AASC 3102: Narrative for Prior Experiential and Technical Credit
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 1
Students are guided in the development of an outcome-based learning narrative which allows them the opportunity to translate knowledge and skills obtained through life and work experiences into academic credit.
AASC 3301: Lifelong Learning and Portfolio Development
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Required of all students who pursue completion of the BAAS degree program. This course lays the foundation for the program of study by investigating current issues in the philosophy of higher education, namely: establishing academic, personal, and professional goals for degree completion; introducing students to the portfolio process; and helping students to improve their abilities to think critically and to communicate more effectively.
AASC 4301: Senior Seminar
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course completes the assessment of the personal, educational, and professional goals and outcomes set forth in AASC 3301.
BUAL 3310: Business Analysis I
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduction to the quantitative methods of analysis as applied to business problems. Topics of study include collection of data, statistical description, probability theory, probability distribution, sampling theory, estimation, and introduction to test of hypothesis.
BULW 3310: Business Law
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A survey of the legal environment and its impact upon business. Nature and sources of law, administrative and enforcement agencies, and governmental regulations. Students become aware of the legal framework of common business transactions. Prerequisite: Junior Standing.
COMM 3361: Desktop Publishing
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Focuses on the use of computer technology to set type, designs pages, and create camera-ready copy for newsletters, brochure, advertisements, and other publications. Prerequisite: COMM 1373 or approval of instructor. (Spring 2)
COMM 4381: Political Communication
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Study of the theories and concepts of the use of communication, including all available media in the American political system. Emphasis will be given to analysis of campaigns, movements, and political personalities. (Fall 1)
COMM 4396: Studies in Media
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Selected topics in major areas of media production (journalism, radio, television, film). May be repeated for credit when topic varies. (Fall 1, Spring 2 and Summer)
COSC 2330: Web 2.0 Social Networking
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An exploration of Web 2.0 technologies such as social networks, blogs, wikis, and podcasts. Basic video, audio, and photo editing are also included in the course. Activities consist of quizzes, discussions, and a portfolio project.
COSC 3301: A Game Programming
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The objective of the course is to guide the student through the game design process. This course instills within the student the knowledge and creative perspective to create a game or other interactive software on a computer. The students will understand the ease of which games can be created. The student will also explore popular game development software and the game design process.
COSC 3301.D: Internet Security
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The course provides both an overview of cyber crime and security and guidelines for protecting systems from attack. Students will learn how to safeguarded information, how to find the vulnerabilities within a system, and how to take the appropriate steps to ensure that these systems and data are safe.
COSC 3320: Web Design
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Students will learn and apply the most important topics within HTML, XHTML, and Cascading Style Sheets for creating professional looking web sites. First, students will learn to apply XHTML to generate web pages and how to create hyperlinks in order to navigate documents on the web. Next, they will learn to use CSS in order to apply formatting across multiples pages. Lastly, the will explore using formatting and layouts, including such components and tables and forms.
COSC 3321: Microcomputer Applications
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The objective of this course is to teach students to solve advanced problems using the most readily available off-the-shelf general applications software: word processing, spreadsheet, database system, e-mail applications, presentation applications, and web site builders. The course instills within the student the knowledge and creative perspective to solve real-world problems with office applications.
COSC 3323: Fundamentals of Digital Media (formerly COSC-3301-B)
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This is a course for students from all disciplines interested in learning the foundational concepts and basic techniques in digital media production. Topic areas: capturing and editing digital images, capturing and editing digital audio, capturing and editing digital video and interactive multimedia. The course will consist of project based assignments, quizzes and a portfolio project to showcase student work. Web cam and microphone required.
COSC 3325: Computer Law/Ethics
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Ethical considerations for computer educators and computer scientists, and computer related security and privacy issues. Copyright, patent, trademark and trade secret issues, venture capitalists, tax issues, computer torts, deceptive trade practices, computer crime, contrast issues, constitutional issues and international trade considerations.
