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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS:

BUS 3614 | BUS 3620 | BUS 4620 | BUS 4644 | COM 4265 | CSC 1230 | CSC 2430 | CSC 2431 | CSC 3150 | CSC 3220 | CSC 3221 | CSC 3750 | CSC 3899 | CSC 4150 | CSC 4410 | CSC 4820 | CSC 4898 | MAT 1221 | MAT 1360 | MAT 1720 | MAT 2700 | VIEW ALL

BUS 3614: () Offerings
An introduction to theory, research, and practice related to the management of human behavior in an organizational context. Course topics include individual characteristics, motivation, learning, communication, leadership, decision making, group dynamics, conflict, power, and politics. The course involves significant group activities and requires multiple oral presentations.
Attributes:Upper-Division Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Computer Science, Economics, Food and Nutritional Sciences, Information Systems Majors only. Freshman students are excluded.
BUS 3620: () Offerings
Studies the processes for collecting, verifying, and processing information to assist management in making decisions to achieve the organization's goals. Software, hardware, networks, and electronic data interchange will be examined, with computer systems viewed as one part of the complete information system.
Attributes:Upper-Division Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded.
BUS 4620: () Offerings
Prerequisite: BUS 3620. The components, development, and management of computer networks are studied. Topics include telecommunications, installation, and configuration of computer systems, network operations and management, client/server network issues, distributed systems, business applications of networks, and hands-on network installation.
Attributes:Upper-Division Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Computer Science, Economics, Family and Consumer Sciences, Food and Nutritional Sciences, Information Systems, Textiles Clothing and Interior Majors only. Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded.
BUS 4644: () Offerings
Analyzes theory and application of the systems approach to production management. Provides a focus on the decision-making process, the design and control of manpower, materials, and machines in several production/service environments.
Attributes:Upper-Division Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Computer Science, Economics, Family and Consumer Sciences, Food and Nutritional Sciences, Information Systems, Textiles Clothing and Interior Majors only. Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded.
COM 4265: () Offerings
Examines how communication functions within organizations and explores use of communication to improve employee relationships and organizational effectiveness.
Attributes:Upper-Division
CSC 1230: () Offerings
Prerequisites: High school pre-calculus, math analysis, or equivalent and demonstratable computer literacy. An introduction to computer science, this course covers problem-solving methods and algorithm development; modern programming methodologies; and fundamentals of a high-level block structured language.
CSC 2430: () Offerings
Prerequisite: CSC 1230 or equivalent. Develops discipline in program design, style, debugging, testing. Introduces object-oriented design with classes, methods, and encapsulation. Introduces dynamic storage allocation and pointers. Examines arrays, linked linear data structures, and recursion.
CSC 2431: () Offerings
Continuation of CSC 2430. Covers linked data structures, including trees, and other non-linear representations; introduces graphs and networks; explores external data structures, and techniques necessary for implementing different file organizations; and methods of organizing and accessing data on secondary storage devices (indexing, trees, and hashing).
CSC 3150: () Offerings
Prerequisite: CSC 2431 and CSC 3220. CSC 2431 may be taken concurrently. Surveys issues and tools used in the analysis and design of software systems. Topics include requirements gathering; feasibility, process, and data analysis; architecture; user-interface; and program design. Measures for the evaluation of specifications and designs.
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
CSC 3220: () Offerings
Prerequisite: CSC 2430. An implementation-oriented look at software development techniques used to create interactive applications, focusing on the use of object-oriented libraries to create user interfaces. Topics include event-driven programming, human-computer interaction (HCI), graphical user interfaces (GUI), database interfaces, and tools for interface prototyping.
Attributes:Upper-Division
CSC 3221: () Offerings
Prerequisite: CSC 3220. Introduction to networking and the Internet. Topics studied include network architectures, network security, communication, and networking layer protocols, and the Web as an example of client-server computing. In addition, students will practice building Web applications.
Attributes:Upper-Division
CSC 3750: () Offerings
Prerequisites: CSC 2431 (concurrent registration allowed), and MAT 1720 or 2720. Covers digital logic, computer structure, machine language, addressing, use and operation of assemblers, micro-architectures, instruction formats, and the memory hierarchy.
Attributes:Upper-Division
CSC 3899: () Offerings
Covers ethical, social, and societal-impact issues with which computer professionals and users must deal. Sample topics include invasion of privacy, computer crime, intellectual property, software theft, computer security, ethics in the workplace, and artificial intelligence. Class format is a combination of lecture and discussion.
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded.
CSC 4150: () Offerings
Prerequisite: CSC 3150. Covers topics in software engineering, including team programming, project planning and management, SDLC (software development life cycle) and software quality assurance. Course requirements include the design and implementation of a team software project.
Attributes:Upper-Division Restrictions:Senior students only.
CSC 4410: () Offerings
Prerequisites: CSC 3150. Introduces database concepts: data models; data description and data manipulation languages; query facilities; data security, integrity, and reliability. Primary emphasis on relational data model; includes the design and implementation of database applications using a relational DBMS.
Attributes:Upper-Division
CSC 4820: () Offerings
An advanced course studying a special interest topic in computer science. A team project is required. Topics may vary between offerings. May be repeated for credit 2 times.
Attributes:Upper-Division Restrictions:Computer Science Majors only.
CSC 4898: () Offerings
This senior capstone course will explore topics and frontiers in computer science. Students will write a significant paper or design and implement an experimental project that investigates a current topic within the computer science discipline.
Attributes:Upper-Division Restrictions:Computer Science, Information Systems Majors only. Senior students only.
MAT 1221: () Offerings
Prerequisite: Intermediate Algebra or its equivalent and passing score on Mathematics Proficiency exam. An applications-oriented course with an intuitive approach, including introduction to both differential and integral calculus. Examples drawn from business, economics, biology, and the social and behavioral sciences. This course is not the prerequisite for 1226, nor can credit be received if 1225 or its equivalent has been taken.
Attributes:Mathematics (MAT)
MAT 1360: () Offerings
Prerequisite: Intermediate Algebra or its equivalent and passing score on Mathematics Proficiency exam. Explores descriptive statistics, elementary probability, binomial and normal distributions, sampling, estimating parameters, testing hypotheses, regression, and correlation.
Attributes:Mathematics (MAT)
MAT 1720: () Offerings
Prerequisite: MAT 1221 or 1225. Explores set theory, number systems, logic, proof techniques, basics of counting, discrete probability, networks, digital logic, and digital systems.
MAT 2700: () Offerings
Prerequisites: BUS 1700 or CSC 1123 and passing score on Mathematics Proficiency exam. Explores descriptive statistics, probability, random variable distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, regression and nonparametric statistics.
Attributes:Mathematics (MAT)



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