May 21, 2024  
2013-2014 Graduate Catalog 
    
2013-2014 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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  • CIS 622 - Real-Time Operating Systems


    Basic real-time operating systems concepts and services; interrupt processing; process and thread models; real-time software architectures and development environments. Detailed study of design and implementation of real-time applications using real-time operating systems.

    Credits: (1)

    Note:
    Three hours recitation per week. Course meet in one contiguous block of five weeks.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 621. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Fall


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  • CIS 625 - Concurrent Software Systems


    Architecture, design, modeling, implementation, and verification of concurrent, parallel, and distributed software; aspects such as real-time programming, parallel simulation; fault-tolerant programming; grid computing, embedded systems control.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 501. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Spring


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  • CIS 635 - Introduction to Computer-Based Knowledge Systems


    Introduction to the applications of artificial intelligence concepts to solving knowledge-dependent tasks. Review of knowledge-representation ideas. Survey of expert system design. Introduction to existing knowledge-based tools available on personal computers. Development of an intelligent system.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 300. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Fall


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  • CIS 636 - Introduction to Computer Graphics


    Devices and software for graphics display and user interaction, development of software for direct graphic manipulation applications.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 300. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring


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  • CIS 638 - Multimedia Systems


    Introduction to computer graphics devices, user interaction; history and scope; multimedia structure, encoding methods and standards, mark-up and scripting languages, software tools, and applications; readings in current literature; class presentation; multimedia project.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 300, senior standing. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Spring


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  • CIS 640 - Software Testing Techniques


    Survey of software testing methodologies; evaluation of software testing strategies; experience in a variety of software testing practices.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 501. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Spring


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  • CIS 641 - Software Engineering Design Project


    Current practices of software development, requirements, design, prototyping, measures and evaluations. Specification, design, and prototpying of a software system.

    Credits: (3)

    Note:
    Not available for credit to students with credit in CIS 642.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 308, 501, and STAT 325 or 510. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Fall


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  • CIS 642 - Software Engineering Project I


    The first semester of a two-semester capstone course. Current practices of software development, requirements, design, prototyping, measures and evaluation. Specification, design, and prototyping of a software system.

    Credits: (3)

    Note:
    Not available for credit to students with credit in CIS 641.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 308, 501, and STAT 325 or 510. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Fall


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  • CIS 643 - Software Engineering Project II


    Continuation of CIS 642. Final implementation, integration, and testing of a software system. Introduction to configuration management, project management, and software maintenance.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 642 (which must be taken in the preceding semester). Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Spring


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  • CIS 645 - Software Development Environments


    Survey of current development environments and/or an in-depth study of one development environment.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 501. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    On sufficient demand


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  • CIS 690 - Implementation Project


    The department will suggest various design or implementation projects for individuals or groups in areas such as translators, interpreters, microprogramming, minicomputer operating systems, graphics, numerical software, etc.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: Junior standing.

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring, Summer


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  • CIS 697 - Seminar in Computer Science


    Credits: (1-3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: Junior standing.


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  • CIS 705 - Programming Languages


    Programming language concepts, including typing, scoping, abstraction and exceptions; programming paradigms, including one or more of logic, functional, object-oriented and concurrent programming, and programming languages supporting the selected paradigms; introduction to programming language semantics; programming language design; development environments.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 505 and MATH 510. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Spring


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  • CIS 706 - Translator Design I


    Compilers and interpreters, including description of languages, finite state scanners. LL(1) parsing, symbol tables, syntax-directed semantics, simple code generation. Constructing a simple compiler.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 501, and CIS 605. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Fall


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  • CIS 710 - Computer Simulation Experiments


    Principles of digital computer simulation; discrete simulation method, statistics of simulations; implementations.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 300. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    On sufficient demand


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  • CIS 720 - Advanced Operating Systems


    Process synchronization and communication, distributed programming primitives, transactions and concurrency control, distributed scheduling, distributed storage, deadlock, security.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 520. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.


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  • CIS 721 - Real-Time Systems


    The design of hard real-time embedded systems, including language and operating system support, scheduling, schedulability analysis, fault tolerance, and design tools.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 520 or both CIS 622 and ECE 633. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.


