2021-22 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Jun 23, 2024  
2021-22 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


Course descriptions are listed alphabetically by discipline name. The discipline abbreviation appears in parentheses immediately after the discipline name. The Schedule of Courses issued each semester by the Office of Academic Records lists courses alphabetically by discipline abbreviation, not discipline name. See the following table for a list of all disciplines listed alphabetically by discipline abbreviation.

Courses are offered in rotation. The frequency of course offerings is designated by (F) for fall semester, (Sp) for spring semester, (Su) for summer semester, or (as needed). If a course is offered only in odd or even numbered years, the designation will include -odd or -even. Frequency designations are located in Courses Offered by the Department at the end of each departmental section.

Courses taken for Graduate Credit (numbered 500 or above) have additional requirements for completion with graduate credit. Graduate students will be expected to perform at a more rigorous level. Additional content will be required. Graduate students will be expected to complete additional projects.

Modern Foreign Language courses designated as Elementary or Intermediate must be taken and passed in sequence. Placement tests are given in the Department Office, upon request, to students with prior experience with French, German, or Spanish in order to place them at an appropriate level.

 

Computer Science

  
  • CSCI 351 - Object-Oriented System Analysis and Design


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: As Needed

    Study of the systems development life cycle system, various types of systems including business and government. Methods of designing systems, data management, input and output design, hardware selection and methods of information processing.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 221  or CSCI 250 .
  
  • CSCI 352 - Software Engineering


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall, Spring

    Techniques, methodologies, and tools related to the planning, development, and maintenance of large software systems in a contemporary development setting. Focus on team-based development practices.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 222 .
  
  • CSCI 360 - Introduction to Computer Networks


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring

    Fundamentals of networking connectivity and communications. Local and wide area network basics, networking architecture, layers, standards, and security. Network protocols including TCP/IP family of protocols. Techniques and projects on routing simulations, encryption and digital signatures, and client-server programming.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 325 .
  
  • CSCI 371 - Competitive Programming Seminar


    Credit(s): 1
    Lecture Hours: 1
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall, Spring

    The application of a broad range of theoretical topics in computing to the construction of software systems and solutions. Focus will be given to environments of programming under pressure where programming speed, computational complexity, and correctness are imperative. Multi-paradigm programming, mathematics, data structures, dynamic programming, graph/path algorithms, network flow, computational geometry, string algorithms and techniques/strategies related to competitive programming. Course may be retaken for up to three (3) hours of credit as an upper division computer science elective.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 222   and permission of the instructor.
  
  • CSCI 380 - Artificial Intelligence


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall - Even

    History, intelligent agents, classical search, game-playing, declarative programming, reasoning under uncertainty, and planning. Programming assignments will incorporate techniques covered in lecture and programming in languages appropriate to A. I.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 302  and CSCI 325 .
  
  • CSCI 385 - Distributed Systems


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring - Even

    Introduction to Distributed Systems. An introduction to the field of distributed systems, and the fundamental problems related to their design and construction. Concurrent programming, thread pools and safety, non-blocking I/O, scalable sever design, file system design, distributed mutual exclusion and deadlock detection, pipelining schems, and MapReduce.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 325 .
  
  • CSCI 410 - Database Management Systems


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall

    Design and implementation of relational database systems. Topics include relational data models, ERD, normalization, SQL programming, transaction management and concurrency control, and object-oriented DBMS.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 325 .
  
  • CSCI 415 - Web-Based Client-Server Programming


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring - Odd

    Design and implementation of interactive client-server web-based applications and systems. Topics include client technologies, web server technologies, database storage, communication protocols, design patterns, and security.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 325 .
  
  • CSCI 420 - Computer Organization and Architecture


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall

    A study of the hardware and low-level software organization typical of a modern computing platform. Boolean Algebra, digital logic, instruction sets, assembly languages, representations of data, computer arithmetic, memory and processor architectures, pipelining, input-output systems, alternative architectures, and evolution of computing hardware.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 301  AND CSCI 325 .
  
