Cr. 3. (3-0). This course examines the role of computers in today’s society, including the knowledge and ability to efficiently utilize computers, related technology, and basic application software with an emphasis on basic operating system knowledge, office applications, and the use of the Internet. Applications include word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation software.
Prerequisite: None
Cr. 4. (3-2). This course introduces fundamental concepts of structured procedural programming, data types, control structures, algorithm development; program design, and implementation using Python programming language; and software development tools. It includes a lab component.
Prerequisite: None
Cr. 4. (3-2). This course reviews structured programming and data types. It then introduces the object-oriented programming paradigm using JAVA programming language, focusing on the definition and use of classes, along with the fundamentals of object-oriented design. It includes a lab component.
Prerequisite: COMP 1411.
Cr. 3. (3-0). This course introduces the fundamental concepts of data structures and algorithms. Topics include fundamental data structures (including stacks, queues, linked lists, hash tables, trees, and graphs), sorting, searching, and recursion.
Prerequisite: COMP 1412.
Cr. 3. (3-0). This course covers basic computer organization including the CPU, memory, and peripherals; digital representation of data and instructions; and assembly language programming, assembler, loader, macros, subroutines, and program linkages.
Prerequisite: COMP 1411.
Cr. 4. (3-2). This course examines interaction with a multi-user, multi-tasking operating system (e.g. Unix, Linux) via systems programs. Topics include the details of the file system and I/O, multi-tasking, inter-process communication, process control, and shell scripting. It includes a lab component.
Prerequisite: COMP 2316.
Cr. 3. (3-0). This course focuses on the design and analysis of algorithms; heuristics; advanced tree structures; advanced hashing techniques; advanced sorting and searching; graphs and sets; NP-Completeness; and time and space complexities.
Prerequisite: COMP 2313,MATH 1312. Must have earned at least 30 credit hours prior to registering for this course.
Cr. 3. (3-0). This course focuses on operating system structure and design techniques; process management, CPU and disk scheduling; process synchronization, concurrency, and memory and file management, device management, virtual memory; mass storage and I/O systems; and OS security.
Prerequisite: COMP 1314. Must have earned at least 30 credit hours prior to registering for this course.
Cr. 3. (3-0). This course is designed to supplement coursework in Computer Science. It helps students apply their knowledge to real-world problems in professional settings. Students recognize the need for continuous learning and experience the challenges of the workplace environment.
Prerequisite: COMP 2313. Must have earned at least 30 credit hours prior to registering for this course.
Cr. 3. (3-0). This course teaches the fundamentals of database systems, including relational and other data models, database design, data description, and query languages, file organization, index structures, database integrity and security, access control, interfacing with database systems, transaction programming, and design and implementation of database applications.
Prerequisite: COMP 1412. Must have earned at least 30 credit hours prior to registering for this course.
Cr. 3. (3-0). This course introduces basic concepts of software engineering, including software requirement analysis, design representation, programming methodologies, verification, validation, maintenance, and software planning.
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 30 credit hours prior to registering for this course.
Cr. 3. (3-0). This course introduces the fundamental concepts and principles of modern computer networks with an emphasis on protocols, architectures, and implementation issues of application, transport, network, data link, and physical layers.
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 30 credit hours prior to registering for this course.
Cr. 3. (3-0). This course teaches the fundamentals of computer and network security, including cryptography, authentication, and authorization; attack types, detection and defense techniques at the OS and network level; security in modern operating systems and virtual machines.
Prerequisite: COMP 3324. Must have earned at least 30 credit hours prior to registering for this course.
Cr. 3. (3-0). This course covers the fundamentals of Web Application development: markup languages, layout design, client and server-side programming using HTML, XHTML, XML, Ajax, JavaScript, DHTML; database, and Web integration.
Prerequisite: COMP 1412. Must have earned at least 30 credit hours prior to registering for this course.
Cr. 1. (0-0-1). This course is designed to supplement coursework in Computer Science. It helps students apply their knowledge into real-world problems in professional settings. Students recognize the need for continuous learning and experience the challenges of workplace environment.
Prerequisite: Instructor approval required. Must have earned at least 60 credit hours prior to registering for this course.
