Computer Science

This course introduces students to foundational concepts, applied tools, and project-based practices for working effectively with generative artificial intelligence. Students’ progress from understanding how generative AI systems function, to applying AI tools and workflows, and finally to designing and delivering an AI-enabled project. Emphasis is placed on responsible AI use, prompt engineering, workflow design, agent-based systems, and real-world applications. The course prepares students to use AI thoughtfully and effectively across academic disciplines and professional contexts.

This course serves as a midpoint experience in the cybersecurity program, integrating concepts and skills developed in prior coursework while preparing students for advanced study and industry certification. The course emphasizes security operations, threat detection, log analysis, risk evaluation, and defensive security practices aligned with real-world cybersecurity environments. Students prepare for the Splunk Certified Core User and CompTIA Security+ certifications through guided labs, applied exercises, scenario-based analysis, and structured review of certification objectives.

Using Oracle, this course concentrates on representing, storing and retrieving data from external storage devices. Learn SQL and software development using Oracle's Application Express. Three one-hour lectures and one two-hour laboratory per week.

As a continuation of CS 310, students will analyze, design, implement, test, and present a database project (using Oracle Apex). Lectures and laboratory each week.

This course introduces the principles, tools, and methodologies used in digital forensic investigations. Students learn how to collect, preserve, analyze, and document digital evidence while maintaining forensic integrity and chain-of-custody requirements. Topics include computer crime, forensic laboratory procedures, evidence acquisition, data recovery, incident response, and techniques used to conceal or obfuscate information. Students also examine forensic investigations involving Windows, Linux, macOS, email systems, mobile devices, networks, and memory analysis. Through hands-on exercises and case-based investigations, students develop practical skills for identifying, recovering, and analyzing digital evidence in support of cybersecurity operations, incident response, and legal proceedings.

This course introduces the principles, methodologies, and tools used in ethical hacking and penetration testing to identify and evaluate cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Students examine offensive security techniques including reconnaissance, scanning, enumeration, web application testing, and vulnerability assessment within authorized and controlled environments. Through supervised laboratory exercises, students gain hands-on experience using industry-standard security tools while developing an understanding of legal, ethical, and professional responsibilities in cybersecurity practice. The course also provides foundational preparation for industry certifications related to ethical hacking and penetration testing, including CEH and CompTIA PenTest+.

Students will explore general network and server security issues through, in part, the implementation of Active Directory Services (ADS) in a Microsoft Server environment. Emphasis will be on security, backup, user administration, disk management, and network access. In addition to learning those skills students will be expected to maintain their server as a functional server throughout the course and to implement the security associated with protecting their server (and as an extension, organizations) from growing
sophisticated physical and cyber attacks.

CS 341 is a hands-on lab-based approach for building a web-application, using the concepts and practices of a modern software development process. The course will examine various frameworks and tools and investigate how those aid the developer in creating a solution in a more efficient and maintainable manner. This course will discuss coding style, algorithms, design patterns, as well as the use of technologies that attempt to make it easier for either a single developer or a team of developers to create modern web-applications that can be easily deployed. More specifically, CS 341 will cover a wide variety of topics including software development,
configuration, deployment, and monitoring. Technologies and frameworks to be covered include Java, HTML5, Spring, Gradle, Docker, JUnit, MySQL (SQL), Redis (NoSQL), and webservices (RestFUL). Students may upload their completed projects to an
AWS instance in the Amazon cloud and verify that it can be accessed.

Special Topics courses include ad-hoc courses on various selected topics that are not part of the regular curriculum, however they may still fulfill certain curricular requirements. Special topics courses are offered at the discretion of each department and will be published as part of the semester course schedule - view available sections for more information. Questions about special topics classes can be directed to the instructor or department chair.

This class covers the design and theory of modern computer operating systems. It explores topics such as process management, CPU scheduling, memory management and protection, device management and diversified operating systems. Lectures and Lab
each week.

The Capstone course is the culmination of the Cybersecurity program, allowing students to apply their knowledge to real-world challenges. Students will undertake a comprehensive project integrating various aspects of cybersecurity, including log analysis, vulnerability assessment, incident response, ethical hacking, and cloud security. This project will develop critical thinking skills and prepare students for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification. This course follows standard credit-hour expectations for a three-hour course.