Course descriptions for Info Tech Communications Design

Learn to use technology as a useful tool by developing conceptual and hands-on skills in basic computer operation, use of email and server programs, utilities, ethical use of technology, use of the Internet, and creating well-designed documents and presentation materials for effective communication. The first class in a two-semester sequence that guides students with limited computing experience to achieve computer and information competency. (Offered fall semester.)

Learn to use computers creatively, effectively, and ethically. Provides hands-on experiences using computers for electronic communication and presentations, and to design and create documents using word processing, spreadsheets, and image manipulation. Students will also become competent in information literacy including Internet searching, the research process, and the correct citation of reference material. (Offered every semester.)

Must be taken concurrently with the CST 101 lecture section. (Offered every semester.)

Online laboratory course that examines the management and organizational structure of the Internet, its topography, transmission media, and participants. Covers Web authoring, FTP, Telnet, newsgroups, electronic mail, Netiquette, online research, evaluating information resources, correctly citing Internet resources, and weekly online discussions. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Learn to use technology as a useful tool by developing conceptual and hands-on skills in digital image creation and manipulation, basic website creation and maintenance, and managing data in a spreadsheet. Students become competent in information literacy, searching electronic databases and other information sources, and evaluation and proper citation of information. (Offered spring semester.)

A hands-on, project-based introductory course on information competency, commonly used technology, and software for undergraduate students. Provides applied experience in practicing academic-quality research through using computers creatively, effectively, and ethically. Students learn communication and research presentation skills by designing and creating documents using word-processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and image manipulation software. (Offered spring semester.)

Specialized study of a particular topic within the School of Information Technology and Communication Design. May be repeated for additional credit when topics vary and as subjects permit. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Students work with faculty to collect data and user feedback by going to the site of the user and unobtrusively observing the user function in their own environment. This course is usually conducted as part of a large research project. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Working with a faculty advisor, a student selects topic of study and number of credits appropriate to the student's learning plan. An independent study proposal must be submitted and approved before registration. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Explores computer-based tools used in the design and creation of electronic media. Includes designing, creating, and editing electronic images, sounds, videos, text, and motion. Integrates multimedia authoring to design, manage, and execute a multimedia project. (Offered every semester.)

Must be taken concurrently with the CST 201 lecture section. (Offered every semester.)

Drawing for Digital Media: This course covers concepts and drawing skills related to the use of drawing and visualization in both the studio and digital environment. The course integrates studio drawing and illustration with digital technology, covering hand rendering, scanning, auto-tracing, photo conversion, vector art and bitmap drawing using digital visualization and illustration hardware and software. Included topics are 2D and 3D design, drawing, storyboarding and illustration (traditional and digital). Co-requisite of CST 202L

Drawing for Digital Media Lab: This lab is offered as a co-requisite with the CST202 lecture section. Students will use studio and digital tools to complete projects that relate directly to the lecture content. Students are expected to be comfortable with studio drawing tools as well as digital image software and have an ability to functionally adapt to new software. Students must take the lab during the same semester as the lecture. Students are expected to supply their own studio drawing materials, such as pencils, tablets of drawing paper, etc.

Digital Color: This course introduces students to the nomenclature, technical components, theories and principles, and cultural associations of color relavant to professional communication designers. Students will demonstrate undertstanding of key concepts by completing design projects using Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Dreamweaver.

Digital Color Lab: This course introduces students to the nomenclature, technical components, theories and principles, and cultural associations of color relavant to professional communication designers. Students will demonstrate undertstanding of key concepts by completing design projects using Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Dreamweaver.

Introduction to Typography: This 2-unit course explores the basic roles and applications of typography in visual communication. Subjects include the history and construction of letterforms, typographic composition and typesetting principles and techniques. Software includes Microsoft Word, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat Pro.

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the techniques, theory, history and cultural significance of animation. Students will explore the history of animation as an entertainment and art form as well as demonstrate and apply basic skills in traditional (cell/stop motion) and digital animation techniques. The course also covers basic pre-production, production and distribution skills for small and larger scale (collaborative) projects. Incoming students are expected to be comfortable with drawing, group work and have familiarity with basic digital media tools.

Must be taken concurrently with the CST 209 lecture section.

