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CHEM 6650 - Medicinal Chemistry I
Prerequisite: one year of undergraduate organic chemistry. Recommended: an advanced undergraduate organic chemistry course. Medicinal chemistry is the investigation, discovery, and development of therapeutic agents. A key concept is the understanding of the relationship between chemical structure and drug activity. This course is interdisciplinary in its approach, with the goals of understanding drug action and designing new drugs. Medicinal chemistry incorporates knowledge of a wide scope of disciplines, such as chemistry, biology, and pharmacology. This course emphasizes the fundamental principles of medicinal chemistry and surveys major classes of drugs.
3 credit hours.
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CHEM 6655 - Pharmacology
Prerequisites: one year of undergraduate organic chemistry and one term of biochemistry. Recommended: an advanced undergraduate organic chemistry course, at least one graduate course in biochemistry (CMBI 6601 , CMBI 6602 , CMBI 6603 ), and a graduate course in cell biology (CMBI 7607 ). Pharmacology is the study of therapeutics, agents administered to acheive a beneficial therapeutic effect on some disease process. This survey course will cover a general overview of pharmacology including principles of pharmacodynamics (mechanism of action of drugs) and pharmacokinetics (the role of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion in drug action). The general concepts will be applied to case studies of specific drugs taken from the main classes of therpeutic agents.
3 credit hours.
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CHEM 6665 - Combinatorial Chemistry
Prerequisites: CHEM 6650 and CHEM 6606 . Students are expected to have a strong undergraduate background in organic chemistry. Combinatorial chemistry is a relatively new approach for producing large collections of compounds for analysis. This course will cover the fundamental techniques and ideas for generating diverse libraries of compounds. Students will learn and utilize several computer packages to design, analyze, and evaluate combinatorial libraries. Examples will be drawn principally from drug design since combinatorial chemistry has had a major impact on the development of new pharmacological agents. Students anticipating careers in pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries will find this course of value.
3 credit hours.
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CHEM 6680 - Graduate Seminar I
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Weekly discussions of current topics in medicinal chemistry and presentations of student and faculty research projects.
1 credit hours.
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CHEM 6681 - Graduate Seminar II
Prerequisites: CHEM 6680 and ENGL 6659 , and permission of the instructor. Weekly discussions and seminars on current topics in medicinal chemistry will be presented by students and faculty. Students will make a formal presentation of their research.
1 credit hours.
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CHEM 6695 - Independent Study I
A planned program of individual study under the supervision of a member of the faculty.
3 credit hours.
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CHEM 6696 - Independent Study II
A continuation of Independent Study I.
3 credit hours.
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CHEM 6698 - Thesis I
Prerequisite: Completion of 15 credits of graduate work. Periodic meetings and discussion of the individual student's progress in the preparation of a thesis.
3 credit hours.
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CHEM 6699 - Thesis II
A continuation of Thesis I.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6600 - Computer Crime: Legal Issues and Investigation Procedures
An overview of computer crime and the procedures forensic computing specialists, law enforcement investigators, and prosecutors must invoke to prosecute computer criminals successfully.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6601 - Mental Health, Law, and Criminal Justice
Basic psychological theory and specific applications in the criminal justice system will be explored. Particular emphasis is placed on mental health issues as they affect the criminal justice system.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6602 - Computers, Technology, and National Security Information Management Systems
An introduction to information systems used within our national security system. A framework is provided for understanding the needs, types, capabilities, and applications of management information systems. An overview of existing national security information systems is presented with implications for future needs. Finally, the impact of science and technology upon our national secrurity agencies and how information management systems will prepare us for 21st century challenges will also be analyzed.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6603 - Internet Vulnerabilities and Criminal Activity
This course provides appropriate strategies for the proper documentation, preparation, and presentation of investigations involving the Internet and familiarizes students with legal information which impacts internet investigations.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6604 - Network Security, Data Protection, and Telecommunications
A comprehensive introduction to network security issues, concepts, and technologies. The core technologies of access control, cryptography, digital signatures, authentication, network firewalls, and network security services are reviewed. Issues of security policy and risk management are considered.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6605 - Theories of Criminal Behavior
A survey of theories relating to the scope and nature of the crime problem. Consideration of the problems of deviancy including social norms deviancy, mental disturbances, juvenile crime, and the various possible and actual responses to deviancy. Various approaches to the problem of rehabilitation.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6606 - Domestic and Sexual Violence
An in-depth analysis of the typologies, causes, correlates, dynamics, and effects of domestic and sexual violence and victimization. Includes a review of treatment practices in these areas will be provided.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6608 - Law and Evidence
