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CIE 425 - Transportation Safety
Fundamental theory on transportation safety processes and evaluation methodology. Topics: vehicle/road/driver interaction, countermeasure effectiveness, enforcement, education and engineering measures. (1.0 ED/2.0 ES). Lec 3. (Fall.)
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in CIE 225.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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CIE 426 - Advanced Roadway Design
Principles of highway location, design of vertical and horizontal alignment, design and construction of surface treatments, pavement structures and roadway drainage systems. Student project preparing necessary plan-profile and cross section drawings required to construct a 3,000 foot section of roadway, which is evaluated with respect to road-user travel time, comfort and safety; impact on surrounding environment including aesthetical aspects; and construction cost. (3.0 ED/0.0 ES.) Lec 3. (Fall.)
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in CIE 225.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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CIE 430 - Water Treatment
Introduction to environmental chemistry as related to water treatment technology, and anlaysis and design of water treatment systems. (3.0 ED/1.0 ES) Lec 3, Lab 3. (Fall)
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in CIE 331 and in CIE 350.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 4
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CIE 431 - Pollutant Fate and Transport
Introduction to environmental transformation processes which controls the fate and transport of contaminants in the environment and in engineered systems. Topics include reaction energetics and kinetics, reactor engineering concepts, interphase mass transfer and phase partitioning. (3.0 ED/1.0 ES). Lec 3, Lab 3 (Spring.)
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in CIE 331 and in MAT 258.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 4
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CIE 432 - Water and Wastewater Process Design
Theory and design of water supply and wastewater treatment facilities. Design projects cover processes such as sedimentation, coagulation and filtration, biological treatment and disinfection. (4.0 ED/0.0 ES). Lec 3, Lab 3. (Spring.)
Prerequisites: CIE 231 and CIE 350.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 4
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CIE 434 - Wastewater Process Design
Theory and design of wastewater treatment facilities. Design projects cover processes such as sedimentation, biological treatment, aeration and disinfection. (3.0 ED/1.0 ES). Lec 3, Lab 1. (Spring.)
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in CIE 331 and in CIE 350.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 4
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CIE 439 - Solid Waste and Air Pollution
This course covers the basic theory and design of solid waste handling systems and air pollution generation, effects and control. Topics include solid waste characteristics and generation, collection, recycling, composting, incineration and landfilling; air pollutants, meteorology and dispersion modeling, and emission control. (0.0 ED/3.0 ES)
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in CIE 331.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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CIE 440 - Structural Analysis I
Classical and matrix methods in the analysis of linear redundant systems. The basic concepts of equilibrium, stress-strain relations, and compatibility are emphasized. Manual and introductory computer aided solution techniques are utilized. (0.0 ED/4.0 ES.) Lec 3, Lab 3. (Spring.)
Prerequisites: C or better in CIE 340.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 4
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CIE 442 - Structural Design I
Gravity loading and vertical load path for steel and concrete structures. LRFD design methodology and load combinations. Design of simple flexural and axial members in steel and reinforced concrete. (4.0ED/0.0 ES.) Lec 3, Lab 3
Prerequisites: C or better in CIE 340.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 4
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CIE 443 - Structural Steel Design
Lateral loading and lateral load path for steel and concrete structures. Design of steel tension members, steel connections, concrete beam-columns, and advanced flexural members (4.0 ED/0.0 ES) Lec 3, Lab 3
Prerequisites: CIE 442.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 4
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CIE 450 - Open Channel Hydraulics
Covers uniform and nonuniform flow in open channels, gradually and rapidly varying flow, computational methods for flow profiles, open channel flow structures. (1.0 ED/2.0 ES.) Lec 3. (Spring.)
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in CIE 350.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CIE 455 - Hydrology
Application of statistical analysis of rainfall and runoff processes for the development of design parameters of water resources projects, including uncertainty of these parameters. Includes collection and presentation of rainfall and runoff data, methods for developing hydrographs and flood control, development of design hydrographs for urbanizing watersheds. (1.0 ED/2.0 ES.) Lec 3. (Fall.)
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in CIE 350.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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CIE 456 - Groundwater Hydrology and Hydraulics
Fundamentals of the hydrodynamics of flow through porous media, and the development of methodology for solving the many open-ended problems of groundwater flow, supply and pollution. Concepts of groundwater modeling design. Aspects of field variability and uncertainty. (1.0 ED/2.0 ES.) Lec 3. (Spring.)