Emphasizes critical thinking skills combined with reading, writing, thinking, and understanding visual information within a technical communications context. Students critically analyze material for reasonableness, persuasive power, social context, and ethical merit. Students read numerous context related writings, analyze their effectiveness, and write a number of papers that offer significant insights based on valid research in information technology and communications design. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

A written, oral, and visual communications course that emphasizes critical thinking skills combined with reading, writing, oral presentations, and presenting visual information within a technical communications context. Students critically analyze oral and visual presentations and recognize reasonableness, persuasive power, factual accuracy, social context, and ethical considerations in their own work and the work of others. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Students learn Flash Action Scripting and apply solid programming techniques to create dynamic multimedia content. Students learn the fundamental concepts of Object Oriented Programming plus designing, coding, testing, debugging, and documenting of computer programs. Using Flash Action Scripting, students apply those concepts to create programs utilizing digital media, including images, animation, audio, video and text. This is a laboratory class using Windows or Macintosh computers. (Offered fall semester.)

Teaches use of digitally based image acquisition and manipulation tools to capture and modify photographic images for use in print and screen-based media. Has two major instructional components. The initial instruction sets are based around conventional photographic principles such as lighting, composition, subject matter, and how digital capture processes affect these. The second component deals with image adjustment and delivery. Deals with aesthetic aspects of photography; does not address the topic of photography as an art form. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

This course uses a project-based approach for creating graphics in digital format and exploring the aesthetics of electronic publishing. Topics will include typography, layout, proportion, and color theory. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Digital image creation and manipulation is an important skill set that enables website graphic design, print design, and digital photography. Explores digital imaging techniques through the use of photo manipulation software, learn to use photo editing and color correction tools, create special effects, and work with a variety of file formats. Also covers practical aspects and steps to create digital images for a variety of outputs including audience analysis, material acquisition, and legal and ethical concerns. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Introductory course that develops problem-solving techniques while examining numerical and non-numerical problems from various disciplines. Students design solutions and learn to program in the C++ language. (Offered every semester.)

Must be taken concurrently with the CST 231 lecture section. (Offered every semester.)

Furnishes students with a problem-solving framework for developing standalone .NET (or Windows) runtime event-driven applications. They learn to translate a problem description into appropriate logic structures and coding statements. The event-driven nature of Visual Basic.Net requires that students learn how to organize their code into appropriate events related to Graphical User Interface Objects. (Offered spring semester.)

Lab portion of CST 232.  Should be taken with CST 232. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Introduces modern operating systems such as Unix and topics such as process management (creation, synchronization, and communication); processor scheduling; deadlock prevention, avoidance, and recovery; main-memory management; virtual memory management (swapping, paging, segmentation and page-replacement algorithms); control of disks and other input/output devices; file-system structure and implementation; and protection and security. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Designed as a second semester programming course using the object-oriented features of the C++ programming language. It is assumed that students have been introduced to classes and objects, control structures, repetition, functions, and logical operators. Topics introduced in this course will include material on types, classes, constructors, operator overloading, objects, inheritance, polymorphism, templates, data streams, error management, and proper object-oriented design. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Introduction to the use of computers for digital media creations, this course covers the fundamentals of how computers work in the creation of digital media for commercial entertainment and fine art purposes; including hardware components, operating principles, software basics, memory management, storage, programming basics for vector and bitmap functions, compression schemes and basic scripting.

This course introduces computer architectures and computer systems management. Includes data representation, memory, registers, and internals of common computers and system interfaces. Knowledge of C/C++ programming helpful but not mandatory. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Usually taken as a second semester programming course, Introduction to Data Structures using programming languages such as C++, Java or Visual Basic to assist students in learning basic object-orientated programming concepts, recursion, lists, queues, searching and sorting algorithms, asymptotic notations, etc.

Must be taken concurrently with the CST 238 lecture section

Focuses on Web-based design emphasizing color, bandwidth, layout, type, and creative design. Introduces GIF animation and JavaScript. Reviews multimedia publishing on the Web. Open to TMAC majors and non-majors. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Lab portion of CST 251.  Should be taken with CST 251. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

This course is an introduction to Relational Database Management Systems. Topics covered will include relational database theory and the logical and physical design, implementation, and management of databases. Additional topics will include Entity-Relationship Diagrams, Normalization and an introduction to SQL (Structured Query Language). (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Focuses on the philosophical roots (as evidenced in literature) of contemporary digital culture. From Armageddon to the Matrix; from Frankenstein to Lawnmower man; from the library at Alexandria to the archives of the Internet; the world of the digital intelligentsia owes its vision and mythology to the resonant themes found in literature and philosophy. Explores the essence of humanity that defines the natural world and strives to remake it in a more perfect fashion. (Offered every semester.)

