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Fall 2009 Special Topics
Business and Computer Technologies
CIT299-25 Problem Solving Using C# This course explores the application of the object-oriented C# language in the Windows.NET environment. After a brief transition to the basic language syntax, application paradigms including graphical user interfacing, event-driven processing, file and database access, and Web-based are studied. A structured, multi-phase development process featuring a series of steps involving the understanding of problems, formal design definitions, program specifications through graphic design methodologies and/or pseudocoding, and implementation are stressed. Student must successfully complete CIT260 or CIT261 prior to enrolling in this course. 3 Credits
CIT399-01 Human Computer Interaction Basic principles of human-computer interaction. Study includes a problem-solving approach to transforming the way people perform in everyday life. Collaborative projects require students to perform human-centered task and requirements analysis; work through the process of analyzing, designing, prototyping, and testing user interfaces; and study the life cycles of their proposed solutions.Student must successfully complete CIT246 or CIT346 prior to enrolling in this course.3 Credits
Construction and Design Technologies
BCT2991-01 Life Skills for Technicians: Retirement The primary focus is to prepare the student for financial choices needed to plan for retirement and/or non-retirement. The main emphasis is on why students need to make knowledge based decisions at the start of their careers, different methods of successful investments and how timely decisions will impact taxes, income and retirement choices. 1 Credit
ELT2993-01 Process Control Electronics A typical industrial control system may include sensors, switching, motors, mechanical parts and associated wiring all of which are controlled by an electronic process control unit. Process control electronics centers around microcontrollers/microprocessors, the associated software and electronic/electrical components. The technician must be part electronics technician, part electrical technician and a computer programmer to analyze, install and repair today’s process control systems. An understanding of process control is required for anyone working with automated assembly, robotics, power generation, power switching and signal switching or remote engine control. Student must successfully complete ELT122 prior to enrolling in this course. 3 Credits
Industrial and Engineering Technologies
EET2991-25 Premises Cabling Systems This course covers the AMP NETCONNECT Premises Cabling Systems AMP ACT I and AMP ACT II curriculums and is intended to prepare the student to install, certify and troubleshoot structured cabling systems used in Local Area Networks. A product line offered by Tyco Electronics, AMP NETCONNECT is a world recognized premises cabling system incorporating shielded and unshielded copper twisted pair and optical fiber cabling and terminations. 1 Credit
Integrated Studies
PSY299-01 Abnormal Child Psychology This course explores etiology, classification and treatment of behavioral, mental and emotional disorders of children and adolescents. The major focus of the course is on the research methods, concepts and theories associated with developmental psychopathology, a field of study which adopts a developmental perspective in understanding abnormal child behavior. We will examine the relationship between typical and atypical development. Taking a developmental perspective will help to understand the differences in behavioral expressions of disorders at various ages, wellness and positive growth opportunities, and the effects of biological, family, peer, and community system factors on children’s disorders. Students must successfully complete PSY111 and PSY203 or PSY210 or EDU100. 3 Credits
SOC 299-01 Culture and Sustainability This course explores the many implications of the question, “What does it mean to be green?” It has two main areas of emphasis.First, through assigned readings and collaborative in-class exercises, students will define and examine the concepts of ecological footprint, sustainability, and human culture as an adaptation to the environment.Second, students will apply these concepts of sustainability through critical and comparative examination of how selected cultures throughout human history have either co-existed with or struggled against their environments.Students will compare and contrast these examples with modern American life. Topics examined in this part of the course will include the positive and negative environmental impacts of different cultural approaches (past and present) to food production, housing, transportation, economy, and energy. Student must successfully complete ENL111 and SCI100 or SOC113 or HIS115 or HIS125. 3 Credits