Mar 28, 2024  
2015-2016 General Catalog 
    
2015-2016 General Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

**COURSE SEARCH**


The following is a listing of all courses of instruction offered by departments at LSU. This listing was up-to-date and as correct as possible at the time of publication of this catalog.

Since this catalog was prepared well in advance of its effective date, some courses may have been added, others may have been dropped, and/or changes in content may have been made.

 

Computer Science

  
  • CSC 1100 Computers in Society (3)


    Prereq.: credit in MATH 1021  or registration in MATH 1023 . Credit will not be given for this course and ISDS 1100  or ISDS 1101  or ISDS 1102  or LIS 2001  or EXST 2000 . 2 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Introduction to computers, their applications and impact on people and social institutions; the Internet, e-mail, news groups, ftp, telnet, World Wide Web, multimedia, word processing, spreadsheets, databases.
  
  • CSC 1200 Ethics in Computing (1)


    Prereq.: credit or registration in CSC 1253  or CSC 1350 ; credit or registration in ENGL 1001 , ENGL 1005  or HNRS 2000 . For majors only. Introduction to ethics theory, ethical decision-making as it relates to the computing professional, licensing, intellectual property, conflicts of interest, freedom of information and privacy, security.
  
  • CSC 1240 Statistics and Graphics with MATLAB (3)


    This is a General Education course. Prereq.: MATH 1021  or placement in MATH 1022 , MATH 1023 , MATH 1431 , MATH 1550  or MATH 1551 . Credit will not be given for both this course and CSC 2262  or CSC 2533  or OCS 2011 . Not for degree credit for computer science majors. 2 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Introduction to MATLAB programming with applications in statistics and graphics.
  
  • CSC 1250 Introduction to Programming (3)


    Credit will not be given for this course and CSC 1253  or CSC 1350 . Fundamentals of problem solving, program design, algorithms and programming using a high-level language.
  
  • CSC 1253 Computer Science I with C++ (3)


    Prereq.: credit or registration in MATH 1550  or credit in MATH 1431 . Credit will not be given for both this course and CSC 1250  or CSC 1350 .
    Fundamentals of algorithm development, program design and structured programming using an object-oriented language.
  
  • CSC 1254 Computer Science II with C++ (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 1253 ; credit or registration in MATH 1550 . Credit will not be given for both this course and CSC 1351 . Develops solutions to problems using an object-oriented approach and emphasizes the concepts of recursion; dynamic memory; data structures (lists, stacks, queues, trees); exception handling.
  
  • CSC 1350 Computer Science I for Majors (4)


    Prereq.: credit or registration in MATH 1550 . Credit will not be given for both this course and CSC 1250  or CSC 1253 .
    3 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab. Fundamentals of algorithm development, program design and structured programming using an object-oriented language.
  
  • CSC 1351 Computer Science II for Majors (4)


    Prereq.: CSC 1350 ; credit or registration in MATH 1550 . Credit will not be given for both this course and CSC 1254 . 3 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab. Develops solutions to problems using an object-oriented approach and emphasizes the concepts of recursion; dynamic memory; data structures (lists, stacks, queues, trees); exception handling.
  
  • CSC 2259 Discrete Structures (3)


    Prereq.: credit or registration in CSC 1254  or CSC 1351  and MATH 1552 . Set algebra including mappings and relations; algebraic structures including semigroups and groups; elements of the theory of directed and undirected graphs; Boolean algebra and propositional logic; these structures applied to various areas of computer science.
  
  • CSC 2262 Numerical Methods (3)


    Prereq.: MATH 1552  and CSC 1254  or CSC 1351 . Credit will be given for only one of the following: CSC 1240 , 2262, CSC 2533  or IE 2060 . Computer- oriented methods for solving numerical problems in science and engineering; numerical solutions to systems of simultaneous linear equations, nonlinear algebraic equations (root solving), differentiation and integration, ordinary differential equations, interpolation and curve fitting.
  
  • CSC 2463 Programming Digital Media (3)


    Prereq.: MATH 1021 ; credit or registration in CSC 1253 , CSC 1350 , or IE 2060  or ART 2050  or MUS 2732  or permission of instructor. Programming concepts motivated by digital media applications: real-time graphics, audio processing, simple hardware devices, integration of technologies into interactive systems.
  
