Academic Plan

Total Credit Hours Required to Finish the Degree ( 134 Credit Hours ) as Follows

University Requirements

Univ. Req.
Univ. Elec.

Students must pass all of the following courses

Course Number	Course Name	Weekly Hours		Cr. Hrs.	Prerequisite
Course Number	Course Name	Theoretical	Practical	Cr. Hrs.	Prerequisite
000011110	COMMUNITY SERVICE	COMMUNITY SERVICE	1	-	0	-
010610014	BEGINNING ENGLISH	In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main idea and supporting details; make predictions about a text; answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents; identify parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of unknown words from context; and recognize prefixes and suffixes. In Writing, students learn to write both simple and compound sentences with correct punctuation and capitalization. They write at the sentence and paragraph level using simple present tense, simple past tense, and simple future tense. In Grammar, students review the basic parts of speech and their functions in a sentence, the simple tenses (present, past, and future) and present and past continuous, pronouns, prepositions of time and location, articles, singular and plural nouns, and question formation.	3	-	0	-
010610025	INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH	In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main and supporting details; make predictions and answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents, parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of contextual words; recognize prefixes and suffixes, recognize noun, adjective, and adverb clauses, and distinguish between fact and opinion.	3	-	2	010610014 BEGINNING ENGLISH In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main idea and supporting details; make predictions about a text; answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents; identify parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of unknown words from context; and recognize prefixes and suffixes. In Writing, students learn to write both simple and compound sentences with correct punctuation and capitalization. They write at the sentence and paragraph level using simple present tense, simple past tense, and simple future tense. In Grammar, students review the basic parts of speech and their functions in a sentence, the simple tenses (present, past, and future) and present and past continuous, pronouns, prepositions of time and location, articles, singular and plural nouns, and question formation.
010610026	INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH LAB	The Language Center courses are designed to help students cope with university education in English. The unlock listening and speaking 2 (Intermediate English Lab.) focuses on developing students’ listening, speaking and critical thinking skills. Students watch videos, listen to audios, think critically to be able to speak about different topics using a simplified academic language. The intermediate English lab is meant to prepare students for speaking and listening contexts. Students learn strategies for improving listening comprehension and stimulating critical thinking. The language lab component is specifically designed to improve students’ speaking and listening skills.		2	1	010610014 BEGINNING ENGLISH In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main idea and supporting details; make predictions about a text; answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents; identify parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of unknown words from context; and recognize prefixes and suffixes. In Writing, students learn to write both simple and compound sentences with correct punctuation and capitalization. They write at the sentence and paragraph level using simple present tense, simple past tense, and simple future tense. In Grammar, students review the basic parts of speech and their functions in a sentence, the simple tenses (present, past, and future) and present and past continuous, pronouns, prepositions of time and location, articles, singular and plural nouns, and question formation.
010610035	ADVANCED ENGLISH	This is an integrated skills course in which students work on reading, Writing, listening' and speaking. In reading, student learn to distinguish between fact and opinion,determine the author's purpose or point of view, justify answers to comprehension questions,make inferences, read academic texts, recognize grammatical relation ship in atext. In Writing, student learn to write complex sentences and comma splices. In Grammar, the review parts of speech, articles, and phrases and clauses.	3	-	2	010610025 INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main and supporting details; make predictions and answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents, parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of contextual words; recognize prefixes and suffixes, recognize noun, adjective, and adverb clauses, and distinguish between fact and opinion. 010610026 INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH LAB The Language Center courses are designed to help students cope with university education in English. The unlock listening and speaking 2 (Intermediate English Lab.) focuses on developing students’ listening, speaking and critical thinking skills. Students watch videos, listen to audios, think critically to be able to speak about different topics using a simplified academic language. The intermediate English lab is meant to prepare students for speaking and listening contexts. Students learn strategies for improving listening comprehension and stimulating critical thinking. The language lab component is specifically designed to improve students’ speaking and listening skills.
