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Rensselaer Catalog 2018-2019 [Archived Catalog]
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COGS 6240 - Logic and Artificial Intelligence
This course is about the connection between logic and artificial intelligence (AI). It may be partitioned into three general sections: 1) the straightforward application of first order logic (FOL) in AI; 2) the broadening of FOL to enable a robot to reason in a commonsense way (nonmonotonic reasoning, induction, etc.) and to formalize a robot agent’s belief and knowledge system (modal logics, etc.); and 3) using a logical approach to the Frame Problem and to building a planner.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COGS 6340 - The Linguistics of Computational Linguistics
This course will explore how linguistics, the scientific study of the properties of human language and languages, can be applied to the development of intelligent agents that can fluently and meaningfully communicate with people in natural language. We will focus on linguistic phenomena that have so far been particularly resistant to effective machine processing, such as lexical ambiguity resolution, reference resolution, ellipsis, indirect speech acts, implicature, and non-literal language (e.g., metaphor and irony).
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Cross Listed: COGS 4340.
Credit Hours: 4
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COGS 6410 - Programming for Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence
This course is a graduate course that teaches Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence concepts by enabling the student to develop and understand computer programs that implement them. It covers data collection and analysis, task environments, natural language, cognitive architectures, and learning. Some previous programming experience is very beneficial but not required.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross listed as COGS 4410. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and COGS 4410.
Credit Hours: 4
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COGS 6420 - Perception and Action
This course is a graduate level introduction to the topic of perception and action, and will focus on the significance of perception, motor control, and perceptual-motor learning as they relate to the performance of routine and skilled tasks. It will explore perception and action from information processing, computational, dynamical systems, and ecological perspectives, review current empirical and computational research, and consider some applications, including training, rehabilitation, human-machine interaction, and robotics.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: graduate status or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 4
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COGS 6560 - A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
This course will explore the different strategies used by different languages to fulfill the same needs of human communication. A sampling of topics: quickly learning the basics of a new language using linguistic principles; cross-linguistic knowledge elicitation and engineering; principles of generative grammar; space, time, agency, and other linguistic phenomena viewed cross-linguistically.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Graduate student with expected background in languages or linguistics.
Cross Listed: COGS 4560.
Credit Hours: 4
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COGS 6570 - Advanced Behavioral Statistics
An accelerated course covering important behavioral statistical concepts including probability, sampling distributions, hypothesis resting, ANOVA, and multiple regression. Course requires usage of statistical software package and is taught using the general linear model framework.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: graduate status and one course in undergraduate statistics.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COGS 6690 - Seminar in Research Design
An in-depth study of quasi-experimental and experimental design of behavioral research. Topics include test construction and development, factor analysis, meta-analysis, repeated measures, and MANOVA.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: COGS 6570 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COGS 6780 - Advanced Topics in Linguistics
This course will serve as a seminar for advanced students of linguistics. The material to be covered will be selected collaboratively by the instructor and each cohort of students. Students, who ideally will have taken at least two linguistics-oriented courses previously, will be guided in pursuing topics that they have found particularly compelling in previous courses.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Graduate standing; background in languages or linguistics expected.
When Offered: Upon availability of instructor.
Cross Listed: COGS 4780.
Credit Hours: 4
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COGS 6880 - Language-Endowed Intelligent Agents
This course will concentrate on the knowledge-based modeling of intelligent agents, with a special emphasis on semantically-oriented language processing. Theoretical and conceptual discussions will be balanced by practical work within the implemented OntoAgent cognitive architecture. The course will cover the modeling of decision-making, the various aspects of natural-language processing, and the art of knowledge engineering.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
When Offered: Upon availability of instructor.
Cross Listed: COGS 4880.
Credit Hours: 4
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COGS 6940 - Readings in Cognitive Science
An individually arranged independent study course under the supervision of a member of the Cognitive Science Department. The topic is selected by consultation between student and faculty member.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: graduate status and permission of supervising faculty member.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 1 to 4 credits
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COGS 6960 - Topics in Cognitive Science
An advanced course concerned with selected topics in cognitive science.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 1 to 4 credits
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COGS 6960 - Topics in Cognitive Science
An advanced course concerned with selected topics in cognitive science.
