Business Communications - BUS220

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course prepares the student for communication in the workplace. The student will prepare memorandums, letters, proposals, presentations, newsletters, and flyers. Discussions will focus on information exchange in and outside of the organization. Students presentations will be critiqued on message intended and message received.

Project Management - BUS380

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course will allow students to manage a project within their major field of study. Students prepare a project plan that includes details of their project, deliverables, dates when they will be completed, and the associated learning that will be exhibited. Students implement their plan and record weekly status on their progress, issues, decisions, and learning. At the conclusion of the course, students complete their projects and summarize their results in a final report.

Fundamentals of Information Systems - CIS103

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

Students learn to analyze systems and quality concepts and learn how information technology can be used to design, facilitate, and communicate organization goals and objectives. An overview of hardware and software with its relation to information technology is also presented.

Fundamentals of IT Networking - CIS116

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course presents the essential elements of IT networking to the student. Topics include planning a network, understanding TCP/IP, setting up a server, understanding wireless concepts, running a mail server, managing user accounts and network storage, solving network problems, and protecting the network.

Hardware and OS Architecture - CIS140

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course provides knowledge in preventative maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of expansion buses, multimedia, video, modems, SCSI controllers, laptops, and printers. In addition, this course provides a brief introduction to networking technology, including the components necessary to attach a client to a local area network LAN).

Data Communications - CIS143

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: CIS140

This course covers the basic concepts of networking technology within Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) environments. Topics include the dominant network topologies (Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI), network protocols (TCP/IP, SPX/IPX and NetBIOS), cabling systems (coaxial, twisted pair, fiber optic), as well as wireless communication. The course introduces the primary features of internetworking devices (bridges, routers, repeaters, hubs, gateways, and switches) and the OSI software model for computer communication. All topics are related to the historical development of the field.

Client Operating Systems Technology - CIS145

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: CIS140

The student will learn how to install, configure, optimize, and troubleshoot a Windows XP Professional client operating system. The student will become familiar with resource administration, hardware devices and drivers, system performance and reliability, the desktop environment, network protocols and services, and security. These concepts will be reinforced through a series of hand-on exercises.

Server Operating Systems Technology - CIS150

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: CIS140

The student will learn how to install, configure, optimize, and troubleshoot a Windows 2003 server operating system. The student will become familiar with access to resources, hardware devices and drivers, storage configuration and optimization, network connections, and security. In particular, the student will focus on managing, monitoring, and optimizing server system performance, reliability, and availability. These concepts will be reinforced through a series of hands-on exercises.

Network Infrastructure Management - CIS155

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: CIS155

In this course, the student will learn to install, manage, monitor, configure, and troubleshoot the services that are required for the efficient operation of a TCP/IP Windows 2003 network infrastructure, including Domain Name Servers (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Remote Access, Network Protocols, IP Routing, Windows Name Servers (WINS), Network Address Translation (NAT), and Certificate Services in a Windows 2003 network infrastructure. Students will understand the conceptual and practical framework for this TCP/IP infrastructure through a series of hand-on exercises.

Network Directory Services Management - CIS160

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

In this course, students learn to install, configure, and troubleshoot the Windows 2003 Active Directory components, DNS for Active Directory, and Active Directory security solutions. In addition, each student will be developing the skills required to manage, monitor, and optimize the desktop environment by using Group Policy. Through a series of hands-on exercises, the student will become familiar with directory organization unit structures, connection objects and links, global catalog servers, directory backup and restore integration of directory services with DNS, inter-site replication of data, directory change and configuration management, group policy, remote installation, and network security.

Linux Operating Systems - CIS162

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: CIS140

In this course, students will learn how to install and optimize Red Hat Linux, a multi-user and multitasking Unix-like operating system. In particular each student will become familiar with: the Linux file system; shell programming; filters and pipelines; GUI desktop and application environments; and virtual memory. Through a series of laboratory exercises, each student will configure a server for remote access using the standard suite of TCP/IP tools and application packages.

Internetworking Technologies - CIS170

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course provides students with an understanding of how the Internet, e-mail, e-learning, and telephony work. It explains network security and how to make a network safe, how traffic gets from here to there. By completion of the course, the student will learn about disaster recovery and other ways to keep a network running, how businesses share data. It covers a broad variety of internetworking topics-from e-mail to VPNs.

Quality Management - CIS185

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course provides students with theoretical knowledge about concepts of software quality, about the quality - models, - standards and – methodologies used in software industry. By completion of the course, students will be able to understand software quality in its complexity, to see the differences and interconnections among the most popular software quality models, standards, approaches. They will have a solid basis that enables them to make the right selection among software quality models, based on a software company’s own characteristics.

Fundamentals of IT Security - CIS201

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course will prepare students to pass the current CompTIA Security+ 2008 certification exam. After taking this course, students will understand the field of network security and how it relates to other areas of information technology. This course also provides the broad-based knowledge necessary to prepare for further study in specialized security fields, or it can serve as a capstone course that gives a general introduction to the field.

Advanced Data Communications - CIS210

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: CIS143

In this class the student develops an understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of various communication protocols and datalink subnetworks, including TCP/IP, SNA, SPX/IPX, X.25, frame relay and ATM. Students design and analyze a wide area network infrastructure. This analysis includes congestion, bandwidth versus performance trades, bandwidth versus cost trades, equipment specifications, protocol standards, LAN/WAN integration, and network performance in terms of latency and jitter.

