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• CIT 165: Programming in C#

  4.00 Credits

  Community College of Allegheny County

  
  This course provides students with hands-on practiceusing the C# programming language. Studentsgain experience utilizing C# for numerous projects based on industry practices. Projects includeintroduction and simple compilation and execution of programs from the Visual Studio IDE,data types and declarations,using methods,creating classes and objects,selection and repetition,and creating and using arrays. Prerequisite:    CIT 111 or strong demonstration of programming experience
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• CIT 180: Computer Forensics 1

  3.00 Credits

  Community College of Allegheny County

  
  This course introduces students to the fundamentals of the computer forensics field and technology. Students obtain essential knowledge of the computer forensics profession, legal issues and procedures of computer investigations, digital evidence management, industry-standard computer forensic tools, file systems, data recovery, data collectionand sample case evaluations. Prerequisite:    CIT 115 or instructor approval  
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• CIT 181: Principles of Information Security

  4.00 Credits

  Community College of Allegheny County

  
  This course provides students necessary background in the technical realities and legal and theoretical principles of computer and information security to help them identify and evaluate computer security crimes and incidents. Topics include information security components and models, legal and ethical issues in information security and privacy, basics of computer networks and data communication, common computer and network system threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities, as well as information security risk and damage analysis and assessment. Prerequisite:    CIT 115 or waived with instructor approval.  
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• CIT 182: Principles of Cybersecurity

  3.00 Credits

  Community College of Allegheny County

  
  This course provides students with knowledge of cybersecurity trends and techniques. Students acquire technical skills in risk assessment and management, incident response, forensics, enterprise networks, hybrid/cloud operations and security controls. Course objectivesare consistent with many of the outcomes specified for CompTIA Security+ certification. Corequisite:    CIT 120 
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• CIT 205: Help Desk and User Support

  3.00 Credits

  Community College of Allegheny County

  
  This course focuses on information and services within an organization that requires user support specialists to enhance productivity and to resolve problems. Topics include an overview of the user support services field, hardware and software evaluation, facilitation of product standards, needs assessment, system installation, user training, documentation preparation, troubleshooting and other forms of assistance. Problem solving, communication skills and interpersonal relations are emphasized throughout the course. Prerequisite:    CIT 115   
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• CIT 206: Administrative Technology and Procedures

  3.00 Credits

  Community College of Allegheny County

  
  This course provides a comprehensive foundation of office technology skills using computer programs to complete common business tasks. Topics include document formatting, spreadsheet preparation, database analysis and creation of visual presentations. Writing skills, communication skills, record management, team work and personal skills required in today's business office are emphasized. Prerequisite:    CIT 140 and CIT 141   
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• CIT 215: Systems Analysis and Design

  3.00 Credits

  Community College of Allegheny County

  
  In this course, students utilize a system development methodology through team-based projects that demonstrate their Information Technology skills. The focus of the course includes the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) phases, user system requirements, logical and physical design, test and implementation planning, performance evaluation, software package evaluation andacquisition, prototyping, structured and object-oriented methodologies, development and adherence to the system life cycle standardsand designing interfaces and dialogues. This course encourages interpersonal skill development with clients, users, team members and others associated with development, operation and maintenance of the system. Prerequisite:    CIT 130  or CIT 161 or CIT 230 or permission of the instructor.  
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• CIT 217: Computer Organization

  3.00 Credits

  Community College of Allegheny County

  
  In this course, students acquire an understanding of how a computer system's hardware components impact performance of software. Students also learn about the impacts of parallelism and latency on performance as well as tradeoffs with various components such as processor clock speed, cycles per instruction, memory size and average memory access time. Problem solving is emphasized through the use ofassembly language. Prerequisite:    CIT 130   
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• CIT 220: Linux System Administration

  3.00 Credits

  Community College of Allegheny County

  
  This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to configure, monitor and support servers running the Linux operating system using security best practices, scripting and automation. Topics include system architecture, package management, shell commands, file systems, administrative tasks, network configuration, system security and troubleshooting fundamentals.Course objectives are consistent with many of those required for CompTIA Linux+ certification. Prerequisite:    CIT 115   
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• CIT 230: Database Systems

  4.00 Credits

  Community College of Allegheny County

  
  This course covers information systems design and implementation within a database management system (DBMS) environment. Students learn to create data models of user's needs, gain foundation skills in database design and learn to use standard Structured Query Language (SQL) to interact with databases. The focus of the course includes the relational database model, the Entity-Relationship (E-R) model, SQL,database design and implementation, database normalization and multiuser DBMS administrative management. Prerequisite:    CIT 111 or CIT 130 or CIT 145 or CIT 161 or permission of the instructor.  
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