  • CSCI 430 - Algorithm Design and Analysis


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall

    Introduction to algorithm design principles, techniques for the analysis of algorithms, problem-solving methodologies, and advanced data structures. Topics include searching and sorting, divide and conquer, greedy algorithms, dynamic programming, graph algorithms, asymptotic analysis of algorithms, proofs of correctness, and advanced data structures.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 302  and CSCI 325 .
  
  • CSCI 435 - Theory of Computation


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring

    A theoretical treatment of formal languages, classical models of computation, and related issues including complexity and computability. Topics include formal languages and the relationship among classes of languages; models of computation including regular expressions, grammars, finite state machines, and Turing machines; complexity classes (specifically P, NP, and NP-Complete) with connections to classical problems in computing; and the nature of decidable and undecidable problems.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 302  and CSCI 325 .
  
  • CSCI 445 - Computer Graphics


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring

    Frame buffers, display files, graphics primitives, transformations of two-dimensional spaces, windows, viewports, clipping, covering, transformations of three-dimensional space, parallel and perspective projections, stereoscopic views, hidden line algorithms.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 325 .
    Corequisite(s): MATH 310 .
  
  • CSCI 455 - Data Mining and Information Retrieval


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring

    An introduction to data mining and information retrieval concepts, algorithms, and techniques. Data preprocessing, association rule mining, classification models, clustering, text mining, retrieval models, indexing, relevance ranking, link analysis, PageRank, recommender systems, and evaluations.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 325 .
    Corequisite(s): MATH 210 .
  
  • CSCI 458 - Autonomous Mobile Robotics


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall - Odd

    A laboratory-style introduction to hardware and software issues related to the design and application of autonomous mobile robots. The course will cover fundamental concepts in robotics from a computational standpoint. Topics include sensors and actuators, and development of software for control, obstacle avoidance, planning and navigation, interaction with and manipulation of the physical world.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 325 .
  
  • CSCI 460 - Bioinformatics


    Credit(s): 3
    When Offered: Spring Odd

    Introduction to bioinformatics, emphasizing application of computational tools and methodology in genomics, analysis of protein functions and structures, and DNA sequencing. Use of a high-level programming language such as Python and software tools such as BLAST to solve bioinformatics problems.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 325  
  
  • CSCI 470 - Comparison of Programming Languages


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring

    Syntax and basic characteristics of grammars, language constructs, storage allocation, binding times, and lexical analysis of programming languages. Families of programming languages studied include imperative (procedural), object oriented, functional, and logical languages.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 302 , CSCI 325 .
  
  • CSCI 475 - Compilers, Interpreters and Language Translators


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring - Odd

    Theory of compilable languages, construction of software for compiling, interpreting and translating computer languages. Study of various types of translators, implementation of a translator for a language.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 302  and CSCI 325 .
  
  • CSCI 480 - Internship in Computer Science


    Credit(s): 1-6
    Lecture Hours: 1-6
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: As Needed

    Supervised work experience in business establishments, institutions, or other organizations matched to the student’s curriculum. May be repeated for up to a total of six (6) hours internship credit. A maximum of three (3) hours may be used to fulfill upper-division computer science electives.

    Prerequisite(s): Departmental approval is required; at least Junior standing.
  
  • CSCI 485 - Computer Operating Systems


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring

    A study of operating systems, processing of l/O and interrupt service, buffering, spooling and memory management services, security and error protection, systems accounting and resource allocation, multiprogramming and multi-processing, inter-process communication, includes the study and use of several operating systems.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 325 .
  
  • CSCI 490 - Advanced Topics in Computer Science [Topic title]


    Credit(s): 1-3
    Lecture Hours: 1-3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: As Needed

    Lectures and/or special projects related to specialized advanced topics in computer science. Course may be repeated for a maximum of six (6) hours credit. Pass/Fail
    May be offered on a pass/fail basis.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 325  and instructor approval.
  
  • CSCI 495 - Senior Design Project


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall

    Selected topics in computer science including trends, ethics, employment, and graduate school opportunities. Small teams will complete senior design projects. Teams will present results at a local conference and summarize work in a technical report.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 302  and CSCI 325 , computer science major, senior standing, and permission of department faculty.

