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Number in parentheses refers to credit hours.
Note: Course listings may be changed pending updates by individual departments.
CDA 4150 Computer Architecture (3)
Prerequisites: CDA 3101; MAD 3105
High performance architecture design and analysis, including memory-system design, pipelining, vector computers, and multiprocessors.
CEN 4020 Software Engineering I
CIS 4930
Special Topics in Computer Science (3)
Prerequisite: at least six (6) semester hours in computer science or software engineering at or above the 4000 level.
May be repeated to a maximum of twelve (12) semester hours.
COP 3330
Object Oriented Programming (3)
Prerequisite: CGS 3014
Pre- or Co requisite: COP 3344
Object-oriented programming in a modern programming language; classes, objects, inheritance, and polymorphism; introduction to data structures and container classes.
COP 3353
Introduction to UNIX (1)
This is an introductory course in the use of the UNIX operating system designed for both majors and non-majors. Topics include: UNIX history, requesting UNIX accounts, logging in to a UNIX system, basic operating system concepts and file structure, basic commands, text editor(s) (to include emacs, vi, and pico), printing, mail, and online help. The goals of this course are to enable students to log in to their UNIX accounts from any type of computer and have a basic understanding of the commands and utilities.
COP 4020
Programming Languages (3)
Prerequisite: COP 4530
A survey of programming languages and language features and an introduction to compilers. Languages to be discussed include Fortran, Pascal, Ada, PL/1, APL, and Lisp. Oral presentation required.
MAD 2104
Discrete Mathematics I (3)
Prerequisite: MAC 1140
Credit is not also allowed for MGF 3301. Mathematical techniques of definition and proof, with application to discrete domains; formal logic; elementary combinatorics; digraphs and relations; graphs, trees, and multigraphs; applications.
ADV 3410
Hispanic Marketing Communication (3)
This course prepares undergraduate students to become educated decision makers and consumers of information regarding US Hispanic marketing communication issues.
ARH 5885
Appraising Personal Property (4)
This online course is a basic introduction to appraising personal property. It covers all aspects of proper appraisal procedure and methodology for fine art: painting, drawing, sculpture, prints, ceramics, silver, glass, jewelry, and books. This course follows the proper requirements of USPAP and the IRS and is taught by Gayle Skluzacek (Abigail Hartmann Associates, NY).
CHD 2220
Child Growth and Development: The Foundation Years (3)
The study of children from birth through middle childhood.
CHD 4615
Public Policy: Child and Family Issues (3)
Prerequisite: Admission to major or permission of instructor. Through readings, lecture, discussion, guest speakers, field work, research, and writing, students will become familiar with the process of formulating, implementing, and evaluating public policy. Family and child issues that have resulted in policy decisions at every level will be identified, and current issues that are in need of attention by policy makers will be explored. Research related to family issues and its impact on family policy will be analyzed with emphasis on enhancing the role of family and child professionals in policy process.
COA 4935
FL Residential Structure
Special Topics in Consumer Economics: Topics Vary (1–9)
Study of various consumer or resource management issues/trends. May be repeated to a maximum of twelve (12) semester hours as topics vary.
COM 3332
New Communication Technology and Contemporary Society (3)
Relates the design, development, and the use of new communication technologies to social, economic, and policy implications.
HME 4221
Family Resource Management (3)
Analysis of family decision making, goals, values, and resources.
LIS 4930
Information and Society
ECO 3223
Financial Markets, the Banking System, and Monetary Policy (3)
Prerequisites: ECO 2013, 2023. The functions of money, bank creation of deposits, and credit; Federal Reserve control of money supply; and monetary theory and policy questions.
ECP 3143
Afro-Americans in the American Political Economy (3)
Prerequisites: ECO 2013, 2023
Examines the market, institutional, governmental, and social processes that have contributed to the economic well-being of African-Americans. Also covers theoretical material related to wage determination, labor market discrimination, and marriage and transitions in family structure, as well as interaction between race and class as determinants of the life chances of African-Americans.
OCE 1001
Elementary Oceanography (3)
Prerequisite: MGF 1106 or 1107
Structure and motion of the ocean and its environs, properties, populations, and energy budget. Not intended for upper-division science or mathematics majors. Upper-division science or mathematics majors are encouraged instead to take OCE 4008.
PAD 4223
Budgets and Finances in Managing Public Affairs (3)
Concepts and practices in budgeting and financial processes such as planning, goal setting, and implementation.