Prerequisites: C or better in CIE 350 and in MAT 258.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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CIE 460 - Geotechnical Engineering
The application of geotechnical engineering to practical engineering design and construction problems including consideration of economic and safety constraints. (3.0 ED/0.0 ES.) Lec 3. (Fall.)
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in CIE 365.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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CIE 480 - Wind Energy Engineering
This course presents the theory and design of modern wind turbines. Theoretical aspects of the course cover the fundamentals of assessing the aerodynamic loads and efficiency of a wind turbine. Design procedures for wind turbines are outlined with an emphasis on maximizing performance, assuring structural integrity and minimizing the cost of energy. Current trends in offshore wind are also covered as well as the social and environmental issues of a burgeoning wind energy industry.
Prerequisites: MAT 258 and MEE 251.
Corequisites: CIE 350 or MEE 360.
Credits: 3
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CIE 498 - Selected Studies in Civil Engineering
Topics in civil engineering not regularly covered in other courses. Specific topics vary. May, with permission of the department, be repeated for credit. (Fall and Spring.)
Prerequisites: permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 1-3
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CIE 533 - Environmental Aquatic Chemistry
Fundamental aspects of aquatic chemistry emphasizing environmental engineering applications. (0.0 ED/3.0 ES.) Lec 2, Lab 3. (Spring.)
Prerequisites: CIE 231.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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CIE 534 - Environmental Microbiology
Fundamentals of microbiology and biochemistry as related to natural and engineered treatment processes; microbial ecology, physiology, metabolism and genetics; energetics and kinetics of microbial growth; public health microbiology; introduction to pollution microbiology. (0.0 ED/3.0 ES.) Lec 3. (Fall.)
Prerequisites: CIE 231.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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CIE 537 - Water Pollution
An introduction to the major water pollution issues. The major nutrient cycles, and the sources, fates and effects of organic and inorganic pollutants will be discussed, along with technologies to control and prevent pollution.
Prerequisites: permission.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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CIE 540 - Experimental Analysis of Structures
Stress and strain measurement techniques. Applications to small and full scale structures, dynamic measurements, modal analysis, fracture toughness, nondestructive evaluation. (0.0 ED/3.0 ES.) Lec 3.
Prerequisites: CIE 440.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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CIE 543 - Introduction to Composite Materials in Civil Engineering
An introduction to the mechanics of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials in civil engineering with a view to structural design. Understanding of material properties, fabrication processes, fundamental mechanics, experimental procedures and methods of analysis and design. (2.0 ED/1.0 ES.) Lec 2, Lab 1.
Prerequisites: Senior or graduate standing in Engineering or Wood Science and Technology; CIE 340 and MEE 251 or equivalents. At least one course each in mechanics, calculus/linear algebra and computer programming.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CIE 544 - Design of Wood Structures
Study of unique mechanical and design characteristics of structural wood and wood composite members and design of systems containing these members. (4.0 ED/0.0 ES.) Lec 3, Lab 3.
Prerequisites: CIE 340 or WSC 425.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 4
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CIE 545 - Structural Dynamics
Examines free vibration and response to harmonic and general dynamic loading of the single degree of freedom system, Fourier analysis and response in the frequency domain, response spectra, framed structures modeled as discrete multi-degree-of-freedom systems, dynamic analysis of nonlinear systems. Response of structural systems to earthquake excitation. (0.0 ED/3.0 ES.) Lec 3.
Prerequisites: CIE 440.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CIE 547 - Prestressed Concrete Structures
Design and behavior of prestressed concrete components and structures; pretensioning and post-tensioning technology. (3.0 ED/0.0 ES.) Lec 3 (Spring.)
Prerequisites: CIE 442.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CIE 548 - Bridge Engineering
History and aesthetics of bridges, construction materials, bridge shapes and types, bridge components, design philosophies, loads on bridges, slab-on-steel beam bridges, plate girder bridges, composite design, box girder bridges, overview of arch, truss, cable-stayes and suspension bridges, bridge evaluation and maintenance. (3.0 ED/0.0 ES) Lec 3. (Fall.)
