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PRPA 604 Public Relations Law and Ethics (3)
This course surveys communications law emphasizing its applications
to advertising and public relations. Topics include First
Amendment issues, libel, privacy, confidentiality, and access to
information. Ethical issues surrounding the practice of public
relations in a wired world will be explored.
PRPA 610 Crisis Management Seminar (3)
This seminar examines current approaches to defining crises,
issue management, and crisis management through a mix of
discussion, lecture, and presentation. Students will explore traditional
and Web-based approaches to the study of issue management
and crisis management by applying research, theory, and
case examples to these situations with a goal of developing better
issue identification, public segmentation, and strategic response
sets to crisis situations.
TLMN 602 Telecommunications Industry: Structure and
Environment (3)
Major technological, legal, and re g u l a t o ry developments (national
and international) are studied as they have molded the stru c t u re
of the current telecommunications industry. The course traces the
p ro g ression of early legislation, the regulated monopoly, antitru s t ,
d i ve s t i t u re, and recent legislation that has led to the current indust
ry environment of competition and incipient integration of
different industry segments. The roles of various national and
international institutions in shaping the telecommunications
industry are discussed.
TLMN 610 Data Communications Systems (3)
Prerequisites: Statistics and Calculus I, or equivalent. This
course covers the technology underlying data communications
systems, such as transmission media, modulation and demodulation,
multiplexing, packet switching, hardware, software, and
network operations. Topics include fiber optics, the Integrated
Services Digital Network (ISDN), T-1 and T-3 multiplexers,
the open systems interconnection (OSI) model, and integrated
voice-data equipment. Methods for determining system requirements
as well as approaches to system design are covered in light
of current data communications equipment, applications, and
services and their future trends.
TLMN 620 Local Area Networking Systems (3)
Pre requisites: Statistics and Calculus I, or equivalent. This course
examines the design, implementation, and management of computer
networking systems. It examines the seve n - l a yer Op e n
Systems In t e rconnection (OSI) re f e rence model. Ne t w o rk i n g
methods for local area networking (LAN) such as Ethernet and
Token Ring are studied along with enterprise network technologies
such as Fiber Distributed Data In t e rface (FDDI). Also examined
are LAN devices such as repeaters, bridges, routers, hubs, and
g a t eways. Traffic engineering techniques in networks are analyze d
and evaluated. Various distributed computing arc h i t e c t u res and
emerging trends in the supporting technologies are central to
course content. Topical discussions and case studies re i n f o rce and
s y n t h e s i ze new-found principles and provide the means for practical
application of abstract concepts. Each session includes eva l u a-
tion methodologies re l e vant to strategic and economic planning.
TLMN 625 Wide Area Networking Systems (3)
Prerequisites: Statistics and Calculus I, or equivalent. This
course discusses transmission and switching for wide area networks
(WAN), including circuit switched networks, such as
the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), and packet
networks, such as the Internet. Other topics include Common-
Channel Interoffice Signaling (CCIS), Signaling System 7 (SS7),
frame relay, and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM). Audio and
video compression techniques are examined. Also studied are
Private Branch Exchanges (PBX) including computer-telephone
integration (CTI). A review is made of current trends including
voice over Internet Protocol (IP).
TLMN 630 Satellite Communication Systems (3)
Pre requisites: Statistics and Calculus I, or equivalent. This course
analyzes issues surrounding the current and future design and
use of satellite communications systems. Topics include such
satellite system characteristics as type, class (bandwidth, standards,
and availability), applications, interfaces, traffic patterns,
network installation, performance criteria, hardware, and cost.
Current and planned satellite communications are examined
and compared to future needs and technologies.
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