Comprehensive study of the rules of evidence, particularly as applied to physical evidence. Includes judicial notice, presumptions, hearsay rules, confessions, admissions, scientific evidence, and expert testimony. Emphasis of criminal law applications.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6610 - Administration of Justice
A study of all the steps of the criminal justice system, from the time the accused is arrested until sentencing to a correctional facility. The objectives are to review all the problems which arise during this process and to consider some possible solutions which will benefit the individual being processed without subverting the purposes of the process.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6611 - Research Methods in Criminal Justice
An introduction to quantitative and qualitative menthods used in criminal justice for research and policy analysis. Students will become familiar with basic types of research designs, survey research methods, evaluation methods.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6612 - Criminal Justice Management
The development of the theory and practice of criminal justice management in the United States. Covers significant developments and ideas of those who have made major contributions to American criminal justce management.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6613 - Quantitative Applications in Criminal Justice
Prerequisite: CJST 6611 An introduction to quantitative applications in the field of Criminal Justice. Basic descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics include measurement scales, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, data distributions, sampling, probability, hypothesis testing, Chi Square, Z-test, T-Test, and Analysis of Variance models. Students will also be introduced to the use of SPSS for data analysis.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6617 - Advanced Victimology
An in-depth analysis of the causes, correlates, dynamics, and aftereffects of criminal victimization on victims of crime and a review of current practices in the area of crime victim assistance.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6618 - Crime Victims' Rights and Services
An anlysis of the legal rights of victims of crime at both the state and federal levels and how these laws relate to specific victim advocacy and service-providing programs, with an in-depth treatment of the management and administration of crime victim programs.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6623 - Mental Health Law
Prerequisite: CJST 6601 Review of civil and criminal law as it relates to mental health issues. Topics include competence to stand trial, insanity, competence to be executed, civil commitment, sexual predator commitment statutes, confidentiality, duty to warn, and issues of expert testimony. Ethical issues and issues of professional responsibility will be covered.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6624 - Group Process in Criminal Justice
Small group interaction; both theoretical and experimental facets of group process are presented. Group counseling and encounter groups.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6625 - Information Systems Threats, Attacks, and Defenses
This course provides an overview of the actors, motives, and methods used in the commission of computer-related crimes and describes the methods used by organizations to prevent, detect, and respond to these crimes. (Also see NSPS 6625 )
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6626 - Firewall and Secure Enterprise Computing
This course covers theory and practices of Internet firewalls and many of the details and vulnerabilities of the IP and embedded protocol sites. In the laboratory and online portion of the course students will construct, deploy, and test a real firewall against common Internet attacks. (Also see NSP 626)
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6627 - Internet Investigations & Audit-Based Computer Forensics
Theory and techniques of tracking attackers across the Internet and gaining forensic information from computer systems. The course includes case studies of Internet-based crimes and addresses limits of forensic techniques. (Also see NSPS 6627 )
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6628 - Computer Viruses and Malicious Code
This course addresses theoretical and practical issues surrounding computer viruses. (Also see NSP 628)
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6629 - Practical Issues in Cryptography
Examples of current historical cryptography and stegonagraphic systems; major types of cryptosystems and cryptanalytic techniques, and how they operate; hands-on experience with current cryptographic technology. (Also see NSP 629)
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6630 - Investigating Financial Crimes
Study of principles and techniques associated with investigating financial crimes. Emphasis on case study approach to understanding financial crimes investigation.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6631 - Investigations I
Prerequisite: Open to graduate students only. This course will provide students with an overview of all types of investigations, including criminal, civil, and private investigations. Students will learn basic principles of investigations, organization of investigations, sources of information, evaluation of sources, organization and presentation of cases and ethical responsibilities associated with various types of investigations.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6635 - Global Perspectives on Crime & Justice
Affords students the opportunity to explore a number of foreign and criminal justice systems with emphasis on policing. Different perspectives of crime problems will be seen through the prism of foreign culture. Specific countries and topics will vary.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6636 - Criminal Justice System Graduate Study Abroad
