Apr 19, 2024  
2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Computer Science

  
  • CSCI 4520 - Network Security

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3700  
    Description: An examination of the tools techniques, and technologies used in the securing of information assets via networks. Topics covered include network operating system security, security of transmissions, firewall configurations, vulnerabilities and hardening of network components. Web and distributed system security, and procedures dealing with storage and disposition of sensitive data.
  
  • CSCI 4550 - Computer Graphics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CSCI 2000  or 2010  and MATH 3450  or 2110 
    Description: Computer graphics for computer science or mathematics students with emphasis on implementation details, algorithms, transformations, coordinates, color models, interactive graphics, and graphics standard languages. Raster and vector graphics, color and black and white, will be studied using various hardware devices. PostScript and device-dependent languages may be explored.
  
  • CSCI 4560 - Introduction to Autonomous Robots

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 1920  and CSCI 2000  or 2010 
    Description: A broad introduction to the area of autonomous robotics.  The course will focus on mobile robots that are programmed to act independently of human operators.  Topics covered will include sensor fusion and perception, localization, path planning, and mapping.  Projects will be programmed in Linux using C++ and Python.
  
  • CSCI 4570 - High Performance and Parallel Computing

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: (ENGR 4000/4001  or PHYS 4000/4001  or MATH 4670 ) and (ENGR 3005  or PHYS 3005  or MATH 3450 )
    Description: Covers single processor optimization, shared memory parallelism using OpenMP, and distributed memory parallelism using MPI within the context of writing software for numeric computation.  Course focuses on writing and optimizing codes in FORTRAN, C/C++ for large computational resources.
  
  • CSCI 4600 - Software Design and Development

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CSCI 2080  or 3005 
    Description: Techniques and procedures applicable to the design and development of large-scale software systems. Programming teams, program walk through, system evaluation, system review. A software system is designed and written as a team project during the course.
  
  • CSCI 4630 - Web Server Administrator

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3300 
    Description: An introduction to the setup and maintenance of Web server software. Both Internet Information Server (IIS) and Apache will be used as examples.
  
  • CSCI 4650 - Introduction to ASP.NET Programming

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CSCI 4400 
    Description: An introduction to server-based Web processing using the ASP.NET development environment, coverage of browser- and server-based scripting languages, data structures and data exchange languages, file and database access methods, dynamic page styling, and other techniques for creating dynamic, data-driven Web sites.  Three hours per week.
  
  • CSCI 4670 - Network Applications

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3770  
    Description: This course introduces a variety of network applications and services. Topics covered include: WWW and HTTP, FTP, Telnet and SSH, Email (POP3 and SMTP), Usenet, P2P, VNC, remote access, chat room, and instant messaging service.
  
  • CSCI 4750 - Systems Analysis and Design

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3020  or 4400 
    Description: Detailed study of the life cycle of a business information system. Technique used in the study, design, development, and implementation phases of the life cycle are presented. A complete system, designed and developed as a small group project is constructed during the course. Emphasis is placed on the development of a simple but functional system.
  
  • CSCI 4770 - Advanced Data Communications and Networking

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3760  or 3770 
    Description: This course is an advanced study of telecommunications and networking. Topics include an indepth study of TCP/IP protocols, switching, routing, WAN technology, network design and management, and emerging technologies.
  
  • CSCI 4800 - Computer Science and Information Systems Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Senior standing and permission of instructor
    Description: Problem solving using techniques from all areas of the Computer Science and Information Systems curriculum. Research on an assigned topic culminating in a written paper and oral presentation. Review of all basic areas of study in preparation for entry into the job market. Overview of job opportunities in the computer field.
  
  • CSCI 4900 - Special Problems in Computer Science

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Advanced standing in computer science
    Description: Selected topics of general interest.
  
  • CSCI 4910 - Topics Computer Science

    Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Advanced standing in computer science
    Description: Selected topics of general interest. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • CSCI 4920 - Topics Computer Science

    Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Advanced standing in computer science
    Description: Selected topics of particular interest. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • CSCI 4930 - Topics Computer Science

    Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Advanced standing in computer science
    Description: Selected topics of particular interest. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • CSCI 4940 - Internship in Information Technology

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission;
    Description:  This is a supervised internship course, normally to be taken during a student’s final semester.  Each student is assigned to an industry partner and works with this partner for a minimum of 115 hours for one semester.  The student will follow a consistent work schedule provided/supervised.  The work will be related to the student’s program of study in internet and web technology, database administration or networking concentrations.