Prerequisites: CIE 443 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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CIE 549 - Numerical Methods in Engineering
Modern numerical methods for engineering analysis, including numerical linear algebra, numerical methods for solving nonlinear systems of equations, the solution of initial-value problems, finite-difference methods for boundary-value problems, iterative methods for large sparse systems of equations, and an introduction to optimization techniques. This course is identical to MEE 549.
Prerequisites: MAT 258 or MAT 259 and an introductory programming course, or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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CIE 552 - Physical Hydrology
Develop an understanding of hydrologic science based on the physical processes within the coupled ocean-atmosphere-land system. Mathematical description of the principal processes. Flux computation, feedback assessment, and the major stocks and flows in the terrestrial branch of the hydrologic system. Application to water resources engineering and management, policy considerations, and global environmental change impacts.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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CIE 553 - Water Resources Sustainability
Water Resources Sustainability builds on a conceptual understanding of the hydrologic cycle and basic principles of hydrologic analysis, and water resources engineering. Advanced methods for water resources systems analysis and design are presented and discussed. These include systems modeling, probabilistic methods, decision analysis, and optimization.
Prerequisites: CIE 350 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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CIE 562 - Earthwork Design
Design and construction of earth structures including earth dams, landfill liners and roadway embankments. Economic, safety, reliability, ethics, social impact and legal constraints are considered in design decisions. (3.0 ED/0.0 ES.) Lec 3. (Spring.)
Prerequisites: CIE 365.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Odd Years
Credits: 3
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CIE 563 - Thermal Soil Mechanics
A study of the thermal properties of soils, heat transfer, and methods for predicting soil temperature under freezing conditions. Design of pavements, foundations, and excavations to resist the effects of freezing. (1.0 ED/1.0 ES.) Lec 2. (Spring.)
Prerequisites: CIE 365.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 2
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CIE 564 - Deep Foundations
The theories, design concepts, and construction of pile and caisson foundations for buildings and bridges. Economic, safety, and reliability constraints are considered in design decisions. (3.0 ED/0.0 ES.) Lec 3. (Fall.)
Prerequisites: CIE 460 or concurrently.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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CIE 565 - Foundations and Underground Structures
Covers design of shallow foundations for buildings and bridges including effect of economics and reliability on choice of foundation system. Design of dewatering systems, buried pipes, and tunnels. Legal and ethical aspects of geotechnical practice. Intended for structural and soils students. (3.0 ED/0.0 ES.) Lec 3.
Prerequisites: CIE 460 or concurrently.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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CIE 566 - Retaining Earth Structures
Geotechnical analysis and design for structures which retain earth. Economic, safety and reliability constraints are considered in design decisions. (3.0 ED/0.0 ES.) Lec 3.
Prerequisites: CIE 460.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Odd Years
Credits: 3
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CIE 567 - Ground Improvement Techniques
Practical techniques to overcome unfavorable ground conditions applied to foundation, roadway, and embankment design. Covers compaction in-situ densification, stone columns, chemical stabilization, reinforced embankments, preloading, sand drains, and wick drains. (3.0 ED/0.0 ES.) Lec 3. (Fall.)
Prerequisites: CIE 460.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Odd Years
Credits: 3
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CIE 598 - Selected Studies in Civil Engineering
Advanced topics in Civil Engineering not regularly covered in other courses. Content varies to suit individual needs. May be repeated for credit with permission of department. (Fall and Spring.)
Prerequisites: permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 1-3
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CIE 631 - Physiochemical Processes for Water Quality Control
Principles of physical and chemical unit operations applied to water and wastewater treatment including sedimentation analysis, gas transfer kinetics, filtration, adsorption, ion exchange, membrane processes, chemical coagulation and floculation, chemical oxidation and precipitation, corrosion control and disinfection. Lec 2, Lab 3.
Prerequisites: CIE 431 or CIE 432.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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CIE 640 - Advanced Structural Analysis
Considers arches, cable structures, shear deformation, semi-rigid connections, material and geometric nonlinearities, stability, modeling of large structural systems, optimization techniques. Includes computer programs applicable to each topic. Lec 3.
Prerequisites: CIE 440 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Even Years
Credits: 3
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CIE 644 - Advanced Composite Materials in Civil Engineering
Advanced course on engineering mechanics and structural applications of composite materials. Fiber reinforced composites in civil-infrastructure; Viscoelastic response; Fracture, fatigue and impact behavior; Durability; Characterization of structural composite materials; Strength and stiffness design criteria; Engineered Interfaces; Connections; Bridge structures; Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete; Strengthening of Wood. Out of class laboratory assignments will be required. Lec 3.
