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CRJU 4521 - Criminal Justice Management
Credits: 3
A focus on issues in the organization and management of criminal justice agencies, including police departments, prosecutors’ offices, courts, jails, prisons, and community corrections.
Prerequisite(s): CRJU 1101 and/or, CRJU 2102 and/or, CRJU 3610
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CRJU 4601 - Special Topics in Criminal Justice
An in-depth study of current topics that are selected, developed and taught by a member of the faculty.
Repeatability up to 9 credit hours
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COMM 1000 - Mass Communications Colloquium
Credits: 2
Entering freshmen take this course as a first-year experience learning opportunity to gain exposure to foundations for college success, campus resources, and journalism and mass communications-specific content as an introduction to the major.
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COMM 2101 - Writing for Multimedia
Credits: 3
This hands-on sampler course introduces students to the definition of news and basic news reporting and writing, including the use of Associated Press style. Students learn basic video scriptwriting and video production. The principles of information-gathering and writing for public relations and advertising, including the news release, are introduced. Students are expected to learn and practice the theories of journalism and public relations according to the highest professional standards.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1101 and ENGL 1102
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COMM 2105 - Mass Media & Society
Credits: 3
General examination of the foundations, organization, control, and current status of the media. Economic and social impact of the media (radio, television, newspapers, books, magazines, and comics) is surveyed. Broad comparisons of the American with foreign media systems are included.
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COMM 2106 - African-Americans in the Media
Credits: 3
A survey of the history, the contributions, representation, and portrayal of African-Americans and other minorities in the media. Assessment of the impact of such portrayal on social, political, and cultural interactions.
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COMM 2107 - Women in the Media
Credits: 3
A survey of the history, the contributions, representation, and portrayal of women in the media. Assessment of the impact of such portrayal on social, political, and cultural interactions.
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COMM 2108 - Strategic Communication Lab
Credits: 1
This laboratory course will expose students to communication strategic thinking, planning, and communication strategy. Particularly, this class will focus on building vital skills and practices that include news release writing, strategy and decision making, media management, and crisis management.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2101 and COMM 2105
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COMM 2109 - Audio & Video Lab
Credits: 1
This lab course is designed to augment student’s practical skills, skills that will benefit them in the MDC curriculum of courses, including video and audio editing, lighting, camera and other equipment usage. The lab also involve students more closely with student media outlets.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2101 and COMM 2105
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COMM 2110 - Media Writing Lab
Credits: 1
This course will reinforce writing skills taught in the journalism track, including Associated Press style, inverted pyramid, extended inverted pyramid, leads and other skills. Students will cover campus events and contribute other stories to Tiger’s Roar. The lab also will involve students more closely with student media outlets.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2101 and COMM 2105
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COMM 2810 - Introduction to Communications Research
Credits: 3
An introduction to social science research concepts and techniques in the study of the mass media. Survey of quantitative research methods in the media situations and media rating services.
Prerequisite(s): Core Area A, COMM 2105
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COMM 3101 - Media Arts & Design
Credits: 3
The development of basic skills in graphics for print and television. The course introduces students to the practice of image making and new technologies. It includes layout, page design, and other graphic elements necessary for public relations and advertising campaigns.
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COMM 3102 - Photography for Multimedia
Credits: 3
This hands-on course teaches the essential skills of making photographic images for journalism applications from print and online text stories to video stories. Skills taught include framing, lighting, angles, action, content and the like.
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COMM 3103 - Social Media Analytics & Strategy
Credits: 3
Students will learn to leverage social media data to draw insights about an organization and its publics, provide actionable, data-driven recommendations and inform social media strategy through hands-on experience analyzing native analytics, using measurements tools, developing evaluation plans, and building and presenting social media analytics reports.
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COMM 3104 - Sports Communication
Credits: 3
This is an introductory course into the field of sports communication. Students will develop an understanding of the sports media industry while combing critical thought with practical sport media management skills. Students will examine the nature and scope of the sports media nexus, as well as develop the skills to manage the media promotion and coverage of sports organizations.
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COMM 3105 - News Writing & Reporting
Credits: 3
The course focuses on real-world beat and specialty news reporting using the techniques including interviewing, observation and data evaluation. Students learn to identify credible information sources including people, documents and online data. They practice representing that information comprehensively, accurately and fairly in text stories and multimedia production.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2101
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COMM 3106 - Special Topics
Credits: 3
Special Topics
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COMM 3107 - Social Media Communication
Credits: 3
This course focuses on effective writing practices for a social media environment for students interested in public relations and strategic communication, journalism, and multimedia and digital communications. Students will learn how to structure and write content that effectively delivers messages while engaging with the audience.
