This course builds an understanding of human behavior with interactive objects, focusing on how to develop and evaluate interactive software using a human-centered approach. This includes examining the many different types of interactive software, understanding the principles of effective graphical user interface design, evaluating human-centered software and software development and exploring aspects of collaboration and communication as they affect individual and group interaction with software systems.

Students will have the opportunity to take their Python programming skills to the next level with this intermediate course. This course includes a review of basic concepts such as lists, strings, and dictionaries, and more advanced topics such as threading, multiprocessing, context managers, and generators.

This course provides prospective users of data base management systems with a solid theoretical and practical foundation for using these systems in a variety of contemporary organizational environments. The course traces the nature of DBMS from general conceptual structures, through the design, interface and implementation of actual database systems. The course includes a mix of classical database theory with practical hands-on application using state of the art DBMS packages; similar to those used today by large and small organizations alike to run their information systems.

This course helps students understand the important role of information technology in business strategy. Emphasizing the management of information technology rather than specific technical aspects, students explore the alignment of information technology with organizational goals, efficiencies gained through technology solutions, project management and the implementation of information technology, and organizational and industry changes driven by information technology. Investments in information technology for competitive advantage, the positioning of information technology in the organization, the pace of innovation in a digital economy, and emerging trends in information technology are discussed.