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CHEM 430 - Environmental and Agricultural Chemistry Topics
Selected topics from the current literature in environmental, analytical, and agricultural chemistry. May be repeated for credit for a total of six (6) units.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (CHEM 350 ) and (CHEM 210 or CHEM 211 ) with a C- or better]
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHEM 432 - Aqueous Chemistry
Chemistry of molecules and materials in aqueous solutions relevant to marine, aquatic, and biological contexts. Topics may include pH and pOH, buffering, alkalinity, ionic strength, solvation and solubility, volume and mass fraction, osmolality and tonicity, and water activity.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CHEM 310 or CHEM 320 or CHEM 350 or BIO 310 or BIO 320 or MSCI 331 or ENVS 315 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHEM 440 - Forensic Chemistry Topics
Selected topics from the current literature in forensic chemistry. May be repeated for a total of six (6) units.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (CHEM 350 ) and (CHEM 210 or CHEM 211 ) with a C- or better]
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHEM 450 - Special Problems in Chemistry Laboratory
Covers theory and practical application of instrumental methods of analysis, culminating in a faculty guided lab research project. Students submit a written report summarizing the research findings. May be repeated for a total of four (4) units. Depending on research topic, students must complete either CHEM 350 or BIO 310L and or CHEM 312 .
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-2
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CHEM 495 - Special Topics
Studies a particular topic in Chemistry. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Letter Grade Available)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHEM 497 - Independent Study
Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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Collaborative Health & Human Services |
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CHHS 111 - Intro to Issues in Health & Human Services
Introduces students to topics related in the health and human services profession with the context of an integrated reading, writing, and speaking course.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 125 - Writing as Healing
Introduces students to writing as a way of healing within the context of an integrated reading, writing, and speaking course. This course will explore the historical traditions of writing as healing as well as current practices of writing to heal with diverse populations.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 203 - Statistics for Social Science
This is an introductory statistics course that focuses on the types of analyses used most frequently in the social sciences. While the course covers the basic steps in calculating and obtaining statistical results, emphasis is given to the interpretation of results and the acquisition of an intuitive understanding of the logic and limitations of inferential statistics when studying social phenomena.
General Education: B4 Mathematics/Quant Reasoning
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 204 - Economics and Society
This is an introductory course in applied microeconomics that exposes students to current social and public policy events through an economics perspective. The course introduces the basic principles of microeconomic analysis and applies them to explain how economists study important social issues such as discrimination, health-care, labor, housing, and land.
General Education: DGSS General Social Sciences
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 210 - Literature of Social Protest
Social protest movements have utilized a wide variety of literary genres to generate social concern and change. Students will learn to appreciate, analyze, and interpret multicultural works. Students will reflect on the human conditions that emerge across cultural boundaries. Students will explore these works in their social context, especially with a critical examination of the power structures. Students will be expected to apply their insights to issues in their own communities.
General Education: C2 Humanities:Lit, Philosophy, Lang other than Eng
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 212 - Ethics in Health Care
Focuses on investigating and analyzing ethical issues related to health care within the context of an integrated reading, writing, and speaking course.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 215 - Introduction to Human Services
Course provides an introduction to the human services including an overview of careers and settings, values and professional ethics, and theoretical approaches and skills utilized. Students will learn how the human services compares to related disciplines and will examine social issues, policy and services from historical, socio-economic, and global perspectives. Students will also be introduced to methods of inquiry in human services work.
General Education: DGSS General Social Sciences
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 225 - Drugs, Society and Policy
Introduces students to the social, cultural, economic, and health aspects of drug use and abuse. We will discuss the influences drugs have on art, music, philosophy and social movements, and explore various perspectives on the use of psychoactive substances (both legal and illegal). Patterns of use among traditional societies and in modern settings will be reviewed especially as they relate to a variety of approaches (criminalization vs. human rights) to drug treatment and drug policy.
General Education: DGSS General Social Sciences
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 230 - Social Justice and Global Health
Introduces students to the social epidemiology of health. Even in the wealthiest countries people who are less well off experience shorter life spans and more illness. We will explore the social justice and human rights aspects of attaining and maintaining health, as well as look critically at the “social determinants of health.” We will develop an understanding of the social, political and economic factors that contribute to health and develop strategies for improving the community’s health.
