
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CAS 3420 - Process and Effects of Mass Communication
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 2400 or permission of instructor
Description: This course examines the theories, processes, and effects of electronic media. Emphasis is placed on the major theories of mass communication, the challenges of new media, and the effects of these media on society and individuals. Electronic media are explored as sources of power, integration, and change.
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CAS 3430 - Performance for Broadcast
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 2400 or permission of instructor
Description: This is an introductory course for “on air” performance, designed to meet the needs of radio-television-multimedia news anchors and announcers. Instruction is designed to develop pleasing and persuasive vocal and visual communication, either on-camera or on-mic, as a means of improving a variety of performance-driven broadcast, multimedia and Internet delivery presentations.
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CAS 3440 - Television Production
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 2400 or permission of instructor
Description: This course is an introduction to television production, operation of broadcast studio equipment, vocabulary, and experience in direction of multi-camera productions. Specific attention is focused on preproduction, including identification of audience by age, gender, and culture. Students will participate in production activities and procedures on a variety of projects.
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CAS 3445 - Producing Multi-Platform Content
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 2400, CAS 3410 or JMP 3410, and either CAS 3440 or JMP 3445 or CAS 3460
Description: This course examines how content must change in order to preserve effective delivery across various media platforms. Students transpose story elements between print, audio, video, web and social media. Principles of web formatting, HTML5, data compression, streaming media, file size and dimensions are applied in realworld conditions through labs and assignments.
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CAS 3490 - Cinema as Communication
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 2400 or ENG 2860 or permission of instructor
Description: Students in this course will learn to critique how films communicate to a mass audience, including considerations such as rhetoric, ideology, performance, and spectatorship. Assigned work will include reading in communication theory as well as writing an essay that critiques a particular film as an instance of communication art or science, or both. Class time includes lab hours during which various films will be screened.
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CAS 3710 - High-Performance Teams
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 2710 or CAS 2160 or CAS 3060 or Permission of Instructor
Description: This course explores issues and skills relevant to the development and maintenance of high-performance teams. Expert, complex, high-risk, virtual, and other types of teams are discussed. Simulation and team exercises enable students to practice skills and develop team communication expertise.
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CAS 3740 - Speech and Thought in a Digital Age
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010 or CAS 1301 or permission of instructor
Description: This course critically examines the physiological foundations of speech and thought. Intrapersonal communication is examined as an essential aspect of public presentation of self through speech. Students will develop a fundamental understanding of the theories, concepts, and themes in the study of speech communication as central to the formation of thought, experience, and meaning.
General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences II
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CAS 3760 - Diversity and Communication in the U.S.
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010 or CAS 1710 or permission of instructor
Description: This course examines the relationship between communication and cultural identity with emphasis on the application to four groups of color in the United States: African American, Asian American, Hispanic, and Native American. The goal of the course is to broaden students’ perspectives of the power of communication to shape our lived experience and to expand students’ capacities to adapt ethically to a changing and diverse world. Students will explore verbal and non-verbal differences and similarities across cultures and critique the communicative construction of ethnocentrism, bias, prejudice, and discrimination.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: CAS or HON.
General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences II
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
Cross Listed Course(s): HON 3760
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CAS 3770 - Family Communication
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1710 or CAS 2710
Description: This course is designed to assist students to better understand and improve interpersonal communication processes in families, including dual-career communication problems, personality patterns, family group roles and their impact on interaction, verbal and nonverbal messages in family contexts, and managing family interpersonal conflict and change.
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CAS 3910 - Advanced Public Speaking
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010 or CAS 1090 or CAS 1710 or HON 1013 or Permission of Instructor; Students must possess a GPA of 3.3 or higher, or be a member of the MSU Denver Honors Program.
Description: This course prepares students to design and deliver technical and/or professional presentations with an advanced level of skill. Students select one course project or theme and develop several presentations for different audiences and settings-these include: academic conferences and/or technical presentations to professional associations, public presentations on complex topics, and research poster sessions or business expos. This course is useful for students who plan to earn graduate degrees or seek employment in positions that require communication of complex information.
Note: To register for this course, students must be enrolled in the MSU Denver Honors program or have a 3.3 or higher GPA.
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CAS 4030 - Advocacy and Social Justice
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010 or permission of instructor
Description: In this course, students examine social advocacy from the communication perspective. Emphasis is placed on communication styles and the premises associated with a social justice sensibility, informed by communication theory and applied communication practices. Students identify a social justice problem in the local community, design an intervention, and engage the community with various communication strategies and techniques. The class combines classroom instruction with coordinated, integrated, and structured volunteer service.
