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2020-2021 Rivier Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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BUS 681 - Healthcare Marketing Strategies
This course is designed to prepare students to explore the healthcare environment, with an eye towards understanding how to market and communicate within this multi-faceted industry. From identifying a target market to the preparation of an extensive integrated marketing communications (IMC) program, including public relations, the graduate adult learner will be immersed in the analysis, synthesis, decision-making, creation, and execution of an IMC plan that communicates “one, clear, consistent” message to all healthcare stakeholders. Focus will be on reaching employees, the community, the target market to which the healthcare organization wishes to promote itself, its investors, and others. Considerable research will be the hallmark of a well-written IMC Plan.
Credits: 3
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BUS 682 - Marketing Research and Analysis
Topics to be covered include gathering information, marketing problem definition, preparation of the research plan, selecting methods of collecting data, questionnaires, interpreting and analyzing data, and using research results for marketing decision making. Special attention will be given to setting up and maintaining customer/ prospect databases.
Credits: 3
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BUS 687 - Strategic Brand Management
With the rapidly changing environment affecting businesses and organizations of all types and sizes, students in this course will gain an applied understanding of brands and brand equity The ins-and-outs of how to craft a marketing strategy to leverage the brand assets will be covered in this course.
Credits: 3
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BUS 690 - Quantitative Process Improvement in Organizations
This course will explore the organization as a system, consisting of numerous processes, and how to recognize, understand, and interpret data in this system, using measures to improve key processes to achieve results, not only in organizational performance, but customer and employee satisfaction. The focus is on knowing what to measure to improve key processes within the system, and thus making the system more effective and efficient. Using the PDCA model, students will develop skills in using project management and continuous improvement tools in problem identification, process-mapping, accurate data collection, charting, and analysis, root cause analysis, and solution development and testing. Students, will develop skills to systematically improve processes in any sector, such as manufacturing, services, education, healthcare, government, and non-profit environment. No statistical or mathematical background is required.
Credits: 3
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BUS 698 - Professional Internship
This course offers students an opportunity to integrate the practical aspects of the business discipline within the theoretical framework developed in the program’s core courses. Student chooses a fourteen-week internship program in the business profession, and works under the supervision of an on-site work supervisor. A written report must be submitted to the course instructor and a presentation or report must be provided at the end of the term.
Prerequisites & Notes
Completion of four core courses and approval from the divisional dean or designee.
Credits: 3-6
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BUS 777 - Strategies of Healthcare Administration
This capstone course assimilates forward-thinking strategies that resolve everyday complex issues in the health care industry. Students will be able to grasp the diverse types of organizations that make up the health care industry - such as not-for-profits organizations, public government agencies, entrepreneurial new ventures and startups, and for-profits organizations. The course covers the implementation, ramifications, and feedback and measurements leading to continuous improvement planning within the next steps. Students will apply the methods by which an organization can grow its revenue and profits at the same time to maintain a sustainable competitive advantage.
Prerequisites & Notes
Recommended not to be taken with more than one other course in the same term. To be taken during the last semester of graduate study with divisional dean or designee approval.
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BUS 779 - Strategies of Innovation
As a senior level course the Strategic Management course integrates previously learned business concepts. Strategies of innovation introduces the use of innovation and its role in strategy development sustainable strategies to resolve complex, strategic problems in conventional business environment using analytical approaches to define solutions. General topics include: the total enterprise perspective from innovation to implementation, the concept of strategy, strategic assessment, internal alignments, social responsibility and the implications of innovative strategic management with its accompanying planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Students must have completed all of the core requirements prior to enrolling in the course. A major term-based project and/or series of case studies culminates the learning process.
Prerequisites & Notes
All other core courses or equivalents. Recommended not to be taken with more than one other course in the same term. Recommended to be taken during the last semester of graduate study with divisional dean or designee approval.
Credits: 3
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BUS 780 - Directed Study
An opportunity to explore a topic not covered in regular courses.
Prerequisites & Notes
Open only to M.B.A./M.S. candidates who have the approval of the dean or designee and the endorsement of the faculty member with whom the study is to be conducted.
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CHE 102 - Principles of Chemistry
This course is an introduction to the fundamental concepts in chemistry, including the structure of the atom, ionic and covalent substances, molecular interactions, general types of chemical reactions, acid/base chemistry and solutions, reaction rates and equilibrium, nuclear chemistry, and biochemistry. The course is focused on preparing pre-nursing students for the HESI Admission Assessment Exam or the TEAS Exam.
Prerequisites & Notes
Offered: Second term every semester (hybrid) and summer (online)
Credits: 3
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CHE 104 - General Chemistry I
CHE104 is the first course in a two-semester sequence that covers basic chemical concepts for science majors. Topics include: chemical reactions and stoichiometry, aqueous reactions, oxidation-reduction reactions, thermochemistry, electronic structure and chemical bonding, and gases. This course is designed for students who intend to take additional chemistry courses.