General Education: DGSS General Social Sciences
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 260S - Social Justice and Health
Examines students’ and communities’ health, particularly as it relates to service and social responsibility, community and social justice and multicultural community building/civic engagement. Serving a marginalized population, students will engage in a minimum of 30 hours of service to develop an understanding of health disparities, the social determinants of health, and actions that individuals, communities, professionals, and institutions can take to foster equity and well-being.
General Education: E Lifelong Learning and Self-Development
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 295 - Special Topics
Explores a particular topic in collaborative health and human services. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHHS 300 - Major ProSeminar
Introduces students to the CHHS academic and field programs, CSUMB upper division graduation requirements, and the core competencies for the major learning outcomes (MLOs) of the Collaborative Health and Human Services (CHHS) major. Students also prepare their Individualized Learning Plans (ILPs) and discover more about possible careers in health and human service fields.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 301 - Writing for Professional Development
Provides developmental instruction in the areas of writing, reading, and speaking. Students will learn about process-based writing approaches as well as sentence-level techniques for composing, drafting and revising texts.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 302 - Professional Communication for the Health & Human Services Professions
Develops writing and oral communication skills to increase competency in the health or human services professions. Builds confidence in writing for argumentation, applied research, advocacy, and reports. Students learn about themselves as writers, which assists them in the development of personal and professional writing and speaking skills. Compliments other critical thinking courses offered in the major.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better) and (Junior or Senior Standing)]
University Requirement: GWAR Graduation Writing Assess
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Units: 3
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CHHS 305 - Information Management for Health & Human Services
Students learn and apply computer skills to health and human service delivery. Emphasizes hands-on experience using computers for electronic communication and presentations, and to improve skills in the use of database management, spreadsheet, and presentation software. Students participate in online research, information resources evaluation, correct citation of Internet resources, and weekly online discussions. Introduces state-of-the-art health and human service software.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 330 - Collaborative Leadership & Community Building
This course introduces students to collaborative practice, social action, and political leadership. Students develop an understanding of the theories of community building, frameworks of collaboration and social entrepreneurship; and skills in interpersonal communication, teamwork, and building collaborative leadership skills necessary for guiding and motivating coalitions and partnerships successfully to achieve common goals.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 340 - Collaborative Negotiation
This course introduces students to conflict management and collaborative negotiation. Students develop an understanding of the theories of negotiation and skills in interpersonal conflict management, collaborative negotiation, and mediation through readings, extensive role playing and scenario development.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (CHHS 330 ) and (GE Area A1) with a C- or better]
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 350 - Professional Ethics
This course aims to develop students¿ knowledge and analytical abilities in the philosophy and rhetoric of ethics. Professional ethics involves an interplay of self, language, and culture. It aims to help students apply their intellectual and moral aptitudes to commonly encountered ethical problems across a variety of professional disciplines. By drawing connections across diverse professional cultures, students can participate in multicultural professional communities locally, regionally, and globally.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better)
General Education: UDC Intergrated Arts and Humanities
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 384 - Quantitative Analysis of Survey Data
This is a quantitative methods course that focuses on the types of quantitative analyses used most frequently in survey research. The course covers the basic steps in designing survey questionnaires, sampling, and calculating and reporting statistical results. Emphasis is given to creating descriptive statistics, understanding of the use and limitations of inferential statistics, and the interpretation of results when studying health, human services, and social phenomena using survey methods.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better)
General Education: UDB Integrated Scientific Inquiry and Quant Reason
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Units: 3
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CHHS 385 - Research Methods in the Social Sciences
This class is an introduction to the methods social scientists have developed to describe, explain, and better understand social phenomena. The methods of social research are used in a wide variety of fields ranging from public health to social welfare, from behavioral health to policy. This course introduces the language of research, ethical principles and challenges, and the elements of the research process within quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. Students will use these theoretical underpinnings to begin to critically review literature relevant to their field or interests and determine how given methods are employed in research practice. Through required readings and exercises, students will learn to appreciate the potential and limits of each method and by having to design their own mixed methods research project as a final project.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area B4 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 395 - Special Topics
