1. Professional Communication and Development

Plan and assess personal career options and develop communication skills.

Acquire, analyze and use information about the range of career possibilities, industry trends in computer science and information technology and its related fields to make career planning decisions.
Use critical thinking skills to plan and assess personal career and further study goals and design educational experiences directed to those goals.
Use written and oral communication to deliver persuasive viewpoint and technology content to multiple audiences.
Acquire, analyze and use information about computer sciences and information technology to describe and speculate on the impact of digital communications technology on local and global communities.

2. Knowledge of Computers and Networks

Demonstrate an understanding of the fundamentals of computer architecture, operating systems and networks.

Describe the history of computers and computing.
Explain how a computer represents and transmits information, how a computer's parts and components are organized and interfaced, basic components of an operating system and basic components of local area networks and wide area networks.
Analyze and design simple circuits using digital electronics and logic gates.
Describe the structure and organization of a modern microprocessor, and the sequence of operations in a typical instruction execution.
Demonstrate a basic understanding of Assembly Language programming.

Analyze and solve problems using a programming language.

Demonstrate the ability to develop algorithms and computer programs to solve problems by systematically decomposing a complex programming problem into manageable, well-documented steps that results in a design for the problem solution.
Demonstrate that the program compiles and executes correctly for a given set of data.
Demonstrate programming competency in a variety of programming structures, including arithmetic operations, control structures and loops, input/output operations including file I/O, the use of function calls, and the use of arrays and other storage types.
Debug a program using appropriate debugging strategies.
Produce a complete set of documentation for a program.

Use mathematical concepts and constructs to express ideas and solve problems in computer science, and to communicate quantitative information.

Use mathematical ideas to solve problems in Computer Science and Information Technology.
Use mathematical thinking and models, charts, graphs, tables, figures, equations, and appropriate technologies to express ideas and concepts.
Demonstrate an understanding of discrete mathematical concepts used in computing: Articulate and apply the concepts of binary numbers, combinatorics, logic, truth tables, graph theory and algorithms to problems in Computer Science and Information Technology.
Analyze and evaluate the mathematical thinking and strategies of others.

Demonstrate effective use of computer-based tools used in the design and creation of interactive applications and electronic media.

Design, create, and edit electronic images, sounds, videos, text, and motion.
Use multimedia authoring tools to design, manage, and execute an interactive multimedia project.