Prerequisites & Notes
One year of high school chemistry or equivalent and two years of high school mathematics-algebra and above.
Offered fall semester
Credits: 3
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CJ 160 - Introduction to Criminal Justice
This course is for students who intend to enter one of the many professions associated with the criminal justice system and those who have a general interest in the topic. Through readings, discussions, papers and experiential learning, students will become familiar with the broad outlines of the criminal justice system, the causes of crime, strategies to deter and prevent crime, and the investigation and punishment of crime. Students are required to participate in a tour of the NH State Prison or to arrange their own “personal field trip”, such as police ride-along or viewing a morning or afternoon court session.
Credits: 3
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CJ 200 - Legal Writing and Research
Students first learn the importance of effective writing for all criminal justice professionals, as well as common mistakes and ways to improve their writing. Assignments include a mock police report and mock probation log. Thereafter, students learn how social science research has impacted the criminal justice system, and complete their own research assignments, including analyzing information contained in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report database, and writing an annotated bibliography and an article critique.
Credits: 3
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CJ 214 - Internship I
This course provides students from any major the opportunity to intern with a police department, court, victim assistance office, or other entity involved in the criminal justice system. Because university supervision takes place entirely online, students have the freedom to intern anywhere, including other states and countries. Students intern a minimum of 120 hours for 3 credits, or 240 hours for 6 credits.
Credits: 3-6
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CJ 220 - Criminal Law and Procedure
Students learn how to analyze criminal statutes and judicial decisions, and apply them to the facts of a given case. Next, students review key crimes, including their elements and possible defenses (known as substantive criminal law), and the rules the government must follow when it seeks to enforce the law, including protections contained in the Bill of Rights (known as criminal procedure). Finally, students learn how a typical case moves through the justice system, beginning with an arrest and ending with a trial and any appeal.
Credits: 3
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CJ 230 - International Human Rights
Topics covered include: the ethical and philosophical sources for human rights; debates such as whether human rights are universal or relative; the current international human rights regime, including its legal basis and enforcement mechanisms; and specific case studies, such as the “dirty” wars in Latin America and the struggle against Apartheid. The course culminates in a reading and discussion of Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon, a fictional account of the Soviet Show Trials of the 1930s that examines the horrors that occur when a political movement and its leaders define the “individual” simply as “a multitude of one million divided by one million.
Credits: 3
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CJ 240 - Policing
Students learn about the history of policing; current challenges facing law enforcement; tools and strategies used by police officers to address such challenges; and constitutional aspects of law enforcement, such as searches and arrests. Students participate in experiential learning, including being introduced to the science of collecting and preserving evidence.
Credits: 3
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CJ 270 - Introduction to Victimology
This course is a general introduction to victimology, a field within criminology that focuses on the victims of crime. Issues to be explore include: the scope and pattern of criminal victimization; risk factors and theoretical paradigms associated with victimization; the impact of victimization on individuals and society as a whole; the criminal justice system’s response to victimization; and, services for crime victims and the professions that provide such services.
Credits: 3
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CJ 301 - Drugs and the Criminal Justice System
Students learn about the impact of illegal drug use on American society and the criminal justice system’s response to this use. Specific topics covered include a review of widely abused illegal drugs and their effects on users, social and criminal correlates associated with drug use, and historical and current U.S. drug laws. Students review contemporary debates confronting U.S. citizens and policymakers including the opioid epidemic, the role of treatment vs. enforcement and the current trend of decriminalization and legalization of marijuana.
Credits: 3
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CJ 308 - Crime Scene Investigation
This course focuses on practical aspects of crime scene investigations and related topics. Subjects include securing a crime scene; collecting and processing evidence; interviewing witnesses and interrogating suspects; documenting investigations, including drafting police reports; and the constitutional limits and requirements of criminal investigations. The course includes a significant amount of practicable hands-on instruction by the professor. In lieu of a textbook, students are required to pay a lab fee, which goes toward the purchase of supplies that they will use throughout the semester.
Credits: 3
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CJ 313 - Internship II
This course provides students from any major a second opportunity to intern with a police department, court, victim assistance office, or other entity involved in the criminal justice system. Because university supervision takes place entirely online, students have the freedom to intern anywhere, including in other states and countries. Students intern a minimum of 120 hours for 3 credits, or 240 hours for 6 credits.
Prerequisites & Notes
Students intern a minimum of 120 hours for 3 credits, or 240 hours for 6 credits.
Credits: 3-6
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CJ 326 - Juvenile Justice
This course explores the nature and causes of juvenile crime (“juvenile delinquency”) and how society responds to, and seeks to prevent, such crime. Subjects covered include defining and measuring delinquency, individual risk factors and environmental influences associated with delinquency; theories regarding the causes of juvenile delinquency; the juvenile justice system, and how it compares to, and differs from, the adult criminal justice system, including the juvenile court and correctional systems.