Explores a particular topic in collaborative health and human services. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHHS 396S - Junior Field Practicum Seminar SL
Introduces new students in the CHHS major to the field practice process. Discussion includes the application of academic work and MLO competencies in field practice settings, self-reflection, the roles and responsibilities between the student and field mentor, and the relationships in a field practice setting. CHHS 396S is approved to meet the upper division service learning requirement.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: ((CHHS 300 ) and (GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4) with a C- or better) and (Junior or Senior Standing)]
General Education: UDD Integrated Social Sciences
University Requirement: UDSL Upper Division Service Learning
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 397 - Independent Study
Offers students independent learning opportunities in a selected specialty area. May include fieldwork to meet the required number of hours.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHHS 400A - Senior Capstone-A
Applying the 13 MLOs of the CHHS major, students work individually with field mentors and the course instructor to design an applied research project that addresses a health or social problem in the community. In the first semester, students formulate a field-based problem that is conducive for analysis, identify its causes, and justify the need for action through a literature review. The culmination is a proposal that is submitted to their field mentor and CHHS faculty for approval.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: CHHS 302 and CHHS 385 and SW 310 and PH 320 with a C- or better) and (Coreq: CHHS 496A )]
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 400B - Senior Capstone-B
Applying the 13 MLOs of the CHHS major, students work individually with field mentors and the course instructor to implement and evaluate an applied research project that addresses a health or social problem in the community. In the second semester, students intervene and collect data to evaluate the impact of their projects in the community using appropriate evaluation designs. The final thesis report and presentation provide the project’s findings and recommendations.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: CHHS 400A with a C- or better) and (Coreq: CHHS 496B )]
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 445 - Principles of Grantsmanship
Provides an introduction to the process of securing grant funding for public and nonprofit organizations. Students will develop knowledge and skill in the areas of: qualifying prospective grantors and evaluation requests for proposals, developing letters of intent, and preparing key components of a successful funding application. Topics will also include fundraising as relationship building, using logic models, and creating program sustainability.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GWAR)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 450 - Introduction to Policy Analysis
Provides students with an opportunity to develop advanced policy analysis knowledge and skills through intensive case study and hands-on experience in formulating policy for specific health and human service issues.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better) and (Junior or Senior Standing) and (GWAR)]
General Education: UDD Integrated Social Sciences
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 495 - Special Topics
Explores a particular topic in collaborative health and human services. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHHS 496A - Senior Field Practicum Seminar-A
Students practice knowledge, skills, and attitudes within a local agency. Students conduct an in-depth analysis of the systems where they work, the relationships they develop in the organization and the populations they serve, and discuss their future roles as health and human service professionals. In the first semester, students design a professional e-folio as a useful framework for lifelong professional development.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: CHHS 396S with a C- or better) and (Coreq: CHHS 400A )]
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 496B - Senior Field Practicum Seminar-B
Students continue to practice knowledge, skills, and attitudes within a local agency. Students conduct an in-depth analysis of the systems where they work, the relationships they develop in the organization and the populations they serve, and discuss their future roles as health and human service professionals. In the second semester, students complete a professional e-folio as a useful tool for lifelong professional development.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: CHHS 496A with a C- or better) and (Coreq: CHHS 400B )]
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 497 - Independent Study
Offers students independent learning opportunities in a selected specialty area. May include fieldwork to meet the required number of hours.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHIN 101 - Intro Chinese Lang & Culture
Covers the basic skills of conversing, reading, and writing Mandarin Chinese. Includes conceptual structures which underlie Chinese discourse, sentence structure, and the cultural and social conventions that characterize daily use. Emphasizes Chinese sound system with attention to tone system, mastery of Pin-yin Romanization system, and Chinese characters.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CHIN 102 - Beg Chinese II (Mandarin)
