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Ohio University Graduate Catalog 2015-2017 [Archived Catalog]
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COMS 7300 - Introduction to Rhetoric and Public Culture
An introductory survey of ideas theorizing the relationships between rhetoric and public culture. Since many of these ideas offer critical and analytic perspectives, students will also learn how to engage in critical analysis of the relationships between rhetoric and public culture. Likely theories/theorists include: Kenneth Burke, Mikhail Bakhtin, Michel Foucault, Antonio Gramsci, Jergen Habermas, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, feminist studies, and postmodernism.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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COMS 7310 - Rhetorical Criticism
Theories and methodologies of selected modern critics. Exploration of interdisciplinary dimensions in criticism of rhetorical interactions. Class and individual projects.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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COMS 7400 - Introduction to Health Communication
Survey of the wide range of topics within the area of health communication, including cultural concepts of health, patient centered meanings of health, physician patient interaction, social support, health promotion campaigns, harm reduction campaigns, mass media constructions of health, risk communication, and health-related values and ethics.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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COMS 7900 - Topics in Communication Studies I
Seminars focused on a special topic with a COMS faculty instructor, a visiting faculty member, or a visiting professional.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 24.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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COMS 7901 - Interdisciplinary Seminar
Seminar contents vary.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 20.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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COMS 7940 - Research
Individual research on special projects. Projects must be approved prior to registration.
Requisites Permission required Credit Hours: 1.0-12.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 research
Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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COMS 8200 - Communication in Organizations
Introduction to organizational communication. Specific objectives include development of historical progress, examination of major research issues such as information flow, network analysis, communication overload and underload, exploration of theoretical foundations in organizational decision making, superior-subordinate communication, organizational effectiveness, and change processes.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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COMS 8210 - Seminar in Interpersonal Communication
Provides advanced graduate students with opportunity to identify and analyze basic components of dyadic communicative system including multivariate nature of both relationships and effects.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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COMS 8220 - Public Deliberation
Course addresses theoretical and practical dimensions of the public, private, civil, and technical spheres of human discourse, with an emphasis on the content, structure, suasiveness, and social cultural implications of the speech and action emerging from and contributing to those spheres.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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COMS 8230 - Integrated Research in Communication Studies
This course is designed to provide advanced students with an opportunity to apply communication theory in exploring questions and/or addressing problems that connect the realms of interpersonal communication studies and organizational communication studies. The course will be open to COMS graduate students who have successfully competed their first year of graduate studies and to graduate students from other programs in the university contingent on instructor permission. The precise questions explored and methods employed in that exploration will vary according to instructor interests and background.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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COMS 8290 - Topics in Relating and Organizing
Advanced seminar focusing on the role and dynamics of communication employed in the processes of relating and organizing. Topic varies with instructor. Course topics will vary; may repeat course as topics rotate for a total of 12 credits.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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COMS 8310 - Rhetoric and Popular Culture
This course introduces students to major works in the study of rhetoric, popular culture, and their relationship. It assumes that forms of popular culture (e.g., popular music, advertising, television programming, popular novels, etc.) are social artifacts that serve an important persuasive function in society. Popular culture provides conceptual and practical frameworks that orient individuals to the world. Thus, this course will help graduate students to develop a set of theoretical, methodological, and analytical resources for researching and interpreting the persuasive functions of popular culture in specific historical and geographical contexts.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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COMS 8320 - Rhetorical and Communicative Functions of Technology
This course examines the creation of meaning in verbal and graphic texts in speech, print, and electronic environments, with emphasis on the cultural significance of various communication technologies. In addition to discussions of theory, the course includes hands-on explorations of electronic examples (including radio, cell phones, games, and Internet applications), especially in contrast to print and speech, and consideration of social, economic, and technical dimensions of mediated culture.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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COMS 8330 - Feminist Rhetorical Theory