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  • CIS 722 - Operating System Practices


    Structure and functions of modern operating systems. Emphasis on reading and modifying the source code of a working operating system. This includes memory management, input/output, process management, file systems, and network interconnection software construction.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 520. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Spring


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  • CIS 725 - Advanced Computer Networks


    Network algorithms: routing and congestion control; protocol engineering: protocol decomposition, specification and verification, synthesis; protocols for high speed networks, parallel implementations, light-weight protocols.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 520, and CIS 525. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.


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  • CIS 726 - Advanced World Wide Web Technologies


    An advanced course on the technologies that make up the World Wide Web. WWW site designs and analysis, WWW software architecture, server-side technologies, dynamic executable scheduling, digital libraries, WWW security.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 520, CIS 525. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Spring


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  • CIS 730 - Principles of Artificial Intelligence


    Introduction to the fundamental concepts and techniques of AI: problem solving, search and planning, knowledge representation and qualitative reasoning, expert systems, natural language processing and cognitive modeling, computer vision, and machine learning.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 501. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Spring


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  • CIS 732 - Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition


    Theory and methodology of inductive learning, including decision trees, artificial neural networks, probabilistic and instance-based learning, and inductive logic programming; unsupervised and reinforcement learning, bagging and boosting; genetic algorithms and genetic programming; and applications to data mining.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 501 or CIS 575.

    When Offered:
    Fall


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  • CIS 734 - Introduction to Genomics and Bioinformatics


    A problem solving approach to understanding genomics and bioinformatics. Practical use of databases and web-based tools used to study biological problems. Introduction to the algorithms behind these tools.

    Credits: (4)

    Note:
    Three hours lec. and one-and-a-half hours lab a week.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: Either BIOL 450 or CIS 300, and instructor permission. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Spring, even years

    Crosslisted:
    BIOL 734


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  • CIS 736 - Computer Graphics


    Topics in computer representation and display of images and graphic interaction.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 308. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.


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  • CIS 740 - Software Engineering


    Software life cycle, equirements, specifications, design, validation, measures, and maintenance.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 540. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.


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  • CIS 744 - Advanced Software Analysis and Design


    Advanced concepts and practicum in object-oriented analysis, modeling, design, implementation, testing, and use of CASE tools; relationships among structural, static, and dynamic models; relationship among conceptual, system, and implementation models.

    Credits: (3)

    Note:
    Not available for credit to students with credit in CIS 544.

    Requisites:
    Pr. CIS 540. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Spring, Summer


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  • CIS 746 - Software Measurement


    Measurement theory; development, validation and use of software measures; software measures in the lifecycle, including cost estimation, design measures, software complexity and software reliability.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 540. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.


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  • CIS 748 - Advanced Software Management


    Topics related to the management of software, including organization, project planning, process models, life cycle models, TQM, software quality assurance, cost estimation, configuration management.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 740. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Spring, Summer


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  • CIS 750 - Advanced Computer Architecture Experiments


    Characteristics of various computers including those with execution support of multiprocessing, multiprogramming, microprogrammable, highlevel language, stack processing, and communication architectures.

    Credits: (3)

    Note:
    Two hours lecture and three hours lab a week.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 450. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    On sufficient demand


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  • CIS 751 - Computer and Information Security


    A comprehensive coverage of computer and information security. Basic cryptography, access control, authentication, authorization, network security, software security, and social aspects of security. The lectures discuss when and where things can go wrong and how design flaws in a system can be exploited to compromise security. Common attack techniques are introduced, and students have the opportunity to work on course projects that cover both the defense and offense aspects in cyber space.

    Credits: (3)

    Note:
    Not available for credit to students with credit in CIS 551.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 450 or 520. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Fall


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  • CIS 753 - Applied Cryptography


    Fundamentals of cryptography, including mathematical background, classical ciphers, public key encryption, block and stream ciphers, cryptographic hash functions, digital signatures, common attacks, and basic network security.

    Credits: (3)

    Note:
    Not available for credit to students with credit in CIS 553. Three hours rec. a week.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 300, MATH 510, or equivalent. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Spring


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  • CIS 755 - Advanced Computer and Information Security


    In-depth coverage of advanced theoretical and practical security techniques with emphasis on construction of new systems and auditing and repair of existing security-critical systems using rigorous design, risk analysis, and engineering methods and application of state-of-the-art theoretical tools.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 551 or CIS 751. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Spring


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  • CIS 761 - Data Base Management Systems


    Data models and languages, hierarchical, network, relational systems; implementational and operational requirements; programming projects using data base management systems.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 560, CIS 604. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.


