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2021-2022 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

*LCCN indicates Louisiana Common Course Number.
 

Industrial Technology
  

  • ITEC 430 - Advanced Graphic Science

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Methods, materials, and techniques in graphic science, advanced technical drawing, and architectural designs with an emphasis on “energy conservation techniques.”

    Prerequisite(s): ITEC 370 Â with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • ITEC 440G - Welding Design Problems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Application and interpretation of blueprint drawings, welding codes, pressure vessels, manufacturing designs, cost analysis; time studies; jig and fixture design, and mass production techniques.

    Prerequisite(s): ITEC 340 Â with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • ITEC 441 - Advanced Machine Technology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Advanced machine tool principles and processes, including CNC applications to lathe and milling machine operations.

    Prerequisite(s): ITEC 344 Â with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • ITEC 442 - Advanced CNC Techniques

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Problems in computer-numerical-control techniques including machining-center turning-center coordination and interfacing, time management and scheduling.

    Prerequisite(s): ITEC 345 Â with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • ITEC 445G - World of Construction

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Emphasis on estimating, designing, blueprint reading, and contracting in the construction of homes.

    Prerequisite(s): ITEC 351 Â with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • ITEC 446 - Manufacturing Facility Planning

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Selection of plant site, product development, over-view of manufacturing processes and their economic evaluation, production charts, machine and manpower assignment, material handling and plant layout.

    Prerequisite(s): ITEC 268 , ENGL 365 , and MGMT 320 Â with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): Senior standing
  

  • ITEC 447 - Computer Integrated Manufacturing Technology I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Use of technologies such as CAD, CAM, CAPP, MRPII, simulation and JIT to implement CIM.

    Prerequisite(s): ITEC 446 Â with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): Senior standing in ITEC
  

  • ITEC 455 - Construction Technology, Management and Application

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Construction management applied to a case study of an actual planned residential project from concept to completion.

    Prerequisite(s): ITEC 355 Â with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): Senior standing or permission of instructor required
  

  • ITEC 458 - Industrial Internship

    Credit Hours: 3-6
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3-6 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Students receive on-the-job experience with selected and approved firms. Students are assigned to a firm for 20 hours per week during regular semester and 40 hours per week during the Summer semester.

    Restriction(s): Permission of department head required
  

  • ITEC 460 - Construction Contractors Licensing Studies

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Review of construction technology principles and procedures for the Louisiana Contractors Examination.

    Prerequisite(s): ITEC 355 Â with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): Senior standing or permission of instructor required
  

  • ITEC 461 - Industrial Safety Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Establishing and maintaining an occupational hazard control program with emphasis on OSHA compliance regulations, reporting, and accident investigations. Designed for the Safety Supervisor in industrial and construction activities.

    Prerequisite(s): ITEC 268 Â with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): Senior standing in ITEC
  

  • ITEC 462 - Shop Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Review and synthesis of current management procedures and systems in industrial agencies.

    Prerequisite(s): ITEC 268 , ENGL 365 , and MGMT 320 Â with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): Senior standing
  

  • ITEC 469 - Senior Seminar

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Capstone course allowing students to apply accumulated knowledge in solving contemporary industrial technology issues and problems through design, analysis, reflection, and reporting.

    Restriction(s): Senior standing
  

  • ITEC 471 - Industrial Operations Systems Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Technologist approach to experimentation with production system modeling, use of microcomputer software for decision support for operations systems, development and utilization of microcomputer based planning aids, field experience in industrial operations.

    Pre/Corequisite(s): ITEC 472G Â with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • ITEC 472G - Industrial Operations Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Operations and production systems of the technologist; role of the technologist in systems, models and decision making approaches; resource allocation, process design, quality control, inventory control maintenance and forecasting concepts for the technologist.

    Prerequisite(s): MGMT 320 Â and STAT 214 Â both with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): Senior standing in ITEC
  

  • ITEC 473G - Applied Systems Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Primary emphasis on computer systems analysis using decision supporting tools with practical case studies and applications.

    Restriction(s): Senior standing and permission of instructor required
  

  • ITEC 474G - Quality Assurance and Control

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Principles of total quality control in manufacturing and service industries. Use of control charts, acceptance sampling procedures, inspection procedures, reliability and capability studies.

