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CIEG 610 - Experimental Mechanics of Composites (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
EXPERMNTL MECHS OF COMPOSITES
Component: Lecture
Study of the micromechanical and thermomechanical response of compositematerials. Execution and assessment of experiments conducted to investigatestrength and stiffness characteristics of composite materials.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
Crosslisted: Crosslisted with MSEG 610 , MEEG 629 .
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CIEG 611 - Structural Dynamics Design (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS DESIGN
Component: Lecture
Design of structures (buildings, bridges, dams, foundation piles and offshore platforms) for dynamic loadings (severe wind force, ocean wave force, strong earthquake excitations, machine vibrations, and general impulse and time dependent forces and motions). Determination of realistic dynamic loadings and application of design concepts.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CIEG311 and MATH302 or MATH351.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
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CIEG 612 - Advanced Mechanics of Materials (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
ADV MECHANICS OF MATERIALS
Component: Lecture
Covers unsymmetrical bending, shear center in thin-walled beams, torsion in thin-walled structures, lateral-torsional buckling, curved beams, energy methods, principal stress and strain in three dimensions. Theory and applications.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
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CIEG 614 - Railroad Geotechnical Engineering (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
RAILROAD GEOTECH ENGINEERING
Component: Lecture
Designing, constructing, maintaining railway track. Developing railway track substructure: materials, mechanics, drainage, loading, slopes, design, maintenance, measurements and management and case studies. Track substructure issues related to load freight and high speed passenger rail traffic.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: MATH351 and CIEG212 or equivalent.
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CIEG 615 - Meteorologic processes in air pollution (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
AIR POLLUTION METEOROLOGY
Component: Lecture
An introduction to meteorological processes that affect air pollution, such as diffusion, atmospheric stability, and turbulence, with a focus on the atmospheric boundary layer.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
Crosslisted: Crosslisted with MAST 615 . PREREQ: MATH 241 and MATH 242; CHEM104 or CHEM112; PHYS201 or PHYS207.
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CIEG 617 - Introduction to Railroad Safety and Derailment Engineering (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
INTRO TO RR SAFETY & DERAILMNT
Component: Lecture
Explores the engineering issues associated with common types of derailments, including track, equipment and operator derailments. The specific failure mechanisms associated with key classes of derailments will be examined with the technologies available for reducing these types of derailments.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: MATH351; CIEG212 or equivalent.
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CIEG 618 - Railroad Engineering (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
RAILROAD ENGINEERING
Component: Lecture
Introduction railroad track structures and their major components; including functions and modes of degradation and failure. Explore static and dynamic load environments and engineering design to effectively distribute loads throughout a structure. Provides both theoretical and practical approaches to track design as well as useful design, optimization and maintenance recommendations for key track components.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: MATH351; CIEG212 or equivalent.
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CIEG 621 - Foundation Engineering (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
FOUNDATION ENGINEERING
Component: Lecture
Field investigation techniques; interpretation of data; theory and design of shallow and deep foundations, retaining walls, sheet pile walls, cofferdams braced excavations and geosynthetically reinforced soil.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
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CIEG 622 - Earth Structures Engineering (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
EARTH STRUCTURES ENGINEERING
Component: Lecture
Properties of soils and methods to determine them: water flow through inhomogeneous and anisotropic earth mass; predictions of pore-water pressures; stresses and settlement predictions; slope stability: type and causes of slope failures, effective and total stability analyses, design strength parameters and safety factors, construction considerations; design of earth dams; and predictions vs. field performance. Computer software used in problem solving.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CIEG320 and CIEG323.
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CIEG 624 - Earth Retaining Structures (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
EARTH RETAINING STRUCTURES
Component: Lecture
Selection, design and construction of earth retaining structures. Topics include earth pressure theory, and commonly used cut and fill wall types. Practice oriented course utilizes case histories and design examples to demonstrate applications, design procedures, and construction considerations.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CIEG321.