010610036	ADVANCED ENGLISH LAB	This course aims at developing students listening and speaking skills. This is to be accomplished through helping them enrich their lexical input so that they can understand English language in its spoken forms as a focus and in its written form too. As a result, they will be able to communicate successfully. The course provides students with a series of listening, speaking, reading, pronunciation and vocabulary exercises that meet Bloom’s learning objectives. Furthermore, it aims at developing their critical thinking skills.		2	1	010610025 INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main and supporting details; make predictions and answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents, parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of contextual words; recognize prefixes and suffixes, recognize noun, adjective, and adverb clauses, and distinguish between fact and opinion. 010610026 INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH LAB The Language Center courses are designed to help students cope with university education in English. The unlock listening and speaking 2 (Intermediate English Lab.) focuses on developing students’ listening, speaking and critical thinking skills. Students watch videos, listen to audios, think critically to be able to speak about different topics using a simplified academic language. The intermediate English lab is meant to prepare students for speaking and listening contexts. Students learn strategies for improving listening comprehension and stimulating critical thinking. The language lab component is specifically designed to improve students’ speaking and listening skills.
040111001	ARABIC LANGUAGE	This course aims to teach the students the basics of Arabic language, and the methods of correct writing starting from the word itself till the syntax and expressions, the course focuses in particular on correct practice of the Arabic language in writing and pronouncing.	2	-	2	-
040511011	PALESTINIAN STUDIES	The migration of Arab tribes from Arab Peninsule to Palestine, major political and cultural developments in palestine during cann'anites period, the Assyrian-Egyptian Rivaly in Palestine, Palestinians and Jews, Palestine under Creek and Roman Rule, The Arab Islamic period, political and cultural conditions during Ummayad and Abbasaid period, Islam-crusades colission in pPalestine, Palestine under Ottoman Rule, Rule played by Ahmad Pasha Al-Jazzar and Thaher Al-Omar, Egyptian occupation 1831, European penetration and Zionist settlements, Sykes-Pekot Agreement, Balfour declaration and Britsg mandate, Brotain and Liquidation of Palestine land, Palestinian resistance movement, 1936 Uprising and the scheme of Palestine partition 1937, Partition resolution and 1948 war, Launching of the PLO and the 1967 war, 1987 Uprising, Independence Declaration 1988, Oslo Agreements , Future outlook.	2	-	2	-
040521301	FUNDAMENTALS OF RESEARCH METHODS	This course is a basic one for all university students because it tackles the way of conducting research. The students through this course are exposed to the quantitative and qualitative researches and the differences between them. It also covers the meaning of hypothesis and its types, along with research questions and research problems. Through this course the students can come to know more about literature review and how to differentiate between primary and secondary literature.	2	-	2	010610035 ADVANCED ENGLISH This is an integrated skills course in which students work on reading, Writing, listening' and speaking. In reading, student learn to distinguish between fact and opinion,determine the author's purpose or point of view, justify answers to comprehension questions,make inferences, read academic texts, recognize grammatical relation ship in atext. In Writing, student learn to write complex sentences and comma splices. In Grammar, the review parts of speech, articles, and phrases and clauses. 010610036 ADVANCED ENGLISH LAB This course aims at developing students listening and speaking skills. This is to be accomplished through helping them enrich their lexical input so that they can understand English language in its spoken forms as a focus and in its written form too. As a result, they will be able to communicate successfully. The course provides students with a series of listening, speaking, reading, pronunciation and vocabulary exercises that meet Bloom’s learning objectives. Furthermore, it aims at developing their critical thinking skills.