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  • CIS 762 - Office Automation


    Characteristics of information work; modeling systems for characterizing aspects of office environment; form-based systems; office automation and description languages, ergonomics, local area networks and tools used in the automation of offices.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 525, 560. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.


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  • CIS 764 - Database Design


    Conceptual, logical, physical, and user interface design for database management systems.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 501. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    On sufficient demand


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  • CIS 770 - Formal Language Theory


    Regular languages, finite automata, context-free languages, pushdown automata, context-sensitive languages, linear bounded automata, recursively enumerable languages, Turing machines.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: MATH 510. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.


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  • CIS 771 - Software Specification


    Formal logic or specification of software components; algebraic vs. model-based specifications; common abstract types; verification of properties of specifications; introduction to specification of concurrent systems.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 301. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.


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  • CIS 775 - Analysis of Algorithms


    Study and application of techniques and procedures used in the analysis of algorithms including the worst and average cases of both time and space. Study of the P and NP classes.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 575. Students may enroll in CIS courses only if they have earned a grade of C or better for each prerequisite to those courses.

    When Offered:
    Fall


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  • CIS 798 - Topics in Computer Science


    Credits: (Var.)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: Prerequisite varies with the announced topic.


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  • CIS 801 - Translator Design II


    LR parsing, storage allocation, code generation, data flow optimization, compiler generators.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 706.

    When Offered:
    On sufficient demand


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  • CIS 806 - Semantics of Programming Languages


    Introduction of formal semantics description methods for programming languages; comparison of operational, denotational, algebraic, and axiomatic methods; analysis of relationship of formal semantics definitions to computer implementation.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 771.


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  • CIS 810 - Logic Programming


    Selected topics; constraint logic programming, deductive databases, concurrent logic programming, object-oriented logic programming, mathematical theory of logic programming specification and transformation of logic programs.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: Knowledge of Prolog.


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  • CIS 820 - Topics in Theory of Asynchronous Systems


    Safety and liveness properties, synchronous and asynchronous message passing systems, virtual circuit and datagram communication, process failure, concepts of composition and superimposition, temporal logic, reachability analysis, theory of concurrency control, atomic commitment, replica control.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 720.


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  • CIS 825 - Topics in Distributed Systems


    Models of distributed computation, events and global states, failure semantics, communication abstractions, synchronization in distributed programs; distributed algorithms: election, termination and deadlock detection, broadcast programming and algorithms.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 720; or CIS 725 and permission of the instructor.


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  • CIS 826 - Protocol Engineering


    Basic concepts of protocol design, specification languages and formal description techniques, safety and liveness properties, protocol validation, protocol synthesis, protocol translation and conformance testing.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 725.


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  • CIS 830 - Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence


    Advanced techniques and new ideas in artificial intelligence. Includes applications and case studies of artificial intelligence in action.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 730.


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  • CIS 833 - Information Retrieval and Text Mining


    Theory and practice of search engines for retrieving textual information; basic and advanced topics, with emphasis on newer technologies that go beyond simple keyword search; the use of MapReduce framework to process large collections of documents.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 732 and instructor permission.

    When Offered:
    Fall


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  • CIS 834 - Machine Learning for Bioinformatics


    The course will cover some of the most important machine learning algorithms (including semi-supervised and transfer learning algorithms) and their applications to bioinformatics.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: Either CIS 732 or CIS 734, and instructor permission.

    When Offered:
    Spring, odd years.


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  • CIS 841 - Verification and Validation


    Practical techniques for verifying and validating software including formal verification, software testing, reliability measurement and modeling.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 740.


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  • CIS 842 - Specification and Verification of Reactive Systems


    Review of formal specification languages; architecture of concurrent and reactive systems; specification methods including: Z, Petri nets, temporal logic, state transition models; development and evaluation of system specifications; verification structures including layered systems, serialization, and predicate automata.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 771.


