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• Communications - The student will be able to conduct audience analysis; construct and deliver oral speeches; conduct small group instruction; execute basic speech and instructional skills; deliver an oral presentation using multimedia; and collect, analyze, and report data.
• Agile Project Management –The student will be able to create a project charter; develop a business case that includes a requirements document; describe project management integration; identify stakeholders and define customer expectations; define project scope and work breakdown structure; develop a project schedule; develop cost estimates; describe methodologies for quality assurance; develop a human resource plan; develop a communication plan; perform risk assessment and mitigation; develop a procurement management plan; and utilize Microsoft Project software to manage a project.
• Scripting Languages - The student will be able to discuss the basic techniques used to create scripts for automating administrative tasks; employ regular expressions in processing text; demonstrate the use of scripting languages to manage applications using networks; explain how to use scripting language to process other application's data; and show the use of scripting developing applications using networks and databases.
• Introduction to Programming in C++ - The student will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the program development life cycle; design, develop, compile, debug, test, run, and document programs in the C++ language using a software development kit; design and develop programs using operators and assignments; design and develop programs using primitive data types; design and develop programs using sequence, selection, and repetition structures; design and develop programs using single and multi-dimensional arrays; design and develop programs using pointers; design and develop programs using void and value passing function; design and develop programs using object-oriented programming features, including defining classes and instantiating objects; design and develop programs using effective error and exception handling; and evaluate and critique effectiveness and efficiency of code.
• Introduction to Web Development –The student will be able to explain Internet and world-wide-web concepts related to web development; code HTML5 web pages; create the body and content of a web page with HTML tags, attributes, values, e.g. headings, paragraphs, hyperlinks, images, tables, forms, etc.; demonstrate proficient use of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to format the appearance of web pages and provide layout; define web design best practices; create web page layouts using the most recent industry best practices; implement user accessibility best practices, e.g. mobile/responsive, people with disabilities, etc.; use W3C to validate HTML and CSS; identify recommended practices for web site promotion and Search Engine Optimization (SEO); create and use a JavaScript in a web page; incorporate multimedia and Interactivity into a web page; explain what acquiring a domain name, hosting, and publishing a web site entails; and publish a web site.
• Seminar in Computer Science –The student will be able to analyze a complex computing problem and apply principles of programming and other relevant disciplines to identify solutions; evaluate the requirements for a specific programming problem and recommend solutions; create a program to meet the objectives; function effectively as a member or leader of a team engaged in activities appropriate to the task; identify and analyze user needs then create, integrate solutions in the computing-based project; demonstrate the application of knowledge and skill sets acquired from the courses and workplace in the assigned job function; exhibit critical thinking and problem-solving skills by analyzing underlying issues and apply to project challenges; and recommend ideas to improve work effectiveness and efficiency by analyzing requirements then considering viable options.
• Internship in Information Technology – The student will be able to analyze a complex computing problem and apply operating system administration principles and other relevant disciplines to identify solutions; analyze a complex computing problem and apply principles of programming and other relevant disciplines to identify solutions; evaluate the requirements for a specific system configuration and recommend solutions; create a program to meet the objectives; function effectively as a member or leader of a team engaged in activities appropriate to the task; identify and analyze user needs then create, integrate solutions in the computing-based project; demonstrate the application of knowledge and skill sets acquired from the courses and workplace in the assigned job function; exhibit critical thinking and problem-solving skills by analyzing underlying issues and apply to project challenges.; and recommend ideas to improve work effectiveness and efficiency by analyzing requirements then considering viable options.
• Introduction to Databases - The student will be able to input data into forms; download data sets for analysis; develop SQL reports; administer updates to the database management system (DBMS); and integrate the database with external systems.
