Your studies will focus on an introduction to financial accounting designed to provide you with accounting skills to handle business transactions. The course will include bookkeeping techniques, accounting for a merchandising concern and an introduction to accounting for current assets. ACCT 122 is a companion to ACCT 125 (Introductory Financial Accounting 2) which continues the study of basic financial accounting.

4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Lecture hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Televised/SCN, Work Based Delivery, Prior Learning, Correspondence-Structured Time

You will develop fundamental employability skills by studying the principles of communication. The course content includes developing effective writing skills. You will apply the principles and skills by writing letters and memorandums for routine and negative purposes. You will develop teamwork employability skills and examine ways to apply communication skills to team and cross-cultural situations.

3.0 Credit Units
48.0 Lecture hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Televised/SCN, Independent Study, Work Based Delivery, Prior Learning, Correspondence-Structured Time, Correspondence

Equivalent Course(s):   BCOM 134    COMM 141   

You will learn introductory programming and design concepts using the Java language. Your studies will develop your logic and problem solving skills using elements of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to develop structured and Object Oriented Java programs.

6.0 Credit Units
96.0 Lecture hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Lab, Prior Learning, Online/Blackboard

Equivalent Course(s):   COMP 141    COSC 180   

You will learn how to use computers to solve non-trivial business problems. You will gain hands on experience with advanced features of the Windows Operating System and the Microsoft Office suite of tools. You will also study best practices for collaborative document production and document management as well as electronic document presentation and navigation.

4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Other hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Lab

Your studies will focus on how production and consumption decisions are made in a market economy. You will learn to analyze supply, demand, cost, price determination, response to price changes, and income distribution.

4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Lecture hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Televised/SCN

Equivalent Course(s):   RT 191   

You will discover the dynamic field of marketing. You will explore what marketing is, how it works, and the effect it can have on consumers and on society. At the end of the course, you should have a strong sense of how to market yourself, your skills, your ideas, as well as more traditional products and services. Marketing concepts you will learn include: the strategic marketing planning process, segmentation, positioning, forecasting, consumer behaviour, and the marketing mix.

4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Lecture hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Televised/SCN, Independent Study, Work Based Delivery, Prior Learning

You will be introduced to the elements of statistics used in business. The course content includes frequency distribution, measure of central tendency and dispersion, probability distributions (discrete and continuous), sampling, sampling distributions, estimations, regressions, correlation and elementary hypothesis-testing.

4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Lecture hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Televised/SCN, Prior Learning

Equivalent Course(s):   ACP 374   

Your studies will provide an introduction to the fundamentals of managerial accounting. You will examine cost concepts, pricing strategies, manufacturing accounting, cost allocation and budgeting processes, and you will be able to select appropriate managerial accounting techniques for decision making.

5.0 Credit Units
80.0 Other hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Lab, Televised/SCN

Prerequisites:
ACCT 122 Minimum Grade of 60

You will become familiar with current and emerging electronic business technologies. You will investigate business models and strategies that online businesses implement to address security, payment systems, marketing, and e-procurement. The course will educate a new generation of managers, planners, analysts and programmers in the realities and potential for electronic business.

2.0 Credit Units
32.0 Other hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Lab, Prior Learning, Online/Blackboard

You will learn advanced topics in Java programming and Object Oriented programming techniques. Your studies will include file manipulation, exception handling, graphical user interfaces, event handling, multi-threaded environments, and network programming. You will continue to study systems development, algorithm design and the Unified Modelling Language (UML). After completing this course, you will have developed a thorough understanding of Java¿s capabilities and strengths.




5.0 Credit Units
80.0 Other hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Lab

Corequisites:   COMP 234   

Prerequisites:
COMP 122 Minimum Grade of 60

You will gain experience designing computer systems that involve database processing. You will focus on the hierarchical, relational, and network models and the normalization process used in database design. You will also gain experience in database processing using ORACLE and Query Languages (in particular SQL and SQL*PLUS).




5.0 Credit Units
48.0 Lecture hours
32.0 Lab hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Lab

Prerequisites:
COMP 123 Minimum Grade of 60

You will study the business function of an organization¿s Web presence. You will study the role of a company¿s Website in business communication and the establishment of brand identity. Using the macromedia suite of development tools, you will learn to create Web content that communicates effectively and is easy to maintain. You will also be exposed to the changing nature of Web communication, including the emerging ubiquity of Web enabled devices, changing user interfaces, streaming video and pod-casting.



4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Other hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Lab

Prerequisites:
COMP 123 Minimum Grade of 60

You will learn the basics of configuring a Windows Operating System (OS) to a network and configuring a Web Browser to support additional functionality and enhanced privacy. You will learn to use common networking tools and troubleshoot a network connection with the TCP/IP suite of tools.




2.0 Credit Units
32.0 Other hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Lab

You will study the Windows based application development environment. You will develop applications using graphical user interfaces and incorporate Object-Oriented Event-Driven (OOED) programming. The course content includes standard OOED programming concepts, graphics, database access, inter-application communications and data structures.