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  • CIS 844 - Agent-Oriented Software Engineering


    Analysis, design, and implementation of large, complex, distributed, and adaptive software systems using agent-oriented paradigm. Will survey various modeling languages and agent-oriented methodologies.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 730, CIS 740.

    When Offered:
    Spring


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  • CIS 860 - Advanced Database Systems


    Advanced topics in database and intelligent information systems. Possible topics include active, temporal, object-oriented, and multimedia databases, warehousing and data mining.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 761 or CIS 764.


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  • CIS 864 - Data Engineering


    Advanced topics in database design and maintenance including performance monitoring, query optimization and tuning in centralized and distributed data systems.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 761 or 764.


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  • CIS 870 - Theory of Computability


    Formal models for computability; universal programs; Church’s thesis; unsolvable problems and reducibilities; partial recursive functions; recursive and recursively enumerable sets; s-m-n theorem and the recursion theorem.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 770.


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  • CIS 890 - Special Topics in Computer Science


    Topics of the current state-of-the-art of computer science.

    Credits: (2-4)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: Prerequisite varies with the announced topic.


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  • CIS 895 - MSE Project


    This course takes the student through the process of developing a project. This process typically takes more than one semester to complete. Includes reviews and walkthroughs of the requirements, design, and implementation.

    Credits: (Var.)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 740, CIS 748, CIS 771, and three additional credits toward the MSE degree.


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  • CIS 897 - Seminar in Computer Science


    Introduction to computing as a discipline; the relationship of computing to other disciplines; the interaction of computing and ethics; the development of a written and oral research proposal.

    Credits: (1)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: full graduate standing in CIS (CR/NCR only).

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring, Summer


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  • CIS 898 - Master’s Report in CIS


    Credits: (1-3)

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring, Summer


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  • CIS 899 - Research in Computer Science


    Credits: (1-6)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 897.


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  • CIS 901 - Topics in Translator Design


    Topics involving incremental, extensible, conversational compilers; program development systems, portability and validation of compilers; compiler generators.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 801.


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  • CIS 905 - Theory of Programming Languages


    Formal definition languages; operational and formal semantic models; equivalence of semantic models; formal properties of programming languages.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 806.


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  • CIS 920 - Research Topics in Distributed Systems


    Topics on current state-of-the-art research in distributed systems.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: Permission of the instructor.


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  • CIS 926 - Computation Structures


    Petri nets, flowgraph schemata, dataflow models, relationships between abstract computational models and hardware models and programming languages.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 771.


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  • CIS 930 - Expert Systems


    Advanced theory and techniques in the development of expert systems. Focuses on knowledge acquisition and knowledge organization used in expert systems. Includes design, implementation, and evaluation of an expert system.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 830.


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  • CIS 940 - Research Topics in Software Engineering


    Research on one of the topics in CIS 840.

    Credits: (3)

    Note:
    May be repeated for credit.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 840.


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  • CIS 960 - Theory of Data Base Systems


    Advanced topics in data base systems including distributed data bases, integrity, security, normalization, data base machines, performance models, query languages.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CIS 840.


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  • CIS 990 - Research Topics


    Study of current topics in computer science.

    Credits: (2-3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: Permission of the instructor.


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  • CNS 510 - Computer Applications in Construction Science


    Applications of specialized computer techniques to the solution of problems in construction science.

    Credits: (Var.)

    Note:
    By appointment.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CNS 200.

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring.


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  • CNS 522 - Theory of Structures


    The elastic analysis of determinate and indeterminate structures. Emphasis on equilibrium equations, shear and moment diagrams and solving forces in trusses. Includes solutions of indeterminate structures by moment distribution and matrix stiffness method with microcomputer applications.

    Credits: (3)

    Note:
    Three hours rec. a week.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CE 331.

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring


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  • CNS 523 - Timber Construction


    Principles of design, fabrication, and erection of timber structures including both solid and laminated materials.

    Credits: (2)

    Note:
    Two hours rec. a week.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CNS 522.

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring


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  • CNS 524 - Steel Construction


    Principles of design, fabrication, and erection of structural steel in conformance with codes.

    Credits: (3)

    Note:
    Three hours rec. a week.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CNS 522.