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CIEG 625 - Unsaturated Soil Mechanics (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
UNSATURATED SOIL MECHANICS
Component: Lecture
Provides a thorough grounding in unsaturated soil mechanics principles to pursue further studies or research on the engineering of unsaturated soils. Topics including stress state variables, soil-water retention properties, soil suction measurements, effective stress concept, hydraulic conductivity, and shear strength will be covered. Intended for students with backgrounds in the more general fields of geotechnical/geological engineering, soil science, environmental engineering, and groundwater hydrology.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CIEG320 or instructor consent.
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CIEG 626 - Soil Behavior (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
SOIL BEHAVIOR
Component: Lecture
Measuring the shear strength of soils. Shear behavior of soil examined from a fundamental soil perspective. Review of methods of testing to define response; rationale for choosing shear strength and deformation parameters of soils for design applications.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
Course Typically Offered: Fall
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CIEG 627 - Deep Foundations (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
DEEP FOUNDATIONS
Component: Lecture
Addresses the application, selection, design, construction and inspection of deep foundations. Examines driven piles, drilled shafts, augercast and micropiles. Includes development of cost comparisons, specifications, contract documents and bidding practices. Design issues address the geotechnical and structural considerations.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
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CIEG 628 - Ground Improvement Methods (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
GROUND IMPROVEMENT METHODS
Component: Lecture
Design and construction principles of ground improvement methods to address soil and rock engineering problems. Topics include: grouting, prefabricated vertical drains, stone columns, mechanically stabilized earth systems, soil nailing, soil mixing, vibro compaction, lightweight fill materials and geosynthetics.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
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CIEG 630 - Water Quality Modeling (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
WATER QUALITY MODELING
Component: Lecture
Water quality modeling and criteria. Application to lakes, streams, and estuaries. Dissolved oxygen, BOD, nitrification. Eutrophication: carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and silica mass balances; chlorophyll, primary production and dissolved oxygen; Toxic chemicals: PCBs, PAHs, toxic metals: partitioning theory, organic carbon normalization; coupled water column- sediment models.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: MATH302 or MATH351.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
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CIEG 632 - Chemical Aspects of Environmental Engineering (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
CHEMICAL ASPCTS:ENVRNMNTL ENGR
Component: Lecture
The principles and applications of aqueous chemistry to environmental systems. Includes a review of general chemistry, with emphasis on the structure of matter and stoichiometry; chemical thermodynamics; chemical kinetics; equilibrium reactions in homogeneous and heterogeneous solutions; applied electrochemistry and Redox reaction; and interfacial phenomena.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
Course Typically Offered: Fall
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CIEG 633 - Hazardous Waste Management (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT
Component: Lecture
Toxicological, risk assessment and regulatory aspects of hazardous waste management, characterization of hazardous wastes and materials, waste reduction strategies, storage and transportation methods, engineering processes for the chemical, physical and biological treatment of toxic and hazardous wastes, remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater of existing disposal sites.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
Course Typically Offered: Spring
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CIEG 634 - Contaminant Transport and Separation in Environmental Systems (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
CONTAMNT TRANSPORT SEPARATION
Component: Lecture
Physical aspects of environmental engineering: processes governing behavior of pollutants and natural substances in the environment, incl. settling, diffusion, particle aggregation, adsorption. Transport and transformation of substances in soils, surface and ground waters, and the atmosphere.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
Course Typically Offered: Spring
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CIEG 636 - Biological Aspects of Environmental Engineering (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
BIOLOGICAL ASPCTS:ENVRNMNTL EN
Component: Lecture
Presents fundamental molecular biological concepts which pertain to cellular function in the environment and in engineered environmental treatment systems. Briefly reviews elementary organic chemical classifications.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CIEG233.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
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CIEG 639 - Ocean Fluid Dynamics (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
OCEAN FLUID DYNAMICS
Component: Lecture
Kinematics and dynamics of incompressible fluids with emphasis on coastal andocean problems. governing equations, examples of solutions for viscous flows,potential flows, vorticity, flows on a rotating planet, density vary flows,boundary layers, turbulence.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CIEG305.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
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CIEG 641 - Risk Analysis (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
RISK ANALYSIS
Component: Lecture
Framework to understand, characterize, and support decisionmaking involving risk. Specific engineering risk analysis concepts and methods, e.g., fault trees, event trees, Markov models, simulation. Focus on engineering perspective, but includes some discussion of interdisciplinary context. Applications to all areas of engineering. Many real-world case studies.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CIEG315 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
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CIEG 642 - Advanced Data Analysis (3cr.) Credit(s): 1-12
ADVANCED DATA ANALYSIS
Component: Lecture
The course presents a comprehensive introduction to the principles and practices of emerging advanced data analysis with particular focus to engineering science. The course will attempt to provide insight to advanced statistical techniques and methods of analyzing BIG DATA will be the main focus.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CIEG315.