Computer Technology and Information Management

  
  • CTIM 213A - Microcomputer Applications:Word Processing I

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Description: Microcomputer-based word processing software, creating, editing, and manipulating documents of varying sophistication.
  
  • CTIM 213B - Microcomputer Applications: Spreadsheet

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Description: Microcomputer-based spreadsheet software for business application, spreadsheet documents will be produced for a variety of applications.
  
  • CTIM 213C - Microcomputer Applications: Database

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Description: Concepts of database management system using microcomputer database software to apply and validate these concepts.
  
  • CTIM 213D - Microcomputer Applications: Desktop Publishing

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Description: Desktop publishing concepts and hands-on training in microcomputers, laser printers, and various page composition software packages.
  
  • CTIM 213E - Microcomputer Applications: Presenting Graphics

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Description: Software used to design presentation graphics such as business charts, line charts, bar graphs, and organization charts.
  
  • CTIM 299A - Special Problems in Computer Technology and Information Management

    Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours
    Description: Individual research relating to current problems, issues, and/or technological advancements related to Computer Technology and Information Management. Conducted under the guidance of a faculty member.
  
  • CTIM 299B - Special Problems in Computer Technology and Information Management

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Description: Individual research relating to current problems, issues, and/or technological advancements related to Computer Technology and Information Management. Conducted under the guidance of a faculty member.
  
  • CTIM 299C - Special Problems in Computer Technology and Information Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Individual research relating to current problems, issues, and/or technological advancements related to Computer Technology and Information Management. Conducted under the guidance of a faculty member.
  
  • CTIM 2010 - Document Processing I

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CTIM 2000 or equivalent skills
    Description: Continuation of keyboarding skills essential to document processing. Involves processing intermediate level office correspondence/forms/reports.
  
  • CTIM 2020 - Document Processing II

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CTIM 2010  or equivalent skills
    Description: Refinement of keyboarding office production skills using complex forms and documents.
  
  • CTIM 2040 - Word Processing Concepts and Applications

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CTIM 2020  or equivalent skills
    Description: Emphasis is placed on basic word processing concepts and integration with typical office word processing applications.
  
  • CTIM 2050 - Advanced Word Processing and Desktop Publishing

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CTIM 2040 
    Description: Produce complex documents using advanced word processing functions and desktop publishing applications.
  
  • CTIM 2100 - Introduction of Operating Systems

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Introduction to the hardware and software of microcomputers; instruction on configuring and troubleshooting of microsystems: Windows instruction.
  
  • CTIM 2110 - Information Technology Concepts

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Computer terminology, professional ethics and social implications of computers. Introduction to networking concepts, protocols, communication services, e-business applications, network security, and emerging initiatives.
  
  • CTIM 2120 - Integrated Software Applications

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Integrated software concepts which include word processing, spreadsheets, database management, graphics, and communications.
  
  • CTIM 2121 - Advanced Integrated Software Applications

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CTIM 2120 
    Description: Advanced integrated software concepts and applications of word processing, spreadsheets, database management, graphics, and communications for business situations.
  
  • CTIM 2130 - Spreadsheet Applications

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Basic business applications using spreadsheet software. Create professional looking workbooks using templates; create multiple worksheets; and work with formulas and functions. Case-based, problem-solving approach used.
  
  • CTIM 2132 - Data Applications

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CTIM 2100 , 2110  or permission of instructor
    Description: Business applications using database software.
  
  • CTIM 2135 - Advanced Spreadsheet Application

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Advanced business applications using spreadsheet software. Develop customized applications with macros and Visual Basic. Hands-on training to include case studies.
  
  • CTIM 2140 - Database Applications

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Basic business applications using database software. Develop queries, forms, and reports. Case-based, problem solving approach used.
  
  • CTIM 2145 - Advanced Database Applications

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Advanced business applications using database software. Develop advanced queries, macros, using Visual Basic. Use data tables and Scenario Management and Solver for complex problems. Hands-on training to include case studies.
  
