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CS 0048 - DATA STRUCTS & FILES APPLICATNS
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
An application course to accompany data structures and files.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: CS 0458
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CS 0081 - COMPUTER LITERACY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A survey course designed for students not majoring in computer science. Provides an overview of the components of a computer system, including hardware, operating systems, and application software. Includes coverage of processing fundamentals; storage, input/output, and networking technologies; and internet fundamentals. Lab sessions provide a hands-on introduction to office productivity software including word processing, spreadsheets, micro databases, and presentation graphics, as well as an introduction to web page creation using HTML and FrontPage. After receiving credit with a grade of c or higher for introduction to computer science programming (CS 0100) or any higher numbered computer science course, students may not enroll in or receive credit (or equivalent transfer credits) for this course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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CS 0082 - CS ASSISTANTSHIP NONMAJORS
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to accommodate students that are not computer science majors who wish to participate in laboratory consulting, teaching projects and other meaningful CS activities on campus.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
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CS 0100 - PERSPECTIVES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an entry level course for computer science majors. It presents an overview of the field for the benefit of those who will be pursuing in-depth studies related to many of the topics presented. These topics will include, among others, considerations of computer hardware and software, problem-solving techniques, elementary data structures, binary data representation, data communications, as well as the history and social implications of computerization.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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CS 0406 - DISCRETE MATH 2 & STATS FOR CS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is the sequel to discrete math 1. One-half of the course will be devoted to probability and statistics and include topics in probability, combinatorics, elementary laws of means, variances and standard deviations, expected values and descriptive statistics. The remainder of the course will be devoted to advanced topics in discrete math and will include proof techniques, induction, quantifiers, recurrence relations, algebraic structures, finite state machines, turning machines, and formal languages.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0401
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CS 0410 - INTRO TO COMPTR SCI PRGM APPLC
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
An application course to accompany introduction to computer science programming lecture.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0100 and MATH 0401; CREQ: CS 0411
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CS 0411 - INTRO COMPUTER SCI PROGRMMNG
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is an introduction to the concepts, techniques and tools of computer science. It is designed for those students who are intending to major in that discipline. The course is to emphasize fundamental approaches to problem analysis, algorithm development and top-down program design. In so doing, the student is to gain a thorough working knowledge of an exemplary programming language and to become thoroughly familiar with the Pitt computing environment.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0100 and MATH 0401; CREQ: CS 0410
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CS 0417 - INTERMEDIATE PROGRAMMING USING JAVA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This intermediate programming course for non-CS majors will emphasize object-oriented design and programming. Object-oriented concepts such as data encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism will be explored and implemented by students using predefined classes and by creating their own classes. Graphical user interfaces and event handling will also be covered. The programming language that will serve as the basis for this course will be java.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (CS 0410 and 0411) or (CS 0015 and 0016) or ET 0031
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CS 0455 - ALGORITHMS AND INFORMATION STRUCTURES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will emphasize the study of the most commonly used algorithms and their complexities along with basic data structures with emphasis on stacks, queues, trees, lists, and graphs and their implementation. Algorithms will incorporate discrete mathematical structures for solving software problems.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0410 and 0411 and (CS 0406 or MATH 1012) or (CS 0417 and EE 0445); CREQ: CS 0045
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CS 0456 - COMPUTER SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Emphasis is on providing the student with a basic exposure to the Unix operating system and computer architecture with assembly language programming. Also, the non-object oriented features of the c++ programming language are presented.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0410 and 0411 and (CS 0406 or MATH 1012); CREQ: CS 0046
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CS 0457 - ADVANCED PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Emphasis will be placed on the advanced features of c++ including stream I/O, object-orientation with classes, generic programming units and exception handling. The underlying principles of object-oriented design, namely inheritance and polymorphism, will be explored in depth.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0455 and 0456 and 0045 and 0046; CREQ: CS 0047
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CS 0458 - DATA STRUCTURES AND FILES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A study of computer representations of structured data both in main memory and on secondary storage devices, and operations on such data. Topics include: list structures, various advanced data structures, hashing, file structures, and access methods, interaction between main and secondary storage, sorting and searching.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0455 and 0456 and 0045 and 0046; CREQ: 0048
