Survival in the exploding world of information technology (IT) requires much more than the ability to use word processing, spreadsheets, and email, and to surf the Web. This need for students to be prepared beyond their immediate next two years has spawned a number of courses such as this that address, not just basic computer skills, but also the acquisition of concepts and capabilities that can serve for many years.

Concepts include algorithmic thinking and programming, machine architecture and parallel computation, algorithmic complexity and non-computability, networks and communication, and multimedia.

Sample capabilities might be to navigate a collection and assess its quality, to communicate about IT using IT, to deal with eCommerce and interactive networking, and to anticipate technological change.

This course is appropriate for non-computer science majors who wish to learn more about these areas. It will imminently become a core course in the proposed CSC/IT minor.

Dr. Curry Guinn