Skills, concepts, and capabilities associated with Information Technology. Fundamentals of hardware, software, human-computer interfaces, networking, multi-media, databases, eCommerce, privacy and digital security. Project oriented hands-on approach.
NONE, 3hrs
| Office Location | Lab Sections | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenneth Sloan | <sloan@uab.edu>, | CH 133 | |
| Robert Tairas | <tairasr@uab.edu> | CH 123E |
* Sat 12:30pm-2:30pm |
| Vetria Byrd | <vlbyrd@uab.edu>, | CH 113A |
* Mon 2:40pm-4:40pm * Wed 2:40pm-4:40pm * Thu 2:40pm-4:40pm * Fri 2:40pm-4:40pm |
| Brad Wardman | <bwardman@uab.edu>, | CH 113A |
* Wed 6:00am-8:00am * Thu 6:00am-8:00am |
| David O'Gwynn | <dogwynn@uab.edu>, | CH 142 |
* Mon 2:40pm-4:40pm * Sun 5:30pm-7:30pm |
TBA
Snyder, Fluency with Information Technology: Skills Concepts, & Capabilities, 2nd edition, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-321-35782-5
This course gives students the experience, knowledge, and capabilities needed to apply information technology effectively throughout their lives. In addition to computer literacy (immediately useful skills), Fluency involves problem solving, reasoning and complexity management to prepare students to use computers today and to be effective technolgoy users tomorrow.
This is an intense, hands-on, project/paper driven course. It is aimed at students who have no intention of becoming CIS majors, as well as potential CIS majors who lack a sound IT foundation.
Classes will be a mixture of lecture, demonstration, and structured lab work, leading to a major term project.
Grades are based on class participation (quizes, etc.), labs and the project. There are no exams.