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CS 1132 - CLASSICAL NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Numerical methods for solving mathematical problems on computers. Topics include computer arithmetic, error propagation, solutions to linear equation, interpolation and approximation, numerical differentiation, solutions to nonlinear equations, and solutions to ordinary and partial differential equations.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (MATH 0241 or 0240) and 0401 and CS 0458 and 0048 and 0457 and 0047
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CS 1163 - ADVANCED TOPICS IN CS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Topics which are extensions of upper level CS electives are discussed. The content of this course is in general more advanced and the topics are more rigorous than for topics in computer applications.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0047 and 0048 and 0457 and 0458
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CS 1164 - ADVANCED CS TOPICS & APPLICATNS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Topics which are extensions of upper level CS electives are discussed. The content of this course is in general more advanced and the topics are more rigorous than for topics in computer applications.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0047 and 0048 and 0457 and 0458
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CS 1165 - DIRECTED PROJECT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Participants in a group will implement a useful software system based upon the design conceived in software engineering. Participants will produce a deliverable product including all written associated documentation describing the product and its results.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 1735; CREQ: CS 1736
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CS 1171 - COMPUTER SCIENCE ASSISTANTSHIP
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to accommodate students who wish to participate in laboratory consulting, teaching projects, and software systems implementations not associated with any other meaningful computer science-related activities on campus.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
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CS 1550 - INTRODUCTION TO OPERATING SYSTEMS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to basic concepts of operating systems, common to most computer systems, which interfaces the machine with upper-level programs. This course will introduce processes as processing unit, process management, concurrency, communication, memory management and protection, and file systems.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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CS 1713 - ALGORITHM DESIGN AND ANALYSIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will introduce topics related to the design and analysis of algorithms. Topics include 0-notation, recurrence relations, divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, graph algorithms, advanced data structures and NP completeness.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0047 and 0048 and 0457 and 0458
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CS 1720 - PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Several programming languages will be studied from a programming (rather than an implementation) point of view. The study of diverse programming languages will exemplify differing approaches to concepts such as scope of decelerating, storage allocation, data structure variety, binding times, and control structures.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0047 and 0048 and 0457 and 0458
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CS 1735 - SOFTWARE DESIGN METHODOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Construction of large computerized systems proceeds through the stages of requirements analysis, specification, and implementation. This course deals with requirements analysis and specification. Emphasis is on methodologies for improving the reliability of specifications; i.e. On executable specifications and systems prototypes.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0047 and 0048 and 0457 and 0458
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CS 1736 - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Software engineering is a team discipline. The purpose of this course is to introduce the principles of software engineering, and to provide experience in teamwork. The course is structured around a major project, which is taken through the stages of cost estimation, requirements specification, design and implementation, and testing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 1735; CREQ: CS 1165
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CS 1760 - ADVANCED OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING AND DESIGN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This upper-level course consists of examining high-level aspects of the object-oriented programming paradigm. This examination includes both the theoretical and the practical aspects as well as current programming practices. The course will also involve studying a particular object-oriented language or languages.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0047 and 0048 and 0457 and 0458
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CS 1762 - WEB PROGRAMMING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This upper-level course consists of web application programming. Emphasis will be given to modern web programming languages in order to develop dynamic web-database applications. Topics will include client-side scripting, server-side programming, introduction to databases, and web application security.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0047 and 0048 and 0457 and 0458
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CS 1765 - DATA BASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The objective of this course is to provide an in-depth knowledge of database systems designs. Thus, the emphasis is on how to model data and use available database management systems (DBMS) effectively. Towards this end, relational structure is discussed in great detail and hierarchical and network data structures are also presented. Object-oriented database technology is also discussed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0047 and 0048 and 0457 and 0458
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CS 1766 - INTRODUCTION COMPUTER GRAPHICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The basic concepts, tools and techniques of computer graphics are described, and the fundamental transformations of scaling, translation, rotation, windowing and clipping are presented. Particular emphasis will be placed on new development in microcomputer graphics.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0047 and 0048 and 0457 and 0458
