current courses

Fall Classes for Steve Harper

CS230 Software Engineering

This course addresses the development of software systems. Students will analyze, design, implement, test and present an object-oriented team project. Main objectives are to learn object-oriented principles and project management and why they are important. Weekly lab and classes. Prerequisites: CS110, CS120.

CS310 Database and Information Retrieval

This course concentrates on representing, storing and retrieving data from external storage devices. This course includes medium-scale software development using a high-level database language. Weekly lab and classes. Prerequisites: CS110, CS120, CS230.

CS389 Real-Time Interactive Simulations / Game Design

This course explores the tools and techniques necessary to create interactive situations, particularly as they apply to creating an interactive game.

LAS101J Alpha Seminar

This CORE course for freshmen introduces the liberal arts education and the practice of critical reading, writing and discussion.

Spring Classes for Steve Harper

CS311 Database II

This is a continuation of the CS 310 Database course with an emphasis on medium-scale software development in Oracle. Weekly lab and classes. Prerequisites: CS110, CS120, CS230, CS310.

CS420 Senior Project

This course will present student with a substantial experience in software engineering. Students will investigate, design, implement and present a significant software project, working both as individuals and in project teams. Projects will also teach the students about project management concerns. Prerequisites: CS410 and senior status.

CS495: Computer Science Seminar

Various topics not covered in other computer science courses are researched and discusses. Students consider selected readings, and each makes a presentation and leads a discussion on a chosen topic. Normally taken in the last year of residence.

LAS206: Perspectives on Gender: Interdisciplinary Views of Males and Females in Society

This course, taught by 14 different professors, addresses many issues. How do experiences, ideas, and roles linked to gender influence your life? What roles do biology, culture, history, and personal experience play in how you and others define the familiar terms “masculine” and “feminine”? What questions about sex and gender are raised within different fields of study—psychology, history, communications, philosophy, or business? My section is entitled "Football, Tootsie and the Irish."

CS101 Enhanced Computer Technologies

An overview of hardware, software, computers and society, and an introduction to major application packages, including graphics, slide presentation software, movie software, word processor, electronic spreadsheet and others. This course does not count towards the minors or majors in the computer science program. Weekly lab and class.