Continues work on the four basic skills within a proficiency format. Emphasizes building lexicon in spoken and written forms, and using context and strategies to ascertain meaning without knowing the structures and lexicon of an authentic text.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CHIN 101 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CHIN 103 - Beg Chinese Conv I
Introduces conversational ability using daily life, structures, and vocabulary.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Coreq: CHIN 101 )
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2
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CHIN 104 - Beg Chin Conv II
Continues developing conversational ability using daily life, structures, and vocabulary.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Coreq: CHIN 102 )
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2
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CHIN 195 - Special Topics
Studies a particular topic in the Chinese language and/or culture.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CHIN 196 - Field Studies
Individualizes student placement for field study as related to Chinese.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CHIN 197 - Independent Study
Allows lower-division students to independently study a particular aspect of Chinese culture and language. A written proposal for the study/research must be approved in advance by the sponsoring faculty member and the program chair. Number of credits depends on the nature of the student’s academic goals and the consent of the faculty advisor.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CHIN 203 - Intermed Chinese Conv I
Enhances skills in speaking Mandarin Chinese. Emphasizes conversational ability using daily life, structures, and vocabulary.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: CHIN 102 with a C- or better) and (Coreq: CHIN 201 and CHIN 202)]
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2
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CHIN 204 - Intermed Chinese Conv II
Continues skills in speaking Mandarin Chinese. Emphasizes conversational ability using daily life, structures, and vocabulary.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: CHIN 102 with a C- or better) and (Coreq: CHIN 201 and CHIN 202)]
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2
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CHIN 297 - Independent Study
Individual study of a particular aspect of the culture, language, or civilization of the Chinese-speaking world. A written proposal for the study/research must be approved in advance by the sponsoring faculty member and the program chair. Number of credits depends on the nature of the student’s academic goals and the consent of the faculty advisor.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CHIN 301 - Adv Chinese I (Mandarin)
Concentrates on language mastery using spoken and written materials such as newspaper articles, modern expository prose, TV, plays, and movies.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Coreq: CHIN 202)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CHIN 302 - Adv Chinese II (Mandarin)
Continues concentration on language mastery using spoken and written materials such as newspaper articles, modern expository prose, TV, plays, and movies.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Coreq: CHIN 202)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CHIN 305 - History/Culture of China/Tibet
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CHIN 395 - Special Topics
Provides orientation and preparation for a study-abroad experience in the Chinese mainland.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CHIN 396 - Field Studies
Individualizes student placement for field study as related to Chinese.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CHIN 397 - Independent Study
Individual study of a particular aspect of Chinese language, culture, or civilization. A written proposal for the study/research must be approved in advance by the sponsoring faculty member and the program chair. Number of credits depends on the nature of the student’s academic goals and the consent of the faculty advisor.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CHIN 497 - Independent Study
Individual study of a particular aspect of Chinese language, culture, or civilization. A written proposal for the study/research must be approved in advance by the sponsoring faculty member and the program chair. Number of credits depends on the nature of the student’s academic goals and the consent of the faculty advisor.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CHIN 595 - Special Topics
Studies a particular topic in Chinese. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CHIN 596 - Field Studies
Individualizes student placement for in-depth field study.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CHIN 597 - Independent Study
Individual study of a particular aspect of Chinese language, culture, or civilization. A written proposal for the study/research must be approved in advance by the sponsoring faculty member and the program chair. Number of credits depends on the nature of the student’s academic goals and the consent of the faculty advisor.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CST 104 - Intro to Info Competency/Tech
A hands-on, project-based introductory course on information competency, commonly used technology, and software for undergraduate students. Provides applied experience in practicing academic-quality research through using computers creatively, effectively, and ethically. Students learn communication and research presentation skills by designing and creating documents using word-processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and image manipulation software.
Typically Offered: Administrative Use Only
Units: 3
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CST 108 - Introduction to Communication Design
Introduces students to the theories and practice of communication design via exploration of the relationships between problem solving and process in visual communication and media arts. It provides a foundation for ways of proceeding with design-based projects.