Credits: 3
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CJ 330 - Corrections and Community Supervision
This course examines the key roles in the criminal justice system played by corrections (jails and prisons), community supervision (probation and parole programs), and diversion and alternative sentencing programs (such as drug and mental health courts) in trying to achieve the sometimes seemingly contradictory goals of meting out just punishment to those convicted of crimes, protecting society, and rehabilitating offenders.
Credits: 3
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CJ 341 - JYS: Innocence and Guilt
Through a variety of reading and writing assignments, students explore the historical use of law as a form of social control, and tensions that repeatedly arise in societies governed by the rule of law, including when the law conflicts with notions of charity and justice. For their final project, students research and write about a contemporary conflict between the rights of the individual and the rights of society. Students have the option of writing their paper in a dialogue/play format, or a more traditional essay format.
Credits: 3
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CJ 350 - Organized and Transnational Crime
The course begins with an examination of organized crime in the United States, including how organized crime differs from other categories of crime, the history, the social context in which it occurs, the political and legal responses to organized crime, and how it is depicted in popular culture. Thereafter, the focus will be on crime at the transnational level, including current trends such as the production and distribution of illegal drugs, cybercrime and human trafficking, and the international community’s response to transnational crime.
Credits: 3
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CJ 395 - Internship/Practicum
This course is open to all majors. Students intern a minimum of 100 hours for 3 credits, or 220 hours for 6 credits with a police department, probation/parole office, court, law office, or other entity involved in the criminal justice system. In addition, students attend a weekly seminar during which they discuss their experiences and job opportunities with their fellow students, develop their cover letters and resumes, and work on their writing, public speaking and interviewing skills.
Prerequisites & Notes
Students intern a minimum of 120 hours for 3 credits, or 240 hours for 6 credits. This course is repeatable.
Credits: 3-6
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CJ 400 - Professional Ethics
This course examines ethical issues faced by criminal justice professionals such as police and corrections officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys and judges, in carrying out their duties. Students will review the laws, rules and professional standards that govern conduct within various criminal justice professions. In addition, students will review specific case studies in order to gain a fuller understanding of the subject matter. Finally, students will be confronted with specific ethical dilemmas and asked to explain and justify their response
Credits: 3
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CJ 410 - Homicide Investigation
This course includes a classroom element, in which students explore the crime of homicide and the investigation of such cases from a theoretical perspective, and a practical/lab element, utilizing on a mock homicide crime scene which is in place throughout the semester. Students learn how to conduct a homicide investigation, including securing the crime scene, finding, gathering and documenting evidence, and finding and interviewing witnesses and suspects. Students are required to write mock police reports documenting the investigation, and demonstrate what they have learned through tests and realistic role play. Students will be required to pay a lab fee, which goes toward the purchase of supplies that they will use throughout the semester.
Credits: 3
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CJ 425 - Directed Study or Community Service
This is a student-initiated and planned exploration of an advanced topic in an area of special interest not otherwise available for study. Permission of the program coordinator is required. It may consist of formal, supervised study of a law-related academic subject with a qualified Rivier instructor. Alternatively, it may involve a law-related, unpaid community service project. Either alternative must be accompanied by a syllabus or learning contract stating the educational goals of the project or course of study as developed and agreed upon in advance by the student, program coordinator, and instructor or work supervisor. For a service-learning project, the contract must also state the agreed-upon community service goals. A one-credit service learning project may be taken in conjunction with this course.
Credits: 3
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CPL 399 - Credit for Prior Learning
Students in Professional Studies programs may be qualified to earn credit for learning gained outside of the classroom. Students who are able to identify courses for which they have prior learning or life/professional experience, may be eligible to create a portfolio of documentation providing evidence that the course objectives have been met. After meeting with the Associate Vice President for Learning Effectiveness (AVPLE) who oversees the Credit for Prior Leaning (CPL) program, it will be determined if the student’s life experiences can meet the course requirements. The student may then enroll in a required 1-credit course of study to discuss CPL portfolio development. Once the portfolio is completed, it is reviewed by the AVPLE to ensure it meets all requirements for submission, and then by the instructor of the course and the Dean of the appropriate Division. Upon evaluation of the portfolio, the instructor assigns a grade of Pass/Fail for the number of credits applicable to the course for which the portfolio was developed.
Students eligible for enrolling in the Credit for Prior Learning course must be accepted into a degree program by the Office of Admissions; have completed 15 semester hours or more of credit at Rivier University, and have been approved by the AVPLE to develop the portfolio(s) for the awarding of credit. Students approved for the Credit for Prior Learning program enroll in the 1-credit CPL course and pay a per-credit fee for each credit assigned to the course.