110411000	COMPUTER SKILLS	A basic, introductory course in personal computers, it introduces students to basic computer concepts in hardware, software, networking. The course will include a basic computer literacy including computer concepts, fundamental functions and operations of the computer. Topics include identification of hardware components, basic computer operations, and use of some software applications such as windows operating system, a word processing using Microsoft Word, a spreadsheet using Microsoft Excel, and a presentation software using PowerPoint.	2	-	2	-

Students must pass ( 8 ) credit hours from any of the following courses

Course Number	Course Name	Weekly Hours		Cr. Hrs.	Prerequisite
Course Number	Course Name	Theoretical	Practical	Cr. Hrs.	Prerequisite
040511052	ISRAELI & ZIONISM STUDIES I	This course is a continuation of the first course, it focus on the study of the political system in Israel and on the security institution and the decision-making and electoral system and foreign policy of Israel, and an introduction to the Arab party scene in Israel as well as a presentation of the Israeli media organization.	2	-	2	-
040511053	JERUSALEM: CIVILIZATION AND HISTORY	Existence of Jerusalem, its ancient history, historical monuments and archaeological excavations, administrative situation developments and Architectural expansion, economic and education life, holy buildings, archeologic museums and schools. The strategy of Judaization and the Zionism occupation of the city, the Future and solutions of the political Jerusalem, and its situation with the international division projects.	2	-	2	-
040511061	ISRAELI & ZIONISM STUDIES II	This course deals with the historical development of Jews in modern times, the conditions in which they lived in Europe and the Middle East, and the circumstances that led to the emergence of the Zionist movement, its activity and its role in the establishment of Israel and the Israeli society.	2	-	2	040511052 ISRAELI & ZIONISM STUDIES I This course is a continuation of the first course, it focus on the study of the political system in Israel and on the security institution and the decision-making and electoral system and foreign policy of Israel, and an introduction to the Arab party scene in Israel as well as a presentation of the Israeli media organization.
040511071	DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT	This course covers issues in development studies and options in politics, sociology, international relations, economics and international business including development policy and planning. It aims to familiarize students with theories and findings concerning development and to offer managerial tools to practical problems. It equips students with the ability to create solutions to problems from variety of disciplines, including economics and the functional areas of management, political science, sociology, and geography. This course will cover wide variety of institutional contexts including local and international private business, non-government organizations, central and local governments, international and national regulatory and donor institutions.	2	-	2	-
040511081	HOME GARDENING	This course aims to introduces how to create home gardens and how to coordinate and take care for them	2	-	2	-
040511091	FINE ARTS	This course aims to introduce students to the four main arts (visual arts, music, theater and architecture), focusing on the basic relations between the two arts: the first is to give a number of lectures, works shops, articles that contains international art works addressing the sources, function, materials, style and composition of the work. The second method is to assign an artistic subject to each student at the beginning of the semester for scientific research following an academic method, the student presents his research summary at the end of the semester in the form of a lecture accompanied by a research paper.	2	-	2	-
040511101	CURRENT WORLD ISSUES	The course deals with the changes in the world order since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the impact of these transformations on a range of political issues in the modern world. The most prominent of these are the new world system, the role of the United Nations in issues of peace and war, regional and international civil wars, globalization and terrorism. Weapons of mass destruction, and other current political issues that arise during the course.	2	-	2	-
040511121	PHYSICAL EDUCATION	This course aims to explain the concepts of Physical Education and its major elements . The course contains a practical component that supports the theoretical concepts by relating physical activities with human health and correct shape habits.	2	-	2	-
040511132	ELECTION AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION	This course covers the concepts of elections and the electoral process, and the concept of political participation: its components, characteristics, levels, and importance. The course also focuses on the system of human rights and civil liberties; Its charters and characteristics. In addition, the course deals with the nature of democracy as a concept and its relationship to a set of values and concepts such as democratic transformation, political upbringing, and the principle of separation of powers. Finally, the course discusses the electoral systems and their impact on the electoral process, the electoral process in Palestine, including the presidential elections, the legislative council, and the local councils.	2	-	2	-