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COMM 3108 - Multimedia Computer Application
Credits: 3
This course will help students understand how to manage and converge multimedia files in mass communications. The course covers file conversion, online survey tools, exporting in professional-standard computer software, basic HTML coding, audio, and video cloud services, multimedia presentations, among other practices. Another unique purpose of this course is to build a digital portfolio.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2101 and COMM 2105
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COMM 3110 - Layout and Design
Credits: 3
This hands-on course introduces students to the concepts, theories and software for designing print and online publications including newspapers, magazines, social media and more. Students apply these theories in the development of multiple printed and online-based projects. The course reinforces concepts of data visualization through graphs and charts.
Corequisite(s): COMM 3401
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COMM 3120 - Introduction to Communications Theory
Credits: 3
An overview of the major concepts and applications of human mass communications theories. While interpersonal and intercultural communications will be examined, applications of the theories and concepts in the mass media will be emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2101 , and COMM 2105 , and COMM 2106 or COMM 2107
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COMM 3130 - History of Journalism
Credits: 3
An historical survey of the principal developments in journalism from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.
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COMM 3201 - Feature Reporting and Writing
Credits: 3
In this practical course, students write in several forms, including the news feature, the profile, the trend-analysis story, data-based investigations and the self-immersion story. Students use the production of multimedia elements such as videos, still photographs, charts and maps to expand and enhance text storytelling. Students discuss freelancing stories for specific audiences and print and online publications.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 3105
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COMM 3301 - Introduction to Multimedia Production
Credits: 3
This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the disciplines and techniques involved in producing content for broadcast television, broadcast radio, and digital platforms including the internet. The course will also give students a basic operating knowledge of the terminology used in broadcast and digital media.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2105
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COMM 3302 - Speech for Multimedia
Credits: 3
A course designed to teach the basic techniques of radio and television broadcasting. Emphasis on news casting, advertising, sports casting, and announcing formats.
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COMM 3303 - Scriptwriting for Multimedia
Credits: 3
Scriptwriting for Radio and Television provides practical experience in writing various forms used in broadcast and film media and provides students with exposure to professional audio and video production equipment and techniques.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2101
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COMM 3305 - Introduction to Film Production
Credits: 3
Provides students a working knowledge of the disciplines and techniques involved in film production including a basic operating knowledge of the terminology and equipment used in the film industry.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 3901
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COMM 3306 - Introduction to Audio Production
Credits: 3
Designed to provide students with a working knowledge of the disciplines and techniques involved in radio and other professional audio production systems. The course will also give students a basic operating knowledge of professional audio equipment and technology and appropriate terminology.
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COMM 3401 - Introduction to Public Relations & Strategic Communication
Credits: 3
An introduction to the role of public relations and advertising in our society, how “publics” and markets are determined and targeted, the different types of public relations fields, the use of public relations in image packaging, the use of advertising in selling goods and services, and the relationship of advertising agencies to advertisers and media.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2101
Corequisite(s): COMM 3110
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COMM 3402 - Advertising Media Sales & Purchases
Credits: 3
Analysis of major media sales practices, including organization and preparation of radio, newspaper, television, or magazine presentations for advertising clients. Introduction to common media sales terminologies, data collection, and calculations and tools, including ratings and rate cards.
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COMM 3901 - History of Film
Credits: 3
Class sessions are informal. The instruction process is lecture by the instructor, guest lecturers, out of class procedural demonstrations, examination and viewing of various film genres, and exercises by the class in various production situations. Student and group projects will be conducted in and outside of the regular class period.
