The University's Core curriculum is crafted to provide all technology students
with learning experiences designed to engage them on the larger issues associated
with technology and technological advancement, to provide them with interaction
skills relevant to the modern technological workplace, and to help them develop
the thinking and learning habits of lifelong learners.
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Demonstrate a basic knowledge of several current legal issues
applicable to technology fields.
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Demonstrate the application of strategies useful in information research.
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Be able to articulate and apply the roles and requirements for successfully
managing a technology-based project.
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Successfully serve on a team that manages a technology project from concept to completion.
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Produce a Portfolio/Capstone of complete, complex works representative of the
technology major being studied.
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Apply a diverse set of thinking approaches in appropriate contexts to
technology-based and interaction-based situations to produce successful outcomes.
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Articulate and apply knowledge of future studies techniques to understand
potential emerging technology environments and their impacts.
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Articulate at least four of the ethical challenges that face a globally diverse,
technology-connected society.
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Produce and present an innovative senior project.
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Successfully apply knowledge from the discipline being studied through internship.
LAW370 - Legal Issues in Technology
Pre-Requisite(s): ENG101
This course addresses typical legal and business issues in the multimedia field. Rights granted under copyright, principles of fair use, trademarks, intellectual property law, trade secrets, unfair competition, disclosure and privacy laws are covered. Students explore these legal topics with focus on electronic media.
MGT112 - Project Management in a Technology Environment
Prerequisite(s): none
This course covers every aspect of managing a project in a technology environment, from assembling the right team to figuring out a schedule, estimating needed resources and monitoring its progress. This course will cover determination, examination and critiques of current practices in project management with an emphasis on the use of technology to support project development. Also included are real-life project management problems such as the following: how to get results when there is no direct authority over participants, what to do when team members don't follow through, how to handle differing departmental agendas and how to balance regular work with additional responsibilities. Communication skills will also be emphasized.
PRO102 - Professional Skills Development
Prerequisite(s): none
This course is designed to develop life-long learning strategies and provides the basic skills for success in the educational, professional and personal environment. Specific topics explored are personality profile analysis, developmental styles,conflict resolution skills, group problem solving and learning style analysis. Collaboration and group skills development will be emphasized.
PRO211 - Senior Innovation Project I
Prerequisite(s): none
The purpose of this course is to develop students as technologists. Students will explore and critically analyze a potential and emerging topic for a thesis and shape their ideas into a form that represents a clear set of thinking to be used as the basis for developing their innovation. In creating a topic document based upon these investigations, students will demonstrate the ability to communicate technology ideas to others and increase the likelihood that the idea will take form and find a relevant application in society. The course will culminate with the composition and approval of the student’s topic paper. The topic paper will include an abbreviated introduction of the innovation, short prior art identification and general methodology.
PRO250 - Senior Innovation Project II
Prerequisite(s): PRO211
This course presents the student with the opportunity to work on their selected innovation and share their progress through a series of activities, teachbacks, and workshop sessions. The focus will be placed on the process of innovation and how to overcome the hurdles that can arise in such endeavors.
PRO300 - Senior Innovation Project III: Analysis & Patent
Prerequisite(s): PRO211 and PRO250
This course continues the journey towards the completion of the student thesis and should be taken after the actual innovation or hypothesis has been tested, and students are ready to compose analysis/results and the conclusion to the work. This course will culminate in the composition and approval of thesis chapters including Results (Chapter 4) and Conclusions (Chapter 5).
PRO481 - Senior Innovation Project and Portfolio Presentation
Prerequisite(s): PRO300/PRO301 or instructor approval.
This course completes undergraduate thesis and portfolio process providing guidance and structure for the formal presentation of the student’s work. Students will passionately and clearly articulate their innovation, technology concepts and application in a formal defense. Students entering this class are expected to have completed all works included in their portfolio and have their thesis chapters approved through the completion of prior thesis course work prior to enrolling.
TCH110 - Foresight Development
Prerequisite(s): none
Foresight is the act of looking to the future. This course teaches better global, business and personal foresight to better enjoy and manage your own future. This course will explore the big picture history of accelerating change from universal, historical and technological perspectives, as well as identifying global trends that are affecting individuals, society, businesses and governments. Additionally, the course will examine how organizations make bets on the future and gives the student a chance to explore career prospects in a variety of fields. Finally, discussion of how biology, psychology, community and culture help and hinder personal thinking about the future will be discussed. We will articulate and explain the four fundamental foresight processes: innovating the future (creative development of products and services); planning the future (developing shared goals and processes); profiting in the future (achieving measurable positive results, including environmental, social, and economic benefits); and predicting the future (trend identification and analysis). Assignments will be fun, personalized to foresight goals, and will include brief readings, brief writing, discussions, debates, visuals, film, podcasts and games.
TCH150 - Technology and Society
Prerequisite(s): None
TCH150 introduces students to essential elements of the historical, contemporary and possible future interdependencies of technology and society. These elements are discovered through readings, discussions and forecasts related to technological development. This course provides students with tools necessary to understand the role technology plays in society and to prepare students for interaction within a technology-driven world. Technology will be recognized as a driving force in cultural revolutions and as a foundational concept of human development. The course will consider rapidly changing technologies in modern society, the problems associated with these changes and the effects of these technologies on modern culture.