Consumer Resource Management

  
  • CRMG 202 - Consumers and the Market


    Credit(s): 3
    When Offered: As Needed

    Consumers as purchasing agents in a complex marketplace. Buyer-seller relationship, effective decision making and consumer protection practices.

  
  • CRMG 205 - Cultural Etiquette


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: As Needed

    Protocols and strategies integrating modern lifestyles with the proprieties of social and business conduct, interactions within multicultural and international settings.

  
  • CRMG 210 - Leadership Roles in Resident Settings


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring

    Assessment of leadership styles and skills applicable to resident settings. Development of personal competencies essential for leadership roles among persons in resident groups.

  
  • CRMG 302 - Personal and Family Finance


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall

    Financial planning for attaining individual and family goals. Individual and household management of resources and private measures to reduce economic risks. Federal tax system, investments and estate planning.

  
  • CRMG 403 - Housing and Home Equipment


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 2
    Lab Hours: 2
    When Offered: Spring

    Analysis of home equipment needs, selection, use and care. Evaluation of recent developments. Space planning to maximize effective use of equipment.

    Crosslisted With: CRMG 603
  
  • CRMG 413 - Resource Management for Special Groups


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: As Needed

    Allocations and adaptations of personal and family resources for special groups: physically and mentally handicapped, aged, low-income, single heads of household and social re-entries from institutions.

    Prerequisite(s): Six hours of courses in family and consumer sciences or instructor’s approval.
    Crosslisted With: CRMG 613

Counseling

  
  • COUN 420 - Introduction to Counseling


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall, Spring

    An orientation to counseling, guidance skills and principles including sociological, historical and philosophical foundations of pupil personnel services; informing students and parents of the purposes of the guidance program, confidentiality, ethics in the counseling relationship and the profession, gender and multicultural issues in counseling and contemporary trends or issues in counseling.

    Crosslisted With: COUN 620

Criminal Justice

  
  • CJ 200 - Introduction to Criminal Justice


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall, Spring

    An intensive examination of the philosophical and historical backgrounds, agencies and processes, purposes and functions, administration and technical problems and career orientations of our criminal justice system. Extensive reading required. Critical thinking, problem solving and writing exercises are utilized. This course is a prerequisite to all other criminal justice courses.

  
  • CJ 211 - Principles of Law Enforcement


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall

    An introduction to the complex responsibilities, procedures and policies of a law enforcement agency operating in a pluralistic, multi-culture, free market, democratic society. Extensive reading required. Critical thinking, problem solving and writing exercises geared to practical applications in law enforcement are core requirements of this course. Interaction with computer based software applications for research required.

  
  • CJ 301 - Drugs and Society


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring

    Comprehensive examination of drug abuse; the biological, psychological, and social impact of drugs; the history and business of drugs; drug laws and drug policy implications; and the criminal justice system response.

  
  • CJ 302 - Criminal Justice Ethics


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall, Spring

    An examination of the ethical issues encountered within the Criminal Justice System. Critical moral reasoning, criteria for ethical decision making, codes of professional ethics and typical ethical dilemmas in the Criminal Justice System will be covered.

  
  • CJ 303 - Methods and Analysis in Social Research


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall, Spring

    Major concepts and techniques in social science research, including the scientific method, measurement, sampling, data collection, interpretation of statistics and evaluation settings. Data analysis techniques include descriptive and inferential statistics, including central tendency, variability, analysis of variance, and correlation. The course includes training in the use of statistical programs in order to calculate statistics.

  
  • CJ 310 - Principles of Criminal Investigation


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall

    An intensive examination of the foundation and principles of criminal investigation. This course examines the appropriate use of various sources of information, problem areas encountered when conducting criminal investigations within contemporary society and the follow-through activities necessary for capitalizing on investigative efforts. Extensive reading and writing required.

  
  • CJ 311 - Correction Security


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: As Needed

    This course is designed to address the educational component of pre-service training for correctional personnel which includes (but is not limited to) education on staff/inmate relations, prison sociology, issues of skilled based training which addresses inmate security, work ethics, the control of contraband, dealing with mental illness, inmate and staff suicide, and cultural diversity. Credit is awarded only upon successful completion of the Tennessee Correction Academy, or equivalent.