  • CTIM 2150 - Presentation Graphics Applications

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Software used to design presentation graphics such as business charts, bar graphs, and organization charts; apply complex animation and sound effects; manipulate digital photographs and drawing diagrams and illustrations.
  
  • CTIM 2160 - Records and Information Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Equipment and systems used for information storage, transmission and retrieval. Includes concepts of filing: micrographic; forms design, usage, and control; and evaluation, protection, and destruction of vital records.
  
  • CTIM 2170 - Web Page Design Applications

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Coverage of essential Web page development topics such as HTML, common Web page elements, hyperlinks, templates, tables, formatting, image maps, thumbnail images, interactive forms, and frames.
  
  • CTIM 2180 - Visual Basic I

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Introduces the beginning-programming student to building applications in a graphical environment. Basic concepts in methods of object oriented programming.
  
  • CTIM 2185 - Visual Basic II

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CTIM 2180 
    Description: Advanced concepts in methods of object oriented programming. Manipulating strings random access files, arrays, sequential access files and printing.
  
  • CTIM 2190 - Information Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Basic business applications using project management software. Covers tracking progress, sharing information, and closing a project. Case-based, problem solving approach.
  
  • CTIM 2210 - Office Systems and Procedures

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Office systems emphasizing the interrelationship of people, procedures, and equipment.
  
  • CTIM 2300 - Business Communications

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Principles of effective business communications. Solving business problems through writing business letters, reports, and oral communications.
  
  • CTIM 2350 - Office Management and Supervising

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Supervisory and management skills, the role of the supervisor, economics of work, supervisor as manager of people, and the office environment. Case studies will be used during the course.
  
  • CTIM 2600 - Windows Workstation Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CTIM 2100  or 2110  or equivalent skills
    Description: Installing, configuring, and maintaining windows workstations. Understanding users, groups, profiles, and policies. Troubleshooting, disaster recovery and protection.
  
  • CTIM 2610 - Windows Server

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CTIM 2600  or permission of instructor
    Description: Installing, configuring, and maintaining windows server. Understanding users, groups, profiles, and policies. Troubleshooting, disaster recovery, and protection. Managing groups, folders and files.
  
  • CTIM 2620 - Windows Directory Services

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CTIM 2600  or permission of instructor
    Description: Analyzing business requirements, information technology structures, software requirements, hardware and network requirements. Designing forests, trees, and domains, organizational units, sites, and DNS implementation, security group and group policy.
  
  • CTIM 2630 - Networking Infrastructure

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CTIM 2600  or permission of instructor
    Description: Analyzing technical requirements, TCP/IP network, IP configuration, and name resolution strategies. Designing a multi-protocol strategy, DFS strategy, a WAN infrastructure, an Internet connectivity strategy for Internet and Intranet services, and a management and implementation strategy for Windows networking.
  
  • CTIM 2700 - Network Management and Maintenance

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CTIM 2100  or CTIM 2110  or equivalent skills
    Description: Introduces hardware and software concepts, troubleshooting fundamentals, multi-media technology, printers, viruses, disaster recovery, and maintenance plans.
  
  • CTIM 2900 - Seminar for Professional Secretaries I

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Strengthen and update secretarial knowledge in the office, information technology, decision sciences, communications, and office administration areas. Pass/Fail
  
  • CTIM 2910 - Seminar for Professional Secretaries II

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Strengthen and update secretarial knowledge in the management, economics, business law and accounting/finance areas. Pass/Fail
  
  • CTIM 2990 - Internship in Computer Technology and Information Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Professional unpaid work experience in preparation for employment in the computer technology and information management areas. A formal written report documenting experiences, a detailed daily log, and supervisory evaluation is required. Pass/Fail
  
  • CTIM 3120 - Advanced Integrated Software Applications

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CTIM 2120 
    Description: Advanced integrated software concepts and applications of word processing, spreadsheets, database management, graphics, and communications for business situations.
  
  • CTIM 3130 - Advanced Spreadsheet Applications

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CTIM 2130 
    Description: Advanced business applications using spreadsheet software. Develop customized applications with macros and visual basic. Hands-on training to include case studies.
  