Students should consult with their Academic & Career Advisor to determine if they are eligible for the Credit for Prior Learning program. Those eligible should inquire of their advisor about the costs associated with the Credit for Prior Learning course and the portfolio fees.
Credits: 1
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CS 120 - Introduction to Computing and Information Literacy
This course is an introduction to computing and information literacy. Students will learn the knowledge and skills required to perform functions common to all Windows applications (including word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation programs), the fundamental concepts of networking and information technologies (network architecture, computer security, e-mail, the Internet, library research databases and the Blackboard). They will become familiar with input and output devices, the file structure of an operating system, and with storing and retrieving information from resources on the Internet.
Credits: 3
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CS 245 - Introduction to Computer Architecture
This course is an introduction to the building blocks and organization of contemporary computers. Topics include: registers, memories and other logic building blocks; central processing unit pipelines; integer and floating point computer arithmetic; memory and cache design; paging and mass-storage systems; interrupt strategies; system bus protocols and shared-memory multiprocessors; contemporary input/output buses and techniques; and the interactions between hardware and the operating system.
Credits: 3
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CS 301 - Computer Science Fundamentals
This foundation course is a broad-based introduction to the basic topics of computer sciences. The course presents the basic organization and operation of modern computer systems, both hardware and software. The general concepts of the algorithms are introduced and their importance to software design and implementation is studied, with simple programming assignments (mostly in modern Object-Oriented programming languages) used to explore these concepts. The course also introduces important formal computer science topics such as computer organization, basic data structures (stacks, queues, trees, graphs, etc.) and data storages.
Credits: 3
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CS 308 - Computer Networks
A survey of modern technologies available for computer network solutions to distributed processing problems. Topics include: layered network architectures, signal transmission analysis, transmission media, data encoding, local and wide area networks, communications architecture and protocols, and network modeling techniques with OPNET software.
Prerequisites & Notes
or equivalent
Credits: 3
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CS 315 - Introduction to Algorithms
This introduction to algorithms analysis and design focuses on using both mathematical tools and object-oriented principles. Techniques of theoretical and experimental analysis and algorithmic strategies are introduced using object oriented programming with JAVA or C++. Emphasis is placed on recursion, search, sorting, and graph and tree algorithms, and on implementation an application of various algorithmic strategies
Prerequisites & Notes
CS 301
Credits: 3
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CS 335 - Database Management Systems
An introduction to database systems and their environment. Emphasis is on the relational database model. The basic principles of the relational model are discussed, at a relatively practical level. These principles are then used as a basis for learning and using SQL (Structured Query Language), using both the Data Definition Language (DDL) and Data Manipulation Language (DML) aspects. The practical use of SQL is strongly emphasized. Some coverage of Entity-Relationship modeling and Database Normalization is included. In addition, stored procedures are covered, using Oracle PL/SQL and other database stored procedure languages. The concepts are reinforced with the use of the Rivier College Oracle database server and/or other database implementations.
Prerequisites & Notes
CS 250 or equivalent
Credits: 3
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CS 341 - JYS: The Digital World
This seminar looks at the practicalities, opportunities, and risks of living in the digital world. The seminar will explore how the digital world works, how the digital world is becoming an increasingly important part of our professional and personal lives, the ways in which the digital world increases our abilities to transform the world, and the risks to those who are marginalized. Specific issues that are addressed include: digital identity and digital anonymity; the digital divide (those who have good access versus those who have poor, spotty, or no access to the digital world); the danger of tracking in the digital world for the oppressed; and the opportunities to know, work with, and help the other.
Prerequisites & Notes
Fulfills the Junior Year Seminar General Education requirement.
Credits: 3
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CS 385 - Object-Oriented Programming using Java
This course provides a working practical knowledge of the Java programming language. Starting from a basic knowledge of Java, students will learn how to write programs using both regular applications and applets. Topics covered will include object-oriented concepts, including abstraction, inheritance and polymorphism; the use of packages and the scoping of variables in Java; inner classes; event-driven programming; and the Java class library, including Graphical User Interface (GUI) programming using JFC/Swing. This is not a course for novice programmers; some basic knowledge of programming is expected.
Prerequisites & Notes
CS 301
Credits: 3
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CS 425 - Directed Study
Student-initiated and planned exploration of a selected topic in an area of special interest not available in listed course offerings.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission of the department. Senior and qualified junior majors only.
Credits: 3
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CS 448 - Computer Security
An introduction to the methods, algorithms, and tools of computer system and web security. Topics include both the theoretical and practical aspects of security including cryptography, protocols, and system design. Security standards will also be covered as well as security engineering examples. An important part of the course will be a survey of actual techniques used by hackers to attack systems.