Prerequisites: CIE 543; graduate standing in Engineering or Wood Science and Technology or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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CIE 647 - Advanced Topics in Steel Design
Theoretical underpinning of building code requirements will be derived for topics including: composite steel and concrete flexural and axial members, reliability index (LRFD), local and global buckling, and semi-rigid connection design. Plastic analysis and progressive
Prerequisites: CIE 443
Credits: 3
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CIE 648 - Fracture Mechanics
Theoretical foundations of fracture mechanics, including the role of defects in the brittle failure of materials and structures; stress concentrations and the analysis of stress fields around crack tips; fracture modes; crack growth criteria; fatigue effects; ductile failure; experimental analysis. Applications to metals, concrete and rock, wood, ceramics and composites. (0.0 ED/3.0 ES.) Lec 3.
Prerequisites: MEE 455 or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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CIE 660 - Advanced Soil Mechanics
Advanced study of soil properties and soil mechanics principles including the formation and structure of soil, effective stress principle, compressibility and shear strength of subsurface materials. Lec 3.
Prerequisites: CIE 460 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Even Years
Credits: 3
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CIE 661 - Advanced Soils Mechanics Laboratory
Advanced laboratory investigation of soil compression and strength properties. Lab 3.
Prerequisites: CIE 366; Prerequisite or Corequisite: CIE 660 or equivalent.
Corequisites: Prerequisite or Corequisite: CIE 660 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Even Years
Credits: 2
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CIE 699 - Graduate Thesis / Research
(Fall and Spring.)
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: Ar
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CLA 101 - Greek Literature in English Translation
A survey of Greek literature. No knowledge of Greek is necessary.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives, Western Cultural Traditions and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Even Years
Credits: 3
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CLA 102 - Latin Literature in English Translation
A survey of Latin literature. No knowledge of Latin is necessary.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives, Western Cultural Traditions and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Odd Years
Credits: 3
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CLA 201 - Women in the Ancient World
Investigates the social and literary context of the lives of women in several ancient Mediterranean cultures; Near East, Hebrew, North Africa, Greece and Rome.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Odd Years
Credits: 3
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CLA 202 - Mythology of the Ancient Near East, North African and Greece
Surveys the mythologies of the ancient Mediterranean Basin, including Hebrew Mythology. Through lectures, reading and video the major deities and heroes of each culture will be presented within their cultural context, including the stories associated with them.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Even Years
Credits: 3
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CLA 400 - Hero: Myth and Meaning
The idea of the hero has been important in culture and art since the earliest epic. What is heroism? What defines the hero? How does a person become a hero and what do you do afterward? These are all questions that the great epic stories from the past and the world of the media today seek to address and answer. This course looks at ancient epics dealing with the hero and brings hero tales through time to today. We look at myth, legend and lived experience, with special attention to the world of the heroes as articulated through their representation in literature, art, music and film.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives, and Western Cultural Traditions Requirements.
Prerequisites: Sophomore Standing
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CLA 401 - Amazons: Myth and Reality
The question of women and war, including the question of women warriors, has engaged people for centuries. Beginning with the mythology and mythic history of Amazons in ancient Greece, this course traces the tradition of the woman warrior in Western cultural representations (literature, art, legend). Several non-European cultural traditions of women warriors, and the testimony of women who have fought in resistance movements and war in the modern period, contemporary attitudes toward women within the military. Depiction of Amazons in contemporary fantasy and film compromises an additional component of the course.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives, and Western Cultural Traditions Requirements.