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COMM 3951 - Special Topics
Credits: 3
Special Topics in Mass Communication
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COMM 3952 - Special Topics
Credits: 3
Special Topics
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COMM 4101 - Strategic Communications Writing
Credits: 3
Principles and practices of planning, preparing, and writing effective advertising messages for newspapers, magazines, industrial publications, the trade press, radio, television, mail order, and billboards. Analysis and critique of current advertisements. Copy and product tests in relation to markets.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 3401
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COMM 4105 - Opinion and Editorial Writing
Credits: 3
In this course, students practice the techniques of column and editorial writing and also the crafting of reviews of movies, food and the like. Students generate ideas, conduct research and write journalistic essays suitable for publication in print and online news media.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 3105 or COMM 3303 or COMM 3401
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COMM 4106 - Communications Practicum
Credits: 3
Intensive field and laboratory practice on video, audio, public relations, or journalistic projects under faculty supervision.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 3108 and one of COMM 3201 or COMM 4101 or COMM 4107
Corequisite(s): COMM 4815 or COMM 4406 or COMM 4107
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COMM 4107 - Advanced Video & Post Production
Credits: 3
Advanced instruction and practice in television production, including directing, programming, and equipment.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 3301
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COMM 4108 - Film & Television Directing
Credits: 3
This course is designed to provide students with a working knowledge of the disciplines and techniques involved in the directing process for film and television, and will give students a basic operating knowledge of the terminology used in directing film and television production.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 3301 or COMM 3305
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COMM 4109 - Multimedia News Production
Credits: 3
This course is designed to provide students with the skills to plan and produce all the production elements of a broadcast news program. Course content will consist of writing, shooting and editing material for news programs for broadcast television, broadcast radio, and digital platforms including the internet.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 3301
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COMM 4110 - Audio Production and Sound Design
Credits: 3
Advanced instruction and practice in audio production, including directing, programming, and equipment.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 3301
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COMM 4111 - Film & Television Editing
Credits: 3
This course will provide students with an introduction to linear and non-linear editing processes for film and television.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 3301 or COMM 3305
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COMM 4112 - Commercial Recording
Credits: 3
This course will provide students with experiences in recording for the broadcast and music industries. Commercials, music video production, music production, and public service announcements will be examined. New approaches to digital music production and software usage in the music industry will also be covered.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 3306
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COMM 4113 - Advanced Post-Production Techniques
Credits: 3
This course will provide students with advanced techniques for the non-linear editing processes for film and television. This course will give students expert operating knowledge of the terminology used in the postproduction process of film and television productions.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 4111 or COMM 4112
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COMM 4115 - Independent Study
Credits: 3
Directed individual work under the guidance of various faculty members.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor
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COMM 4170 - Advanced Journalism
Credits: 3
In this course, students learn to report and write length in text forms including trend-analysis using data-based investigations. Multimedia elements enlarge and enhance text stories. Students are expected to observe the highest standards of professionalism and ethical practice and to target their stories at journalism’s best publications, in print and online.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 3201
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COMM 4201 - Copy Editing
Credits: 3
This course focuses on the traditional definition of copy editing: the reading of text stories for the mechanics of grammar, punctuation, spelling and syntax, the use of Associated Press, organization and style. It also emphasizes fact-checking for accuracy, comprehensiveness, and fairness in text stories and multimedia. A third focus is the editor’s thinking and decision-making process in writing headlines and captions and making assignments for text stories and multimedia elements.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 3105
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COMM 4211 - Newspaper Production
Credits: 3
Copy editing, headline writing and newspaper layout. Emphasis upon the principles and skills involved in producing a newspaper by the off-set of cold type method.
Prerequisite(s): Prior approval of instructor
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COMM 4402 - Strategic Campaign Principles
Credits: 3
Analysis of contemporary public relations and advertising issues. Development of public relations and advertising campaigns involving research, planning, preparation and presentation for various types of public relations and advertising organizations. Problem-solving and decision-making techniques.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 3401 and COMM 4101
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COMM 4406 - Strategic Campaign Production
Credits: 3
An intensive, hands-on course that stresses the production of professional quality public relations and/or advertising materials pre- approved or specified by the instructor. Students work in groups, but meet as a class with instructor for critiques. Focuses on products that meet professional standards in content, style, and quality.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 3401 and COMM 4101
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COMM 4705 - Media Ethics & the Law
Credits: 3
Study of the laws affecting American media, including the concept of freedom of speech and press, federal regulatory agencies, libel, slander, copyright, and invasion of privacy.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior Standing
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COMM 4810 - Advanced Communication Research
Credits: 3
A continuation of COMM 2810 : Introduction to Communications Research
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2810
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COMM 4815 - The Documentary
Credits: 3
A survey and analysis of the documentary format employed in film productions, 1945-1970s, and preparation and production of a mini- documentary.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 3303 and COMM 4107
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COMM 4902 - Professional Internship
Credits: 3
A course open only to juniors and seniors majoring in mass communications; students work with various professional media in Savannah and other areas. Junior or senior standing.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2101 , and COMM 3105 , or COMM 3401 , or COMM 3301 , Junior or Senior Standing, Permission of the instructor
Corequisite(s): None
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COMM 4950 - Special Topics
Credits: 3
Special Topics
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COMM 4951 - Special Topics
Credits: 3
Special Topics
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COMM 4952 - Special Topics
Credits: 3
These courses enable students to take courses that reflect current trends and topics in the industry of mass communications or to delve more deeply into content introduced in other courses. Adding the special topics courses to the “Choose 1” category will enable mass communications students to use the course toward their grid requirements.