040511133	THE PALESTINIAN PRISONERS MOVEMENT	This course aims at scrutinize the Palestinian Prisoners movement. Light will be shed on the historical stages the movement went through during in the last sixty years. The course highlights the legality of detaining those prisoners and show the international law’s violation by the Israeli forces and governments. Prisons, interrogation centers, and detention camps are defined and shown in one of the chapters and there illegal geographical places are to be shown during the semester.	2	-	2	-
040511140	LAW IN OUR LIFE	This course introduces the definitions of the law and its terms, sections, resources, illustrations, and its implementations,along with the current legal system in Palestine, the Palestinian laws, general rights and freedoms in Palestine	2	-	2	-
040511150	ISLAMIC CULTURE	This course is an exploration to the culture in general and Islamic culture in particular as well as the development in the Muslim World. The course informational intended to raise the awareness about the sociological aspects, cultural perspective of Islam and various problems in the Muslim World. However, it is also designed to provide a variety of cultural perspectives of the intern Muslim states institutions, the role of religious institutions, women, and the economic institution of the Muslim World. This course is going to develop a ?better understanding ? that student will find in many areas of life, work, and relationships in the Muslim World as well as with other Western countries.	2	-	2	-
040511160	DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS	This course deals with the development of democracy, its applications, models, and its importance to modern societies. As well as an overview of human rights, their evolution, divisions, nature and international protection.	2	-	2	-
040511180	INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONOMY SCIENCE	This course aims to present the historical context for the development of astronomy and highlight the role of the Arab-Islamic civilization in the development of this science, introduce the process of astronomical observation, introduce the units of measurement of astronomical dimensions and methods of measuring the dimensions of astronomical bodies. Moreover, students will be able to learn about the solar system and all its components in detail, learn about the characteristics and evolution of stars, stellar clusters and stellar asteroids, learn about galaxies and their types, and focus on the Milky Way. Finally, students will gain knowledge about the origin, age and shape of the universe.	2	-	2	-
040511190	HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION	This course aims to introduce students to the basic concepts related to civilization, and the theories of its emergence and fall. The course also addresses the elements that must be available for the establishment, growth and development of a civilization. Additionally, the course reviews the different aspects of civilization: political, economic, social, religious and cultural, while focusing specifically on upholding the value of reason and law, dialogue between religions and cultures, one opinion and the other opinion, the values of tolerance, and upholding the value of human rights.	2	-	2	-
040511200	INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS	This course will teach student basic elements of the economic system and the basic tools for economic analysis such as Demand & Supply, markets production as will as markets it will also teach students the basic macroeconomics concepts such as GDP economic growth inflation and economic policy.	2	-	2	-
040511211	ANTHROPOLOGY	This course examines the evolution of population science, its theories, its importance and its relation to other sciences. It also examines population dynamics: mortality, birth and migration. It examines analytically the composition, distribution and problems of population. It also expose to the population science and its relationship in development issues and planning. The course also highlights the population, environmental, cultural, economic and health factors affecting its growth, and focuses on the differences between industrial societies and third world societies, including Arab society.	2	-	2	-
040511220	ANTI-CORRUPTION CHALLENGES AND SOLUTION	This course aims to raise awareness about corruption and its definition, types, causes, affects, outcomes, and ways of fighting corruption, to be able to fight corruption in the Palestinian society that suffers from wide corruption for different reasons, which will help on knowing the places of corruptions and find solutions for it and enhance integrity values , transparency principles and accountability system in the Palestinian society.	2	-	2	-
040511230	FRENCH LANGUAGE	This course, which introduces the French alphabet and method of writing words, masculine and feminine nouns, singular and plural, also includes sentence level, types of sentences, personal pronouns, verb conjugations, direct and indirect objects. Visual aids such as drawings and pictures are used to advantage. Editing short responses, accepting or turning down offers, giving thanks or apology, brief justifications of answers, are some learning exercises.	2	-	2	-
