LIN 394: Health Programming in Libraries
Instructor: TBA
Prerequisite: None
Offered within NKU’s Library Informatics program to support the efforts of public libraries as they address the health information needs of their communities, primarily by building health literacy. During the course, each student will develop a library programming action plan and a NNLM funding proposal related to specific health concerns in their community.
Offered: Online
*Special Note: This course is approved to sub for a HCOM elective in the Health Issues/Domains category for students who take it in Spring 2020. In addition, students who take this course and work in libraries in Kentucky’s medically underserved areas may receive a scholarship for the course tuition. For more information on the scholarships, please contact Threasa Wesley at wesley@nku.edu
CMST 394: Health Campaigns
Instructor: Lori Wheeler
Prerequisite: None
This course is designed to introduce students to health campaign planning, implementation and evaluation. Working in teams, the students will design, implement and evaluate a campaign for an outside client organization.
Possible Substitution: This course is linked to (same as) HCOM 450
Offered: Online
POP 394: The Unnatural Nature of Supernatural
Instructor: Michelle Crowley
Prerequisite: None
This course will discuss topics ranging from how the actors of Supernatural, the pop cultural phenomena, use social media to connect with their fans, the impact of the age/gender/sexuality gap portrayed in the show, the cultural connection to world religions and the occult, and the global impact the fanbase has created through charity and philanthropy.
Offered: Tuesday and Thursday 1:40 - 2:55 PM
POP 494: Popular Entertainment of the 1980s
Instructor: Zach Wells
Prerequisite: Communication course
This course is a survey on popular entertainment and culture of the 1980s. The course will focus specifically around the music, movies, and television shows of the decade. Through the study of MTV, the class will examine the music and fashion of the decade, motion pictures will allow for the study of behaviors and stereotypes, and family dynamics of the decade will be studied through family-oriented sitcoms. Finally, we will also examine the political landscape of the 1980s and how the Cold War influenced popular entertainment. Ultimately, this course will examine and attempt to explain how popular culture of the 1980s influenced the cultural and political landscapes of the decade.
Offered: Online
POP 345: Japanese Popular Culture
Instructor: Yasue Kuwahara
Prerequisite: POP 205 or JPN 101
*Will substitute for honors requirements
Postwar Japanese society and culture; beliefs and values, gender roles, daily experience, popular and entertainment forms.
Offered: Wednesday 2:00 - 3:15 PM or Online
POP 495: Study Abroad: Japan
Instructor: Yasue Kuwahara
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Varies by topic. Course includes a classroom portion and a trip abroad.
Offered: TBA
PRE 394: Public Relations Event Planning
Instructor: Zach Hart
Prerequisite: None
Students will gain hands-on experience in planning, promoting, and evaluating MashComm36, a 36 hour real-world experience that will take place in Griffin Hall with student teams solving communication problems for a non-profit or small business.
Offered: Wednesday 6:15 - 9:00 PM
Class will meet: January 15, 28; February 12, 26; March 18; April 1, 15, 29
*Required to attend MashComm36 event: March 21,22
EMB 394: Building an Audience
Instructor: Darren McCullah
Prerequisite: None
This course will explore how different media projects (including film, television, streaming and web series) find and build an audience in today's broadcast & film environment. Using a variety of resources students will begin to understand, define, market, and find an audience for their chosen media enterprise.
Offered: Monday 6:15 - 9:00 PM
MIN 394/EMB 394: New Media Law and Ethics
Instructor: Robert Bodle
Prerequisite: Sophomore Standing
Focused study of a significant topic from a media informatics perspective.
Offered: Monday or Wednesday 6:15 - 9:00 PM
Instructor: Chris Brewer
Prerequisite: Junior standing or higher / Instructor approval
Undergraduate research in computer science directed by a faculty member. Up to 6 hours of x92 and x99 credit can count toward the computer science major. Repeatable up to 6 credit hours.
Offered: TBA
Instructor: Alina Campan
Prerequisite: CSC 360 and INF 282 (C- or better)
Covers application and theory of relational DBMS . Course covers the following topics: relational model, structured Query Language and Oracle PL/SQL, design and implementation of relational database applications, database design with entity-relationship modeling and normal forms, concurrency control, and implementation of various parts of a relational database management system such as indexing, evaluation of relational operators, and relational query optimizaton.
