Apr 25, 2024  
2019-2020 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2019-2020 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Computer Science

  
  • CSCI 3870 - Wireless Communication and Networking

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3700  
    Description: This course covers data communications as well as voice communications in wireless networks. Topics covered include: wireless standards in data and voice communications, radio frequency technologies, wireless LAN hardware and software, wireless network design, installation and management including security and site surveys.
  
  • CSCI 3900 - Internship

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Permission of department chair
    Description: Designed to provide academic credit for meaningful computer-related experience gained while working in a business or industry. Satisfactory employer evaluation and detailed written documentation of the work performed is required. Pass/Fail.
  
  • CSCI 4000 - Advanced Web Development

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3300  
    Description: This course covers advanced concepts of server-based web processing.  Create dynamic web pages by using data from a backend database.  Acquire and demonstrate web programming skills through a server-side programming language.  Identify and apply server-side programming concepts such as requests, functions, data types, operators, arrays and control structures.
  
  • CSCI 4010 - Mobile Software Development I

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 2070  
    Description: An introduction to application development for small, mobile devices such as cell phones and smart phones.  The class will examine topics including user interface design, application portability, web protocols, data storage, and security on platforms such as Android and iOS.  All software development will be for the Android platform.
  
  • CSCI 4018 - Cloud Computing

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 2010  or 2070  or 2080  or 2000 ;
    Description: Introduction to cloud computing and developing applications for the cloud.  Topics include basic cloud concepts, cloud services and platforms, distributed processing frameworks, and cloud security.
  
  • CSCI 4020 - Mobile Software Development II

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite:   
    Description: Continuation of CSCI 4010.  The class will cover concepts such as custom components in user interfaces, multi-threaded programming, game programming, sound, and simultaneous development of apps for phones, tablets, and other devices.  All software development will be for the Android platform.
  
  • CSCI 4050 - Multimedia Tools and Technique

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3300  
    Description: This course provides the student with hands-on experience using current versions of popular multimedia software on the PC. Static and dynamic images are created, manipulated, and integrated into applications. Video conferencing, and streaming audio and video are also examined. Three hours per week.
  
  • CSCI 4100 - Operating Systems and Architecture

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3400  
    Description: Detailed study of systems programming, general operating systems concepts, memory management, auxiliary storage management, process control, multi-processing, processor management, networking, performance monitoring, and computer system security.
  
  • CSCI 4230 - Programming Languages

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3250  
    Description: Formal definition of programming languages including specifications of syntax and semantics. Simple statements including precedence, infix, prefix, and postfix notation. Global properties of algorithmic languages including scope of declarations, storage allocation, grouping of statements, binding time of constituents, subroutines, and tasks.
  
  • CSCI 4270 - Algorithm Design and Analysis

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3250  
    Description: Algorithm design techniques and computational complexity analysis.  Divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, greedy approach, backtracking, branch-and-bound, complexity theory, P and NP problems.
  
  • CSCI 4350 - Compiler Design

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3250  
    Description: Review of program language structures, translation, loading execution, and storage allocation. Compilation of simple expressions and statements. Organization of a compiler including compile-time and run-time tables, lexical scan, syntax scan, object code generation, error diagnostics, object code optimization techniques, and overall design. A simple compiler is designed and implemented as a group project.
  
  • CSCI 4390 - Introduction to JAVA Server Pages

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 4000  
    Description: This is an introduction to server-based Web processing within a Java Server Pages (JSPI) development environment; coverage of server-side scripting elements, database access methods, servlets, dynamic content, standard and custom actions, authentication, and JavaBeans. Three hours per week.
  
  • CSCI 4400 - Principles of Database Management

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 2000  or 2010  or 3300  
    Description: Database development process, data structures and database methods of file storage, primitive databases, Relational model approach to database management, hierarchy, network and object oriented models, data security, discussion of sample databases such as DBASE, RDB, and SQL.
  
  • CSCI 4410 - Database Admin Using DB2

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: This course teaches topics of database administration including database design, database implementation, user support, change-control procedures, planning for growth, and technology evaluation using DB2 database management system. Three hours per week.
  
  • CSCI 4420 - Database Admin-MS SQL Server

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 4400  
    Description: This course teaches topics of database administration including database design, database implementation, user support, change-control procedures, planning for growth, and technology evaluation using MS SQL Server. Three hours per week.
  
  • CSCI 4430 - Database Admin Using Oracle

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 4400  
    Description: This course will teach basic database features and administrator operations using the Oracle Database Management System. This will include components, tools, instances, tables, indexes, and profiles.
  
  • CSCI 4440 - Introduction to Open Source Databases

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 4400  (prerequisite added beginning Spring 2014)
    Description: This course will introduce basic database features and administrator operations of open source relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL.  Topics will include installation, administration, database and table design, stored procedures, and optimization.

