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  • CIS 105: Introduction to Spreadsheets, Database and Project Management

    3.00 Credits
    Roger Williams University

    Computer knowledge and expertise is often the deciding factorbetween the success and failure of individuals, groups, organizations,and businesses. In this course, students learn how to use threeessential Microsoft programs: Excel, Access and Project. Duringclass students solve frequently encountered, real-world problems.Spreadsheets plays an important role in analyzing, manipulating,presenting data, and modeling business problems. Database conceptsallow the storage, querying, and research of large data sets whilealso facilitating data mining techniques,. Project provides toolsfor managing, costing, and scheduling projects. Together, theseapplications provide a strong technological foundation for a studentor professional in any discipline. These skills are taught hands-on in acomputer classroom. This course Fulfills business core requirementsfor students under the 2010 and later catalogs. Students may notreceive credit for both CIS 101 and CIS 105.
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  • CIS 200: Introduction to Computer Programming Animation and Games

    3.00 Credits
    Roger Williams University

    This course for non-majors and majors introduces the basic concepts ofcomputer programs in a visual environment. Beginning with programflow, the course introduces data description, control structures, andobject oriented techniques. By focusing on algorithmic thinking, thecourse offers a mode of critical thinking that has become increasinglyimportant as computers become ubiquitous.
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  • CIS 202: Technology for the Arts

    3.00 Credits
    Roger Williams University

    Fulfills a course requirement in the Arts Management Minor.Taught in a hands-on computing lab, this course introduces studentsto the common computing technologies and their applications inthe context of managing an arts organization. The course covers thebasics of computing technologies with an emphasis on the internet.Cases and projects center on issues in arts management and include:budget preparation and presentation; customer communications andcustomer relations, fundraising support and management, electronicpromotion and media management.
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  • CIS 206: Introduction to Web Development

    3.00 Credits
    Roger Williams University

    This course offers a practical hands-on approach to designing,creating and uploading sites for the Web. Using applications suchas Macromedia Dreamweaver and Macromedia Fireworks, studentsin this course construct a multi-page Web site complete with linksto other sites, photographs they have scanned and enhanced, andgraphics and animations they have created. Students learn howimages, audio and video are represented digitally and transmitted onthe Web, and how to optimize information to provide visitors withquick response and high quality. Offered in an interactive hands-oncomputer classroom.
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  • CIS 210: Database Management

    3.00 Credits
    Roger Williams University

    Prerequisite: at least Sophomore standingThis hands-on course introduces students to the world of relationaldatabases by taking students on a step-by-step journey through theprocess of database design and implementation. In this course you willlearn about data organization strategies, entities and attributes, tablesand relationships, primary and foreign keys, normalization, integrityconstraints, and hardware characteristics and constraints as well asdatabase implementation using Microsoft Access and VBA. Theoryis immediately put into practice as you apply each new concept andtechnique to your own database project. Offered in an interactivehands-on computer classroom.
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  • CIS 299: Web Developmen Center I

    3.00 Credits
    Roger Williams University

    Students enrolling in this course must be able to create andimplement web pages using CSS, but students from other majorsare encouraged to enroll. Students form multidisciplinary teamsto design and develop a web presence for an actual client. Teamscompete for the client's business just as a real-world web designand development firm must do. Team members bring their ownexpertise to bear in seamlessly integrating the web site within aContent Management System. This project requires the applicationof your existing skill set and the acquisition of new skills. Employersare increasingly looking for graduates with real-world experienceworking in multi-disciplinary teams. The Web Development Centerprovides that experience. The team project becomes part of eachstudent's professional portfolio.
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  • CIS 305: Doing Business on the Web

    3.00 Credits
    Roger Williams University

    Offered in a computer classroom, this "hands on" course introducesstudents to the tools and concepts necessary to develop and planan online business, and to implement the website. Myriad businesson the web considerations and issues are examined by reviewingactual internet case studies throughout the semester, e.g., Amazon.com. A significant component of the course is the study of extantweb businesses which have succeeded and others that have failed.Case studies familiarize students with many of the best and worstweb practices. Issues of web development are explored includinglegal considerations, marketing strategy, management techniques,accounting methodology, and financial practices. Students determinemost aspects of their own small business including business goals,web software, internet server provider, website design, search enginestrategy, and website testing. The website promotes and tracks its owneffectiveness; in addition, inventory, if any, and customer transactionsare maintained and monitored by interacting with, and updating, thestudent created database. Students launch and promote their businesswebsite on a commercial server that allows web access for mocktransactions by students and faculty. In addition, students will testand further develop their website in Google's simulated business webenvironment.
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  • CIS 306: Web 2.0 Creating Expressive Web Sites

    3.00 Credits
    Roger Williams University

    Prerequisite: CIS 206This course covers how to bring a web site to life with animations,transforms and transitions. Add audio, video, media queries, gradients,Web fonts and shadows. Creative implementations with HTML5,CSS3, jQuery and Javascript are covered.
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  • CIS 325: Web Clients JavaScript

    3.00 Credits
    Roger Williams University

    Prerequisite: CIS 206Modern web sites are a blend of technologies. Hypertext MarkupLanguage and Cascading Style Sheets define the appearance of webpages. Active Server Pages (ASP) or similar systems such as php, jspor cfm are used to provide access to databases stored on web servers.JavaScript is the dominant language for controlling web page behavioron the client side of the system. JavaScript provides a way to validateform data, handle rollover effects, rotate advertisement content,generate dynamic menus and a host of other effects users have cometo expect. By the end of this course you will be comfortable writingJavaScript, reading JavaScript code written by others and using widelyavailable JavaScript libraries and APIs (such as the Google Maps API)as part of your web development efforts.
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  • CIS 350: Geographic Analysis of Data: An Introduction to GIS

    3.00 Credits
    Roger Williams University

    Prerequisite: Junior standingThis course is a hands-on introduction to GIS. A GeographicInformation System (GIS) is a tool for creating maps and for doingspatial analysis - that is, asking your maps questions and getting mapsto assist in decision-making and problem solving. Typical applicationsinclude customer, crime, pollution and voting maps. You will learn touse existing geographic data sets and to incorporate your own data.You will build maps with multiple layers in an attempt to support anargument or to solve a problem that relates to your specific discipline.
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