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CS 1783 - ARTIFICIAL INTELLGNC PROGRAMMING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
We discuss the data structures, control structures, and paradigms of artificial intelligence programming. Topics include abstract data types, knowledge structuring, recursive programming, discrimination nets, agenda control, deductive information retrieval, slotfiller databases, sophisticated data dependencies, closure-based programs, and expert systems. We discuss several application areas.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0047 and 0048 and 0457 and 0458
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CS 1792 - COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An examination of the basic principles of operating system design and implementation. Topics will include: architecture of computer systems; concurrency; resource management; file systems; security; performance measurement and evaluation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0047 and 0048 and 0457 and 0458
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CS 1793 - COMPUTER ARCHITCTR & ORGANIZTN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Examination of computer architecture and hardware system organization. Topics include: CPU organization, sequential and microprogrammed control, instruction set implementation, memory organization, input/output structure, peripherals and interfacing, and computer communications.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0047 and 0048 and 0457 and 0458
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CS 1903 - INTERNSHIP
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
This course places the student in an “on-the-job” setting in which he/she receives practical experience in a supervised training environment.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
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CS 1904 - DIRECTED STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to give students the opportunity to design a plan of study to be agreed upon by the student and a supervising faculty member.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ECED 0010 - DIRECTED TUTORING
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
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ECED 0012 - DIRECTED STUDY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
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ECED 1101 - FOUNDATIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course has several distinct components, foundations of early childhood education, curriculum models and approaches, and assessment and instructional practices in early childhood education. Facilities management, development, and administration of early childhood programs will be introduced. In addition, professionalism in the field of early childhood education will be stressed
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0230 and Admisison to upper level.
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ECED 1111 - EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION FIELD PRACTICUM 1
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 2
This course involves both classroom time and field experiences in a pre-kindergarten through 4th grade. The major emphasis in this course is devoted to creative expression in early childhood education. Students are expected to spend one day per week in a classroom for seven to eight weeks. Students will also be given extensive experiences with students who have special needs.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: Admission to upper level
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ECED 1112 - EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCTION FIELD PRACTICUM 2
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 2
This course involves both classroom time and field experiences in a pre-kindergarten through 4th grade. It is the second of three field experiences prior to student teaching. The focus of this course is classroom management strategies. Students are expected to be able to develop an effective learning environment. Specific requirements related to this course will be distributed at the beginning of the term. Students are expected to spend one day per week in a classroom for seven to eight weeks. Students will also be given extensive experiences with students who have special needs.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECED 1111 and admission to upper level
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ECED 1113 - EARLY CHILDHOOLD EDUCATION FIELD PRACTICUM 3
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 2
This course involves both classroom time and field experiences in a pre-kindergarten through 4th grade. It is the third of three field experiences prior to student teaching. The foci of this course are curriculum, assessment, and professional collaboration. Specific requirements related to this course will be distributed at the beginning of the term. Students are expected to spend one day per week in a classroom for seven to eight weeks. Students will also be given extensive experiences with students who have special needs.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECED 1112 and admission to upper level
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ECED 1123 - WRITING DEVELOPMENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals with the writing process in young children and how these processes evolve in conjunction with language acquisition and development. In addition, approaches for facilitating writing process development and scaffolding on reading and speaking functions of young children’s language use will be emphasized.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECED 1151 and admission to upper level
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ECED 1142 - EMERGENT LITERACY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course has two distinct components. The first part of the course deals with instructional and assessment strategies for young children in stages of emergent literacy. The second part of the course introduces early childhood education majors to literature for emergent readers. Strategies for introducing emergent readers to a variety of literacy genres will be emphasized..
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: Admission to upper level
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ECED 1151 - EARLY LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals with literacy development in the early years. Early childhood literacy education will be focused upon. Promotion of print-rich environments and interactive literacy experiences will be explored. Language and literacy acquisition will be introduced. In addition, selection and utilization of quality children’s literature in the early childhood classroom will be addressed..