    Prerequisite(s): STAT 214 Â or STAT 325 Â with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): Senior standing in ITEC
  

  • ITEC 477 - Materials Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Tangible components in supply chain logistics.

    Prerequisite(s): MGMT 320 Â with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): Senior standing
  

  • ITEC 480G - Applied Composite Materials

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Fundamentals of process and manufacturing of composite materials with applications.

    Restriction(s): Senior standing and permission of instructor
  

  • ITEC 490G - Introduction to Chemical Process Technology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Fundamental concepts and applied nature of chemical process technologies. Both large-scale and small-scale chemical and biotechnology industries will be examined with particular emphasis on process equipment and operations.

    Prerequisite(s): Junior Classification
  

  • ITEC 497G - Directed Individual Study

    Credit Hours: 1-3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1-3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite(s): 12 hours in ITEC and permission of department required
  

  • ITEC 498G - Directed Individual Study

    Credit Hours: 1-3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1-3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite(s): 12 hours in ITEC and permission of department required

Informatics

To register for an Informatics course numbered 300 and above, non-majors must receive approval from the Informatics Program Coordinator. Not all classes are offered every semester.
  

  • INFX 101 - Informatics Fundamentals

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Pervasive themes in informatics, history of information technology, related disciplines, and application domains.

    Prerequisite(s): Minimum ACT Math score of 23; SAT Math score of 540; or credit in MATH 103 Â and MATH 104 , MATH 105 , MATH 109 , MATH 143 , or MATH 270 
  

  • INFX 107 - Honors Informatics Fundamentals

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Pervasice themes in informatics, history of informaion technology, related disciplines, and application domains.

    Pre/Corequisite(s): Eligibility for MATH 109 Â 
  

  • INFX 205 - Information Technology and Data Applications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Information Technology and Data Applications. Word Processing, spreadsheet, database, and presentation software used to solve problems in different settings. Development of data management and data analytic skills through hands-on experience in a simulated work environment.

    Pre/Corequisite(s): MATH 103 , MATH 105 , MATH 109 , or MATH 270 Â with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • INFX 210 - Human-Computer Interaction

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Human factors in the design of computer application interfaces; survey of web-based HCI and emerging technologies; interactive software and styles; design principles and considerations; development methods; and tools, interface quality and evaluation methods.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 101 Â or INFX 107 ;  MATH 109 , MATH 110 , MATH 143 , or MATH 270 Â with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • INFX 240 - Information Technology Infrastructure

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Computer and systems architecture; communication networks, organizational services and capabilities enablement through IT infrastructure solutions; emphasis on Internet-based solutions.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 101 Â or INFX 107 ; MATH 109 , MATH 110 , MATH 143 , or MATH 270 Â with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • INFX 247 - Honors Information Technology Infrastructure

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Computer and systems architecture; communication networks, organizational services and capabilities enablement through IT infrastructure solutions; emphasis on Internet-based solutions.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 101 Â or INFX 107 ; MATH 109 Â or MATH 110 Â and MATH 143 Â 
  

  • INFX 290 - Sophomore Project

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Explorations in the specification, design, implementation, or evaluation of an information processing system.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 210 Â or INFX 240 Â with C or better
    Restriction(s): Completion of 30 credit hours and permission of instructor is required.
  

  • INFX 301 - Computational Thinking

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Human thinking and mental tools that are influenced by the nature of computing processes and the concepts of computer science: computability, algorithmic thinking, symbol processing, heuristic reasoning, searching, parallel and distributed thinking, abstraction, hierarchical organization, rationality and its limits, complexity, languages of thought, knowledge and its representation.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 210 , INFX 240 , and CMPS 150 Â with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • INFX 320 - Information Assurance and Security

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Computing communication and organizational systems; emphasis on vulnerabilities, threat analysis, models, attacks and recovery.

    Prerequisite(s): CMPS 207 Â or CMPS 260 , INFX 210 , and INFX 240 Â with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • INFX 321 - Network Security

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Threats to information confidentiality, integrity, and availability in the various Internet layers; emphasis on cryptographic, primitives/Protocols, authentication, authorization and access control technologies.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 320 Â with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • INFX 322 - Cyber Security Planning and Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Development of plans and processes for a holistic approach to cyber security by organizations.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 320 Â 
  

  • INFX 330 - Information Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Database systems, including conceptual design and implementation, management; emphasis on the relational database model.