This course will begin with an examination of what it means to ‘write women into the history of rhetoric’. This examination will provide the backdrop for an initial historiographical approach to women’s contributions to rhetorical theory. Beyond this initial focus, the course will examine recent developments in feminist theory that impinge on or work from an understanding of rhetoric. As such, the course cuts across both historical and theoretical boundaries mapping the space for a feminist rhetoric.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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COMS 8390 - Topics in the Philosophy of Communication: Rhetoric and Public Culture
Study of particular philosophical traditions (e.g., post structuralism, pragmatism, the Frankfurt School, analytic philosophy, Marxism), philosophers (e.g., Burke, Levinas, Foucault, Dewey, Habermas, Giddens, Marx, Wittgenstein), and/or topics of interest to faculty and students not covered by regular classes (e.g., visual communication; humor; privacy; surveillance; the rhetoric of law; civil society and discourse; the rhetoric of terrorism; narrative, rhetoric, space, and place; political communication; and cultural studies). Topics will vary and the course may be repeated three times as topics rotate.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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COMS 8400 - Communication Issues in Health Care Organizations
This course introduces students to research on communication issues in health care organizing and provides a forum for developing research agendas in this area. Underscoring course reading and assignments is the assumption that health, illness, and healing acquire meaning through symbolic interactions located within social, political, economic, and cultural structures.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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COMS 8420 - Health Communication and Culture
The purpose of this course is to examine the influence of culture on communicative aspects of patient and public health. The course explores theories of communication medical anthropology, and health education to understand the conceptual foundations of intercultural health. The course analyzes how peoples’ health beliefs play out in interactions with patients and providers, and examines how public health strategies can be designed for specific cultural contexts. The larger purpose of this course is to train graduate students to communicate more effectively with patients, providers, and the public in multicultural health care settings.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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COMS 8430 - Relational Issues in Health Communication
This course will highlight the communicative accomplishment of health relationships. In particular, students will gain an understanding of the interactional resources that enable health care participants to construct emergent relationships and identities.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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COMS 8440 - Public Understanding of Health and Healing
Seminar exploring the relationships among communication, public culture, and public perceptions of health and healing. Surveys theoretical approaches (i.e., cultural studies, rhetorical analysis) and emphasizes the application of theory through writing and criticism. There is a strong emphasis on exploring current issues and challenges facing the health care industry and the public’s understanding of health and healing.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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COMS 8900 - Special Topics in Communication Studies II
Seminars focused on a special topic with a COMS faculty instructor, a visiting faculty member, or a visiting professional.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 24.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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COMS 8950 - Dissertation
Independent research leading to the completion of the doctoral degree.
Requisites Credit Hours: 1.0-12.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 48.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 thesis/dissertation
Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CONS 5900 - Special Topics in Human and Consumer Sciences Education General
Specific course content will vary with offering.
Requisites Credit Hours: 1.0-15.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CONS 5952 - Workshop in Family and Consumer Sciences Education
An opportunity to explore skills and knowledge through extended and experiential activities related to Family and Consumer Sciences .
Requisites Credit Hours: 1.0-6.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CONS 5953 - Workshop in Customer Service
Content varies.
Requisites Credit Hours: 1.0-3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 4.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CONS 5954 - Resource and Financial Management
Workshop in Resource and Financial Management
Requisites Credit Hours: 1.0-6.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CONS 5955 - Workshop in Family and Consumer Sciences - Family Life Education
Special workshops on topics related to family life education.
Requisites Credit Hours: 1.0-6.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CONS 5961 - Seminar in Family and Consumer Sciences Education
Offers an opportunity to gain leadership and organizational skills for special projects in Family and Consumer Sciences Education
Requisites Credit Hours: 1.0-6.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 6.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CONS 5965 - Human and Consumer Sciences Seminar in International Service
Special seminar or workshop for human and consumer sciences majors prepare for and participating in international service.
Requisites Credit Hours: 1.0-6.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 6.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CONS 5966 - Seminar or Short Course in Human and Consumer Sciences - Research
Advanced studies of research and recent developments in human and consumer sciences disciplines.
Requisites Credit Hours: 1.0-6.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 6.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CONS 6000 - Seminar in Human and Consumer Sciences
Prepares graduate students to develop research topics and proposals in anticipation of thesis work.
