2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin - NMU Bulletin

• Offered: Contact department
• Prerequisites: EN 111 with a grade of “C” or better, HON 101, or EN 109 with a grade of “B” or better.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.
• General Education: This course applies towards the following general education requirement(s):
  • Human Expression (HUME)

A survey of American literature from the Reconstruction period to the present, concentrating on major figures and texts and on the development of modern literary issues.

• Offered: Contact department
• Prerequisites: EN 111 with a grade of “C” or better, HON 101, or EN 109 with a grade of “B” or better.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.
• General Education: This course applies towards the following general education requirement(s):
  • Human Expression (HUME)

A survey of American literature from the age of European exploration to the Reconstruction period, concentrating on major figures and texts and on the development of modern literary issues.

• Offered: Contact department
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

This first course for English majors introduces students to important terms and concepts relevant to literary study and improves students' abilities to read and interpret works of fiction, poetry and drama. Through a series of guest speakers, it also introduces students to faculty members in the department.

• Offered: Winter
• Prerequisites: DATA 109.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

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
• Prerequisites: DATA 109 and CIS 222.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

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.

Formerly CIS 322.

• Offered: Fall
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

A detailed overview of the issues around bioenergy fuels and their conversions to renewable energies. The physics of fuel production and its combustion will be covered. Economics, operational issues and practical aspects of operating both large and small scale bioenergy combustors will be covered.

• Offered: Winter
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Survey course of the primary sources of renewable energies such as wind, solar, bioenergy, geothermal, hydroelectric and fuel cells. The history of their development, the basic physics of their operation, design and operational issues will be covered.

• Offered: Winter
• Prerequisites: MA 100 or higher or math placement equivalency.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

This course provides an introduction to wind-powered systems used for electricity generation. Course topics include fundamental concepts, history, system design, sizing, site selection and applications. The economics and practical installation aspects of wind power are also examined.

• Offered: Fall
• Prerequisites: MA 100 or higher or math placement equivalency.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

This course provides an introduction to solar-powered energy systems. Both photovoltaic and thermal applications of solar energy will be studied. Course topics include fundamental concepts, system design, sizing, site selection and applications.

• Offered: Contact Department
• Prerequisites: CS 222.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

This course covers parallel programming, including shared memory and distributed memory programming. Topics include architecture, programming techniques, the MPI, OpenMP, and pthread libraries and famous algorithms.