    Prerequisite(s): CMPS 207 Â or CMPS 260 , INFX 210 , INFX 240 Â or INFX 247 Â with a grade of “C” or better.
  

  • INFX 340 - Advanced Network Infrastructures

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Evaluation, planning, design, deployment, and maintenance.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 240 Â with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): If prerequisites not met permission of program coordinator required
  

  • INFX 361 - Fundamentals of Video Game Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Design and production; business and documentation of design; user interface and storytelling.

    Prerequisite(s): CMPS 207 Â or CMPS 260 , INFX 210 , INFX 240 , and VIAR 235 Â with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • INFX 370 - Interactive Website Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Web standards and behavioral layer of web development. Client side scripting and scripting language.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 320 Â and INFX 330 Â with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): If prerequisites not met permission of program coordinator required
  

  • INFX 371 - Database-Backed Website Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Server-side scripting methodologies and database design for interactive web sites.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 370 Â with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): If prerequisites not met, permission of program coordinator required
     
  

  • INFX 380 - Systems Integration and Architecture

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Traditional and structural approaches to analysis and design; project initiation, planning, requirements gathering and requirements modeling; project management fundamentals; IT applications and organizational processes.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 320 Â and INFX 330 Â with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • INFX 390 - Junior Project

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Aspects of the specification, design, implementation, and evaluation of an information processing system.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 330 Â with C or better
    Restriction(s): Completion of 60 credit hours and permission of instructor required.
  

  • INFX 391 - Internship I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Professional work experience.

    Prerequisite(s): CMPS 207 Â or CMPS 260 , INFX 210 , and INFX 240 ; or instructor’s/department head’s permission
    Restriction(s): Permission of internship coordinator required. If prerequisites not met, permission of program coordinator is required.
  

  • INFX 410 - Interactive Narrative

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Games as narrative structures: including the role of aesthetics. Web assignments and creation or electronic stories using systems and multimedia software tools.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 320 , INFX 330 , and INFX 370 Â with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): If prerequisites not met permission of program coordinator required
  

  • INFX 412 - Visual Analytics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Visualization of data and information for different platforms using software tools.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 330 , and STAT 427G Â or STAT 325 Â with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): If prerequisites not met permission of program coordinator required
  

  • INFX 420 - Cryptography Applications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Theory and practice of applying cryptography in cyber security protocols, tools, and techniques.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 320 Â 
  

  • INFX 435 - Business Intelligence and Advanced Databases

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Emphasis on query language.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 320 Â and INFX 330 Â with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): If prerequisites not met permission of program coordinator required
  

  • INFX 443 - Distributed Information Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Distributed and object models of computation; advanced concepts such as remote method invocations, object brokers, object services, open systems, and future trends.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 320 Â with a grade of “C” or better.
    Pre/Corequisite(s): INFX 330 Â 
  

  • INFX 450 - Systems Administration and Maintenance

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Installation, management, and administration of computing infrastructures.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 320 Â with a grade of “C” or better.
  

  • INFX 451 - UnIX System Administration

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    History, operation use and services, applications, administrative tasks, and related topics.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 450 Â with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): If prerequisites not met permission of program coordinator required
  

  • INFX 455 - Cyber Physical System Security

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Theory and practice of mitigating cyber and information security threats, both external and internal.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 320 Â 
  

  • INFX 461 - Quantitative Methods in Informatics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Data-and simulation-driven decision making methods; applications in health informatics.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 320 , INFX 330 , and INFX 380 Â with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): If prerequisites not met permission of program coordinator required
  

  • INFX 470 - Web Systems and Technologies

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Design, implementation, and testing of Web-based applications, and software.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 320 Â and INFX 330 Â both with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): If prerequisites not met, permission of program coordinator required
  

  • INFX 471 - Digital Media for Electronic Commerce

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Applications of server-side Internet programming languages and media theory to e-commerce, internet security, and online portals.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 371 Â with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): If prerequisites not met permission of program coordinator required
  

  • INFX 481 - Business Process Analysis and Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Use of information technology to manage, transform, and improve business processes.

    Prerequisite(s):  INFX 380 Â with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): If prerequisites not met permission of program coordinator required
  

  • INFX 490 - Information Technology Project Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Integrative, supervised group project in which students specify, design, construct, implement, evaluate, and analyze a significant information processing system.

