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2022-2023 Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Interpreting

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

International Studies

  
  
  

Information Systems

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • IS 311 Introduction to Cybernetics


    An introduction to the field of cybernetics and control theory. Students will develop scientific skills by exploring physical control problems using robots. Classical theories of uncertainty, feed forward, and feedback control will be covered from an applied perspective in the context of common control objectives. Students will explore the challenges of observing and controlling physical systems through hands on experiments. Three hours of classroom meetings (or equivalent) and two hours of laboratory per week.
    Credits: 4
    Prerequisite: CS 122  or CS 160  or consent of instructor
    Satisfactory Grading: Eligible for the Satisfactory/No Credit grade mode.
    Exploring Knowledge: Scientific Perspectives


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  • IS 345 Systems Analysis


    This course discusses the processes, methods, techniques and tools that organizations use to determine how they should operate, with a particular focus on how computer-based technologies can most effectively contribute to the way operations are organized. The course covers a systematic methodology for analyzing an organizational problem or opportunity, articulating operational requirements for the technology solution, specifying alternative approaches to acquiring the capabilities needed, and specifying the requirements for the information systems solution.
    Credits: 4
    Prerequisite: IS 240 
    Satisfactory Grading: Ineligible for the Satisfactory/No Credit grade mode.


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  • IS 350 Enterprise Architecture


    This course explores the design, selection, implementation and management of enterprise information systems, focusing on applications and infrastructure and their fit with the business. Students learn frameworks and strategies for infrastructure management, system administration, information architecture, content management, distributed computing, middleware, legacy system integration, system consolidation, software selection, total cost of ownership calculation, investment analysis, and emerging technologies. Students hone their ability to communicate technology architecture strategies concisely to a general business audience.
    Credits: 4
    Prerequisite: IS 345 
    Satisfactory Grading: Ineligible for the Satisfactory/No Credit grade mode.


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Justice Studies

  
  
  
  

Liberal Studies

  
  

Library Science

  
  • LIB 225 Advanced Research for College, Work and Life


    This course bridges the gap between the basic-level research done in introductory courses, and advanced-level research expected in 300 and 400 level courses. While exploring the world of information in this course, students will learn to use effective methods and techniques of information gathering, evaluation and presentation. They will develop advanced research techniques specific to their disciplines, and build problem-solving and information-seeking skills they will use after college to make decisions regularly encountered in today’s information-driven workplace.
    Credits: 4
    Prerequisite: Completed General Education writing requirement
    Satisfactory Grading: Ineligible for the Satisfactory/No Credit grade mode.


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Linguistics

  
  • LING 101 Language: Misconceptions vs. Reality


    This class focuses on helping students debunk linguistic misconceptions using relevant facts and linguistic principles. Topics to be explored include: Do animals have language? Is English harder than other languages? Is there one “correct” English? Do all languages have grammar? Is baby-talk detrimental for young children? Do men and women talk differently? Are some languages more expressive than others? This class introduces students to some of the basic tools linguists use to study language, but requires no previous understanding of linguistics.
    Credits: 4
    Satisfactory Grading: Eligible for the Satisfactory/No Credit grade mode.
    Foundational Skills: Communication and Language


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  • LING 102 Language and Power


    An introduction to the study of language in relation to power and identity in modern society. We explore the role of language in constructing social identity and systems of power by focusing on language use in relation to social class, regional dialects, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, education, multilingualism and social media, as well as propaganda and social control. This class introduces students to some of the basic tools linguists use to study language, but requires no previous understanding of linguistics.
    Credits: 4
    Satisfactory Grading: Eligible for the Satisfactory/No Credit grade mode.
    Foundational Skills: Communication and Language


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  • LING 103 English in a Global Context


    This class explores the development of English as a global language. We analyze the historical, social, political, and technological developments leading to English becoming the most widespread language in international communication. Topics also include the emergence of new Englishes, standardization, colonialism and the effects of English dominance on linguistic diversity, minority languages, and educational policies. This class introduces students to some of the basic tools linguists use to study language, but requires no previous understanding of linguistics.
    Credits: 4
    Satisfactory Grading: Eligible for the Satisfactory/No Credit grade mode.
    Foundational Skills: Communication and Language


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Literature

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • LIT 381 African Literature


    This course focuses on modern and contemporary African literature. We will examine fiction, drama, and poetry from a variety of Sub-Saharan African locations (such as Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and South Africa). We will discuss several major concerns of African literary studies, concerns that are necessarily interdisciplinary: e.g., the appropriation of the colonizer’s language and literary traditions, colonial racism’s legacies in the postcolonial era, the role of indigenous thought in modern and contemporary writing, the relationship between the sacred and the secular in African modernity.
    Credits: 4
    Satisfactory Grading: Ineligible for the Satisfactory/No Credit grade mode.
    Integrating Knowledge Citizenship, Social Responsibility, and Global Awareness


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  • LIT 382 Cultural Trauma and Memory


    This course examines how cultural traumas are memorialized in literary and aesthetic texts. We will read key theoretical texts on trauma and memory from various academic disciplines. Drawing on interdisciplinary trauma and memory studies, we will analyze representations of culture trauma in literature, film, or other arts. Topics explored may include genocide and reconciliation, intergenerational memory, insidious and everyday violence, and trauma as experienced within non-Western memory systems.
    Credits: 4
    Satisfactory Grading: Ineligible for the Satisfactory/No Credit grade mode.
    Integrating Knowledge Science, Technology, and Society


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