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CIEG 644 - Microbiology of Engineered Systems (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
MICROBIOLOGY OF ENGINEERED SYS
Component: Lecture
This course covers macromolecular structure and function, carbon metabolism, and energy metabolism in microbial organisms of use in engineered systems.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CHEM103 and CHEM104, BISC207, CIEG233.
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CIEG 650 - Urban Transportation Systems (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
URBAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
Component: Lecture
Design and operation of urban transportation systems, characteristics of public transportation modes, vehicle design, right-of-way types and terminal facilities. Application of operations research techniques to analysis of scheduling, network optimization, capacity and evaluation of alternatives.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with APEC 650 .
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CIEG 652 - Transportation Facilities Design (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES DSGN
Component: Lecture
Theoretical concepts of general transportation demand, supply and flow analysis. Planning and design of multi-modal transportation facilities including streets and highways, railways and guideways, airports, and harbors and ports. Engineering, social and economic evaluation of alternative design schemes for case studies and existing transportation facilities.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of instructor.
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CIEG 653 - Roadway Geometric Design (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
ROADWAY GEOMETRIC DESIGN
Component: Lecture
Physical dimensions of roadways such as vertical and horizontal curvatures, superelevation rates, lane widths, cross sections, and grades. Topics include roadway functions, design controls and criteria, elements of design, local roads and streets, collector roads and streets, rural and urban arterials, freeways, intersections, and grade separations.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CIEG351.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
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CIEG 654 - Urban Transportation Planning (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
URBAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
Component: Lecture
Characteristics of urban travel demand, travel demand forecasting models, urban transportation modes and their characteristics, urban transportation planning processes and issues, evaluation of plans, economic analysis, transportation financing, transportation policy and regulations, and urban transportation systems management.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
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CIEG 655 - Civil Infrastructure Systems (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS
Component: Lecture
Presents unified approach to management of civil infrastructure systems. Topics include analytical methods, development of data collection technologies, life cycle cost, prioritization, and optimization. Software tools for infrastructure management decision making introduced and critical infrastructure protection addressed. Types of infrastructure considered include pavements (roads and airports), bridges, drainage and sewer systems, water supply systems, and power supply facilities.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
Course Typically Offered: Fall
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CIEG 657 - Contemporary Topics in Transportation (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
CONTEMP TOPICS IN TRANSPO
Component: Lecture
Expose engineering students to some of the planning and policy aspects, and planning and policy students to some of the engineering aspects of transportation. Topics include transportation and safety, transportation and environment, transportation and sustainability, transportation and energy, transportation and economy, transportation and human health, as well as other contemporary topics.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
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CIEG 658 - Pavement Analysis and Design (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
PAVEMENT ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
Component: Lecture
Presents both flexible and rigid pavement design procedures, as well as detailed descriptions of various inputs used in the mechanistic pavement design procedures.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CIEG351.
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CIEG 659 - Optimization in Design and Construction (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
OPTIMIZATION IN DES AND CONST
Component: Lecture
Introduction to optimization techniques and software based solutions for linear and non-linear problems related to engineering design. Develop models of engineering systems.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
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CIEG 661 - Introduction to Ocean Modeling (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
INTRODUCTION TO OCEAN MODELING
Component: Lecture
Introduction to numerical methods used to solve the equations of ocean motion. Topics range from basic numerical concepts with applications to general transport and shallow-water equations to an overview of turbulence and ocean circulation models that are employed to understand weather and climate.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
Crosslisted: Crosslisted with MAST 661 . PREREQ: CIEG 639 , or permission from instructor.