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CAS 4080 - Rhetorical Criticism
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010 and junior/senior standing, or permission of instructor
Description: This course focuses on the historical and critical methodologies for analyzing rhetorical efforts, both from the points of view of an intellectual discipline and as a practical art in a democratic society.
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CAS 4100 - Techniques of Persuasion
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 2301 or CAS 3090 or permission of instructor
Description: This course investigates the factors that influence individuals and groups through the media of persuasive rhetorical campaigns. This course involves specific investigation and analysis of twentieth century persuasive campaigns. Students will have opportunities to study and develop persuasive campaigns in various rhetorical areas.
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CAS 4120 - Freedom of Speech
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010, ENG 1010, ENG 1020, and senior standing; or permission of instructor
Description: This course is a study of the historical and social influences with inquiry into the legacy of our inherited rights to free speech. This course examines the first amendment’s clause on freedom of speech and the press, threats to this freedom and special inquiry into contemporary issues and cases.
University Requirement(s): Senior Experience
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CAS 4160 - Advanced Organizational Communication
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 2160 or CAS 3060 or Permission of Instructor
Description: This course prepares students to address important contemporary issues for organizational and strategic communication professionals. It engages current and classic scholarship on themes such as workplace well-being, sustainability, and globalization. Students develop the ability to research pressing social-organizational topics and report their findings/recommendations to professional or public audiences.
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CAS 4200 - Gender in Popular Culture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 2770
Description: This course examines popular culture as a mechanism of mediated communication and explores how the forces of popular culture interact with ideas of gender. This course investigates and analyzes issues relevant to representations of gender in popular culture, including constructions of identity, femininity and masculinity, sexuality, and expectations regarding home, work, and family.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: CAS or GWS
Cross Listed Course(s): GWS 4200
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CAS 4300 - Acting Like a Teacher
Credits: 2
Prerequisite(s): Satisfaction of General Studies requirements in Oral Communication
Description: This class examines and explores the formation of classroom presence using a variety of acting, speaking and vocal techniques to develop, build, and encourage skills supporting an effective classroom persona. Students will practice and demonstrate body movement, posture, and deportment skills along with verbal and nonverbal communication skills to support classroom management and motivate pupil attention and engagement. Students will identify, learn, and practice intentional vocal and visual techniques to make instructional communication more effective.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix.
Cross Listed Course(s): EDU 4300, THE 4300
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CAS 4301 - Communication Ethics
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): CAS 3301 or Permission of Instructor
Description: This course identifies key perspectives in communication ethics. Topics include civility, morality/integrity, duty, the self as an ethical agent, organizational ethics, and media ethics. Students will apply traditional ethical principles to a variety of communication contexts including interpersonal, small group, team, organizations, and mediated situations.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: CAS or HON.
Cross Listed Course(s): HON 4301
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CAS 4310 - Trends in Communication Studies: Variable Topics
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1010 and CAS 1301
Description: The purpose of this special topics course is to introduce students to an in depth discussion of issues or research within the field of communication studies. The course may be taken for up to 9 credit hours under different titles.
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CAS 4440 - Advanced Television Production
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 2400, CAS 3410, and CAS 3440; or permission of instructor
Description: This is an advanced course in digital production skills for both studio and the field projects. Specific focus is on digital, high-definition workflow and file-based capture and finishing. This course allows students independence and the opportunity for formative research, including team building, financing possibilities, target audience evaluation, and potential distribution venues.
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CAS 4460 - Sports Discourse in Media and Culture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 2400 or permission of instructor
Description: Sports talk has moved off the playing field and into day-to-day discourse in interpersonal, organizational and public communication. This course explores metaphors, mythology, idioms and ideas that emerge from the world of sports and how they impact discourse about gender, community, politics, identity, education, ethnicity, parenting, and organizational life. The role of broadcast media is critically examined for its role in encouraging a cultural dialogue of sports metaphors.
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CAS 4470 - TV Criticism: Production and Content
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 3440 or JMP 3445 or permission of instructor
Description: This course analyzes contemporary television programming for aesthetics and effectiveness. All production elements and the content of programs are critiqued to create a more discerning audience and/or program creator.