Credit Hours: 1 to 4
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COGS 6980 - Master’s Project
Active participation in a master’s-level project, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a master’s project report. Grades S or U are assigned at the end of the semester. If recommended by the adviser, the master’s project may be accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in the library.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 1 to 9 credits
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COGS 6990 - Master’s Thesis
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a master’s thesis. Grades of S or U are assigned by the adviser each term to reflect the student’s research progress for the given semester. Once the thesis has been presentend, approved by the adviser, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education, it will be archived in a standard format in the library.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 1 to 9 credits
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COGS 9990 - Doctoral Thesis
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of S or U are assigned by the adviser each term to reflect the student’s research progress for the given semester. Once the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education, it will be archived in a standard format in the library.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: Variable
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COMM 2120 - Language in Real Time
This course offers an introduction to theories and methods used to study language in its real time contexts. It begins by exploring the structure of sounds and words. The course moves on to investigate how language variation at those structural levels bleeds into social life – including the cultural and socio-historical production of identities, ideologies, and inequalities. The “exercise” component of this course provides a hands-on opportunity for engaging with the topics explored in course readings and lectures. Completing exercises will offer practice in, for example, using the International Phonetic Alphabet, transcribing and analyzing natural speech, and using various theoretical offerings to examine how social perspectives and attitudes impact both the use and interpretation of linguistic forms.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 2410 - Perspectives on Photography
This course helps students understand the meaning and emotional complexity of visual images in their culture. Students examine photographic imagery through three perspectives. The first—formal—addresses the design components of the image, such as vantage point and contrast. The second—psychodynamic—concerns the emotional dynamics of viewing. The third—social political— explores photographs as instruments for preserving or challenging cultural values. No technical knowledge of photography is needed.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 2440 - Documentary Film
Does documentary film depict reality, or is it just another form of storytelling? This course takes a broad, historical look at documentary media, exposing students to a wide range of works that in some sense stand on claims to truth. Students are invited to develop a critical stance toward documentary modes of social representation, through viewing and analyzing colonial photography and cinema, ethnographic, propaganda, cinema verite, experimental, and even “fake” documentaries. This is a communication-intensive course.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 2520 - Communication Theory and Practice
This course introduces students to basic topics in communication theory and research. It includes topics in interpersonal, group, organizational, mediated, and mass communication. Students will study and apply theories to real world situations and events and explore the social and cultural impact of new media technology. This is a communication-intensive course.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 2570 - Typography
Typography studies the form and function of alphabetic and pictographic systems in English-speaking society. The course aims to imbue in students a critical perspective on the role typography plays in the history and sustenance of civilization and the propagation of ideas throughout society. Students will read historical, theoretical and evidence-based literature to glean principles for designing communicatively effective type. Verbal and visual assignments will enforce understanding of typographic principles and grammar for use in print and digital interfaces.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 2660 - Introduction to Graphics
This course introduces students to graphics with hands-on projects. For each project, students use a research approach that entails: defining the problem, understanding the user, developing the message, and designing and evaluating the graphic outcome. The course emphasizes strategic and critical thinking in the making of graphics for the purposes of professional communication and cross-cultural, sustainable, intersensory, and multimodal interaction.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 2940 - Communication Studies
Readings and projects adapted to the needs of individual students.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 2960 - Topics in Communication
Experimental courses tried out in one or two terms.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4180 - Studio Design in Human-Computer Interaction
In this course, students work on collaborative projects to design human-computer interactions (HCIs) aimed at transforming people’s everyday practices. Students work with activity analysis, object-oriented modeling, and UI prototyping. Additional assignments required for students at the 6000 level.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: COMM 4420 or COMM 4770.
When Offered: Spring term even-numbered years.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with COMM 6810; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4240 - Writing for Games I
This is the second course in the central track of the Writing concentration for GSAS students. In this project-intensive course, students will learn and practice basic, in-the-trenches writing and narrative development for games, including story outlines, cutscenes, scripted dialogue, systemic dialogue and mission writing and design, across multiple game types and narrative genres.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: GSAS 2520 Introduction to Game Storytelling, WRIT 2330 Creative Writing: The Short Story, or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4250 - Writing for Games II
This is the third course in the central track of the Writing concentration for GSAS students. In this course, students gain exposure to elements of the bigger creative picture, including intellectual property (IP) development, world-building, and original character design. Students also continue to refine their competency in game writing essentials while exploring complex game narrative challenges such as branching, open-world, and other non-linear structures.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: COMM 4240.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4320 - Visual Poetics and Narrative
This studio course explores new directions in art and design that include visual poetry (visual expression in which they shape an arrangement of text, images, symbols convey the message) and interactive narrative. Visual poetics and narrative appear in advertisement, music videos, and other forms of communication. Students will experiment with these forms of communication and learn how these concepts apply in artistic and commercial contexts. The class format includes lectures, discussions, and studio work.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4340 - Creative Seminar I
This course is for senior for EMAC and EART majors and is the core creative forum for the development and presentation of the senior thesis. The course is the first part of a two-semester study provided in two seminar courses. The focus of the course is to develop a proposal for a written thesis and a creative project that students will execute in the second seminar and exhibit in an exhibition.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Senior EMAC and EART majors only.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4350 - Creative Seminar II
This course is for senior EMAC and EART majors. The goal of the Creative Seminar II is to develop and formulate ideas from Creative Seminar I into a unique project for the artist/communicator that will demonstrate his/her independent ideas, research, writing, and design skills. Students will develop a written thesis, creative project (e.g., art, graphic design, interaction design, music, performance), prepare and present their project in a public exhibition, and design the publicity for the show.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: COMM 4340 Creative Seminar I; Senior EMAC and EART majors only.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4380 - Writing and Response
This course explores effective strategies for talking with others about oral presentations and written texts. Practice in consulting is grounded in theory and research in composition studies, reader-response, and tutoring. Students also study their own writing and reading processes through reflection and discussion. Those who complete the course with a grade of A- or A may apply to work as writing consultants in the Center for Communication Practices. This is a communication-intensive course.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: COMM 6380; students cannot receive credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4400 - Cross-Cultural Design: Analysis and Application
What role does culture play in the design of images for communication? This course surveys perspectives from interdisciplinary discourse on what constitutes culture and its impact on meaning. Through readings on theory and criticism and analyses of media and research-generated data students learn what constitutes cultural difference and communicate that knowledge through a codex they write and design.