Requisites Credit Hours: 1.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 2.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CONS 6900 - Special Topics in Human and Consumer Sciences Education General
Specific course content will vary with offering.
Requisites Credit Hours: 1.0-15.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CONS 6940 - Research
Independent investigation in major area of Human and Consumer Sciences.
Requisites Permission required Credit Hours: 1.0-5.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 20.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 research
Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CONS 6950 - Thesis
Thesis writing in one specialized area of Human and Consumer Sciences.
Requisites Credit Hours: 1.0-12.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 24.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 thesis/dissertation
Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 5000D - Introduction to Discrete Structures
Discrete mathematics and its application to computer science explored. Foundational mathematical techniques used in computer science are explored in depth: propositional logic, number theory and proofs, sequences and mathematical induction, set theory, counting and combinatorics, discrete probability, functions, recursion, simple analysis of algorithms, and orderings and relations. Applications of these structures to various areas of computer science also covered.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture, 1.0 recitation
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 5040 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Introduces modern study of computer algorithms. Topics include correctness of algorithms, analysis of iterative and recursive algorithms, worst-case, best-case, average-case, and amortized behavior, design of algorithms, divide and conquer algorithms, the greedy method, graph searching, and dynamic programming techniques. Selected additional topics may include computational geometry or NP-completeness.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 5060 - Computation Theory
Explores fundamentals concerning formal language theory and the theory of computation. Topics include basic models of computation, the Church-Turing thesis, Turing machines, decidability and undecidability, computational complexity, NP-completeness, and diagonalization.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 5100 - Introduction to Formal Languages and Compilers
Practical and formal aspects of computing related to the lexical and syntactic analysis stages of compilation explored. Relationships among regular expressions, deterministic finite automata, and nondeterministic finite automata presented. Relationship between context-free grammars and pushdown automata also explored. Practical parsing algorithms examined, including bottom-up, town-down, and recursive descent strategies. Design of significant project using formal language concepts required.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 5120 - Parallel Computing I
Studies different parallel structures to familiarize students with variety of approaches to parallel computing and the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. Concentrates on understanding methods for developing parallel algorithms and analyzing their performance. Advantages and disadvantages of different methods for mapping algorithms onto several different paralllel architecture studied. Algorithms discussed include sorting, searching, matrix operations, and others.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 5160 - Problem Solving with Bioinformatics Tools
Focuses on bioinformatics tools and biological databases; utilizing them to solve problems designed from current issues in biological, biotechnological, and biomedical research.
Requisites WARNING: No credit for this course if taken after the following: PBIO 5160 Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 5180 - Statistical Foundation for Bioinformatics
Introduces statistics and stochastic process theory, and makes applications in the field Bioinformatics, i.e., the study and analysis of biological, and in particular genetic, data.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 5200D - Organization of Programming Languages
Formal definition of programming languages, including specification of syntax and semantics. Imperative, object-oriented, functional, and logic programming language paradigms discussed. Names, binding, storage allocation, type checking, and scopes in the major programming languages. Programming language design issues including data types, expressions, assignment statements, control structures, and subprograms. Runtime representation of program and data structures.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 5420 - Operating Systems
In-depth coverage of computer operating systems and related computer architecture issues. Coverage of physical devices, interrupts, and communication between the computer and external hardware. Interfaces between user programs and the operating system, system calls, software interrupts, and protection issues. Context switching, process address spaces, and process scheduling. Process synchronization, interprocess communications, critical sections, and deadlock detection and recovery. Memory mapping, swapping, paging, and virtual memory.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 5440 - Data Communications