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0230 and admission to upper level
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ECED 1153 - LITERACY IN THE PRIMARY GRADES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course emphasizes reading and writing as developmental cognitive processes. Based on that understanding, students will explore the types of instruction, materials, and resources that can support children in learning about language and print. Students will be introduced to learning theories, research, philosophies, and instructional practices related to literacy in the primary grades, from kindergarten through grade three.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: Admission to upper level
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ECED 1154 - DIFFERENTIATED LITERACY INSTRUCTION ACROSS THE CONTENT AREAS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course emphasizes differentiation in literacy instruction. Students will be introduced to learning theories, research, philosophies, and instructional practices related to a developmental approach to teaching reading and writing in early childhood education. Specifically, students will learn how to assess their students, analyze assessments, and teach to learners’ strengths and needs.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: Admission to upper level
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ECED 1162 - INTEGRATING THE CREATIVE ARTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to help students learn to effectively integrate art, drama, and other forms of creative expression into the early childhood classroom.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: Admission to upper level
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ECED 1164 - EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDENT TEACHING
Minimum Credits: 14
Maximum Credits: 14
This is a full-time experience for teacher certification candidates in a student teaching center at an elementary school in grades PreK-4. It provides opportunities to observe, plan, conduct, and assess instruction.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Clinical
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ECED 1171 - SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed help students develop the content, processes, and methodology necessary to teach pre-K - 4 science, technology, and health concepts. Students will demonstrate specific competencies related to planning, implementation, and evaluation of effective classroom instruction.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: NATSC 0080 and admission to upper level
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ECED 1172 - MATHEMATICS FOUNDATIONS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to provide the theoretical background, the pedagogical and psychological concepts, and the field-based experience necessary for planning, implementing, and assessing a numbers and mathematics program in a contemporary early childhood setting. Students will be introduced to a variety of instructional approaches and materials with particular emphasis on teaching about numbers and mathematics through problem solving and active learning.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0071 and 0080 and admission to upper level
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ECED 1173 - SOCIAL STUDIES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to provide the theoretical background, the pedagogical and psychological concepts, and the field-based experience necessary for planning, implementing, and assessing a social studies program in a contemporary early childhood setting. Students will be introduced to a variety of instructional approaches for facilitating the learning of content and skills drawn from the social sciences and for integrating this learning with other areas of the curriculum.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: GEOG 0810 and HIST 0610 or 0620, and admission to upper level
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ECED 1174 - PRE-PRIMARY STUDENT TEACHING
Minimum Credits: 7
Maximum Credits: 7
This is a full-time experience for teacher-certification candidates in a student-teaching center at a pre-school. It provides opportunities to observe, plan, conduct, and assess instruction in a pre-school setting with professional backup from University supervisors and experienced master teachers. Pre-school sites are within 15 to 20 miles from the college; students are placed in established sites only
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECED 1113 and admission to upper level
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ECED 1183 - ENGAGING YOUNG CHILDREN IN LEARNING (C&I)
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is taken during the term just prior to student teaching. Students are expected to use information learned in earlier courses and apply it to the creation of developmentally appropriate early childhood curriculum and instruction. Emphasis will be placed on issues if safety, guidance, organization, assessment, and the creation of materials and activities that foster the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of children in early childhood education.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECED 1112 and admission to upper level
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ECED 1184 - PRIMARY STUDENT TEACHING
Minimum Credits: 7
Maximum Credits: 7
This is a full-time experience for teacher-certification candidates in a student-teaching center at an elementary school, grades k - 4. It provides opportunities to observe, plan, conduct, and assess instruction in an elementary school setting with professional backup from University supervisors and experienced master teachers. School sites are within 15 to 20 miles from the college; students are placed in established sites only. This course is speaking enhanced.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECED 1113 and admission to upper level
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ECED 1190 - FAMILY AND SCHOOL COLLABORATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course pertains to family, school, and community collaboration partnerships. Establishing and maintaining partnerships with families will be addressed. Supporting the development of problem-solving strategies and fostering participation of children in the academic and social context of the classroom will be explored. Involving families and maintaining instructional goals and objectives with Pennsylvania’s learning standards will be introduced.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: Admission to upper level
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ECED 1193 - PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is directed at addressing the professional development of the teacher. Topics covered include classroom management, school law, teaching styles, certification, tenure, school environment, curriculum, professional associations, and the teaching-learning environment. The course will make use of case studies and other approaches to information on the role of being a classroom teacher. The course is designed to provide finishing preparation for student teaching and the necessary knowledge and skills to begin a successful teaching career.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECED 1112 and admission to upper level