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CIVT 2113 - Introduction to Data Analytics in Transportation & Logistics
Credits: 3
The purpose of this course is to provide students with a solid foundation in basic data analysis techniques necessary for understanding and analyzing transportation related datasets. Data characteristics from a wide ranges of transportation areas including transportation systems and transportation facilities are presented. Topics to be covered include but not limited to transportation modes and characteristics, sampling and data collection, descriptive statistics and data representation, fitting data to distributions, predictive and regression analysis. Commercial statistical analysis software will be used to perform statistical analysis on transportation related datasets in order to make students familiar with presenting the results visually. This course builds the foundation for the students who plan to peruse careers as transportation data analysts. This course serves as the prerequisite for CIVT 3113/DATA 3113: Advanced Data Analytics in Transportation.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 1113 and CSCI 1130 or CISM 1130
Equivalent
DATA 2113
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DATA 1501 - Introduction to Data Science
Credits: 3
This course is an introduction into the field of Data Science. Students will develop skills in appropriate technology and basic statistical methods by completing hands-on projects focused on real-world data and addresses the social consequence of data analysis and application.
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DATA 2113 - Introduction to Data Analytics in Transportation & Logistics
Credits: 3
The purpose of this course is to provide students with a solid foundation in basic data analysis techniques necessary for understanding and analyzing transportation related datasets. Data characteristics from a wide ranges of transportation areas including transportation systems and transportation facilities are presented. Topics to be covered include but not limited to transportation modes and characteristics, sampling and data collection, descriptive statistics and data representation, fitting data to distributions, predictive and regression analysis. Commercial statistical analysis software will be used to perform statistical analysis on transportation related datasets in order to make students familiar with presenting the results visually. This course builds the foundation for the students who plan to peruse careers as transportation data analysts. This course serves as the prerequisite for CIVT 3113 /DATA 3113 : Advanced Data Analytics in Transportation.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 1113 and CSCI 1130 or CISM 1130
Equivalent
CIVT 2113
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DATA 2225 - Introduction to R Programming
Credits: 3
This course introduces applied and theoretical aspects of the statistical computing language R, which is one of the most used, state-of-the-art open-source programming languages in data science/analysis. It is designed for undergraduate students with no prior background in R. Topics will cover generic programming language concepts as they are implemented in high-level languages such as R. Course content focuses on understanding and implementation of R programs to meet routine and specialized data manipulation for performing analysis of several real-world data set. Few basic and intermediate level statistical concepts will be revisited as well.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 1113 ; CISM 1130 or CSCI 1130 ; BUSA 2182 or MATH 1401 or SOCI 2101
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DATA 3010 - Business Intelligence
Credits: 3
The aim of this hands-on course is to provide an integrative foundation in the field of business intelligence at the operational, tactical, and strategic levels, and to provide students with an understanding of several data analytics techniques. Students will earn how these tools may be used to analyze complex business problems and identify rational solutions.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 1113 and CILS 1130 /CISM 1130 /CSCI 1130 and BUSA 2182 or SOCI 2101 or MATH 1401
Equivalent
CISM 3010 CILS 3010
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DATA 3109 - Introduction to Data Analytics and Mining
Credits: 3
The aim of this hands-on course is to allow students to understand the foundational skills in data analytics, including but not limited to: preparing and working with real-world data sets. Abstracting and modeling an analytic question; and using tools from statistics and data mining to address these questions. Students will study the entire data analysis process, from raw data mining to address these questions. Students will study the entire data analysis process, from raw data to a deeper understanding of the patterns and structures within the data, and utilize techniques that enable one to make predictions and data-informed decisions. At the end of the course, students should feel comfortable using basic data mining techniques to answer questions about data using a statistical software packages such as SAS Enterprise Miner, R. Tableau, and Microsoft Excel.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 1113 and CILS 1130 /CISM 1130 /CSCI 1130 and BUSA 2182 or SOCI 2101 or MATH 1401