Prerequisites & Notes
or equivalent or Permission of Instructor
Credits: 3
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CS 455 - Topics in Computer Science
A select group of topics offered on a timely basis. Examples are Intelligent Systems, Computer Security, Network Management, Date Mining, Information Technology, and Optimization Techniques.
Prerequisites & Notes
Dependent on the particular topic.
Credits: 3
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CS 505 - Computer Science Fundamentals
This foundation course is a broad based introduction to the basic topics of computer sciences. The course presents the basic organization and operation of modern computer systems, both hardware and software. The general concepts of the algorithms are introduced and their importance to software design and implementation is studied by using simple programming assignments, mostly in modern Object-Oriented programming languages, to explore these concepts. The course also introduces important formal computer science topics such as computer organization, basic data structures (stacks, queues, trees, graphs, etc.) and data storages.
Credits: 3
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CS 552 - Object-Oriented Design
An introduction to current practices of software engineering design. Modern tools for design from functional requirements to code integration will be discussed and used in class projects. Actual design reviews and management of software development prepare students for design methodologies of large software projects.
Credits: 3
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CS 553 - Networking Technologies
An introduction to the concepts, protocols, technologies, standards, and applications of data communications and computer networks, including both local and wide area networks. It provides the foundation and background necessary for the advanced computer network courses. Signal transmission analysis, modulation concepts, modems, multiplexers, digital technologies, transmission impairments, and various transmission media will be extensively discussed. Network protocols will be presented.
Credits: 3
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CS 554 - Operating Systems
An introduction to modern operating systems design and implementation. Processes and threads; concurrent programming; spinlocks; semaphores; events; monitors; message passing; remote procedure calls; dispatchers; deadlocks; memory management; segmentation; paging; interrupt handling; device drivers; file systems.
Credits: 3
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CS 556 - Computer Architecture
The study of modern computer architecture and design. Combinational and synchronous digital logic; state machines; data and control flow; data formats; instruction sets; processor pipelines; pipeline hazards; branches and branch prediction; out-of-order execution; memory organization; caches; virtual memory; interrupts; buses; Direct Memory Access and I/O.
Credits: 3
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CS 557 - Algorithms
The analysis of algorithms through the main algorithm design paradigms. Asymptotic notation; Sums and Recurrences; Divide and Conquer; Dynamic Programming; Greedy Algorithms; Graph Algorithms; Computational Geometry; Advanced Data Structures; NP Completeness.
Credits: 3
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CS 572 - Computer Security
Covers the main aspects of computer system security. Topics include a history of cryptography, and introduction to the basic mathematics behind cryptography, techniques of cryptography including classic cryptosystems, symmetric block ciphers, public key cryptosystems, message authentication codes, hashes, message digests and authentication. Additional topics include firewalls, web privacy and security, malware, and security tools.
Credits: 3
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CS 574 - Computer Graphics
An introduction to 2D and 3D computer graphics and rendering techniques. Two-dimensional rendering; lines; polygons; clipping; windows and viewports; mathematics of computer graphics; 3D linear transformations; the 3D rendering pipeline; shading; z-buffering; alpha blending; texturing; lighting.
Credits: 3
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CS 578 - Advanced Networking
This course exposes students to technologies of Local and Wide Area Networks (LANs and WANs). Topics include: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI, Fiber channel, Asynchronous Transfer Mode LAN and LAN emulation, wireless technologies, interconnection using bridges, routers, and layers 2/3 switches, Internet, TCP/IP protocols, IPv6, Quality of Service and multimedia support, Multiprotocol Label Switching, Voice over IP, Virtual Private Network, and network modeling techniques with OPNET software.
Credits: 3
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CS 582 - Practical C++ Programming
Covers most aspects of the C++ Programming language. Topics include classes, constructors and destructors, conversations, assignments, operator overloading, inheritance, polymorphism, multiple inheritance, input/output streams, exceptions, function templates, class templates, the Standard Template Library, and file I/O.
This is not a beginning programming course; students are expected to have a basic background in programming, preferably in C or Java. This course brings a student to the level of a practicing professional.
Credits: 3
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CS 597 - Multimedia and Web Development
An exploration of the computer science aspects of multimedia as well as practical applications of multimedia. This course is a practical survey of the state-of-the-art in multimedia. The technical aspects of the algorithms, languages, and hardware will be covered. Students will create their own multimedia using HTML/XHTML as the “machine language” of portable multimedia. Java Script will be covered, as well as CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), Perl, and other technologies and languages.
Credits: 3
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CS 608 - Software Engineering
In-depth examination of the theory, knowledge, and practice for building software systems that satisfy the requirements of users and customers. All phases of the life cycle of a software system are discussed. Emphasis on methods and tools for analyzing and modeling software artifacts, managing software development, assessing and controlling quality, and for ensuring a disciplined approach to software evolution and reuse.