Prerequsites - Undergraduate: CJ 100, CJ 102 or by permission of Instructor. Graduate: Graduate standing or by permission of Instructor. This course is designed to provide graduate students with first-hand illustration of the justice system in a subject country during a study abroad program to a selected country (e.g. China, Poland, Russia and Israel) to support graduate level analysis in the assigned research papers. The course will be taught by a UNH instructor, include interactions and presentations by various guest experts from different agencies or educational institutions in the subject country, and include site visits to various criminal justice facilities and other places. The course will cover such topics as policing, law, juvenile justice, and corrections. The course is repeatable if in a different subject country. (This course may be cross-listed with CJ 535.) A course fee will be charged or the additional costs will be incorporated with the overall cost of the study-abroad experience within which the course is taught.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6637 - Criminal Justice Policy
Examines the formulation and implementation of criminal justice policy, including an introduction to policy analysis in the criminal justice context.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6646 - Abnormal Psychology in Forensic Populations
CJ 601 Prerequisites: Undergraduate or graduate course in Abnormal Psychology, CJ 601. This is an advanced course in mental disorders associated with prisons and other forensic practice. Emphasis is on disorders involving violent and predatory behavior including personality disorders, psychosis, pedophilia, and other sexual paraphilias. Special emphasis on psychopathy, psychopathology, and criminal behavior. Well-known forensic cases will be examined. This course is a prerequisite for all other courses in the Forensic Psychology sequence (See also PSYC 6656 ).
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6647 - Forensic Assessment
CJST 6646 This course will review the spectrum of assessement methods used in evaluation and treatment in inmate and forensic settings. Various techniques of forensic interviewing will be examined. Emphasis on ability to assess violence and risk will be included. Students will come to understand the strengths and limitations of a wide variety of forensic assessment methods. Additional attention will be given regarding techniques to assess malingering. (See also P 657).
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6648 - Forensic Treatment Models
CJST 6647 This course will examine various mental health treatment modalities, with particular emphasis on treatment for patients/inmates in the forensic system. Psychopharmacology, group therapy, cognitive techniques, community-based management, faith-based approaches, and social skills training will be covered. Treatment of insanity acquittees, incompetent-to-stand-trail patients, inmates, juvenile offenders, psychopaths, and sex offenders will be examined. Management of high-risk forensic populations will be covered. Particular emphasis will be on current research findings regarding the effectiveness of these approaches with forensic populations. (See also P 658.)
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6649 - Fire Scene Investigation and Arson Analysis
The techniques of crime scene documentation and investigation as they relate to fire and explosion scenes. Evidence recognition and collection. Laboratory analysis of fire scene, arson accelerant, and explosion scene residues. Scientific proof of arson. Laboratory fee required. (See also FIRE 6649 .)
4 credit hours.
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CJST 6650 - Death Investigation: Scene to Court
An in-depth study of the principles and techniques associated with investigating homicides; suicides; and accidental, natural, or equivocal deaths. While considering the sociological, psychological, and legal aspects typically found in these cases, the process will take students from the scene to the court, criminal or civil. Enrollment restricted to fully matriculated graduate students in criminal justice and forensic science only.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6651 - Criminal Procedure
An inquiry into the nature and scope of the U.S. Constitution as it relates to criminal procedures. Areas covered include the law of search and seizure, arrests, and right to counsel.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6652 - Sexual Offenders and Predators
An in-depth study of behavioral patterns and dynamics associated with persons who commit sexually motivated crimes and of the processes of victim selection and the identification of sexual offenders.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6655 - Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
Analysis of theory and applied methods of crime prevention using environmental design methods. Experiential exercises are included.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6656 - Problem-Oriented Policing
In-depth examination of problem-oriented policing including examination of SARA model, specialized tactics, and methods of community analyses.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6657 - Crime Mapping and Analysis
Survey of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) research and applications in the field of public safety, including analysis of hit spots, density patterns, and forecasts of crime patterns.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6658 - Leadership Issues in Policing
Study of leadership within modern police organizations. Experiential exercises will be included.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6659 - Futures Research: Long-Range Planning & Forecasting in CJ
An advanced examination of philosophical underpinnings of the discipline of Futures Research. The distinctions between conventional and long-range planning will be discussed. A multidisciplinary approach will be utilized. The student will learn to make use of several selective forecasting methodologies. The focus will be on the implementation of empirically derived strategies. The context will be justice system organizations. The purpose is to learn to effect meaningful social change.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6667 - Fire and Building Codes, Standards, and Practices
The study of building and fire codes and regulations as they relate to prevention and incidence of structural fires. Contemporary building and fire codes and practices and their enforcement. Model building codes. Fire prevention and control through building design.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6668 - Fire and Casualty Insurance Practices
A study of financial risk and decision making. Insurance rate making and relation to risk and other factors. Insurance adjustment and economic factors that must be considered in fire and accident investigations. (See also FIRE 6668 .)