Fundamentals of Server Technology - CIS219

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course presents the essentials of server technology. Topics include Web servers and Web clients, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), FTP, Gopher, WAIS, constructing Web scripts, architecture of Web servers, configuration of Web servers, performance of Web servers, secure Web servers, and digital commerce.

Network Directory and Infrastructure Design - CIS226

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

Active Directory services infrastructure and design a network infrastructure that meets those business requirements. Network infrastructure elements include: network topology, routing, IP addressing, name resolution using DNS, virtual private networks, and remote access. Various network designs are covered, including issues such as bandwidth requirements, latency, statistical access patterns, multi-protocol requirements, internet connectivity, and WAN infrastructure telecommunication costs. Students also design a directory services architecture, including forest and domain structure, naming strategy, and organization unit structure, replication strategy, site topology, operations masters, global catalog servers, domain controllers, and DNS servers.

Network Security Infrastructure Design - CIS230

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: CIS201

Students learn to analyze the business requirements for security and to design security solutions that meet business requirements. The student learns best practices in security including: controlling access to resources, auditing access to resources, authentication, and encryption. Security topics include: audit policy, encryption file system, authentication strategy, security group strategy, public key infrastructure, DNS, SNMP, terminal services, remote access, signing, and IPSec. The student design a security baseline for a Windows 2003 network that includes domain controllers, operations masters, application servers, file and print servers, RAS servers, desktop computers, portable computers, and kiosks.

Routers and Switches in the Enterprise - CIS250

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: CIS155

Students learn how to work with networks that include routers and switches. They will be able to install, configure, and operate Cisco routers and switches within LAN and WAN environments. Students will configure IP, IPX, and IGRP protocols, as well as frame relay and remote access dial-up router interfaces.

Advanced Router Configuration - CIS251

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: CIS250

Students learn how to configure and troubleshoot various routed environments (Access, Distributed and Core). Students learn to manage access and control overhead traffic in growing, routed networks once basic connectivity has been established. An additional focus is on router capabilities as well as connecting corporate enterprise networks to an Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Advanced Switch Configuration - CIS252

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: CIS250

Students learn to build networks using multilayer switching technologies over high-speed Ethernet connections. Students encounter routing and switching concepts and implementations including the use of appropriate devices and external management tools.

Implementing and Supporting Secure Networks - CIS255

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: CIS231

In this course, students learn and implement best practices in the creation of a secure wide area network that includes both Microsoft and non-Microsoft products. Students design a security system that degrades gracefully under attack both from within and without. As part of this course, students learn published hacking techniques, such as IP address spoofing, source routing, routing table corruption, password cracking, denial of service zombies, and several methods to get access to the root directory. The course then focuses on the patches and methods to disable these security breaches. Vulnerabilities of Microsoft, Linux, and UNIX operating systems are addressed. Several well-known hacking case studies are analyzed.

Wireless Telecommunication Networks - CIS281

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

Students develop a fundamental understanding of fixed and wireless networks, including satellites, in terms of design and deployment engineering practices. The course considers indoor and outdoor propagation effects, modulation and data encoding technologies, antenna design and placement, and personal communications device design constraints. Current and future systems in the U. S., Europe and Asia are included, with particular emphasis on the standards development process. The impact of new Low Earth Orbit (LEOs) Satellites and other technologies on the use of wireless Personal Communications Systems (PCS) will be analyzed. Students will work in teams on a specific practical project.

Internetworking Device Troubleshooting - CIS340

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: CIS251 and CIS252

Students learn advanced functionality and developments of router IOS software and multilayer switching software releases. Students learn to troubleshoot an environment possessing routers and switches to connect multiprotocol client-hosts, servers, LANs and WANs using Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Token Ring LANs, Serial, Frame Relay, ISDN BRI and ISDN PRI WANs.

IP-Based Communications Technologies - CIS380

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course presents capabilities and considerations engineers find when using IP-based communications technologies. Topics include wireless networking, IEEE 802.11 and 802.15 standards, MMAC, Bluetooth, IP address space, security considerations, and the use of IP with TCP.

Internetworking w/ TCP/IP - CIS385

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course introduces the student to TCP/IP, used as the standard for the Internet. Topics include concepts and architectural models, the organizations monitoring TCP/IP use, network communication, Fiber Distributed Data Interconnect (FDDI), Internet addresses and mapping them to physical addresses, and general Internet protocols.

Virtual Private Networks & Firewalls - CIS410

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course includes the theoretical foundation of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) including Insect and IKE. Students review Cisco VPN technology, including IOS Software Router and PIX firewalls. Students configure routers and firewalls for site-to-site VPNs and remote access using both preshared keys and digital certificates. The course includes configuration and advanced configuration of the Cisco PIX firewall including AAA, attack guards, IPSec, and context-based access control. Students learn how to monitor and scale Cisco VPN technology.

Information Technology Senior Project - CIS490

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

Students will work under the supervision of a faculty advisor to further refine and develop their skills and knowledge through a student-created independent project. Project proposals must be submitted to the faculty advisor of the student's choosing and approved by the advisor and the dean before the student may register for this course. Faculty committee will determine the student's final grade for the project.