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ECED 1194 - ECED STUDENT TEACHING SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This course is designed to provide the student teacher with basic elements of professional development and career opportunities. Emphasis is on professionalism, interviewing, rsums, portfolios, professional meetings, and other appropriate topics.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: CREQ: ECED 1174 or ECED 1184 or SPLED 1174
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ECED 1196 - EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDENT TEACHING SEMINAR - US
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Designed to provide the student teacher with the basic elements of professional development and career opportunities. Emphasis is on professionalism and ethical leadership, interviewing, resume, portfolios, reflective practice, and other appropriate topics. Must be taken during student teaching.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ECED 1197 - EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDENT TEACHING SEMINAR ABROAD
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ECON 0105 - INTRO MICROECONOMIC THEORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Uses basic economic principles to explain how markets work, how firms and consumers make decisions, how they interact in product and factor markets, and how these markets determine prices, output, wages, and profits. These principles are also used to analyze issues of current concern in public policy and to decide whether, when, and how government should intervene in the operation of the market.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ECON 0115 - INTRO TO MACROECONOMIC THEORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Applies the basic principles of economics to the problems of instability associated with business cycles, unemployment, and inflation and the problem of economic growth, and examines the role of government in promoting stability and economic growth.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ECON 0281 - INTRODUCTION TO MONEY & BANKING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Covers the role of money and financial intermediaries in the U.S. Economy and examines what role government has played and should play as regulator of the financial sector and money supply.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECON 0115 or 0110
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ECON 0401 - LABOR AND THE ECONOMY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introductory survey of contemporary labor market developments and issues. Readings and lectures emphasize an analytical approach supplemented by historical and institutional applications.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECON 0105 or 0100
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ECON 0501 - INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to the basic issues of international economics and to the historical evolution and institutional structure of the international economy. Topics include mercantilism, comparative advantage as a basis for trade, the impact of trade on income distribution, the evolution of the international financial system, and the working of the international gold standard.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECON 0105 or 0100
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ECON 1011 - AMERICAN ECONOMIC HISTORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A survey of American economic growth from colonial times to the new deal and beyond. Particular attention is paid to economic policy. Topics include mercantilism and the origins of the revolution, the economic dimension of the constitution, Jacksonian Democracy and the bank war, the economics of slavery, the Civil War and reconstruction, tariff policy and industrialization, populism and progressivism, and the business cycle in historical perspective.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECON (0105 or 0100) or (0115 or 0110)
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ECON 1101 - INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An in-depth examination of price theory. Topics include theories of consumer behavior, production theory, the theory of the firm and market behavior, income distribution theory, and general equilibrium theory.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0121 or 0221 and Econ 0105 or 0100
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ECON 1111 - INTERMEDIATE MACROECONOMICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A rigorous treatment of macroeconomic problems such as the business cycle, inflation, and unemployment. Topics include the microeconomic foundations of aggregate consumption and savings behavior, equilibrium and disequilibrium models of the macroeconomy, rational expectations and real business cycles, cycle models, and growth theory.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECON (0115 or 0110) and MATH (0121 or 0120) or (0221 or 0220) or (0231 or 0230)
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ECON 1141 - ECONOMIC FORECASTING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Regression and time series techniques applied to forecasting financial and macroeconomic variables such as interest rates, exchange rates, stock prices, GDP, inflation and unemployment rates.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: STAT 1040
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ECON 1151 - FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Studies in valuation of corporate stocks using fundamental and psychological methods, measurement of risk, and technical analysis.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECON (0115 or 0110) and STAT 1040
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ECON 1370 - ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Examines the relationship between the economy and the environment, broadly defined. The theory of externalities and the role of property rights are emphasized in developing a framework for evaluating public policy proposals affecting the environment.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECON 0105 or 0100
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ECON 1471 - LAW AND ECONOMICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the law and legal rules from an economic perspective and applies economic reasoning to a number of legal topics such as property rights, contracts, torts, the efficiency of the common law, and crime.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECON 0105 or 0100