  • CSC 2533 Introduction to Engineering Computation (3)


    Also offered as ME 2533 . Prereq.: MATH 1550 . Credit will not be given for both this course and CSC 1240  or CSC 2262  or OCS 2011 . 2 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab. Problem solving techniques and structured programming tools for engineering synthesis and analysis; application of symbolic solvers and technical computing toolkits.
  
  • CSC 2610 Cloud Fundamentals & Web Programming (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 1254  or CSC 1351  or ISDS 3107 . Characteristics, theory and fundamentals of cloud computing and related technologies; cloud types, services and architectures; principles of application protocols and collaborative web platforms; applications in the areas of mobile and social computing; lightweight programming models; socket programming.
  
  • CSC 2700 Special Topics in Computer Science (1-3)


    Prereq.: CSC 1254  or CSC 1351  or permission of department. May be taken for a max. of 6 hrs. of credit when topics vary. Total credit earned in CSC 2700 and CSC 4700  should not exceed 9 hrs. Specialized areas of current interest in computer science.
  
  • CSC 2730 Data Science and Analytics (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 1254  or CSC 1351  or ISDS 3107 . Effective and efficient strategies for data capture; the relational database model, queries, and web programming; data mining and data warehousing process; descriptive statistics and visualization techniques; introduction to computational analysis and multidimensional analysis.
  
  • CSC 3102 Advanced Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 1254  or CSC 1351  and credit or concurrent enrollment in CSC 2259  or EE 2740 . Description and utilization of formal ADT representations, especially those on lists, sets and graphs; time and space analysis of recursive and nonrecursive algorithms, including graph and sorting algorithms; algorithm design techniques.
  
  • CSC 3380 Object Oriented Design (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 1254  or CSC 1351 . Advanced object oriented software development; emphasis on the use of the unified modeling language as a design tool.
  
  • CSC 3501 Computer Organization and Design (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 2259 . Credit will not be given for both this course and EE 3752  or EE 3755 . Computer arithmetic, design of high-speed adders and multipliers, CPU concepts, instruction fetching and decoding, hardwired control, microprogramming control, main memory, I/O organization, assembly language programming techniques, CPU instruction sets and addressing modes.
  
  • CSC 3991 HONORS: Undergraduate Research in Computer Science (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 3102 ; consent of department; admittance to Upper Division Honors Program. Individual research on problems in computer science.
  
  • CSC 3992 HONORS: Undergraduate Thesis in Computer Science (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 3991 ; consent of department; admittance to Upper Division Honors Program. Writing and formal defense of a research thesis in computer science. Defense committee of three faculty members must be approved by department.
  
  • CSC 3999 Independent Undergraduate Research (1-3)


    Prereq.: consent of department chair. May be taken for a max. of 4 hrs. of credit. Individual readings, conferences and program development in computer science.
  
  • CSC 4101 Programming Languages (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 3102 . Principles of programming language design; specification of syntax and semantics; underlying implementation of block structured languages; dynamic memory allocation for strings, lists and arrays; imperative versus applicative programming; logic programming; modern programming languages.
  
  • CSC 4103 Operating Systems (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 3102 . Design techniques, process management, processor scheduling; deadlocks, memory management, secondary memory management, file management; I/O systems, Unix systems.
  
  • CSC 4243 Interface Design and Technology (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 1253  or CSC 1350  or equivalent programming background. Human-computer interaction provides the bridges across which humans engage with computation. An overview and experience with the design of such interfaces. Programming and design projects employing both traditional graphical interfaces; handheld graphical interfaces; and tangible and embedded interfaces. All programming in Java languages.
  
  • CSC 4263 Video Game Design (3)


    Prereq.: ART 2050  or CSC 3102  or MUS 2732  or permission of instructor. The essentials of video game design and implementation, including planning, graphics, sound, programming and testing. Focus is on a semester-long, small-team, interdisciplinary project to develop and present a complete full-featured game.
  
  • CSC 4304 Systems Programming (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 4103 . Batch process systems programs, their components, operating characteristics, user services and limitations; implementation techniques for parallel processing of input-output and interrupt handling; overall structure of multiprogramming systems on multiprocessor hardware configurations; addressing techniques, core management, file system design and management, system accounting and other user-related services; traffic control, interprocess communication, design of system modules and interfaces; system updating, documentation and operation.
  