040511240	GERMAN LANGUAGE	This course teaches words and grammatical structures and rules mostly used in daily communication. The course covers a number of things: greetings, introducing people, naming household things, like food and drinks, ordering a meal, entertaining visitors, managing work, making arrangements for appointments, renting an apartment, buying things, … etc.	2	-	2	-
040511260	INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY	Study human actions, behavior, its cultures, social behavior, development, and individual differences. The course is informational, intended to raise awareness about the psychology aspects of individuals' lives and various problems that concern people. Psychology offers a unique view of the world we live in as it allows one to see the "invisible" forces that shape and channel our lives as we interact with others in society.	2	-	2	-
040511270	INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY	Study human society, its cultures, social organizations and institutions. The course is informational intended to raise up the knowledge about the social aspects of individuals' lives and various problems that concern people; however, it is also designed to provide a variety sociological theoritical perspectives as well as to develope a "sociological imagination" that students will find useful in many areas of life, work, and relationships with others. Sociology offers a unique view of the world we live in as it allows ont to see the "invisible" forces that shape and channel our lives as we interact with others in society.	2	-	2	-
040511280	HUMAN & ENVIRONMENT	Environmental Science and Ecosystems, Population Explosion & limited Resources, Environmental Themes : Water pollution & treatments, Environmental Themes :Solid Waste, Environmental Themes: Air Pollution & Control, Environmental Themes: Socio-Economics-Solution, Housing & the Residential Environment, Community Noise, Biodiversity & wild-Life, Toxicology, Pesticides in the Environment, Environmental Impact Assessment, Palestine Environment.	2	-	2	-
040511290	HISTORY OF SCIENCE		2	-	2	-
040511311	INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS	The course focuses on international relations that studies the science interaction of knowledge fields, especially its historical development and theoretical concepts that fall within its general scope, and the emergence of theoretical methods such as realism, idealism, legal, behavioral and Marxism, in addition to the factors that impact in the creation of the event in international relations, especially geography, demography, economy and military, as well as ruin, diplomacy and balance of power.	2	-	2	-
040511321	SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY	This course aims to introduce the processes of change in contemporary societies in general, the study of change factors and their impact on social life, and the impact of change on the rest of the cultural and social patterns within the social construction.	2	-	2	-
040511400	TURKISH LANGUAGE	Once the student completes the required hours of the Turkish Language Principles course, they will: be able to introduce themselves using their name and nickname and get to know others. The student will also identify their nationality and the nationality of others and can talk about the languages they know. Moreover, the student will be able to introduce themselves and describe their surroundings using sign names, numbers, enumeration of numbers, months, days and colors. As for the second unit, the student can describe his family in detail, can talk about their house, and talk about their day by using the the present tense.	2	-	2	-
040511411	POLITICAL SCIENCES	The course deals with the principles of political science, schools, research methods, political analysis, the relationship of political science with other social sciences, the historical development of political thought from Greece to modern times, and the means of practice and political participation of individuals. Through political parties, interest groups and public opinion, as well as the study of the state in terms of its elements and different theories to explain its origin, and study the international system and factors of formation.	2	-	2	-
040511421	CRITICAL THINKING	This course provides students opportunities of analysis, synthesis, prescription, and application of critical thinking, and decision with making within the organization.	2	-	2	-
040511490	حقوق الانسان والنوع الاجتماعي		2	-	2	-
040511500	السينما الفلسطينية – سرديات بديلة		2	-	2	-
040511511	MODERN ARAB THOUGHT	The course deals with the definition of philosophy and its objectives and visions, where it goes back to the Greek roots of the Arab philosophy and then moves on to the Arab thought before Islam and presents a detailed explanation of the Arab philosophy and its prominent figures such as Al-Farabi, Ebin Rashd, Ebin Khaldun and others.	2	-	2	-
