CMST394-001: Topic: Rhetoric of Documentary Film
Instructor: Steven Weiss
Prerequisites: Not recommended for freshmen
Nonfiction, imagery, and argument—these three essential components of communication converge in documentary film, making it an ideal way to introduce the fundamentals of rhetoric. A documentary is, after all, someone’s claim that the audience should accept a point of view, initiate an action, commit to a belief or value, or understand the ethics of a policy or decision. To achieve this, the documentary filmmaker must understand the audience and the appropriate appeals to reach that audience. The director must respond to a rhetorical situation. All in all, documentaries build on the world we see while at the same time focusing on substantive, often controversial, issues that affect our lives. To understand their rhetorical structure and content—the arguments they make—is to grasp the essence of what this film genre is all about.
Offered: MWF 10:00 - 10:50 am
CMST394 - 002: Health Campaigns (Cross-Listed with HCOM 450)
Instructor: Manu Pokharel
Prerequisites: CMST403 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
CMST394 - 003: Patient-Provider Communication
Instructor: Whittney Hope Darnell
Prerequisites: CMST 101 or 110; junior standing or instructor permission
This class uses a systematic and thoughtful instructional approach aimed at increasing students’ awareness and ability to navigate health interactions. I recognize that students are patients, caregivers, and may even be working or studying in a health-related field already, and therefore I invite and encourage students to bring their lived-experience and questions into the classroom. Health communication plays an integral part in achieving health outcomes. Understanding the variables and factors that influence our health related communication is vital when building constructive relationships with providers throughout the life course. In addition, we will explore the impact of cultural, relational and regulatory factors that facilitate or restrict communication between patients and their providers.
Offered: Online
MIN 250-001: Analog Game Design
Instructor: Lex Pulos
Prerequisites: MIN 240 or consent of instructor
This course provides practical instruction in the design and analysis of non-digital games. In teams, students will design, develop, and thoroughly test their original games to understand the interaction and evolution of game rules, mechanics, themes and structures. Special focus: During the 2019 course the class will partner with Health Innovations to create games around healthy relationships for YA populations. Students will have the opportunity to professionally publish their games, present at local and national conventions and top games will be distributed to local high schools.
Offered: Wednesday 2:00 - 4:45 PM
MIN 394-001: New Media Law and Ethics
Instructor: Robert Bodle
Prerequisites: Junior Standing
This course is designed as a series of case studies used to critically reflect on the legal and ethical issues in new media, the Internet, information systems, computers, and digital culture. Concepts such as privacy, intellectual property, free speech and Internet governance have evolved. This course will provide a unique opportunity to examine these areas of inquiry, while engaging with the new and emerging issues and debates from different legal and ethical approaches.
Offered: Wednesday 6:15 - 9:00 PM
POP 394: Popular Culture and Politics
Instructor: Yasue Kuwahara
Prerequisites: None
Popular culture and politics intersect at many points. Some of these intersections include movies, books, music, television, and various kinds of Internet content. While only a small portion of the US population keeps themselves informed about current events, especially in terms of the government, most Americans are in some way informed by popular culture. This course provides an examination of the interplay between popular culture and politics. We will explore both how popular culture in its many forms influences politics and political behavior and how political events and trends in turn shape popular culture.
Special note: This is a COIL (Corporative Online International Learning) course which NKU and its partner university in Japan, Nanzan University, are collaborating on to enhance international communication and understanding. Students will interact and work with their counterparts at Nanzan University online during the semester.
Offered: Online
CSC 394-001: Intermediate Topics: JavaScript Programming
Instructor: Charles Frank
Prerequisites: INF 286 and CSC 260
This topic course covers the essential of JavaScript and JQuery for client-side web development.
Offered: TR 3:05 - 4:20 pm
CSC 394-002: CSC Teaching Assistantship
Instructor: Maureen Doyle
Prerequisite: B or better in class you are TA'ing, to TA INF 120 you must have taken the course within the past year
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.
Offered: Varies
CSC 499: CSC ACM Programming Team Training
Instructor: Gary Newell
Prerequisites: Instructor Permission
Offered: Monday 3 - 5 pm
CIT 394-002: CSC Teaching Assistantship
Instructor: Maureen Doyle
Prerequisite: B or better in class you are TA'ing, to TA INF 120 you must have taken the course within the past year
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.
Offered: Varies
CIT 394 - 001: Internet of Things
Instructor: Kenneth David Roth
Prerequisite: INF 120
This three credit course is project oriented with the goal of creating loT devices that make better decisions than can be made standalone. The course is Raspberry PI/Python based, and its topics will include General Purpose Input Output (GPIO), Interface (12C and SPI), variety of sensors (Analog to Digital Convention, Distance, Temperature, Motion, and Camera), Servos, remote sensing, use of internet repositories, and AWS Greengrass. There is a cost of about $155 in equipment (RPI, RPI Camera Parts).
Offered: MW 3:25 - 4:40pm
DSC 394-001: CSC Teaching Assistantship
Instructor: Maureen Doyle
Prerequisite: B or better in class you are TA'ing, to TA INF 120 you must have taken the course within the past year
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.
Offered: Varies
INF 294-001: Introduction to C Programming
Instructor: Samuel Cho
Prerequisite: C- or better in MAT 109 (or higher) and in INF 110 or INF 120 placement
INF 294 will provide students a solid foundation to further explore the possibilities that IoT devices, tools, and environments can offer. IoT aims to connect various intelligent devices to provide services to people. You will learn the C programming language to control micro:bit computers, learning both C and the basics of IoT devices. Through this experience you will understand how to use a low-level programming language and use various features in themicro:Bit (e.g., accelerometer, Bluetooth, sound and LEDs).
Security is a big topic nowadays. By exploring low-level features that C provides, students can understand possible security issues and robust programming skills to prevent them.
This is preparation for CSC 494, Internet of Things (IoT), that will be offered in Fall 2020. Students who have taken this course or CSC 362 will be eligible for CSC 494.
Offered: TR 9:25 - 10:40 am
INF 394: Computational Aesthetics
Instructor: Sookie Cho
Prerequisites: None
In this course, we take a deep dive into computation and aesthetics. We will review art history and discuss modernism, post-modernism, and contemporary arts in order to understand why and how the artists created such works. Then, we will make the creative works by using computer programming as an art medium. We will play with a well-known and artist-friendly programming language called Processing (p5.js), to create art with code. This course is recommended for anyone who is interested in art and is willing to experiment with computing. No background in aesthetics or programming is required.
Offered: Online
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
CSC 494-001: Database Management Systems
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
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.