In-depth coverage of computer-to-computer and program-to-program communication over modern computer networks focusing on the TCP/IP protocol family. Review of data communication issues, physical address binding, bridging, Ethernet, and Token Ring. Internetwork protocols, routing, domains, networks, and subnetworks. Transport protocols, reliability, flow control, retransmission, and acknowledgement. Distributed systems, server and client issues including verification, and authentication. High-level protocols and applications including electronic mail, network news, remote terminal interaction, and the World Wide Web.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 5500 - Advanced Object Oriented Design and GUI Techniques
Object-oriented design, interface design, and GUI development techniques; data structure usage and concepts; model-view-controller paradigm; input output and text parsing; exception handling; JAVA language syntax; large application development.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 5560 - Software Design and Development I
All major phases of the software engineering lifecycle, including system engineering, requirements analysis, design, implementation and testing. Communication skills relevant to working in software engineering teams and interacting with customers. Teams of students perform all software engineering phases in response to the needs of a customer.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 5580 - Operating Systems II
Detailed discussion of virtual memory and backing stores. File system interfaces, implementation, and protection mechanisms. Process scheduling issues, policies, and mechanisms. Interprocess communication between programs on different computers. Distributed systems issues, examples, and implementation.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 5610D - Data Structures
Various data structures, algorithms associated with data structures, and analysis of algorithms are explored. Topics include analysis of algorithms, dynamic arrays, tree structures, heaps, balanced trees, dictionaries, graphs and graph algorithms, and the complexity of sorting. Graph algorithms for depth first and breadth first search, shortest path, minimum cost spanning trees, and others are covered. Coverage of built in data structures and algorithms in modern programming languages included.
Requisites Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture, 1.0 recitation
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 5620 - Database Systems
Introduces fundamental concepts in data modeling and relational database systems. Begins with entity-relationship (ER) modeling technique as a tool for conceptual database design. Relational data model and relational algebra are introduced next, followed by the SQL query language for relational databases. Functional dependencies, normalization, and relational database design algorithms are then discussed.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 5750 - Internet Engineering
Understanding internet protocols; network cabling, hubs, and switches; configuring network routers; configuring Unix and Windows workstations; measuring and analyzing network performance; and troubleshooting.
Requisites WARNING: No credit for both this course and the following (always deduct credit for first course taken): ITS 5750 Credit Hours: 4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture, 3.0 laboratory
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 5800 - Artificial Intelligence
Definition of heuristic versus algorithmic methods, rationale of heuristic approach, description of cognitive processes, and approaches to mathematical invention. Objectives of work in artificial intelligence, simulation of cognitive behavior, and self-organizing systems. Heuristic programming techniques including use of list processing languages. Survey of examples from representative application areas. Mind-brain problem and nature of intelligence. Class and individual projects to illustrate basic concepts.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 5900 - Special Topics in Computer Science
Special project in one of various subfields of computer science or application area studied, investigated, and/or solved by individual student or small group working in close relationship with instructor. Suitable problems might include construction of compiler for a special purpose language, perfection of software to solve some significant problem, or the study of coherent subfield of computer science. May be repeated for credit.
Requisites Credit Hours: 1.0-4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 8.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6040 - Advanced Algorithms
Advanced topics in the design and analysis of algorithms are explored. These topics include matching and network flow algorithms, randomized algorithms, and parallel algorithms, the theory of NP-completeness, NP-hard optimization problems, polynomial-time approximation algorithms, approximation schemes, approximability and non-approximability results.
Requisites CS 5040 or 5060 Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6050 - Parallel Computation Theory
Topics in the theory of parallel computation explored. Topics include the PRAM model, the Boolean circuit model, uniform circuit families, parallel complexity classes, reducibility, P-completeness, and the approximation of P-complete problems.
Requisites CS 5040 or 5060 Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6060 - Computational Complexity
Complexity of computational problems explored with respect to a variety of complexity measures. Topics iinclude deterministic time complexity, nondeterministic time complexity, the polynomial-time hierarchy, average-case time complexity, space-bounded complexity, circuit complexity, reductions, relativizations, and parallel models of computation.