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CIEG 663 - Traffic Engineering and Modeling (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
TRAFFIC ENG AND MODELING
Component: Lecture
Introduction to technical aspects of traffic engineering as applied in everyday projects. Students will explore traffic engineering concepts through practical applications, including the use of software packages such as HCS, Synchro, and VISSIM. Software “black box” will be opened to provide each student the ability to diagnose transportation issues and think critically about analysis results. Students will obtain working knowledge of traffic engineering concepts, theories, and methods needed to execute real-word traffic engineering tasks.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CIEG351.
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CIEG 666 - SPECIAL PROBLEM (1 to 12cr.) Credit(s): 1-12
SPECIAL PROBLEM
Component: Independent Study
Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
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CIEG 667 - SEMINAR (1 to 12cr.) Credit(s): 1-12
SEMINAR
Component: Lecture
Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
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CIEG 668 - Principles of Water Quality Criteria (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
WATER QUALITY CRITERIA
Component: Lecture
Toxicological and chemical background and technical basis necessary for understanding the models of water and sediment quality criteria for individual and mixtures of organic chemicals and metals that focus on bioavailability: narcosis models of toxicity, complexation models applied to both the water column and sediments.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CHEM 104 (or 103) or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
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CIEG 670 - Physics of Cohesive Sediment (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
PHYSICS OF COHESIVE SEDIMENT
Component: Lecture
Mechanics of fine sediment transport processes in coastal environment; overview of sediment source to sink; bottom boundary layer; mechanics of transport; mixture theory; flocculation; settling and deposition, turbulence-sediment interactions; rheological effects; consolidation and bed erodibility; fluid mud; convective sedimentation; tidal flats.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CIEG 305 Fluid Mechanics; MATH 351 Engineering Math I (or equivalent). COREQ: CIEG 639 Ocean Fluid Dynamics (or equivalent).
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CIEG 672 - Water Wave Mechanics (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
WATER WAVE MECHANICS
Component: Lecture
Primary emphasis on linear water wave theory and its applications. Shoaling, refraction and diffraction of waves. Basic aspects of wave-structure and wave-bottom interaction. Introduction to basic wave propagation models.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with MAST 648 . PREREQ: CIEG305.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
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CIEG 675 - Matlab for Engineering Analysis (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
MATLAB FOR ENGINEERING
Component: Lecture
Description and usage of commercial Matrix Laboratory (Matlab) software for analyzing multi-dimensional engineering data sets and formulating numerical models of engineering processes.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
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CIEG 678 - Transport and Mixing Processes (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
TRANSPORT AND MIXING PROCESSES
Component: Lecture
Application of fluid mechanics to problems of turbulent mixing and transport of substances in the natural environments; Advection-diffusion processes; Introduction to turbulent flow; Turbulent flow simulation and modeling; Mixing in stratified flow; Mixture and multi-phase flows. Turbulence modulation; Applications to rivers and coastal waters. Numerical model applications.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CIEG 639 or similar.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
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CIEG 679 - Sediment Transport Mechanics (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
SEDIMENT TRANSPORT MECHANICS
Component: Lecture
Mechanics and mathematical modeling of sediment transport in unidirectional and oscillatory flow; sediment properties, initiation of sediment movement, bedload and suspended load transport rates, formation of bed forms and flow resistance, erosion and deposition in the vicinity of structures, and practical applications.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CIEG305
Course Typically Offered: Fall
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CIEG 680 - Coastal Processes (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
COASTAL PROCESSES
Component: Lecture
Coastal morphology, equilibrium beach profiles, onshore-offshore response, sediment transport relationships, sand budgets around inlets and along open coasts, modeling of shoreline response, analyses of beach problems and recommendations of remedial measures.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
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CIEG 681 - Water Wave Spectra (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
WATER WAVE SPECTRA
Component: Lecture
Concepts of amplitude and energy spectra, covariances and cross-spectra; linear response functions; use of the Fast Fourier Transform for ocean engineering applications including analysis of one-dimensional and directional spectra, probability of ocean waves and wave forces.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of instructor.
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CIEG 682 - Nearshore Hydrodynamics (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
NEARSHORE HYDRODYNAMICS
Component: Lecture
The mechanics of waves and currents in the nearshore zone: wave breaking, surf zone dynamics, cross- and long-shore currents, turbulence and bottom boundary layers, infra-gravity and edge waves and nearshore modeling.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CIEG 672 and CIEG 639 .