Prerequisites: Sophomore Standing.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CMJ 100 - Introduction to Mass Communication
Introduces the structure and operation of mass media and the social, political and economic implications of their activities.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3
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CMJ 102 - Fundamentals of Interpersonal Communication
The basic elements of interpersonal communication, with special emphasis on developing knowledge and skills applicable to face-to-face interactions between individuals and in small groups. Participation in research to a maximum of 3 hours is expected.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3
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CMJ 103 - Fundamentals of Public Communication
The nature and problems of public speech communication, with practical experience in representative speaking situations. Participation in research to a maximum of 3 hours is expected.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
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CMJ 106 - Oral Communication of Literature
An introduction to the oral communication of literature (storytelling, prose, and poetry) to an audience. Emphasis on gaining greater sensitivity and expressiveness as a communicator. Participation in research to a maximum of 3 hours is expected.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Artistic and Creative Expression Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3
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CMJ 201 - Communication Studies I
Introduction to historical and philosophical approaches to the study of communication. The course examines communication from the classical, modern and contemporary perspectives, with specific attention to the rhetorical theorists and theories that have been dominant in the history of communication.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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CMJ 202 - Communication Studies II
Introduction to social and human science approaches in communication studies. The course examines communication theories and models, the function of language and symbolic behavior in society and culture, and the nature of interaction and interpretation. Not open to first-year students.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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CMJ 203 - Mass Communication Studies
Introduction to mass communication theories and research in the social and human sciences.
Prerequisites: Not open to newly admitted First-Year Students.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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CMJ 211 - Journalism Studies I: Introduction and History
Surveys the structures of journalistic media and the social history of journalism’s roles, technologies and processes, with emphasis on interactions with political, economic and cultural institutions and the social implications of media activities.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Social Contexts and Institutions Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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CMJ 225 - Sex, Gender and Communication
Examines various contexts and relationships influenced by sex and/or gender. Several theoretical frameworks and definitions are explored.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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CMJ 236 - Journalism Writing and Editing
Intensive introduction to news writing and editing, with emphasis on accuracy, style, as well as grammar, spelling and usage. Students must earn a B or better in CMJ 236 and pass a writing exam to continue taking professional courses in the Journalism Major.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 101 with a “C-” or Higher OR (HON 111 & 112 with a “C” or Higher)
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3
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CMJ 237 - Journalism Across Platforms
Develops journalistic skills across traditional and emerging media platforms, including print, broadcasting, and online formats and technologies. Includes media lab instruction and assignments.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: B or better in CMJ 236, Journalism Majors, and a passing grade on Journalism Writing Exam
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 4
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CMJ 245 - Film Criticism and Theory
Offers a mass communication/media studies overview of contemporary film. Students will develop skills in the analysis of film form and content so that they will achieve a high degree of proficiency in the use of film studies vocabulary. After developing an understanding of how the different elements of film work to construct meaning within (as well as outside of) film, the course will survey major theories and methodologies of film studies. Likewise, participants will receive an overview of film history and will develop familiarity with major historical and technological development of film. Participants will learn to think critically about the media industry and to evaluate film as art form, individual psychological experience, technology, social text, and commodity. (This course is identical to NMD 245.)
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CMJ 257 - Business and Professional Communication
Advanced study and practice in specialized audience analysis, strategies and tactics, conference procedures, interviewing techniques, and delivery of professional presentations.
Prerequisites: C- or better in CMJ 103, and Junior standing.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3
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CMJ 261 - Photographic Reporting and Storytelling
An overview of photojournalism history, theory and ethics. Exercises teach skills and strategies used by newspaper, magazine and on-line photographers and editors and challenge students to deal responsibly with issues of invasion of privacy, subject representation, copyright and fair use and image manipulation. (This course is identical to NMD 341.)
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Artistic and Creative Expression Requirement.
Prerequisites: None.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CMJ 314 - International Mass Communication
Survey of media systems around the world and the role of mass media in political, social, economic and cultural development.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CMJ 324 - Interpersonal Communication in Everyday Life
The advanced study of interpersonal communication as it functions across a range of human relationship, such as family, friends, professions and organizations. Examines perspectives, theories, and research on communication in everyday life.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of CMJ courses.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CMJ 330 - Copy Editing
A lab course in electronic copy editing designed to develop editorial judgment and skills for preparing news for publication. Covers headline writing, photoediting and basic page make up.
Prerequisites: CMJ 237 with ‘C-’ or better.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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CMJ 332 - Public Affairs Reporting and Research
Develops journalistic reporting, information gathering and research techniques for students to cover public issues in government, education, health, business and other areas of social concern for publication or presentation in multimedia forms.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: B or better in CMJ 236, Journalism Majors, and a passing grade on Journalism Writing Exam
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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CMJ 340 - Broadcast Newswriting and Reporting
Provides instruction in newswriting and reporting for radio and television. Students make the transition from print to broadcast writing, with emphasis on the preparation of newscasts for CMJ 343. Topics include: story types, leads and narrative flow, interviewing, voice work, and digital sudio editing.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: C- or better in CMJ 236.
