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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Advanced-level independent reading and/or research in an area other than the normal course offerings of the department. Prerequisites: Junior standing. Consent of instructor. Taught: Each semester, 1-4 semester credits. Maximum of 4 semester credits, total, in independent study and/or practicum may be counted toward the major.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Explores enduring works, questions, and ideas in the liberal arts tradition. The common slate for fall 2008, read in all sections, includes selections from the Bible as well as provocative works by Plato, Sophocles, Virgil, Galileo, Descartes, and Mary Shelley. Themes and topics will vary by section. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Multidisciplinary approaches to studying the human condition in a diverse world. Theme and content vary by section, but all seminars display historical and disciplinary breadth and focus upon topics in the liberal arts tradition. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Introduction to computer science. Topics chosen from the following: programming languages, digital logic and computer architecture, algorithms. Programming concepts including applications of loops, assignment and "if" statements, arrays, user-defined functions. Emphasis on the writing of programs illustrating these concepts. Students who have received credit (including transfer credit) for Computer Science 171 or its equivalent may not register for this course. Prerequisite: Mathematics 055 or equivalent. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits. May not be taken for credit if AP Computer Science credit has been granted.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Basic techniques for solving problems amenable to solution through the use of a high-level computer programming language. Emphasis on solving a problem via a program and on the skills to write programs solving complex problems. Variables, data types, branches, loops, arrays, functional decomposition. Prerequisite: Mathematics 115 or equivalent. Taught: Each semester, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Data structures and algorithmic techniques that are fundamental in programming solutions to complex problems. Abstract data types, lists, stacks, queues, trees, graphs. Array-based and linked structures. Use and simple analysis of iterative and recursive algorithms. Introduction to object-oriented programming. Prerequisite: Computer Science 171 or consent of instructor. Taught: Each semester, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Ely Content: Overview of the kinds of problems that arise in calculus and physics. Emphasis on computer solutions. Topics include differentiation, integration, nonlinear equations, linear systems, ordinary differential equations, approximation, curve fitting. Prerequisites: Mathematics 115 or equivalent. Computer Science 171. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Ely, Mache Content: Computer design concepts and assembly languages. Topics chosen from the following: digital logic; arithmetic/logic unit design; bus structures; VLSI implementation; SIMD, MIMD, and RISC architectures; instruction sets; memory addressing modes; parameter passing; macro facilities. Prerequisite: Computer Science 172. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Mache Content: Basic principles, policies, design issues, and construction of computer operating systems. Memory management, scheduling, synchronization of concurrent processes, input-output. Prerequisite: Computer Science 277. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Ely Content: Two- and three-dimensional computer graphics. Line, circle, filling, windowing, clipping algorithms, three-dimensional perspective projections, hidden line removal, shading, light models. Prerequisites: Computer Science 172. Computer science 230 or equivalent. Familiarity with trigonometry, vectors helpful. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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