COSC 4320: Advanced Web Design
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course will build on the fundamentals of HTML and CSS to help students create dynamic and engaging websites. The course will cover the standards associated with web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP, including how to implement these technologies in applicable "real-world" situations. Since this is a project-based course, it will require several hours of focused work each week. A firm understanding of HTML and CSS basics is preferred.
CRIJ 3311: Crime and Criminals
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
American crime problems in historical perspective; social and public policy factors affecting crime, impact, and crime trends; liberal and conservative views of the crime problem and policy implications; crime prevention.
CRIJ 4311: Ethical Issues in Criminal Justice
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An examination of selected ethical issues and problems confronting criminal justice professionals.
CRIJ 3315: Criminal Behavior
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An examination of the typologies of criminal behavior. Psychological issues related to criminality and deviance will be presented. Topics include offender motivation, psychopathy, serial murder, sex offenders and career criminals.
CRIJ 4313.A: Organized Crime
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An in-depth view of the social structure and organizational factors leading to the development of organized criminal activities in the United Sates and other selected countries.
CRIJ 4313.B: Contemporary Issues: Violence
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
In-depth overview of current and comprehensive perspectives that investigate major topics, theories, and controversies within the field of criminal violence and victimization. Types of violence from a historical and empirical perspective are introduced and used to identify and delineate patterns, causes, and prevention of violent behavior. Social structure and culture are linked to violence and examined in the context of individuals, groups and societies. Emphasis is placed on the social control of violence.
CRIJ 4313: Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice: Current topics in criminal justice. May be repeated for credit when topic is varied.
CRIJ 4321: Responses to Crime
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An examination of crime, criminals, and the criminal justice system using critical analysis of recently published materials as sources for research, discussion, and student seminar.
CRIJ 4323: Correctional Administration
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A focal study of jails and prisons. Topics include inmate management, jail administration, prison gangs, emergency procedures, correctional design, and special populations. Low, medium, high, and supermax prisons will be examined.
CRIJ 4330: Police Problems
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Advanced analysis of major contemporary police problems from various perspectives. Examination of current issues in policing.
ENGL 3310: Technical Report Writing
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Supervised preparation of technical and scientific reports according to standard usage recommended by professional scientific and engineering societies.
ENGL 3320: Children's and Adolescent Literature
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Literature about or for children and adolescents and the special features and concerns of the genre.
ENGL 3350: Creative Writing - Fiction
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A workshop approach to the writing of poetry, fiction, and drama. May be taken for credit more than once when the genre focus varies.
ENGL 3360: The Short Story
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The technique of the short story; its historical development; study and analysis of great short stories.
ENGL 3392: Advanced African-American Literature
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Exploring literary form through the study of selected African-American writers in order to understand the African-American search for identity.
ENGL 4317: Modern Drama
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Dramatic trends and representative plays dating from early to late modernism, including critically acclaimed masterpieces by Georg Büchner, Anton Chekhov, Federico Garcia Lorca, Tennessee Williams, Tom Stoppard, and August Wilson.
ENGL 4334: Science Fiction
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Exploring definitions of science fiction (SF), allowing students an opportunity to learn about the development of SF from its beginnings to the present day. Students will read, analyze, and discuss classic SF short stories, and each student will present to the professor and the class a literary analysis of an SF novel chosen from a list of outstanding works.
FCSC 3300: Consumer Economics
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Consumer principles and rational decision-making skills for coping with consumer issues affecting families and individuals.
FCSC 3301: Human Well-Being
Duration: 15 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the essentials of what individuals need to survive and to elevate their quality of life. Students apply theories through case studies and self-evaluations that analyze symbiotic relationships with people groups spanning the continuum from the immediate family to the global community. Students gain an understanding of developmental, ethical, cultural, economic, environmental and political factors that enhance and inhibit satisfaction of human needs.
