This course introduces students to the fundamental constructs of the C++ object-oriented programming language. Students will test, document and design business-oriented programs. Topics include data types and objects, encapsulation, polymorphism, and inheritance.

1. Demonstrate the proper use and application of syntax in the C++ programming language.
2. Write programs using basic data types in the C++ programming language.
3. Design, implement, test, and debug simple programs in C++.
4. Program simple and complex instruction sequences that are repeated multiple times.
5. Create programs that use functions and procedures.
6. Discuss the significance and use of variables.
7. Demonstrate the ability to decompose complex programming tasks.
8. Design and implement classes that solve programming problems.
9. Discuss and apply vectors and arrays as solutions to programming problems.
10. Discuss how to declare, initialize and use pointers.
11. Discuss the concepts of inheritance and polymorphism.
12. Discuss the use of streams and accessing files from C++ programs.
13. Use technology and information resources to research issues in C++ Programming.
14. Write clearly and concisely about introductory C++ Programming topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

This course provides students with the knowledge and techniques needed to design and build distributed applications using the Visual Basic programming language. Students will use disciplined coding style, including documentation and coding style to write well-designed programs that solve business problems.

1. Apply graphical user interface design principles.
2. Design conditional and iteration constructs appropriate to a given programming task.
3. Design well-written and readable programs using a disciplined coding style, including documentation and indentation standards.
4. Create Visual Basic applications that deploy on multiple platforms such as Web pages, Windows, and Office environments.
5. Demonstrate how to implement logic involving sequence, selection, and repetition using Visual Basic.
6. Create useful and well-designed programs that use subroutines, functions, menus, dialog boxes, and other related form objects to solve practical business problems.
7. Create appealing, interactive Web applications that can be delivered and executed on the Internet.
8. Demonstrate the ability to organize complex programs by using procedures and to anticipate and prevent errors by managing exceptions.
9. Describe how to create variables and assign values.
10. Explain operators and how they can be used to change values and compare expressions.
11. Design sophisticated, professional programs by using arrays and files that handle data and to make programs more robust by defining classes and using the power of inheritance.
12. Construct Visual Basic programs in a response to common business problems.
13. Use technology and information resources to research issues in Visual Basic programming.
14. Write clearly and concisely about Visual Basic programming using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

This course presents students the design, implementation, and testing of Web-based applications including related software, databases, scripting techniques, interfaces and digital media. It also covers social, ethical, and security issues arising from the Web, e-Commerce and social networking software applications.

1. Describe the structure of the World Wide Web as interconnected hypertext documents.
2. Describe the importance of the HTTP protocol in Web applications.
3. Create and validate HTML documents.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of XML syntax and show how to display XML in Web applications.
5. Create presentations using Cascading Style Sheets and DHTML.
6. Design interactive Web applications with an object-based client-side scripting language.
7. Distinguish among data entry and validation techniques in client-side and server-side programming.
8. Summarize client-side and server-side security issues.
9. Describe the use of server-side backend databases in Websites and Web applications.
10. Describe technologies used in Web services, including open source languages and packages, proprietary languages and packages, and enterprise Web development and distributed Web applications.
11. Compare and contrast open source and proprietary server software.
12. Explain the use of Web standards and standards bodies including the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
13. Summarize Web standards in terms of specifications, guidelines, software, and tools.
14. Use technology and information resources to research issues in Web design and development.
15. Write clearly and concisely about Web design and development using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

This course covers the concept, design and components of querying databases using the Structured Query Language ( SQL ). Involves the creation of tables, constraints, use of DML, use of DDL, and defining transactions.

a. Write PL/SQL code to demonstrate competence of the basic concepts in the Oracle architecture and its implementation with SQL. 
b. Load the Oracle Server.
c. Create relational databases and demonstrate this by creating Tablespaces, Tables and other objects.
d. Perform basic administration of the Oracle Server.
e. Code Basic SQL statements and demonstrate this knowledge by coding applications.
d. Code SQL statements that restrict and sort data and demonstrate this knowledge by coding applications.
e. Write SQL code to employ Oracle functions and demonstrate this knowledge by coding applications.
f. Write SQL code to employ Join Statements that display data from Multiple Tables and demonstrate this knowledge by coding applications.
g. Write SQL code to use of Sub-queries and demonstrate this knowledge by coding applications.
h. Write SQL code to produce Reports and demonstrate this knowledge by coding applications.
i. Create and manage Tables, Tablespaces, and Database objects and demonstrate this knowledge by coding applications.
j. Create Constraints, Sequences, Indexes, Views and Synonyms and demonstrate this knowledge by coding applications.
k. Create users and manage access to the Oracle Database and demonstrate this knowledge by coding applications.
l. Synthesize current information related to topics in this course using the APA format.

