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  • CMIS 3020: Visual Programming

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course teaches Windows applications programming using the object-oriented event-driven programming paradigm, with the programming language VisualBasic.NET. It is designed as a beginning OOED programming course, but assumes students have basic Windows file management skills, and are familiar with the generic programming language constructs of decision structures and looping.
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  • CMIS 3125: Systems Analysis & Design

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This project course introduces students to "systems thinking" and experientially introduces the students to some of the basic concepts and tools of systems analysis within the context of a real-life business problem. The traditional SDLC waterfall approach to systems analysis and design is stressed in order to prepare students for any business type or size (some of which may not have modern analysis and design tools). Students entering into this course must have a basic understanding of business and the idea of using programs that are integrated into systems to solve business problems. This requisite knowledge is built upon in teaching students how to analyze a business's current information system; how to extrapolate user needs and the business's additional processing requirements; and then how to design a system that not only meets the stipulated requirements while remaining within the project's constraints, but remains in line with the entity's mission/vision and optimizes business processes to position the entity more competitively in the market.
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  • CMIS 3150: Database Design & Modeling

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This is an introduction to data modeling for current, RDBMS (Relational Data Base Management Systems) structures used in industry today. The student is introduced to some file system history and predecessors to RDMBS, along with appropriate DBMS terminology. The focus of the course is to develop the analysis skills needed to successfully translate business processes into viable data models that enable maximum transaction-processing speed. Students will employ Codd's normalization technique and model the data using Entity Relationship Diagraming including Specialization Hierarchies, with Crow's Foot notation.
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  • CMIS 3200: Database Programming

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course covers data models using Data Definition Language, use Data Manipulation Language to create complex action queries in tandem with Transaction Control Language, and use SQL (structured query language) to create and call stored program and procedures, work with cursor structures , create and execute database triggers.
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  • CMIS 3210: Database Systems

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course introduces the graduate student to fundamentals of database design and use. Through the analysis of business processes, students will create conceptual database designs, in MS-Visio - for example, via normalization and entity-relationship modeling. Students will prove their models by implementing them using Oracle's DDL SQL, and manipulate data in those structures using Oracle's DML SQL and PL/SQL (Procedural Language/SQL).
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  • CMIS 3250: Cisco CCNA 1

    0.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course is designed for the information systems major. It is the first in a series of three CCNA (Cisco Certified Networking Associate) courses. It provides the student with a thorough understanding of basic computer networking concepts.
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  • CMIS 3260: Cisco CCNA 2

    0.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course is designed for the Information Systems major. It is the second in a series of three CCNA (CISCO Certified Networking Associate) courses. It provides the student with a thorough understanding of the router and switch basics involved in computer networking.
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  • CMIS 3270: CISCO CCNA 3

    0.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course is designed for the information systems major. It is the third in a series of three CCNA (CISCO Certified Networking Associate) courses. It provides the student with a thorough understanding of the switching basics and intermediate routing involved in computer networking.
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  • CMIS 3340: COBOL

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course introduces students to the essential elements of the COBOL language using well-structured programming techniques. Students will write and execute report programs, control break programs, data validation programs, programs that implement tables and sequential update programs. Good analysis, design and structure will be emphasized.
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  • CMIS 3350: Biometrics

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course concentrates on the unique advantages that biometrics brings to computer security, but also addresses challenging issues such as security strength, recognition rates, and privacy, as well as alternatives of passwords and smart cards. Students will gain knowledge in the building blocks of this field: image and signal processing, pattern recognition, security and privacy, and secure systems design. By the end of the course, students will be able to evaluate and design security systems that include biometrics.
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