CPT – Computer Technology

This beginning course introduces the student to the digital computer and its components and the various software that control the computer. In addition, the student will focus on the latest social issues regarding computers. Students are also given hands-on experience in basic concepts of operation systems, word processing, data base management, and spreadsheet applications.

This course is for students with insufficient computer skills. The student will learn: basic computer skills, file management techniques, and system operations. In addition, the student will learn fundamental Web skills, basic keyboarding, word processing, and presentation software skills.

Fundamentals of program development are learned, emphasizing on-screen data entry, decision-making, looping, and multi-form processing. Students enter and execute their own programs (windows-based applications) in a visual event-driven environment. Topics such as designing a Visual Basic user interface, creating a windows application, variables and arithmetic operations, decision structures and loop structures are covered in the first part of the semester. Web applications with ASP and string manipulation, procedures, try/catch (Exception handling), arrays, and data files are more advanced topics and are covered in the second half of this course.

This course provides an introduction to multimedia and design along with how best to display information so that it can be used to help convey a message or make decisions. Studies will include hardware and software components necessary for multimedia production, good design concepts using storyboard techniques, an introduction to non-linear navigational concepts, and how to create graphs, charts, images that could be shown electronically, on paper, or on the web. Students will produce and evaluate effective and efficient information designs. Students will use the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) approach to solve problems. The Microsoft PowerPoint software and its creation of slide presentations will also be covered in this course.

Provides an overview of the most popular and current media being used. This course will look at social media and its overarching trend toward audience-originated content that has forced media executives, advertisers and public relations executives to rethink their strategies. Media, Social Networking, and the Information Age along with the issues are topics that are covered in this course.

A “hands-on” course designed to teach students how to work efficiently with database management software. This course will emphasize creation of files, manipulation of data by records and/or data elements, and retrieval of data in a required format. This includes advanced queries, reports, and menu creation.

The primary purpose of this course is to familiarize the student with HTML Programming and the use of an HTML editing program for the creation of web pages. The editing package used in this course is Adobe Dreamweaver.  Students will create websites using text and graphics, hyperlinks, tables and forms, style sheets, frames and frame sets. Adobe Flash software is also used to create small fast loading animations that could be used for animated banners, logos, and interactive buttons on web pages.

This course is developed for those interested in learning more about video production. Students will gain a basic knowledge and understanding of editing as it relates to production, advertising, television, and multimedia.

This course will cover the fundamentals needed in the C++ programming language. The basic concepts and practices of the language will be covered. This includes input, output, calculations, functions, decisions, and arrays.

Use HTML, C++, Java Script, and other languages to design and create applications for mobile devices. The student will design, create, test, and revise a mobile web application using mobile device emulators.

This course uses drawing, painting, and editing software to create, manipulate, and edit computer-generated images/photos. The course will cover bitmapped images using Adobe Photoshop, vector images using Adobe Illustrator, and publishing using Adobe InDesign. The results of this work can be used within a page layout, multimedia presentation, or on the web.

This course is a capstone course for students in Information Technology. The course involves a project which encompasses material covered in the students’ curriculum.

This is a cooperative work experience that provides students an experiential learning practice. Under the supervision of the assigned faculty member, the student will gain work experience directly related to the student’s major. Each student who is enrolled in the internship course shall also enroll in an on-campus seminar.

This seminar class in taken with the IT Internship course. This will assist students in identifying and evaluating experiences from the internship course and then relate skills to career expectations.