Course Descriptions

COM 456 - History and Practice of Convergent Gaming (Put on reserve 9/16/18)

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the history of convergence and gaming, from the games of the post printing era to gaming as it exists in the era of computer communications.
• Identify current trends in gaming, particularly r-ole playing games, and look at the difference between online gaming and pen and paper games.
• Learn to study games in a research setting, either by studying the games themselves, or the social effects of playing the games.
• Observe games being used for research.

COM 460 - Communication Law

• Explain the following legal concepts and apply them to the practices of advertising, broadcasting, journalism and public relations: copyrights and enforcement, trademark creation & enforcement, defamation, privacy torts and defenses, fair trial and free press, contract creation and enforcement, agency principal relations.
• Recall and apply the rules for access to government meetings and records.
• Appraise the systems of laws in the U.S. and individual states, with emphasis on Washington State.
• Compare and contrast the legal freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and synthesize how these freedoms apply to the practices of advertising, broadcasting, journalism and public relations.
• Compare and contrast the regulations under the FTC, FCC and SEC that restrict the practices of advertising, broadcasting, journalism and public relations.
• Summarize and defend the ethical standards and guidelines set by professional organizations in mass media.
• Judge and justify legal and ethical obligations in the practices of advertising, broadcasting, journalism, and public relations.

COM 462 - CentralNewsWatch Management

• Identify story running order during a newscast as part of the role of news producer.
• Create a newscast that incorporate news values.
• Demonstrate concern for professional standards for each  newscast.
• Mentor and train incoming reporters.

COM 464 - Nonfiction Multimedia Storytelling

• Compare the effectiveness of different storytelling techniques that can be used to report newsworthy information depending on the characteristics of the sources providing that information.
• Choose the most appropriate storytelling technique, and the most suited media, to report the information gathered from different sources.
• Manage rapport with human sources to gather audio and visual material necessary to tell a newsworthy story across media platforms.
• Assemble in-depth story packages that include textual, audio, and visual content summarizing and illustrating effectively the information gathered from different documentary and human sources.
• Demonstrate understanding of legal and ethical issues connected with the use of different media to report information.
• Criticize in-depth multimedia news story packages.

COM 465 - Communication and Organizational Leadership

• Analyze the differing functional rules and communication patterns by which leadership is conveyed in organizations.
• Explain and describe typical communication problems and issues experienced by organizations.
• Analyze the needed match between organizational culture and leadership styles.
• Identify the importance of communication rituals in organizations.
• Analyze cultural variation among organizations.

COM 466 - Investigative Reporting and Writing

• Identify subjects to investigate and create a comprehensive budget of story ideas and multimedia components to tackle the subject.
• Identify appropriate human sources and persuade them to talk on the record.
• Utilize the federal Freedom of Information Act and state open records laws to obtain documents and data, both paper and electronic.
• Locate and download databases from the Internet 
• Organize large amounts of material, including multi-media elements, and present it in a compelling way.
• Demonstrate understanding of the legal and ethical issues involved in investigative reporting. 

COM 466LAB - Investigative Reporting and Writing Lab

• When given a complex database, students can draw accurate conclusions from the data using spreadsheet, database and mapping software.

COM 468 - Observer

• Research and generate story ideas and develop angles pertinent to an audience of CWU students, faculty and staff.
• Demonstrate the ability to work in a deadline-driven environment.
• Demonstrate the ability to write basic news and feature stories, including effective leads not grafts, basic story elements and basic story structures.
   

COM 470 - Public Relations Strategies

• Plan a public relations campaign.
• Report to your boss and/or client, to deliver effective formal campaign presentations.
• Operate and utilize a number of public relations research methods.
• Build and organize a coherent discourse emphasizing the strengths and minimizing the weaknesses of the organization.

COM 471 - Corporate Communication in Latin America (Put on reserve 9/16/19)

• Ability to understand and describe the structural parameters of the most important Latin American economies, understanding how they affect the business communication landscape, such as political structure, economic structure, mass media, infrastructure, legal structure and social structure.
• Ability to identify and explain cultural differences and how they affect the business communication landscape in Latin America.
• Ability to understand and describe how public relations, and integrated communications take place in Latin American countries.