Corequisites: CMJ 343.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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CMJ 343 - Radio News Practicum
Provides hands on experience in radio newscasting, the foundation for further work in radio and TV news. Topics include audio recording, digital editing, newscast production, and the conception and execution of feature stories and mini-documentaries. Serves as the companion course to CMJ 340.
Prerequisites: C- or better in CMJ 236.
Corequisites: CMJ 340.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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CMJ 345 - Small Group Communication: Service-Learning
This is a service-learning course that introduces students to the theory and applications of small group communication. Students will obtain practical experience working in groups with a community partner to help meet a community need and learn about the complexity of the issue.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CMJ 347 - Argument and Critical Thinking
An introduction to the principles of decision-making through critical thinking applied to reasoned advocacy. Practical application of these principles through classroom experience.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of CMJ courses.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CMJ 351 - Multimedia Production
Conception, design and development of non-linear audio and video production for print, broadcast, non-broadcast and online uses. Explores the fundamental principles of digital audio and video production as well as the creative uses of cameras, sound, digital non-linear editing, and graphics in news features and mini-documentaries.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Artistic and Creative Expression Requirement.
Prerequisites: B or better in CMJ 236, C- or better in CMJ 237 or portfolio approved by instructor, Journalism Majors, and a passing grade on Journalism Writing Exam.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 4
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CMJ 355 - Advertising Copy and Graphics
Provides theory and practice in creating advertising for print, direct mail and electronic media, with emphasis on the limitations of each and the responsibilities of the advertising practitioner.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: CMJ 236 and CMJ 250 with ‘C-’ or better.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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CMJ 356 - Advertising Media
Covers problems and procedures for creating an advertising media plan with emphasis on basic media math skills. The knowledge covered addresses media selection, as well as other areas of advertising, including creative, research, management and marketing.
Prerequisites: CMJ 250 or BUA 370 with ‘C-’ or better.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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CMJ 360 - Nonverbal Communication
Examines important non-linguistic variables related to human interactions. Specific emphasis on the effects of kinesics, proxemics, paralanguage and other code systems as they affect meaning in communication efforts.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirement.
Prerequisites: Not open to first-year students.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CMJ 361 - Documentary Photography and Audio
Provides the essential skills, concepts and processes used by documentary still photographers and audio producers to create professional quality digital mixed media products for the Internet and other interactive media. (This course is identical to NMD 301.)
Prerequisites: C- or better in CMJ 261 or C- or better in NMD 201.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CMJ 366 - Speech Play and Performance
Study of creative and aesthetic dimensions of communication and language. Examines how people use speech play and performance (e.g. word play, joking, storytelling, performing literature) and what happens when they do. Focus on performance as a cultural event in everyday life as well as in society and the media.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Artistic and Creative Expression Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of CMJ courses.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Even Years
Credits: 3
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CMJ 367 - Public Relations
The study of those activities which help to create public understanding and acceptance of an organization’s policies and programs.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing. 3 hours of CMJ courses.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3
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CMJ 370 - Visual Communication
An introduction to modes of analysis of visual communication (which may include photography, the web, painting, film, television, sculpture, theater, advertising, etc.), with reference to social institutions and cultural norms that affect the interpretation of visual media.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of CMJ courses.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CMJ 375 - Journalism Studies II: Law and Ethics
Study of legal and ethical topics including libel, privacy, contempt, copyright, obscenity, censorship, and pre-trial publicity. The course explores the impact of journalism ethics on politics, economics and society.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Social Contexts and Institutions Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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CMJ 376 - Modes of Media Criticism
Cooperative examination of modes of mass media criticism. Critical analysis of methods and techniques employed by scholars, journalists, and critics to evaluate contemporary trends and practices in the mass media industries.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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CMJ 380 - Advertising, Media and Society
Examines advertising’s impact on U.S. society; especially on women, children, minorities, families and popular culture.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CMJ 395 - Student Media Practicum
Provides practical experience relevant to the journalism major on one of the UMaine campus student media outlets and integrates the student’s media work experience with the skills and theories learned in the classroom. A maximum of 3 credits permitted.