This course covers advanced topics in the C++ object-oriented programming language. Students will test, document and design business-oriented programs and solve advanced programming problems. Topics include data structures, recursion, design patterns, memory management and exception handling.

1. Review, discuss and apply the method of recursion.
2. Compare and contrast recursive with iterative programming problem solving approaches.
3. Compare selection sort and merge sort algorithms.
4. Discuss the use and significance of linked lists.
5. Differentiate among list, queues and stack data types.
6. Understand the different types of operators.
7. Demonstrate the ability to implement overloaded operators in classes.
8. Design and use constructors and destructors.
9. Discuss how the memory management system operates.
10. Design and define template classes and functions.
11. Design approaches that manage exception handling conditions.
12. Discuss the use of name management techniques and mechanisms in C++.
13. Demonstrate the ability to group classes into a class hierarchy.
14. Demonstrate the ability to use the Standard Template Library (STL).
15. Demonstrate an understanding of object-oriented design as part of the software lifecycle.
16. Demonstrate the ability to use graphic notations to address solve a business problem using the Unified Modeling Language.
17. Compare and contrast common design patterns.
18. Research issues in forthcoming revisions of the C++ programming language.
19. Use technology and information resources to research issues in advanced C++ Programming.
20. Write clearly and concisely about advanced C++ Programming topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform administration tasks in a peer to peer network or server centric network. Administration topics include installation, configuration, user management, resource management, and security.

1. Identify computing conditions in which a system needs to be reconfigured.
2. Demonstrate the ability to install and configure an operating system and its associated updates.
3. Validate and successfully install a computer operating system.
4. Demonstrate the ability to discuss the migration phases and considerations in an operating system installation.
5. Prepare an enterprise environment for systems deployment using image files.
6. Configure and define the disks and devices in an operating system environment.
7. Demonstrate the ability to configure networking settings in an operating systems environment.
8. Compare and contrast among different layers of networking stack as it relates to operating systems.
9. Demonstrate the ability to apply technology tools to monitor and configure network performance.
10. Demonstrate the ability to set and configure resource permissions.
11. Demonstrate the ability to describe and configure secure computing applications.
12. Analyze computer performance and performance statistics.
13. Describe the properties of user accounts and configure its components.
14. Demonstrate authentication and authorization in configuring secure user accounts.
15. Demonstrate operating system troubleshooting techniques.
16. Demonstrate the ability to understand operating system administration activities.
17. Develop a deployment and troubleshooting plan for an operating system environment.
18. Discuss and configure mobile computing options.
19. Use technology and information resources to research issues in desktop administration and operating system environments.
20. Write clearly and concisely about desktop administration and operating system environments using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to perform central administration tasks on the server(s) in a server-centric network. Topics covered by this course include installing / configuring servers, network protocols, resource and user management, security, Active Directory, and the variety of possible server roles to be implemented.

1. Explain the various types of servers and services required within organizations.
2. Describe the need for hardware and software integration.
3. Demonstrate the ability to prepare, maintain, and update a computer system for use as a server.
4. Demonstrate the ability to configure routing, file, and print services.
5. Demonstrate the ability to design and implement a multi-server computer network and deliver services on that network.
6. Analyze server performance and performance statistics.
7. Demonstrate the ability to design a multi-master environment for a given situation.
8. Describe and configure secure network and computing applications.
9. Describe the major problems associated with current data storage practice.
10. Develop a server migration plan to address and solve a proposed business problem.
11. Use technology and information resources to research issues in server administration.
12. Write clearly and concisely about server administration topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

This course provides an overview of information technology security principles, challenges, vulnerabilities and countermeasure strategies. Topics include definition of security terms, concepts, elements, and goals. Students will explore industry standards and practices that focus on the availability, integrity and confidentiality aspects of information systems security.

