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DFX 394 - 001: Special Topics - Digital Illustration

Instructor: Nicholas Brummer

Prerequisite: Junior Standing - Photoshop Experience (DFX 221 or SOTA Equivalent)

Special Topics – Digital Illustration will explore tools and techniques for professional digital illustration for games, cover art, comics, design and conceptual art.  A heavy focus will be on the technical aspects of composition, color, design, methodology, image development, tool functionality and best practices for document set up.  This course will also cover development of style and storytelling.

Offered: Tuesdays, 6:15-9:00 PM

JOU 394/HNR 322:  Special Topics in Journalism: True Crime

Instructor: Dr. Stacie Jankowski

Prerequisite: CMST 101 OR CMST 110 OR JOU 110 OR HNR 101 and HNR 102

From scores of recent serial killer documentaries rehashing the crimes of days past to the hundreds of memes that flooded social media after the arrests of notorious alleged perpetrators, it may feel like true crime is a genre that has exploded in recent days. Our society’s obsession with stories of murder and mayhem isn’t new – it goes back centuries. This course examines the genre of true crime throughout its many iterations, such as journalism, entertainment, television, documentary, and podcast. We will investigate how our texts frame the victims, perpetrators, investigators, communities, and storytellers. We will attempt to understand our society’s obsession with true crime — whether we watch in morbid curiosity, in pleasure, in catharsis, or even in preparation for self-preservation. We’ll discuss the ethics of producing and consuming true crime. We’ll consider the ways true crime reveals our culture — how we stereotype others, how we envision the challenges of our society, and how we understand the human experience.

Offered: Tuesday and Thursday, 9:25am– 10:40 a.m. 

CYS 330 - 001: Introduction to Ethical Hacking

Instructor: Nazmus Sadat

Prerequisite: CIT 285

Discover vulnerabilities in computers, networks, and services.   Understand the procedures and tools used for exploiting weaknesses, escalating privilege, and lateral movement. Perform network, operating system, and application penetration testing. Be able to harden the security of computer systems including applications and networks.

Offered: Tuesday and Thursday, 3:05-4:20 PM

CIT 381 - 001: Raspberry PI Based IoT

Instructor: Kenneth Roth

Prerequisite: C- or better in INF 120

Use of the Raspberry PI and Python to monitor, measure and control devices in the physical world. Make use of the Internet to obtain additional data for better local decisions or transport of data from the device.

Offered: Monday, 6:15-9:00 PM

CSC/DSC/ASE 394 - 001: Software Engineering and IoT System Development

Instructor: Dr. Samuel Cho

Prerequisite: CSC 260 (Java Programming) or equivalent.

This course aims to teach students how to use software engineering principles and patterns to solve the Internet of Things (IoT) problems. In this course, students learn how to make IoT applications through software (such as programming) and hardware (such as embedded system development) development in a team. In the development of IoT systems, students can effectively understand how to build embedded systems with communication and sensor capabilities using software engineering ideas and tools.

Offered: Monday and Wednesday, 2:00-3:15 PM

CSC 464 - 001: Design and Analysis of Algoritms

Instructor: Dr. Yangyang Tao

Prerequisite: C- or better in CSC 364 and MAT 385.

Proofs of time and space bounds on important algorithms; advanced algorithms on graphs, sequences and sets; divide-and-conquer and dynamic programming; randomized algorithms; parallel algorithms. 

Offered: Tuesday and Thursday, 10:50AM-12:05PM

EMB 397: Projects - SMC Client Productions

Instructor: Prof. Tracy Songer

PREREQ or COREQ: EMB 201 and Consent of instructor

In this course, you will work as part of the “SMC Creative”, a student led production group that partners with the Underground Agency from the Haile School of Business. You are the creatives that work with the marketing and branding team to produce high quality work for regional clients. This real-world experience shows you the partnerships and work flow you can expect when working in the commercial production field.

Offered: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:25-10:40 AM

EMB 495 – Study Abroad England/France

Instructor: Prof. John Gibson

PREREQ: Consent of instructor

Our topic is “Historical Narrative and Media,” and we will be looking at a variety of films, tv shows, video games and music / music videos prior to (and after) travel, related to fictional narratives in media. Prior to travel, we will focus specifically on WWII narrative, as we will be visiting London, Paris, and Normandy/Bayeux. This course does require travel abroad over Spring Break.

Offered: Mondays, 6:15-9:00 PM

JOU 394 – Special Topics, Sports Media

Instructor: Prof. Butch Maier

PREREQ: CMST 101 or CMST 110 or (HNR 101 and HNR 102) or JOU 110 or instructor approval

This course teaches the fundamentals of gathering, organizing, evaluating and writing sports news in accepted professional style across media platforms.By the conclusion of the course, students will learn:

1. To produce sports news accurately, fairly and under deadline situations acrossmultiple media platforms.

2. To collect, comprehend, analyze, synthesize and critically incorporate source materialsgathered from research, observation and interviews.

3. To comprehend and apply mobile journalism strategies in order to deliver sports newsthrough social, video, audio and digital applications for websites, phones, apps and otheremerging media.

4. To create sports reports that are well-organized, focused and cohesive, and that applyproper use of Associated Press Style, grammar, spelling and word usage.

5. To comprehend legal and ethical issues affecting sports media professionals.

6. To comprehend strategies, rules, terminology and practices for covering multiple sports.

Offered: Online Asynchronous 16-weeks