Explores the implications of new communication technologies with regard to democracy, social activism, cultural identity, and social equity in the United States. Democracy cannot be separated from the issue of social identity since throughout our history many groups were excluded from political participation. Explores whether new media like the Internet will increasingly make identity irrelevant, or will create greater fragmentation. (Offered every semester.)

Introduction to Communication Networks: This course introduces networking concepts and protocol using the TCP/IP protocol stack. The concepts covered include IP addressing, subnetting, network hardware, network theory, TCP/IP protocols and applications. The course emphasizes hands-on networking skills as well as understanding of networking principles and concepts. (CCNA1 equivalent)

This course is an introduction to IP routing concepts and router administration. Topics covered include distance vector and link state based IP routing algorithms. Router administration topics covered will include configuration files, router interfaces, routing tables, routing protocol configuration, routing concepts, router IOS commands, access lists, router configuration, and network security concepts. This course emphasizes hands on networking skills as well as networking principles and concepts. (Offered every semester)

This course covers the intermediate concepts of routing and switching including RIPv2, EIGRP, OSPF, VLSM, CIDR, VLANs, network congestion issues, VTP, and Spanning Tree protocol. It also covers the various Wide Area Network services including Frame Relay, ISDN, HDLC, PPP, DDR. The course includes hands on experience using routers and switches and additional theory leading to a more detailed understanding of routing, switching and Wide Area Networks. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Helps students identify and articulate personal, professional, and social goals. Provides an integrated view of the telecommunications, multimedia, and applied computing major and its requirements. Students develop a plan for their learning goals. Note: required for entry into the major; fulfills the GWAR requirement. (Offered every semester.)

Students learn writing, presentation, and critical-thinking skills within the context of the Telecommunications, Multimedia, and Applied Computing (TMAC) major. Research and project topics stem from knowledge of the TMAC design and technology curriculum. Students learn how to analyze, predict, and articulate trends in the academic, public service, and private enterprise fields of the TMAC industry. Students write two major papers and give a combination oral/multimedia presentation before both a small and large audience. (Offered every semester.)

Provides an overview of minor and certificate programs offered by the School of Information Technology and Communications Design. Administrative processes, development and approval of an Individual Learning Plan, and an understanding of the portfolio development requirements for program completion are covered. CST 301 may be repeated for credit for students pursuing additional minors or certificates. Credit/no-credit only. (Offered every semester.)

History of Communication Design: This 4-unit, online course examines the development of communication design in modern history, viewed in the context of contemporary political, scientific, and cultural influences. Communication design includes disciplines such as graphic design, web design, advertising, instructional design, digital media, animation, digital illustration, interactive design and motion graphics.

Presents an overview of computer technology and its applications. Discusses processes to use computers effectively, creatively, and ethically in educational settings. Uses and evaluates software for teaching, learning, and managing classrooms in collaboration with the Monterey Bay Technology Education Center (MBTEC). This course meets liberal studies and teaching credential competencies. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Introduces page layout design for print and screen. Students work in Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat. Emphasizes use of type, typesetting techniques, legibility, and design composition. Covers scanning, importing files, and mastering digital prepress production. Field trips to printers and design offices. (Offered fall semester.)

Lab portion of CST 304.  Should be taken with CST 304. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Teaches students to model, animate, and render using current digital 3D modeling and animation technology. Includes a foundation for developing character animation and special effects sequences. (Offered fall semester.)

Uses high-level programming and scripting language to create components involved in creating a game engine. A game engine allows programmers to create new games by allowing the modification of characters, environments, and sounds.

Focuses on the design process and management tools to facilitate the creation of multimedia and Web-based video communications projects. Students demonstrate proficiency in project management and project design using formal and informal design processes. Covers multimedia production, project management, budgets, and legal and contractual issues. (Offered every semester.)

Overview of Telecommunications and Data communications technology for the non-specialist. Includes basic communications technology principles and types of networks, historical trends, existing and emerging technologies, social and economic impact, future trends. (Offered every semester.)