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CIEG 686 - Engineering Project Management (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Component: Lecture
Understand the principles of planning, controlling, and evaluating engineering projects. Learn the use of tools and techniques and practice their use on a personal project. Topics include project organization, project budgeting and scheduling, resource allocation and leveling, change control, and communications.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: CIEG686 is only open to Civil Engineering Majors and Minors ONLY.
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CIEG 693 - Waves in the Marine Environment (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
WAVES IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMNT
Component: Lecture
General principles of wave mechanics, kinematics and dynamics. Applications to surface gravity waves, acoustic waves, electromagnetic waves and large scale geophysical waves.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
Crosslisted: Crosslisted with MAST 693 . PREREQ: MEEG 690
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CIEG 698 - Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
GROUNDWATER FLOW & CONTAMINANT
Component: Lecture
Development and application of models for fluid flow and contaminant transportin porous media. Derivation of governing equations, analytical and numericalsolutions, and application to the movement of groundwater and transport ofcontaminants at an actual field site.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CIEG305 and MATH302 or MATH351, or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
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CIEG 802 - Advanced Steel Design (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
ADVANCED STEEL DESIGN
Component: Lecture
Application of ultimate and elastic design procedures to continuous beams and frames, composite members, statically indeterminate trusses and arches. Projects and special topics focus attention to the basis and limitations of codes and specifications for steel structures.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
Course Typically Offered: Spring
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CIEG 811 - Advanced Structural Dynamics Design (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
ADVNCD STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS DES
Component: Lecture
Linear and nonlinear dynamic analysis of multiple degree of freedom systems subjected to earthquake, wind and impact loadings; the use of analysis results in design. Computer analysis of complex structural systems; distributed, consistent and lumped mass models; wave propagation; random excitations; and structural control.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CIEG 611
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CIEG 820 - Inelastic Behavior of Geomaterials (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
INELASTIC BEHVR:GEOMATERIALS
Component: Lecture
Introduces constitutive laws and numerical methods used to characterize the stress-strain-time behavior of geomaterials. Correlation between laboratory experiments and numerical predictions. Finite element analyses of coupled stress flow problems (e.g., consolidation), reinforced earth structures and slopes. Discussion of anisotropy, time effects and frictional interfaces.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CIEG320.
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CIEG 833 - Fate of Organic Pollutants in the Environment (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
FATE OF ORGANIC POLLUTANTS
Component: Lecture
Study of processes governing the distribution and transformation of organic pollutants in natural and engineered environments. Equilibrium and kinetics of exchange among soil, water, sediment, air, and biota. Photolysis, hydrolysis, oxidation, and reduction reactions of organic chemicals involving naturally-occurring and man-made agents. Mechanisms and model prediction of different fate processes.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CIEG 632 , CIEG 634 , CIEG 636
Course Typically Offered: Fall
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CIEG 865 - Civil Engineering Seminar (0cr.) Credit(s): 0
CIVIL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Component: Lecture
Graduate seminar covering current topics in structural, environmental, ocean and transportation engineering.
Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 2 Grading Basis: Pass/Not Pass
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
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CIEG 866 - SPECIAL PROBLEM (1 to 12cr.) Credit(s): 1-12
SPECIAL PROBLEM
Component: Independent Study
Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
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CIEG 867 - SEMINAR (1 to 12cr.) Credit(s): 1-12
SEMINAR
Component: Lecture
Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
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CIEG 868 - Research (1 to 6cr.) Credit(s): 1-6
RESEARCH
Component: Research
Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
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CIEG 869 - Master’s Thesis (1 to 6cr.) Credit(s): 1-6
MASTER’S THESIS
Component: Independent Study
An independent investigation under supervision of a member of the civilengineering graduate faculty.
Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
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CIEG 871 - Coastal Structures (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
COASTAL STRUCTURES
Component: Lecture
Advanced design procedures of coastal structures. Includes statistics and spectra of random sea waves, random sea transformation in the nearshore, design of vertical and rubble mound breakwaters, harbor oscillations and tranquility, and hydraulic model tests.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
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CIEG 872 - Advanced Water Wave Mechanics (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
ADVANCED WATER WAVE MECHANICS
Component: Lecture
Development of finite amplitude wave theories such as solitary, conoidal stokes and stream function. Application to coastal and ocean engineering problems.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CIEG 639 , CIEG 672
Course Typically Offered: Spring
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CIEG 964 - Pre-Candidacy Study (3 to 12cr.) Credit(s): 3-12
PRE-CANDIDACY STUDY
Component: Independent Study
Research and readings in preparation of dissertation topic and/or qualifyingexaminations for doctoral students before admission to candidacy but aftercompletion of all required course work.
Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 12 Grading Basis: Pass/Not Pass
RESTRICTIONS: Not open to students who have been admitted to candidacy.
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CIEG 969 - Doctoral Dissertation (1 to 12cr.) Credit(s): 1-12
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
Component: Independent Study
Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 12 Grading Basis: Pass/Not Pass
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CGSC 567 - SEMINAR (1 to 12cr.) Credit(s): 1-12
SEMINAR
Component: Lecture
Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
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CGSC 604 - Animal Minds (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
ANIMAL MINDS
Component: Lecture
Examines philosophical, theoretical, and methodological issues raised by study of animal cognition and behavior. Topics may include mental continuity between human and nonhuman animals, animal communication and deception, self-recognition, emotions, culture, as well as ethical treatment of animals.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with PHIL 604 .
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CGSC 610 - Embodied Cognition (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
EMBODIED COGNITION
Component: Lecture
An examination of the thesis that cognition is not sandwiched between the perceptual input and motor output systems, but is spread across the sensory-motor system. This thesis breaks with classical cognitivism’s claim that cognition performs computations on symbols, without regard to the sensory system or the motor system.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
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CGSC 618 - Meaning and Language Use (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
MEANING AND LANGUAGE USE
Component: Lecture
A graduate introduction to theories of meaning based on the notion of truth and their application to language use.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
Crosslisted: Crosslisted with LING 618 .
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CGSC 620 - Research Methods in Cognitive Science (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
METHODS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Component: Lecture
Cognitive science is a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of mind. Provides a practical and hands-on introduction to specific research methods from one or more disciplines (e.g. computational neuroscience modeling, experimental psychology related to cognitive science, or anthropological and linguistic research methods).
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
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CGSC 621 - Philosophy, Biology, Society (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
PHILOSOPHY, BIOLOGY, SOCIETY
Component: Lecture
Recent topics in philosophy of biology, with emphasis on those related to self, community, and society at large. Topics may include intelligent design, evolutionary altruism, psychological altruism, evolutionary psychology, cultural evolution, evolutionary game theory, and evolutionary ethics.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
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CGSC 633 - Introduction to Acoustic Phonetics (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
INTRO TO ACOUSTIC PHONETICS
Component: Lecture
Introduction to articulatory, acoustic, and perceptual characteristics of speech with emphasis on the acoustic properties of phonemes. While primarily lecture format with assigned text, a few laboratory sessions provide an introduction to computer-based methods used in instrumental studies of speech.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
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CGSC 642 - Mental Representation and Memory (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
MENTAL REPRESENTATION & MEMORY
Component: Lecture
Human memory can be conceptualized in terms of representation and information storage within various interrelated mental systems. Critically evaluates research on human memory and representation within the context of major cognitive models.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
Crosslisted: Crosslisted with PSYC 642 . RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of instructor.
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CGSC 651 - Topics in Cognitive Science (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
TOPICS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Component: Lecture
Current topics in cognitive science.
Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
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CGSC 655 - Computational Linguistics (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
Component: Lecture
Natural language can be studied from a computational perspective. Course content includes aspects of formal language theory, model theory, formal grammars, computational complexity, and computational learning theory as it pertains to natural language syntax, semantics, morphology, and phonology.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
Crosslisted: Crosslisted with LING 655 .