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CAS 4700 - Training and Talent Development
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 2160 or CAS 3060 or Permission of Instructor
Description: This course develops students’ ability to design and deliver effective training sessions and activities for organizational and professional clients. Students address communication issues that trainers face, goal setting and needs assessment practices, delivery and performance, and professional opportunities in organizational development. Students create original training demonstrations and materials (face-to-face and/or online) in the course.
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CAS 4750 - Strategic Change Communication
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 2160 or CAS 3060 or Permission of Instructor
Description: Students in this course explore and practice communication strategies for managing organizational change. Students learn a stakeholder approach to the analysis, execution, and response to change in business, public, and nonprofit sectors. Students discuss communication-related topics such as power and resistance, narratives and framing, and network analysis. Skills developed in this course are relevant to a variety of professions, such as employee communications, management, public relations, and emergency communication.
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CAS 4755 - Consulting and Organizational Development
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 2160 or CAS 3060 or Permission of Instructor
Description: Students in this course learn how to consult for planned change and organizational development. The course covers skills and tools for studying, assessing, reporting on, and intervening in organizations’ problems and opportunities. Students plan consultation or development projects and practice elements of communication auditing. The course explores career opportunities in professional consulting and organizational development.
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CAS 4760 - Communication and the Elderly
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 1710 or CAS 2301
Description: This course is designed to investigate the particular communication patterns and problems of the aged. It focuses on culturally communicated attitudes toward elderly persons via media, marketing, and institutions, as well as specific communication issues of the aged, such as the communication of intimacy, friendship, control, interaction in work environments, home life, retirement, and death.
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CAS 4790 - Applied Communication Research
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAS 3301 or Permission of Instructor
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): CAS 4301 or Permission of Instructor
Description: This capstone course prepares students to conduct applied research as communication professionals or graduate students. Students design and draft an original research project, applying theory and research learned in prior courses. Students learn and practice methods commonly employed by industry and academic researchers - including textual, interview, and basic statistical techniques.
University Requirement(s): Senior Experience
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CPE 1040 - Introduction to Engineering
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Minimum performance standard score on math placement test
Description: This course is an introductory engineering course exposing students to a cross section of topics in computer engineering discipline to assist them with their education career choices. Students are taught to work in teams, introduced to the design process, utilize math and computer programs to analyze raw data and properly display their results in a presentation to their peers. The history of the engineering profession and its relation to current national, social, industrial, ethical, and international issues and problems will be discussed.
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CPE 1140 - DC Circuit Fundamentals
Credits: 4
Prerequisite(s): MTH 1410, or MTH 2410 (with a grade of “C” or better for all prerequisites)
Description: This course covers DC circuit analysis, including mesh analysis, nodal analysis, Thevenin conversion, Norton conversion, power, magnetism and magnetic circuits, capacitance, and inductance. An introduction to electrical laboratory procedures and the measurement of basic circuit parameters is also included.
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CPE 1150 - AC Circuit Fundamentals
Credits: 4
Prerequisite(s): CPE 1140 (with a grade of “C” or better for all prerequisites)
Description: This course is a continuation of CPE 1140. Studies include single time constant circuits, phasors, and the j operator, RLC circuits with sinusoidal, steady-state sources, impedance and admittance, AC formulation of classic network theorems, complex network equations, complex power, frequency response, transformers, and two-port network models.
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CPE 2145 - Solid State Electronics
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CPE 1150 or EET 1150, and CHE 1100 or CHE 1800 (with a grade of “C” or better for all prerequisites)
Corequisite(s): CPE 2165
Description: Students in this course will study the theory, modeling and application of semiconductor based electronic circuits. Devices studied include: diodes, bipolar junctions transistors, MOS field effect transistors, thyristors, voltage regulators and operational amplifiers.
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CPE 2165 - Solid State Electronics Laboratory
Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): CPE 1150 or EET 1150, and CHE 1100 or CHE 1800 (with a grade of “C” or better for all prerequisites)
Corequisite(s): CPE 2145
Description: The student will develop the laboratory skills necessary for integration of electronic devices in applications such as filtering, amplification, and voltage regulation. The student will integrate the lecture content of CPE2145 in the practical, hands-on laboratory exercises developed in this course.
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CPE 2310 - Digital Systems I
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MTH 1400 (with a grade of “C” or better for all prerequisites)
Description: This course covers the analysis and design of logic circuits using Boolean algebra, Karnaugh maps and truth tables. It provides an introduction to the student to the basic concepts of computer architecture. In addition, it covers number systems, operation and codes. Combinational digital circuits are also studied. The students will use the basic logic gates, Flip-flop, memories, integrated circuit chips, etc., to design digital systems.