Credits: 3
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CS 610 - Database Management Systems
An introduction to relational database design architecture. Topics include specifications, tools, procedures, file structures, storage and access, normalization, relational algebra, and data warehousing. Students will design and access databases using simple and complex query structures. Standard SQL language is used for the lab projects.
Credits: 3
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CS 612 - Information Technology
An overview of information technology including relational databases, document image management, interactive voice response, electronic data interchange, and Internet data access. Students will create and access a relational database and perform On-Line Analytical Processing, operations done in a data warehousing environment. Issues and trade-offs relating to enterprise computing will be discussed. Research on current information technology subjects is required for a class project.
Credits: 3
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CS 616 - Data Mining
Application of the techniques of artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, and mathematics to detecting meaningful patterns in large datasets. Data mining technology is used to discover subtle cause/effect relationships in data that might other-wise be unsuspected. Data mining technology is applicable whenever a large dataset is created and little is known about the relationships among the attributes of the data.
Credits: 3
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CS 664 - Knowledge-Based Systems
An examination of conceptualization, design, and development techniques of knowledge-based systems. The course will include an examination of the types of problems appropriate for knowledge-based systems. These studies will employ the LISP programming language and OPS5 expert systems shells. The course will include a knowledge-based system development project using OPS5 or other knowledge-based development environment. No prior knowledge of LISP is assumed.
Credits: 3
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CS 680 - Software Quality Assurance
This course addresses the issue of quality throughout the software development process, including design, implementation, testing, and delivery. Special attention will be given to setting quality standards, developing quality measurement techniques, writing test plans, rapid prototyping, and testing the user interface. Relevant quality standards will be reviewed.
Credits: 3
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CS 690-696 - Topics in Computer Science
A select group of topics offered on a timely basis. Examples are Computational Complexity, Distributed Computing, Parallel Processing, High-Performance Computing, Human-Computer Interfaces, System and Network Programming, System Simulation and Modeling, Image Processing, Data Modeling, Big Data Systems, Software Reliability, Numerical Methods, Computational Geometry, Functional Languages, Programming in Python, Perl Programming, and Advanced Operating Systems.
Prerequisites & Notes
Approval of the faculty advisor.
Credits: 3
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CS 697 - Advanced Internship
The course offers students a continuing opportunity to integrate the practical aspects of the computing discipline within the theoretical framework developed in the program’s core courses. Student chooses an advanced (individualized) internship program in the computing profession, and works on an individual or team project in the company under the supervision of a faculty advisor (program director) (or the course instructor) and an on-site work supervisor. A portfolio must be submitted to the course instructor at the completion of the advanced internship experience. Course credits are based on the type of internship and the number of work hours required by the internship employment. An advanced internship experience includes an educational component that helps students contextualize their first internship experience and to reflect how it informs and influences their continued academic and professional growth. Course credits can replace the corresponding number of credits in the 36 credits required for completing the M.S. program.
Prerequisites & Notes
CS 698 ”Professional Internship” course & Approval of the faculty advisor (program director).
Credits: 1-3, depending on the duration of the internship
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CS 698 - Professional Internship
The course offers students an opportunity to integrate the practical aspects of the computing discipline within the theoretical framework developed in the program’s core courses. Student chooses an internship program in the computing profession, and works under the supervision of a faculty advisor and an on-site work supervisor. A portfolio must be submitted to the course instructor at the completion of the internship experience. Course credits are based on the type of internship and the number of work hours required by the internship employment. Professional Internship includes an educational component that helps students contextualize their first internship and reflect on how it informs and influences their continued academic and professional growth. Course credits can replace the 36 credits required for the M.S. program.
Prerequisites & Notes
Approval of the faculty advisor (program director).
Credits: 3
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CS 699 - Professional Seminar
Various recent research topics with the emphasis on the student’s application of prior course work. Projects are selected by students prior to the start of the semester. Individuals design and implement moderately large software systems as the deliverable for this course.
Prerequisites & Notes
Taken just prior to program completion.
Credits: 3
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CS 700 - Reading and Research
Further study in an area of a special topic that is not otherwise available in the curriculum.
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CYM 171 - Introduction to Cybersecurity
Students will explore the evolution of cybersecurity and learn the different concepts in a fast-paced environment. In this course, some of the main computer-related threats, including protecting systems and data with the most common topics such as identity theft, fraud, cyber terrorism, hacking, and cyber bullying cases will be examined.
Credits: 3
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CYM 250 - Cyber Law & Ethics
Students will examine ethical and legal issues as they impact cybersecurity professionals. Topics will include intellectual property, civil litigation, criminal prosecution, and privacy laws. The class also examines the legal and ethical issues associated with information security including access, use, and dissemination. The class will also analyze criminal activities on the internet including hacking, and unauthorized access, identity theft and online fraud, electronic interception, search and seizure and surveillance.