     

     

  
  • CSCI 4450 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3250  
    Description: Progress and procedures in the field of artificial intelligence. Natural language models, machine translation, simulation of belief systems, models of memory and cognition, games and game playing, winning strategies, robotics.
  
  • CSCI 4460 - Content Management Systems

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3300 , 4400  
    Description: This course introduces the concept of data and content management to the students.  Students are to install, setup, configure, and use a content management system to create full-fledged data and content rich websites with customizable add-on features.  Students will learn how to program and configure this content management system to tap into its programmable development potentials.
  
  • CSCI 4520 - Network Security

    Credit Hours 3
    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
    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 - Robots I

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3250 , MATH 1910 ;
    Description: An introduction to software development for intelligent robots capable of acting independently.  Students will work with simulators and real robots.  Topics include robotic operating systems and programming, sensors, control, and computer vision.
  
  • CSCI 4561 - Robotics II

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 4560 ;
    Description: A continuation of CSCI 4560. More advanced robotics systems will be developed. Topics will include sensor fusion, localization, mapping, planning, and cooperation among robots.
  
  • CSCI 4570 - High Performance and Parallel Computing

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: (ENGR 4000  or PHYS 4000  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 - Introduction to Software Engineering

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 2080  or 3005 ;
    Description: An introduction to software engineering.  Introduces topics such as requirements, design, testing, and documentation.  A software system is designed, developed and presented as a team project during the course.
  
  • CSCI 4601 - Testing and Quality Assurance

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 4600 ;
    Description: Theory and practice for determining whether a software system conforms to its specification and intended use. Topics include methods of testing, verification and validation, unit and system level testing, quality assurance processes and techniques.
  
  • CSCI 4602 - Software Design and Architecture

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 4600 ;
    Description: Introduction to the design and architecture of large-scale software systems.Topics include software architecture, methodologies, model representation, patterns, frameworks, and documenting a system’s design and architecture.
  
  • CSCI 4603 - Requirements and Project Management

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 4600 ;
    Description: Introduces students to project management for software systems.  Requirement concepts include elicitation, functional and non-functional requirements, prototyping, and requirement tracking. Project management topics include project planning, organizing, tracking, scheduling, and risk management.
  
  • CSCI 4630 - Web Server Administrator

    Credit Hours 3
    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 4635 - IAS Malware Analysis and Countermeasures

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 2010 , 3200  or consent of instructor
    Description: This course covers the fundamentals of malware analysis and countermeasures. Topics include: anti-malware analysis techniques, debugging concepts and tools, an examination of malware behavior, network indicators and malware countermeasures. Students will learn how to detect, analyze, reverse-engineer and eradicate malware. Real-world examples of malware will be studied.
  
  • CSCI 4650 - Introduction to ASP.NET Programming

    Credit Hours 3
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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 4805 - Computer Science Capstone

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Department Chair approval and senior classification;
    Description: Students will work in teams on a large project of their own design using the knowledge and skill gained from their classes. Teams will design, document, implement, and present their projects to the faculty.
  
  • CSCI 4900 - Special Problems in Computer Science

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

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

    Credit Hours 3
    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.

Construction Engineering Technology

  
  • CCET 1210 - Construction Surveying

    Credit Hours 3
    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
    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 2540 - Jobsite Management

    Credit Hours 3
    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 2715 - Wood Design

    Credit Hours 3
    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
    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
    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 2790 - Capstone Project

    Credit Hours 3
    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.
  
  • ENGT 2500 - Construction Materials and Methods

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: Study of the properties uses and availability of wood, steel, sand, concrete, reinforced concrete, blocks, bricks and other commonly used construction materials.
  
  • ENGT 2600 - Construction Safety and Health

    Credit Hours 3
    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.
  
  • ENGT 2700 - Construction Estimating

    Credit Hours 3
    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.
  
  • ENGT 2840 - Construction Codes and Standards

    Credit Hours 3
    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
    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 2000 - Introduction to Criminology

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: An overview of the general characteristics of crime and criminals, methods and theories in victimology and criminology, and typologies of violent, property, white-collar, political, organized, and public order crime including cybercrime.
  
  • CRJ 2010 - Criminal Law

    Credit Hours 3
    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 2020 - Research Methods in Criminal Justice

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: Introduces students to fundamental issues associated with the application of scientific methods to criminal justice problems. Students examine topics of research questions, concepts and measurements, experimental designs, sampling, causation, ethics, survey research, secondary data, content analysis, field research, evaluation research, quantitative data analysis, qualitative data analysis, and reporting results and interpreting data, and how these relate to criminal justice issues. 
  
