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Course Descriptions
College 101 10890101 Students gain skills that lead to success in college, employment, and life. 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
Windows Client 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 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
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. A grade of“ C” or better must be achieved in 10-150-200 Cisco Intro in order to enroll in this course.( Pre-Requisite: 10-150-200, Cisco Intro with a " C " or better; 10-150-177, Windows Client Essentials) Course Typically Offered: Fall Spring
Cisco Advanced 10150202 Describes the architectures and considerations related to designing, securing, operating, and troubleshooting enterprise networks. This course covers wide area network( WAN) technologies and quality of service( QoS) mechanisms used for secure remote access. ENSA also introduces software-defined networking, virtualization, and automation concepts that support the digitalization of networks. Students gain skills to configure and troubleshoot enterprise networks, and learn to identify and protect against cybersecurity threats. They are introduced to network management tools and learn key concepts of software-defined networking, including controller-based architectures and how application programming interfaces( APIs) enable network automation. A grade of“ C” or better must be achieved in 10-150-201 Cisco Intermediate in order to enroll in this course.( Prerequisite: 10-150-201, Cisco Intermediate with a " C " or better) Course Typically Offered: Fall Spring
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