TCH301 - Ethics in Technology
Prerequisite(s): ENG101
TCH301 is designed to introduce students to essential concepts necessary to evaluate the ethical implications and potential impacts of the use of new technology within human society and culture. Students will explore modern ethical dilemmas in technology, looking at multiple aspects of how the introduction of technology redefines law and values.
INT200 - Internship
Prerequisite(s): sponsor approval and sophomore standing
An internship is considered a supervised, practical experience
that is the application of previously learned theory.
Employers/sponsors work with the student to meet specific objectives and/or learning goals and provide special mentoring or networking opportunities. In exchange, the intern helps the employer/ sponsor in meeting overall work goals for the agency/company. Students completing 3.0 credit internships must work a total of 150 hours, or 10 hours per week for 15 weeks.
INT250 - Internship
Prerequisite(s): sponsor approval and Sophomore standing
An internship is considered a supervised, practical experience that is the application of previously learned theory. Employers/sponsors work with the student to meet specific objectives and/or learning goals and provide special mentoring or networking opportunities. In exchange, the intern helps the employer/sponsor in meeting overall work goals for the agency/company. Students completing 6.0 credit internships must work a total of 300 hours, or 20 hours per week for 15 weeks.
INT350 - Internship
Prerequisite(s): sponsor approval and Junior standing
An internship is considered a supervised, practical experience that is the application of previously learned theory. Employers/sponsors work with the student to meet specific objectives and/or learning goals and provide special mentoring or networking opportunities. In exchange, the intern helps the employer/sponsor in meeting overall work goals for the agency/company. Students completing 3.0 credit internships must work a total of 150 hours, or 10 hours per week for 15 weeks.
INT400 - Internship
Prerequisite(s): sponsor approval and Junior standing
An internship is considered a supervised, practical experience that is the application of previously learned theory. Employers/sponsors work with the student to meet specific objectives and/or learning goals and provide special mentoring or networking opportunities. In exchange, the intern helps the employer/sponsor in meeting overall work goals for the agency/company. Students completing 6.0 credit internships must work a total of 300 hours, or 20 hours per week for 15 weeks.
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Apply strategies useful in information research.
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Produce a topic paper on an innovation within a technology discipline.
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Apply a diverse set of thinking approaches in appropriate contexts to
technology-based and interaction-based situations to produce successful outcomes.
PRO102 - Professional Skills Development
Prerequisite(s): none
This course is designed to develop life-long learning strategies and provides the basic skills for success in the educational, professional and personal environment. Specific topics explored are personality profile analysis, developmental styles,conflict resolution skills, group problem solving and learning style analysis. Collaboration and group skills development will be emphasized.
PRO211 - Senior Innovation Project I
Prerequisite(s): none
The purpose of this course is to develop students as technologists. Students will explore and critically analyze a potential and emerging topic for a thesis and shape their ideas into a form that represents a clear set of thinking to be used as the basis for developing their innovation. In creating a topic document based upon these investigations, students will demonstrate the ability to communicate technology ideas to others and increase the likelihood that the idea will take form and find a relevant application in society. The course will culminate with the composition and approval of the student’s topic paper. The topic paper will include an abbreviated introduction of the innovation, short prior art identification and general methodology.
TCH110 - Foresight Development
Prerequisite(s): none
Foresight is the act of looking to the future. This course teaches better global, business and personal foresight to better enjoy and manage your own future. This course will explore the big picture history of accelerating change from universal, historical and technological perspectives, as well as identifying global trends that are affecting individuals, society, businesses and governments. Additionally, the course will examine how organizations make bets on the future and gives the student a chance to explore career prospects in a variety of fields. Finally, discussion of how biology, psychology, community and culture help and hinder personal thinking about the future will be discussed. We will articulate and explain the four fundamental foresight processes: innovating the future (creative development of products and services); planning the future (developing shared goals and processes); profiting in the future (achieving measurable positive results, including environmental, social, and economic benefits); and predicting the future (trend identification and analysis). Assignments will be fun, personalized to foresight goals, and will include brief readings, brief writing, discussions, debates, visuals, film, podcasts and games.
INT200 - Internship
Prerequisite(s): sponsor approval and sophomore standing
An internship is considered a supervised, practical experience
that is the application of previously learned theory.
Employers/sponsors work with the student to meet specific objectives and/or learning goals and provide special mentoring or networking opportunities. In exchange, the intern helps the employer/ sponsor in meeting overall work goals for the agency/company. Students completing 3.0 credit internships must work a total of 150 hours, or 10 hours per week for 15 weeks.
INT250 - Internship
Prerequisite(s): sponsor approval and Sophomore standing
An internship is considered a supervised, practical experience that is the application of previously learned theory. Employers/sponsors work with the student to meet specific objectives and/or learning goals and provide special mentoring or networking opportunities. In exchange, the intern helps the employer/sponsor in meeting overall work goals for the agency/company. Students completing 6.0 credit internships must work a total of 300 hours, or 20 hours per week for 15 weeks.