COM 472 - Global Public Relations

• Reduce ethnocentric biases and foster an informed perspective on cross-cultural issues and relations
• Demonstrate understanding of the cultural differences affecting the work of public relations practitioners when implementing international campaigns
• Learn the methodology to hire a foreign firm and/or manage an international public relations campaign
• Learn how public relations are practiced in other countries as a way to better understand how the communication landscape works within a global economic context

COM 473 - Crisis Communication Management

• Identify key functions of public relations departments within a corporation
• Build a corporation’s reputation and integrate it into the communication strategy for each of its stakeholders (consumers, employees, investors, etc.)
• Recognize and utilize the assessment tools to evaluate a corporate reputation management plan.
• Evaluate cost-effective communication planning

COM 475 - Public Relations Management

• Identify PR and Advertising’s diverse components, framework, and plan basics
• Understand PR and Advertising’s concepts and recognize tools utilized in a variety of marketplace situations/scenarios
• Critically analyze case studies
• Apply knowledge of the public relations and advertising industries to current events and historical case studies and dissect the impact PR and Advertising has on the culture

COM 476 - Corporate Communications and Investor Relations

• Demonstrate the ability to read and present income statements, balance sheets, cash-flow statements, understand SEC reporting regulations and related requirements, Sarbanes Oxley, GAAP and pro forma accounting, buy-side and sell-side analysts, bulls-and-bears, longs-and-shorts, and market psychology.
• Examine market ethics, including reconciling the seemingly contradictory requirements of fiduciary responsibility (e.g., doing well) for shareholders and corporate social responsibility (e.g., doing good) for employees, communities, the environment and the public as a whole.
• Summarize qualitative and quantitative worlds of investor relations including communicating with buy-and-sell-side analysts, hedge funds, institutions, retail investors, major exchanges, credit rating agencies and portfolio managers.
• Prepare crisis communications plans to safeguard reputations and protect brand equity in a 24/7/365 social-media world.
• Appraise employee attraction and retention issues, including the use of Employee Stock Purchase Plans (ESPP) and stock options as incentives.

COM 478 - Advanced Newspaper Editing

COM 481 - Central Communication Agency

• Client/Agency Relationship: Students learn the role of the PR firm practitioner as well as PR/client relationship. The course will prepare students for real- work assignments through participation in a student- run communication agency. Daily work will bring opportunities involving client agency relationships.
• Research and Methodology: Students develop public relations approaches that address the following components: Research, Goals, Planning, Execution, Monitoring, and Evaluation. Strategic thinking: Students synthesize process and key relevant information to determine what is needed to position the client/organization/issue appropriately in its market/environment, especially with regard to
• Planning Abilities, Implementation of campaign and evaluation of campaign: Students develop a comprehensive public relations plan that reflects the organization’s needs including appropriate sequencing of plan elements. Develops, states and tests a public relations program’s informational, motivational, and behavioral objectives using qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

COM 483 - Advanced Central Communication Agency

• Client/Agency Relationship: Students learn the role of the PR firm practitioner as well as PR/client relationship. The course will prepare students for real- work assignments through participation in a student- run communication agency. Daily work will bring opportunities involving client agency relationships.
• Learn Leadership within group dynamics: Lead students assigned to their account teams. On a weekly basis, they will become the liaison to the client, write weekly memos on their team’s progress, and delegate necessary activities to their team to complete the goals set at the beginning of the quarter.
• Learn the beginning process of Public relations planning through Research, Methodology and Strategic thinking.
• Evaluation: Students have to determine if goals of the public relations program was met. Determines the extent the results or outcomes of public relations programs have been accomplished. Develops, states, and tests a public relations program’s informational,

COM 485 - Senior Seminar

COM 486 - Advanced Journalism Seminar

• Relate the history of the variable topic subject matter as it relates to print, online, broadcast or photojournalism.
• Demonstrate understanding of journalistic ethics as it relates to the specific topic under study.
• Develop a critical approach for examining the specific journalistic topic under study.
• Ability to demonstrate the creation of appropriate professional journalistic output consistent with the special topic under study

COM 487 - Advanced Public Relations Seminar

• Introduce students to the specific field of study being introduced during the given quarter. As topics will vary each time the course is offered, these topics may include: Social Media, Crisis Communication, Event Planning, Political PR, Sports PR, Entertainment PR, etc.
• Provide an overview of the history, principles, practices and techniques of the specific field of communication
• Work closely with current industry leaders through interviews, volunteer opportunities within the field and study current trends as applied to public relations, communication, advertising or other areas within the Department of Communication.

COM 489 - Portfolio Assessment

COM 490 - Cooperative Education

COM 491 - Workshop

COM 492 - Communication Practicum

• Hone knowledge and skills set(s) developed in the major or minor and apply them to practical &/or service learning project(s).
• Demonstrate ability to work individually under deadline and as a member of a team toward a common goal, campaign or finished product.
• Ability to demonstrate the creation of appropriate professional project &/or service learning output consistent with the specific learning agreement submitted by the student.

COM 496 - Individual Study

COM 497 - Honors

COM 498 - Special Topics

COM 499 - Seminar

CS 101 - Computer Basics

• Computer Fundamentals
  • Use personal computers for basic office oriented applications.
• Computer Applications
  • Create documents using a word processor.
  • Create spreadsheets using a spreadsheet application.
  • Create a computer based presentation.
• Computer Networking
  • Use the University Network for file storage and use.
• Internet Activity
  • Use the Internet for locating specific sites and specific information.
  • Use the Internet for locating and obtaining information.
  • Create web pages.