Typically Offered: Administrative Use Only
Units: 3
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CST 114 - Digital Otter D: Digital Publishing
Introduces students to the world of digital publishing. Students will be encouraged to think creatively about the nature of content in a digital world through exposure to different publishing tools and platforms. Techniques for incorporating different types of media into publications will be addressed as will collaborative editing and publishing of documents. Students completing this course will be able to efficiently and creatively use digital publishing to communicate their ideas effectively.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1
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CST 115 - Digital Otter E: Fundamentals of Data Analysis
Introduces students to the fundamentals of data analysis. Students will learn how to collect, enter and organize original data. Then they will summarize the data, perform basic statistical analysis on the data, and create their own “what if” scenarios. They will learn to produce data visualization through suitable charts and graphs, as well as the importation of data available on the web and export of their results in suitable formats for sharing.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1
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CST 116 - Digital Otter F: Basic Web Publishing
Introduces design principles and skills necessary to plan, develop and produce an attractive, effective web site for a class, a course project, or personal use. Students will design and publish web sites through guided instruction. Although students will be introduced to the underlying code (HTML and its variations) that makes a web site appear the way it does, the development tool used for this module is template-based and relies upon “drag and drop” and “point and click” web page design.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1
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CST 151 - Ultra Otter A: Digital Media Production
Introduces the production process for creating original digital media. Students experience the complete video production process and will plan, shoot and edit a short video for delivery on the web. Common questions will be addressed such as when is video or audio the right choice for a project and what style of video is the best fit. Upon completion, students will understand the media production process and have the skills to adapt to this quickly changing medium.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1
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CST 152 - Ultra Otter B: Introduction to Social Media Literacy
This participatory, co-learning course empowers students to use and communicate through current and emerging social media in pursuit of their degree or independent academic goals, or in support of personal or community activities. A broad overview of digital literacies will be provided. Students will learn to manage their personal learning environments on and off campus to meet the challenge of taming the “information firehose” and using social media to serve themselves and others.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1
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CST 153 - Ultra Otter C: ePortfolio Construction I
Introduces available ePortfolio platforms and their basic functionality. Methods for selecting and curating portfolio contents for different purposes (e.g. capstone and job application) are discussed. This workshop is intended for upper division students are expected to have a body of existing work in digital format. Emphasis will be on applied, hands-on experimentation and creation.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1
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CST 154 - Ultra Otter D: The Technology-Aided Job Search
Intended for students preparing for job searches. Introduces various platforms for creating digital application materials and discusses successful strategies. Students will create a digital application packet suitable for submission to hiring entities. Digital identity and social networking will be discussed, both as methods for locating opportunities and as potential hindrances. Through hands-on activities, students will learn how to present their best digital self when entering the job market.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1
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CST 195 - Special Topics
Specialized study of a particular topic within the School of Information Technology and Communication Design. May be repeated for additional credit when topics vary and as subjects permit.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CST 196 - Field Studies
Students work with faculty to collect data and user feedback by going to the site of the user and unobtrusively observing the user function in their own environment. This course is usually conducted as part of a large research project.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CST 197 - Independent Study
Working with a faculty advisor, a student selects topic of study and number of credits appropriate to the student’s learning plan. An independent study proposal must be submitted and approved before registration.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CST 201 - Media Tools I
Explores computer-based tools used in the design and creation of electronic media. Includes designing, creating, and editing electronic images, sounds, videos, text, and motion.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CST 202 - Drawing for Digital Media
Drawing for Digital Media: This course covers concepts and drawing skills related to the use of drawing and visualization in both the studio and digital environment. The course integrates studio drawing and illustration with digital technology, covering hand rendering, scanning, auto-tracing, photo conversion, vector art and bitmap drawing using digital visualization and illustration hardware and software. Included topics are 2D and 3D design, drawing, storyboarding and illustration (traditional and digital). Co-requisite of CST 202L .
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Coreq: CST 202L )
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 2
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CST 202L - Drawing for Digital Media Lab
Drawing for Digital Media Lab: This lab is offered as a co-requisite with the CST 202 lecture section. Students will use studio and digital tools to complete projects that relate directly to the lecture content. Students are expected to be comfortable with studio drawing tools as well as digital image software and have an ability to functionally adapt to new software. Students must take the lab during the same semester as the lecture. Students are expected to supply their own studio drawing materials, such as pencils, tablets of drawing paper, etc.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Coreq: CST 202L)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 1
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CST 203 - Digital Color
Digital Color: This course introduces students to the nomenclature, technical components, theories and principles, and cultural associations of color relevant to professional communication designers. Students will demonstrate understanding of key concepts by completing design projects using Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Dreamweaver.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1
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CST 203L - Digital Color Lab
Digital Color Lab: This course introduces students to the nomenclature, technical components, theories and principles, and cultural associations of color relevant to professional communication designers. Students will demonstrate understanding of key concepts by completing design projects using Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Dreamweaver.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1
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CST 204 - Introduction to Typography
Introduces the history of type, type fonts, principles of letterform design, professional typesetting skills, layout for screen and print delivery. Subjects include the history and construction of letter forms, typographic composition and typesetting principles and techniques.
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 3
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CST 205 - Multimedia Design and Programming
Introduces design, creation, and manipulation of interactive applications and electronic media for communication purpose. Focuses on creating media, understanding media concepts, and manipulating the created media using basic programming concepts of control flow, functions, expressions and data types in the Python language. Students acquire a basic understanding for digital media formats, how to design, create such media using basic programming skills.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CST 209 - Introduction to Animation
Offers a comprehensive introduction to the techniques, theory, history and cultural significance of animation. Students explore the history of animation as an entertainment and art form as well as demonstrate and apply basic skills in traditional and digital animation techniques. Basic pre-production, production and distribution skills for small and larger scale projects are also covered. Students should be comfortable with drawing, group work and basic digital media tools before enrolling.
