Undergraduate
Course Offerings
Summer '09
Number in parentheses refers to credit hours.
Note: Course listings may be changed pending updates by individual departments.
Computer Science
CDA 3101
Computer Organization II (3)
Prerequisite: CDA 3100
Fundamental concepts in processor design, including datapath and control, pipelining, memory hierarchies, and I/O.
CEN 4021
Software Engineering II (3)
Prerequisites: CEN 4020 and STA 4442
The second of a two-semester sequence on project-system development, this course focuses on software design and implementation. Topics include software design, architectures, testing, deployment, metrics, configuration management, reusability, portability, and interoperability.
CEN 4681
Expert Systems (3)
Prerequisite: COP 4530
Topics include: definitions and historical development, methodology tools for analysis and design, survey of existing systems, inference engines, and theory and applications of fuzzy relational products to new developments in inference engines.
COP 3014
Programming I (3)
Prerequisite: MAC 1140.
Fundamental concepts and skills of programming in a high-level language. Flow of control: sequence, selection, iteration, subprograms. Data structures: arrays, strings, structs, ADT lists and tables. Algorithms using selection and iteration (decision making, finding maxima and minima, basic searching and sorting, simulation, etc.). Good program design using a procedural paradigm, structure, and style are emphasized. Interactive and file IO. Testing and debugging techniques. Intended primarily for computer science or computer engineering majors, or anyone who is required to take COP 3330.
COP 4710
Theory and Structure of Databases (3)
Prerequisites: COP 3330, MAD 2104.
Theory of relational and object-oriented databases; relational database management systems and SQL; design, development, and implementation issues in database systems.
COT 4420
Theory of Computation (3)
Prerequisite: MAD 3105
Introduction to the theory of computation, including models of computation such as Turing machines; theory of programming languages, including grammars, parsing, syntax, and semantics.
Electives
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.
CHD 2220
Child Growth and Development: The Foundation Years (3)
The study of children from birth through middle childhood.
CLA 3501
Gender and Society in Ancient Greece (3)
This course examines the role and status of women in ancient Greek society, as depicted in its literature, art, law, and religion.
CLT 3378
Ancient Mythology, East and West (3)
This course will deal in a comparative way with the shared elements and influences found in the mythological traditions of selected cultures (e.g. Sumerian, Egyptian, Mayan).
GLY 1000
Dynamic Earth (3)
Introduction to geology as the study of planet earth, its internal dynamics and its surficial weathering, erosion, and sedimentary processes.
Interdisciplinary Social Sciences (ISS)
ECO 2013
Principles of Macroeconomics (3)
ECO 3104
Applied Microeconomic Analysis (3)
Prerequisites: ECO 2013, 2023; STA 2023, 2122 or 4321
Applications of microeconomic theory for business and policy analysis. Topics include the theory of the firm, valuation techniques in the absence of market prices, empirical research with accounting, financial and administrative data, theory of supply and business strategy, cost-benefit methods.
ECO 4431
Introduction to Economic Forecasting (3)
Prerequisites: ECO 2013, 2023; STA 2023, 2122 or 4321
Provides a hands-on survey of forecasting methods used in business and economics. Students work extensively with computer-based statistical software to solve actual cases encountered in the business world.
ECO 4554
Economics of State and Local Government (3)
Prerequisite: ECO 2023
State and local revenues, expenditures, and borrowing; intergovernmental relationships.
GEA 1000
World Geography (3)
A regional survey of the human occupation of the face of the earth, local cultures, political systems, and development problems.
GIS 3015
Map Analysis (3)
An introduction to the acquisition, processing, and presentation of cartographic data.
PAD 4391
Foundations in Emergency Management (3)
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.
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 3540
Sociology of Law (3)
This course examines the interrelationship between the legal order and the social order. Limitations of civil and criminal law for conflict management and for implementation of social policy are considered.
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.
URP 4404
River Basin Management & Planning: Saving the Apalachicola (3)
This course provides students with an understanding of how the Apalachicola River operates as a system from a biological hydrological, and geopolitical basis. The course will also examine critical issues in onoing interstate negotiations, as well as negotiations with the federal government. Students will learn the technical tools and concepts necessary to understand river basins from a systems-wide context.
URS 1006
World Cities: Quality of Life (3)
Nursing
NUR 3167
The Research Process for Professional Practice (2)
Generic BSN Program Prerequisite: Term I courses. RN to BSN Program Prerequisite: Admission to the nursing major. This introductory course will assist students in conceptualizing both the basic research process and the importance of research to nursing, and will enable students to understand and use published healthcare research.
NUR 4107
Nursing and the Healthcare System (2)
Generic BSN Program
Prerequisites: Term I and II courses
RN to BSN Program Prerequisite: Admission to the nursing major.
This course is an introduction to current healthcare delivery systems on local regional, national, and global levels. Concepts of managed health care, case management, reimbursement, legal/ethical risk management, quality outcomes, diversity and complexity of population at risk, and conservation of resources are emphasized.
NUR 4642
Substance Abuse and the Effects on Health, Family, and Profession (3)
Broad-based approach to substance abuse and the effects on health, family, and the profession; identifying groups at risk, prevention activities, and help approaches.
NUR 4835
Professional Nursing Leadership and Management (2)
Generic BSN Program
Prerequisites: Term I, II, III, and IV courses
RN to BSN Program Prerequisites: NUR 4080, 4080L
Co requisite: NUR 4835L
This course focuses on concepts, principles, and theories of leadership, management, role development, and administration. Skills required by the professional nurse leader, including delegation of responsibilities, networking, facilitation of groups, conflict resolution, case management, collaboration, budgeting, cost effectiveness and resource allocation, managing quality and performance, and teaching are emphasized.
NUR 4835L
Professional Nursing Leadership and Management Laboratory (2)
Generic BSN Program
Prerequisites: Term I, II, III, and IV courses
RN to BSN Program Prerequisites: NUR 4080, 4080L
Co requisite: NUR 4835
Clinical experiences in a variety of settings will be examined.