CS 102 - Health and Technology

• Describe and interpret developments in health-related technology.
• Collect data and manage storage, retrieval, processing, and analysis, using professional communication standards and tools.
• Examine cost-benefit of working with this data.
• Assemble a unique personal health index calculator and use it to practice program and data manipulation.
• Summarize mechanisms of online data storage and retrieval and evaluate security of health data online. 
• Generate advantages and disadvantages of and report on the ethics of tracking health data. Support multiple viewpoints to develop empathy for others’ experiences.
• Record and analyze personal data through quantitative reasoning using tables, plots, and graphs, and review to define trends.
• Extrapolate data to create questions based on their specific results. Link data sources for rapid update of information.
• Extract and analyze results from their personal information tracking database. 
• Create formulas that will provide answers about their nutritional status.

CS 105 - The Logical Basis of Computing

• Describe basic concepts of computer programming, including pseudocode, memory allocation, the three programming control constructs (i.e. sequential, decision, repetition), modular programming, file processing, and the use of arithmetic, relational, and logical operators.
• Decompose a complex problem into component parts (pseudocode).
• Implement the three programming control constructs (i.e.sequential, selection and repetition) to solve problems.
• Modularize code by writing functions and procedures, and then signaling them to execute in a click event.

• Retain a permanent record of data generated by a program by writing and reading files.

• Allocate computer memory to store and set the scope of constant and variable values of diverse data types, such as Integer, Double, Decimal, String and Boolean.

• Implement parallel arrays without throwing an index out of range exception that stops program execution.

• Implement Visual Basic arithmetic operators to correctly perform mathematical calculations.

• Implement Visual Basic relational and logical operators to set up Boolean expressions to solve decision and repetition problems.

• Identify and correct three types of programming errors: syntax, logic and runtime.

• Add comments to adequately annotate programs.

• Develop the graphical user interface to allow users to interact with the program.

• Synthesize concepts learned, and critically evaluate the digital world with which they are surrounded, by identifying a problem to solve and developing the solution.  This is known as the final project.

CS 107 - Make a Game with Computer Science

• Describe how scientific, technological, and/or mathematical developments contribute to our lives and create value.
• Recognize social, political, and ethical implications of scientific and/or mathematical discoveries and technological advancements.
• Formulate questions that can be addressed through scientific, mathematical, or technological solutions.
• Apply mathematical and quantitative reasoning to solve problems.
• Apply software engineering principles to a game prototype development.
• Develop a game prototype.

CS 109 - Quantitative Reasoning Using Python

• Apply correct procedures from Python’s data visualization libraries to present data in formats including, but not limited to, graphs, histograms, bar charts and tables.  They will evaluate these mathematical forms to formulate meaningful conclusions.
• Apply correct procedures from Python’s data visualization and statistics libraries.
• Evaluate the outcome of procedures from Python’s statistics libraries.
• Apply correct procedures from Python’s libraries for data analysis and predictive modeling.
• Analyze datasets using Python’s statistics library and assess the validity of statistical hypotheses regarding these datasets.
• Apply knowledge of Python’s data types and mathematical operators by properly implementing mathematical calculations within a program and comprehending why they work.

CS 110 - Programming Fundamentals I

• Analyze the behavior of simple programs involving fundamental programming constructs
• Write programs that use each of the following fundamental programming constructs: basic computation, simple 1/0, standard conditional and iterative structures
• Write programs in the object-oriented paradigm using objects, primitive data, classes, and method definitions.

CS 111 - Programming Fundamentals II

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Write programs that use arrays of primitive data and objects
• Write programs in the object-oriented paradigm using inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism.
• Write event-driven programs with graphical user interfaces
• Write programs that read and save information to external files.

CS 112 - Foundations of Computer Science

• General Overview of computer science and the specialty fields within the discipline.
  • Recognize the various specialty fields within computer science as a profession and their application.
• Algorithm foundation of Computer Science
  • Develop algorithms for different kinds of problems.
  • Analyze algorithms within limited contexts.
• Basic Machine Organization
  • Describe the basic machine organization for von Neumann class computers.
  • Define the role and function of the various components of computers.
  • Show how machine languages provide the directions for computer operations for computers of this class.
• Programming languages for computers
  • Describe the development of programming languages from machine language through high-level languages.
  • Identify the programming paradigms of imperative programming, functional programming, logic programming, object-oriented programming.
  • Recognize the purpose, function, and differences of language assemblers, compilers, and translators.
• Data representation and numbers stem used in computers
  • Convert numbers between bases including base 2 (binary), base 10 decimal), and base 16 (hexadecimals).
  • Perform arithmetic operations in the binary and hexadecimal.
  • Identify other forms of computer data representation including characters and floating-point numbers.
  • Describe computer applications as they apply to fields within the profession.
  • Describe database, networking, and artificial intelligence as computer applications.
  • Introduction to social and ethical issues of computer science.
  • Identify social and ethical issues related to computer science.
  • Discuss current social and ethical issues of computer science.

