CMST 394: Sex and Communication
Instructor: Jessica Kratzer
Prerequisite: Junior standing (sophomores considered if there is room in the class)
This course is an analysis of the ways communication influences multiple types of relationships and varying contexts in regards to sex and intimacy. This course is designed to introduce you to the complexity of sexual communication in sexual and nonsexual relationships and to explore gender differences in those relationships. In this course, we will examine communication that takes place in multiple types of relationships (e.g., hooking up, married couples) and sexual events/issues (e.g., coming out, health perspectives) that impact people throughout their lives.
Offered: Monday, Wednesday, Friday; 10-10:50 am
HCOM 480: Communication Technology and Health
Instructor: Zach Hart
Prerequisite: Junior Standing or Instructor Permission
This course focuses on how information communication technology improves health literacy and sensemaking. You will learn about theory related to information communication technology and health promotion as well as the health communication aspects and associated issues of electronic medical records, patient-provider electronic interactions, virtual reality and artificial reality technologies, mobile technology, and social media. We will also learn about how information communication technology can change our minds and our behaviors. In addition, we cover topics related to online consent, privacy management and health information seeking. All majors welcome!
Offered: Online, first 7-weeks session
POP 394: K-Pop
Instructor: Yasue Kuwahara
Prerequisite: None
Many people do not take pop culture seriously because it is usually offered as entertainment but pop culture is closely related to social, political and economic environments and reflects fundamental cultural beliefs as well as the zeitgeist of a given society. It is often a site of struggle for power as well. This course examines Korean popular music, commonly known as K-pop, as art form as well as political and social force within and outside of Korea. Students have an opportunity to choose and explore an aspect of K-pop that interests them.
Offered: Online, first 7-weeks session
*Approved substitutions: POP minors can substitute this course for POP 305 or POP 345.
PRE 300: Event Messaging and Planning
Instructor: Zach Hart
Prerequisite: Junior Standing
This course will provide students with hands-on experience in planning, promoting, executing and evaluating an event that fulfills a public relations purpose. Students will gain an understanding of different types of events, the public relations purposes events fulfill, the planning and logistics of executing an event, messaging strategies to promote events; and evaluation methods to determine an event's success in meeting public relations goals. All majors welcome!
Offered: Thursdays, 6:15-9:00 PM
CIT 494 / CYS 494: Malware Analysis and Defense
Instructor: Awad Mussa
Prerequisite: CIT 285
Fundamentals of malware analysis and defense applying concepts through hands-on labs; students learn to identify functionalities and behaviors of malicious software, apply disassemblers to decompose, execute, and trace lines of malware, patch executables to modify their behavior, trace infections back to their sources, identify vulnerabilities in Windows and Linux platforms.
Offered: Tuesday, Thursday; 1:40-2:55 pm
CSC 394 / CIT 394: The Machine that Changed the World
Instructor: Richard Fox
Prerequisite: Sophomore Standing and ENG 102
No human artifact has evolved over time like the computer and no human innovation has impacted mankind as much as the computer outside of language and perhaps controlling fire and electricity. In this course, we start with a look at the history and evolution of computer hardware, operating systems, programming languages and computer networks (with an emphasis on the Internet). We then focus on the impact of the computer and Internet on all aspects of human life. The course material will include technical content but the ability to program is not assumed.
Offered: Monday, Wednesday, Friday; 10-10:50 am
*NOTE: Please note that this class is cross-listed with HNR 394 and the availability is very limited.
CSC 494-001: Compiler Theory
Instructor: John Musgrave
Prerequisite: CSC 362 or CSC 3644
A course on programming language grammars and compiler technology. This course will cover the theory necessary for lexical and semantic analysis, parsing recursive and context-free grammars, and constructing a language runtime. Students will be evaluated using a sample language grammar to construct a compiler over the course of the semester.
Offered: Monday, Wednesday; 3:25-4:40 pm
CSC 494-002: Deep Learning
Instructor: Junxiu Zhou
Prerequisite: MAT 227, CSC 364 and junior standing or above
This course will provide an introduction to neural networks and deep learning. It is designed to provide understanding of basic deep learning concepts and process, multi-layer neural networks, back-propagation and stochastic gradient descent, convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, and related hand-on applications skills.
