COMPUTER SCIENCE

DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Students enrolled in this program earn a diploma in Computer Science.  The program is designed to provide an excellent background for those students who intend to pursue employment in a professional career requiring extensive preparation in computer science, as well as for those who intend to continue the study of computer science in the undergraduate level.

Aims and Objectives

The aims and objectives of the program are:

1. To enhance students’ critical thinking and to develop their basic analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
2. To introduce the field of computer science, and fundamental principles of computers, computation and programming.
3. To acquaint students to the major commercial computer application packages.
4. To introduce students to basic programming concepts and methodologies for program design, development, testing and documentation.
5. To introduce techniques for systematic problem analysis, program specification, design, coding, testing, debugging and documentation of programs.
6. To acquaint students with current popular programming languages and operating systems.
7. To introduce the fundamentals of computer software engineering.
8. To introduce fundamentals of current design approaches in database systems, including work with a commercially available system.
9. To provide a solid academic, technical, and intellectual background that would enable them to pursue higher studies in business information systems or other related fields.

Credit Requirements

The program requires a minimum of 60 credits as follows:

COURSES OFFERED  

General Education Requirements     

CSC102 Computer Applications (3)

ECO101 Principles of Microeconomics (3)

ENG101 English Communication (3)

ENG102 English Writing (3)

ENG201 Advanced English (3)

GRE101 Modern Greek I (3)

HST101 European History (3)

HST102 History of Cyprus (3)

PHI101 Introduction to Philosophy (3)

POL101 Political Studies (3)

PSY101 Introduction to Psychology (3)

SOC101 Principles of Sociology (3)

Mathematics Requirements                          

MTH102 Statistics (3)

MTH103 Calculus (3)

MTH104 Discrete Mathematics (3)

MTH202 Calculus II (3)

MTH203 Linear Algebra (3)

Major Requirements                                        

CSC101 Introduction to Computing (3)

CSC103 Computer Programming (3)

CSC105 Digital Logic (3)

CSC112 Computer Programming II (3)

CSC202 Data Structures and Algorithms (3)

CSC203 Management Information Systems (3)

CSC206 Computer Architecture (3)

CSC209 Visual Programming (3)

CSC210 Web Designing (3)

CSC215 Computer Organization and Assembly Programming (3)

CSC302 Databases (3)

CSC307 Software Engineering (3)

CSC308 Operating Systems (3)

CSC309 Theory of Computation (3)

CSC310 Programming in Java (3)

CSC401 Object-Oriented Programming (3)

CSC407 Communications and Networks (3)

CSC409 Software Engineering II (3)

CSC410 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (3)

CSC411 Theory and Practice of Compilers (3)

CSC412 Numerical Analysis (3)

CSC413 Introduction to Computer Graphics (3)

The number of teaching hours (TH) for each course equals the number of credits except when otherwise stated.