IT 391R

Catalog Data: 391R Undergraduate Seminar. (0.5:1:0 ea.) F, W, Sp 291R Required four times during junior/senior years while in professional program. College Lecture and School of Technology Lecture attendance required.

Textbook(s): None

Lab Textbook(s): None

Recommended Book(s): None

 Reference Book(s): None

Class website: None

Class Coordinator: R. Gonzales

Goals:

1. The perception of establishing a career in Information Technology will be conveyed.
2. Each student will become acquainted with invited experts and their topics as they lecture a seminar session.
3. Students will establish an appreciation for the diversity of Information Technology career fields.
4. Students will be introduced to several broad topics of knowledge that correspond to principles of life-long learning.
5. Students will be stimulated to achieve their best with IT class and laboratory learning.

 

Prerequisites by topic: None

Outcomes:

1. Understand the significance of working within the Information Technology profession
2. Understand the perspective of technical challenge required to be successful in the Information Technology profession.
3. Understand the concepts of life-long learning as it pertains to the diversity of experiences within IT profession.
4. Motivate students to seek after strong alliances within the IT profession in the form of career networking.
5. Allow students to realize the advantage of establishing a strong profile of professionalism
6. Instill into students a sense of ethical practices in the principles of Christian living.
7. Provide students with an opportunity of social interaction among fellow IT majors.
8. Sustain a level of professional encouragement as realized by a community of IT scholars
9. Advise students of recent updates associated with successfully progressing through the IT major

Laboratory projects: None.

Laboratory assignments: None

Lab equipment and student kits used: None

Computer Equipment used: None.

Written and oral communication requirements: None

Life-long-learning experiences: By listening to and talking with professionals in their discipline students gain a deeper perspective into their careers and the on-going commitment to changing technology that is required.

Math Analysis: None

Library or other Research Projects: None

Prepared By: R. Gonzales

Date Revised: May 2005