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6669 - Dynamics, Evaluation, and Prevention of Structural Fires
A detailed analysis of the evolution of modern structures and the mechanical systems necessary to provide safety and comfort. The effect of the nature of structures and their mechanical systems on fire behavior. Structural basis and mechanical systems for fire protection and fire prevention.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6670 - Selected Topics
A study of selected issues of particular interest to the students and instructor. May be taken more than once.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6675 - Private Security Law
A review and examination of currently applicable federal and state administrative, civil, criminal, and constitutional laws as they relate to the private security industry. The framework of the course will include sources of authority and common law.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6676 - Security Management Seminar
Current problems, concerns, issues, and legislation affecting the private security industry as they relate and are of interest to the students and instructor.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6677 - Private Security in Modern Society
An introduction to current thinking and problems relating to the private security system. The course will examine such issues as historical growth, role, mission, and future of the industry. Other topics will include professionalization and ethics in the field.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6678 - Homeland Security and the Threat of Terrorism
This course is designed to familiarize students with the concept of homeland security from administrative, organizational, historical, and critical perspectives. The course will be taught in a critical thinking context rather than a training context. Specific emphasis will be placed on homeland security as a public safety paradigm and the implications of this paradigm on government agencies at the state and local level, overall national security, and public perception/opinion. A key component of this course is the presentation, analysis, and discussion of critical issues in homeland security. This is also an advanced course designed to familiarize students with the history and evolution of terrorism, the key concepts and theories of terrorism, the roles and responsibilities of counterterrorism agencies in the U.S., and the critical issues and controversies of the current "War on Terrorism." Terrorism will be examined from a multidisciplinary perspective, and critical thinking by the students will be encouraged.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6680 - Research Issues in Cyberterrorism
This course will consist of lectures, discussions, and empirical research into issues in cyberterrorism, its causes, its limitations, and its implications. It will focus largely on the thresholds and factors that drive terrorist groups into the information arena, the use of information technology by terrorist groups, and the emergence of new terrorist groups which use the information arena as their primary terrorism mechanism.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6684 - Fire Scene Reconstruction
Application of the principles of reconstruction of the scene, including fire behavior, fire pattern analysis, ignition mechanisms, interpretation of human behavior, and fire scene analysis. Emphasis on scene documentation, origin and cause determination, preparation of reports, arson motives, rendering of advisory opinions to assist in the resolution of disputes affecting life and property. (See also FIRE 6684 .)
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6690 - Research Project I
Individual guidance on a research endeavor. 1-3 credits.
0 credit hours.
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CJST 6691 - Research Project II
Prerequisite: CJST 6690 . NULL
0 credit hours.
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CJST 6693 - Criminal Justice Internship I
The student's formal educational development will be complemented by field placement experience in various criminal justice settings or agencies. Field experience will be supervised by designated agency and department personnel.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6694 - Criminal Justice Internship II
Prerequisite: CJST 6693 NULL
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6695 - Independent Study
A directed independent learning experience, the topic and format to be agreed upon by the student and supervising faculty. 1-3 credits.
0 credit hours.
