| CSC 1010: () Offerings |
| An introductory look at physical science through computing. Digital electronics, hardware and computing systems; computation and software. Applies the scientific method and computer problem-solving principles to problems in the physical world, including the use of simulation and modeling. The ethical use of computers and information, and the social impacts of computing are discussed. |
| Attributes:Natural Science B
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| CSC 1120: () Offerings |
| Explores how to use a (Windows-based) computer; describes computer hardware components; covers the basics of the Windowing environment, including the file system, running applications, editing messages and documents, and printing; and discusses the effects of computers in society. |
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| CSC 1123: () Offerings |
| What is a "Spreadsheet"? This course covers creating, modifying, saving, and printing spreadsheet documents; entering and using formulas and calculations; editing and importing data; incorporating graphs; and formatting and enhancing the appearance of a spreadsheet document. |
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| CSC 1124: () Offerings |
| What is a "Database" and a relational database management system? Designing a database. Defining tables. Defining and editing fields. Entering and editing data. Creating and using queries using one or more tables. Creating, formatting, and enhancing forms and reports. |
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| CSC 1126: () Offerings |
| What is a "Presentation Manager"? Covers designing an effective presentation; creating and editing slides, incorporating pictures, drawings, and "graphics"; rearranging topics and slides; formatting and enhancing the look of a presentation; estimating the timing and sequencing of a presentation; and printing notes and handouts. |
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| CSC 1130: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: CSC 1120 or equivalent and two years of high school algebra. Covers designing a computerized solution to a problem, the software development lifecycle, and structured programming concepts and skills. In addition the course provides an introduction to a modern programming language. |
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| CSC 1230: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: High school pre-calculus, math analysis, or equivalent and demonstratable computer literacy. An introduction to computer science, this course covers problem-solving methods and algorithm development; modern programming methodologies; and fundamentals of a high-level block structured language. |
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| CSC 1800: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: CSC 1120 or equivalent. Presentation of a topic of current interest in computer usage. Topics may vary between offerings. May be repeated for credit up to 5 credits. |
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| CSC 2220: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: (MAT 1221 or 1225 or 1234) and CSC 2430. Explores fundamentals of computer programming and problem solving for engineering and science students. |
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| CSC 2222: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: CSC 2430. Intermediate programming and problem-solving techniques that will introduce a different programming language than used in CSC 2430. |
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| CSC 2430: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: CSC 1230 or equivalent. Develops discipline in program design, style, debugging, testing. Introduces object-oriented design with classes, methods, and encapsulation. Introduces dynamic storage allocation and pointers. Examines arrays, linked linear data structures, and recursion. |
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| CSC 2431: () Offerings |
| Continuation of CSC 2430. Covers linked data structures, including trees, and other non-linear representations; introduces graphs and networks; explores external data structures, and techniques necessary for implementing different file organizations; and methods of organizing and accessing data on secondary storage devices (indexing, trees, and hashing). |
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| CSC 2950: () Offerings |
| An introductory course studying a special interest topic in computer science. Topics and credits may vary between offerings. May be repeated for an unlimited number of credits. |
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| CSC 2951: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: Previous problem-solving and programming course in Pascal, Modula, Ada, or Java. Presents fundamentals of the C++ programming language. Offered as a directed-study, instructor arranged course. |
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| CSC 3150: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: CSC 2431 (may be taken concurrently), CSC 3220 is recommended. Surveys issues and tools used in the analysis and design of software systems. Topics include requirements gathering; feasibility, process, and data analysis; architecture; user-interface; and program design. Measures for the evaluation of specifications and designs. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
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| CSC 3220: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: CSC 2430. An implementation-oriented look at software development techniques used to create interactive applications, focusing on the use of object-oriented libraries to create user interfaces. Topics include event-driven programming, human-computer interaction (HCI), graphical user interfaces (GUI), database interfaces and tools for interface prototyping. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 3221: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: CSC 3220. Introduction to networking and the Internet. Topics studied include network architectures, network security, communication, and networking layer protocols, and the Web as an example of client-server computing. In addition, students will practice building Web applications. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 3310: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: CSC 2431. Explores organization and structure of programming languages; run-time behavior and requirements of programs; and programming language specification. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 3350: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: CSC 2431 and either CSC 3750 or CSC 3760 or CPE 3760 or EE 3760. Introduction to operating systems and systems programming. Surveys systems software; operating system interface and functions; utilities and shell programming; linkers and loaders; translators; and processes, concurrency and concurrent programming. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 3430: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: (MAT 1360 or 2700 or 2376 or 3360) and (MAT 1221, 1225, or 1234). Studies algorithmic, problem solving approaches such as greedy, divide and conquer, and dynamic programming. Covers the design and analysis of algorithms for searching, sorting, string processing, table management, and graphs. Includes principles of computational complexity and analysis. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 3750: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: CSC 2431 (concurrent registration allowed), and MAT 1720 or 2720. Covers digital logic, computer structure, machine language, addressing, use and operation of assemblers, micro-architectures, instruction formats, and the memory hierarchy. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 3760: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: CSC 2430 and EE 1210. CSC 2431 is recommended. Studies organization and structuring of the major hardware components of computers, including mechanics of information transfer, and control within a digital computer system. Introduces computer architecture, machine instruction sets and assembly language programming. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 3899: () Offerings |