When Offered: Fall term even-numbered years.
Cross Listed: COMM 6400; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4420 - Foundations of HCI Usability
In this course, students will consider methods of gathering users’ requirements for product functions and information, ways to test products and information for usability and suitability, and procedures for incorporating the results learned through testing. Students will design and conduct usability tests on products, documents, and interfaces of interest.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: COMM 6420; an additional assignment is required for COMM 6420. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4430 - Design for Global Society
How do images communicate meaning in global society? In this course, students use a social semiotic approach to interpret images that permeate cultural boundaries and impact the way people think and behave. Visual and verbal assignments enforce students’ ability to communicate how images either instill or enforce values and propagate ideas; a user-research project allows students to gather data to test their own image hypotheses. Special emphasis will be placed on developing students’ cross-cultural awareness of images.
When Offered: Spring term odd-numbered years.
Cross Listed: COMM 6430; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4460 - Visual Design: Theory and Application
This course introduces students to the theoretical and practical use of graphics as a form of visual communication. Discussions include topics such as the psychology of visual perception, design theory, creative process, formatted text, and graphics. Students have an opportunity to put theory into practice using computer graphics.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: COMM 6560; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4470 - Information Design
This course examines methods of graphic representation of data. Course work requires graphing of information derived from researched databases. Visual presentations of historic data will be examined to determine the most efficient way to represent complex information without distorting the data within. Information designers clarify these displays and enrich the understanding of the modern world.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: COMM 2660.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4530 - Reality TV and Post-Factual Media
This course considers the sociopolitical and ethical dimensions of reality television and post-factual media content. An analysis of a variety of “reality” and news formats allows students to understand the evolution, economics and, above all, the cultural and political significance of modern media. Topics include: simulation; social representation; commercialization; social media; surveillance; nationalism; and globalization.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4540 - Visual Culture
Humans inhabit a culture of visual images. Images bombard them on television, the Internet, and in films; they surround everyone as architecture and fashion; they provide essential resource data in science, engineering, and business. This course will help students better understand how images communicate information, arouse emotions, and shape values. Students will primarily do readings in cultural history/theory with some viewing of films.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: One 2000-level HASS undergraduate course of permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4550 - Religion in the Media
How are religious fundamentalists using new media? Can religious conversion take place in a theme park? How are religious “crossover” films transforming political and popular cultural landscapes? This course maps the complex intersections of religion, culture, and media in the global transformations of religious traditions and explores, through a media frame, “the return of religion” within the secular consensus of modernity.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: COMM 2520.
When Offered: Spring term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4580 - Advertising and Culture
An examination of the cultural impact of advertising in various media: TV, radio, print, and the Web. How does advertising inform human experience and identity? How has it shaped the culture? Who pays for it and why? Note: This is not a How-To course. The focus is critical analysis, not acquiring skills for producing advertising. This is a communication-intensive course.
When Offered: Spring term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4620 - Language and Culture
This course examines the role that language plays in the production of social identities and cultural assumptions about the world. Course topics include: language and worldview; linguistic contact and change, language ideology and nationalism, religious language, “politically correct” speech, and the key role that language plays in structuring race, gender and class-based systems of social inequality. Guest lectures from the Languages faculty. This is a communication-intensive course.
