Baccalaureate Degree
The baccalaureate degree computer science program is a comprehensive program offering breadth in the required courses and depth within the student’s chosen path. Emphasis in this degree program is on providing a good skill and knowledge base on which the graduate can continue to build in this rapidly changing field. This combination will prepare graduates to assume the role of technical specialist or leader within their chosen specialty, or to pursue advanced studies. |
Programming
The programming major provides in-depth training with several languages and allows the student to apply those skills in other current and emerging languages and applications. Students also develop skills in analysis, database management, and software development. Teamwork involving real projects with external organizations is required. |
Information Technology
The information technology major is a degree program for those with varied interests or who anticipate working in settings where broad skill sets, including hardware and software, are needed. After meeting the basic requirements, students work with their advisor to select electives which meet their employment objectives and interests. |
Program Educational Objectives
The following program objectives describe what students are expected to know upon completion of the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. These relate to knowledge, skills, and behaviors that students acquire in the program. |
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Program Outcomes
- Students demonstrate an appropriate mastery of the knowledge, techniques, skills, and modern tools of computer science.
- Students identify, analyze, and solve technical problems through research and utilize coding, applications tools, and other computer rescources.
- Students prepare design and implementation documents such as code documentation, specifications, contracts, system design drawings, presentation materials, and project schedules.
- Students differentiate between application types and select appropriate software implementation solutions.
- Students apply appropriate coding logic and programming concepts to the solution of business and industrial problems.
- Students demonstrate strong communication skills through written, oral, and graphical means.
- Students team with others to solve problems and present solutions.
- Students clearly understand professional and ethical responsibilities.
- Students understand diversity, societal, and global issues relating to solutions to problems in professional practice.
- Students recognize the need for and the ability to engage in life-long learning.
- Students demonstrate basic web application development and design skills and recognize the importance of the internet in emerging computer fields.
- Students demonstrate a basic knowledge of computer networking concepts and components which are the basis for modern business and industrial computer deployment.
- Students demonstrate knowledge and skills for designing and implementing databases in an integrated systems environment.
Faculty |
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| Deborrah Pittman Professor/Department Head, Computer Science |
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| Norman Lynn Adams Professor, Computer Science |
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Lionel Craddock Associate Professor, Computer Science |
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