Offered: Monday and Wednesday 4:50 - 6:05 PM
CSC 494-002: C# and ASP.NET Programming
Instructor: Charles Frank
Prerequisite: CSC 360 (C- or better)
The course covers ASP.NET using the C# programming language. This is one of the primary technologies for developing web applications. It is especially used by large organizations. ASP.NET uses Microsoft Visual Studio as its development platform.
Offered: Tuesday and Thursday 4:45 - 6:00 PM
CSC 494-003: Deep Learning
Instructor: Junxiu Zhang
Prerequisite: MAT 234 and CSC 364 (C- or better)
This course will provide an elementary hands-on introduction to neural networks and deep learning.
Offered: Thursday 6:15 - 9:00 PM
Teaching Assistantship
Instructor: Maureen Doyle
Prerequisite: Permssion of faculty member
INF 394 - 1 credit
Offered: Online (first 7 weeks)
CIT / CSC / DSC 394 - 2 credit hours
Offered: Online and face-to-face (Duration of class)
TAs will be assigned a course section, required to attend the class session (when face-to-face), assists students working on in-class work under the direction of the instructor (when face-to-face) and hold two office hours per week). TAs also grade labs and programming assignments as directed by the instructor at a semester average of 2 hours/week.
TA’s for online courses will participate in discussion lists, hold 2 office hours/week (which can be virtual) and provide additional grading support (average 4 hours/week. While serving as a TA, you will also participate in an online course to learn the foundation of being a TA or university instructor.
To sign up, contact a faculty member teaching a course in the spring that you recieved a B or better in and ask if you can be a TA. If they say yes, email doylem3@nku.edu and CC that faculty member. Indicate the course and course section in that email.
CIT 394: Internet of Things
Instructor: Ken Roth
Prerequisite: INF 120 (C- or better)
This course covers the following topics: interfaces, servos, remote sensing, internet repositories, AWS Greengrass and a variety of sensors including analog to digital conversion, distance, motion, temperature, and camera.
Offered: Monday and Wednesday 3:25 - 4:40 PM
CIT 392: Understanding RFP Worflow in IT
Instructor: Bradford Thomas
Prerequisites: Instructor approval
The RFP process is used solicit bids from companies for a desired product.
This course will look at the purchase of software for the NKU housing department (Dorms). The NKU Housing department is looking to replace the current software used to student dormitories.
In this course students will be involved in the process of attending presentation by vendors who have been chosen by the housing department. Students will grade each vendor and create continuing reports comparing the pro and cons of each vendor. Student will also create their own RFP and seek information from actual vendors. The student created RFP report will be presented in class.
Students successful in the course may be asked to join a paid student position to help implement the project once a vendor has been chosen.
Offered: Second 7 Week, TBA
MAT 394-001: Graph Theory and Combinatorics
Instructor: Axel Brandt
Prerequisite: C- in MAT 228/229 and an intended co-req of MAT 302 or 385
A course in graph theory and combinatorics, which will introduce students to selected topics from both areas. Graph theory topics may include trees, graph algorithms, planarity, connectivity, coloring, and matching. Combinatorics topics may include enumeration, inclusion-exclusion, generating functions, and Polya-Redfield counting.
Offered: Monday and Wedneday 3:25 - 4:40 PM
*Special Note: This course is approved to sub for a CSC 3xx elective in the Computer Science major for students who take it in Spring 2020.
CSC 492: Applied Full-Stack Development
Instructor: Chris Brewer
Prerequisite: Juniour standing or higher and instructor's approval
During this course, the students will progress through the entire lifecycle of a web development project, from start to finish, including:
-Working with a real customer to derive requirements.
-Creating wireframes
-Designing data structures
-Employing useful tools to create Entity Relationship Diagrams
-Creating databases and manipulate data in MySQL
-Coding the backend in PHP
-Augmenting the frontend with JQuery
In addition to providing a great opportunity to learn about HTML CSS, JQuery, PHP and MySQL, students can add a real-life project to thier resumes.