When Offered: Fall term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4690 - Interface Design: Hypermedia Theory and Application
This course focuses on the design theory and research behind effective interface design for hypermedia programs (multimedia computer programs with interactive inks). These interactive programs are the standard form of communication on the WWW, CDs, and DVDs. Students apply theory and research by designing and developing an interactive multimedia program (for WWW or CD).
Prerequisites/Corequisites: ITWS 1100 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4770 - User-Experience Design
Designing an effective and enjoyable user experience involves more than just responding to specification requirements; it requires designers to understand user needs and expectations, the work that users do, and the environment in which they do their work. Students will learn and practice how to design a user experience and evaluate how effective they have been.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: COMM 4420 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: COMM 6770; students taking COMM 6770 will be assigned an additional project. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4780 - Interactive Narrative
This course introduces students to narrative theory and interactive narratives in a variety of genres such as oral story-telling, literature, poetry, film, artists’ books, historical narrative, hypertext fiction, Net Art, social media narratives, and computer games. Students will have the opportunity to design and develop an original interactive narrative.
When Offered: Spring term odd-numbered years.
Cross Listed: COMM 6780; students may not receive credit for both courses. Extra assignments are required in the graduate course.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4880 - Interactive Data Visualization
The course covers interactive, multimedia interface design (for Web sites and apps) for data visualization or other forms of interactive information design. Innovative designs that explore new directions in interactive data design are highlighted. Topics include multisensory information design using graphics, sound, touch, and large-scale data projection. Interface design topics include user-centered design, information architecture, rapid prototyping, cross-cultural design, and intellectual property. Students may choose the applications they want to design for the class project.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 1010 or CSCI 1100 or permission of the instructor.
When Offered: Summer term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4940 - Communication Studies
Readings and projects adapted to the needs of individual students.
Credit Hours: 1 to 6
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COMM 4960 - Topics in Communication
Experimental courses tried out in one or two terms.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 6260 - Rhetoric, Culture, and Communication Technology
This is a graduate seminar designed to introduce Ph.D. students to the history of rhetorical theory and its intersections with culture and technology. The course will consider how theoretical reflection about language and other forms of communication is entwined with changes in technology of communication as well as cultural paradigm shifts. Rather than trace a linear evolution of rhetorical theory from Classical Antiquity to the present, the course will focus on competing conceptualizations of rhetoric and rhetorical power in different historical periods.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6270 - Digital Rhetoric and Digital Media
A study of digital rhetoric and digital media, including rhetoric and media theory, the new materialism, place theory, affect theory, text theory, narrative theory, procedural and software rhetorics, with applications to the Internet of Things, Location-Based Services, social media, multimodal composition, and technical communication. A reading of selected theories and the development of individual projects in the design and/or analysis of digital-media artifacts and applications, with discussions, oral presentations, and written research reports.
When Offered: Upon availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6320 - Visual Poetics and Narrative
This studio course explores new directions in art and design that include visual poetry (visual expression in which the shape and arrangement of text, images, and symbols covey the message) and interactive narrative. Visual poetics and narrative appear in advertisement, music videos, and other forms of communication. Students will experiment with these forms of communication and learn how these concepts apply in artistic and commercial contexts. The class format includes lectures, discussions, and studio work.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6380 - Writing and Response
This course explores effective strategies for talking with others about oral presentations and written texts. Practice in consulting is grounded in theory and research in composition studies, reader-response, and tutoring. Students also study their own writing and reading processes through reflection and discussion. Those who complete the course with a grade of A- or A may apply to work as writing consultants in the Center for Communication Practices.
When Offered: Spring term, even-numbered years.
Cross Listed: COMM 4380; students cannot take both courses for credit.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6390 - Semiotics and Fieldwork
This course examines how semiotics (i.e. the study of signs and sign systems) applies to the changing roles of images in today’s media-immersed society. Students will analyze meaning making in multicultural social contexts, comparing both hyper-local and globally pervasive renditions of image-based media. A fieldwork assignment takes students through the steps of visual semiotics fieldwork, including hypothesis generation, site selection and access, data gathering and analysis leading to findings that potentially can contribute generalizable knowledge.
When Offered: Spring term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6410 - Ethnography and Cultural Analysis
This course focuses on theories, perspectives, and methods of ethnography, and on their applications to the various disciplines in which graduate students are working. Emphasis is given to foundational activities: defining a problem, research design, proposal writing, field methods, and protection of human subjects. Students will undertake original field research involving interviews, multi-sited fieldwork, participant-observation, situated ethnography, archival work, focus groups, and audio/videotaping.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6420 - Foundations of Human-Computer Interaction Usability
This course will consider methods for gathering users’ requirements for product functions and information, ways to test products and information for usability and suitability, and procedures for incorporating the results learned through testing. Students will design and conduct usability tests on products, documents, and interfaces of interest.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: COMM 4420; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6430 - Design for Global Society
How do images communicate meaning in global society? In this course, students use a social semiotic approach to interpret images that permeate cultural boundaries and impact the way people think and behave. Visual and verbal assignments enforce students’ ability to communicate how images either instill or enforce values and propagate ideas; a user-research project allows students to gather data to test their own image hypotheses. Special emphasis will be placed on developing students’ cross-cultural awareness of images.