Credits: 3
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CYM 310 - Ethical Hacking & Systems Defense
Students will learn and apply tactics and techniques to attack and defend networks and mobile devices. Topics include network scanning, malware threats, denial of service, and hijacking.
Credits: 3
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CYM 410 - Cybersecurity Risk Assessment
This course will provide the framework of the nature of risk and its impact on society, whether large global corporations, small businesses, governments, organizations, or even individuals. The course will focus on the fundamentals and processes of Cyber Risk Assessment aligned from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Credits: 3
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CYM 450 - Cybersecurity Management Competition
This course will provide cybersecurity students working in teams to secure and maintain information assets to maintain business continuity by working on real-world scenarios. Focus will be on putting together their team’s division of labor to cover every aspect of security operations.
Credits: 3
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CYM 479 - Senior Capstone Seminar
This faculty facilitated small group seminar provides an opportunity for students to synthesize the reasoning and judgment to protect and recover information systems. Students will identify a current issue in the cybersecurity field, review the current literature, form and test a hypothesis to develop suggestions for future study.
Credits: 3
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CYM 495 - Internship
The course is designed to provide the business student with a new learning experience in a specialized work area. The student employee will gain valuable practical experience and training.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission of the department and a cumulative general average of B (3.0).
Credits: 3
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ED 108 - Human Development and Learning
This course explores the multiple interactions and communications that influence the development of young children in the physical, cognitive, language, emotional, social, and moral domains of human development. Students examine current theories of learning associated with early childhood, childhood, adolescent, and adult growth and development. They research and apply their understanding of human development to create healthy, respectful, supportive and challenging learning environments for children ages birth-adolescence.
Prerequisites & Notes
Offered: Fall.
Credits: 3
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ED 110 - Teaching, Technology, Learning Environment
This course analyzes and evaluates a wide repertoire of effective teaching approaches and learning theories using technology as a tool of inquiry, documentation, data collection, and assessment. Students design, implement, and evaluate meaningful, authentic learning experiences using a range of technological tools. The importance of collaboration, communication, classroom management, and professional growth are emphasized to support and enhance student learning and allow equal access to the digital world.
Prerequisites & Notes
Twenty-five hours of field experience are required. Offered: Fall.
Credits: 3
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ED 260 - Psychology and Teaching of the Pre-Adolescent and Adolescent
This course examines classic and contemporary pre-adolescent and adolescent psychological theories. Special consideration is given to patterns of personal, cultural, physical, social, and academic learning and development. The focus will help students understand the ways learners differ individually (race, class, gender identity, social class, and status, ability and disability) and the impact this has on the classroom environment. This course may include an experiential or service learning project.
Prerequisites & Notes
Offered: Every other spring.
Credits: 3
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ED 286 - Fundamentals of Math II (4-8)
Students in this course will develop procedural fluency and conceptual understanding in basic algebra, geometry, probability, and the components of the statistical process. Students will model, through design of instruction and assessment, how the development of understanding within and among mathematical domains intersects with the practices of problem solving and reasoning.
Prerequisites & Notes
Twenty-five hours of field experience are required.
Offered: Fall.
Credits: 3
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ED 290 - Fostering Literacy I: Emergent through Early (Pre-K-3)
This course examines the processes of literacy development in young children including English language learners with an emphasis on strategies to foster early skills from phonemic and print awareness through comprehension. Students will explore factors influencing language and literacy acquisition, use of formal and informal assessments, and current best practices in emergent and early literacy. Students will integrate reading, writing, and children’s literature to design developmentally appropriate curriculum
Prerequisites & Notes
Twenty-five hours of field experience are required. Offered: Spring.
Credits: 3
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ED 291 - Fostering Literacy II: Critical Readers & Writers
This course examines the methods of literacy development in children grades 4-8 including English language learners with an emphasis on informational text, reading comprehension strategies, the process, and mechanics of writing. Various genres of children’s literature will be used to analyze, interpret, and evaluate the elements of literary works and as models for writing.
Prerequisites & Notes
Twenty-five hours of field experience are required. Offered: Fall.
Credits: 3
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ED 322 - Methods of Teaching Specific Secondary Subjects
This course focuses on the models for teaching and learning in specific disciplines. Students prepare to apply specific methodologies during associated field experiences with middle and high school students. There is an emphasis on the measurement of student progress, data collection, and assessment of learning outcomes in grades 5-12. Students learn to collaborate with the school community, to differentiate instruction, to teach literacy within the discipline, to develop and evaluate programs, and to employ current research based practices in curriculum and instruction.
Prerequisites & Notes
Twenty-five hours of field experience are required. Offered: As needed.