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ECON 1810 - SPECIAL TOPICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Current topics of particular interest to economics majors are discussed and analyzed in a seminar-style format.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ECON 1830 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
Students must undertake a defined task of research under the direct supervision of a faculty member, the fruits of which are embodied in a thesis, extended paper, or other appropriate form.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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EDPSY 0006 - INTRO TO EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Deals with the psychological aspects of the educational process. Theories and research from both psychology and educational psychology are examined in the areas of cognitive and social development, individual differences, culture, cognitive processes, learning, motivation, classroom management, and measurement.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0200 or 0010
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EDPSY 0011 - DIRECTED PRACTICUM IN EDPSY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Provides education and other majors the opportunity to actively assist a faculty member on teaching or curriculum projects.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
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EDPSY 0013 - DIRECTED STUDY IN PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Provides education and other majors the opportunity to actively assist a faculty member on research projects.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
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EDPSY 1021 - STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This provides an introduction to the field of special education for children and adolescents. It covers the history of special education and how the field has developed. Special needs that are covered include learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, speech and language disorders, sensory impairments, severe emotional disorders, neurological disorders, autism, physical disabilities, health impairments, traumatic brain injury, multiple disabilities, and giftedness. Topics include the characteristics of students with special needs, identification and assessment, making appropriate adaptations and accommodations, and other educational practices.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0200
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EDPSY 1025 - INCLUSION STRATEGIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Designed primarily for pre-service teachers, this course familiarizes students with basic strategies for making age-appropriate accommodations and adaptations for students with special needs in the inclusion classroom. The course provides students with both general adaptation and accommodation strategies and more focused strategies most appropriate for specific special needs populations.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0200 and EDPSY 1021
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EDPSY 1026 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Designed primarily for pre-service teachers, this course familiarizes students with basic materials, resources, and strategies for making appropriate adaptations and accommodations in the classroom for students whose first language is not English. The course will also cover the characteristics of English language learners and methods for performing effective non-discriminatory assessment.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: LVL: Sophomore level or higher
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EDPSY 1121 - EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT FOR INCLUSION CLASSROOM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed for pre-service and in-service teachers. Topics include basic descriptive statistics, including measures of central tendency, variation, and form; correlation; and graphing data. The course will also cover an introduction to both classical and recent measurement theory, including reliability and validity, testing, and evaluation. The emphasis will be on developing and evaluating classroom testing methods.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0001 or Math Placement Score (46 or greater) and EDPSY 0006
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EE 0031 - LINEAR CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The analysis of linear circuits. Electric variables and circuit elements; Kirchhoff’s and Ohm’s law; mesh and node equations; Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits; first and second-order circuits; time domain analysis.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS 0152 or 0175 and MATH 0230 or 0235 or 0150 or 0231; CREQ: EE 0500 or JME-BSE Academic Plan
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EE 0132 - DIGITAL LOGIC
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduction to digital systems, Boolean algebra, minimization of logic functions, combinational and sequential circuit design.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS 0152 or 0175 and MATH 0230 or 0235 or 0150 or 0231; CREQ: EE 0500
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EE 0142 - COMPUTER ORGANIZATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores fundamental concepts and tools of digital system design, basic computer architecture, sequential circuit design techniques, simulation, modelling, hardware description languages; and introduction to programmable logic devices. It also introduces formats for processor instructions, data representations and error detection codes, memory and input & outputs.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0132; CREQ: EE 0501
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EE 0257 - ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Analysis and design of diode circuits, bipolar junction transistor and field effect transistor circuits, power supply circuits, and power amplifiers. This also introduces bias stability analysis, operational amplifier circuits, CMOS inverters, and other linear circuits.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0031; CREQ: EE 0501
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EE 0445 - PROGRAMMING AND INTRODUCTION TO DATA STRUCTURES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The student is exposed to a variety of computer based problem solving and algorithm developments in engineering field. Typical problems include numerical methods, modeling, simulation, computer graphics, linear programming, and statistical analysis. The course also covers basic data structures, programming techniques including recursion, memory management, functional scopes, variable referencing, and basic search and sort methods.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0221 and ENGR 0018
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EE 0500 - DIGITAL AND CIRCUITS LAB
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Analysis and experiments on introductory digital and electrical circuits.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: CREQ: EE 0132