Survey of Telecommunication and Data communications technology fundamentals, Local Area Networks, Wide Area Networks, Internet and internetworking protocols including TCP/IP, network security and performance, emerging industry trends such as voice over the network and high speed networking. Designed as a foundation for students who wish to pursue more advanced telecommunications studies including certificate programs. Includes hands-on networking labs that incorporate Cisco CCNA module 1 as a lab component. (Offered every semester.) (Formerly Intro Telecommunications)

Covers national and international organizations and mechanisms for creating telecommunications standards using the OSI model, TCP/IP Internet standards. Focuses on the theory, technology, and operation of OSI Layer 3 (routing). Includes hands-on lab that incorporates Cisco CCNA module 2 as a lab component. (Offered fall semester.)

Focuses on the fundamental issues in the development of digital games. Discusses components of modern digital gams and their relationships, historical development of contemporary video and computer gaming, team member roles and tasks within the production process. Covers relationships of the conceptual creative and technical production to overall game development and analyzes the business, marketing and industry compoennts of game development.

Presents the principles of interactive multimedia design. Students design and create multimedia documents using computer-based authoring tools. Includes project management and production, and asset management of images, text, sound, animation, and computer code. (Offered fall semester.)

Project-based approach to creating graphics in digital format and exploring the aesthetics of electronic publishing. Includes typography, layout, proportion, and color. (Offered every semester.)

Laboratory-based course that presents tools for designing and developing computer graphic scenes and systems to create computer graphics programs. (Offered fall semester.)

Introduces the UNIX operating system, X Windows environment, and its interface layers. (Offered every semester.)

Introduces topics of Internet programming. Covers Java and PERL languages. (Offered fall semester.)

In-depth study of the instruction set architecture and hardware design of a specific CPU. Introduction to pipelines, input/output and multiprocessors. Computer abstractions and performance measurements. The student will understand the following: computer organization, architecture and design as applied to MIPS processors, the principles of computer performance measurement and assembly programming.

Presents basics of applied computing to analyze and evaluate various algorithms for solving problems. Covers software engineering principles and introduces heuristics. (Offered spring semester.)

Introduces instructional design to create training and educational materials in business and education. Includes the principles of design for job aids, videos, programming, and computer-based training. (Offered every semester.)

Covers web design aesthetics, layout, and structure; user-interface design and interaction; database interaction and web application service design; and web animation and interactivity. (Offered every semester.)

Students learn and apply the technical skills required to create dynamic websites using webscripts, such as PHP, and databases, such as MySQL. Covers HTML, cascading style sheets, creating dynamic webpages using scripting, creating databases using open source software, and producing websites that allow users to insert, delete, and update records in a database. Students learn the programming fundamentals of an open source scripting language.

A service learning course in which students apply computer literacy, multimedia design, and technology to assist schools, nonprofit organizations, and community agencies. The theme for the course is "Bridging the Digital Divide." Note: students must participate in required service placements with hours to be arranged. (Offered every semester.)

Examines relational database theory, design, implementation, and management. Covers logical and physical database design, SQL, 3-tier architecture, database administration, and distributed databases. Students develop their own database to solve a real-world problem. (Offered spring semester.)

Business & Information Technology: Examines relationships between business and technology. Topics include basic concepts of general business, accounting and financing, communication in business, human resources, and marketing. Discusses how information technology is used in these business operations. Intended to give students the ability to understand the fundatmental importance of business, as well as to prepare them for making important business/economic decisions as technology professionals.

An advanced, in-depth study of the design and analysis of algorithms. Topics include models of computation, sorting, data structures, graph algorithms, matrix multiplication, polynomial arithmetic, pattern matching and analysis of computational complexity.

Examines how progress in science and technology has affected the cultural, economic and physical ecology of the regions to be visited in the upcoming cruise. Special focus on ethical and social dimensions of technology-based change. Includes classroom instruction and two-month study voyage on board the TS Golden Bear. Also see ESSP 272, CST 482. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Investigates through an ethical perspective how communication technology affects our lives. Discusses individual and institutional values represented through technological choices. Using case studies and current events, explores such issues as intellectual property rights, information access and privacy, and the digital divide. (Offered every semester.)

Serves as an adjunct to HCOM 389, Otter Realm Workshop. Fosters collaboration between editors, photographers and illustrators. Trains and assists newspaper editors, photographers and illustrators in the design and production of the Otter Realm newspaper on the CSUMB campus. Students will learn about newspaper layout, digital prepress production for layout, illustration and photography, depending on their specialty. Required software includes Adobe InDesign, Photoshop or Illustrator depending on the student¿s emphasis.