  • CSC 4330 Software Systems Development (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 3102 , CSC 3380 . Software requirements analysis; design representation, programming methodologies; verification, validation, maintenance and software planning.
  
  • CSC 4351 Compiler Construction (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 4101  or equivalent. Program language structures, translation, loading, execution and storage allocation; compilation of simple expressions and statements; organization of compiler including compile-time and run-time symbol tables, lexical scan, syntax scan, object code generation, error diagnostics, object code optimization techniques and overall design; use of compiler writing languages and bootstrapping.
  
  • CSC 4356 Interactive Computer Graphics (3)


    See ME 4573 .
  
  • CSC 4357 Applied Computer Graphics (3)


    See ME 4583 .
  
  • CSC 4370 Software Modeling Techniques (3)


    Prereq.:  CSC 4330 . Examination of modern modeling techniques for complex/high quality software including static/dynamic software models and project management models.
  
  • CSC 4402 Database Systems (3)


    Prereq.:  . Fundamentals of the relational data model; the SQL query language; E-R modeling and database design theory; storage structures and query optimization; transaction processing and concurrency control.
  
  • CSC 4444 Artificial Intelligence (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 3102 . Theorem proving and inferencing techniques, production systems, knowledge representation, approximate reasoning, nonmonotonic reasoning, natural language understanding, scene analysis, planning, game playing and learning.
  
  • CSC 4501 Computer Networks (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 3102 . Introduction to local, metropolitan and wide area networks using the standard OSI reference model as a framework; introduction to the Internet protocol suite and network tools and programming; discussion of various networking technologies.
  
  • CSC 4512 Optimization: Modeling Approaches, Algorithms and Applications (3)


    Prereq.: MATH 2085  or MATH 2090  or permission of instructor. Optimization as a modeling tool with emphasis on modeling approaches, fundamental algorithms and applications in many diverse domains.
  
  • CSC 4585 Multicore Programming (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 3102 . Multi-core processor architecture; shared-memory programming models; thread-level parallelism; efficient synchronization and performance monitoring; parallel programming design and implementation.
  
  • CSC 4610 Cloud Systems and Virtualization (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 2610 , CSC 4103 , and credit or registration in CSC 4501 . Advanced problems and challenges in defining, developing, and building a cloud system; virtualization; open source computing; provisioning; fairness, reliability, security, and monitoring.
  
  • CSC 4700 Special Topics in Computer Science (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 3102  or permission of department. May be taken for a max. of 9 cr. hrs. when topics vary. Total hrs. earned in CSC 2700  and 4700 should not exceed 9 hrs. Specialized areas of current interest in computer science.
  
  • CSC 4740 Big Data Technologies (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 2730 . Advanced analytics and management techniques applied to large-scale datasets; Hadoop/MapReduce, NoSQL and cloud technologies; applied data mining techniques; applications to social, web and mobile data, and bioinformatics.
  
  • CSC 4890 Introduction to Theory of Computation (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 2259 . Introduction to finite automata, regular expressions and languages; push-down automata and context-free languages; selected advanced language theoretical topics; emphasis on technique.
  
  • CSC 4999 Advanced Independent Undergraduate Research (1-3)


    Prereq.: consent of department chair. May be taken for a max. of 4 hrs. of credit. Individual readings, conferences and program development in computer science.
  
  • CSC 7080 Computer Architecture (3)


    Background in electronics not required. Functional architecture of modern digital computer systems; detailed description of instruction set implementation with monoprocessor and multiprocessor structures; design and analysis of instruction sets and control structures.
  
  • CSC 7101 Programming Language Structures (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 4101 . Advanced study of data specification, storage management and control in programming languages; includes coverage of formal specification languages; languages for concurrent processing; languages that support program verification techniques; and in-depth study of applicative languages.
  
  • CSC 7103 Advanced Operating Systems (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 4103 . Concurrent programming: shared memory, communication and operation-oriented models; concurrent, distributed and network programming; distributed operating systems; synchronization and deadlock detection in distributed systems.
  
  • CSC 7135 Software Engineering (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 4330 . Formal specification techniques, design techniques, abstraction, information hiding, modularity, software testing, automated testing tools, maintainability factors and cost estimation.
  