    Prerequisite(s): Grade of “C” or better in all required 300-level informatics courses and a grade of “C” or better in 6 credit hours of 400-level informatics courses.
    Restriction(s): Premission of instructor required.

    Course Notes: Must be taken in student’s final semester.
  

  • INFX 491 - Internship II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Professional work experience.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 391 Â with a grade of “C” or better, or instructor’s/department head’s permission
  

  • INFX 497 - Special Project

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Directed project.

    Restriction(s): Instructor’s permission
  

  • INFX 498G - Advanced Topics in Informatics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Special and individual study projects.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 301 Â with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor is required.
  

  • INFX 499 - Special Topics in Informatics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Alternate subtitles will appear on students’ transcripts.

    Repeatable Course: May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 320 Â and INFX 330 Â with a grade of “C” or better, or instructor’s permission
    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required. If prerequites not met permission of program coordinator required.
  

  • INFX 500 - Introduction to Informatics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Intended for students whose prior university studies are in non-computing areas. Provides a breadth-level foundation of the Informatics discipline: overview of computing architectures, algorithms and programming, operating systems, data structures, file organization, and databases concepts.

    Restriction(s): Admission to the Master’s in Informatics program, or permission of Graduate Coordinator required
  

  • INFX 501 - Foundations of Informatics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    An intensive introduction to the most central technical tools of Informatics: probability and statistics, computation and data analysis (using R). Examines ethical, legal, and social issues surrounding contemporary research and practice in science Informatics. Topics: the nature of science and technology, the ramifications of recent advances in science Informatics, relevant science policy, ethics, and surveys of diverse theories of globalization to identify the best approaches for professional informatics career planning.

    Restriction(s): Admission to the Master’s in Informatics program, or permission of Graduate Coordinator required
  

  • INFX 502 - Systematic Methods in Informatics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Surveys a broad range of research methods employed in the field. Explores the theoretical foundation and exemplifies the application of systematic methods to specific research questions. Introduces qualitative and quantitative research methods in sampling, data collection, data analysis and the mathematical prerequisites for understanding probability and statistics.

    Restriction(s): Admission to the Master’s in Informatics program, or permission of Graduate Coordinator required
  

  • INFX 510 - Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in Informatics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Explores, analyzes, and appraises underlying assumptions and the rationale behind some of the most influential theoretical attempts in HCI and related fields. Offers a survey of the field of Human-Computer Interaction Design. It introduces interaction design, cognitive modeling, distributed cognition, computer-supported cooperative work, data visualization, ubiquitous computing, affective computing, and domestic computing.

    Restriction(s): Admission to the Master’s in Informatics program, or permission of Graduate Coordinator required.
  

  • INFX 512 - Data Analysis and Visualization

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. Introduction to the science and technology of visual analytics. Includes both theoretical foundations of this interdisciplinary science as well as practical applications of integrated visual analysis techniques to real-world problems.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 501 , INFX 502 , and INFX 510 
    Restriction(s): Admission the the Master’s in Informatics program, or permission of Graduate coordinator required
  

  • INFX 520 - IT and Network Security

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Extensive survey of system and network security. Methodologies for identifying, quantifying, mitigating, and controlling risks. Students implement comprehensive IT risk management plans (RMP) that identify alternate sites for processing mission-critical applications, and techniques to recover infrastructure, systems, networks, data, and user access. Foundation for advanced security courses and experiential course projects.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 501 , INFX 502 , INFX 540 , and INFX 590 
    Restriction(s): Admission to the Master’s in Informatics program, or permission of Graduate Coordinator required
  

  • INFX 530 - Database and Network Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Intended for students whose prior university studies are in non-computing areas. Provides a breadth-level foundation in the Informatics areas of database systems and network infrastructures.

