Continuation of the study of structural and chemical properties of the basic functional groups of organic compounds including aromatic compounds, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and their derivatives and amines. Illustration of these functional groups in natural products such as carbohydrates, amino acids and proteins, nucleic acids and lipids and discussion of the application of spectroscopic methods for structure determination in simple organic molecules.

An introduction to the quantum view of nature with applications to atomic and molecular structure. Methods to describe the quantum world are introduced, used to describe simple electronic, vibrational and rotational structure of model systems, and applied to the hydrogen atom, many electron atoms, simple diatomic molecules, and the electronic structure of polyatomic molecules. The laboratory portion of the course consists of practical applications enriching and illustrating the lecture material, and incorporates the use of computers as a routine aid to processing experimental results.

A study of the implications of the laws of thermodynamics for transformations of matter including phase changes, chemical reactions, and biological processes. Topics include: thermochemistry; entropy change and spontaneity of processes; activity and chemical potential; chemical and phase equilibria; properties of solutions; simple one- and two-compound phase diagrams. The conceptual development of thermodynamic principles from both macroscopic and molecular levels, and the application of these principles to systems of interest to chemists, biochemists, and engineers will be emphasized.

A continuation of CH3710 in which the physical properties of chemical systems and the dynamics and energetics of chemical processes are discussed. Topics include: colligative properties; electrochemical cells and ion activities, implications for ionic equilibria; kinetic theory and transport properties of gases and liquids; surfaces and colloid chemistry; reaction dynamics, detailed mechanisms of chemical reactions, catalysis. The emphasis will be on the development of principles of physical chemistry and their application to properties and processes of interest to chemists, biochemists, and engineers.

This course introduces students to computer hardware and the Windows operating system. The focus is on touch keyboarding to master alphabetic, numeric, and information copy.

Students will continue to develop keyboarding skills by practicing touch keying. Emphasis will be placed on speed building while maintaining accuracy. In addition, students will be introduced to: the basics of word processing in order to create and format simple documents; the tools and methods used to obtain information from the internet; and email as a personal and business communication tool.

Beyond continuing to improve keyboarding skill, this overview course introduces principles and practices common in several software applications. Practical projects include document preparation, formatting, revision and storage.

This course includes not only advanced software applications but also the study of terminology and concepts related to computer hardware and software. Features and capabilities of computers will be assessed in relation to specific user needs.

This course provides an overview of computing science concepts for students with little or no programming background. Topics include representation of data, machine architecture, operating system concepts, properties of algorithms and computational problems, syntax of a high-level procedural programming language, basic data types and control structures. Students do introductory programming in this course.

An introduction to Computing Science in which you learn to solve simple problems by writing small computer programs in JAVA. This course presents a high-level object-oriented computing model based on objects as well as primitive data types, control structures and methods. It will be limited to basic elementary algorithms and techniques for constructing elegant and robust solutions to simple problems. The laboratories will offer you the opportunity to translate concepts presented in lectures into interesting application programs.

The course provides a review of programming principles (specification, implementation and testing), and an extension of object-oriented concepts from CS1140 including data abstraction, modular program construction and program reuse. The emphasis is on dynamic data structures (eg. lists, string, stacks, queues, tables), and their associated algorithms (eg. recursion, traversal, sorting, searching, hashing).

This course provides an introduction to computer communications and computer networks. Topics will include communication hardware and software, protocols, local area and wide area networks, and network management.

This course introduces you to the principles, methods, tools, and practices of a professional programmer working in a rich programming environment. The lectures focus on the fundamental principles of programming methodology based on abstract data types and their implementations. The laboratories offer an intensive apprenticeship opportunity for the aspiring software developer. You will use the programming languages C and C++ and software development tools supported by the Microsoft Windows and UNIX programming environment.

This course will provide education students with the basic skills for using the most common information technology tools currently applied in schools. The types of tools include Internet tools, digital media processing, multimedia/hypermedia presentations, spreadsheets, and databases. The course offers a number of advanced modules dealing with more complex topics in these areas plus additional tools such as those for editing digital video and sound.

The first course of a two course sequence on algorithm design and analysis stream, with the emphasis on the fundamentals such as searching, sorting and graph algorithms. Examples include divide and conquer, dynamic programming, greedy method, backtracking, and local search methods. Analysis techniques will be developed to aid in judging program efficiency.

This course will be of interest to students who want to learn how to implement, manage and troubleshoot network and server environments. Students will learn how to create and maintain network resources and develop network security policies and procedures. Topics will include network architectures and protocols (including wireless), network operating systems, Internet services, networking components (including network adapters, repeaters, hubs, switches, bridges, routers, gateways, firewalls and proxy servers), network virus protection, network backup and restoration, Windows and Linux management security.

This course will act as a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and issues in new media technologies with an emphasis on computer games. Students will gain an appreciation of the broad range of perspectives which new media and games encompass, including graphics realism and aesthetics, culture, sociology, psychology, philosophy and literary studies. Ultimately, these will converge on discussions relating to current game designs and development, as well as visioning directions and medium for the next generation of games.

This course introduces the fundamentals of PC hardware. Students will open up machines, install devices such as hard drives, I/O cards, video cards as well as memory, CD/DVD ROM drives, install operating systems, explore a variety of different software packages, attach communications equipment and supporting software. Topics include system hardware (e.g. motherboards, processors, storage devices, memory), device drivers, operating systems (e.g. Windows, Linux), troubleshooting and maintenance of LAN (lLocal Area Network)-based PC, etc.

General introduction to number representation, architecture and organization concepts of von Neumann machines, assemble level programming, exception handling, peripheral programming, floating point computations and memory management.

An introductory course to present the tools of set theory, logic and induction, and their use in the practice of reasoning about algorithms and programs. Basic set theory. The notion of a function. Counting. Propositional and predicate logic and their proof system will be studied. Inductive definitions and proofs by induction will be covered along with program specification and correctness.