Cr. 3. (3-0). This course is a tour of various topics and technologies related to Cloud Computing. Topics include distributed system models and enabling technologies, computer clusters for scalable Computing, virtual machines, and virtualization of clusters and data centers, design of cloud computing platforms, cloud programming and software environments, grid computing and resource management, P2P computing with overlay networks, ubiquitous computing with clouds and the Internet of things, and data-intensive distributed computing.
Prerequisite: COMP 3324. Must have earned at least 60 credit hours prior to registering for this course.
Cr. 3. (3-0). This course introduces established and evolving methodologies for the analysis, design, and development of an information system. Emphasis is placed on system characteristics, managing projects, prototyping, CASE/OOM tools, and systems development life cycle phases. Upon completion, students should be able to analyze a problem and design an appropriate solution using a combination of tools and techniques.
Prerequisite: COMP 3322. Must have earned at least 60 credit hours prior to registering for this course.
Cr. 3. (3-0). This course emphasizes the server-side development of enterprise applications. Topics include web servers, distributed network-based computing, handling client requests, server-side services, transmitting data using HTTP, database connectivity, security, and e-commerce. Programming languages and tools will be among the most significant such as Java, servlets, JavaServer Pages, Active Server Pages, .NET, XML, among others.
Prerequisite: COMP 3326. Must have earned at least 60 credit hours prior to registering for this course.
Cr. 3. (3-0). This course focuses on the administration of networked operating systems such as Windows Server and Linux. It includes monitoring, managing, and troubleshooting network resources such as files, folder access, printing devices, device drivers, backup devices, recovery as well as protocols and system services.
Prerequisite: COMP 3324. Must have earned at least 60 credit hours prior to registering for this course.
Cr. 3. (3-0). This course shows students how to plan and design a network using various internetworking technologies to meet performance, security, capacity, and scalability requirements. This includes the fundamental, technical, and design issues associated with campus LANs.
Prerequisite: COMP 3324. Must have earned at least 60 credit hours prior to registering for this course.
Cr. 3. (3-0). This course introduces fundamental topics of data mining and knowledge discovery, including statistical foundations, database support, data preprocessing, data warehousing, association discovery, classification, clustering, and mining complex data types.
Prerequisite: MATH 1312,MATH 2314. Must have earned at least 60 credit hours prior to registering for this course.
Cr. 3. (3-0). This course focuses on the first-line management of software system development. It covers major themes, including estimation (software cost factors, estimation models, and risk management), planning (work breakdown, scheduling, staffing, resource allocation, and creation of a project plan), and execution (team building, leadership, motivation, process tracking, control recovery, and communication within and outside the project).
Prerequisite: COMP 3322. Must have earned at least 60 credit hours prior to registering for this course.
Cr. 3. (3-0). This course will examine the area of wireless networking, looking at the unique network protocol challenges and opportunities presented by wireless communication and host or router mobility. Although it will touch on some of the important physical layer properties of wireless communications, focus will be on network protocols above the physical layer, with an emphasis on the media access control, network, and transport protocol layers.
Prerequisite: COMP 3324. Must have earned at least 60 credit hours prior to registering for this course.
Cr. 3. (3-0). This is a capstone course intended to facilitate the integration and application of knowledge and skills gained in various courses within the computer science curriculum. The project involves teamwork; modeling of real-world problems; design, development, and testing of a software-based solution; and its documentation.
Prerequisite: Last Semester. Instructor approval required.
Cr. 3. (0-0-3). This course is designed to supplement coursework in Computer Science. It helps students apply their knowledge into real-world problems in professional settings. Students recognize the need for continuous learning and experience the challenges of workplace environment.
Prerequisite: Instructor approval required. Must have earned at least 60 credit hours prior to registering for this course.
Cr. 3 (3-0). Special topics courses with different titles are offered occasionally to cover emerging issues or specialized, in-depth content not available in the core curriculum. A specific title may be used for each course, which will appear on the student’s transcript. Several different topics may be taught in one year or semester. May be repeated for credit for a total of 6 credits.
Prerequisite: Advanced standing and consent of instructor or department chair. Must have earned at least 60 credit hours prior to registering for this course.