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CPE 2350 - C Programming for Engineer
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MTH 1400 (with a grade of “C” or better for all prerequisites)
Description: This is an advanced-level programming course using the C programming language. Methods for solving computer engineering problems using the C programming language are studied. The fundamental of UNIX Operation System and shell scripts are also introduced.
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CPE 3330 - Digital Systems II
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CPE 2310 with a grade of “C” or better
Description: This course is a continuation of CPE 2310. It covers the analysis and design of sequential (counters and shift registers) logic systems. Programmable Logic Devices (PLD) and associated Computer Aided Design (CAD) software are used to implement digital circuits by using the schematic design entry method. Johnson counter and Ring counter are studied. The general methods of analysis and design for Finite State Machine (FSM) is also introduced.
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CPE 3400 - Signals and Systems
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CPE 1150, CPE 2310, and MTH 2410 (with a grade of “C” or better for all prerequisites)
Description: This course provides an introduction to the student to the basic concepts of signals and system modeling. The students will develop and understand time-domain and frequency-domain analysis of both continuous and discrete systems and signals.
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CPE 3500 - Semiconductor Device Fundamentals
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CPE 2145, CPE 2165, CHE 1100 and CHE 1150 (with a grade of “C” or better for all prerequisites)
Description: This course will provide the fundamental knowledge of semiconductor physics, materials, devices and fabrication technology. The students will learn semiconductor band theory, semiconductor materials and statistics, pn junction, bipolar transistor, heterojunction, Schottky junction and solar cells. The course will focus on the MOSFET designs for advanced Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit (VLSI) technology from its physical structure, accurate modeling, manufacturability and applications by using computer simulation.
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CPE 3620 - A&D Communications
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CPE 2145, CPE 2165 and MTH 2410 (with a grade of “C” of better for all prerequisites)
Description: This course is an introduction to communication systems. Topics include: information theory, channel capacity, A/D and D/A techniques, modulation (AM, FM, and digital), noise sources, quantization, and transmission lines including Smith Charts.
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CPE 3715 - Control Systems Analysis
Credits: 4
Prerequisite(s): CPE 2145 and CPE 3400 (with a grade of “C” or better for all prerequisites)
Description: This course analyzes classical, linear, continuous-time control systems. Analysis and design will be done using Laplace transforms, Bode plots. Topics discussed include: stability, transient response, steady-state response, and the design of P, Pl, PD, and PID, Lag and Lead compensators. The laboratory section of the course uses the classical approach to the analysis and design of control systems.
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CPE 4020 - Digital Circuits III - Hardware Description Language
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CPE 2350 and CPE 3330 (with a grade of “C” or better for all prerequisites)
Description: Students in this course will learn a Hardware Description Language (HDL) which is used to design and simulate very large scale digital integrated circuits. Different modeling and design approaches will be covered as well as different simulation techniques.
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CPE 4320 - Digital Filter Design
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CPE 2350 and CPE 3400 (with a grade of “C” or better for all prerequisites)
Description: This course introduces digital filters as applied in digital signal processing and sampled data control systems. Complex algorithms will be introduced for the design of digital filters.
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CPE 4330 - Data Communication
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CPE 2310 with a grade of “C” or better
Description: This course covers methods of local and distant digital communications including: systems, standards, and hardware used for transmitting digital data either synchronously or asynchronously. In addition, limitations and problems will be discussed along with the solutions and areas that are being improved.
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CPE 4370 - Embedded System Design I
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CPE 2350 and CPE 3330 (with a grade of “C” or better for all prerequisites)
Description: This class will explore the fundamentals of embedded system hardware and firmware design. The following issues will be discussed, such as embedded processor selection, hardware/firmware partitioning, number conversion, computer hardware structure, memory technology, logic circuits, development tools, firmware architecture, firmware design, and firmware debugging. An industry standard microcontroller will be studied, and its architecture and instruction set will be covered. The students will apply a microcontroller demo board for their designs. The programming will be implemented in Assembly and C languages.
