CIT 11200
Information Technology Fundamentals
Course Instructional Objectives
Information Technology Fundamentals
Course Instructional Objectives
Boot Camp - overview of course structure, history of computers, and careers
- Navigate Oncourse structure
- Use textbook as a resource
- Select key parts of computer history
- Translate purpose of course into own words based on your needs, interests, expectations, and major/career choice
- Get to know each other, instructor, and self in regard to course, major, career, CIT program outcomes and PULs
- Explore, differentiate, and judge among computer careers as an initial career preparation step
Surf's Up - Internet, Web generations, networking
- Illustrate how computers are connected to the Internet
- Determine best options for Internet connectivity
- Construct reliable and useful searches and develop a plan for informal and formal research
- Explore, compare, and judge web trends and tools
- Choose products to prepare own computer for privacy and security issues (viruses, worms, spyware, etc.)
- Describe network media and topology
- Design a simple network (for home, wireless or wired)
- Set up web server space and publish a simple web page
Guts and Glory - hardware, software, digital media
- Describe how files are stored on disk and what causes fragmentation
- Provide computer maintenance for own computer
- Determine appropriate back up plan and file management
- Explain features of several operating systems
- Identify, schematize, and evaluate hardware components
- Describe basic types of applications software
- Define different types of software
- Identify security and privacy issues and identify software solutions
- Identify different file types
- Create a short, simple video
All Business - information systems in the business world, databases, and programming
- Explain the flow of data from input of data from a personal computer to that data being processed in computers and flowing through the world via networks and systems
- Define database management system
- Describe the System Development Life Cycle
- Create a use case for a task in an information system
- Recognize components of a database table
- Demonstrate how to create a database structure (tables and relationships) from a mass of data (abstract practice)
- Discuss different types of programming languages and paradigms
- Recognize and describe tools used by programmers