GEOL 4301.A: Geographical Terrorism
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Geographical Terrorism examines how geography plays a significant role in the development of terrorism, as well as its success and failures. The course also explores definitions, root causes, current counterterrorist policies, and weapons of mass destruction.
GEOL 4301.B: Geography of the Middle East and North America
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Geography of the Middle East and North Africa is a comprehensive study of the region, as it pertains to physical and cultural geography, history, economics, and geopolitical issues. Through the course, students will: understand the geography, climates, and peoples of the Middle East and North Africa; recognize the importance of Islam as a way of life and explore its relationship with Judaism and Christianity; appreciate the impact of petroleum on the region; and recognize the major political and economic conflicts in this area in regard to the root causes of terrorism.
GEOL 4301.C: Natural Disasters
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
In-depth study of the dynamic earth processes that affect people throughout their lives. Designed for non-science majors, the course will particularly benefit those who choose to go into engineering, emergency management, or government policymaking and are challenged to make educated choices about where to build houses, businesses, offices or engineering projects to prevent future loss of life and property.
GEOL 4301.D: Geography of Latin America
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Description forthcoming.
MGMT 3310: Principles of Organizational Behavior Managment
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Includes the study of organization behavior concepts such as leadership, motivation, individual behavior, group behavior and communication. Their use in U.S. and multinational organizations in management practice is examined in the context of today’s legal, social, and ethical environment. Prerequisites: Junior Standing and BUSI 2300 or BUSI 3300
MKTG 3310: Principles of Marketing
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A description and analysis of business activities designed to plan price, promote and distribute products and services to customers. Topics studies include: the marketing environment, consumer buying habits and motive, types of middlemen, marketing institutions and channels, governmental regulations, advertising and current marketing practices. Prerequisite: Junior Standing.
POLS 3313: Judicial Process
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The theory and structure of the American court system; its personal and decision making-processes; the judicial process in the setting of the American criminal justice system.
POLS 3320: International Politics
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The concepts underlying the Western State system; nationalism and imperialism; the techniques and instruments of power politics and the foreign policies of selected states.
POLS 3332: Politics of Western Democracies
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Political institutions, political processes, and the public policies of western democracies.
PSYC 3330: Psychology of Social Interaction
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Investigation of psychological basis of interpersonal behavior. Emphasis is on the study of individual experience and behavior in relation to the social environment, and how individual behavior both affects and is affected by social interaction.
SOCI 2301: Marriage and Family
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This class critically examines traditional and contemporary families including controversies regarding single-parent families, alternative lifestyles, "working women," reproductive rights, "father's rights," and their public policy implications.
SOCI 3375: Deviant Behavior
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The objective of this course is to enable the student to examine deviance with a broader perspective and understanding. Theories of deviance, types of deviance, and the inequality inherent in the imposition of the deviant label.
SOCI 3390: Juvenile Delinquency
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An overview of the criminological theories regarding juvenile offending and the juvenile justice system. Attention is given to the history, development, and roles of theoretical positions and practices in the areas of juvenile delinquency.
SOCI 4300: Seminar in Sociology
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Focuses on a selected topic of contemporary concern and significance in sociology. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
SOCI 4330: Sociology of Family
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course explores various sociological perspectives to integrate material on race-ethnicity, gender, class and sexual orientation on contemporary diverse families. This course will focus on the family issue from comparitive point of view. Historical and cross-cultural study will be explored to understand the impact on family across culture and time.
SOCI 4380: Research Methods
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Philosophy and methods of social research, including research design, methods of data collection, data analysis and uses other sources of social data. Qualitative and quantitative techniques of inference, analysis and research writing. Prerequisites: SOCI 1301, PSYC 2471 or MATH 1342.
SOCI 4390: Social Theory
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Development of social theory from the perspectives of early thinkers, such as Comte, Spencer, Durkheim, Weber and Marx to contemporary schools of functionalism, conflict, interactionalism, feminism, exchange and postmodern theory. Prerequisite: SOCI 1301 and 6 credit hours of sociology advanced course.