Equivalent
CISM 3109 CILS 3109
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DATA 3111 - Applied Statistics For Data Science
Credits: 3
Introduction to intermediate level applied statistics and techniques of statistical modeling. The course will utilize available primary and secondary data sets in improving the conceptual understanding. The course will involve use of programming through scripting language (Python) and statistical package R and STATA. The focus of the course will be on using understanding the following concepts by analyzing data in Python, R and STATA: inferential statistics, data mining, visualization, linear regression, decision trees, logistics regression, k-means clustering, hierarchical clustering, collaborative filtering, random forests, resampling methods, classification, singular value decomposition, regularization, choosing models and fitting parameters, generalized linear models etc.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 1113 and CILS 1130 /CISM 1130 or CSCI 1130 and BUSA 2182 or SOCI 2101 or MATH 1401
Equivalent
CISM 3111 CILS 3111
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DATA 3113 - Advanced Data Analytics in Transportation
Credits: 3
The purpose of this course is to provide students with a solid foundation in advanced data analysis techniques necessary for understanding and analyzing transportation related datasets and data driven asset managements. Advanced data analysis techniques for transportation databases related to transportation systems and transportation facilities are discussed. Topics to be covered include but not limited to transportation asset management process, dimensions of data needs for transportation asset management, data collection, integration and management methods, performance and models estimation techniques, transportation impact modeling and needs assessment, life-cycle cost analysis, economic analysis on transportation facilities preservation, environmental and safety impact data analysis, decision and investment models. This course builds the foundation for the students who plan to peruse careers as transportation data analyst professionals.
Prerequisite(s): CIVT 2113 /DATA 2113
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DATA 3115 - Mathematical Data Analytics
Credits: 3
The objective of this course is to provide conceptual as well as hands-on experience of working with big data sets with the aid of structured programmatic skills to develop a scientific approach towards mathematical data analytics. An introduction to predictive analytics will be followed by demonstrating its applications on imported data to discover meaningful patterns and trends. Various statistical (machine) learning techniques will be introduced and their advantages/disadvantages in supporting a selected data-driven learning system will be discussed.
Prerequisite(s): (CISM 3109 /DATA 3109 and CISM 3111 /DATA 3111 ) or (BUSA 2182 and MATH 3000 )
Equivalent
MATH 3115
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DATA 3190 - Data Visualization
Credits: 3
An important skill that a data analyst should possess is to communicate practical implications of any data set after performing quantitative analysis of the information. Using technical means and software tools to communicate the information in a non-technical manner will help firms to make meaningful decision. Data visualization requires students to become familiar with technologies in use, streamline the analysis, and highlight implications efficiently using tools such as Python and R.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 1113 and CSCI 1130 or CISM 1130
Equivalent
ENGT 3190
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DATA 3560 - Big Data Analysis in the Sciences
Credits: 3
A course in basic quantitative and analytical tools used to understand large sciences datasets, primarily using examples from the geosciences. Students will gain confidence in both the interpretation of presented data as well as the application of tools used for a variety of data types. Concepts covered will include sampling theory and design, plotting and visualizing data, basic data analysis techniques in Excel and MatLab, linear regression and curve fitting, time-series analysis, introduction to geoscience models, management of large data sets, and scripting in at least one software program typically used in geosciences (e. g. , MatLab, R, etc. ). This course will use example data sets commonly collected from ocean observatories, satellite remote sensing, data loggers, tagging and tracking experiments, moorings, current meters, long-term climate data sets, and other common types of science data.