Requisites CS 5060 Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6120 - Real Time Systems
Discusses real-time systems and their design principles. Studies the particular characteristics of these systems and some real-time programming technologies.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6150 - Computational Genomics
Prepares students to perform research in the field of bioinformatics. Reviews computer science research literature that pertains to bioinformatics to assist in the discovery of important unsolved bioinformatics problems that require basic research in computer science. Examines the research processes that are used in the field of bioinformatics. Writing-intensive course, requiring learning how to write, evaluate and review scholarly articles.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6250 - Computer Graphics and Visualization
Comprehensive study of the principles of computer graphics and visualization. Course topics include geometric transformations, representing shape, lighting properties, data representation, and visualization algorithms. Projects involve designing programs to visualize complex data in 2,3 and higher dimensions.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6410 - Medical Image Analysis
Fundamentals of medical image processing and analysis. Image data acquisition from CT, MR, PET, SPECT, and ultrasound devices. Image segmentation, registration, and visualization.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6420 - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Artificial intelligence (AI) approaches for medical decision making and clinical support, including knowledge-based systems, Bayesian reasoning, and data mining. Medical applications of AI, including diagnosis, therapy selection, patient monitoring and patient education.
Requisites CS 5800 or 6800 Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6440 - Advanced Topics in Computer Networking
High-speed networking, experimental protocols, congestion control, reliability, security, distributed systems.
Requisites CS 5440 Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6571 - Software Specification
How software specifications are expressed and used. Emphasis on formal specifications and use of formal specifications in software verification and validation. Important formal specification models, including algebraic and axiomatic models, state/transition-based models, and temporal logic models, along with their related analysis techniques explored.
Requisites CS 5560 Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6572 - Software Design
Advanced object oriented modeling studied. Teaches how to employ the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for advanced structural modeling, advanced behavioral modeling, and architectural modeling of software systems. Advanced structural modeling involves software components and their relationships. Concepts taught in advanced behavioral modeling pertain to hierarchical representations of external environment dependencies and interactions as well as concurrency. Also covers architectural modeling, including design patterns, collaborations, and deployment diagrams.
Requisites CS 6571 Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6573 - Software Implementation
Provides the skills necessary for successful management of software engineering projects. Examines technical management techniques as well as interpersonal communication concepts. Principles taught applied to a software engineering program.
Requisites CS 6571 Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6800 - Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence
Advanced topics in artificial intelligence (AI) studied. Concepts of heuristic search and knowledge representation studied in detail to provide a firm grounding in AI. Then an advanced topic studied, such as machine learning, natural language understanding, computer vision, and/or reasoning under uncertainty. Emphasis is to illustrate that representation and search are fundamental issues in all aspects of artificial intelligence.
Requisites CS 5800 Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6820 - Artificial Intelligence: Case-Based Reasoning
Case-based reasoning (CBR) is an artificial intelligence (AI) paradigm, in which new problems are solved by reusing the solutions to previously encountered problems. Enables students familiar with AI problem solving techniques to explore CBR in depth. Featured will be: overview of fundamentals; discussion of research projects; CBR system implementation: and student presentations.
Requisites CS 5800 Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6830 - Machine Learning
Machine Learning is concerned with the design and analysis of algorithms that enable computers to automatically find patterns in the data. This introductory course will give an overview of the main concepts, techniques and algorithms that are relevant for the theory and practice of machine learning. The course will cover the fundamental topics of classification, regression and clustering, starting with simple learning models such as perceptrons, decision trees and logistic regression, and ending with more advanced models including Support Vector Machines, Conditional Random Fields and Bayesian networks. The description of the formal properties of the algorithms will be supplemented with motivating applications in a wide range of areas including natural language processing, computer vision, bioinformatics and music analysis.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6840 - Natural Language Processing
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch of Artificial Intelligence concerned with developing computer systems that can process, understand, or communicate in natural language. Major applications of NLP include information retrieval and web search, information extraction, question answering, machine translation, sentiment analysis, text mining, and speech recognition. This graduate level course will give a fairly broad overview of NLP, with a primary focus on tasks that are widely seen as fundamental for a natural language understanding system such as part of speech tagging, syntactic parsing, word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling, coreference resolution, and semantic parsing.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6850 - Image Understanding
Comprehensive study of image understanding and computer vision techniques. Topics include low-level image analysis methods, image formation, cameral calibration, edge detections, feature detection, region segmentation, color image segmentation, techniques for inferring three dimensional information from 2D images, and three dimensional object modeling and recognition.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6860 - Information Retrieval and Web Search
This course covers the design, implementation, and evaluation of modern information retrieval (IR) systems, such as Web search engines. It will focus on the underlying retrieval models, algorithms, and system implementations, such as vector-space and probabilistic retrieval models, as well as the PageRank algorithm used by Google. The course will also cover more advanced topics in information retrieval, including document categorization and clustering, recommender systems, collaborative filtering, and personalized search.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6900 - Special Topics in Computer Science
Selected graduate level topics of current interest in computer science.