Prerequisites: B or better in CMJ 236, Journalism Majors, and a passing grade on Journalism Writing Exam and permission
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 1-3
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CMJ 398 - Topics in Mass Communication
Topics not regularly covered in other courses. Content varies to suit current needs. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 1-3
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CMJ 401 - Speech, Space, Event: Critical Applications
Introduction to the subject of criticism from a rhetorical perspective. Examines methods of critical reading, criticism of several kinds of texts, including speeches, social spaces, and events, and how texts are made meaningful and why. Involves application of evaluative criteria such as aesthetics, truth, effects and especially ethics.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CMJ 402 - Communication Research
An introduction to social science inquiry into the nature, forms and functions of human communication. Focuses on conceptualizing communication research problems and selecting appropriate methodologies and analyses for examining communication data.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Mathematics Requirement.
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CMJ 403 - Persuasion and Social Influence
Study of the theory and principles involved in the process of influencing the beliefs, attitudes and values of others. Focus on social science and humanistic explanations of what makes messages persuasive in interpersonal and public contexts.
Prerequisites: 3 hours in CMJ courses.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CMJ 405 - Women and Communication
A systematic study of research by and about women with regard to language, speech, and communication pragmatics, discussed within a variety of communication contexts. Not open to first-year students.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hrs of CMJ or C- or better in WST 101.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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CMJ 410 - Social Influence of Mass Communication
A study of the communicative impact of mass media (e.g., television, radio, newspapers), and uses of the media in other communicative contexts (e.g., small group and interpersonal situations.) Current mass communication theories and research studies are explored.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions Requirement.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of CMJ courses.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CMJ 412 - Electronic Media Management and Programming
Overview of the tasks involved in managing electronic media outlets, with special emphasis on radio and TV. Begins with a general treatment of management and programming theory and practice and covers specific topics including finance, human relations, ratings, sales, and promotion. Other topics include the management of cable systems and public broadcasting stations, and telecommunications law and policy.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions Requirement.
Prerequisites: C- or better in CMJ 236 and sophomore standing.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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CMJ 420 - Health Communication
Theories and topics include multicultural health, doctor-patient communication, medical ethics, death & dying, support groups, and humor and positive communication in relationships. Students will learn about a variety of health communication topics and apply those topics to their own lives and their communities.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions Requirement.
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CMJ 425 - Health Campaigns: Service Learning
This is an online service-learning course that introduces students to the theory, design and implementation of health campaigns. Students will obtain practical, real-world experience working in groups with a community partner on a health campaign, helping to meet a community health need.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CMJ 430 - Intercultural Communication
Examines current research and theory in intercultural communication from a variety of approaches across a variety of settings. Understandings about the complex relationship of communication and culture will be applied to everyday experiences.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Odd Years
Credits: 3
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CMJ 434 - Editorial and Opinion Writing
Develops skills of persuasive and argumentative writing, with emphasis on disciplined logic, knowledge of subject and alternate points of view.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Artistic and Creative Expression Requirement.
Prerequisites: CMJ 237 with a ‘C-’ or better.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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CMJ 435 - Feature Writing
Develops style and proficiency in writing non-fiction newspaper and magazine articles.
Prerequisites: CMJ 237 with a ‘C-’ or better.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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CMJ 450 - Communication and Technology
Examines and analyzes the characteristics of and influences on human communication mediated by technology such as computer networks, video teleconferencing.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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CMJ 451 - Advanced Electronic Reporting and Production
Students will conduct intensive broadcast reporting and production projects on some issue of demonstrated social relevance. Structured opportunities are provided for reflection on the impact of student reporting on the wider community. Topics may vary and the course alternates between radio and TV reporting.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions Requirement.
Prerequisites: C- or better in CMJ 340 and CMJ 343, or C- or better in CMJ 351.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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CMJ 459 - Advertising Campaigns
Requires students to synthesize and apply knowledge and skills from all other advertising courses to create an advertising campaign.
Prerequisites: CMJ 355 and CMJ 356 with ‘C-’ or better.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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CMJ 466 - Narrative and Communication
A study of narrative, or storytelling, as a way of communicating in conversation, oral performance and literature: what stories are told to whom, how stories are told, and the forms and functions of narrative. Considers narrative in a variety of communication settings.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Artistic and Creative Expression and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of CMJ courses.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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CMJ 470 - Communication in Organizations
Examines research and theory of communication behavior in organizations with focus on recurring communication problems in complex organizations (including business, industrial, educational and service agencies.) Attention is given to communication training and assessment in organizations.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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