040511521	ARCHEOLOGY	This course introduces archaeology as a science, the origin of civilizations, history of research on Palestine archaeological treasures, role of Western archaeological institutions and schools in crystallization of theoretical and applied methodologies, relationship between archaeology and other sciences. The course also explains the importance of pottery in archaeological studies, types of archaeological sites, ways of discovering archaeological sites, ways of dating ruins, and methods of excavations, the how's of interpreting archaeological evidence, and excavation authority. The course also includes field studies of archeological sites	2	-	2	-
040511611	HEBREW LANGUAGE	Principles and foundations of Hebrew which should enable students to express themselves orally and in writing.	2	-	2	-
040511621	CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS	This course aims to identify the topics of public sociology related to the subject of sociology, its principles and its most important theories and perspectives, As well as the study of social life as a whole and its relationship to the complex patterns of social systems and social groups and culture that it consists of, and finally to identify the patterns of different social organizations in society in addition to the presentation of basic social processes that occur in society.	2	-	2	-
040511990	EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION	Effective communication is the key to professional success, which will eventually lead to winning a job. In this course, students will receive advice on personal communication and learn the principles and methods of communication that will help them express themselves and their ideas clearly, and present them in the best way. Students will also learn what, when and how they can communicate with employers, and how effective communication will affect their admission process anywhere.	2	-	2	-
060411001	NUTRITION & FOOD SECURITY	This course will emphasize on providing students with the knowledge of various nutritional aspects, a complete idea about food components and its relationship with the health, nutritional habits, human development, storing and classification of food.This course explains various types of food therapy in different health problems, and prepares specific nutritional diets related to some diseases.	2	-	2	-
060511021	FIRST AID	This course is designed to learn the students the temporary and immediate care given to a person who is injured or suddenly becomes ill. First aid also involves home care if medical assistance is delayed or not available . first aid includes recognizing life-threatening conditions and taking effective action to keep the injured or ill person alive and in the best possible condition until medical treatment can be obtained Finally , the students become an important part of the emergency care team as they properly prepare with the right knowledge and practical skills to render appropriate life-saving care.	2	-	2	-
280311110	INTRODUCTION TO SIGN LANGUAGE	This course designed to provide students with the basics of sign language in terms of theory and practice .It focuses on sign language definition, components, usage, and various types. The course will enable students to acquire a knowledge and understanding of the Arabic finger alphabet, Palestinian Sign Language, different sign language terms, and visual nonverbal communication. Moreover, the course will focus on the distinctive body postures, facial expressions, and mouthing that accompany signing. Students will learn necessary vocabulary needed to tell about jobs, colors, directions, religions, numbers, and food. Grammatical features such as pronouns, plural forms, negation, emphasis, and questions will also be covered in this course.	2	-	2	-

Faculty Requirements

Colg. Req.

Students must pass all of the following courses

Course Number	Course Name	Weekly Hours		Cr. Hrs.	Prerequisite
Course Number	Course Name	Theoretical	Practical	Cr. Hrs.	Prerequisite
100411010	CALCULUS I	Functions, inverse functions, limits, continuity, derivatives, application of derivatives, indeterminate forms and L’Hopital’s rule, definite integrals, the fundamental theorem of calculus, indefinite integrals and integration by substitution.	3	-	3	-
100411020	CALCULUS II	Techniques and applications of integration, area under curve, volumes of revolutions, surface area and arc length, series and sequences, convergence tests of infinite series, parametric equations and polar coordinates.	3	-	3	100411010 CALCULUS I Functions, inverse functions, limits, continuity, derivatives, application of derivatives, indeterminate forms and L’Hopital’s rule, definite integrals, the fundamental theorem of calculus, indefinite integrals and integration by substitution.
100412040	MATHEMATICS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY	Vectors in 2-space and 3-space, dot Product, cross Product, vector and scalar functions and their fields, calculus of vector function, systems of linear equations, matrices, determinants, rank, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, first order differential equations, second and higher order linear differential equation.	3	-	3	100411020 CALCULUS II Techniques and applications of integration, area under curve, volumes of revolutions, surface area and arc length, series and sequences, convergence tests of infinite series, parametric equations and polar coordinates.