  • CTIM 3140 - Advanced Database Applications

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CTIM 2140 
    Description: Advanced computerized database applications. This course provides theory and practice in a disciplined approach to problem solving using a database management software in a business environment. Students will create custom reports, develop action queries, and advanced table relationships. Students will be automating tasks with macros, developing application code using Visual Basic, and understanding concepts of managing and securing databases.
  
  • CTIM 3210 - Administrative Office Simulation

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CTIM 2040 
    Description: Students will enhance computer skills through simulated administrative office activities that will assist in the transition to the workplace. Course will serve as a model for the administrative office environment; emphasis on information and administrative management and controlled decision-making through simulation experiences.
  
  • CTIM 3300 - Business Communications

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 
    Description: Emphasis is placed on writing techniques, mechanics, and solving business problems through writing business letters and reports as well as the essentials of effective oral communications within the organizational structure.
  
  • CTIM 3350 - Office Management and Supervision

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Supervisory and management skills, the role of supervisor, economics of work, manager of people, and the office environment. Case studies will be used during the course.

Construction Engineering Technology

  
  • CCET 1210 - Construction Surveying

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGT 1200  or MATH 1730  
    Description: Surveying as applied to construction; with special emphasis on cross-section, slope stakes, grades, layout of utilities and buildings, differential and profile leveling; measuring distances, elevations, and angles with a transit.
  
  • CCET 2450 - Residential Mechanical Systems

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: The course provides an extensive training from basic to advanced Heating and Air Conditioning.  Designed to focus on the fundamentals of mechanical components, troubleshooting techniques of the mechanical system.  Particular focus will be on types of energy used for residential and commercial buildings.
  
  • CCET 2500 - Construction Materials and Methods

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Study of the properties uses and availability of wood, steel, sand, concrete, reinforced concrete, blocks, bricks and other commonly used construction materials.
  
  • CCET 2540 - Jobsite Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Introduces the fundamentals of construction jobsite management and project management in today’s work environment. The course will explain the construction manager’s role in jobsite documentation and record keeping, layout and control, meetings and employee labor relations, safety management, subcontracting, purchasing, project quality management, time and cost factors, and claims and the process of payment.
  
  • CCET 2600 - Construction Safety and Health

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Study of the importance of safety in construction; cost of accidents; Worker’s Compensation; OSHA construction standard, safety practices, compliance of safety and health programs and policies; job safety, hazard analysis; workplace stress and health issues; ISO 14000.
  
  • CCET 2700 - Construction Estimating

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGT 1200  or MATH 1730  
    Description: Quantity estimates for all materials used in building; concrete and masonry foundation, brick pavement and other brickwork, earthwork required in cut and fill of an area, earthwork for road construction.
  
  • CCET 2715 - Wood Design

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGT 1020  and (ENGT 1200  or MATH 1730 )
    Description: Design of wooden floors, beams, joints, columns, trusses, connections and bracing by using the National Design Standards.

     

  
  • CCET 2720 - Architectural Design

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGT 1020  
    Description: Conceptual and detailed model for architectural design using modern 3D drawing tools.  The student prepares construction documents for floor plans, elevations, building sections, wall sections, and details.  The preparation of preliminary Architectural and Structural construction drawings and construction documents using 3D and BIM modeling software.

     

  
  • CCET 2740 - Water and Sewer Systems

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGT 1200  or MATH 1730  
    Description: Application of environmental principles to land planning and development. Waste water treatment processes and system design. Review the sources of drinking water; treatment of water and treatment of wastes; disposal of water sewage; treatment of disposed water and sewage.
  
  • CCET 2750 - General Contracting

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: An overview of the contracting business focusing including on issues facing residential contractors in today’s marketplace. Various areas of construction will be explored and discussed include financial responsibilities, insurance considerations, taxes, advertising, management of employees and general information pertinent to the operation of a construction business. The course will also explore contracts, local governmental agencies, and retirement planning.
  
  • CCET 2790 - Capstone Project

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CCET 2715 , 2720 ;
    Description: Fundamental of construction planning and scheduling using CPM arrow and precedence networks; resource allocation and leveling; PERT; Hands-on experience in using project software.
  