Prerequisite(s): BIOL 1107 or ENVS 2401 or MSCI 2010K or MATH 1113 or CISM 1130 /CSCI 1130
Equivalent
MSCI 3560
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DATA 3823 - Data Analytics for Homeland Security & Emergency Management Decision Making
Credits: 3
This course provides in-depth study of data analytics and visualization tools useful for homeland security and emergency management (HSEM) decision making. The course will examine use of databases, analytic techniques and visualization tools, geospatial and computational technologies, software, information communication, management and other tools in HSEM settings. It includes the use of hazard analysis and mapping software applications, including geographic information systems (GIS), security intelligence, and incident management technologies. This course will be cross listed with HSEM 3822 : Tools for HSEM Decision making.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 1401 and/or HSEM 2201 or HSEM 3250
Equivalent
HSEM 3823
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DATA 4025 - Introduction to Machine Learning
Credits: 3
The first and foremost objective of this course is to provide a gentle introduction of machine learning which is a very deep and rapidly changing field. Second, to provide students with the skills necessary to pick up new technology as it is developed. Keeping this in mind, this course emphasizes learning basics of fundamental machine learning algorithms for classification, functional approximation, and regression. Especially, the course content focuses on understanding and implementing the training, testing, and validation phases of learning algorithm development. Topics will also include study of the computational complexity associated with development and execution of learning algorithms for a given data set. Furthermore, students will have the opportunity to learn one of the high-level programming languages for scripting computationally intensive machine learning algorithm.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 1113 ; CISM 1130 or CSCI 1130 ; BUSA 2182 or MATH 1401 or SOCI 2101
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DATA 4301 - Urban Data Analytics and Visualization
Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the systematic and in-depth analysis of urban data in its interdisciplinary context. Recognizing that defining this context relies on critical thinking regarding social equity, economic resilience, and environmental justice outcomes, this course explores how stakeholders conceptualize “smart” and inclusive urbanism. Accordingly, this course teaches students systematic approaches to collecting, analyzing, modeling, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative data used to inform robust urban research, inclusive planning, equitable policymaking, civic innovation, and smart governance practices. This contributes to the interdisciplinary objective of introducing students to “conceptual tools, analytical methods, and theoretical frameworks to understand complex urban environments, such as economic analysis, social science theory, and visualization tools,” with the objective of training undergraduates for a future careers in government, private sector, consulting business, non-profit sectors and/or further graduate studies in MPA-Urban Management.
Prerequisite(s): POLS 3702 or DATA 3190 /ENGT 3190 or CISM 3109 /DATA 3109
Equivalent
HSEM 4301
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DATA 4902 - Sr. Research/Internship in Data Analytics
Credits: 3
A data analytics research project conducted under faculty supervision, which includes researching the background on a given applied research problem, defining a hypothesis, and planning and executing data analytics procedures to solve the research question. A written report and oral presentation are required.
Prerequisite(s): CISM 3109 /DATA 3109 ; DATA 3560 /MSCI 3560 ; DATA 3190 /ENGT 3190
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DNCE 1501 - Dance Fundamentals
Credits: 3
Dance Fundamentals is a survey-based, application course fostering development of basic technical, dance fundamentals. It is designed to further implement ballet, modern, jazz and African diaspora technical skills. This course is fundamental to dance performance and stresses proper dance structure, balance, fluid movement and functional anatomy. Students must successfully accomplish all outcomes based on goals and objectives.
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DNCE 1851 - Performance Dance Ensemble
Credits: 1
This course is an application-based class, designed for the synthesis of technical and professional performance training through choreography and concert dance production. Students are developed through the Obsidian Dance Repertory, the department ensemble. It supports pre-professional dance development by challenging students to produce, retain and perform multiple, hi-level choreographies in an array of styles, in diverse venues and to evaluate their role in a concert production. Students will learn to exhibit strong studio etiquette and positive dancer habits at all times. This course is studio intensive and is for training and performing with Obsidian Dance Repertory on campus, in the community and abroad.
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DNCE 2010 - Dance Appreciation
Credits: 3
This course is a survey of all aspects of the dance experience spanning prehistoric dance through the 21st century. Students will be introduced to universal human movement, expression of cultural identity and art form. They will survey global dance including folk, ceremonial, ritual, court and classical dance and dance as a way of life and daily practice. Students will become familiar with historical writings and critical readings, dance theories and styles in order to unearth masterpieces of dance and theater and develop responsiveness to dance.
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DNCE 2600 - Ballet I
Credits: 3
Ballet is an early 19th century dance style based on formalized movements and positions of the arms, feet and body designed to enable the dance to move with the greatest possible agility, control, speed, lightness, and grace. This course is designed to introduce students to fundamentals of contemporary ballet. Students will embody and practice basic ballet positions and steps using proper alignment through strengthening and conditioning.