100413750	DISCRETE MATHEMATICS	Logic, methods of proof including mathematical induction, set theory and relations, congruence, linear recurrence relations, functions, graphs, shortest path algorithm, trees, minimal spanning trees, binary trees.	3	-	3	100411010 CALCULUS I Functions, inverse functions, limits, continuity, derivatives, application of derivatives, indeterminate forms and L’Hopital’s rule, definite integrals, the fundamental theorem of calculus, indefinite integrals and integration by substitution.
240111011	PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS (C++)	This course introduces the fundamental concepts of procedural programming. Topics include data types, control structures, functions, arrays, pointers, files, and the mechanics of running, testing, and debugging. The practice software is used in the independent Lab.	3	-	3	-
240111021	PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS I (LAB)	This course is a Practical Course which includes the following: Declaring variables, Data types, Control structures, Functions, Arrays, Pointers, Files, and the Skills of running, testing, and debugging the programs.		2	1	240111011 PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS (C++) This course introduces the fundamental concepts of procedural programming. Topics include data types, control structures, functions, arrays, pointers, files, and the mechanics of running, testing, and debugging. The practice software is used in the independent Lab.

Students must pass all of the following courses

Course Number	Course Name	Weekly Hours		Cr. Hrs.	Prerequisite
Course Number	Course Name	Theoretical	Practical	Cr. Hrs.	Prerequisite
110111030	INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAB	This course intends to provide students with the basic IT skills, such as windows skills, office skills, Internet Skills, and some web development skills using HTML		2	1	-
110113220	COMPUTER NETWORKS LAB	Students will learn network concepts and protocols by configuring a network using routers and PCs, observing the actual behavior of these machines and the overall network, and analyzing and evaluating the results. This is a learning experience different from other networking courses where you read and think in an abstract level		2	1	240223041 COMPUTER NETWORKS I This course provides an overview of telecommunications and computer networking concepts, network design, and management concepts. In addition this course introduces networking topologies, layers (OSI & TCP/IP models), hardware (equipment) and software (Network Operating Systems), protocols, and TCP/IP related topics. Also, this course introduces basic technical and non-technical networking knowledge, which helps students to work in the computer-networking field.
110411100	DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN	"Binary systems includes number base conversion and octal, hexadecimal, Boolean Algebra and logic gates, Boolean functions, digital logic gates, The map method, 4- 5-variables map, combinational circuit, analysis and design, binary adder-subtractor, MSI circuits including Encoder, Decoder, and Multiplexer, Synchronous sequential circuit, Latches and flip flops, clocked sequential circuit, Design procedures, programmable logic array, types of memories, LSI integrated circuits including counters and registers, etc."	3	-	3	-
110412120	PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS II LAB	This course is a Practical Course which includes the following: Declaring variables, Data types, Control structures, Functions, Arrays, Pointers, Files, and the Skills of running, testing, and debugging the programs.		2	1	240112003 PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS II This course demonstrates advance topics in C++ including: Pointers, Object Oriented Programming, String Manipulation, Templates, Exception Handling, and File Processing.
110412130	DATA STRUCTURE LAB	This lab course is used to design and analyze simple linear and nonlinear data structures. It helps the students to propose, analyze, design and apply the suitable data structure for the given problem. It will focus on applying the fundamentals of data structure. It fixes their knowledge and refined the principles of data structures. The lab will cover the practical side of the basic data structures such as linked list, doubly linked list, stacks, queues, lists, binary trees and searching. It will focus on both implementing the data structure using array and linked list. The students are enabled to design and implement the basic operations such as (insertion, deletion, search, find-min and find-max, etc…) on the data structure.		2	1	100413750 DISCRETE MATHEMATICS Logic, methods of proof including mathematical induction, set theory and relations, congruence, linear recurrence relations, functions, graphs, shortest path algorithm, trees, minimal spanning trees, binary trees. 240112003 PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS II This course demonstrates advance topics in C++ including: Pointers, Object Oriented Programming, String Manipulation, Templates, Exception Handling, and File Processing.
