Courses
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Designed for freshmen and sophomores and as a service course. Topics dependent on the special interests of students and staff.
Notes:May be repeated if topic differs. May be repeated for credit with permission of instructor.
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- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: College of Business permission.
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- Prerequisites: College of Business permission.
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- Prerequisites: CIS 226.
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- Prerequisites: CIS 250.
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- Prerequisites: CIS 250 or instructor’s permission.
- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: DATA 109 and CIS 222.
The course works on framing and understanding decision-making needs and processes to define, evaluate, and identify appropriate strategic, operational, or execution-level decisions. Students will be identifying, collecting, and managing large-scale data needed for decision support and employing decision-support software in areas such as optimization and predictive modeling.
Notes:Formerly CIS 322.
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- Prerequisites: CIS 250 and senior standing or instructor’s permission.
A capstone course with an emphasis on the development of a computer application by student project teams assigned to local organizations or university departments. Project teams learn project management skills through job assignments and weekly status meetings with the instructor. Class time is arranged by project. Students spend six to eight hours per week on the project.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: DATA 109.
In a rapidly changing, complex environment and in the emergence of big data management challenges, successful enterprises make mission-critical choices using advanced decision-support systems. This course will cover the application of analytical methods to massive organizational data sets to evaluate options, give insight into likely outcomes, and make recommendations for the “best” decisions to pursue.
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Prerequisites: Admission to the College of Business and junior standing or instructor’s permission.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: CIS 250 and junior standing or instructor’s permission.
Survey of the applied database systems topics. Emphasis is on relational databases—logical design, physical design and SQL. Hierarchical, network, object-oriented and object-relational models are also considered. Supporting topics include entity-relationship model, database administration, data dictionaries/catalogs, backup/recovery, concurrency control, database security, distributed database, client/server database, data warehousing and data mining.
- Offered: Fall Winter Summer
- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: Junior standing or instructor's permission.
Appropriate professional work experience at a computer installation. Students are required to document their work experience and fulfill requirements stipulated upon approval of the internship.
Notes:May be repeated if topic differs.
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- Prerequisites: Junior standing or instructor's permission.
Variable topics of current interest.
Notes:May be repeated if topic differs.
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- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: Junior standing or instructor's permission.
Designed for juniors and seniors as a service course. Topics dependent on the special interests of students and staff.
Notes:May be repeated if topic differs.
- Offered: Contact department for information
- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: Junior standing and College of Business permission.
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- Prerequisites: Junior standing and College of Business permission.
- Offered: Fall Winter Summer
- Offered: On demand
This course is for criminal justice elective credit and may be applied toward the criminal justice associate of arts or applied science degree programs. This is a training course specifically designed for the topic at hand.
Notes:No more than 4 credits of CJ 191 and/or CJ 298 may be applied toward the AS or AAS degree programs. CJ 191 and CJ 298 do not apply toward the bachelor’s degree in criminal justice.
This course may be taken more than once under a different topic.
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Prerequisites: CJ 110 or instructor's permission.
The role of law enforcement in the criminal justice system and society at large is explored. Emphasis is placed on the history and current practices of policing, the demands and rewards of careers in law enforcement and the dilemma inherent in policing a free society.
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Prerequisites: CJ 110 or instructor's permission.
An examination of the criminal court system and criminal adjudication processes from setting bail through sentencing and appeal. Analysis of the professional roles of prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges and the courtroom work group.
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Prerequisites: CJ 110 or instructor's permission.
Theory of investigation, crime scene conduct, collection and preservation of physical evidence; introduction to criminalistics and crime scene processing; overview of methods used in scientific interpretation of evidence; pursuit of investigative leads; and preparation of evidence for use in the judicial system.
Notes:This course was previously numbered CJ 314 The Investigative Process I.
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Prerequisites: CJ 110 or instructor’s permission.
Introduction to the philosophy, theory and practice involved in dealing officially with convicted offenders; appraisal of treatment and post-correctional practices plus functions of probation and parole are analyzed. Problems, trends and issues are identified.
- Offered: On demand.
- Prerequisites: CJ 110, or instructor’s permission.
Study of offenders in terms of their personal background and definitional dimensions. Attitudes, behavior and criminal careers are examined to help develop realistic perspective on crime and criminals.
- Offered: Yearly
- Prerequisites: CJ 110.
This course is an examination of the use of force by law enforcement officers and the major court decisions that dictate how and when that force is appropriate. A significant focus is placed on less lethal weapons and their placement within the force continuum through the use of a use of force training simulator.
- Offered: On demand.
- Prerequisites: CJ 110, or instructor’s permission.
An overview of the major issues, trends and the political and social dimensions of criminal convictions. An analysis of constitutional law, court decisions, current legislation of the federal and state law affecting prisons and the judicial proceedings.