  
  • CJ 312 - Physical Training and Use of Force


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: As Needed

    Practical skills and techniques designed to enhance the physical well-being of criminal justice professionals within the course and scope of their duties. Components include flexibility, muscular strength and endurance, cardiovascular training, and the nonnegotiable use of lawful authority to influence behavior. Credit is awarded only upon success ful completion of the Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy Basic Police School, Tennessee Correction Academy, or equivalent.

  
  • CJ 320 - Criminal Procedure


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall

    An overview of the process of adjudication of a criminal case from the time of arrest to final disposition, including trial procedures, the due process requirement and constitutional limitations. Research requirement.

  
  • CJ 321 - Apprenticeship


    Credit(s): 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring

    Initial assessment and development of pre-professional skills and behaviors. Emphasis on identifying, clarifying, and developing personal competencies essential for police service, including communication, decision-making, fitness, and live-fire firearms familiarization. Students must maintain negative reports on drug screen and criminal background check (additional fee). 

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of 60 semester hours.
  
  • CJ 322 - Apprenticeship II


    Credit(s): 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring

    Basic assessment and development of pre-professional skills and behaviors. Emphasis on identifying, clarifying, and developing personal competencies essential for police careers, including communication, decision-making, fitness, and live-fire firearms familiarization. Students must maintain negative reports on drug screen (additional fee). 

    Prerequisite(s): CJ 321  with grade of ‘B’.
  
  • CJ 325 - Criminology


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall, Spring

    Problems, theory, cause, control and prevention of criminal behavior.

    Crosslisted With: SOC 413  
  
  • CJ 330 - Serial Killers


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall

    This course will provide students a detailed introduction to, and examination of, serial murder, specifically focusing on biological, psychological and social theoretical explanations of psychopathic, sociopathic, anti-social personality disorders. Students will actively participate in the understanding of issues surrounding serial murder presented to law enforcement agencies and the public. This class is not designed to assist in the development of skills necessary for the forensic criminal profiling of offenders. Research papers and oral presentations are components of this course.

  
  • CJ 360 - Child Abuse


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall - Even

    The goal of this course is to introduce students to the multifaceted issue of child abuse law. Students will learn about child sexual predators, child witnesses, types of child abuse and neglect and the future of child abuse in the criminal justice system. The course will include an examination of the various courts that deal with child abuse issues.

  
  • CJ 364 - Corrections


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring

    Provides an overview of the history and various perspectives of incarceration, tracing the development of prisons in America from their earlier roots in Europe. An examination is placed upon prison inmates, correctional staff, correctional treatment and punishment philosophies, political perspectives regarding criminal offenders and special interest offenders such as juveniles and females, as well as capital punishment.

    Crosslisted With: CJ 564, SOC 364 /564
  
  • CJ 370 - Juvenile Justice: Social Problems and Legal Issues for Social Work, and Criminal Justice


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall

    Focuses on the juvenile, the family and the community as related to and interwoven with legal issues, practices and processes encountered by the social work and criminal justice professionals and their clients. Restorative Justice practices are emphasized.

    Crosslisted With: SWRK 345 
  
  • CJ 380 - Probation and Parole


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring

    Provides an in-depth examination of the field of community-based correctional supervision, which includes many options utilized by correctional agencies to supervise clients in the community. Emphasis is placed on adult and juvenile systems, major U. S. Supreme Court decisions, methods of supervision and how this component interfaces with incarceration.

  
  • CJ 400 - Criminal Law


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall

    The history, purpose and theory of criminal law. An examination of the classification of crimes and the nature of criminal liability.

    Crosslisted With: CJ 600
  
  • CJ 401 - Command and Leadership


    Credit(s): 9
    Lecture Hours: 9
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: As Needed

    Foundations of leadership, leadership skills, building external relationships, employee and internal matters, and critical issues. Credit is awarded only upon successful completion of UT Law Enforcement Innovation Center Southeastern Leadership Academy.

  
  • CJ 405 - Law Enforcement Administration


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring

    Study of organization and management as applied to law enforcement agencies, concepts of organizational behavior, and the complex interrelationships between law enforcement and the community.