CS 290 - Cooperative Education

CS 298 - Special Topics

CS 299 - Seminar

CS 301 - Data Structures

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Use unit testing in software engineering
• Apply asymptotic analysis (Big-O, Big-Omega, Big-Theta) to non-recursive algorithms, considering space and time
• Apply the run-time analysis of algorithms
• Implement data structures as abstract data types (ADT)
• Apply object-oriented principles of polymorphism, inheritance, and generic programming when implementing ADTs for data structures
• Build generic Java classes with parametrized types
• Create alternative representations of ADTs either from implementation or standard libraries
• Demonstrate the ArrayList and LinkedList classes in Java Collections both from the user and developer perspectives
• Apply the following interfaces in Java Collections: Collection, List, Iterator, Comparable, Iterator
• Demonstrate execution frames for recursive algorithms and apply recursion trees to analyze the complexity of recursive algorithms
• Apply recursion as a problem solving technique
• Demonstrate the iterator and backtracking design patterns
• Discuss high-precision arithmetic implementations using ADT
• Demonstrate the Stack class, the ArrayDeque class, and the Deque interface from Java Collections in stacks applications
• Demonstrate the Queue interface in Java Collections in queue applications
• Implement algebraic expressions (infix, postfix, prefix) using stacks and queues
• Apply queues for model simulation
• Demonstrate binary trees properties: recursive definition of binary trees, full and complete binary trees, binary tree theorem, binary search tree, external path length theorem, binary tree traversals (inorder, preorder, postorder)

CS 302 - Advanced Data Structures and File Processing

• List the advanced data structures.
• Design advanced data structures.
• Write programs involving advanced data structures in Visual C++.
• Describe and apply the advanced data structures:
  • Binary Tree
  • Binary SearchTree
  • ADT Table
  • Hash Table
  • AVL Tree
  • Red-black Tree
  • 2-3 Tree, 2-3-4 Tree,B-tree
  • B-plus Tree
  • File Structures
  • Graph
• Describe how advanced data structures are implemented.
• Decide and explain the choice of an advanced data structure for an application.
• Describe and apply internal and external sorting algorithms.
• Describe and apply internal and external searching algorithms and methods.

CS 311 - Computer Architecture I

• Create and modify programs of significant size using Assembly language.
• Create software programs using commonly accepted practices for writing software, such as, proper documentation, testing, and code writing.
• Modify software written by other programmers.
• Compare and contrast Assembly language with other programming languages.

CS 312 - Computer Architecture II

• List the historical developments of computers from analog to digital signals, description of a simple computer organization, electronic representation of bits and description of voltage levels and pulse time.
• Apply representations and calculations in Boolean algebra.
• Describe and apply the elements used in combinational circuits, encoders and decoders, multiplexors and demultiplexors, ROM, shifters and adders, registers and ALU.

CS 325 - Technical Writing in Computer Science

• Be able to write a concise, objective and accurate summary of an article directed toward a general audience on a computer science topic and a concise summary of a math or computer science article that includes a discussion of mathematical concepts. This is an extended paraphrase that does not use any quoted material or near quotes. Topics might relate to controlling round-off error, creating strong passwords, and user interface design among other topics.
• Demonstrating knowledge of how to correct passive voice and wordiness by restructuring the sentence syntax, using strong verbs, and reducing use of prepositions.
• Demonstrate knowledge of how to edit and track changes in a word-processing software and using standard proofreader’s marks.
• Language related outcomes: Correctly use American English punctuation, especially commas (for introductory clauses and non-essential clauses), colons, semi-colons, and italics. Be able to show differences between US and UK punctuation rules. Demonstrate familiarity with commonly confused words in English and be able to select the correct spelling given a sentence in a test situation.
• Math and Computer Science related outcomes: Demonstrate ability to create a drop-down list using parallelism. Demonstrate ability to correct standard errors in table and graph constructions following Zobel’s guidelines, paying attention to scaling, notes, and avoiding redundancies. Diagram a written procedure with a flowchart using ISO symbols. Be able to format a mathematical displayed equation. Show yes-no decision points in a computer problem and at least one loop.
• Locate a job announcement or an internship opening in the computer science industry and apply to it.
• Demonstrate knowledge of US copyright and trademark law by explaining the concepts of fair use, permission, and public domain.
• Stylistic outcomes: Ability to identify the differences between MLA, APA, and IEEE documentation styles. Review an article that has been submitted to an ACM journal.
• Ability to produce relevant bibliography using library databases
• Write a literature survey
• Produce a Power Point presentation and demonstrate efficient oral presentation techniques.