General Education: C1 Arts: Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CST 210 - Understanding Video Games
This course covers a comprehensive overview of analytical theory pertaining to video game media. Topics covered: play and game, emergence versus progression, game mechanics, story, interpretive theory, the culture of games, violence, sex and race in games, and finally, serious games.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CST 211 - Technical Communications
Emphasizes critical thinking skills combined with reading, writing, thinking, and understanding visual information within a technical communications context. Students critically analyze material for reasonableness, persuasive power, social context, and ethical merit. Students read numerous context related writings, analyze their effectiveness, and write a number of papers that offer significant insights based on valid research in information technology and communications design.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CST 212 - Technical Presentations
A written, oral, and visual communications course that emphasizes critical thinking skills combined with reading, writing, oral presentations, and presenting visual information within a technical communications context. Students critically analyze oral and visual presentations and recognize reasonableness, persuasive power, factual accuracy, social context, and ethical considerations in their own work and the work of others.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CST 226 - Digital Photography
Teaches use of digitally based image acquisition and manipulation tools to capture and modify photographic images for use in print and screen-based media. Has two major instructional components. The initial instruction sets are based around conventional photographic principles such as lighting, composition, subject matter, and how digital capture processes affect these. The second component deals with image adjustment and delivery. Deals with aesthetic aspects of photography.
General Education: C1 Arts: Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CST 227 - Design Fundamentals
This project-based course combines the study of visual design and aesthetic principles while developing skills to produce digital graphic media. Students study historic design trends, typography, color theory, and production for cross-media production. Students apply the steps of the Design Process to create original vector and bitmapped imagery to solve visual communication design problems.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CST 201 with a C- or better)
General Education: C1 Arts: Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CST 228 - Digital Image:Creation&Manipul
Digital image creation and manipulation is an important skill set that enables website graphic design, print design, and digital photography. Explores digital imaging techniques through the use of photo manipulation software, learn to use photo editing and color correction tools, create special effects, and work with a variety of file formats. Also covers practical aspects and steps to create digital images for a variety of outputs including audience analysis, material acquisition, and legal and ethical concerns.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2
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CST 231 - Problm-Solving/Programng
This is an introductory programming course to develop problem-solving techniques for numerical and non-numerical problems from various disciplines. Students will design the solution to each problem and implement it in the C++ programming language. Coverage includes introduction to computer system, C++ basics, flow control, functions, I/O streams, arrays, strings, and classes.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CST 234 - Intro to Operating Systems
Introduces modern operating systems such as Unix and topics such as process management (creation, synchronization, and communication); processor scheduling; deadlock prevention, avoidance, and recovery; main-memory management; virtual memory management (swapping, paging, segmentation and page-replacement algorithms); control of disks and other input/output devices; file-system structure and implementation; and protection and security.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CST 235 - Intro to Obj Oriented Prog
Designed as a second semester programming course using the object-oriented features of the C++ programming language. It is assumed that students have been introduced to classes and objects, control structures, repetition, functions, and logical operators. Topics introduced in this course will include material on types, classes, constructors, operator overloading, objects, inheritance, polymorphism, templates, data streams, error management, and proper object-oriented design.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CST 236 - Computing for Designers
Introduction to the use of computers for digital media creations, this course covers the fundamentals of how computers work in the creation of digital media for commercial entertainment and fine art purposes; including hardware components, operating principles, software basics, memory management, storage, programming basics for vector and bitmap functions, compression schemes and basic scripting.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 3
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CST 237 - Intro to Computer Architecture
This course introduces computer architectures and computer systems management. Includes data representation, memory, registers, and internals of common computers and system interfaces. Knowledge of C/C++ programming helpful but not mandatory.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CST 238 - Introduction to Data Structures
Provides students with intermediate-level programming skills to make it possible for them to write clear, efficient, and high-quality code. Students learn basic data structures such as array, list, stack, queue, and tree. They also acquire several basic algorithms in programming such as searching, sorting, and recursion. Furthermore, students learn in-depth knowledge of C++ programming language such as classes, pointers, and dynamic memory management.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CST 231 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CST 251 - Web Tools
Introduces students to the tools and methods of web design and production. Students will learn basic HTML, web design tools, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and browser compatibility while applying the design principles of information architecture, color, layout, and type.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CST 252 - Scripting for Multimedia
Students learn HTML5 and related technologies including HTML, CSS3, Canvas, JavaScript and jQuery to create dynamic multimedia content. Students learn the fundamental concepts of web programming plus designing, coding, testing, debugging, and documenting of computer programs. Using JavaScript, students apply those concepts to create programs utilizing digital media, including images, animation, audio, video and text. This is a laboratory class using Windows or Macintosh computers.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CST 251 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CST 263 - Intro to Database Systems
This course is an introduction to Relational Database Management Systems. Topics covered will include relational database theory and the logical and physical design, implementation, and management of databases. Additional topics will include Entity-Relationship Diagrams, Normalization and an introduction to SQL (Structured Query Language).