  
  • CJ 410 - Victimology


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring

    This course addresses the issues of crime in society by focusing on the victim. An examination of the expanding role of the victim in the criminal justice system will be the main focus of this course. Students will develop an understanding of criminal prosecutions, of the cost and extent of victimization and will examine various types of offenses committed against victims (child maltreatment, assault, homicide, domestic violence). Extensive research and writing projects are major components of this course.

  
  • CJ 411 - Special Topics [topic title]


    Credit(s): 1-3
    Lecture Hours: 1-3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: As Needed

    Selected topics of current interest and importance. Course may be repeated with different topics. A maximum of six credit hours can be counted toward a major or a minor in Criminal Justice.

    Prerequisite(s): Instructor’s approval.
  
  • CJ 413 - Family Law


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall - Odd

    This course provides an intensive examination of the rules governing family law including but not limited to: marriage, divorce, child custody, child abuse and neglect and adoption. Upon conclusion of this course, the successful student should be able to: 1) describe what constitutes a family; 2) describe the requirements for marriage; 3) identify the grounds for divorce: 4) identify the various aspects of obtaining custody of children; 5) think critically about the multifaceted issues of child abuse and/or neglect and 6) describe the adoption process.

  
  • CJ 415 - American Death Penalty


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring - Odd

    This course will provide an in-depth examination of the issues related to capital punishment in America. Students in this class will examine the death penalty component of the American Criminal Justice System through liberal, conservative and critical approaches that provide opportunities to investigate and question various crime control strategies utilized in the United States. A component of this class will be the development of skills necessary to critically assess the impact the use of capital punishment has on society. Extensive reading and writing assignments required.

  
  • CJ 420 - Criminal Evidence


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring

    An overview of criminal evidence within the United States, furnishing a practical insight into the rules of evidence and considerations regarding the admissibility of evidence in court. Emphasis is placed on court decisions and contemporary issues within the field and their effect upon members of society. Extensive research required.

    Crosslisted With: CJ 620
  
  • CJ 421 - Apprenticeship III


    Credit(s): 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring

    Intermediate assessment and development of pre-professional skills and behaviors. Emphasis on identifying, clarifying, and developing personal competencies essential for police careers, including communication, decision-making, fitness, and live-fire firearms familiarization. Students must maintain negative reports on drug screen (additional fee). 

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of 90 semester hours, and CJ 322   with grade of ‘B’
  
  • CJ 422 - Apprenticeship IV


    Credit(s): 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring

    Advanced assessment and development of pre-professional skills and behaviors. Emphasis on identifying, clarifying, and developing personal competencies essential for police careers, including communication, decision-making, fitness, and live-fire firearms familiarization. Students must maintain negative reports on drug screen and criminal background check (additional fee). 

    Prerequisite(s): CJ 421  with a grade of ‘B’.
  
  • CJ 425 - Penology


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring - Even

    This course provides an examination of the history of punishment and the study of crime through the ages with a focus on the social factors that influence various crime control measures and the political forces that underlie these perspectives and punishments. Extensive reading and writing will be required for this course.

  
  • CJ 435 - Criminalistics


    Credit(s): 9
    Lecture Hours: 9
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: As Needed

    This intensive in-residence program at the UT National Forensic Academy in Oak Ridge develops skills in crime scene evidence recovery and submission. Topics include scene management, digital photography, DNA evidence, latent fingerprints, shooting incident reconstruction, bloodstain pattern analysis, and forensic anthropology. Students demonstrate mastery through written and practical exams, and development of a student portfolio.

    Prerequisite(s): Instructor’s approval.
    Crosslisted With: CJ 635
  
  • CJ 450 - Current Issues in Criminal Justice


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: As Needed

    Emphasizes the professional development of criminal justice students by a critical examination of ethics, topical commentaries, articles and reports from the most recent literature in the criminal justice field. Extensive reading and writing are core requirements. A research project involving a review of current literature and/or original research is required. Interaction with computer based software applications is essential.