CS 351 - Web Development Technologies II

• Describe and use client-side technologies of the World Wide Web, namely XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Describe and use dynamic web site technologies such as JavaScript and PHP
• Design and create web applications using SQL and PHP.
• Articulate ethical positions on contemporary issues related to the web
• Deliver oral presentations on website design and implementation

CS 361 - Principles of Language Design I

• Survey the wide variety of programming languages.
• Differentiate between compilation and interpretation.
• Explore elements of formal languages.
• Explain the construction of lexical scanners and parsers.
• List the phases of compilation.
• Distinguish the semantics of control structures.
• Describe the major issues regarding storage at runtime.
• Differentiate between static and dynamic scopes.
• List properties of type systems.
• Apply principles of expression evaluation.

CS 362 - Principles of Language Design II

• Name the major categories of languages.
• Compare and contrast computer languages.
• Describe and apply the categories of syntax and semantics, including formal methods of syntax, attribute grammars, and static and dynamic semantics.
• Demonstrate general knowledge in naming, binding, type checking, and scoping.
• Define, describe, illustrate the theory of data types, expressions and assignment statements.
• Demonstrate an understanding of (i) functional, (ii) object-oriented, (iii) scripting, (iv) logic, (v) imperative programming languages.

CS 367 - Advanced Visual Basic Programming

• Understand three different types of errors: run-time, syntax and logic
• Modularize code by writing functions and procedures
• Demonstrate an understanding of data types, including widening and narrowing conversion
• Demonstrate an understanding of the three programming control constructs (i.e. sequential, selection, and repetition, including nested loops)
• Re-use code by importing existing files into a Visual Basic project
• Implement parallel single dimensional arrays and two dimensional arrays
• Implement file processing, using StreamWriter and StreamReader objects.
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of Object Oriented Programming, including inheritance    
• Implement a VBA macro in Excel
• Integrate concepts learned in a Term Project

CS 370 - Introduction to the UNIX Operating System

• Demonstrate knowledge in different Unix/Linux like operating systems.
• Perform different operating system specific programming tasks involving C/C++ programming language.
• Convert different algorithms into shell scripts using OS specific tools.
• Set-up from scratch an operating system.
• Identify scenarios where one tool or another relevant tool should be considered to solve specific problems.
• Manage an operating system from administration point of view.

CS 380 - Introduction to Software Engineering

• List and explain good design in terms of Java patterns. 
• Assess and evaluate large project resources.
• Formulate principles of customer interaction.
• Describe the use of testing and version control tools.
• Organize and schedule team member meetings.
• Prepare presentations on the progress of project.
• Practice human skills to resolve conflicts.

CS 392 - Lab Experience in Teaching Computer Science

CS 396 - Individual Study

CS 397 - Honors

CS 398 - Special Topics

CS 399 - Seminar

CS 420 - Database Management Systems

• Identify different types of DB organization.
• Describe a relational database.
• Recognize an Entity/Relationship model.
• Analyze and state problems in terms of relational algebra.
• Demonstrate through design the principles of relation description via functional dependencies.
• Identify good design of a relational database.
• Utilize Sequential Query Language (SQL).

CS 426 - Autonomous Robotics

• Demonstrate the ability to apply technical, managerial, communications, and interpersonal skills to a realistic project of relative complexity.
• Synthesize and integrate multiple cloud technologies and a humanoid robot platform to create a comprehensive software system architecture of best real time human-robot interactivity.
• Effectively implement software for robot decoding of human behavior patterns.
• Identify situations involving different types of human queries.
• Describe the impact of cloud robotics technology in both local and global contexts.
• Understand how to implement cloud robotics, through scalable distributed cloud computing with big data machine learning and user-interaction trigged behaviors.

ABET Student outcomes. By the end of the course, students should have:

• An ability to apply knowledge of cloud computing appropriate to the program’s student outcomes and to the discipline.
• An ability to analyze a problem, and identify and define the cloud robotics requirements appropriate to its solution.

CS 427 - Algorithm Analysis

• Define basic categories of algorithmic analysis and algorithmic strategies.
• Formulate and apply fundamental computing algorithms to solve specific tasks.
• Formulate mathematical analysis of recursive algorithms, heterogeneous recurrences and the Master Theorem.
• Formulate and apply Brute-Force, Exhaustive search, Depth-First and Breadth-First Search and Decrease-and-conquer algorithms.
• Formulate and apply the complexity classes P and NP to specific tasks.
• Formulate and apply advanced algorithmic analysis.

CS 428 - Introduction to Graph Algorithms

• Demonstrate knowledge of algorithmic ideas and principles discussed in class.
• Distinguish between different types of graph problems and choose algorithms which solve them.
• Analyze an optimization problem, transform it into a graph problem, and implement a program solving it.
• Propose an algorithmic approach to solve the graph problem of term project.
• Justify chosen algorithms, data structures, and other design decisions in submitted implementation.

