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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.
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| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
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| 8:00am - 9:50am | Mills | Britt | Mills | ||
| 3:30pm - 5:20pm | Tiwari | Chatterjee | Britt | Britt | |
| 5:30pm - 7:20pm | Mills | Byrd | Byrd | Byrd | Britt |
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| Kenneth Sloan | <sloan@uab.edu> | CH 133 |
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Snyder, Fluency with Information Technology: Skills Concepts, & Capabilities, 3rd 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.
Lecture and labs are both mandatory.
Labs will start meeting on the first day of classes, and will meet every week unless specified by the lab instructor or the Academic Calendar.
Grades are based on on the final project (45%), the lab assignments (45%), and class/lecture participation (10%). There are no exams.
Each student's work is due by his or her last regularly scheduled lab period.