  
  • CJ 455 - Travel Study in Criminal Justice [Selected Topics]


    Credit(s): 1-6
    Lecture Hours: 1-6
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Not regularly offered. (as needed)

    A course designed as an educational travel experience in Criminal Justice within the United States or internationally under the supervision of a university instructors. May be taught as an organized study tour or as an independent travel and study project. Topics, prerequisites and course requirements announced in advance. Students may repeat course with different topics. A maximum of six credit hours can be counted toward a major in Criminal Justice. Pass/Fail
    May be offered on a pass/fail basis.

    Prerequisite(s): instructor’s approval.
  
  • CJ 460 - Senior Seminar in Criminal Justice


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall, Spring

    A critical examination of theory and practice in the Criminal Justice System. Research, writing and presentation of papers.

    Prerequisite(s): Senior standing or prior approval, and completion of all of the Criminal Justice major requirement courses with a grade of C or above.
  
  • CJ 470 - Tennessee Criminal Law


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: As Needed

    In-depth study of the current Tennessee Code Annotated sections on substantive Criminal Law and applicable sections of evidence and procedure. Credit is awarded only upon successful completion of the Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy Basic Police School, or equivalent. Students cannot receive credit for both CJ 400  and CJ 470.

  
  • CJ 480 - Internship in Criminal Justice


    Credit(s): 3-12
    Lecture Hours: 3-12
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall, Spring

    Application of criminal justice skills in a supervised workplace setting. Placement will be determined by the instructor, in consultation with the student. The student may or may not be paid. Student grades will be based on the instructor’s academic evaluation as well as the work evaluation by the student’s on-the-job supervisor. May only be taken once for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): Criminal Justice major, Senior standing, and a minimum 3. 00 GPA in Criminal Justice coursework or permission of department chair.
  
  • CJ 485 - Directed Research in Criminal Justice


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: As Needed

    Research to be directed by a member of the Criminal Justice faculty assigned by the department chair and to be on a subject of interest to the student as well as faculty members.


Cybersecurity

  
  • CYBR 115 - Cyber Literacy


    Credit(s): 3
    When Offered: As needed

    An introduction to the basic terms and background needed for further cybersecurity study, intended for those with a less technical background. Identity Theft, Malware Attacks, Privacy Essentials, Social Engineering, Safe Browsing, Hardware Exploits.

  
  • CYBR 215 - Cybersecurity Analysis


    Credit(s): 3
    When Offered: As needed

     A hands-on introduction to the techniques and tools needed to detect and respond to cybersecurity threats. Virtual Machines, Data Tampering, Network Traffic Analysis, Threat Detection and Mitigation, Vulnerability Assessment. 

    Prerequisite(s): Placement in OR completion of CYBR 115  or CSCI 221  or equivalent coursework.
  
  • CYBR 270 - Human, Organizational, and Societal Factors of Security


    Credit(s): 3
    When Offered: As needed

    Case studies in computer security. History of cybersecurity. Study of policies and practices related to computing systems at various levels including individuals, organizations, and societies.

  
  • CYBR 290 - Lower Division Special Topics [Topic Title]


    Credit(s): 1-3
    When Offered: As needed

    Lectures and/or special projects related to various specialized topics in cybersecurity. Course may be repeated for a maximum of six (6) hours credit. May be offered on a pass/fail basis.

    Prerequisite(s): Departmental approval required.
  
  • CYBR 350 - Secure Computing in Practice


    Credit(s): 3
    When Offered: As needed

    Practical aspects of secure computing. Attach vectors of modern systems including software and physical/hardware systems. Emphasis on cyberattack vulnerability, testing, and prevention in practice.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 325  
  
  • CYBR 352 - Secure Software Development


    Credit(s): 3
    When Offered: As needed

    Design principles and practices for secure software development. Current issues in modern and legacy programming including systems, scripting, database and web langues. 

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 325  
  
  • CYBR 460 - Cryptography


    Credit(s): 3
    When Offered: As needed

    Classical and modern security systems. Symmetric and public key cryptosystems, primality testing, factoring algorithms, hashes, digital signatures, practical applications, and vulnerabilities.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 302  and CSCI 325  
  
  • CYBR 470 - Reverse Engineering and Software Analysis


    Credit(s): 3
    When Offered: As needed

    Concepts and techniques related to reverse engineering and software analysis. Standard methodologies for detecting, analyzing, and reverse engineering malware. 