CS 430 - Cybersecurity

• Differentiate the basic components of computer security.
• Classify, compare, and contrast different computer security threats.
• Implement and experiment with cryptographic encoding- decoding methods.
• Analyze encryption security policies and propose software development practices to avoid possible weaknesses.
• Implement and experiment with anti-malware techniques.
• Describe the concept of social engineering as it relates to internet computer security and evaluate its effectiveness.
• Analyze anti-malware security policies and propose software development practices to avoid possible intrusion attacks.
   

CS 440 - Computer Graphics

• List the historical developments of computer graphics.
• List and apply the elementary drawing of figures.
• Describe and apply the elements of analytic geometry.
• Describe and apply matrix representations of transformations.
• Explain and apply display segmentation processes.
• Describe and apply the elements of 30 graphics.

CS 441 - Computer Graphics II (Put on reserve 9/16/17)

• Properly use vector tools in graphical systems.
• Discuss the concept of object transformation.
• Describe and apply 3-D affine transformations in computer graphics.
• Describe and apply techniques necessary to change the coordinate system in computer graphics.
• Ability to build graphical systems that draw user and application required shapes.
• Ability to draw 3-D scenes with Open GL tools.
• Describe methods for decomposing affine transformations into basic geometric operations.
• Describe and apply the elements used in defining operations
  • Solid modeling with polygonal meshes, 
  • Polyedra and Nonsolid objects,and smooth objects.
• Ability to build graphical systems using Open GL.

CS 445 - Data and Information Visualization

• Construct visualization pipelines for specific visualization tasks.
• Apply visual data representations.
• Create effective operational models for knowledge of fundamental visualization algorithms.
• Quantify visualization frameworks for web visualization applications.
   

CS 446 - User Interface Design and Development

• Recognize basic principles of User Interface Design.
• Apply user interface design and usability.
• Construct a basic web site using HTML and CSS.
• Construct a basic web site using JavaScript and JQuery.
• Develop a front end including: design, paper and computer prototype, implementation and Usability testing.
• Present the group project.

CS 450 - Computer Network and Data Communications

• Identify and explain the basic concepts of communication among computers.
• Identify and explain the fundamentals of computer networks, primary LAN architectures, network topologies, and the difference between local and wide area networks.
• Describe the purpose of communication and network standards and identify the primary standards bodies for networking.
• Describe the nature and functionality of protocol layering in networking.
• Create a descriptive list of the concept and purpose of protocols for communication, the principal protocols used in LAN, and the principal protocols used in Wide Area Networks and the Internet.
• Recognize the purpose and basic operation of Network Operating Systems.
• Describe the messaging mechanisms of networks.

CS 455 - Artificial Intelligence

• List the historical developments of artificial intelligence
• Describe and apply the elements of production and matching
  • productions system methodology
  • pattern matching
  • mathematical formula
  • manipulation
  • the notion of unification
• Describe and apply the elements used in knowledge representation
  • productions rules
  • concept hierarchies
  • inheritance
  • propositional and predicate logic
  • frames of context
  • semantic networks
  • constraints
  • relational databases
• Describe and apply the elements used in searching
  • elementary search techniques
  • heuristic search techniques
  • planning
  • two-person, zero-sum games
• Describe and apply the elements used in probabilistic reasoning
  • probability
  • probabilistic inference networks
  • updating inference networks
  • the Dempster-Shafer calculus
• Describe and apply the elements used in learning
  • classification rules
  • general rules from fixed examples
  • self-directed conceptualization systems
• Describe and apply the elements used in natural language understanding
  • syntax
  • semantics and representation
  • computing interpretations
  • dialog management
• Describe and apply the elements used in expert systems
  • integration of Al techniques
  • tools
  • hardware

 
Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
2/21/02

Anticipated Course Offering Terms and Locations:

CS 456 - Data Mining

• Characterize specific data mining tasks, introducing concepts, models, algorithms, and tools for solving data mining tasks; decision trees, time series, Bayesian methods, k-means, k-nearest neighbors, and relational databases–from “decision trees”.
• Use machine learning algorithms to solve data clustering and classification problems.
• Identify the important of data mining in financial applications.

CS 457 - Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning

• Compare the development and history of computational and artificial intelligence as compared to the Turing Machine and conventional computing.
• Describe the basic concepts of artificial neural networks: learning, classification, pattern recognition, memory, logical operations.
• Build neural classifiers and pattern recognition models.
• Describe the use of feedback in neural networks for optimization.
• Describe associative memories and their use in clustering, classification and visualization of very large data sets.
• Define genetic algorithms and their use in optimization.
• Discuss the basic features of swarm intelligence and ant colony optimization.
• Compare fuzzy logic to binary logic and analyze the use of fuzzy rules for expert systems and the architecture of fuzzy neural systems.
• Describe radial function neural networks.
• Analyze the computational power of neural networks and determine the limits of neural computing.