  • CCET 2840 - Construction Codes and Standards

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Application of building codes and standards in structural design, materials, energy conservation, fire safety, electrical, plumbing, heating, cooling, ventilation, indoor air quality, radon, accessibility, safety and acoustics.

Criminal Justice

  
  • CRJ 1010 - Introduction to Criminal Justice

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course is a basic study of all components of the criminal justice system in the United States. Topics include concepts of law and crime; the criminal justice process; overview of criminal justice agencies; current criminal justice issues, and interactions and conflicts between criminal justice agencies.
  
  • CRJ 1030 - Introduction to Law Enforcement

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Survey of the role of policing in society, including historical evolution of the concepts and methods, as well as analysis of the effectiveness of traditional and non-traditional techniques.
  
  • CRJ 1040 - Introduction to Security

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Comparative examination of the relationship of the criminal justice system and business and industrial security. An overview of the administrative, personnel, and physical aspects of the security field.
  
  • CRJ 1050 - Introduction to Corrections

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Trends and developments in all elements of a modern correctional system for the treatment of juvenile and adult offenders.
  
  • CRJ 1060 - Introduction to Criminology

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Causes and patterns of criminal and deviant behavior; methods of treatment and prevention.
  
  • CRJ 3000 - Constitutional Law

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course is an intense analysis of federal and state court decisions that interpret the United States Constitution as to the authority and process of criminal justice agencies. Topics include a historical overview; the Bill of Rights; trial and punishment; civil remedies and constitutional conduct; constitutional and civil rights in the workplace.
  
  • CRJ 3010 - Criminal Law

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course is a generic study of criminal law in the United States, and does not cover any specific federal or state law. Topics include principles of criminal law; principles of criminal liability; complicity; inchoate crimes; defenses; justifications; excuses; crimes against persons; crimes against property; crimes against public order.
  
  • CRJ 3020 - Criminal Evidence Procedure

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course is a in-depth examination of criminal evidence rules in the United States. Topics include trial procedures; examination of witnesses; real/physical evidence; circumstantial evidence; hearsay evidence and exceptions; privileged communications; declarations against interests and judicial notice.
  
  • CRJ 3030 - Terrorism and the Law

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course is an in-depth analysis of federal and state law as they pertain to the study of terrorism. Topics include search and seizure issues; privacy laws; the Patriot Act; Constitutional issues in reference to terrorism investigation/prevention; and criminal procedure.
  
  • CRJ 3040 - International Law

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course is an in-depth analysis of litigation of international law in U.S. courts. Topics to include sovereign’s immunity; international treaties; international courts, claims and adjudications. Norms for use of force; norms for control of terrorism; War Powers Act; National Defense Authorization Act; International Organizations; First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments will also be discussed.
  
  • CRJ 3100 - Fundamentals of Cybercrime

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course offers an intense examination of network security defense techniques and countermeasures. Defense fundamentals are explained in great detail. Topics include network defense techniques, cybercrime and cyberspace law, cyberterrorism, infusion detection and incident response, disaster recovery, and computer forensics.
  
  • CRJ 3210 - Medico-Legal Forensics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This elective course examines the basic concepts of forensic science through advanced scientific crime-solving techniques such as establishing identity through human remains. Topics include forensic anthropology; odontology; radiology; serology; DNA tracing; medical examiner procedures; wound ballistics; and trauma examinations.
  
  • CRJ 3220 - Criminal Investigations

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This elective course is an in-depth examination of one of the three cornerstones of traditional policing, criminal investigation. Topics include physical evidence; information sources; interviews and interrogations; eyewitness identifications; crime scene reconstruction; homicide investigations; burglaries; robberies; sex crime investigations; specialized investigations; and managing criminal investigations.
  
  • CRJ 3300 - Ethics in Criminal Justice

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Ethics in Criminal Justice is an intense examination of the ethical considerations facing the criminal justice practitioner. Topics include determining moral behavior; developing moral and ethical behavior; ethics and law enforcement; ethics and the courts; ethics and corrections; the ethics of punishment; policy and management issues; professionalism; and pride and ethics for practitioners.
  
  • CRJ 3400 - Terrorism Understanding

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course is an in-depth examination of the different types of terrorism. Major topics include an overview of terrorism as a political weapon; defining terrorism; examining the causes of terrorism; precepts of domestic and international terrorism; and the religious foundations of terrorism.
  