1. Explain the concepts of information systems security as applied to an IT infrastructure.
2. Describe the principles of risk management, common response techniques, and issues related to recovery of IT systems.
3. Describe how malicious attacks, threats, and vulnerabilities impact an IT infrastructure.
4. Explain the means attackers use to compromise systems and networks, and defenses used by organizations.
5. Explain the role of access controls in implementing a security policy.
6. Explain the role of operations and administration in effective implementation of a security policy.
7. Describe the ethical principles and standards in information security.
8. Explain the importance of security audits, testing, and monitoring to effective security policy implementation.
9. Explain how businesses apply cryptography in maintaining information security.
10. Analyze the importance of network principles and architecture to security operations.
11. Apply international and domestic information security standards and compliance laws to real-world implementation in both the private and public sector.
12. Use technology and information resources to research issues in information systems security.
13. Write clearly and concisely about network security topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

This course introduces students to the OSI model and LAN concepts. Topics include networking devices that operate at Physical, Data Link, and the Network layers of the OSI model, LAN and internetworking cabling requirements, IP addressing and subnetting, collision and broadcast domains, LANs, WANs, and TCP / IP. Also included are labs to demonstrate router startup, router setup, configuring router interfaces, and the basics of network management.

1. Summarize the basic components and media of network systems and distinguish between LANs, MANs, and WANs.
2. Describe and differentiate the different layers of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) and TCP / IP protocol stack.
3. Compare, contrast, create, and assign IP addresses to Class A, B, C, D, and E networks.
4. Describe the TCP / IP protocols and various functions among the application layer.
5. Configure and troubleshoot router and switches the Internetwork Operating System (Cisco IOS) using the Console Command Line Interface (CLI).
6. Describe the difference between connection-oriented and connection-less protocols.
7. Demonstrate the use of operating system commands to monitor, control, and configure Internetworking environments.
8. Describe and implement VLANs on a computing network.
9. Compare and contrast dynamic routing, distance vector routing, and link-state routing protocols.
10. Describe organizational security considerations in an Internetworking environment.
11. Use technology and information resources to research issues in Internetworking.
12. Write clearly and concisely about basic internetworking using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

This course covers the techniques, frameworks, and application of computerized decision support systems that support managerial decision making. Topics include the characteristics, structure, uses, and types of decision support systems.

1. Describe decision support systems (DSS) in the context of managerial decision making.
2. Use data-mining visualization and heuristic options in discovery and decision support processes.
3. Describe the ethical issues in DSS data in organizational settings.
4. Describe DSS software packages and their application into organizational practice.
5. Explain the application of business analytics and data mining in Business Intelligence (BI).
6. Compare and contrast DSS modeling techniques and analysis.
7. Describe the application of neural networks in organizational settings.
8. Explain the role of text mining and Web mining as they relate to BI and DSS.
9. Describe the role of data warehouses in the context of DSS.
10. Compare and contrast business performance management, planning, and measurement techniques.
11. Describe collaborative and group support systems (GSS) and tools in the context of managerial decision making.
12. Describe the role of knowledge management in organizational activities.
13. Compare and contrast the foundations, definitions, and application of artificial intelligence and expert systems.
14. Describe the application of advanced intelligent systems to include genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, and case-based reasoning.
15. Analyze and critique emerging trends of management support systems.
16. Describe methods of data mining and what insights may be gained by these methods.
17. Describe the application of data mining to information, data, and databases.
18. Develop a decision support solution to solve a proposed business problem.
19. Use technology and information resources to research issues in data mining.
20. Write clearly and concisely about Decision Support and Business Intelligence topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

This course presents students with user-centered methodologies in the development, evaluation, and deployment of information technology applications and systems. Students are exposed to evolving technologies and devices, and how to design interactive products that enhance the way people communicate, interact, and work with computers. Topics include human-computer interaction, user and task analysis, human factors, ergonomics, accessibility standards, and cognitive psychology.

1. Describe the relationship between the cognitive principles and their application to interfaces and products.
2. Explain the conceptual terms for analyzing human interaction with affordance, conceptual models, and feedback.
3. Construct evaluation techniques to the user experience and system usability in the design process.
4. Explain the importance of user abilities and characteristics in the usability of products.
5. Compare and contrast the different types of interactive environments.
6. Describe the differences in developing user interfaces for different application environments.
7. Compare and contrast the various cognitive models.
8. List the general principles used in the heuristic evaluation of a user interface design.
9. Create a simple usability evaluation for an existing software application or product.
10. Describe common usability guidelines and standards.
11. Define the different types of interaction styles.
12. Demonstrate the ability to select an appropriate user interface interaction style for a particular task.
13. Explain the characteristics of human-centered design methods.
14. Create a product evaluation through a formal framework.
15. Describe, in scenario form, a problem situation to be addressed by a new or redesigned product.
16. Evaluate the ethical concerns inherent in human-computer interaction and how these concerns affect organizational policies.
17. Explain the different usability data-gathering techniques.
18. Use technology and information resources to research issues in human-computer interaction.
19. Write clearly and concisely about human-computer interaction topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