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EE 0501 - DIGITAL & ELECTRONICS LABORATORY
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This course introduces basic implementation of digital circuits, and techniques in simulation and verification. Systems composed of discrete devices, logic gates, combinatorial circuits, and sequential circuits and systems are designed, simulated, built and tested. This course also explores and experiments on characteristic of transistors and electronic devices and circuits such as amplifiers, diodes, rectifiers, and other solid state devices.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Laboratory
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0132 and EE 0031; CREQ: EE 0142 and 0257
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EE 1059 - ELECTROMAGNETICS LABORATORY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This laboratory supports the concepts introduced in Electromagnets.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: CREQ: EE 1259
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EE 1201 - ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENTS AND CIRCUITS LABORATORY
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This laboratory course explores circuits and electronic measurements including experiments on the use of electronic test equipment. Students are exposed to a variety of linear and non-linear devices and their characteristics, and operational amplifier basics. Time and frequency domain methodologies are also introduced. This course has a theory class and a lab class.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0031
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EE 1247 - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course covers electrical properties of semiconductor theory, energy levels, bipolar junction and field effect transistors, and diodes. The course introduces solid state devices such as rectifiers, sensors, small signal amplifiers, and low and high power solid state devices. Students are exposed to semiconductor manufacturing process, defect and failure mechanisms, and current state of technology.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0031; CREQ: EE 0257
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EE 1259 - ELECTROMAGNETICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces the laws of physics and mathematical theorems relevant to Maxwells equations and waves. It explores uniform plane waves, reflection and transmission, wave guides and resonators, and transmission lines. The course covers electrostatic fields and magneto-static fields along with forces and energy.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS 0152 and MATH 1271 and MATH 0231 and EE 0031; CREQ: EE 1059
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EE 1552 - SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course covers signal representation, continuous time systems, fourier series, fourier transform, laplace transform, and discrete time system analysis.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0031 and MATH 0231
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EE 1771 - ELECTRIC MACHINES
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
Application of magneto-statics to the design of magnetic circuits, actuators, sensors and rotating electric machines. Performance characteristics of transformers, induction machines, synchronous machines and dc machines. This course includes a 1 credit laboratory component.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0031
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EET 0010 - BASIC ELEC TECHNLGY LABORATORY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Lab will accompany circuits 1 - basic electrical technology.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: EET 0110
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EET 0021 - ELECTRONICS 1 LABORATORY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Lab will accompany electronics 1.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: EET 0010 and 0110; CREQ: EET 0121
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EET 0110 - CIRCUITS 1 BASIC ELEC TECHNLGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduction to circuit elements; resistance, inductance, capacitance, Kirchhoff’s voltage and current laws; basic techniques of DC and AC circuits analysis, loop and node equations; AC network problems, three-phase AC, magnetics, and transformers.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: (PHYS 0152 or 0175) and 0153 and MATH 0231 or 0230
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EET 0111 - CIRCUITS 2
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
Continuation of introductory circuit concepts with emphasis on transient analysis, Laplace transforms, Fourier analysis.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: EET 0110 and 0010; CREQ: MATH 1035
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EET 0121 - ELECTRONICS 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Basic theoretical and practical principles of solid-state devices and their application to fundamental electronic circuits, such as power supplies, small-signal amplifiers, emphasis is placed on analysis and design of linear circuits.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: EET 0110 and 0010; CREQ: EET 0021
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EET 1022 - ELECTRONICS 2 LABORATORY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Lab will accompany electronics 2.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: EET 0021; CREQ: EET 1122
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EET 1032 - EMBEDDED SYSTEMS LABORATORY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Lab will accompany microprocessors.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: EET 1061 and 1161; CREQ: EET 1132
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EET 1042 - POWER AND MACHINERY LABORATORY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Lab will accompany power and machinery.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: EET 0010 and 0110; CREQ: EET 1142
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EET 1051 - ELECTRICAL MACHINES LABORATORY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Lab will accompany electrical machines.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: EET 0010 and 0110; CREQ: EET 1151
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EET 1052 - POWER SYSTEMS 1 LABORATORY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Lab will accompany power systems 1.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: EET 1151 and 1051; CREQ: EET 1152
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EET 1061 - DIGITAL ELECTRONICS LABORATORY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Lab will accompany digital electronics.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: EET 0021; CREQ: EET 1161
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