  • CRJ 3410 - Domestic Terrorism

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This is a study of the foundations of domestic terrorism with an examination of its history and case studies. Topics include current and active domestic groups; their organizational structure, philosophies and networks. The discussion will examine the interrelationships and interactions of presently known groups.
  
  • CRJ 3420 - International Terrorism

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Terrorism has become a political tool used against almost all nations of the world. The course will examine known terrorist groups throughout the world, including militant religious groups; religious zeolotry; and political groups. The Middle East will be examined in great detail.
  
  • CRJ 3430 - Management of Incidents

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course is a basic management course that could apply to all aspects of local and state governments, but concentrates on the law enforcement aspect. Topics include overall management techniques; coordination of resource efforts; the National Incident Management System, and the Unified Command System. Related topics include mutual aid pacts, cooperative efforts with local industry, and manpower and resource management.
  
  • CRJ 3435 - Maritime Security

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: An examination of regulations, vulnerabilities, and threats relating to commercial maritime transportation, including cargo and seaport as well as issues of piracy, stowaways, drug smuggling, and terrorism.
  
  • CRJ 3440 - Crime Prevention

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course is an in-depth examination of both strategic and tactical methods of preventing existing and new forms of crime, including terrorism, related topics include target identification, target protection techniques, and information assimilation and analysis.
  
  • CRJ 3505 - Report Writing and Interviewing Technology

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Types and purposes of reports, initial report, opening statement, body, ending, progress report, final report, summary, proof, substantiation, investigator’s conclusions, attachments, supplemental report, mechanics of report writing, using notes, key points, persons involved, evidence collected, facts, paragraphs, tense the who, what, where, how and why elements, objectivity and directness; helping the reader; and critique and revise.  Interview and interrogation compared, dealing with the uncooperative, the processes of interviewing and interrogating, obtaining facts, semantics, evaluating the situation, using psychology, perception, memory and stress, prejudice and reluctance, fear and resentment, gaining respect, using an observer, dealing with victims and witnesses, preparing for the interview, mental preparation for the interview, conducting the interview and knowing what to ask and when.
  
  • CRJ 4000 - Law Enforcement Administration

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This elective course is a study of the organization, management, and administration of law enforcement agencies. Topics include police administration in the political arena; organizational theory; police organizational structure; leadership; organizational improvement.
  
  • CRJ 4011 - Issues in Criminal Justice

    Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours
    Description: This course involves specialized research into a current issue in criminal justice.
  
  • CRJ 4030 - Comparative Criminal Justice/Homeland Security

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course examines the nature of crime, justice, and security in varying countries and cultures throughout the world with the United States used as a standard of comparison.  Focus is on the peculiarities as well as the universals in comparative framework.
  
  • CRJ 4040 - Global Jihad and U. S. Homeland Security

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course appraises Islamist resurgence/terrorism in local, regional and global perspectives, with special reference to its impact on U. S. Homeland Security.  It examines the rise and growth of jihadism in the Muslim World and beyond in historical, socio-economic, political and cultural perspectives, and focuses as to how governance and identity crises in Muslim-majority countries and the Cold War and post-Cold War exigencies affected Islamism and terror outfits like al Qaeda, Taliban, Boko Haram, LeT, and the ISIS.
  
  • CRJ 4050 - Criminal Profiling

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This is an advanced course in applied criminology. Topics include case management, database development, typology validation, motive and pattern analysis, personality assessment, forensic demography, principles of geo-coding, statistical prediction, and the ethics of provocation, interview and interrogation strategies.
  
  • CRJ 4125 - Intelligence Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course covers both foreign and domestic intelligence gathering and analysis, with an emphasis upon analytic procedures for protection against terrorism, transnational crime, organized crime, white collar crime, gang crime, and threats to personal and public safety.
  
  • CRJ 4200 - Special Topics in Criminal Justice

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This elective course enables the program to address the very latest issues in law enforcement. Special Topics in Criminal Justice is a seminar course on current issues such as racial profiling; control of terrorism versus individual liberties; and the effectiveness of habitual criminal statutes.
 

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