When Offered: Spring term odd-numbered years.
Cross Listed: COMM 4430; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6530 - Media Communication Research
This course is designed to give training in field and experimental research methods, especially in scientific and technological communication. The student designs and conducts preliminary research projects as time permits.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6540 - Communication Research II
This course is designed to give training in field and experimental research methods, especially in scientific and technological communication. The student designs and conducts preliminary research projects as time permits.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6560 - Visual Design: Theory and Application
This course introduces students to the theoretical and practical use of graphics as a form of visual communication. Discussions include such topics as visual perception, design theory, formatted text, and graphics. Students have an opportunity to put theory into practice using computer graphics software.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: COMM 4460; students cannot obtain credit for both courses. For graduate students, one additional assignment will be required and their work will be evaluated at a higher level.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6700 - Rhetoric of the Photograph
Photography is the first modern visual technology that is reproducible yet still has an aura of “objectivity,” and its study addresses issues that are central to all forms of contemporary image-making, from art and architecture to politics, social media, and game design. Using the rhetorical triad of producer, photograph, and audience, the course introduces students across HASS to various methodologies of visual analysis through semiotics, phenomenology, neuropsychology, and psychodynamics of affect.
When Offered: Spring term, even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6750 - Communication Design for the World Wide Web
This course introduces hypermedia interface design and communication issues involved in designing interactive programs for the World Wide Web. Students will design and develop an interactive Web site or experience and explore related rhetorical, social, cultural, and legal issues.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6770 - User-Experience Design
Designing an effective and enjoyable user experience involves more than just responding to specification requirements; it requires designers to understand user needs and expectations, the work that users do, and the environment in which they do their work. Students will learn and practice how to design a user experience and evaluate how effective they have been.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: COMM 4420, COMM 6420 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: COMM 4770; students taking COMM 6770 will be assigned an additional project. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6780 - Interactive Narrative
This course introduces students to narrative theory and interactive narratives in a variety of genres such as oral story-telling, literature, poetry, film, artists’ books, historical narrative, hypertext fiction, Net Art, social media narratives, and computer games. Students will have the opportunity to design and develop an original interactive narrative.
When Offered: Spring term, odd-numbered years.
Cross Listed: COMM 4780; students may not receive credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 6790 - Media Studies
This course is a graduate seminar examining major theories and approaches to studying the media from a cultural studies perspective, with a particular focus on the medium of television. Topics will include: the politics of representation; commercialization; celebrity; media institutions; fictional and factual programming; gender, race, and class.
When Offered: Fall term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6810 - Studio Design in Human-Computer Interaction
In this course, students work on collaborative projects to design human-computer interactions (HCIs) aimed at transforming people’s everyday practices. Students work with activity analysis, object-oriented modeling, and UI prototyping. The course serves as the capstone in the HCI MS Certificate.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: COMM 6420, COMM 6750, or COMM 6770.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: COMM 4180; students cannot obtain credit for both courses. Additional assignments required for students at the 6000 level.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6830 - Human-Media Interaction
Advanced survey course on psychological approaches to human media interaction. Key themes are 1) how minds have evolved to interact with media and computers in certain ways; 2) how media form and content influence the mind; 3) how minds socially respond to computers; 4) how media and computers create a sense of “being there” and/or “being together with someone”; and 5) how properties of human cognition are affected by the form, content, and use of media.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6880 - Interactive Data Visualization
This course covers interactive, multimedia interface design (for Websites and apps) for data visualization or other forms of interactive information design. Innovative designs that explore new directions in interactive data design are highlighted. Topics include multisensory information design using graphics, sound, touch, and large-scale data projection. Interface design topics include user-centered design, information architecture, rapid prototyping, cross-cultural design, and intellectual property. Students may choose the applications they want to design for the class project.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
When Offered: Summer term annually.
Cross Listed: COMM 4880.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6940 - Communication Studies
Readings and projects adapted to the needs of individual students.
Credit Hours: 1 to 6
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COMM 6960 - Topics in Communication
Experimental courses tried out in one or two terms.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6990 - Master’s Thesis
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a master’s thesis. Grades of S or U are assigned by the adviser each term to reflect the student’s research progress for the given semester. Once the thesis has been presented, approved by the adviser, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education, it will be archived in a standard format in the library.
