Campus contact for this program:
Professor Frank Ravanshad, FRavanshad@hcc.commnet.edu

Associate in Science Degree

This program provides instruction in business-related computer information technology for persons who wish to upgrade their current professional skills or for those actively seeking employment in various computer positions.

Outcomes:

• Demonstrate a basic understanding of the information technology field, demonstrate problem-solving and creative-thinking skills, cooperation and good judgment skills, responsibility and self-reliance, effective written and oral communication skills necessary for entry-level employment and advancement.
• Design, code, compile, execute, and debug programs in various programming languages.
• Apply effective web design principles to design and develop web pages using HTML and CSS.
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of relational databases and the ability to query and manipulate data in relational databases.
• Demonstrate a basic understating of the Linux operating system, its GUI and command-line environments, and its tools.
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of data communications, computer networks and the Internet, and all relevant and underlying protocols and infrastructures.
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of how digital computers represent, manipulate, and process data.