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CGSC 666 - Special Problem (1 to 12cr.) Credit(s): 1-12
SPECIAL PROBLEM
Component: Independent Study
Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
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CGSC 667 - SEMINAR (1 to 12cr.) Credit(s): 1-12
SEMINAR
Component: Lecture
Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 12 Grading Basis: Student Option
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CGSC 670 - Elements of Cognitive Science (3 to 6cr.) Credit(s): 3-6
ELEMENTS OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Component: Lecture
Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of the mind. Concentrates on the symbolic view of mind, and illustrates linguistic, psychological, anthropological, philosophical and computational approaches to language, thought, visual perception and other areas of cognition. Examines the role of representation and algorithm in theories of processing and development.
Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
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CGSC 671 - Discovering Human Language (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
DISCOVERING HUMAN LANGUAGE
Component: Lecture
Introduction to field linguistics. Examines how languages are put together through a face-to-face encounter with an unknown language. Determine how this language - and human language in general - is constructed. Explores culture, people and even the food where the language is spoken.
Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 15 Grading Basis: Student Option
Crosslisted: Crosslisted with LING 671 .
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CGSC 681 - Artificial Intelligence (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Component: Lecture
Programming techniques for problems not amenable to algorithmic solutions. Problem formulation, search strategies, state spaces, applications of logic, knowledge representation, planning and application areas.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
Crosslisted: Crosslisted with CISC 681 . PREREQ: CISC220 and CISC304 or equivalent. RESTRICTIONS: Credit cannot be received for both CISC 681 and CISC481.
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CGSC 685 - Seminar in Cognitive Science (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
SEMINAR IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Component: Lecture
Intensive study of topics in cognitive science, such as mental representation, vision, computational modeling, disorders.
Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit as topic changes.
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CGSC 690 - Meaning and Reference (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
MEANING AND REFERENCE
Component: Lecture
Traditional scientific and philosophical issues associated with meaning and reference of language.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
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CGSC 696 - Psycholinguistics (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
Component: Lecture
Study of linguistic approaches to cognition. Issues in the relation of language to thought: universals, language acquisition and theories of syntactic and semantic processing.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with LING 696 .
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CGSC 697 - Psycholinguistics I (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS I
Component: Lecture
An advanced introduction to the psychology of language. Emphasis on the relationship between theories of linguistic knowledge and psychology.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
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CGSC 848 - Seminar in Language Development (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
SEM:LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
Component: Lecture
Covers aspects of semantic, syntactic and phonological development through examination of current research and theory in the field. Treats educational implications of language development.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
Crosslisted: Crosslisted with EDUC 848 .
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CGSC 850 - Topics in Experimental Methods (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
TOPICS IN EXPERIMENTAL METHODS
Component: Lecture
Detailed examination of one or more issues in cognitive science studied by the use of experimental methods.
Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
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CGSC 855 - Advanced Computational Linguistics (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL LING
Component: Lecture
This is an advanced course in computational linguistics addressing advanced topics in formal language theory, model theory, formal grammars, computational complexity, and computational learning theory as it pertains to natural language syntax, semantics, morphology, and phonology.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
Crosslisted: Crosslisted with LING 855 . PREREQ: LING 655 , CGSC 655 , or permission of instructor.
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CGSC 866 - Independent Study (1 to 12cr.) Credit(s): 1-12
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Component: Independent Study
Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
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CGSC 867 - SEMINAR (1 to 12cr.) Credit(s): 1-12
SEMINAR
Component: Lecture
Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
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CGSC 868 - RESEARCH (1 to 12cr.) Credit(s): 1-12
RESEARCH
Component: Independent Study
Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
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CGSC 890 - Studies in Linguistics (3 to 9cr.) Credit(s): 3-9
STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS
Component: Lecture
Varying topics in linguistics, such as grammatical theory, grammatical analysis, syntax, historical-comparative linguistics, stylistics and grammar testing.
Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
Crosslisted: Crosslisted with LING 890 . RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
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COMM 601 - Epistemology and Theory in Communication (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
EPISTEMOLOGY & THRY IN COMMU
Component: Lecture
General issues in the philosophy of knowledge and science critical for the understanding of theoretical conceptions and a comprehensive survey of theories in communication.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: Open to Communication graduate students only.
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COMM 603 - Communication Research Methods - Procedures (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
COM RESRCH METHODS-PROCEDURES
Component: Lecture
Introduction to communication research methods including general research procedures, sampling, laboratory research and experimental design, survey research, field research, content analysis and longitudinal research. Includes an introduction to using the computer in research.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: Open to Communication graduate students only.