This is a lab-based course that prepares students with advanced server administration concepts to plan, deploy, secure, monitor, backup, and manage enterprise network server environments. Topics also include storage solutions, high availability, file and printer services, and security.

1. Explain and plan server deployments.
2. Describe and plan the implementation of infrastructure services.
3. Design and plan for the deployment of Active Directory.
4. Compare and contrast deployment strategies among different application servers.
5. Compare and contrast among different types of high availability solutions.
6. Design and plan the implementation of application and file and print services.
7. Design and plan the implementation of storage solutions and high availability.
8. Demonstrate the ability to develop server and network security designs for a large enterprise.
9. Demonstrate the ability to develop strategies that manage, monitor, and backup enterprise server environments.
10. Develop a migration plan to address and solve a proposed business problem.
11. Use technology and information resources to research issues in the administration of server environments.
12. Write clearly and concisely about advanced network server implementation topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

This course introduces students to the fundamental constructs of the Java object-oriented programming language. Students will test, document, and design business-oriented programs. Topics include objects, classes, iteration, encapsulation, polymorphism, and inheritance.

1. Demonstrate the proper use and application of syntax in the Java programming language.
2. Demonstrate the ability to design, compile, implement, test, and debug simple programs in Java.
3. Compare and contrast classes and objects in Java.
4. Construct classes through systematic procedures.
5. Demonstrate the ability to manipulate numbers and character strings in Java.
6. Demonstrate the ability to program simple and complex decisions in Java.
7. Discuss the concepts of inheritance and polymorphism.
8. Discuss exception handling and basic file input / output.  
9. Describe and implement iteration in Java.
10. Compare and contrast arrays and array lists in Java.
11. Differentiate between static methods and variables.
12. Declare and use interface types.
13. Discuss object-oriented design principles.
14. Use technology and information resources to research issues in Java programming.
15. Write clearly and concisely about Java programming using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

This course covers advanced topics in the Java object-oriented programming language. Students will test, document, and design business-oriented programs and solve advanced programming problems. Topics include advanced data structures, recursion, multithreading, and the application of Java constructs to the Internet and database development.

1. Review and discuss the method of recursion.
2. Compare selection sort and merge sort algorithms.
3. Discuss the use and significance of linked lists.
4. Compare and contrast abstract and concrete data types.
5. Differentiate between stack and queue data types.
6. Describe hashing functions.
7. Describe and demonstrate the use of binary search trees, priority queues, and heaps.
8. Demonstrate the ability to implement generic classes and methods.
9. Design programs that handle events from user-interface components.
10. Create Java programs that interact with disk files and related sources of bytes and characters.
11. Describe and apply multithreading behavior.
12. Design programs that communicate with Web servers and server-side applications through the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
13. Design Java programs that use the Structured Query Language to query and update relational databases.
14. Describe the syntax, purpose, and use of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) in the context of Java.
15. Describe the Java Server faces framework and use in Web applications.
16. Use technology and information resources to research issues in Java programing.
17. Write clearly and concisely about Java programing using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

This is a lab-based course that prepares students to install, configure, secure and maintain services in the Windows Active Directory environment. Topics include group policies, directory configuration, security strategies, and certificate services.

1. Describe Active Directory Domain Services.
2. Demonstrate the ability to describe, configure, and administer Active Directory services.
3. Demonstrate the ability to implement and manage Active Directory Sites.
4. Describe the Global Catalog and Flexible Single Master Operations Roles.
5. Create security plans for use in the Active Directory environment.
6. Demonstrate the ability to describe, configure, and administer Group Policy in the Active Directory environment.
7. Create and configure User and Computer environments using Group Policy in the Active Directory environment.
8. Demonstrate the ability to perform software installations using Group Policy.
9. Demonstrate the ability to plan an implementation based on a Group Policy Management.
10. Describe and plan for Active Directory maintenance, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery activities.
11. Use technology and information resources to research issues in directory service infrastructure environments.
12. Write clearly and concisely about directory service infrastructure topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

This course provides the student with the knowledge necessary to implement, monitor, and maintain advanced network routing services. This includes the capability to plan, configure, and verify the performance and implementation of LAN and WAN routing solutions.