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CJST 6697 - Thesis I
Prerequisite: 15 graduate hours. Periodic meetings and discussions of the individual student's progress toward the completion of the thesis.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6698 - Thesis II
A continuation of Thesis I.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 6699 - Thesis III
A continuation of Thesis II.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 7707 - Psychological Applications CJ
Prerequisite: CJ 601 or permission of instructor. This course will explore psychological theory and research in relation to specific problems in criminal justice. Assumptions underlying behavior analysis in criminal investigation and profiling, eyewitness testimony, jury selection, violence prediction, risk assessment, personnel screening, and children as victims will be examined. Students will be expected to develop an application in a specific area of expertise using class and textual content as a base.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 7709 - Social & Structural Crime Models
Prerequisite: CJ 605. This course is part of a package of courses focused on criminal behavior that are part of the PhD in Criminal Justice.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 7715 - Rational Models of Crime
Prerequisite: CJ 605. A survey of rational choice theories of crime from sociology, psychology, economics, and political science perspectives. Topics include deterrence, routine opportunities theory, incapacitation, and conflict approaches to understanding crime and criminal behavior.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 7719 - Psychology of Crime
Prerequisite: CJ 601 and CJ 605. A survey of psychological explanations of criminal behavior. Topics include psychoanalytic theories, trait theories, social learning, cognitive learning, biosocial theories, developmental theories of crime, and economic and social psychological theories of criminal behavior.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 7722 - Adv Quantitative Apps CJ
Prerequisite: CJ 613 or its equivalent. An introduction to multivariate statistical techniques as applied in criminal justice research. Topics include regression analysis, discriminant analysis, factor analysis, manova, and multivariate significance tests.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 7738 - Public Policy Analysis in CJ
Prerequisites: CJ 613 and CJ 637 or their equivalent. An introduction to public policy and program analysis as applied within the criminal justice field. Topics include the impact of basic research on policy formulation and implementation. Special attention will be given to issues of decision-making and its tools.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 7752 - Sexual Offenders and Predators
An in-depth study of behavioral patterns and dynamics associated with persons who commit sexually motivated crimes and of the processes of victim selection and the identification of sexual offenders.
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CJST 7770 - ST: Selected Topics
A study of selected issues of particular interest to the students and instructor. May be taken more than once.
3 credit hours.
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CJST 8801 - Criminal Justice Dissertation
Periodic meetings and discussions of the individual student's progress in the preparation of the doctoral dissertation. This course may be taken more than once; each registration is for variable credit, from 1-9 hours. Each doctoral student will be required to complete a minimum of 18 trimester credit hours of dissertation credit prior to earning the PhD degree.
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CHME 6621 - Air Pollution Fundamentals
Prerequisite: CHEM 6601 or permission of instructor. An introduction to the sources of air pollution, transport of gaseous and particulate pollutants in the atmosphere on local and global scales, transformations of pollutants by atmospheric processes, impact of airborne pollutants on the environment, control of sources of air pollution, and legislative mandates. Introduction to meteorological concepts and computer transport models. Current issues such as ozone depletion and global warming will also be discussed. (See also CIVL 6661 .)
3 credit hours.
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CHME 6622 - Air Pollution Control
Prerequisite: CM 621 Prerequisite: CM 621 or permission of instructor. Covers conventional and emerging air pollution control technologies. Conventional technologies include cyclone separators, baghouse filters, wet scrubbers, electrostatic precipitators, thermal and catalytic incineration, absorbers, and absorption systems. Emerging technologies will vary with new developments. Legislative mandates related to control technologies and emission limits will be discussed.
3 credit hours.
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CHME 6624 - Chemical Process Safety
Prerequisite: undergraduate degree in engineering, chemistry, or physics or permission of instructor. Methods of analysis and design for the control of hazards as applied to a chemical process environment. Emphasis on applications and current industrial practices. Topics include characterization of chemical hazards, toxic release modeling, fire and explosion prevention, pressure relief equipment design, hazard identification/risk, assessment techniques, and accident investigation.
3 credit hours.
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CHME 6670 - Selected Topics
A study of selected issues of particular interest to the students and the instructor. May be taken more than once.
3 credit hours.
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CHME 6690 - Project
Prerequisite: 15 graduate hours or permission of the department chair and program coordinator. Independent work under the guidance of an advisor in an area of mutual intererst, each study terminating in a technical report of academic merit. May involve research or design activity to solve a significant technical problem which utilizes chemical engineering concepts.
3 credit hours.
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CHME 6695 - Independent Study I
A planned program of individual study under the supervision of a member of the faculty.
3 credit hours.
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CHME 6696 - Independent Study II
A continuation of Independent Study I.
3 credit hours.
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CHME 6698 - Thesis I
Prerequisite: completion of 15 credits of graduate work. Periodic meetings and discussion of the individual student's progress in the preparation of a thesis.
3 credit hours.
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CHME 6699 - Thesis II
A continuation of Thesis I.
3 credit hours.
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COMM 6620 - Applied Communication in Organizations
This course is a survey of communication theory as applied to the organizational environment. Special attention will be directed toward management communication styles, conflict, disagreement, changes in organizations, formal v. informal power and communication, people in organizations, structure of organizations, motivations, barriers to effective communication, and competencies involved in effectively communicating to the organization's internal and external publics.