    Restriction(s): Admission to the Master’s in Informatics program, or permission of Graduate Coordinator required
  

  • INFX 531 - Distributed Database Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Advanced aspects of database management systems, including advanced normalization and de-normalization, query optimization, object-oriented and object-relational databases, data warehousing, data mining, distributed databases, XML, XSL, and databases for web applications.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 501 , INFX 502 , INFX 510 , and INFX 540 
    Restriction(s): Admission to the Master’s in Informatics program, or permission of Graduate Coordinator required
  

  • INFX 532 - Data Mining and Business Intelligence

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Concepts of data mining, text mining, and web mining. Algorithms will be tested on data sets using the open-source Weka Data data mining software and, possibly, one or more commercial platforms.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 501 , INFX 502 , INFX 531 , and INFX 540 
    Restriction(s): Admission to the Master’s in Informatics program or permission of Graduate Coordinator required
  

  • INFX 533 - Cloud Computing and Big Data Applications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Introduction to applied parallel computing using the MapReduce programming model facilitating large scale data management and processing. Emphasis on hands-on experience working with the Hadoop architecture, an open-source software framework written in Java for distributed storage and processing of very large data sets on computer clusters. Also, the use of related big data technologies from the Hadoop tool environment, such as Hive, Impala, and Pig in developing analytics and solving problems faced by enterprises today.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 501 , INFX 502 , INFX 510 , INFX 531 , and INFX 540 
    Restriction(s): Admission to the Master’s in Informatics program, or permission of Graduate Coordinator required
  

  • INFX 540 - Informatics Network Infrastructures and Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Presents the foundations of data communications - with particular emphasis on the ISO-OSI Reference Model and TCP/IP - and takes a bottom-up approach to computer networks. Concludes with an overview of core network security and management concepts.

    Restriction(s): Admission to the Master’s in Informatics program, or permission of Graduate Coordinator required
  

  • INFX 570 - Web Application Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Emphasis on building core competencies in web design and development. Complete immersion into HTML. Students are exposed to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), as well as Dynamic CSS. The fundamentals of JavaScript language, including object-oriented JavaScript, are covered comprehensively. Topics also include comparison of e-commerce procedures, payment mechanisms, applications in different industry sectors, security, the challenges of starting and maintaining an electronic business site.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 501 , INFX 502 , INFX 510 , INFX 531 , and INFX 540 
    Restriction(s): Admission to the Master’s in Informatics program, or permission of Graduate Coordinator required
  

  • INFX 575 - Mobile/Pervasive Application Design and Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Design and implement novel interactions with mobile and pervasive technologies. Interaction paradigms and explore different technologies related thereto. Design, build, implement, and refine mobile and pervasive computing applications for students’ domain of interest.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 501 , INFX 502 , INFX 510 , INFX 540 , and INFX 570 
    Restriction(s): Admission to the Master’s in Informatics program, or permission of Graduate Coordinator required
  

  • INFX 580 - Systems Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Provides students with the tools and skills needed to define, understand, and implement successful enterprise architectures that provide real value to organizations. Agile (e.g., Scrum) and object-oriented methods of information systems analysis design for organizations with data-processing needs. Develop proficiency in all basic project management tools and software techniques, including software architecture, project communications, risk analysis, cost estimation and budgeting, and quality control, as well as proficiency in preparing and implementing a comprehensive project plan and a software development life cycle. Enhance students’ competence sufficiently to oversee the architecture, design, and implementation of software systems.

    Restriction(s): Admission to the Master’s in Informatics program or permission of the Graduate Coordinator required
  

  • INFX 581 - Process Analysis, Modeling and Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Identify, execute, measure, monitor, and control both automated and non-automated business processes to achieve consistent, target results aligned with an organization’s strategic goals. Focuses on use of information technology to manage, transform, and improve business processes. Modeling of processes, relationships, and costs, as well as the re-engineering of processes to reduce waste, add value, shorten cycle times, decrease variability and improve productivity. Project management and concepts that promote efficient communication and coordination among various groups. Students will construct a project plan and manage project costs, risk, and communication within the context of Project Portfolios.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 501 , INFX 502 , INFX 510 , and INFX 580 
    Restriction(s): Admission to the Master’s in Informatics program or permission of Graduate Coordinator required
  

  • INFX 590 - IT Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC)

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Systems and protocols. Design threat models using current security technologies and concepts to block specific vulnerabilities. Introduction to relevant definitions and case studies of security technologies. Integration of risk management into governance and compliance, not limited to security design/implementations that allocate risk, determine authority, RIF or alter relationships, and determine trust extended to organizational participants.

    Restriction(s): Admission to the Master’s in Informatics program or permission of Graduate Coordinator required
  

  • INFX 591 - Informatics Capstone

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Project-based capstone course on the relevant issues of effectively managing information services. Highlights areas of greatest current and potential application of IT to business needs, and reviews electronic business, enterprise business systems, and decision support systems.

