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162 Course Descriptions
COUNSELING (SEE BMFT - MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPY
OR PSYC - PSYCHOLOGY)
CS - COMPUTER SCIENCE
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (CAS)
CS 105 Personal Computing (3-2-3), fall, spring. Personal computing
emphasizing the interrelation of hardware with software on
microcomputers. Includes instruction in the use of word processing,
spreadsheet, database management, and communications programs.
Laboratory graded and credited with course. For non-mathematics
majors only.
CS 110 Computers and Society (3-0-3), fall, spring. An introduction
to the computer as an information organizing and manipulating tool
and to its responsible use. Familiarity with word processors and web
browsers is assumed.
CS 120 Programming I: High Level (3-0-3), fall, spring.
Programming, debugging, and small program development in a
statically typed procedural language. Topics include sequential,
selective, and iterative control flow, modularity, simple data types,
arrays, formatted input and output and text file processing. For
students with little or no background in computer programming.
CS 125 Personal Web Development (3-0-3), fall, spring.
Introduction to building a simple, personal web site using the office
productivity software that typically accompanies, a personal computer.
Topics include an introduction to the Internet, web pages, HTML,
server-side and client-side scripting, applets, databases, and security.
CS 130 Programming II: High Level (3-0-3), fall, spring.
Detailed low-level manipulation of data and files in C and
the UNIX environment.
CS 220 Machine Organization and Single-User Systems (3-0-3),
fall, spring. An introduction to machine organization covering digital
circuits, functional units, caches, virtual memory, devices, the interrupt
mechanism, and bus arbitration in the context of a single-user system.
Prerequisite: CS 130.
CS 221 Networks and Multi-User Systems (3-0-3), fall.
An introduction to larger computer systems covering IP networks,
services, security, process scheduling, resource sharing, deadlock,
interrupt handlers, client-server systems, and web-centric computing
in the context of a multi-user system. Prerequisite: CS 130.
CS 320 Introduction to Database Theory (3-0-3), spring.
Database theory with an emphasis on relational databases. Include
data representation, relations, base tables, indexes, SQL, relational
algebra, and relational calculus. Exercises will be done on a
state-of-the-art relational database. Prerequisite: CS 110.
CS 330 The Human-Computer Interface (3-0-3), fall, odd years.
Introduction to both the programmatic and psychological
considerations surrounding shaping the computer tool to the user.
The course will cover the details of implementing a graphical user
interface, and how to make the interface as user-friendly as
possible. Prerequisites: CS 110; two of CS 120, CS 125, CS 130;
and 60 earned hours.
CS 332 Elementary Algorithms and Data Structures (3-0-3), fall.
Design and scientific and mathematical study of algorithms. Analytic
and experimental performance determination. Includes searching and
sorting, trees, graphs, asymptotic (e.g., big-O) performance bounds,
and the halting problem. Prerequisites: CS 110, CS 120, CS 130,
MATH 127.
CS 341 Numerical Methods (3-0-3), fall, even years. Survey
of elementary numerical methods used in scientific computing
applications. Topics include computer representation of integer and
real numbers, sequences, series approximations, finite differences,
interpolation, curve fitting, numerical differentiation and integration,
and roots of a single non-linear equation. Selected algorithms to be
solved using the computer. Programming experience required.
Prerequisite: MATH 186. Same as MATH 341.CS 352 Programming Languages (3-0-3), fall. Students will improve
their understanding of languages, increase their vocabulary of useful
programming constructs, and be able to learn or design a language
more easily. Prerequisites: CS 120, CS 220.
CS 356 Operating Systems (3-0-3), spring, odd years. Topics include
dynamic procedure activation, system structure, evaluation, memory
and process management, and recovery procedures. Prerequisites:
CS 220, CS 221.
CS 365 Theory of Computation (3-0-3), spring, even years.
Introduction to formal languages and automata, computability and
complexity. Topics include the DFAs, CFGs, pumping lemmas, Turing
machines, the Church-Turing Thesis, non-determinism and NP-
completeness. Prerequisites: CS 220, CS 332.
CS 374 Software Engineering (3-0-3), fall. A study of the
development of large scale software systems. Includes an overview
of currently used analysis and design methodologies, including
both structured and object-oriented paradigms. Projects will
afford practical experience in the development of interpersonal
communications skills needed for team software development.
Prerequisite: CS 332.
CS 381 Computer Graphics (3-0-3), spring. A study of 2D and 3D
rendering algorithms and representations, including homogeneous
coordinate systems and their attendant transformations. Includes
study of light and color and a survey of photo-realistic 3D rendering
techniques. Prerequisites: CS 220, MATH 325.
CS 383 File Structures (3-0-3), fall, even years. Disk-based data
management. Topics include sequential, indexed, indexed-sequential,
hashed, and B-tree file organizations. Prerequisite: CS 130.
CS 420 Networks (3-0-3), fall, odd years. Investigation of real-world
networking covering, design, implementation, and security.
Prerequisites: CS 220, CS 221, and CS 332.
CS 442 Numerical Analysis (3-0-3), spring, even years. Solution of
linear systems of equations by direct and iterative methods, matrix
inversion, and evaluation of determinants. Matrix solution of least-
square problems. Approximation of eigenvalues. Selected algorithms
to be solved using the computer. Prerequisites: CS 341; MATH 325.
Same as MATH 442.
CS 455 Principles of Compiler Design (3-0-3), fall, odd years. A
formal treatment of programming language translation and compiler
design concepts. Emphasis is on scanners, parsers, and translation.
Prerequisites: CS 332, 352.
CS 467 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (3-0-3), fall.
Survey of the search, reasoning, control, learning and knowledge
representation principles underpinning intelligent systems such as
games, theorem provers, expert systems, neural networks, planning,
machine learning and natural language. Prerequisites: CS 332.
CS 474 Object-Oriented Design (3-0-3), spring. Systematic
object-oriented design. Topics include interface design, design
patterns, and the implementation of a medium-sized application.
Prerequisite: CS 332.
CS 495 Computer Science Senior Seminar (2-0-2), spring.
Supervised study of selected topics in the field of computer science
that are not normally or not often available as part of the regular
course offerings. A comprehensive term project is normally required.
A writing-intensive course. For computer science majors; must be
taken during the last spring semester before graduation.
DIGITAL MEDIA (SEE JMC - JOURNALISM AND
MASS COMMUNICATION)
DSGN - DESIGN
Department of Art and Design (CAS)
DSGN 141 Introduction to Interior Design (2-4-3), fall. Exploration
and application of interior design theory and design process
techniques using problem solving methodology with emphasis onhuman needs, values, context, and resources. Creative application of
design principles for planning and furnishing interior environments.
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