Credit Hours: 1 to 6
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COMM 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. Grades will then be listed as S.
Credit Hours: Variable
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CSCI 1010 - Introduction to Computer Programming
Computer programming is a way of thinking. A successful programmer needs to take a word problem, generate a pseudocode algorithm, and convert it to the syntax of a specific programming language. This course is an alternative to CSCI 1100 and is intended for students who want an introduction to this programming process but do not intend to do further course work in programming or computer science. Emphasis will be on the generation of the algorithms. Rather than using the complex syntax of a production language such as C or C++, this course will use Visual Basic. This allows concentration on the fundamentals and without becoming sidetracked by language complexity. It also affords students a tool for creating useful personal applications or prototypes in the future. Students cannot get credit for this course if they have already taken any other CSCI course.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 1100 - Computer Science I
An introduction to computer programming algorithm design and analysis. Additional topics include basic computer organization; internal representation of scalar and array data; use of top-down design and subprograms to tackle complex problems; abstract data types. Enrichment material as time allows. Interdisciplinary case studies, numerical and nonnumerical applications. Students who have passed CSCI 1200 cannot register for this course.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
Contact, Lecture or Lab Hours: 5
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CSCI 1190 - Beginning Programming for Engineers
This course teaches elementary programming concepts using the MATLAB environment for engineering students with little or no prior programming experience. Concepts include variables, looping, and function calls. Students cannot get credit for CSCI 1190 after earning credit for CSCI 1100 or any higher-level CSCI course.
When Offered: Half-term courses offered fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 1
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CSCI 1200 - Data Structures
Programming concepts: functions, parameter passing, pointers, arrays, strings, structs, classes, templates. Mathematical tools: sets, functions, and relations, order notation, complexity of algorithms, proof by induction. Data structures and their representations: data abstraction and internal representation, sequences, trees, binary search trees, associative structures. Algorithms: searching and sorting, generic algorithms, iterative and recursive algorithms. Methods of testing correctness and measuring performance.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CSCI 1100 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
Contact, Lecture or Lab Hours: 6
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CSCI 2200 - Foundations of Computer Science
This course introduces important mathematical and theoretical tools for computer science, including topics from set theory, combinatorics, and probability theory, and then proceeds to automata theory, the Turing Machine model of computation, and notions of computational complexity. The course will emphasize formal reasoning and proof techniques.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 1200 and Introduction to Calculus (MATH 1010 or MATH 1500); MATH 1020 is strongly recommended.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
Contact, Lecture or Lab Hours: 5
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CSCI 2300 - Introduction to Algorithms
Data structures and algorithms, and the mathematical techniques necessary to design and analyze them. Basic data structures: lists, associative structures, trees. Mathematical techniques for designing algorithms and analyzing worst-case and expected-case algorithm efficiency. Advanced data structures: balanced trees, tries, heaps, priority queues, graphs. Searching, sorting. Algorithm design techniques: dynamic programming, greedy algorithms, divide-and-conquer, backtracking. Example graph, string, geometric, and numeric algorithms.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 1200, MATH 1010, and CSCI 2200.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
Contact, Lecture or Lab Hours: 6
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CSCI 2500 - Computer Organization
Introduction to computer organization, assembler language, and operating systems. Computer systems organization: processors, memory, I/O. Digital logic: gates, Boolean algebra, digital logic circuits, memory, buses. Microprogramming. Machine level: instruction formats, addressing modes, instruction types, flow of control. Operating systems: virtual memory, virtual I/O instructions, processes, interprocess communication. Numeric representation. Assembler language: the assembly process, macros, linking, loading. Advanced architectures: RISC architectures, parallel architectures.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CSCI 1200.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
Contact, Lecture or Lab Hours: 6
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CSCI 2600 - Principles of Software
A study of important concepts in software design, implementation, and testing. Topics include specification, abstraction with classes, design principles and patterns, testing, refactoring, the software development process, GUI and event-driven programming, and cloud-based programming. The course also introduces implementation and testing tools, including IDEs, revision control systems, and other frameworks. The overarching goal of the course is for students to learn how to write correct and maintainable software.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 1200 and CSCI 2200.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4020 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms
This course presents fundamental ideas and techniques of modern algorithm design and analysis. After completing this course, students should be able to formally analyze and design efficient algorithms for a variety of computational problems. Topics covered include Greedy Algorithms, Dynamic Programming, Network Flow, NP-Completeness, Linear Programming, Network Algorithms, as well as probabilistic and approximate algorithms.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CSCI 2300.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: CSCI 6020. Students cannot receive credit for both CSCI 4020 and CSCI 6020.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4030 - Randomized Algorithms
