Course Number
Course Name
Credit Hours
Foundation
CD2600
2
Course Description:
This course provides information and resources important for anyone’s career development. It uses guest presenters and mock interviews, in addition to individual consultations, to provide career guidance. The class starts by having the students perform a self-assessment of their interests and values while at the same time, focusing on their professional goals. It emphasizes the importance of understanding how to create a successful resume no matter where a person is in their career path. In addition, it highlights how to apply a variety of other job search documents and needing to execute follow-up. Instructors illustrate traditional and nontraditional methods of job searching to include some of the latest online resources. A significant element of this course is training students to have great interviewing skills. Additional time is spent researching employers, exploring employment opportunities available in the area, and setting up interviews with prospective employers. Toward the end of this course, students also learn value of teamwork and being successful in their career. By applying these techniques and suggestions in this course, students are able to approach their career exploration and job search with a more confident and winning attitude. This course is scheduled during the final or next to last quarter of the program.
INF1100
2
Course Description:
This course introduces students to lifelong learning skills necessary to critically assess and use information. The student will learn techniques to effectively locate, evaluate, and select information, to think critically about research strategies, ethical use of resources, and to apply these concepts to research using Learning Resource Center resources.
PSY1050
4
Course Description:
This course is designed to enhance the college learning experience and prepare students for personal and professional success. Concepts presented include managing change, setting and achieving goals, and thinking in ways to create success. This course also incorporates assessments that will increase one’s self-awareness, and improve the student’s interpersonal and intrapersonal skills.
General Education Courses
COM1050
4
Course Description:
This course focuses on helping students develop writing, researching, and critical thinking skills through writing paragraphs and essays using different rhetorical styles. Students also gain experience with peer reviewing. Students are required to earn a grade of C or higher to satisfy the requirements of this course.
ECN2000
4
Course Description:
This course is concerned with the allocation of scarce resources among competing interests. Students learn about different economic systems, as well as the production, distribution, and use of material goods and services. This course presents economics as a method of thought and a way of taking hold of a problem, breaking it down, and working systematically through a solution.
MAT1500
4
Course Description:
This course is the study of real numbers and variables. Topics studied include operations involving real numbers and algebraic expressions, solving linear equations and inequalities, the Cartesian coordinate system, graphs of linear equations and inequalities, simplifying rational expressions and exponents, factoring and radicals.
PSY2000
4
Course Description:
This course is designed to develop students’ basic skills of logical reasoning relative to problem solving and related argument analysis. Learning to provide evidence and well-reasoned support for asserted solutions and/or positions within frameworks of clarity, depth, precision, relevance, and fairness are central to the course.
SPC1010
4
Course Description:
This course provides students with the basic skills necessary to organize their thoughts and communicate effectively through public speaking. Students learn to research, organize, and properly convey oral messages. Through practical classroom application, students gain sound experience in the art of oral presentation.
Professional
BUS1000
4
Course Description:
This course presents fundamental business concepts and contemporary issues to introduce the student to the purposes and functions of business.
ITS1000
4
Course Description:
Learn basic through intermediate computer concepts with an emphasis on the personal computer and its practical use, including hardware, application and system software, the Internet and World Wide Web, communications, database management, e-commerce, and computers in society. Focus on this course is on the basic knowledge required to be computer literate in today’s digital world.
ITS1500
4
Course Description:
In this course, students will take an in-depth look at computer technologies and hardware associated with the personal computer.
ITS1505
4
Course Description:
In this course, students will continue an in-depth look at computer technologies and hardware associated with the personal computer. This course content will also include troubleshooting and problem-solving techniques.
ITS1550
4
Course Description:
This course introduces students to the various technologies involved in creating, maintaining, and troubleshooting networks. Topics covered include layers of OSI model, network hardware peripherals, protocols, and wireless and gigabit Ethernet networking.
ITS1650
4
Course Description:
This course is designed to provide an in-depth look at the business skills, soft skills and self-management skills people need to provide effective customer service and support in a technical environment. Designed to be “how to” oriented, the course will use lectures and exercises to provide students specific techniques they can use to acquire and demonstrate business skills, soft skills, and self-management skills. The course material also covers the “bigger picture” benefits of acquiring and demonstrating those skills. Common help desk techniques and software will be introduced in a lab based environment, along with both mock and real world customer service opportunities presented to offer students experience in the career of a help desk professional.
ITS1800
4
Course Description:
This course provides students with actual on-the-job learning opportunities in a help desk environment. Students are assigned positions closely related to those in the actual practice where they will have the opportunity to perform the duties commonly associated with the help desk role. The student will perform administrative duties, document tasks and resolutions, and assign escalations as required. Students do not receive pay for hours worked.
ITS2000
4
Course Description:
This course covers fundamental topics of interest to computer professionals in the area of network administration for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is focused on individuals entering the IT industry and experienced IT professionals who support network operating systems.
ITS2050
4
Course Description:
This course covers topics of interest to computer professionals related to Linux and UNIX operating system administration. The course material is focused on individuals entering the IT industry as well as experienced IT professionals who support network operating systems.
ITS2250
4
Course Description:
This course covers topics of interest to computer professionals in the area of Cisco-specific technologies. The topics for this course include (but are not limited to) network terminology and protocols, routing protocols, cabling, cabling tools, router and switch programming, addressing, LANs, WANs, and VLANs.
ITS2255
4
Course Description:
This course covers topics of interest to computer professionals in the area of Cisco-specific technologies. The topics for this course include (but are not limited to) Network routing, switching and advance routing protocols, IP telephony, access control lists and switched enterprise networks.
ITS2260
4
Course Description:
Please see the Harrison College Course Catalog for a list of courses for this program.
ITS2300
4
Course Description:
This course reviews the characteristics and trends of the global information society including basic information processing, Internet research, and other skills used by the technical professional. Techniques that can be used for independent technical learning will also be explored. This course also provides students the opportunity to explore competing ethical theories and use analysis and critical thinking to determine their own code of ethics.
ITS2350
4
Course Description:
This course will provide an overview of privacy and security issues faced by IT professionals. Customer and corporate privacy measures will be introduced along with an introduction to HIPAA laws for the medical industry. Course topics cover both network security and social engineering topics—with special emphasis placed upon best security practices. Detailed security concepts and contingency planning will be addressed.
ITS2550
4
Course Description:
This course will provide hands-on experience and expert resources to help students prepare for maintaining and supporting networks in a simulated work environment. Competencies will be used to evaluate student progress, and successful completion of a capstone project will be required for course credit.
ITS2650
4
Course Description:
This course will provide hands-on experience and expert resources to help students install, manage, and use Cisco technologies in a simulated work environment. Competencies will be used to evaluate student progress, and successful completion of a capstone project will be required for course credit.
ITS2850
4
Course Description:
This course will provide hands-on experience and expert resources to help students apply proper security practices and contingencies in a simulated work environment. Competencies will be used to evaluate student progress, and successful completion of a capstone project will be required for course credit.