Prerequisite(s): DNCE 1501 or special permission
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DNCE 2800 - Dances of African Diaspora I
Credits: 3
This course develops technique and prepares students for performance containing non-western dance principles to include African dance fundamentals and technical concepts underlying the rich expansion of the African Diaspora. Students learn codified techniques such as Katherine Dunham Technique and West African forms and Brazilian martial arts such as Capoiera. Students will apply cultural dance styles to performance.
Prerequisite(s): DNCE 1501
Equivalent
DNCE 3900
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DNCE 2851 - Performance Dance Ensemble
Credits: 1
This course is professional and performance training class. Students are developed through the official Savannah State University Dance Ensemble. The class will serve as the official technique, developmental, and rehearsal intensive course.
Prerequisite(s): DNCE 1501
Corequisite(s): DNCE 1000
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DNCE 2855 - Performance Dance Ensemble
Credits: 1
This course is professional and performance training class. Students are developed through the official Savannah State University Dance Ensemble. The class will serve as the official technique, developmental, and rehearsal intensive course.
Prerequisite(s): DNCE 1501
Corequisite(s): DNCE 1000
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DNCE 2900 - Modern I
Credits: 3
This class is designed for the advanced beginner student. Students will expand their comprehension of Modern dance principles; to engage and apply concepts from Lester Horton codified technique. Students apply their technical skills as a vehicle for performance and production.
Prerequisite(s): DNCE 1501 or special permission
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DNCE 3501 - Appreciation and History of Dance
Credits: 3
This course surveys dance cultures in America and the relationship of dance to the identity and expression of different groups in the United States. Jazz, modern, ballet, and multi-cultural dance forms will be the focus of the class. The course includes guest lectures, film, videos, performing artists, reading, discussions, research papers and attending a dance performance.
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DNCE 3502 - Dance History II
Credits: 3
This course surveys the history of dance from an anthropological perspective. Students will explore the recorded beginnings of dance from West Africa, including expansions from the slave trade that created Caribbean and South American cultures. Students will also explore dances of North Africa and the Middle East; East Asia, to include China, Japan, Korea, Thailand and Java islands.
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DNCE 3700 - Jazz I
Credits: 3
This course prepares students with jazz dance technical skills and applications from studio to stage performance. Students will observe, embody and practice technique encompassing American jazz, Broadway jazz and Latin jazz styles. Students encode, memorize and demonstrate jazz dance sequences and synthesize styles into performance proficiency.
Prerequisite(s): DNCE 1501 or special permission
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DNCE 3711 - Jazz II
Credits: 3
Jazz II prepares students for mastery level technical skills and concepts including increased flexibility and endurance, lengthier choreographic sequences and a deeper understanding of specific jazz styles related to theater and commercial dance. Students will encode, memorize an demonstrate jazz sequences and will synthesize different styles into performance proficiency.
Prerequisite(s): DNCE 3700
Equivalent
DNCE 3401
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DNCE 3800 - Dances of African Diaspora II
Credits: 3
In this course students will synthesize elements of African and Caribbean dance techniques in order to develop technique in cross-disciplinary contemporary forms of Diaspora dances including Hip Hop, Jazz and War dances like Capoeira and Stepping. Students will relate culture and traditions in African dance, demonstrate their skills in rhythm analysis and create original movement in interdisciplinary dance vernacular.
Prerequisite(s): DNCE 2800
Equivalent
DNCE 4503
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DNCE 3851 - Performance Dance Ensemble
Credits: 1
This course is professional and performance training class. Students are developed through the official Savannah State University Dance Ensemble. The class will serve as the official technique, developmental, and rehearsal intensive course.
Prerequisite(s): DNCE 1501
Corequisite(s): DNCE 1000
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DNCE 3855 - Performance Dance Ensemble
Credits: 1
This course is professional and performance training class. Students are developed through the official Savannah State University Dance Ensemble. The class will serve as the official technique, developmental, and rehearsal intensive course.
Prerequisite(s): DNCE 1501
Corequisite(s): DNCE 1000
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DNCE 3911 - Modern II
Credits: 3
This class is designed for the advanced-intermediate level student. Students will expand on principals of Modern I dance applying concepts of style and musicality as well as various ethnic forms and contemporary fusion. Students will apply technique and style to performance.
Prerequisite(s): DNCE 2900
Equivalent
DNCE 3600
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DNCE 4201 - Dance Theater
Credits: 3
This class is designed for the application level, advanced performer. Students apply and demonstrate choreographic, improvisational and compositional skills through creative project-based learning to include performing site specific/environmental works, experiential performing with found objects, transforming prompts into performance skits, and interdisciplinary approaches such as multimedia, performance art, theater and visual arts in dance.