3 credit hours.
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COMM 6621 - Managerial Communication
Prerequisite: MGMT 6637 or HCAD 6601 or PSYC 6619 or PADM 6601 . Major emphasis on the role of communication in a democracry and the effects of communication content. Brief treatment of content analysis techniques, person-to-person communication, and barriers to the flow of communication.
3 credit hours.
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COMM 6623 - Communication in Healthcare
Examination of the diversity of communication encounters and contexts in which allied health professionals may be involved; emphasis on development of competencies and skills necessary to communicate effectively with staff, patients, and the community. Influence of interpersonal communication and mass media in staff development, patient care, and the marketing of healthcare. Students will develop a communication campaign aimed at internal and external audiences.
3 credit hours.
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COMM 6631 - Public Information Dynamics
How the executive can best present the organization in an accurate and favorable light to the news media. Training techniques for the public relations person who will work with executives giving corporate messages internally and press statements externally.
3 credit hours.
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COMM 6632 - Contemporary Public Relation Issues
Using the case-study approach, the course concentrates on the problems facing management and public relations executives in businesses and other institutions. The problems change from year to year, in tune with developments in society.
3 credit hours.
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COMM 6640 - Communication Technologies
An in-depth examination for non-technical students of technologies used with visual, voice data, and character information for communicating at a distance, for storing and subsequently retrieving information, and for processing information to improve communication efficiency.
3 credit hours.
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COMM 6641 - Competition and Regulation in Telecommunication
A study of proceedings before state public utility commissions and the Federal Communications Commission delineating the boundaries between those activities in the telecommunication field subject to regulation, those open to competition with restrictions, and those cleared to be fully competitive. The course will include discussion and analysis of contemporary legal proceedings affecting this topic.
3 credit hours.
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COMM 6642 - Managment of Telecommunication Organizations
A study and comparison of managerial systems and practices in users, manufacturers, distributors, and common carriers of telecommunication facilities. Identification of criteria necessary for developing and maintaining effective telecommunication organizations. Case problems will relate largely to specific instances from this field.
3 credit hours.
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COMM 6643 - Telecommunication Policy and Strategy
Examination of management policies and strategies for the complex telecommunication organization operating in a dynamic environment, from the viewpoint of the top-level executives of the organization. Development of analytic frameworks for the management of numerous elements involved in assuring the fulfillment of the goals of the total organization. Integration of the student's general business knowledge with the content of the course. Emphasis is placed on the examination and discussion of cases drawn largely from the telecommunication industry.
3 credit hours.
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COMM 6670 - Selected Topics
A study of selected issues of particular interest to students and instructor. May be taken more than once.
3 credit hours.
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COMM 6693 - Internship
A program of field experience, approved by the program advisor, under the tutelage of a professional in the field of communication.
3 credit hours.
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COMM 6695 - Independent Study I
A planned program of individual study or research in communication under the supervision of a member of the faculty.
3 credit hours.
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COMM 6696 - Independent Study II
A continuation of Independent Study I.
3 credit hours.
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COMM 6698 - Thesis I
Prerequisite: 15 graduate hours. Periodic meetings with the advisor for discussion of the individual student's progress in the preparation of a thesis.
3 credit hours.
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COMM 6699 - Thesis II
A continuation of Thesis I.
3 credit hours.
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COMM 7728 - Multi-Media Production
Prerequisite: admission to the Sixth Year Certificate in Instructional Technologies & Digital Media Literacy. Online content construction (OCC) is a process by which individuals construct and redesign knowledge by actively encoding and decoding meaning through the use of ever-shifting multimodal convergent media production tools. This courses provides opportunities to learn powerful new tools for teaching and learning by combining technologies such as video, studio, graphics, interactivity, and text. Students will learn to identify, choose, plan, construct, and integrate online content into instruction. Students will learn to identify and evaluate multimodal resources, incorporate online content into instruction, know operations of hardware and software that support media, and know legal and ethical issues associated with convergent media tools and production.
3 credit hours.
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CSCI 6604 - Introduction to Programming/C
Prerequisite: College Algebra (M 109 or equivalent). A first course in computer programming using the C language, for those with little or no experience in programming. Problem solving methods, program planning, development, and testing. Sound programming practices and good style. Simple preprocessor usage, objects, expressions, functions, libraries, basic types, arrays, and pointers. Extensive programming will be required.
3 credit hours.
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