Offered: Tuesday, Thursday; 9:25-10:40 am
EMB 397: Projects
Instructor: Chris Strobel
*Prerequisite: EMB 210 and EMB 215
Participants will select community nonprofit partners with whom the students will plan and create media. Potential partners may include area arts or social services organizations.
Offered: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:05 - 4:20 PM
*EMB 201 was recently added as a pre-req for this course (to be added to the 2021-2022 catalog) and will prevent students from registering if they have not completed this class. We will waive this requirement for any students who are on the 2017-2018 catalog or prior. Students on the 2018-2019 catalog or after will need to request exceptions.
EMB 435: Gen Z: Films That Define a Generation
Instructor: Darren Mccullah
Prerequisite: junior standing or instructor permission
This course will focus on movies that personify Generation Z. Many films pinpoint a time and place so perfectly that they actually define a generation. From the seminal classic Dope to the tearjerker The Fault in Our Stars to the racially relevant The Hate U Give, films that focus on Gen Z (also known as Post Millennial or The Founders) include people born roughly between the mid-1990s to mid-2000s. What makes this generation especially unique is that they have lived with technology; the internet and social media dominate their entire lives. Gen Z lives in the digital age. By examining movies across all genres (comedy, drama, love stories, horror) and different cultures (western and non-western) this course will examine the story structures and aesthetics that have come to define films about this generation, as well as shed light on those issues that Generation Z faces: college life, activism, relationships, job searches, politics, gender identity, as well as life in the Covid era and social injustice.
Offered: Monday, 6:15 - 9:00 PM
PRE 394: Public Relations and Urban Attitude
Instructor: Greg De Blasio
Prerequisite: PRE 275 or PRE 375
The density of media, transportation, and financial networks in cities presents challenge and opportunity to communicate the ever-changing nature of place. Communication operates within, throughout, and beyond city limits constituting place identities. This course examines how life within city spaces and communication about city places account for urban apparatus constituting image and brand. Assignments will include the study and creation of public relations theory and activity related to city branding and promotion.
Offered: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:05 - 4:20 PM
POP 394: Popular Music in Film
Instructor: Zach Wells
Prerequisite: One CMST or POP course
This course focuses on examples from the 1960s to the present day of films where popular music is the subject or a central theme of the story. These films will also reflect the decade they represent, which will allow for the class to explore other themes in popular culture and the history of each time period. Multiple films will be selected by the instructor for each decade and the class will then participate in discussions and a combination of media and written projects around the subject.
Offered: Online
JOU 394: Trends in Journalism: Information Framing
Instructor: Stacie Jankowski
Prerequisite: EMB 100 or JOU 110 or junior standing
This course examines the ways media (for example: journalism, entertainment, broadcast, print) construct stories and how those stories impact audiences. In this class, we’ll examine the research about media framing and apply the lessons we learn to analyze and evaluate media examples. We’ll discuss how frames come to be, examining, for example, the professional values and norms that sometimes dictate how narratives are conveyed.
Offered: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:50 AM - 12:05 PM
CMST 394: Rhetoric Goes to the Movies
Instructor: Steve Weiss
Prerequisite: CMST 101 or 110 (or their equivalent); junior or above standing
The motion picture feature film (and not documentary) will be examined in the context of understanding the rhetorical power of story-telling through film-making. A rhetoric of fiction, as applied to film, becomes the template for the critical analysis of the genre.
Offered: Thursday 3:20 - 6:05 PM
CYS/CIT 494: Malware Analysis and Defense
Instructor: Awad Mussa
Prerequisite: CIT 285
Fundamentals of malware analysis and defense applying concepts through hands-on labs; students learn to identify functionalities and behaviors of malicious software, apply disassemblers to decompose, execute, and trace lines of malware, patch executables to modify their behavior, trace infections back to their sources, identify vulnerabilities in Windows and Linux platforms.
Offered: Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:25 - 4:40 PM