CS 460 - Software Engineering for Mobile Devices

• Demonstrate knowledge of MVC design pattern
• Demonstrate knowledge of and proficiency with XML in use in a large-scale development team
• Demonstrate use of Objective-C and Java in writing stand-alone applications for deployment onto mobile devices
• Design, create, and interpret control-flow (CFD) and data- flow diagrams (DFD)
• Students will apply effective User Interface (UI) design principles to design a user- friendly, easy-to-use Graphical User Interface (GUI) for their three custom mobile applications.
• Students will employ formal integration and unit testing principles to evaluate efficiency and accuracy of back-end code and its ability to meet a mobile app’s functional and non- functional requirements

CS 470 - Operating Systems

• Manipulate operating system functions with particularities considered for Linux and Windows.
• Integrate concepts such as process management, how processes are created, synchronized, canceled, deadlocks, etc.
• Integrate concepts such as main/virtual memory management, how memory is allocated, how memory is shared, and how this integrates in the OS paradigm.
• Design and develop multithreaded solutions to solve problems in multiprocessor architectures and be able to justify the parallel programming in the critical section paradigm.
• Assess, test and compare different CPU scheduling mechanisms and recognize and distinguish advantages and disadvantages of these strategies in the OS paradigm.
• Integrate data storage concepts.

CS 471 - Optimization

• Demonstrate knowledge of different problem domains.
• Differentiate different optimization algorithm classification, in terms of deterministic and stochastic algorithms.
• Formulate deterministic algorithms using given set of rules on a specified problem domain.
• Formulate stochastic algorithms based on population topology.
• Assess the performance characteristics of different algorithms through benchmark tests.
• Evaluate the suitability of different optimization algorithms in given scenarios.

CS 473 - Parallel Computing

• Design algorithms that execute efficiently on parallel computers.
• Demonstrate the usage of distributed programs.
• Demonstrate the usage of multi-core programs.
• Identify computational science solutions for problems in a parallel/distributed environment.

CS 475 - Programming for Distributed Environments (Put on reserve 9/16/18)

• Identify the significant architectural styles of distributed computing.
• Identify the different communication methods used by distributed applications
• Identify the issues specific to creating a distributed application, such as synchronization, fault tolerance, naming, and consistency.
• Identify the paradigms used for creating distributed applications.

CS 476 - Social Informatics for Computer Science

• Define key terms from the discipline of social informatics.
• Discuss critical social informatics theories.
• Apply social informatics theory to solve problems.
• Distinguish social informatics theory from other theoretical frameworks associated with lCTs.
• Design a plan that facilitates the successful implementation of an ICT in a specific setting.
• Justify a plan that facilitates the successful implementation of an ICT in a specific setting.

CS 480 - Advanced Software Engineering

• Acquire and integrate concepts such as software project management necessary to build a professional software project using a computer.
• Study the software product lifecycle: problem definition, the client, the requirements, requirements specification, design, prototype, testing, and deployment.
• Learn how to prepare a software requirements specification document based on discussions with a real client.
• Learn how to prepare a software documentation.
• Use and further develop their technical writing skills to prepare all these documents.
• Learn to work in teams (agenda, meeting, focus, timing, minutes, etc.) and how to prepare a presentation for the client with a possible solution for a given problem.

CS 481 - Software Engineering Project

• Implement and use the knowledge acquired in CS 480 (team, deadlines, meetings, working in teams, meeting with clients, etc.) for real-life problems assigned by the CS department.
• Select the adequate technologies, solutions (platform, technologies, operating systems, etc.) to provide a viable solution to the client.
• Write and develop a project progress report based on the current project status.
• Write and develop a final project report based on the assigned project.
• Show and demonstrate live their software product.
• Learn how to asses and evaluate themselves and their peers by writing a short evaluation report.

CS 489 - Senior Colloquium

• List “Computer Ethics Institute” IT professional ethics.
• Explain “Software Engineering Code of Ethics”
• Name and explain similarities in business and IT professional ethics.
• Analyze significant and current topics in Computer Science.
• Prepare a written report of a significant ethical or historical topic.

CS 490 - Cooperative Education

CS 491 - Workshop

CS 492 - Laboratory Experience in Teaching Computer Science

CS 493 - Practicum

CS 495 - Directed Research

• Demonstrate critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrate an ability to communicate ideas and results effectively.
• Demonstrate an ability to learn new material independently from a variety of sources.

CS 496 - Individual Study

CS 497 - Honors

CS 498 - Special Topics

CS 499 - Seminar

CMGT 101 - Construction and the Built Environment

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the historical context of the built environment and construction categories.
• Apply basic construction terminology, parties and industry structure involved in the construction discipline.
• Identify trends and career opportunities in the construction industry.
• Demonstrate an understanding of professional ethics found in the construction industry.
• Use construction plans to understand the difference between general and heavy civil construction.

