NWTC College Program Guide 2024-2025 2024 - 2025 | Page 125

Course Descriptions
College 101 10890101 Students gain skills that lead to success in college and employment. This course encourages students to develop a growth mindset and make wise choices. Students should take this course in their first semester.( Pre-requisite: None.) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Careers in IT 10107117 This course provides an overview of the interconnectedness among careers within Information Technology. Learn how various fields within the broader industry each play an integral role and how a personal brand fits into preparing you for your career choice.( Corequisite: 10-890-101, College 101) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Intro to Cybersecurity 10151100 Learners will develop an understanding of cybersecurity methods, terms, and key technical concepts to identify and protect assets against attacks. Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Intro to Psychology 10809198 Survey of theoretical foundations of human behavior such as sensation and perception, motivation, emotions, learning, personality, psychological disorders, therapy, stress, and human diversity in personal, social and vocational settings.( Prerequisite: Cumulative GPA of 2.6 or greater OR satisfactory reading and writing assessment scores OR 10-831-107, College Reading and Writing 1 with " B " or better OR Corequisite: 10-831-102, English Comp Prep) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Network Essentials 10150177 This course will provide the learner the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills, process, and understanding of client OS installation, configuration, administration, including troubleshooting, network connectivity, standard system maintenance procedures, and command line introduction. Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Mathematical Reasoning 10804134 All college students, regardless of their college major, need to be able to make reasonable decisions about fiscal, environmental, and health issues that require quantitative reasoning skills. An activity based approach is used to explore numerical relationships, graphs, proportional relationships, algebraic reasoning, and problem solving using linear, exponential and other mathematical models. Students will develop conceptual and procedural tools that support the use of key mathematical concepts in a variety of contexts. This course may be used as the first of a two part sequence that ends with Quantitative Reasoning as the capstone general education math requirement.( Prerequisite: Next Gen Arith score greater / equal to 250 AND Rdg score greater / equal to 250; OR TABE A 9 / 10 Math greater / equal to 12.7 AND Rdg greater / equal to 8.8; OR TABE 11 / 12 Math greater / equal to 780 AND Rdg greater / equal to 567; OR ACT Math score greater / equal to 15 AND ACT Reading score greater / equal to 16; OR prep courses-contact an academic advisor 920-498-5444) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Hardware 1 10154150 Learners will be introduced to installing, troubleshooting, and configuring: computing basics, PC Technician Responsibilities, hardware components, operating systems Basics, storage media, system implementation, and system management tools. Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Cisco Intro 10150200 Introduces the architectures, models, protocols, and networking elements that connect users, devices, applications and data through the internet and across modern computer networks- including IP addressing and Ethernet fundamentals. By the end of the course, students can build simple local area networks( LANs) that integrate IP addressing schemes, foundational network security, and perform basic configurations for routers and switches. Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Cisco Intermediate 10150201 Switching technologies and router operations that support small-to-medium business networks and includes wireless local area networks( WLANs) and security concepts. Students learn key switching and routing concepts. They can perform basic network configuration and troubleshooting, identify, and mitigate LAN security threats, and configure and secure a basic WLAN.( Pre-Requisite: 10-150-200, Cisco Intro; 10-150-177, Network Essentials) Course Typically Offered: Fall Spring
Linux 10150153 This course will provide an introduction to the Linux operating system including Installation and configuration, the boot and login process, directory structure, use of the Command Line Interface for administration of Users and Groups, file system permissions and the configuration of common Linux-based services.( Prerequisite: 10-150-200, Cisco Intro; 10-150-177, Network Essentials) Course Typically Offered: Fall Spring
PowerShell for Cybersecurity 10151105( Prerequisites: 10-150-200, Cisco Intro; 10-150-177, Network Essentials; 10-804-134, Mathematical Reasoning) Course Typically Offered: Fall Spring
Microsoft Server 1 10150165 Acquire necessary skills for supporting and configuring Windows Server including installation and configuration of an Active Directory Domain. Account administration, group policy management and core server roles and features are identified.( Prerequisite: 10-150-177, Network Essentials; 10-150-200, Cisco Intro) Course Typically Offered: Fall Spring
English Composition 1 10801136 Learners develop knowledge / skills in planning, organizing, writing, editing. Students will also analyze audience / purpose, use elements of research, format documents using standard guidelines, and develop critical reading skills.( Prerequisite: High school GPA greater / equal to 2.6; OR ACT Reading score greater / equal to 16 AND English greater / equal to 18; OR Next Gen Reading score greater / equal to 250 AND Writing score greater / equal to 260; OR " preparatory course( s)", contact academic advisor at 920-498-5444) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Cyber Forensics & Incident Res 10151101 Students will engage with cybersecurity forensics by learning what digital forensics and incident response is, the methodologies used, key tactical concepts, and the tools need to perform examinations.( Prerequisite: 10-151-100, Intro to Cybersecurity)
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