POS 4606
Supreme Court in American Politics (3)
Prerequisite: POS 1041 or consent of instructor.
Reviews the political role of the Supreme Court with particular attention to case law concerning judicial review, commerce power, federalism, and presidential and legislative power.
SYA 4010
Sociological Theory (3)
This course introduces the student to the kind of theory that has developed in the field of sociology since its foundation, moving through to the contemporary scene. Major theoretical fields, major theorists, and dominant theoretical issues that continue to be part of the sociological approach to explanation are covered.
SYA 4300
Methods of Social Research (3)
Broad coverage of research design, data collection, and data analysis. This is a required course for sociology majors.
SYD 3020
Population and Society (3)
This course examines the causes and consequences of population change in the United States and the world with an assessment of the impact of demographic change on various social institutions.
SYO 3460
Sociology of Mass Media (3)
This course provides a sociological view of mass communications by critically examining the origin, history, and functions of the American mass media and its effect on social life.
SYP 3000
Social Psychology of Groups (3)
This course represents the study of social psychology from a sociological perspective. Specifically, it is an analysis of the influence of groups and the individual on each other, including the study of norms, group pressure, leadership, motivation, and social personality.
SYP 3730
Aging and the Life Course (3)
In coming years, Americans will have to make important decisions regarding the consequences of population aging. This course explores how changing life course patterns have influenced retirement, health care, politics, and family structure. It also considers the policy choices that will have to be made in the twenty-first century as the baby boom generation reaches retirement age.
SYP 4550
Alcohol and Drug Problems (3)
This course presents a review and analysis of sociological approaches to the study of alcohol and drug problems. It addresses theoretical perspectives on recreational and deviant drinking and drug use and introduces important empirical methods in the study of alcohol and drug problems and current debates over alcohol and drug policy.
SYP 4570
Deviance and Social Control (3)
This course focuses on major theories and research traditions, including structural and social psychological causes of deviant behavior, processes of labeling deviants, and social conflict over definition and treatment of deviance.
NUR 3655
Multicultural Factors and Health (3)
A comparative analytical approach to the study of communication, current problems, issues, health care beliefs, values, and practices of different systems and cultural norms as they affect health care practices that conflict with ethnic or cultural communication related to standards and value systems.
NUR 3805
Nursing: Role and Scope (3)
Prerequisite: Admission to RN to BSN Program
This course is designed for the returning registered nurse student. Current and emerging concerns of professional nursing are addressed within the context of nursing history, nursing practice, impact of global trends, and the influence of political and socioeconomic policies on nursing and health care. The roles of the baccalaureate nurse are examined in relation to individual, family, and community outcomes with emphasis on client advocacy, teaching, autonomy, accountability, change agent, research, critical thinking, and leadership. The legal and ethical framework for professional nursing and cultural diversity also are explored. Selected nursing practice models and health belief models are considered for applicability to nursing practice.
NUR 4069C
Advanced Health Assessment (3)
Pre- or Co- requisites: NUR 3167, NUR 3286, and NUR 3805
Designed to develop students' knowledge of skills for advanced health assessment, including health history and physical examination.
NUR 4637
Public Health Nursing (2)
Generic BSN Program Prerequisites: Semester I, II, III, and IV courses
RN to BSN Program Prerequisites: NUR 4835 and NUR 4835L
Corequisite: NUR 4637L
The course focuses on complexity and diversity of groups or aggregates within communities and their corresponding health care needs. The third fundamental aspect of nursing practice established by the American Association of Colleges of Nurses, "population based health care," is addressed. Topics include: the philosophy and concepts of public health nursing, comparison to community health, and the role of the public health nurse as a leader, change agent, case finder, and case manager in settings such as schools, industry, correctional institutions, group homes, sheltered workshops, and clinical settings. The family structure and its impact on healthcare, environmental safety, effects of poverty, epidemiology, communicable disease, resources (Centers for Disease Control and research), impact of violence in community settings, disaster (both natural and man-made), and global and environmental health also are examined.
NUR 4637L
Public Health Nursing Laboratory (2)
Generic BSN Program Prerequisites: Semester I, II, III, and IV courses
RN to BSN Program Prerequisites: NUR 4835 and NUR 4835L
Corequisite: NUR 4637
This course utilizes the findings from the community assessment performed in NUR 4619. Implementation of an appropriate project is performed. Clinical experiences are conducted with the guidance of a preceptor and may occur in a variety of settings.