• Introduction to Software Engineering –The student will be able to describe software development and design methodologies; create software using traditional process models and agile processes; conduct requirements analysis and create a system requirement specification; develop use cases; create data and object models; diagram using various UML diagrams, and data flow diagrams, entity relationship diagrams; use software development and collaboration tools using version control software, diagramming software, communication software, and Kanban software; integrate API’s into a software application; create accessible and professional user interfaces; develop, integrate, and implement a multifaceted software application as a team; communicate with team members and other teams to collaborate and resolve conflicts; participate in code reviews and refactoring; conduct unit, integration, and validation testing; analyze security concerns; develop a system disaster recovery and back up plan; create Data Flow Diagrams and Entity-Relationship Diagrams; create and give a professional presentation; analyze and evaluate information in order to identify the need for research to draw conclusions, formulate inferences, solve problems and make decisions in the context of Computer Information Systems; and demonstrate information literacy by locating, evaluating, selecting, organizing, synthesizing, and ethically documenting information from multiple sources using both informal and formal formats, in the context of Computer Information Systems.
• Introduction to Cloud Computing – The student will be able to explain the phases of transition from classic data center to virtual data center and then to the cloud; describe virtualization technology and compute, storage, network, desktop, and application layers in IT infrastructure; describe business continuity solutions in a virtual data center environment; explain the key characteristics, services, and deployment models of cloud; describe the cloud infrastructure components and service management process; describe the cloud security concerns and solutions; and list the key considerations for migration to the cloud.
• Introduction to Python Programing - The student will be able to utilize the Python programming language format and structure in coding; understand and utilize Python programming concepts, including lists, dictionaries, classes, and loops; use Python libraries and tools; debug basic Python programs; and employ Python as a means for developing information security tools.
• Introduction to Unix - The student will be able to describe the purpose and functions of a computer operating system; explain the function of UNIX-based commands; identify information about a computer's files using UNIX-based commands; identify network characteristics and status using the UNIX-based command line; and perform computer management functions.
• Decision Making - The student will be able to use creative thinking to solve problems; develop strategies for risk analysis and risk mitigation; conduct situational analysis; use decision support systems; conduct backward planning; allocate resources to resolve problems; and apply ethics to problem-solving.
• Advanced Scripting with Python (numpy and pandas) -The student will be able to use Python iterators and generators and recursive functions, making use of regular expressions, lambda functions and decorators; search and replace text with regular expressions, working with modules and packages including APIs; create and use in areas such as data analytics, machine learning and other advanced algorithms; learn metaprogramming, gaining good comprehension of the structure of XML and JSON; utilize libraries such as Numpy, Pandas along with other vector/matrices algorithms; create scripts which exchange data with a database; connect to databases and data sources whether SQL or NoSQL; and test methodologies and use the extensive functionality of Python modules, advanced Python workflow using professional practices.
• Parallel Computing – The student will understand the technical and business motivation and need for current state-of-the-art computing systems to incorporate parallel processing into the hardware and software subsystems.; explain the Micro-Hardware Architectural Evolutionary Trends leading to on-chip instruction-level, parallelism, and pipelining, SuperScalar, multi-function unit parallel processing; understand the Macro-Hardware Architectural Evolutionary Trends leading to parallel processing including the recent progression in high-performance supercomputing architectures from clusters to grids and to clouds; explain data dependency analysis and hazards, and Amdahl’s Law, which limits the amount of practical speedup and scalability that can be achieved with parallel processing; perform design and analysis techniques for Parallel Processing Systems including the identification of data vs. task partitioning in algorithms and applications; understand the different models for implementing parallelism in computing systems such as shared memory and message passing; explain the software challenges associated with parallel processing including the difference between concurrent vs. parallel execution models, deadlocks and race conditions; and understand a sample of current parallel programming paradigms and languages and be able to write parallel programs using them.
• Web Frameworks –The student will be able to identify the industry’s most popular client-side and server-side web frameworks and the programming languages used in each; describe how client-side web frameworks are used to speed up development time and create cross-platform, accessible, responsive, and dynamic user-interfaces and web sites; describe how server-side web frameworks are used to speed up development time and create dynamic web sites and applications; use a client-side web framework to create a web page/site; use a server-side web framework (web application framework) to create a web page/site; demonstrate the use of web frameworks to create cross-platform web sites, e.g. desktops, mobile devices, etc.; and utilize an Application Programming Interface (API) to add functionality to a web page.

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