1. Describe advanced IP addressing to include classless inter-domain routing (CIDR), IP Version 6 (IPv6), and Network Address Translation (NAT) with route maps.
2. Identify advanced IP routing commands and principles, including static and dynamic routing characteristics and the concepts of classless routing and network boundary summarization.
3. Analyze and configure Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) for a scalable network.
4. Apply routing updates and packet flow using redistribution, distribution lists, administrative distance, route maps, and policy-based routing.
5. Utilize routing commands based on the CISCO IOS.
6. Configure basic Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) for internal and external connections to include path selection process, default behavior of BGP, and multi-homing.
7. Describe and develop implementation solutions for remote enterprise environments.
8. Describe the implementation process of IPv6 in an enterprise network.
9. Describe security design considerations in routing context for a distributed, mobile, and branch office workforce.
10. Explain and develop secure routing strategies based on the Cisco model.
11. Use technology and information resources to research issues in advanced routing.
12. Write clearly and concisely about advanced routing using proper writing mechanics.

This course provides the student with the essential information to implement, monitor, and maintain switching in converged enterprise campus networks. The course includes the secure integration of VLANs, WLANs, and voice and video solutions onto campus networks.

1. Explain the various switches and campus design within the various OSI layers.
2. Summarize campus switched network constructions, support, and security.
3. Explain the fundamentals of multilayer switched network design.
4. Configure and implement VLANs in a Campus network environment.
5. Describe and configure spanning tree.
6. Analyze and configure and implement Inter-VLAN routing.
7. Describe and implement high availability in a campus infrastructure.
8. Describe wireless client access and configure switches to support voice technologies.
9. Understand and implement a secure campus switching environment.
10. Use technology and information resources to research issues in internetworking switching.
11. Write clearly and concisely about internetworking switching using proper writing mechanics.

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This course offers an introduction to system forensics investigation and response. Topics include procedures for investigating computer and cybercrime, tools, techniques, and methods used to perform forensic investigations and concepts for collecting, analyzing, recovering, and preserving forensic evidence.

1. Identify the role of computer forensics in responding to crimes and solving business challenges.
2. Outline system forensics issues, laws, and skills.
3. Describe the purpose and structure of a digital forensics lab.
4. Examine and explain the evidence life cycle.
5. Identify the procurement of evidence in physical and virtualized environments.
6. Analyze the impact of sequestration on the evidence-gathering process.
7. Develop plans that collect evidence in network and email environments.
8. Examine automated digital forensic analysis.
9. Report investigative findings of potential evidentiary value.
10. Describe the constraints on digital forensic investigations.
11. Evaluate the ethical concerns that computer forensics issues raise in a global context.
12. Develop a computer forensics deployment plan that addresses and solves a proposed business problem.
13. Use technology and information resources to research issues in computer forensics.
14. Write clearly and concisely about computer forensics topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

This course covers the principles, approaches, and critical issues in planning, designing, and deploying data warehouses. Topics include data extraction, data cleansing, data transformation, architecture, and infrastructure. Students will examine recent trends in data warehousing, metadata, and architectural components.

1. Explain the significance of a data warehouse and its basic structure.
2. Analyze the evolution, ethical issues, and future trends in data warehousing.
3. Describe the significance, use, and types of meta-data and meta-modeling.
4. Compare and contrast online transaction processing (OLTP) with online analytic processing (OLAP).
5. Describe the relationship between business intelligence, data warehousing, and data mining.
6. Explain how the data warehouse concept relates to enterprise information integration.
7. Use graphic software to Illustrate and apply the use of dimensional modeling to address and solve a proposed business problem.
8. Describe the use of dimensional modeling in an organizational context.
9. Explain the concept of data integration and its use in the creation of data warehouses and data marts.
10. Analyze and apply planning techniques in the use of extraction, transformation, and loading.
11. Compare the features and functions of OLAP models.
12. Develop a data warehousing solution to solve a proposed business problem.
13. Use technology and information resources to research issues in data warehousing.
14. Write clearly and concisely about topics related to data warehouse planning using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.