  • CRJ 2400 - Terrorism Understanding

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: An introduction to key concepts related to terrorism, its history, origins, causes, and policies designed to counter it. Major topics include an overview of terrorism as a political weapon; defining terrorism; radicalization; the causes of terrorism; precepts of domestic and international terrorism; and the extremist ideologies and religious foundations of terrorism. Students are also introduced to the policy tools used to prevent and counter terrorism.
  
  • CRJ 3000 - Constitutional Law

    Credit Hours 3
    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 3020 - Criminal Evidence Procedure

    Credit Hours 3
    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
    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 3100 - Fundamentals of Cybercrime

    Credit Hours 3
    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 3130 - Policing in America

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: This course examines contemporary problems faced by law enforcement professionals, in the role United States. It investigates best practices and creates a better understanding of policing in the 21 st Century. Key issues focus on police operations, discretion, use of force, culture and behavior, ethics and deviance, civil liability, and police-community relations. Additional topics include the development of American police institutions, terrorism, and homeland security.
  
  • CRJ 3140 - Private Security and the Law

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: This course examines current trends, legal issues and opportunities within the private justice system. Key issues focus on private security, industrial security, and the law; focusing on a comparative examination of the relationship of the criminal justice system and, business, and industrial security. Additional topics include legal powers of private security officers in arrest, search and seizure, use-of-force situations, and civil/criminal liability faced by the private security  industry.
  
  • CRJ 3150 - Penology and the Study of Corrections

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: This course will provide an in-depth overview of the correctional system, a historical perspective, and methods to reduce recidivism and its place in the system. Topics include treatment of juvenile and adult offenders, U. S. Supreme Court decisions, and the overall effectiveness of incarceration.

     

  
  • CRJ 3210 - Medico-Legal Forensics

    Credit Hours 3
    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
    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
    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 3430 - Management of Incidents

    Credit Hours 3
    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 3440 - Crime Prevention

    Credit Hours 3
    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 4000 - Law Enforcement Administration

    Credit Hours 3
    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 3
    Description: This course involves diverse coverage of specialized research with current issues in criminal justice. Areas of current issues may include topics within law enforcement, courts, corrections, and other areas.
  
  • CRJ 4030 - Comparative Criminal Justice/Homeland Security

    Credit Hours 3
    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
    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
    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
    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 4140 - Homeland Security Law

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: Examination of existing and emerging legal approaches to terrorist threats and other challenges particular to homeland security policies within the contexts of US domestic law, the laws of other nations, and international law emphasizing border control of maritime security, infrastructure protection, cybersecurity, and global/domestic issues and concerns.
  
  • CRJ 4200 - Special Topics in Criminal Justice

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: This elective course covers various topics under the umbrella of the criminal justice system. Topics for this seminar course on current issues such as may include racial profiling; control of terrorism versus individual liberties, the effectiveness of habitual criminal statutes, and othe specialty topics.
  
  • CRJ 4210 - Gangs in Society

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CRJ 1010 ;
    Description: This elective course examines the problem of gangs in society. Topics include why gangs form, why people and society’s response to the problem.
  
  • CRJ 4220 - White Collar Crime

    Credit Hours 3
    Cross Listed:

    LDSP 4220;


    Description: The study of contemporary forms of white collar crime and its explanations, theories, and accounts along with its investigation, adjudication, and regulation.
  
  • CRJ 4230 - Criminal Justice in Popular Culture

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CRJ 1010 ;
    Description: This elective course examines the portrayal of criminal justice in film, television, literature and mass media. In addition, these media are used to illustrate perspectives relevant to criminal justice.
  
  • CRJ 4250 - Serial Murder

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: Introduces students to theories on murder, historical cases of serial homicide, case studies of notorious serial killers, international cases of serial murder, current methods of tracking and apprehending such individuals, and victimology.
  
  • CRJ 4300 - Advanced Criminology

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: This course covers the construction, testing, and application of criminological theories, enduring debates, classical and mainstream
    formulations, and new developments in theoretical approaches.
  
  • CRJ 4410 - Domestic Terrorism

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: This is a study of the foundations of domestic terrorism with an examination of its history and case studies. Topics include historical and active domestic groups; their organizational structure, philosophies and networks.
    The course examines the interrelationships and interactions of presently known groups and policies to prevent and counter them.
  
  • CRJ 4420 - International Terrorism

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: Terrorism has become a political tool used against almost all nations of the world. The course examines known terrorist groups throughout the world, including militant religious groups; and political groups. Policies to prevent and counter international terror are also examined.
  
  • CRJ 4860 - Criminal Justice Internship and Practicum

    Credit Hours 3 to 12
    Variable Credit Hours 3 to 12
    Prerequisite: Declared major in criminal justice, senior standing, and permission of the department
    Description: This course involves work experience with a cooperating criminal justice agency, public or private. Students must complete at least 160 contact hours per three credit hours during the semester. Students are required to
    complete documentation requirements and attend two formal meetings during the course of the internship. A major written project relating to the internship experience is required. Course may be repeated but no more
    than 12 credit hours can be earned.
  