State-of-the-art in contemporary algorithm design, randomized algorithms are algorithms that use randomness as part of their functioning. They are typically simple, often easy to analyze, and work well in practice. They have numerous applications in many fields of computer science and mathematics. Randomized algorithms represent an active and vibrant research area with many exciting new results contributed every year.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CSCI 4020 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: CSCI 6220. Students cannot receive credit for both CSCI 4030 and CSCI 6220.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4040 - Approximation Algorithms
Algorithms with provable guarantees on the quality of their solutions are a powerful way of dealing with intractable problems. This course covers fundamental techniques for designing approximation algorithms. Possible topics include: semi-definite and linear programming, inapproximability and the PCP theorem, randomized rounding, metrics and cuts, primal-dual methods, and online algorithms.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CSCI 4020 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Cross Listed: CSCI 6040. Students cannot receive credit for both CSCI 4040 and CSCI 6040.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4100 - Machine Learning from Data
Introduction to the theory, algorithms, and applications of machine learning (supervised, reinforcement, and unsupervised) from data: What is learning? Is learning feasible? How can we do it? How can we do it well? The course offers a mix of theory, technique, and application with additional selected topics chosen from Pattern Recognition, Decision Trees, Neural Networks, RBF’s, Bayesian Learning, PAC Learning, Support Vector Machines, Gaussian processes, and Hidden Markov Models.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 2300; an advanced 4000-level algorithms-based CSCI or MATH course; familiarity with probability, linear algebra, and calculus.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: CSCI 6100. Students cannot receive credit for both CSCI 4100 and CSCI 6100.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4110 - Computational Social Processes
Introduction to the computational and algorithmic aspects of social processes. Topics covered will be selected to illustrate the diverse challenges in algorithmic social process analysis: social networks and their dynamics; information flow; hidden networks. Algorithms involving social and selfish agents, social choice theory, voting, and auctions. Ranking actors in networks, recommendation systems, peer-review, and aggregation of rankings/reviews.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 2300 and an advanced 4000-level algorithms-based CSCI or MATH course.
When Offered: Fall term even-numbered years, upon availability of instructor.
Cross Listed: CSCI 6110. Students cannot receive credit for both CSCI 4110 and CSCI 6110.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4120 - Computational Finance
Introduction to the computational and mathematical techniques for practical financial applications. The course will emphasize the algorithmic side of finance. Topics will be selected from pricing (options and derivatives), trading, risk-evaluation, selfish agents, sequential decisions, and portfolio optimization. Examples of the mathematical and algorithmic techniques covered are martingale measures, risk-neutral pricing and Monte Carlo, dynamic programing, and stochastic processes.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 2300; an advanced 4000-level algorithms-based CSCI or MATH course; familiarity with probability, linear algebra, and calculus.
When Offered: Fall term even-numbered years, upon availability of instructor.
Cross Listed: CSCI 6120. Students cannot receive credit for both CSCI 4120 and CSCI 6120.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4130 - Natural Language Processing
This course introduces state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods, covering major popular research topics via the most-cited and up-to-date papers for each topic, as well as other resources. This course also covers machine learning methods for NLP. Students implement some of these methods and apply machine learning toolkits to solve a variety of problems. Assignments incorporate linguistics, mathematics, and careful thinking.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 2300 and MATH 2010.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: CSCI 6130. Students cannot receive credit for both CSCI 4130 and CSCI 6130.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4150 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Topics and techniques of artificial intelligence using the language LISP. Topics include search, knowledge representation, expert systems, theorem proving, natural language interfaces, learning, game playing, and computer vision. Techniques include pattern matching, data-driven programming, substitution rules, frames, heuristic search, transition networks, neural networks, and evolutionary computation. Development of programming proficiency in LISP is emphasized.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CSCI 2300.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4210 - Operating Systems
Discussion of various aspects of computer operating systems design and implementation. Topics include I/O programming, concurrent processes and synchronization problems, process management and scheduling of processes, virtual memory management, device management, file systems, deadlock problems, system calls, and interprocess communication. Programming projects are required.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 2300 and either CSCI 2500 or ECSE 2660.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: CSCI 6140. Students cannot receive credit for both CSCI 4210 and CSCI 6140.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4220 - Network Programming
Programming with an overview of the principles of computer networks, including a detailed look at the OSI reference model and various popular network protocol suites. Concentration on Unix interprocess communication (IPC), network programming using TCP and UDP, as well as client-side and mobile programming. Programming projects are required.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 2300 and CSCI 2500.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4230 - Cryptography and Network Security I
