ISEM 501 - Introduction to Digital Technologies

(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None (This course is designed for the student that does not have a CS or IT background.)
Description: This course provides the basic background in the rapidly advancing field of digital technologies. It offers a rigorous overview of the current, as well as emerging, digital technologies building blocks that enable and drive modern enterprises. The first part of the course introduces the student to the key building blocks (enterprise applications, computing platforms, databases, and networks) of the modern IT infrastructure. The emphasis is on the Internet, broadband wired and wireless networks, classical Web, Semantic Web, XML, Web 2.0, social networking, and mobile computing. The second part of the course introduces the student to the main aspects of software development processes through hands-on projects. Basic software concepts are explored within this context by developing simple websites using HTML and then using JavaScript, Java applets, and XML to introduce more sophisticated features. The student has an opportunity to learn database technologies and run simple database queries using SQL.