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 325  
  
  • CYBR 485 - Network and Operating System Security


    Credit(s): 3
    When Offered: As needed

    Security issues in current operating systems and networking technologies. Tools and technologies for setting up secure operating and communications systems. IP security, web security, network and wireless security.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 325  
  
  • CYBR 490 - Advanced Topics in Cybersecurity [Topic Title]


    Credit(s): 1-3
    When Offered: As needed

    Lectures and/or special projects related to specialized advanced topics in cybersecurity. Course may be repeated for a maximum of of six (6) hours credit. May be offered on a pass/fail basis. 

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 325  or instructor approval required.
  
  • CYBR 495 - Senior Design Project


    Credit(s): 3
    When Offered: As needed

    Selected topics in cybersecurity including trends, ethics, employment, and graduate school opportunities. Small teams will complete senior design projects related to cybersecurity. Teams will present results at a local conference and summarize work in a technical report. 

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI 302  and CSCI 325 , computer science major with a concentration in cybersecurity, senior standing, and permission of department faculty.

Dance

  
  • DANC 110 - Understanding Dance


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall, Spring

    General survey of the development of dance as an art form from primitive times to the present.

  
  • DANC 110H - Honors Understanding Dance


    Credit(s): 3
    When Offered: As Needed

    General survey of the development of dance as an art form from primitive times to the present. For students in good standing in Honors Programs.

  
  • DANC 120 - Contemporary Dance I


    Credit(s): 2
    Lecture Hours: 2
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall

    Analytical and practical study of beginning dance techniques. May be repeated for credit.

  
  • DANC 130 - Ballet I


    Credit(s): 2
    Lecture Hours: 2
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring

    Introduction to the basic techniques of ballet. May be repeated for credit.

  
  • DANC 150 - Dance Ensemble


    Credit(s): 2
    Lecture Hours: 2
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall, Spring

    Preparation and public performance of selected works of dance repertory. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): Instructor’s approval.
  
  • DANC 210 - Music and Movement


    Credit(s): 2
    Lecture Hours: 2
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: As Needed

    Basic rhythmic analysis for dance. Understanding the relationship between music and movement for both instruction and performance. Introduction to digital music editing and composition for dance.

  
  • DANC 215 - Movement for Performers


    Credit(s): 2
    When Offered: As Needed

    Provides the actor/musician/dancer with a basic awareness of the human body and function for the stage by exploring various movement techniques.

  
  • DANC 240 - Choreography I


    Credit(s): 2
    Lecture Hours: 2
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring

    Use of rhythmic, spatial and dynamic elements in designing dance movements. Current choreographic approaches.

    Prerequisite(s): Proficiency in dance and instructor’s approval.
  
  • DANC 310 - Jazz Dance


    Credit(s): 2
    Lecture Hours: 2
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring - Odd

    Analytical and practical study in jazz dance techniques. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): DANC 120  or DANC 320 .
  
  • DANC 320 - Contemporary Dance II


    Credit(s): 2
    Lecture Hours: 2
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall

    A continuing study of dance vocabulary with emphasis on analysis and discipline. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): DANC 120 .
  
  • DANC 330 - Ballet II


    Credit(s): 2
    Lecture Hours: 2
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall

    Continuation of training in technical skills of classical ballet. May be repeated for credit.

  
  • DANC 350 - Dance Ensemble


    Credit(s): 2
    Lecture Hours: 2
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall, Spring

    Preparation and public performance of selected works of dance repertory. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): Instructor’s approval.
  
  • DANC 360 - Dance Production


    Credit(s): 1
    Lecture Hours: 1
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: As Needed

    Practical application of dance studies in the production environment. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): DANC 240  and DANC 350 .
  
  • DANC 401 - Special Projects in Dance


    Credit(s): 2
    Lecture Hours: 2
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: As Needed

    Directed individual study. May be repeated for credit.

  
  • DANC 415 - Dance History and Contemporary Issues


    Credit(s): 3
    When Offered: Spring - Even

    This course is an inquiry into varied issues that are central to how dances are created, performed, viewed, received, criticized and analyzed in a historical context.

