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2007-09 Listing

Last Updated: 11/16/2007

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Journalism and Mass Communication 312X. Advanced Techniques in Photojournalism. Cr. 3. Prereq: Jl MC 310 or Jl MC 311X. Chamberlin. Advanced techniques and problem solving for photographers who seek to be members of newsgathering teams. Photographic storytelling, documentaries, visual potential and ethical decision-making in news coverage. Traditional and non-traditional publishing to connect news organizations with audiences. Hands on experience with latest digital imaging technology.

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Landscape Architecture 211X. Digital Design Exploration in Landscape Architecture. (3-0) Cr. 3.  Seeger. Introduction and hands-on exploration of a variety of digital tools used by professional landscape architects for design development and design communication.

Liberal Arts and Sciences 103X. Frontiers of the Discipline. Cr. 1. A series of seminars/workshops highlighting contemporary issues and research in the humanities; communications; biological, physical, and mathematical sciences; and social sciences disciplines. Offered on a satisfactory-fail grading basis only.

Liberal Arts and Sciences 121X. Great Challenges Seminar. Cr. 1-0. Prereq: Enrollment in the College of Liberal and Sciences; for incoming students only   Seminar to provide incoming students an opportunity to attain a broad view of academic life in the context of examining major challenges facing society from local to global scales. Emphasis on group participation, problem solving, synthesis of information from different disciplines, and community building.  Offered on a satisfactory-fail grading basis only.

Liberal Arts and Sciences 125X. Connections. Special Topics. Cr. 1. Cross-disciplinary examination of knowledge and learning in two of three areas:  1) arts and humanities, 2) natural sciences and mathematical disciplines, and 3) social sciences. Requirements include weekly assignments, self-reflection, local field trip, and term project. Offered on a satisfactory-fail grading basis only.

Liberal Arts and Sciences 140X. Advancing Citizenship Together Learning Community Seminar. (1-0) Cr. 1. May be repeated for a maximum of two credits. Prereq: member of ACT Learning Community. Talbert, Bystrom. First semester of required seminar for participants in the ACT (Advancing Citizenship Together) Learning Community. The seminar is designed to build citizenship skills with a focus on womens issues and politics. It includes a service-learning component. Offered on a satisfactory-fail grading basis only.

Liberal Arts and Sciences 160X. Intro to Race and Ethnicity in America . (3-0) Cr. 3. One of two courses linked with the Multicultural Learning Community (MLC). Concepts and methods employed in understanding the social and cultural experiences of the major ethnic groupings in the U.S. “ with explorations primarily of Native, African, Asian and Hispanic Americans.

Liberal Arts and Sciences 161X. Studies in Race and Ethnicity in America. (3-0) Cr. 3. One of two courses linked with the Multicultural Learning Community (MLC). Application of concepts and methods to understanding the social, cultural, historical, and political experiences of the major ethnic minority groupings in the U. S. “ with analysis of cases studies primarily of Native, African, Asian, and Hispanic Americans.

Liberal Arts and Sciences 222X. Leadership Styles and Strategies in a Diverse Society. (Same as W S 222X.) (3-0) Cr. 3. Prereq: sophomore classification. Bystrom. Develop and practice leadership skills through understanding personal leadership styles, leadership theory and communication theory, including how they relate to gender issues and cultural diversity; exploring personality types, communication styles, and leadership styles, networking and developing mentoring relationships; setting goals and participating in leadership opportunities and service.

Liberal Arts and Sciences 488X. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Women and Research. (Same as W S 488X.) Cr. 3. Prereq: Junior Classification. Research on Women and Leadership in content areas – Athletics, Business, Education, Politics and Public Service, and Science and Engineering – following overview of quantitative and qualitative methods and critical analyses of journal articles on women and leadership. Student will work with a faculty mentor in one of five content areas to research, write and present paper. Nonmajor graduate credit.

Linguistics 101X. Introduction to the Study of Linguistics. Cr. 1. Introduction to major figures in linguistics, perspective on language, and applications. Consideration of career and advanced study opportunities. Offered on a satisfactory-fail grading basis only. Not acceptable for LAS General Education Requirement credit.

Linguistics 515X. Statistical Natural Language Processing. (Same as ENGL 515X and HCI 515X.) (2-1) Cr. 3. Prereq: Com S 207; Stat 330 or equivalent. Recommended 219 or 511. Introduction to computational techniques involving human language and speech in applications such as information retrieval and extraction, automatic text categorization, word prediction, intelligent Web search, spelling and grammar checking, speech recognition and synthesis, statistical machine translation, n-grams, POS-tagging, word-sense disambiguation, on-line lexicons and thesauri, markup languages, corpus analysis, and python programming language.

Linguistics 430X. Introduction to Forensic Linguistics. (Same as ENGL 430X). (2-2) Cr. 3. Prereq: 219 or 230; Stat 104. Introduction to techniques used in the analysis of linguistic data involved in legal cases. Analyses employed by forensic linguistics include statistical, mathematical and linguistic techniques to arrive at tan expert decision suitable for presentation in court. Topics include authorship attribution, detecting plagiarism, authorship profiling, statement analysis, and voice recognition.