    Prerequisite(s): INFX 501 , INFX 502 , INFX 510 , INFX 540 , INFX 580 , and INFX 590 
    Restriction(s): Admission to the Master’s in Informatics program and taken in the student’s final semester, or permission of Graduate Coordinator required
  

  • INFX 592 - Graduate Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Presentation of current research topics and results.

    Restriction(s): May not be applied towards any graduate degree
  

  • INFX 593 - Master’s Internship

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite(s): Permission of Graduate Coordinator
  

  • INFX 595 - Master’s Project

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite(s): Permission of Graduate Coordinator
  

  • INFX 597 - Directed Individual Study

    Credit Hours: 1-3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Repeatable Course: May be repeated for a total of 6 hours credit.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor required
    Restriction(s): Admission to the Master’s in Informatics program, or permission of Graduate Coordinator required
  

  • INFX 598 - Special Topics in Informatics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Alternate subtitles will appear on students’ transcripts.

    Repeatable Course: May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor
    Restriction(s): Admission to the Master’s in Informatics program, or permission of Graduate Coordinator required
  

  • INFX 599 - Thesis Research and Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3-9
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite(s): Permission of Graduate Coordinator required

Instructional Resources in Education

All methods courses will require field experience. The number of hours required will vary from course to course. It is recommended that students schedule their classes each semester with three to six hours available during K-12 school hours each week to accomplish the required field experience.
  

  • IRED 315 - Technology in Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Skills and methods of integrating technology into teaching.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to upper division in the College of Education
    Restriction(s): Open to alternative certification students only
  

  • IRED 320 - Technology in the Classroom

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Methods of integrating technology into instruction.

    Prerequisite(s): EDCI 100 
  

  • IRED 330 - Integrating Technology in the Science Classroom

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Instruction and guided practice in the effective integration of modern technology with standards-based science curriculum at the secondary level.

    Prerequisite(s): IRED 320 
    Corequisite(s): EDCI 453 
  

  • IRED 420G - Computer Literacy for Educators

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Introduction to the uses of computers in society and in education.
  

  • IRED 421G - Methods and Materials for Computer Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Evaluation and implementation of computer software and methods of teaching about and using computers in the classroom.
  

  • IRED 495G - Special Topics in Instructional Technology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
  

  • IRED 496G - Special Topics in Instructional Technology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
  

  • IRED 500 - Software Applications for Educators

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
  

  • IRED 501 - Integration of Technology in Instruction

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Use of application software to develop higher level thinking skills.

    Prerequisite(s): IRED 500 
  

  • IRED 503 - The Internet in Classroom Instruction

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite(s): IRED 500 
  

  • IRED 505 - Educational Applications of Telecommunications and the Internet

    Credit Hours: 0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Issues and processes involved in the planning and implementation of computer networks in an educational setting; utilization of the Internet in the classroom to enhance learning.
  

  • IRED 510 - Learning Environment Design I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Models for the design, implementation, and evaluation of technology-enhanced instruction based on learning theory and research.
  

  • IRED 515 - Technology Leadership in Schools

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Foundation skills in school-wide planning for technology integration, implementation of standards, professional development, and evaluation.
  

  • IRED 517 - Technology Planning and Administration

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Practical aspects of planning and administering school technology implementation plans.
  

  • IRED 520 - Teaching STEM in K-8 Classrooms

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Application of strategies and tools for integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics teaching in K-8 classrooms.

    Restriction(s): Teacher certification required
  

  • IRED 530 - Professional Development for K-12 Technology Integration

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Practical aspects of providing professional development in technology integration for K-12 faculty/staff.
  

  • IRED 545 - Evaluation of Technology Programs

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Models and techniques for the evaluation of technology program effectiveness.
  

  • IRED 575 - Advanced Educational Telecommunications and Distance Learning

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Technical and pedagogical issues related to telecommunications and distance learning.

    Prerequisite(s): IRED 505 
  

  • IRED 812 - Leadership in the Integration of Emerging Technologies

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Designed to provide an interactive, collaborative environment that fosters development of technology leaders with skill in the design and implementation of emerging technologies in the education environment. Students will examine the integration of emerging technologies through field experiences, web-based resources, video case studies, in-class and listserv discussion. (Same as ETEC 812 at Southeastern).
 

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