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3-4
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CST 271 - Digital Culture
Focuses on the philosophical roots (as evidenced in literature) of contemporary digital culture. From Armageddon to the Matrix; from Frankenstein to Lawnmower man; from the library at Alexandria to the archives of the Internet; the world of the digital intelligentsia owes its vision and mythology to the resonant themes found in literature and philosophy. Explores the essence of humanity that defines the natural world and strives to remake it in a more perfect fashion.
General Education: C2 Humanities:Lit, Philosophy, Lang other than Eng
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CST 273 - Cyberdemocracy
Explores the implications of new communication technologies with regard to democracy, social activism, cultural identity, and social equity in the United States. Democracy cannot be separated from the issue of social identity since throughout our history many groups were excluded from political participation. Explores whether new media like the Internet will increasingly make identity irrelevant, or will create greater fragmentation.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CST 274 - History of Communication Technologies and Politics in America
The course examines the history of communication technologies and how they have shaped and been shaped by politics throughout American history. This fascinating story begins in pre-revolutionary America, when newspapers helped unite the colonies as a nation, and moves through the telegraph, telephone, motion pictures, radio, broadcasting, network and cable television, personal computers, the Internet, mobile phones, and social media. The course concludes by leveraging our understanding of communication history to address some of constitutive choices that we now face as a nation, including: foreign interference in elections, net neutrality, and data privacy.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CST 281 - Introduction to Communication Networks
Introduces networking concepts and protocol using the TCP/IP protocol stack. The concepts covered include IP addressing, subnetting, network hardware, network theory, TCP/IP protocols and applications, IP routing concepts and router administration and routing algorithms. The course emphasizes hands-on networking skills as well as understanding of networking principles and concepts.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CST 282 - Introduction to Network Security
Covers the principles, practice and technologies for securing computers on the web and the Internet, including cryptographic tools and standard network security protocols like SSL/TLS, IPSEC, Kerberos, PGP, S/MIME, and others wireless. The material for the course will be derived from industry supported security courses.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CST 281 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CST 284 - LAN and WAN Internetworking
This course covers the intermediate concepts of routing and switching including RIPv2, EIGRP, OSPF, VLSM, CIDR, VLANs, network congestion issues, VTP, and Spanning Tree protocol. It also covers the various Wide Area Network services including Frame Relay, ISDN, HDLC, PPP, DDR. The course includes hands on experience using routers and switches and additional theory leading to a more detailed understanding of routing, switching and Wide Area Networks.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CST 282 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CST 286 - Physics of Computing
Introduces the basic principles of physical science and the application of these principles to electronics and computing. Students will learn fundamental concepts of physics in the first half of the course and build on it with topics that are relevant to the function of electronic devices and computers. Computational Physics tools and procedures will also be covered through assignments and project.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: MATH 130 with a C- or better) or (Coreq: MATH 130 )]
General Education: B1 Physical Science, B3 Laboratory Activity
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CST 300 - Major ProSeminar
Helps students identify and articulate personal, professional, and social goals. Provides an integrated overview of the computer science and communication design majors and their requirements. Students develop a plan for their learning goals. Students learn writing, presentation, research and critical-thinking skills within the diversified fields of information technology and communication design. Students learn how to analyze, predict, and articulate trends in the academic, public service,
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better) and (Junior or Senior Standing)]
University Requirement: GWAR Graduation Writing Assess
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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