This course introduces the students to the fundamentals of various aspects of Information Technology (IT). It provides a working knowledge to IT terminology, processes that use IT, and the components found in telecommunications and computer systems that are used by IT professionals. The course material is discussed in context to IT careers. For example, operating systems are introduced from the viewpoint of what a system administrator would need to know to improve performance verses what a computer science engineer would need to know to develop a new software algorithm.
Topics include: Computer fundamentals, computer architecture, digital storage and data representation, networking, database management systems, system and application software, Internet and World Wide Web, computer security.