  • CRJ 4900 - Directed Individual Study

    Credit Hours
    Variable Credit Hours 1 to 3
    Prerequisite: CRJ 1010  with a grade of “C” or better, Junior status and permission of the instructor.
    Description: Specialized individual study under the direction of a faculty member. Primarily for those majoring in Criminal Justice.

Culinary Arts

  
  • CA 2410 - Dining Room Service

    Credit Hours
    Description: Types of dining service appropriate to differing food service operations; gain an appreciation of the relationship between “front” and “back” of the house.
  
  • CA 2700 - Bar Management

    Credit Hours
    Description: Alcohol laws and servers’ responsibility, basic mechanics and principles of bar tending, and basic understanding of production process of all alcoholic beverages.
  
  • CA 2710 - Meat Cutting and Process

    Credit Hours
    Description: Identification of primal cuts of meat. Proper cutting techniques and skills required for boning and tying poultry and hams and the basics of hotel-restaurant butchery.
  
  • CULA 1200 - Sanitation and Food Safety

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: This primer course is designed to educate all students to the sacred trust between food production facilities and the general public.  It should prepare each studet to successfully complete the National Restaurant Association’s ServSafe or any similar certificate.
  
  • CULA 1305 - Nutrition for Culinary Arts

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: This is an introduction to the basic nutritional principles and guidelines.  Topics include nutrients, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, minerals and vitamins.  Students plan meals and menus based on the above principles using nutritional guidelines as the primary basis.
  
  • CULA 1310 - Fundamentals of Baking

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: Fundamentals of baking is an introduction to the basic principle of baking including formula procedures, properties of baking ingredients, and functions and proper use of bakery equipment.  Students will present yeast breads and rolls, pies, cakes, icing, basic pastry dough, and cookies using mixing methods and ingredients.
  
  • CULA 1320 - Culinary I (Fundamentals)

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: This is the introductory food production class for culinary students.  Topics include the theories and methods of cooking, vocabulary, and the development of safe and sanitary kitchen practices.  Production items will include vegetable and starch preparation, stocks, sauces and soups, poultry and egg cookery.

     

  
  • CULA 1321 - Advanced Baking and Pastry

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: Baking skills are polished as students learn more difficult baking, pastry and dessert techniques.  Emphais is placed on presentation, plating and appearance.  The production of high skill, high quality finished products is emphasized with special attention to chocolate work, plate presentation, and cold and hot preparations.  Souffles, dessert sauces and creative flavorful designs exemplify this course.
  
  • CULA 1325 - Culinary II (Fabrication)

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: CULA 1320 ;
    Description: This course will introduce the principles of identifying, receiving, fabricating, and storing vegetables, fruits, herbs, nuts, grains, dry goods, prepared foods, dairy products, and spices.  Students will then explore the subject of meats, poultry, seafood and their application in food service operations.
  
  • CULA 1330 - Garde Manger

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: This course provides students with skills and knowledge of the organization, equipment and responsibilities of the “cold kitchen.”  Students are introduced to and prepare cold hors d’oeuvres, sandwiches, salads, as well as basic charcuterie items while focusing on the total utilization of product.  Reception foods and buffet arrangements are introduced.

     

  
  • CULA 1340 - Dining Room Service

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: An exploration of table service principles and skills with an emphasis on customer service in a restaurant.  The focus will be placed on guest relations, professional communications, order-taking in an a la carte environment, service sequence, point-of-sale systems, case handling, beginning merchandising, table skills, and dining room preparation.  Students will study and engage in critical-thinking topics that are relevant to providing high quality formal table service and customer service.
  
  • CULA 2250 - Professional Catering

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: This course examines the requirements to start and operate a catering company.  Topics of discussion include kitchen equipment, regulations, operations, and business planning.
  
  • CULA 2300 - Food and Beverage Management

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: This course covers restaurant and food service operations.  Including facilities capabilities, personnel management, and daily operations, sanitation, and facilities readiness.
  
  • CULA 2331 - Cooking for Special Diets

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: This course introduces students to the basics of product selection and cooking techniques appropriate for a variety of special needs or food allergy diets.  Food preparation and planning menus for food allergies, food intolerance and diabetic cooking methods and ingredient choices and/or substitutions are taught in this class.
  
  • CULA 2340 - Human Resource Management

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: This course focuses on human relations in organizations and restaurant management.  It also offers a brief look at management history, policies, and behavior of workers and management.
  
  • CULA 2350 - Introduction to Ice Carving

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: In this laboratory course, students will learn the hands on basic ice carving principles and skills necessary to create beautiful artworks of ice.
 

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