Organization of operating systems covering structure, process management, and scheduling; interaction of concurrent processes; interrupts; I/O, device handling; memory and virtual memory management, and file management.Prerequisite: 21:198:335.
The course covers Linux programming with Apache Web and MySql database using Php/Python and C as primary languages. It consists of four stages: basic tools such as Bash and C programming; searching trees and matrix computing; end-to-end applications such as one that constantly presents top 100 stocks; and extending the applications to run on multiple machines. The course provides students with hands-on experience for programming relatively large applications.Prerequisite: 21:198:335.
Conceptual study of programming language syntax, semantics, and implementation. Course covers language definition structure, data types and structures, control structures and data flow, run-time consideration, and interpretative languages.Prerequisite: CS114 or 21:198:335 or equivalent.
This course will function like a summer reading group: we will read fiction and talk about it as a collective via Blackboard’s discussion board with several weekly touchpoints. Framing our discussion will be the question: “What is Black literature now?” That is, we will read novels and short stories published in the past few years to explore how writers use the imaginative space of fiction to evaluate the conditions of black life in the twenty-first century. The fiction we will read takes place in the United States, England, Africa, and the Caribbean. Therefore, we will examine black cultures and identities rooted in different historical experiences while paying close attention to how contemporary globalization and diasporas engender cross-cultural interactions and transformations. In addition to geographical and historical diversity, we will consider the ways gender, sexuality, and class affect racialized experience, and how these experiences impact black cultural expression. Lastly, we will pay attention to the ways popular media outlets and prestigious literary prizes are responding to and engaging with this body of literature, and we will attempt to determine what this says about the world we live in now.
In addition to weekly discussion board participation, students will write a research paper on a chosen topic related to the theme of the course. Each week, we will focus on a different phase of the research and writing process.
Writing intensive.
Cross-listed with 21:050:488
CoReq/PreReq 21:355:102 or 21:355:104.
In-depth coverage of the new manufacturing environment; activity-based costing; cost and quality management; material resource planning; and strategic performance measures.Prerequisite: 29:010:204.
Development of the fundamental tools of price and distribution theory; analysis of commodity and factor price determination under competitive and noncompetitive market conditions from the standpoint of the household and the firm; and introduction to welfare economics.Formerly 21:220:323. Prerequisites: Introduction to Economics, Micro (21:220:101) and College Algebra for Science Business (21:640:109). Introduction to Economics, Macro (21:220:102) and Applied Calculus (21:640:119) or Calculus I (21:640:135) highly recommended.
Not a survey, this course attempts to cover some of the high points of literature for children in the West over the past two centuries, moving from the Grimms's fairy tales to the present, and generically from folk and fairy tales through more literary fairy tales (Andersen) to the golden age of Victorian and Edwardian children's literature and finally to 20th-century fables, poetry, and fantasy. This interdisciplinary course draws upon the fields of education, psychology, anthropology, social work, and others.
Descriptive statistics, probability, sampling, estimation, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis; realistic application with the computer employed as a major tool.Formerly 21:220:231. Not open to students who have taken a course in statistics or its equivalent in another department.
Historical research on a more systematic level than is normally possible in lecture courses.Prerequisites: Permission of department chair and instructor.