Provides direction and support for students in the development of a portfolio of evidence that demonstrates fulfillment of an ITCD Learning Outcome. May be repeated for additional credit when topics vary and as subjects permit. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Students work with practicing professionals in the community in a volunteer or paid internship that requires critical thinking and specialized telecommunication, multimedia, or applied computing skills. The amount of academic work done, not total hours of internship commitment, determines the amount of academic credit. (Offered every semester.)

Specialized study of a particular topic within the School of Information Technology and Communications Design. May be repeated for additional credit when topics vary and as subjects permit. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Individualizes student placement for field study as related to Information Technology and Communications Design. Offered as interest warrants.

Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Students create and execute a detailed TMAC Capstone project plan with the approval of the student's advising committee. Meets two hours per week for discussion and advisement. Formerly Senior Capstone Project. (Offered every semester.)

Laboratory course supports students during the creation of their Capstone projects and assessment for Capstone outcomes. Meets two hours per week for discussion and advisement. (Offered every semester.)

This is an advanced design class dealing with principles of visual hierarchy and the sequencing of information as part of an overall systems approach. The course also focuses on the practical issues of traditional print and emerging electronic production skills. (Offered spring semester.)

Teaches students the techniques and strategies for developing complex animation projects, such as short features, real-time interactive navigation, virtual reality walk-throughs, scientific simulations, and other advanced utilizations. Students are expected to work collaboratively. (Offered spring semester.)

Introduces management tools, skills, and information to design, implement, and manage telecommunications and data communications networks. Includes network design, monitoring, and security. (Offered spring semester.)

Network Admin in Community: Introduces management tools, skills, and information to design, implement, and manage telecommunications and data communications networks. Includes network design, monitoring, and security. The impact of democratization of information on society as whole and pockets society without such access will be explored. The inclinations and prejudices leading to overall lack of women and minorities in computer science will be studied; short-term and long term plans to address them will be developed. Students will implement components of their plan by serving at community sites including high schools, community centers and non-profit organizations.

Continues the development of interactive multimedia design and production through collaborative projects with clients. Emphasizes multimedia design and production skills. Addresses project critique and the proper application of basic principles of multimedia design and development. (Offered spring semester.)

Students refine their skills as digital artists, using current software and image technology. They use a variety of source materials, including hand drawings, scanned images, photographs, and other materials to create provocative and personal visual statements, then output them onto a variety of substrates including paper and canvas. Students then apply traditional materials, such as chalk, pastel, charcoal, and acrylic and oil paints to realize their eventual vision. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Designed to help students complete the assessment of the Technology/Information University Learning Requirement (Tech/Info ULR) at CSUMB. (Offered every semester.)

Focuses on UNIX Systems Administration and is designed to be a sequel to the CST334 Unix and X Windows course. Covers advanced topics related to setup, configuration, and maintenance of UNIX servers, including system security, Perl scripts, and server backups. (Offered spring semester.)

Stresses the importance of good interfaces and the relationship of user interface design to human-computer interaction. Other topics include: visual coherence and cohesion; interface quality and methods of evaluation; interface design examples; dimensions of interface variability; dialogue genre; dialogue tools and techniques; user-centered design and task analysis; prototyping and the iterative design cycle; user interface implementation; prototyping tools and environments. (Offered as interest warrants.)

This course prepares students for large-scale software development using software engineering principles and techniques. Coverage includes software process, requirements analysis and specification, software design, implementation, testing, and project management. Students are expected to work in teams to carry out a realistic software project. (Offer every spring) prerequisite: CST 338

Application of systematic instructional design and development techniques. Student functions as an instructional planner and performs key instructional design/product development tasks: assessing instructional needs and developing detailed design specifications, prototypes, and final instructional products. Emphasis on developing products for incorporation into an instructional design portfolio. (Offered spring semester.)

Web-based design and project management continuing the development of skills and techniques introduced in CST 351. Includes integration of GIF animation, JavaScript, Acrobat, Shockwave, audio, and video. (Offered spring semester.)

Students identify, examine, and pursue technology-based new venture opportunities. Examines the stages of new venture conception, formation, and growth. Includes entrepreneurial economics, opportunity recognition and evaluation, new venture strategies and formation, marketing, techniques of problem solving and decision making, accounting and financial management, entrepreneurial finance, and development of organizational culture. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

An advanced, in-depth study of the design and analysis of algorithms. Topics include models of computation, sorting, data structures, graph algorithms, matrix multiplication, polynomial arithmetic, pattern matching and analysis of computational complexity.