Credits: 3
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ED 325 - Assessment Informed Instruction
This course will develop awareness and understanding of the purpose, administration, and reporting of formal and informal assessment tools and strategies to design, adapt, and improve instructional programs. Students will understand ethically responsible practice in response to a diverse range of learning styles. Through the use of systematic observation and documentation, students will practice informed decision collaboratively to implement individual learning goals, evaluate outcomes and environments. Indicators of and accommodations for common learning difficulties are addressed.
Prerequisites & Notes
Twenty-five hours of field experience are required. Offered: Spring.
Credits: 3
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ED 330 - Technology in Educational Organizations
This course explores technology as a tool of data collection, documentation, networking, marketing, program operations and professional development. Students will gain experience using management software systems and Web 2.0 including Webinars, social media sites, and Website development. The selection and use of office technology and hardware will be emphasized.
Prerequisites & Notes
Offered: As needed.
Credits: 3
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ED 341 - Methods of Teaching Biology/Life Science in Secondary Grades
This course focuses on the basic concepts, principles, and techniques associated with the teaching of biology and life science in secondary grades. Students learn to apply specific methodology for teaching biology and life science, including, laboratory instruction; science literacy; and natural, technological, ethical, and moral dilemmas in the conduct of science. Students learn data collection and assessment methods to measure grade 7-12 learning outcomes and student progress. This course is open to biology majors and required of biology education majors.
Prerequisites & Notes
Twenty-five hours of field experience in a Biology/Life Science classroom are required. Offered: Every other fall.
Credits: 3
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ED 342 - Methods of Teaching English Language Arts in Secondary Grades
This course focuses on the basic concepts, principles, and techniques associated with the teaching of English Language Arts in secondary grades. Particular emphasis is placed on the imperative to read and to write. Reading and writing in the four literary genres for young adults and adults are explored including: informational texts, development of effective assignments, teaching for different purposes, data collection and assessment techniques for grades 5-12, and teaching students with diverse reading and writing abilities. The teaching of speaking, listening, and media literacy are modeled and practiced.
Prerequisites & Notes
Twenty-five hours of field experience in an English Language Arts classroom are required. Offered: Every other fall.
Credits: 3
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ED 343 - Methods of Teaching Mathematics in Secondary Grades
This course focuses on the basic concepts, principles, and techniques used in the teaching of mathematics in secondary grades, 5-12. The course exposes students to theoretical and practical frameworks for teaching mathematics; examine factors that influence learning, engage students in the development and presentation of mathematics lessons as well as data collection and evaluative methods for measuring and monitoring student understanding in grades 5-12.
Prerequisites & Notes
Twenty-five hours of field experience in a Mathematics classroom are required. Offered: Every other fall.
Credits: 3
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ED 345 - Methods of Teaching Social Studies in Secondary Grades
This course focuses on the basic concepts, principles, and techniques used in the teaching of Social Studies in middle to secondary grades including the design of a standards-based integrated lesson and unit plans, research specific to social studies, and literacy in the Social Studies classroom. Effective data collection and assessment of student performance in grade 5-12 are modeled in the class and applied in the field experience.
Prerequisites & Notes
Twenty-five hours of field experience in Social Studies classroom are required. Offered: Every other fall.
Credits: 3
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ED 350 - Planning Learning Environments for Secondary School Teachers
This course advances pre-service teachers’ understanding of innovative applications of content and design of a-learning environment to engage all learners. Various perspectives on approaches to create access to learning opportunities, including virtual learning environments are considered. Topics include promoting collaboration within the classroom community with learners, families, colleagues, professionals, and community members, planning learning experiences, including cross-disciplinary lessons and activities, that meet the needs of every learner. Students will spend 25 hours in a secondary classroom, observing lessons, interacting with the classroom community, and implementing at least one lesson with special consideration to the development of learning environment.
Prerequisites & Notes
Students must have passed the Tests for Core Academic Skills exam and been accepted into the Professional Educators Preparation Program (PEPP) before enrolling in this course. Twenty-five hours of field experience are required. Offered: Every other spring.
Credits: 3
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ED 360 - Integrated Methods I: Social Studies, Science, Math & Technology (K-3)
This course provides an integrated learning environment of social studies, science, and/or math to create developmentally appropriate practices for in k-3 classrooms. Technology is used to create authentic learning experiences. Standards are examined in reading, writing, speaking, and listening to create a relevant curriculum. Reading and writing will focus on understanding informational text and implementing content specific language.
Prerequisites & Notes
Offered: Fall.
Credits: 3
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ED 361 - Integrated Methods II: Social Studies, Science, Math & Technology (4-8)
In this course students explore current research-based practices for the integration of literacy skills and technology across multiple disciplines. Standards are examined in differentiation of instruction for diverse learners, assisting English language learners, and designing instruction focused on gathering, connecting, evaluating, and synthesizing, information to conduct research and problem solving in an increasingly technological society.
Prerequisites & Notes
Offered: Fall.
Credits: 3
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