    Prerequisite(s): DANC 110  or instructor’s approval.
  
  • DANC 420 - Advanced Contemporary Dance


    Credit(s): 2
    Lecture Hours: 2
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall

    A continuing study of dance vocabulary with emphasis on intensive advanced level of contemporary dance technique. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): DANC 320  or instructor’s approval.
  
  • DANC 430 - Advanced Ballet


    Credit(s): 2
    Lecture Hours: 2
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall

    Advanced training in understanding ballet vocabulary, terminology, pointe work, and correct body posture. The student will demonstrate proficiency in challenging barre and center combinations, proper spatial dynamics and clarity, and appropriate musicality. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): DANC 330  or instructor’s approval.
  
  • DANC 440 - Choreography II


    Credit(s): 2
    Lecture Hours: 2
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring

    Advanced techniques of dance composition.

    Prerequisite(s): DANC 240  and instructor’s approval.
    Crosslisted With: DANC 640
  
  • DANC 460 - Senior Project


    Credit(s): 1
    Lecture Hours: 1
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: As Needed

    Performance or research based projects representative of the student’s interest, talents and cumulative experience in dance. Projects are selected and prepared under the supervision of a dance faculty member. Pass/Fail
    Mandatory Pass/Fail.


Dance Education

  
  • DNED 211 - Introduction to Teaching Dance


    Credit(s): 2
    Lecture Hours: 2
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall - Even

    A comprehensive view of dance teaching as a profession including requirements, challenges and opportunities. The stages of children’s development in dance will be covered, as well as lesson plan writing. Includes eight (8) clock hours of clinical lab experiences, directed observations and limited participation in classroom settings.

  
  • DNED 390 - Dance Pedagogy


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Spring - Odd

    Concepts, methods, materials and practice in teaching dance appropriate for both elementary and secondary students. Includes 12 clock hours of clinical lab experiences, directed observations and limited participation in classroom settings.

    Prerequisite(s): DNED 211 .
  
  • DNED 400 - Senior Seminar in Dance Education


    Credit(s): 4
    Lecture Hours: 4
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Fall - Odd

    Current issues in the profession of dance education, review of national standards and the relationship of aesthetic education to the overall development of young people. Historical, philosophical and social aspects of dance in the curriculum. Measurement and evaluation of dance instruction. Includes 10 clock hours of clinical lab experiences, directed observations, limited participation in classroom settings, and student teaching preparation.

    Prerequisite(s): DNED 390  and admission to Educator Preparation Program (EPP).
  
  • DNED 471 - Student Teaching in Dance Placement 1


    Credit(s): 5
    Lecture Hours: 6
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: As Needed

    Supervised student teaching of dance in a grade appropriate setting for the licensure area being pursued for a minimum of 9 weeks. (Normally taken concurrently also with DNED 471.)

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to Educator Preparation Program (EPP), all other required courses in the Professional Education core, and Praxis exams required for licensure.
    Corequisite(s): Must be taken with TCED 401  and DNED 472  
  
  • DNED 472 - Student Teaching in Dance Placement 2


    Credit(s): 4
    Lecture Hours: 6
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: As Needed

    Supervised student teaching of dance in a grade appropriate setting for the licensure area being pursued for a minimum of 7 weeks. (Normally taken concurrently also with DNED 471 . )

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to Educator Preparation Program (EPP), all other required courses in the Professional Education core, and Praxis exams required for licensure.
    Corequisite(s): Must be taken with TCED 401  and DNED 471  

Driver Safety Education

  
  • DSED 420 - General Safety Education


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Summer

    A background in characteristics of effective teaching and techniques for safety principles, practices and procedures. The cause and prevention of accidents in the home, school and community as related to modern living.

    Crosslisted With: DSED 620
  
  • DSED 430 - Basic Driver and Traffic Safety Education


    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0
    When Offered: Summer

    The course will explore driver education in the secondary school, paying particular attention to traffic laws and enforcement, traffic engineering and educational theory. Lesson planning and peer teaching will be evaluated.

    Crosslisted With: DSED 630
 

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