Offered: Online
EMB 394-001: International Projects Editing
Instructor: Bradley Drake Libis
Prerequisite: EMB 210
Offered: Monday and Wednesday 3:25 - 4:45 PM
JOU 394-001: Exploring the Future of News & Media
Instructor: Michele Wood Day
Prerequisite: Department permission required for booking
In this hybrid course, we’ll talk with local and national media pioneers – from the founders of small startups to the leaders of innovation divisions of large media organizations – about how they’re shaping news and media of the future. We’ll also explore what the future holds for media careers, the impact of technology on content and business models and journalism’s role in society.
Offered: Mixed - Meet once a week on Thursday 1:40 - 3:55 PM & Online
MIN 394-001: Human Computer Interaction
Instructor: Nicholas Caporusso
Prerequisite: Department Permission, C or Better in INF 286 OR CSC 301
Explores frontiers of interaction with machines by analyzing novel paradigms, non-conventional I/O devices, tightly-coupled interfaces; applications of cyber-physical systems (e.g., brain-computer interfaces, wearable devices, assistive technology); students experience, imagine, and realize systems for enhancing users' interaction with the world based on the current state of the art and future trends.
Offered: Tuesday & Thursday 1:40 - 2:55 PM
CMST394-001: Presidential Debates
Instructor: Steven M. Weiss
Prerequisite: CMST101 or CMST110
Offered: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11:00 - 11:50 AM
CMST394-002 / HCOM480: Communication Technology & Health
Instructor: Zachary Paul Hart
Prerequisite: CMST403
This course focuses on the role of information communication technology in improving health literacy and sensemaking including but not limited to understanding electronic medical records, patient-provider electronic interactions, online social support, online consent, privacy management, and health information seeking.
Offered: Online
CMST394-003 / HCOM305: Patient-Provider Communication
Instructor: Whittney Hope Darnell
Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor permission
This course is intended to help students understand the dynamics of patient-provider interactions in a health care setting. A variety of types of medical encounters will be examined with special attention paid to the role of narrative and rhetorical theory when analyzing communication between providers and their patients.
Offered: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:00 - 9:50 AM
CMST394-004 / HCOM450: Health Campaigns
Instructor: Crystal Daugherty
Prerequisite: CMST 403 and junior standing
This course is designed to introduce students to health campaign planning, implementation and evaluation. Working in teams, the students will design, implement and evaluate a campaign for an outside client organization.
Offered: Online
CSC 394-001: Teaching Assistantship
Instructor: Maureen Doyle
Prerequisite: Department Permission
Offered: TBA
CSC 394-002: Human Computer Interaction
Instructor: Nicholas Caporusso
Prerequisite: Department Permission, C or Better in INF 286 OR CSC 301
Explores frontiers of interaction with machines by analyzing novel paradigms, non-conventional I/O devices, tightly-coupled interfaces; applications of cyber-physical systems (e.g., brain-computer interfaces, wearable devices, assistive technology); students experience, imagine, and realize systems for enhancing users' interaction with the world based on the current state of the art and future trends.
Offered: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:40 - 2:55 PM
DSC 394-001: Data Science for Non-DSC Majors
Instructor: Qi Li & Seth A. Adjei
Prerequisite: None
Intermediate level topic in data science.
Offered: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 1:00 - 1:50 PM
CIT 394-001: Teaching Assistantship
Instructor: Maureen Doyle
Prerequisite: Department Permission
Offered: TBA
CIT 394-002: Human Computer Interaction
Instructor: Nicholas Caporusso
Prerequisite: Department Permission, C or Better in INF 286 OR CSC 301
Explores frontiers of interaction with machines by analyzing novel paradigms, non-conventional I/O devices, tightly-coupled interfaces; applications of cyber-physical systems (e.g., brain-computer interfaces, wearable devices, assistive technology); students experience, imagine, and realize systems for enhancing users' interaction with the world based on the current state of the art and future trends.
Offered: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:40 - 2:55 PM
STA 419-001: Applied Multivariate Analysis
Instructor: Jacqueline Wroughton
Prerequisite: STA 360 OR STA 314 OR STA 316 OR STA 327
In this course we cover multivariate plots for individuals, principal component analysis, factor analysis, clustering, discriminant analysis, and Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA).
Offered: Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:50 AM - 12:05 PM
