Courses

BU 665 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS   3.0 Credit(s)
This course describes the scope of international business and studies multinational enterprises in light of cultural, historical, political, and economic factors. Trade theories are examined in the context of international economics and finance. The focus then turns to the management of global operations, from initial entry into international markets to strategy development for the multinational enterprise.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

BU 675 DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION   3.0 Credit(s)
Provides students a better understanding on trending digital technologies and how they can be integrated into existing businesses to improve internal processes and increase touchpoints with their customers. Benefits may be realized all along the value chain and can range from simple cost and efficiency savings to the creation of new sources of revenues due to a reassessment of the existing business model.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years

BU 687 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN GLOBAL MGMT   3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores a variety of current issues and emerging trends affecting global business, utilizing a cross-disciplinary approach to the management of today's global enterprises. Prerequisite: Take WGB-521;
Offered: Obsolete - Summer Semester Even Academic Years

BU 699 SPECIAL TOPIC   1.0-6.0 Credit(s)
This course number is used for courses offered on a one-time basis or for courses being piloted.
Offered: All Semesters All Years

CS 602 ADV DATA STRUCTURE/ALGOR   3.0 Credit(s)
Explores the relationship between data structures and algorithms with a focus on space and time efficiency. This course will review recursion, data abstraction and complexity analysis, multilists, trees (including balanced binary trees, n-ary trees, and Btrees), hash tables, external sorting, graphs, and algorithm design techniques. Prerequisite: Take CS-501 or CS-502
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

CS 603 ADV DATABASE DESIGN   3.0 Credit(s)
This course discusses goals and techniques in the design, implementation, and maintenance of large database management systems: physical and logical organization; file structures; indexing; entity relationship models; hierarchical, network, and relational models; normalization; query languages; and database logic.
Offered: Fall, Spring & Late Spring Sem All Years

CS 604 ADV. SOFTWARE ENGINEERING   3.0 Credit(s)
This advanced programming course reviews models and metrics for software engineering in the large: software life-cycle models, software modeling tools, design and analysis of software subsystems, management of software projects, test plans, configuration control, reliability, and metrics. Prerequisite: Take CS-501 and CS-603
Offered: Fall, Spring & Late Spring Sem All Years

CS 605 DISCRETE STRUCTURES & LOGIC   3.0 Credit(s)
This course reviews the mathematical concepts and foundations of logic for computer science: sets, relations, and functions; Boolean algebras; graphs; propositional and predicate logic; notions of logical consequence and provability; soundness and completeness of inference methods; resolution; unification; and introduction to theorem proving.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

CS 611 OPERATING/MULTIPRGMING SYSTEMS   3.0 Credit(s)
Explores the management of resources in a multiuser system: memory allocation and management, process scheduling, protection, concepts of concurrent processes, study of different operating systems, and multiprocessing. Prerequisite: Take CS-551
Offered: Fall Semester All Years

CS 614 THEORY OF COMPUTATION   3.0 Credit(s)
Reviews the theory of the power and limitations of computation and computers: Turing machines, recursive and recursively enumerable functions, equivalence of computing paradigms (Church-Turing thesis), undecidability, intractability, and introduction to NP-completeness. Prerequisite: Take CS-551
Offered: Late Spring Semester All Years

CS 615 PROGRAMMING IN UNIX   3.0 Credit(s)
Discusses main issues of Unix OS programming and administration. In particular, it explores a popular Unix text editor Emacs, Unix file system, process manipulation, regular expressions and their use, filters, and system administration, and security. Prerequisite: Take CS-551
Offered: Fall Semester All Years

CS 620 INFO ANALYSIS& SYSTEM DESIGN   3.0 Credit(s)
Discusses the design, analysis, and management of information systems: system lifecycle management, hardware and software selection and evaluation, the role of information systems in decision support and other functional areas of business, project management, systems development and analysis, module design, and techniques to reduce system complexity.
Offered: Fall, Spring & Late Spring Sem All Years

CS 621 PRINC OF DATA COMMUNICATIONS   3.0 Credit(s)
A survey of modern data communication techniques including data communication and local networking, hardware (e.g., terminals, modems, multiplexors), nodal and host processor architecture, packet switching, network control, protocols, software management, and security. Prerequisite: Take CS-500
Offered: Fall, Spring & Late Spring Sem All Years

CS 622 NETWORK SECURITY I   3.0 Credit(s)
This laboratory-based course will focus on network defense concepts, tools and techniques. Topics such as defense in depth, network attacks, network hardening, firewalls, DMZ, VPN, proxy server, honeypots, secure network design, Data Loss Prevention, network forensics, and intrusion detection, prevention and response will be studied. This course will also cover network administration, network operations, and network security policies as they relate to network defense. Prerequisite: Take CS-504 and CS-505
Offered: All Semesters All Years

CS 640 SPECIAL TOPICS USING C#   3.0 Credit(s)
Presents one-time and first-time offerings of courses on current topics. Course title is shown on the student's transcript.
Offered: Fall, Spring & Late Spring Sem All Years