Requisites Credit Hours: 1.0-4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6910 - Graduate Internship in Computer Science
Supervised work-related experience in government or industry
Requisites Permission required Credit Hours: 1.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 2.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 field experience/internship
Eligible grades: F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6930 - Independent Study
Independent study in advanced topics of current interest in computer science.
Requisites Credit Hours: 1.0-4.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 8.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 independent study
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6940 - Research in Computer Science
Research in computer science. Variable topics.
Requisites Credit Hours: 1.0-6.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 24.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 research
Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6950 - Thesis
Thesis research and writing in computer science.
Requisites Credit Hours: 1.0-9.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 18.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 thesis/dissertation
Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CS 6980 - Graduate Research Seminar
Research seminar for graduate students in computer science.
Requisites Credit Hours: 1.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 2.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 seminar
Eligible grades: F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 5000 - Aging and Disorders of Communication
Natural patterns and disorders of communication in aging. Means of working with and advocating for elderly people with communication disabilities.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 5710 - Aural Rehabilitation
Provides students with a basic understanding of rehabilitation principles and techniques used with children and adults with hearing impairments. Emphasis will be placed upon application of concepts to real life problems encountered with these populations.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 5850 - Sign Language I
Introduces the student to language of the deaf, American Sign Language (ASL) and deaf culture in America. Focus is on building sign vocabulary, learning proper fingerspelling technique, attain knowledge of ASL grammar and syntax rules, employ the correct use of non-manual signals, application of personal space and body language, and the development of sensitivity and awareness of the Deaf community in America. The student is expected to acquire basic signing skills and sign vocabulary and begin putting signs together into correct ASL syntax.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 5860 - Sign Language II
A continuation into the world of deafness and American Sign Language (ASL). We will expand on the learning of American Sign Language (ASL) vocabulary, continue the investigation of deaf culture and advance the analysis of language concepts learned in Sign Language 1. Use of classifiers and ASL idiomatic expressions are also discussed.
Requisites CSD 5850 Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 5870 - Sign Language III
A continuation into the world of deafness and American Sign Language (ASL). Students will continue the study of the cultural and language concepts learned in Sign Language 2. Emphasis is placed on expressive ASL through the use of classifiers and ASL idioms in ASL storytelling.
Requisites CSD 5860 Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 5900 - Special Topics in Communication Sciences and Disorders
Specific course content will vary with offering.