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring


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  • CNS 528 - Concrete and Masonry Construction


    Principles of design, fabrication, and erection of concrete and masonry structures.

    Credits: (3)

    Note:
    Three hours rec. a week.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CNS 522.

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring


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  • CNS 534 - Heating and Air Conditioning


    Principles of designing, applying, and installing heating and air conditioning systems for buildings.

    Credits: (3)

    Note:
    Three hours rec. a week.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CNS 321.

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring


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  • CNS 535 - Electrical and Lighting


    Basic design and construction of building electrical, lighting, and distribution systems with emphasis on the National Electrical Code and installation.

    Credits: (3)

    Note:
    Three hours rec. a week.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CNS 321.

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring


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  • CNS 536 - Water Supply and Plumbing


    Principles and practices of the design and layout of plumbing and fire protection, and individual waste treatment systems for buildings including code requirements and estimating.

    Credits: (3)

    Note:
    Three hours rec. a week.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CNS 321.

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring


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  • CNS 540 - Construction Methods and Equipment


    Operations, costs, productivity of construction equipment. Investments/life cycle costing of the equipment. Equipment selection criteria and analysis. Construction methods.

    Credits: (3)

    Note:
    Three hours rec. a week.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CNS 321, 330, and 522.

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring


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  • CNS 542 - Ethics and Professional Standards


    An application of the concepts of ethics as applied to the professional standards of the design and construction industry.

    Credits: (1)

    Note:
    Two hours recitation a week.

    Requisites:
    Co-req.: CNS 540

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring


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  • CNS 544 - Problems in Construction Science


    A study of specific design problems under the direct supervision of a member of the construction science faculty.

    Credits: (Var.)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: Junior standing.

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring, Summer


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  • CNS 545 - Heavy Construction Methods


    Principles of asphalt, asphalt and concrete paving operations, concrete batch plant operations, heavy construction equipment and applications.

    Credits: (3)

    Note:
    Three hours recitation a week.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CNS 325, 540.

    When Offered:
    Fall


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  • CNS 610 - Pre-Engineered Metal Buildings


    Pre-engineered metal building systems: history, components, erection procedures and sequencing, delivery considerations, quality control, safety, and quantity surveying and plan reading.

    Credits: (2)

    Note:
    Two hours rec. a week.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: Professional Program standing in Construction Science and Management or Graduate student in Architectural Engineering

    When Offered:
    On sufficient demand


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  • CNS 629 - Tilt-up Concrete Structures in Construction Management


    Basics of concrete, principles of tilt-up concrete, construction operations of tilt-up projects, planning procedures for job site erection, and safety procedures.

    Credits: (2)

    Note:
    Two hours rec. a week

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CNS 320 and CNS 522

    When Offered:
    On sufficient demand


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  • CNS 634 - Building Systems Commissioning


    Principles and methods of proper procedures for installing, commissioning and maintaining efficient performance of building envelope and support systems including mechanical and electrical systems.

    Credits: (2)

    Note:
    Two hours recitation a week.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: Either CNS 534, 535, and 536 OR ARE 533, 534, and 536.

    When Offered:
    Spring


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  • CNS 641 - Construction Estimating


    Understanding estimating procedures, quantity surveying, specification reviews, pricing of an estimate, market analysis, subcontractor and supplier solicitation, and risk management, following the CSI format.

    Credits: (4)

    Note:
    Two hours rec. and six hours lab a week.

    Requisites:
    PR.: CNS 325 and 540. Conc.: CNS 645. Pr. or Conc.: CNS 642.

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring


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  • CNS 642 - Construction Management


    An introduction to the business of construction; study of legal considerations, contract documents, bonds and insurance. Evaluation of the characteristics of the construction firm, organization structure, and financial performance.

    Credits: (3)

    Note:
    Three hours rec. a week.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CNS 540.

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring


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  • CNS 644 - Topics in Construction Management


    Topical material of importance in the management of construction such as marketing, ethics, personnel management, etc.

    Credits: (Var.)

    Requisites:
    Pr. or conc.: CNS 642.

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring, on sufficient demand


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  • CNS 645 - Construction Scheduling and Cost Control


    Construction cost reporting and control. Construction planning, both long-term and short-interval, construction scheduling, monitoring, and controlling. Computer application.