Prerequisite(s): DNCE 1501
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DNCE 4500 - Dance Composition
Credits: 3
This course is an accelerated advanced/intermediate level dance composition course. Students must already have intermediate level skill in Modern dance, Jazz dance, Ballet and other forms of dance performance. The class will develop skill in dance composition and choreography utilizing a variety of venues and incorporating various mixed media. Students will collaborate with other art genres to enhance choreography and composition creativity. Students will be responsible for designing and choreographing a full production.
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DNCE 4501 - Dance Theory
Credits: 3
This course is an exploration of contemporary theories of movement as they relate to dance and how those theories shaped that development of different dance technique. The course also looks at the impact ballet had on dance and the development of different dance forms that were derived from ballet. Students study the theory behind Horton Technique, Graham Technique, Dunham Technique, as well as other techniques. This class will consist mainly of lecture, with some laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): DNCE 2900 and DNCE 3501
Corequisite(s): DNCE 1000
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DNCE 4550 - African American Dance in film
Credits: 3
This course is a critical examination of the advent of dance in the American popular film industry spanning late 1800s starting with the peculiar entertainment of minstrelsy to movie musicals to contemporary times with movies centrally themed about dance. Students will deduce how dance culminated on screen focusing on popular stereotypes, and icons, revealing how the roles of gender, race, fashion, economic factors and political forces effect the times. Students will observe and examine movies containing dance or dance themes. They will create discourse around dance, strengthen critical thinking skills through class discussion supported by mini-projects and unwrap social issues and subtext within the film through written response.
Prerequisite(s): Junion/Senior Level
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DNCE 4851 - Performance Dance Ensemble
Credits: 1
This course is professional and performance training class. Students are developed through the official Savannah State University Dance Ensemble. The class will serve as the official technique, developmental, and rehearsal intensive course.
Prerequisite(s): DNCE 1501
Corequisite(s): DNCE 1000
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DNCE 4855 - Performance Dance Ensemble
Credits: 1
This course is professional and performance training class. Students are developed through the official Savannah State University Dance Ensemble. The class will serve as the official technique, developmental, and rehearsal intensive course.
Prerequisite(s): DNCE 1501
Corequisite(s): DNCE 1000
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DNCE 4911 - Modern III
Credits: 3
This class is designed for the advanced level student. This course builds from Modern I and II with focus on creation of original contemporary movement and development of individual movement aesthetics and improvisational skills. This course stresses functional alignment, kinesiology, efficiency of movement, development of tangible leadership skills in the dance studio and refining technique and artistic expression.
Prerequisite(s): DNCE 3911
Equivalent
DNCE 4601
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ECON 2105 - Principles of Macro-Economics
Credits: 3
An introduction to concepts that enable students to understand and analyze economics aggregates and evaluate economic policies.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 1111
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ECON 2106 - Principles of Micro-Economics
Credits: 3
An introduction to concepts that enable students to understand and analyze the structure and performance of the market economy.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 1111
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EDUC 1103 - First Year Experience for Future Educators
Credits: 3
This course is designed to support students who aspire to work in the field of education with the information and skills to achieve the academic and social transitions for success at Savannah State University and in an educator preparation program. Students will be provided with the tools needed to develop an individualized plan that can enable them to successfully meet the requirements of a professional program in education, the standards of the Georgia Professional Standards Commission (GaPSC), and the expectations of a career as an educator.
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EDUC 2000 - Technology in Teaching and Learning
Credits: 3
Technology in Teaching and Learning explores technology that has been designed for use in technologyrich Pre-K-12 environments. The course provides hands on experiences that integrate technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge to support clearly defined student learning outcomes. Students create, design, and publish technology-enhanced learning tools to promote collaboration, creativity, communication, and higher-order thinking skills in the classroom. Students will also explore contemporary topics related to educational media and technology trends in education.
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EDUC 2100 - Reading and Writing Strategies
Credits: 3
Knowledge and skill to apply effective reading and writing strategies in content area subjects can have a direct impact on student success. This course will provide pre-service teachers with best practices and instructional strategies to use in the classroom with future students, as well as personal skill development. Focus areas include pre-, during, and after-reading skills and application of the writing process in informational and scientific writing.
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