Requisites Credit Hours: 1.0-15.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 6010 - Research Methods in Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences
Designed to teach students to be critical consumers of published group and single subject design research in speech-language pathology and audiology. Topics include the scientific method, generating relevant research questions, various study designs, different data types, data analysis, and data interpretation.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 6030 - Neuroscience of Communication
Provides complete study of neuroanatomy of the central nervous system and detailed instruction in anatomical structures and pathways of the central somatosensory, motor, auditory, vestibular, and visual systems. Hands-on experience in a neuroanatomy laboratory is emphasized. Functional aspects at the systems level are included and consequences of pathological lesions are discussed in forms of case studies.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 6080 - Advanced Study of Language Disorders in School Age Children
Provides students overview of various cognitive-linguistic impairments associated with school- age children’s language disorders. Also provides students best practices in the assessment and treatment of the cognitive-linguistic impairments in school- age children.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 6090 - Communicative Disorders in Infants and Young Children
In-depth study of language assessment intervention strategies for children exhibiting disorders of language. Areas of therapy considered include development of prelinguistic skills, pragmatic as well as semantic, and grammatical aspects of comprehension and production.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 6130 - Developmental and Disordered Phonology
Study of phonological problems associated with overall language disorders. Emphasis on theories of phonological acquisition, stages of development, description of deviant systems, methods of data collection and analysis, and suggestions for remediation.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 6170 - Disorders of Fluency
Focus is on the speech disorder of stuttering as related to theory, research, assessment, and remediation.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 6190 - Speech Language Pathology in Public Schools
Assessment, intervention, and administrative issues for speech-language pathologists working with children in the public schools.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 6210 - Disorders of Phonation
Review of anatomy and normal physiology of vocal mechanism. Organic and functional voice problems and related therapy. Research problems in diagnosis and therapy.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 6230 - Diagnostic Procedures in Speech-Language Pathology
Study of theory and practice pertaining to the diagnostic process, including topics on models of diagnosis, family-centered assessment, multicultural issues, tools and methods, as well as assessment in selected areas of disorders.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 6240 - Neuromotor Disorders of Speech
In-depth study of nature and habilitation of speech disorders of organic etiology. Primary focus on articulation disorders resulting from structural lesions, muscle incoordination, and weakness.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 6270 - Medical Aspects of Auditory Disorders
Provides discussion of etiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and medical and surgical treatments for the various external, middle, inner ear, and central nervous system diseases that result in a variety of auditory disorders. Overview of recent advances in molecular biology and genetics of hearing loss. Readings in medical literature and familiarization with medical terminology and philosophy of intervention.
Requisites CSD 6730 and 6731 and 6750 and 6770 Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 6290 - Adult Language Disorders
Theory, etiology, diagnostics, treatment methods, and service delivery issues related to adult neurogenic language disorders. Includes study of aphasia, dyslexia, dysgraphia, right hemisphere deficits, frontal lobe syndromes, traumatic brain injury, and dementia.
Requisites CSD 6030 Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 6340 - Clinical Methods in Speech-Language Pathology
Addresses the specific clinical skills and abilities for clinical practice in communication disorders, including technical writing, cultural competency, interview skills, treatment efficacy, diagnostic skills, self-analysis/self-evaluation, steps in licensure/certification, professional development, ethical practice, and specific therapy strategies for several communication disorders.
Requisites Credit Hours: 2.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 8.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 6351 - Professional Education in Audiology I
Designed to bridge didactic coursework and clinical experience for first year Au.D. students. Lecture, practice, experimentation,and student presentations. Topics coincide with courses and level of the students.
Requisites Credit Hours: 2.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 6.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 6400 - Augmentative Communication
Study of augmentative communication and assistive listening systems. Development of skills in the application of augmentative communication to communication disorders in adults and children. Experience with microprocessor-based technology.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 6410 - Dysphagia
Basic knowledge of normal and deviant swallowing disorders due to neurological and structural impairments. Major topics include assessment and management of the wide range of swallowing disorders managed by speech-language pathologists.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 6520 - Experimental Phonetics
Speech communication involves the generation of sounds by a speaker from some internal linguistic representations and the interpretation of sounds by a listener. Explores how linguistic representations are implemented by the speaker to generate sounds and how the acoustic signal is perceived by the listener to uncover linguistic representations.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 6730 - Diagnostic Audiology
Presents fundamental and advanced audiological procedures for the diagnosis of conductive, cochlear, and eight nerve disorders of the auditory systems. Lab experiences will provide hands-on experience with current test protocols and equipment.
Requisites Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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CSD 6731 - Advanced Diagnostic Audiology
Presents advanced audiological procedures for the differential diagnosis of auditory disorders including those of the central auditory system and facial nerve as well as procedures for constructing and evaluating assessment protocols. Lab provides hands-on experience with current test protocols and equipment.
Requisites CSD 6730 Credit Hours: 3.0 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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