Students manage and produce multimedia presentations and video conferencing solutions to communications problems. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Overview of global communications technologies with special emphasis on satellite and wireless communications including marine and amateur applications. Examines technologies and issues in developing regions. Prepares students to receive a General Radio License. Includes two-month study voyage on board the TS Golden Bear. Also see ESSP 272, CST 372. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Teaches key applications, LAN/WAN protocols, and systems integration culminating with a final project emphasizing the integration of LAN/WAN equipment from several vendors, such as Alcatel, Cisco, and Netgear. Covers the IP and IPX routing protocols, layer 2 switching and VLANs, Wide Area Network services, and Wide Area Network protocols. Introduces basic network security, using router access lists. Incorporates the third and fourth courses in the CCNA curriculum, as well as additional material. (Offered spring semester.)

Specialized study of a particular topic within the School of Information Technology and Communications Design. May be repeated for additional credit when topics vary and as subjects permit. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Provides a framework for a substantial research and development effort: ideation, proposal writing, project management, presentation, documentation, and/or evaluation. Provides one-on-one guidance on students' research and development effort within the School of Information Technology and Communications Design disciplines. All students, including non-majors, working on their Capstone projects with faculty members in ITCD must register for CST 496.

Working closely with faculty advisor(s), students finish their capstone project independent of the regular CST400/401 sequence. The Capstone Independent Study is offered when there is a compelling reason the student can not participate the CST 400/401 class. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Students investigate the major behavioral, cognitive, and social interaction learning theories and the corresponding delivery models. Fulfills the following MIST learning outcomes: evaluate and select appropriate applied learning theories; evaluate and apply behavioral, cognitive, and social-based learning theories; select appropriate pedagogy according to a specific delivery model and learner outcomes; and develop an awareness of cultural diversity in learning traits. (Cross listed under IST.)

Students investigate, apply, and evaluate instructional design models. Students create and evaluate an instructional design. Fulfills the following MIST learning outcomes: demonstrate problem identification and definition; demonstrate content organization and development; develop an implementation strategy; create an evaluation model; apply specific and appropriate learning theories to an instructional problem; demonstrate appropriate interpersonal client relation skills. (Cross listed under IST.)

Students investigate a variety of technologies for delivering and developing instruction. Investigates learning management and computer-mediated communication systems, authoring and scripting environments, and distance learning delivery technologies. Fulfills the following MIST learning outcomes: demonstrate current instructional content development and delivery tools; describe human-computer interaction issues and apply them in instructional system development and evaluation; discuss the impact of multiple learning styles on development and delivery tools; address the issue of access and the digital divide. (Cross listed under IST.)

Students work in groups or individually developing educational interactive multimedia projects. Students develop a design document and then build a multimedia prototype. They conduct formative evaluation to test for quality and appeal and make revisions based on their findings. Fulfills the following MIST learning outcomes: develop effective feedback systems in instruction; select and use appropriate media tools to develop a solution to an instruction problem; develop multimedia learning objects that address the instructional problem. (Cross listed under IST.)

Focuses on enterprise systems, Web services, and applications. Students design a Web-enabled enterprise database system and Web portal. Student presentations focus on emerging concepts in Web enterprise systems and services. (Offered spring semester.)

Students work with practicing professionals in the community in a volunteer or paid internship that requires critical thinking and specialized telecommunication, multimedia, or applied computing skills. The amount of academic work done, not total hours of internship commitment, determines the amount of academic credit. (Offered every semester.)

Specialized study of a particular topic within the School of Information Technology and Communications Design. May be repeated for additional credit when topics vary and as subjects permit. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Individualizes student placement for field study as related to Information Technology & Communications Design. Offered as interest warrants.

Student and faculty member select advanced topic of study and number of credits. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Entry point for the Master of Science in Management and Information Technology program. Introduction to e-commerce, information technology for businesses, and research methodology. Cross-listed as BUS 600. (Offered fall semester.)

Focuses on analysis of the acquisition, development, and evaluation of a web-based information system. Formal methodologies are introduced to improve the system planning, analysis, and architecture design. Usability test of the system and human-computer interaction issues are examined. (Offered every third semester.)

