Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

2 Credits

This foundation course covers core computing technology concepts including computational thinking, abstraction of information, computing hardware and data, programming, and iteration.

3 Credits

This course provides students with a basic understanding of programming development practices. Concepts covered include the application of algorithms and logic to the design and development of procedural and object oriented computer programs to address the problem solving requirements associated with business information systems. This course will cover procedural programming concepts, including data types, controls structures, functional decomposition, arrays, files, classes, and objects.

3 Credits

This course introduces development tools and techniques used to publish web pages on the World Wide Web. Students use basic hypertext markup language (HTML), scripting, and presentation technologies to create websites.

3 Credits

Discrete mathematics is of direct importance to the fields of Computer Science and Information Technology. This branch of mathematics includes studying areas such as sophisticated forms of counting (combinatorics, etc), set theory, logic, relations, graph theory, and analysis of algorithms. This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of these areas and their use in the field of Information Technology.

3 Credits

This course covers the three most popular data programming languages: Python, Java®, and Ruby. Students will be introduced at a high level to the programming languages as they relate to database design, development, and management.

3 Credits

This course is a study in Java programming. It covers topics around Java programming, variables, expressions, using branches and loops, storing data in arrays and using methods.

3 Credits

This course is an advanced study in Java™ programming. It covers topics around advanced Java™ class design, object-oriented design principles, threads, concurrency, localization, and accessing database applications. These topics are closely aligned with the Oracle® Certified Professional Java™ SE examination.

3 Credits

This course provides a foundational workshop on data structures, which is a functional component of business intelligence (BI) within an organization. Building upon basic programming and database structure, this course builds competencies for the student to recognize the structure of data contained in deployed enterprise information systems.

3 Credits

This course provides a thorough discussion of the fundamentals of computer organization and architecture as related to contemporary design issues. Topics include I/O functions and structures, RISC, and parallel processors. Real-world examples are used in this modern approach to computer organization and architecture.

3 Credits

This course addresses the legal, ethical, and societal implications of information technology and highlights notable technology developments and their impact on business. Students examine professional codes of ethics, cyberattacks and cybersecurity, security risk assessment, privacy, electronic surveillance, and freedom of expression. Topics include Internet censorship, protection of intellectual property, quality software systems, IT's impact on society, social networking, and ethics of IT corporations with a strong focus on the ethical issues in the workplace.

3 Credits

This course provides a foundation in basic telecommunications and networking technologies fundamental to the industry and to the broad field of telecommunications. Analog, digital, and cloud-based technologies are covered. Also covered in this course are an introduction to the OSI protocol model, network-switching systems, basics of wireless communications, and network security.

3 Credits

This course provides a survey of the concepts related to linear algebra. Students examine the geometry of vectors, matrices, and linear equations, including Gauss-Jordan elimination. Students explore the concepts of linear independence, rank, and linear transformations. Vector spaces, bases, and change of bases are discussed, including orthogonality and the Gram–Schmidt process. In addition, students investigate determinants, eigenvalues, and eigenvectors.

3 Credits

This course provides an introduction to Operating Systems. Topics covered include Operating System concepts, program execution, and Operating System internals such as; memory, processor, device, and file management. A variety of Operating Systems are compared and contrasted.

3 Credits

This course introduces the fundamental, logical, and design considerations addressed during system and application software development. It provides a background in applications software development and testing techniques through a combination of theory and application and best practices.

3 Credits

This course focuses on the role of software architecture in modern business system development. Topics covered in this course include the understanding of software architecture as a set of design decisions to meet functional requirements and quality attributes, design patterns, modeling tools and techniques, and software architecture in some new technology trends.

3 Credits

This course provides an introduction to algorithms and paradigms for modern computing systems, integrating the study of parallel and sequential algorithms. This course prepares students to design, analyze, and implement algorithms for modern computing systems. This edition includes definitions and algorithms for a variety of state-of-the-art computing systems, including clouds, GPGPUs, grids, clusters, and networks of workstations.

3 Credits

This course explores the recent technological advances associated with digitized data flows, which have recently opened up new horizons for AI. Students will gain insight into some of the areas of application of Big Data in AI, including robotics, home automation, health, security, image recognition and natural language processing.

3 Credits

A project-based course in which students will apply the concepts and skills developed in the BSCS coursework.