CMGT 201 - Computer Applications in Construction

• Create effective electronic documents through the application of computers for the planning and management of construction projects.
• Use technology based equipment on a simulated construction project to plan and manage construction projects.
• Use building information modeling (BIM) applications for planning and managing construction projects.
• Demonstrate knowledge of Procore, HCSS, CMiC, SAGE and other cloud based construction software to effectively manage the construction process, documents in the office and jobsite.

CMGT 245 - Light Commercial Construction

• Demonstrate the ability to lay out a simple building and get the corners square within 1/4” (measuring diagonals).
• Demonstrate the ability to construct footing and foundation wall forms and place concrete.
• Demonstrate the ability to frame a simple wood frame building.
• Demonstrate the ability to install siding roofing, doors and windows.
• Estimate the required quantities of construction materials for a simple building within 5%

CMGT 265 - Construction Documents

• Introduce construction contract documents to plan and manage construction processes.
• Understand the nomenclature, purpose, organization, and context of contract documents and how they control construction processes.
• Introduce and use electronic construction documents to plan and manage construction processes.

CMGT 267 - Plane Surveying

• Properly account for surveying errors and error propagation and demonstrate an understanding of distance and angle and direction measurement and units.
• Explain the components of surveying instruments and demonstrate a working knowledge and ability to properly care for these instruments.
• Complete a 1500 foot level loop within fourth order accuracy.
• Complete a five sided closed traverse and corresponding calculations to third order accuracy. Perform calculations for traverse closure and area.
• Perform specific applications of surveying techniques and calculations pertaining to grade staking, earthwork volume calculations and building layout.
• Demonstrate the ability to perform a stadia survey and create a site map, including topography.
• Demonstrate the ability to accurately and neatly record field work.

CMGT 267LAB - Plane Surveying Field Session

• Explain the components of surveying instruments and demonstrate a working knowledge and ability to properly care for these instruments.
• Complete a 1500-foot level loop within fourth order accuracy.
• Complete a five sided closed traverse and corresponding calculations to third order accuracy.
• Perform specific applications of surveying techniques pertaining to grade staking, earthwork volumes and building layout.
• Demonstrate the ability to perform a stadia survey and create a site map, including topography.
• Demonstrate the ability to accurately and neatly record fieldwork.

CMGT 267LABHC - Heavy Civil Highway Field Session

• Complete a 1500 foot level loop within fourth order accuracy.
• Complete a five sided closed traverse and corresponding calculations to third order accuracy.
• Perform calculations for traverse closure and area.
• Perform specific application of surveying techniques and calculations pertaining to grade staking and earthwork volume calculations.
• Create a horizontal curve and spiral curve including the laying out of slope and grade stakes.
• Demonstrate the ability to accurately and neatly record field data.

CMGT 298 - Special Topics

CMGT 299 - Seminar

CMGT 320 - Electrical Systems

• Obtain a fundamental understanding of electricity as applied to construction. Students will understand basic circuitry, electrical design considerations and electrical construction terminology.
• Draw and analyze simple electrical circuits, calculate voltage, resistance and amperages across various parallel and or series circuits through the application of Ohm’s law.
• Quantitatively and qualitatively be able to describe the 3-phase power, electrical equipment, protective devices and power factor as applied to residential, commercial and heavy/civil projects.
• Express themselves on the technical subject related to electrical construction.

CMGT 343 - Construction Estimating I

• Define project activities (tasks) and work breakdown structure (WBS) for a residential and commercial building by considering equipment, subcontracts, material requirements and event sequencing.
• Define sequential logic on a network diagram, including start to start, finish to start, start to finish and finish to finish logic, with lag and lead times identified.
• Manually perform a forward and backward pass on both an activity on node and activity on arrow network, identify the critical path, early and late starts and finishes and float times for each activity.
• Demonstrate an understanding of network scheduling as it relates to contract provisions, delay claims and dispute resolution for a project.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of resource considerations, including resource histograms, allocation resource leveling, cash flow and earned value for a project.
• Properly utilize a variety of specialized scheduling techniques, including PERT, linear scheduling and short interval scheduling.
• Accurately and quickly perform each of the items identified above on Microsoft Project 98 scheduling software, including proper use of reports and graphics.

CMGT 343LAB - Construction Estimating I Laboratory

• Develop and utilize spreadsheets for quantity takeoff.
• Develop and utilize spreadsheets for construction labor estimates.
• Accurately develop and utilize spreadsheets to prepare a parametric estimate.
• Create and utilize an estimating spreadsheet to compile and summarize the estimate for a small building project.

CMGT 344 - Construction Estimating II

• Able to identify the resource requirements required (materials, labor, equipment, time and money) to build construction projects.
• Able to reference safety items, understand how safety concerns is addressed at the job site, and how it must be planned for during an estimate.
• Understand how to determine and develop costs associated with the required resources to build construction projects.
• Demonstrate the ability to work in teams and estimate an entire commercial project.

CMGT 344LAB - Construction Estimating II Laboratory