5.0 Credit Units
48.0 Lecture hours
32.0 Lab hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Lab

Prerequisites:
COMP 122 Minimum Grade of 60

Your studies will provide an introduction to programming for the World Wide Web. You will gain hands-on experience developing n-tiered Web applications. The course content includes Web application topics such as Web-based data access, session tracking and server-side programming. You will complete course projects using HTML, CSS, Active Server Pages, Scripting Languages, SQL, and Web services. You will also develop an understanding of related Web topics such as content management, usability, and W3C compliance.


5.0 Credit Units
48.0 Lecture hours
32.0 Lab hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Lab, Prior Learning

Prerequisites:
COMP 247 Minimum Grade of 60 and COMP 255 Minimum Grade of 60

You will gain hands-on experience with the UNIX operating system environment and develop a basic understanding of the VISTA operating system. The course also provides an introduction to the various networking options available with VISTA. You will study the basic differences between workstation operating systems and server based operating systems. You will also review the various architectures used to enable "client-server" computing.





5.0 Credit Units
48.0 Lecture hours
32.0 Lab hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Lab, Prior Learning

Prerequisites:
COMP 123 Minimum Grade of 60

You will learn a variety of different methods, tools, and techniques that a systems analyst would use ton the development of complex business information systems. You will use CASE tools to develop practical experience in planning analysis and design of business information systems. You will gather requirements, perform the analysis and begin design if a small-automated system belonging to a real ¿world business/organization to gain direct experience of systems analysis.



5.0 Credit Units
48.0 Lecture hours
32.0 Lab hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Lab

Corequisites:   COMP 235   

Prerequisites:
COMP 234 Minimum Grade of 60

In this course, you will learn how to plan and manage security and privacy policies. You will study the role of CIPS in providing ethical guidelines for professional conduct, and you will learn the responsibilities of developing and managing information systems and their data. You will learn about the components of an information system security model and the threat groups that compromise them. In addition, you will be exposed to examples of security technology and how to implement it as part of a security plan.


4.0 Credit Units
60.0 Other hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Lab

Prerequisites:
COMP 255 Minimum Grade of 60

In your studies, you will be introduced to the methods used in computer science to solve problems efficiently and quickly. Some of the topics included in the course are running time analysis, recursion, Abstract Data Types (ADT), and Java classes. You will also learn specific data structures and their associated algorithms, including linked lists, stacks, queues, searching, sorting and trees.



5.0 Credit Units
48.0 Lecture hours
32.0 Lab hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Lab, Online/Blackboard

Prerequisites:
COMP 233 Minimum Grade of 60

You will deal with commercial problems involving simple interest, discounts and markups, partial payments, and commuting a series of obligations. It continues with a wide variety of problems involving compound interest, ordinary annuities, amortization of debt, sinking funds, and valuation of bonds. Practical applications are stressed throughout the course. Use of the Financial calculator is shown throughout the course.


4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Lecture hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Televised/SCN, Prior Learning

Equivalent Course(s):   FIN 140   

You will be provided with an overview of the development of management theory and practices. The course content includes organizing, planning, leading, controlling functions, and focuses on decisions in different types of environments.

4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Lecture hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Televised/SCN, Work Based Delivery, Prior Learning

You will continue to develop effective business writing skills and employability skills. The course focuses on writing business reports in informal and formal styles. Your classroom study and experience will help prepare you for a business career by developing your presentation skills.

4.0 Credit Units
64.0 Lecture hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Theory, Televised/SCN, Independent Study, Prior Learning, Correspondence

Equivalent Course(s):   COMM 149   

Prerequisites:
BCOM 120 Minimum Grade of 60

You will engage in a comprehensive study of fundamentals of a structured programming language. The course emphasizes phases and techniques of structured program design, development, testing, and documentation. You will use Micro Focus Personal COBOL for Windows to study sequential file processing, control-break processing, tables/arrays, and indexed/relative file processing. You will also study issues concerning maintenance and modernization of legacy systems.

5.0 Credit Units
80.0 Other hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Lab, Online/Blackboard

Prerequisites:
COMP 234 Minimum Grade of 60 and COMP 235 Minimum Grade of 60

You will demonstrate your skill in systems development using real projects or contrived cases that require applying the activities of the system development cycle in an interactive data base environment. The case projects are set in a team environment with environment with the supervising faculty member servicing as your consultant and evaluator.

5.0 Credit Units
80.0 Other hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Lab, Prior Learning

Prerequisites:
COMP 233 Minimum Grade of 60 and COMP 237 Minimum Grade of 60 and COMP 255 Minimum Grade of 60

You will be exposed to a wide variety of topics related to the computer industry. You will learn about computer hardware, workstation and server operating systems, computer networking and data communications. Your studies will focus on the architecture of the Intel-based computer hardware and the Microsoft workstation and server operating system platforms.



5.0 Credit Units
48.0 Lecture hours
32.0 Lab hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Lab, Prior Learning

Prerequisites:
COMP 236 Minimum Grade of 60

You will study advanced principles in the software development process including the following: requirements gathering, Object Oriented design using UML, implementation using Java, and testing. You will use UML modeling tools to perform Object Oriented software design. You will also practice designing, programming and testing applications using frameworks, patterns, and APIs




5.0 Credit Units
80.0 Other hours

Learning Method(s): Lecture/Lab

Prerequisites:
COMP 233 Minimum Grade of 60 and COMP 237 Minimum Grade of 60