ISEM 501 Information & Comm Tech Principles

Description:This course provides the basic background in the rapidly advancing field of information and communication technologies (ICTs). It offers a rigorous overview of the current, as well as emerging, ICT building blocks that enable and drive modern enterprises. The first part of the course introduces the students to the key building blocks (enterprise applications, computing platforms, databases, and networks) of the modern IT infrastructure. The emphasis will be on the Internet, broadband wired and wireless networks, classical Web, Semantic Web, XML, Web 2.0, social networking, and mobile computing. The second part of the course introduces the students to the main aspects of software development processes through hands-on projects. Basic software concepts are explored within this context by developing simple web sites using HTML and then using Javascript, Java applets and XML to introduce more sophisticated features. The students will also have an opportunity to learn database technologies and run simple database queries using SQL.