Explores important issues shaping the IT systems that characterize contemporary organizations in the digital world. Introduces the basic system components found in most IT environments, predominant issues and factors pertaining to technology adoption and use at the enterprise level, and trends in emerging information technologies and their impact on organizations. (Offered Fall semester.)

Students develop an understanding of both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies and techniques. Students develop and implement research plans evaluating an aspect of their Capstone project. Fulfills the following MIST learning outcomes: distinguish between qualitative and quantitative research reports; select and evaluate appropriate techniques in education research; examine methodological approaches to designing research. (Cross listed under IST.)

Follows the Project Management Institute model with a focus on IT-related projects. Covers basic project frameworks such as scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, and procurement. Discusses management skills required to lead a team to successful completion of projects. Applies the business enterprise model to architectural design and to project, program, and product management. Provides hands-on practice with industry-level PM software and covers several case studies. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Analysis of electronic commerce systems and technologies with the strategic needs of system administrator and management. Focuses on analysis and assessment of technologies, their potentialities and impact on electronic commerce, and the development of methodological tools. (Offered fall semester.) (Cross listed under MIT and BUS.)

Examines venture formation and growth following completion of a business plan. Focuses on ongoing marketing, decision making, and accounting and financial management. Students examine startup and growth management issues faced by real-life ventures and meet with entrepreneurs, small business lawyers and accountants, and investors. Students also receive assistance in approaching potential sources of capital and other resources. (Offered fall semester.) (Cross listed under MIT and BUS.)

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) has emerged as a crucial business medium allowing a business to expand markets, offer instant service, and forge close links with customers, partners, and vendors. Course provides both the strategic and technical essentials of developing an e-commerce initiative. Students gain hands-on experience using hardware and system software, and learn various technology and design issues by building a prototype of an e-commerce site. (Offered every third semester.)

Explores individual and organizational behavior in the context of the knowledge-based company environment, including structures, processes, and systems. Knowledge areas include: communication, group dynamics, organization change and development, conflict and conflict resolution, multicultural diversity, ethics, leadership, and decision making. Abilities to apply include communication skills, decision making, problem solving, and teamwork, including understanding of cross-cultural differences. (Offered spring semester.) (Cross listed under MIT and BUS.)

Provides both the strategic and technical essentials of designing, developing and management of an e-Commerce initiative. The course starts with a survey of the landscape of e-Commerce technologies and how business employs them to gain competitive advantages. The course then delves into the step-by-step process of design and development of e-Commerce systems.  Students gain hands-on experience using hardware and system software, and learn various technology and design issues by building a fully functional prototype of an e-Commerce site. The course finishes with issues and practice of management, maintaining and updating the e-Commerce site. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Examines database design and implementation using microcomputer database tools. Discusses data management concepts and terminology currently in practice in the business world, including data and database administration, fundamentals of database management systems and models (network, hierarchical and relational), data sharing, retrieval, data dictionaries, data proliferation, data integrity, and queries using SQL. (Offered spring semester.) (Cross listed under MIT and BUS.)

Assesses strategic implications of adopting new technologies and enabling transformational change at the enterprise level in our knowledge-based economy. Covers creating business value through IT, assessing and managing risk, measuring financial value and risk of IT adoption, managing disruptive technologies, managing technology innovation, positioning the CIO in enterprise leadership and strategy management, marketing innovative products in a global economy, and assessing enterprise implications of technology trends. (Offered Spring semester.)

Examines issues and cases in business leadership and strategy, critical and systems thinking and learning, and leadership in facilitating strategic change. Describes the strategic-management process; explains the need for integrating analysis and intuition in strategic management; discusses the nature of strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation activities; explores why good ethics is good business in strategic management. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Specialized study of a particular topic within the School of Information Technology and Communications Design. May be repeated for additional credit when topics vary and as subjects permit. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Provides a framework for a substantial research and development effort: ideation, proposal writing, project management, presentation, documentation, and/or evaluation. Provides one-on-one guidance on students' research and development efforts within the School of Information Technology and Communications Design disciplines. All students, including non-majors, working on their Capstone project with faculty members in ITCD must register for CST 696.

Student and faculty member select advanced topic of study and number of credits. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

A capstone contributes to the disciplines or the professions by adding to technical/professional knowledge or by providing an original application of technical/professional knowledge in the professional field. Examples include a field study, a project, applied research, or a professional article of publishable quality. Cross-listed as BUS 699. (Offered spring semester.)