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CPE 4390 - Embedded System Design II
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CPE 4370 (with a grade of “C” or better for all prerequisites)
Description: This course is a continuation of CPE 4370 and will cover embedded system design by interfacing with computers, peripherals, and other digital circuits. It provides the knowledge of designing microcontroller-based embedded computer systems by using assembly and C programs. In addition, the course will also examine the Real-time Operating Systems and their impact on performance. Computer engineering applications will also be emphasized.
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CPE 4600 - VLSI Circuits and Systems
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CPE 3500 and CPE 4020 (with a grade of “C” or better for all prerequisites)
Description: This course will explore the fundamentals of Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit (VLSI) design. The following design specifications will be addressed, such as functionality, performance, reliability, manufacturability, testability, cost, design layout rules and checking, circuit extraction, simulation, and verification.
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CPE 4620 - Advanced Communication Systems
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CPE 3620 (with a grade of “C” or better for all prerequisites)
Description: This is a senior research course which requires student analysis of VHF, UHF, microwave, spread spectrum, optical, video, and satellite systems. Analog and digital cellular and personal communications services, including AMPS, GSM, CDMA, wireless LAN microwave satellite communications systems will be examined.
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CPE 4700 - Senior Design I
Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): CPE 4370 and CS 2400 (with a grade of “C” or better for all prerequisites), senior standing
Description: This is a Senior Experience, capstone course designed to teach engineering design skills to students through project based learning. The course will focus on team project incorporating the application of fundamental engineering knowledge and skills. Projects requires planning and design in consultation with faculty advisors and industry contacts. Through this course the students will learn the design process in a hands on way through conceptualization, construction, testing and presenting a deliverable project.
University Requirement(s): Senior Experience
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CPE 4710 - Digital Control System Design
Credits: 4
Prerequisite(s): CPE 3715 (with a grade of “C” or better for all prerequisites)
Description: Students in this course will learn the process and theory of the design of digital control systems, using classical and modern control theory. Analysis of differences between continuous and discrete control systems will be discussed. State variable feedback control and other optimal control theories will be covered.
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CPE 4800 - Senior Design II
Credits: 2
Prerequisite(s): CPE 4390, CPE 4600 and CPE 4700 (with a grade of “C” or better for all prerequisites)
Description: This is the second half of the Senior Experience for this major. In this course, the student completes the project started in CPE 4700. The project is built, tested and demonstrated. Written technical reports and oral presentations on the project are required. Part of this course involves the student working with a faculty member who acts as a consultant.
University Requirement(s): Senior Experience
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CIS 1005 - Surviving and Thriving in the E-World
Credits: 3
Description: This course emphasizes using the Internet and online resources to collect, understand, evaluate, and validate information relating to basic computer literacy and emerging technologies. Using different search terms and search engines, students will find information that describes computer hardware, software, information systems, Web 2.0, and big data, among other information technology topics. They will prepare brief abstracts and ratings of information gathered. Additionally, students will learn to use Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to prepare reports and business documents. This course does not serve as a pre-requisite for CIS 2010.
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CIS 1010 - Introduction to Computers
Credits: 3
Description: This course is designed for students who wish to use a microcomputer in their academic pursuits and their career. The student will learn how to use a personal computer with application software featuring word processing, spreadsheets, file management, graphics, electronic communications, and thesaurus/spelling checker. This course also reviews the historical, societal, ethical, and technological aspects of computers.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: CIS or CSS.
Cross Listed Course(s): CSS 1010
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CIS 1080 - The World Wide Web, the Internet, and Beyond
Credits: 3
Description: This course is for anyone who uses or wants to access the World Wide Web or use the Internet. Students will master a set of basic skills including using electronic mail, logging-in to remote computers, obtaining online documents and software, and using a browser like Netscape to search and explore the World Wide Web for information. Students will also learn the fundamentals of Web page construction.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: CIS or CSS.
Cross Listed Course(s): CSS 1080
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CIS 2010 - Foundations of Information Systems
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Completion of General Studies in Oral Communication; ENG 1020 or ENG 1021; and CIS/CSS 1010 with a grade of “C-” or better, or appropriate score on the Computer Information Systems computer literacy screening test.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): Completion of or enrollment in a course that meets the Quantitative Literacy requirement.
Description: This course is an introduction to information systems from a business perspective. It introduces students to computer hardware and software, use of productivity tools and the Internet to solve business problems, and an introduction to fundamental and functional business information systems.
Note: This course is primarily intended for students with majors in the College of Business. Credit will be granted for only one prefix: CIS or HON.
Cross Listed Course(s): HON 2011
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