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COMM 604 - Communication Research Methods - Analysis (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
COM RESEARCH METHODS: ANALYSIS
Component: Lecture
Introduction to the tools and techniques of data analysis in communication research including descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, inferential statistics, as well as advanced statistical procedures.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: Open to Communication graduate students only.
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COMM 609 - Public Relations Campaign Planning (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
PUBLIC RELATNS CAMPAIGN PLANNI
Component: Lecture
Comprehensive recap of the Integrated Marketing Communication function, with an emphasis on public relations research, objectives, strategies, integrated tactics, and campaign evaluation. Utilizes a small team “service learning” setup, wherein the teams adopt a community non-profit organization and work closely with Board and staff members to produce and present a comprehensive public relations campaign plan.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: Open to graduate students only.
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COMM 610 - Organizational Communication Theory (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
ORGANIZATIONAL COM THEORY
Component: Lecture
An examination of major theories of organizations including functionalist paradigm; interpretive paradigm; neoclassical paradigms (classical, social exchange systems theory and structural systems theory); and modern paradigms (technological systems theory, adaptive systems theory and integrative organizational theory).
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: Open to Communication graduate students only.
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COMM 617 - Communication and the Management of Conflict (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
COMM & MGMT OF CONFLICT
Component: Lecture
An overview of communication and the conflict process in face-to-face interaction. Emphasis on theories concerning the structure, analysis, and management of conflict situations.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: Open to graduate students only.
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COMM 618 - Topics in Media Communication (3 to 9cr.) Credit(s): 3-9
TPCS:MEDIA COMMUNICATION
Component: Lecture
Current directions in mass communication theory and research, cable television, radio and TV regulations, public policy.
Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 9 Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated twice for nine credit when topics vary. Open to graduate students only.
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COMM 621 - Intercultural Communication (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
Component: Lecture
Enhances students’ understanding of cultures, communication and inter-cultural communication processes. In addition, communicative strategies for improving inter-cultural communication discussed.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: Open to graduate students only.
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COMM 623 - Communication, Advertising and the Consumer (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
COMM/ADVERTISING/THE CONSUMER
Component: Lecture
Introduction to the content of advertising, including portrayals of gender, race and sexuality. Investigates the relationship between advertising and the individual consumer, particularly what advertising’s cognitive effects can be and how they may result in behavioral effects.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: Open to grad students only.
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COMM 624 - Media Message Analysis (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
MEDIA MESSAGE ANALYSIS
Component: Lecture
Examination of methodology used to study media content and effects. Focus on past and ongoing research in broadcast, nonbroadcast and print media. The method of how to conduct and assess research relating to the mass media.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: Open to graduate students only.
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COMM 630 - Interpersonal Communication Theory (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
INTERPERSONAL COMM THEORY
Component: Lecture
An examination of the theoretical orientations taken by scholars who study interpersonal relationships as well as a number of focused research areas. Of particular importance is the development of an understanding of the role of communication in creating and maintaining relationships.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: Open to Communication graduate students only.
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COMM 640 - Topics in Interpersonal Communication (3 to 9cr.) Credit(s): 3-9
TPCS:INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATN
Component: Lecture
Significant research, theories and literature in communication, research design and theory building.
Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 9 Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated three times for credit when topics vary. Open to graduate students only.
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COMM 642 - Topics in Organizational Communication (3 to 9cr.) Credit(s): 3-9
TOPICS: ORGANIZATIONAL COMM
Component: Lecture
Significant areas of theory and research in organizational communication. Topics may include gender, communication, or interpersonal relations in organizations, such as superior/subordinate relationships.
Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 9 Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for up to nine credits when topics vary. Open to graduate students only.
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COMM 643 - Communication and Emotion (3cr.) Credit(s): 3
COMMUNICATION AND EMOTION
Component: Lecture
Introduces students to the role emotion plays in interpersonal communication and how communication influences our feelings. The course presents students with skill building exercises and writing assignments that are designed to put what they learn in the classroom into action in the real world.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
RESTRICTIONS: Graduate students only.
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