  • CSC 7150 Program Analysis and Model Checking (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 4890  or CSC 7101  or equivalent. Automata on infinite objects; Buechi Automata; Muller Automata; Rabin Automata; safety and liveness properties; linear temporal logic (LTL), from LTL to automoata; branching time logics; Knaster-Tarski fixpoint theorem; abstract interpretation.
  
  • CSC 7300 Algorithm Design and Analysis (3)


    Characteristics of an algorithm; problems of algorithm existence; the design, implementation and complexity of algorithms; algorithm case studies.
  
  • CSC 7333 Machine Learning (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 4444 . Fundamental principles of machine learning; inductive learning; explanation-based learning; computational approach to Boolean function learning; learning formal languages and recursive theories; neural network learning and genetic algorithms; applications of machine learning.
  
  • CSC 7351 Advanced Compiler Design Theory (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 4351  or equivalent. Automatic generation of LL (1), LR (1), LALR (1) parsers, syntax directed translation of high-level control structures, error recovery, optimization of branching, local code optimization using directed acyclic graphs, loop optimization, global data flow analysis and object-code optimization.
  
  • CSC 7375 Robot Vision (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 3102  or equivalent and CSC 7300 . Computational aspects of vision; utilization of techniques from computational geometry, combinatorics, probability theory and artificial intelligence; visual recognition and classification.
  
  • CSC 7402 Data Base Management Systems (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 4402 . Implementation of database systems (physical model and its mapping to conceptual model); data structures and their influence on performance, concurrency control, distributed databases; advanced database systems.
  
  • CSC 7442 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 7333 . Introduction to data mining and knowledge discovery in databases; data cleaning, statistical techniques, association rule learning; time series and spatial data mining algorithms, clustering algorithms, data visualization.
  
  • CSC 7443 Scientific Information Visualization (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 7300  or equivalent. Study of computer visualization principles, techniques and tools used for explaining and understanding information; includes visualization algorithms, techniques and applications.
  
  • CSC 7444 Advanced Artificial Intelligence (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 4444 . Temporal and nonmonotonic logic; truth maintenance systems; probabilistic reasoning; deductive databases; automated learning, planning and tutoring; story understanding; structure of domain dependent expert systems.
  
  • CSC 7481 Information Retrieval Systems (3)


    Also offered as LIS 7610 . Prereq.: CSC 3102  or equivalent. Topics include commercially available retrieval systems, text content analysis, query processing models and current research problems.
  
  • CSC 7540 Distributed Systems (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 4103 . Networking and inter-networking; client-server model; remote procedure calls; processes and processors in distributed systems; distributed file systems; transaction-processing techniques; and distributed systems for high performance computing.
  
  • CSC 7600 High Performance Computing I (3)


    Prereq.: consent of instructor. Fundamental computational techniques required for scientific computing; important algorithms for parallel computation; high performance computing.
  
  • CSC 7601 Design Issues in High-Speed Networks: Multicast, Pricing and Control (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 4501 . Multicasting architectures, protocols and applications; ATM and Internet solutions; scalable reliable multicast; distributed sensor networks; Internet pricing and economics of communication; game theoretic approaches to congestion control.
  
  • CSC 7602 Wireless Networks (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 4501 . Radio systems and ad-hoc wireless networks; relevant concepts in terms of mobility, migration and service levels and their impact on system design; wireless network communication; packet radio techniques; ad-hoc networks; nomadic computing; issues in cellular networks; TCP/IP over wireless.
  
  • CSC 7700 Special Topics in Computer Science (3)


    May be taken for a max. of 12 hrs. of credit when topics vary. Specialized areas of current interest in computer science.
  
  • CSC 7701 Sensor Networking Concepts (3)


    Prereq.: CSC 4501 . Self-organizing sensor networks; querying, and data aggregation; routing; energy-efficient communication protocols; sensor network security.
  
  • CSC 7800 Computer Science Research Seminar (1)


    Pass-fail grading. May be taken for a max. of 2 hrs. of credit when topics vary. Student presentations and discussions on research topics in computer science.
  
  • CSC 7999 Selected Readings in Computer Science (1-3)


    Prereq.: consent of department chair. May be taken for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. of credit.
  
  • CSC 9000 Dissertation Research (1-12 per sem.)


    “S”/”U”grading.