Course Descriptions

This course is designed to teach the student Word, a Microsoft Office application software product. The course will include topics appropriate to prepare the student to take the MOS (Microsoft Office Specialist) certification test upon completion. Topics covered include file management, creating and formatting documents, styles and templates, tables, desktop publishing features, web publishing features, mail merge, and collaboration. This course is considered an introductory course; however, familiarity with Windows including Win file management is highly recommended before taking this course.

• Computing Sciences
• 1 Credit(s)
• (1) Contact Hour(s)

This course is designed to teach the student Excel, a Microsoft Office application software product. The course will include topics appropriate to prepare the student to take the MOS (Microsoft Office Specialist) certification test upon completion. Topics covered include creation of worksheets, workbooks, graphing, formula creation and collaboration. This course is considered an introductory course; however, familiarity with Windows including Win file management is highly recommended before taking this course.

• Computing Sciences
• 1 Credit(s)
• (1) Contact Hour(s)

This course is designed to teach the student PowerPoint, a Microsoft Office application software product. The course will include topics appropriate to prepare the student to take the MOS (Microsoft Office Specialist) certification test upon completion. Topics covered in this course include the creation of presentations, presentation media, planning a presentation, audience needs analysis, application integration, and best practices. This course is considered an introductory course; however, familiarity with Windows including Win file management is highly recommended before taking this course.

• Computing Sciences
• 1 Credit(s)
• (1) Contact Hour(s)

This course provides an overview of the fundamentals of the Microsoft Office application Access. A database management system (DBMS) such as Access provides the user with the software tools he/she needs to organize that data in a flexible manner. Access includes facilities to add, modify or delete data from the database, ask questions (or queries) about the data stored in the database and produce forms and reports summarizing selected contents. Microsoft Access provides users with one of the simplest and most flexible desktop DBMS solutions on the market today.

• Computing Sciences
• 1 Credit(s)
• (1) Contact Hour(s)

Introduction to Game Industry emphasizes the current state of the industry with a focus on the process of game development. Students will explore Agile production techniques and emulate the division of roles within a game studio (e.g. producer, artist, engineer, and designer) while collaborating on a long term project to create a game. This course is designed for the AS Game Programming and Design student.

• Computing Sciences
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) Contact Hour(s)

This course examines the impact of information systems and technology on businesses and organizations. Students will engage in real world case studies to learn how people, businesses, and technology work together to create information systems as business solutions. IT infrastructure and technology will be examined as a critical part of the solution. Students will be introduced to existing categories of information systems, and to the process for development of alternative custom solutions. The high level perspective offered by this course will help students understand how their role contributes to the overall success of an organization.

• Computing Sciences
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) Contact Hour(s)

This course provides students an overall introduction to cloud computing concepts. The course includes Amazon Web Services (AWS) Academy Cloud Foundations, which is a course developed and maintained by Amazon. It provides a detailed overview of cloud concepts, AWS core services, security, architecture, pricing, and support. Additional course topics include scripting, Linux and command line programming, virtualization and distributed computing, version control, and data storage mechanisms. This course will prepare students to take the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification exam.

• Computing Sciences
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) Contact Hour(s)

This course is an introduction to Web site development. Students will learn how to design and develop Web pages using current technologies and tools. Topics covered will include the World Wide Web, HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), current browsers, and Web site creation and management applications. Other topics include Web publishing, Web standards, and intellectual property law.

• Computing Sciences
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) Contact Hour(s)

Introduction to scripting for New Media serves as a beginning level programming course for AS New Media students. This course emphasizes problem solving by way of the development and implementation of scripts in a web based environment. Writing code and using external scripting libraries in a structured object oriented scripting language will be covered. A contemporary scripting language is used throughout the course.Prerequisite: Complete CSC-162 with a Minimum Grade of C-.

• Computing Sciences
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) Contact Hour(s)

CS2: Object-Oriented Software Development covers algorithm development and object-oriented design and development for large-scale software and graphical user interfaces (GUIs). This course is the second in a series of three required programming courses for a traditional computer science degree. Topics to be covered include objects and classes, procedural vs. object-oriented programming, reference data types, class libraries, class design, class abstraction and encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism, exception handling, abstract classes, graphical user interfaces (GUIs), and event-driven programming.Prerequisite: Complete CSC-115 with a minimum grade of C.

• Computing Sciences
• 4 Credit(s)
• (4-1) Contact Hour(s)