    Credits: (3)

    Note:
    Two hours rec. and two hours lab a week.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CNS 540 and conc. enrollment in CNS 641.

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring


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  • CNS 650 - Construction Safety


    Introduction to safety and safety programs, workers’ compensation, OSHA organization and structure, safety policies and record keeping, safety standards. Emphasis will be on communication and job-site safety management. On-site safety inspections will be required within class presentation and written reports to be submitted.

    Credits: (2)

    Note:
    Two hours rec. a week.

    Requisites:
    Pr. or conc.: CNS 535 and CNS 540.

    When Offered:
    Spring


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  • CNS 655 - Current Trends in Construction


    Broad overview of relevant topics in the construction industry in the areas of project management, field supervision, estimating, contracting, and various other special topics, taught by industry professionals who specialize in their area of expertise.

    Credits: (2)

    Requisites:
    Pr. CNS 641, 642, and 645. Pr or conc.: CNS 650

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring.


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  • CNS 660 - Construction Operations


    Shop drawing and submittal processes, field and office practices, change orders, construction safety standards and practice, pre-construction planning, expediting, short-interval planning.

    Credits: (3)

    Note:
    Two hours rec. and three hours lab a week.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: CNS 641, CNS 642, and CNS 645. Pr. or Conc.: CNS 650.

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring


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  • CNS 738 - Mechanical and Electrical Estimating


    Principles and practices of mechanical and electrical building systems estimating. Procedure for evaluating relative costs of different plumbing, HVAC, and electrical/lighting systems.




    Credits: (2)

    Note:
    Six hours labs per week.

    Requisites:
    Pr.: ARE 534 or CNS 534, ARE 536 or CNS 536, and Pr. or conc.: ARE 533 or CNS 535.

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring


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  • COMM 525 - Argumentation Theory


    An advanced study of prominent argumentation theorists, with an in-depth examination of special topics concerning the philosophy, theory, and practice of argumentation.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: None

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring


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  • COMM 526 - Persuasion


    The study of communication as persuasion; examination of contemporary approaches to persuasion.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: COMM 105 or 106

    When Offered:
    Spring


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  • COMM 535 - Communication and Leadership


    A study of the ways leadership in differing contexts is designed and exercised through communication. Constructs examined may include credibility, charisma, vision, power, myth, and public memory.

    Credits: (3)

    Note:
    UGE Course

    Requisites:
    Pr.: None

    When Offered:
    Spring


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  • COMM 542 - Relational Communication


    A survey of theories and research on the role of communication in social and personal relationships. Emphasis is on observing and evaluating communication behaviors using real-life media examples.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: COMM 311, 320, 322, 323, 326, 328, or 480.

    When Offered:
    Fall


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  • COMM 545 - Communication & Democracy


    A study of the ways in which democratic citizenship and participation in the public sphere are defined and enacted through communication.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: None

    When Offered:
    Spring


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  • COMM 550 - Senior Colloquium


    A demonstration of the mastery of vocabulary, theory, and the ability to make practical applications of the study of rhetoric and communication will be required of all senior communication studies majors. Mastery will be demonstrated by writing a senior capstone project and presenting the results of that project to the assembled communication studies faculty and majors in a required colloquium.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: senior standing

    When Offered:
    Spring


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  • COMM 551 - Senior Honors Thesis


    Honors Thesis Colloquium. Open only to seniors in arts and sciences Honors program.

    Credits: (3)

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring


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  • COMM 575 - Internship in Communication Studies


    Students will work for/within an organization during the course of a semester. Interns must complete a minimum of 100 work hours to earn course credit. The internship work experience is intended to help apply formal classroom education to “real World” work experience. Ideally internships are pre-professional and project based experiences allowing students the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to the organization. Each intern will complete a series of deliverables to the internship director as well as work under a site supervisor at the host organization. Prior to registration, the internship director must approve all internships.


    Credits: (3)

    Crosslisted:
    Fall, Spring, Summer


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  • COMM 630 - Special Topics in Rhetoric and Communication


    Intensive study of selected topics in communication and rhetoric.

    Credits: (3)

    Requisites:
    Pr.: Instructor permission.

    When Offered:
    Fall, Spring


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