| Covers ethical, social, and societal-impact issues with which computer professionals and users must deal. Sample topics include invasion of privacy, computer crime, intellectual property, software theft, computer security, ethics in the workplace, and the global information society. Class format is a combination of lecture and discussion. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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| CSC 3900: () Offerings |
| Independent study and research in an advanced computer science topic. May be repeated for credit up to 10 credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 3930: () Offerings |
| Studies applied computer science. Typically involves academic systems programming, teaching, grading, and lab preparation of tutoring responsibilities. Includes an assessment of Christian service issues or experiences. May be repeated for credit up to 10 credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 3940: () Offerings |
| Provides a significant learning experience to be obtained in a supervised work-study environment. Typically involves work in systems analysis and design, advanced applications, or systems programming. Includes an assessment of Christian service issues or experiences. May be repeated for credit up to 10 credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 3950: () Offerings |
| Advanced or special interest topics in computer science. May be repeated for credit up to 10 credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 3960: () Offerings |
| Independent work on a significant project in computer science. May be repeated for credit up to 10 credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 4150: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: CSC 3150. Covers topics in software engineering, including team programming, project planning and management, SDLC (software development life cycle) and software quality assurance. Course requirements include the design and implementation of a team software project. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Senior students only. |
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| CSC 4210: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: CSC 3430. Introduction to theoretical topics in computer science. Includes formal languages, automata and parsing; computational complexity, analysis of algorithms; computability; and program correctness and verification. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 4310: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: CSC 3310, and CSC 3750 or CSC/CPE/EE 3760. Studies programming language translation and compiler design concepts; language recognition, symbol table management, semantic analysis, and code generation. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 4350: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: CSC 3350 or CPE 3350. Introduces the major functions of operating systems. Covers processes and concurrency; concurrent programming; resource allocation, contention and control; scheduling, memory management, and device management. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 4410: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: CSC 3150. Introduces database concepts: data models; data description and data manipulation languages; query facilities; data security, integrity, and reliability. Primary emphasis on relational data model; includes the design and implementation of database applications using a relational DBMS. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 4510: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: CSC 3221. Introduction to programming in the Windows GUI environment. Comparison to other GUI environments. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 4750: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: CSC 3750 or CSC 3760, or CPE 3760 or EE 3760. Recommended: CSC 2431. Studies concepts and terminology of computer networks, equipment, and protocols. Emphasis is on local area networks. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 4760: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: CSC 3750 or CSC 3760, or CPE 3760 or EE 3760. Recommended: CSC 2431. Studies the architecture of multiprocessor, pipelined, and parallel computers. Emphasis is placed on principles of parallelism and the architecture of state-of-the-art supercomputers. A team project is required. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 4800: () Offerings |
| An advanced course studying a special interest topic in computer science. Topics and credits may vary between offerings. Computer science minors may take this course with instructor approval. May be repeated for an unlimited number of credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Computer Science Majors only. |
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| CSC 4810: () Offerings |
| An advanced course studying a special interest topic in computer science. Topics and credits may vary between offerings. Computer science minors may take this course with instructor approval. May be repeated for an unlimited number of credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Computer Science Majors only. |
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| CSC 4820: () Offerings |
| An advanced course studying a special interest topic in computer science. A team project is required. Topics may vary between offerings. May be repeated for credit 2 times. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Computer Science Majors only. |
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| CSC 4898: () Offerings |
| This senior capstone course will explore topics and frontiers in the computing sciences. Students will write a significant paper or design and implement an experimental project that investigates a current topic within the computing sciences. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Computer Science, Information Systems Majors only. Senior students only. |
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| CSC 4900: () Offerings |
| Independent study and research in an advanced computer science topic. May be repeated for credit up to 15 credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 4930: () Offerings |
| Studies applied computer science. Typically involves academic systems programming, teaching, grading, lab preparation, or tutoring responsibilities. Includes an assessment of Christian service issues or experiences. May be repeated for credit up to 8 credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 4940: () Offerings |
| Provides a significant learning experience to be obtained in a supervised work-study environment. Typically involves work in systems analysis and design, advanced applications, or systems programming. Includes an assessment of Christian service issues or experiences. May be repeated for credit up to 8 credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 4950: () Offerings |
| An advanced course studying a special interest topic in computer science. Topics and credits may vary between offerings. May be repeated for credit up to 5 credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Computer Science Majors only. Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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| CSC 4960: () Offerings |
| Independent work on a significant project in computer science. May be repeated for credit up to 8 credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CSC 4970: () Offerings |
| The student will conduct research based on a proposal prepared prior to registering for this course. Results of the research will be prepared for presentation at undergraduate or professional symposia. May be repeated for credit up to 8 credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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