A self-contained course that includes topics from number theory, basic cryptography, and protocol security. This is a hybrid course with sufficient depth in both theory and hands-on experience with network protocols. Topics include: Classical Cryptography, Block Ciphers (DES, AES), Information Theoretical Cryptography, Randomness, RNG and Stream Ciphers, Hash and MAC Algorithms, Public-Key Cryptography, Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Digital Signatures and Identification, Internet Attacks, Web Security, SSL and PGP.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 2300; also desirable is CSCI 4210 and CSCI 4220.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: CSCI 6230. Students cannot receive credit for both CSCI 4230 and CSCI 6230.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4240 - Cryptography and Network Security II
A course covering advanced security topics with depth both in theory and hands-on exercises. Topics include: Probabilistic Encryption, Deniable Cryptography, Hardcore Predicates, All-or-Nothing Encryption, Secret Sharing, Subliminal/Covert Channels, Mental Poker, Goldwasser-Micali and Blum-Goldwasser Cryptosystems, Paillier PKC and Homomorphism, Elliptic Curve Cryptography, and Blind Signatures and E-cash.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 4230/6230; ECSE 4670 or CSCI 4220 or permission of instructor; also desirable is CSCI 4210.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: CSCI 6240. Students cannot receive credit for both CSCI 4240 and CSCI 6240.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4250 - Frontiers of Network Science
This course will offer an introduction to network science and a review of current research in this area. Classes will interchangeably present chapters from the textbook and related current research. The emphasis will be on the mathematical background of network science: graphs and networks; random networks and various types of scale-free networks; network properties such as assortativity, mobility, robustness, social networks, and communities; and dynamics of spreading in networks.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 2300; a 4000-level algorithms-based CSCI course (e.g., 4020, 4050, 4260, 4800) or MATH course (e.g., 4100, 4150, 4210, 4800); familiarity with probability, linear algebra, and calculus; or permission of the instructor.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Cross Listed: CSCI 6250. Students cannot receive credit for both CSCI 4250 and CSCI 6250.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4260 - Graph Theory
Fundamental concepts and methods of graph theory and its applications to computing and the social and natural sciences. Topics include graphs as models, representation of graphs, trees, distances, matchings, connectivity, flows in networks, graph colorings, Hamiltonian cycles, traveling salesman problem, planarity. All concepts, methods, and applications are presented through a sequence of exercises and problems, many of which are done with the help of novel software systems for combinatorial computing.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 1100 and CSCI 2200.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: MATH 4150. Students cannot receive credit for both CSCI 4260 and MATH 4150.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4270 - Computational Vision
The goal of this course is to introduce students to the problems, challenges, and applications of computer vision from a computational perspective. Topics include camera modeling and image formation, feature extraction, object and face recognition, image mosaic construction, stereo and three-dimensional imaging, motion, and tracking. Machine learning methods, including deep convolutional neural networks, will be studied and applied throughout the course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 2300 and MATH 2010 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: CSCI 6270. Students cannot receive credit for both CSCI 4270 and CSCI 6270.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4310 - Networking in the Linux Kernel
This course introduces Linux kernel programming basics and starts by examining how Berkeley sockets bridge the user-kernel gap. The remainder of the course is spent looking into transport layer (e.g., TCP) and network layer (e.g., IP) implementations. Students do both individual and group programming projects. In addition to coding, there are detailed write-ups and peer reviews in this course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 4210 or ECSE 2660.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Cross Listed: CSCI 6310. Students cannot receive credit for both CSCI 4310 and CSCI 6310.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4320 - Parallel Programming
Techniques and methods for parallel programming: models of parallel machines and programs, efficiency and complexity of parallel algorithms. Paradigms of parallel programming and corresponding extensions to sequential programming languages. Overview of parallel languages and coordination languages and models; programming on networks of workstations. Basic parallel algorithms: elementary computation, matrix multiplication, sorting; sample scientific application.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 2300 and either CSCI 2500 or ECSE 2660.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: CSCI 6360. Students cannot receive credit for both CSCI 4320 and CSCI 6360.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4340 - Ontologies
This course provides an introduction to ontologies, their uses, and an overview of their application in semantically enabled systems. Ontologies encode term meanings and are used to improve communication and enable computer programs to function more effectively. Class participants learn how to use ontologies in web-based applications and evaluate ontologies for reuse. Participants read relevant papers, learn how to critically review ontology papers and ontologies, and participate in group project(s) designing, using, and evaluating ontologies.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CSCI 2300.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: CSCI 6340. Students cannot receive credit for both CSCI 4340 and CSCI 6340.
Credit Hours: 4
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