240112003	PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS II	This course demonstrates advance topics in C++ including: Pointers, Object Oriented Programming, String Manipulation, Templates, Exception Handling, and File Processing.	3	-	3	240111011 PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS (C++) This course introduces the fundamental concepts of procedural programming. Topics include data types, control structures, functions, arrays, pointers, files, and the mechanics of running, testing, and debugging. The practice software is used in the independent Lab.
240112031	DATA STRUCTURES	The objective of this course is to study the basic skills and knowledge to become a software engineer and to pursue advance study of computer science. This course will focus on data structures that help students to store large data in an effecient way. Topics inculdes stacks, Ques, link structures, trees, serching, sorting, and graphs.	3	-	3	100413750 DISCRETE MATHEMATICS Logic, methods of proof including mathematical induction, set theory and relations, congruence, linear recurrence relations, functions, graphs, shortest path algorithm, trees, minimal spanning trees, binary trees. 240112003 PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS II This course demonstrates advance topics in C++ including: Pointers, Object Oriented Programming, String Manipulation, Templates, Exception Handling, and File Processing.
240112111	INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER ORGANIZATION	This course introduces the concept of computers and Information Systems by presenting the process of computation as a hierarchy of virtual machines, beginning with the hardware and moving upward through various levels of increasingly sophisticated software. This course outlines the facilities provided by each virtual machine, along with the mechanisms and software tools that lead to the realization of the hierarchy. Topics include the fundamental elements of digital logic; register level description of computer execution and the functional organization of a computer; the elements of machine and assembly language; the role and function of operating system (networking and distributed systems); network information, and intellectual property issues.	3	-	3	110411100 DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN "Binary systems includes number base conversion and octal, hexadecimal, Boolean Algebra and logic gates, Boolean functions, digital logic gates, The map method, 4- 5-variables map, combinational circuit, analysis and design, binary adder-subtractor, MSI circuits including Encoder, Decoder, and Multiplexer, Synchronous sequential circuit, Latches and flip flops, clocked sequential circuit, Design procedures, programmable logic array, types of memories, LSI integrated circuits including counters and registers, etc."
240113020	ALGORITHMS AND PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES	"This course will introduce you to fundamental algorithm design and analysis techniques. In addition to learning a number of important classical algorithms, student will also gain experience of designing new and extending existing algorithms that includes analyzing various algorithms' computational efficiency and applying them to a variety of interesting real-world computational problems. The course covers the mathematical foundations, sorting and order statistics, data structures and advanced data structures. Graph algorithm, and some selected topics (such as algorithms for parallel computers and matrix operation, etc.).	3	-	3	240112031 DATA STRUCTURES The objective of this course is to study the basic skills and knowledge to become a software engineer and to pursue advance study of computer science. This course will focus on data structures that help students to store large data in an effecient way. Topics inculdes stacks, Ques, link structures, trees, serching, sorting, and graphs.
240113121	INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE	This course acquaints students with the technicalities of the most prominent database systems. Students learn about essential terminologies and are introduced to real-world, hands-on techniques and examples. Students learn about the different database models with emphasis on relational database model. These are the systems that are most commonly used by companies and organizations today. Essentials of the model are deciphered and components of the model are further scrutinized, including entity-relationships, functional dependencies and normalization, and database languages. finally, an introduction to SQL language is provided.	3	-	3	240112003 PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS II This course demonstrates advance topics in C++ including: Pointers, Object Oriented Programming, String Manipulation, Templates, Exception Handling, and File Processing.
240113132	INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE (LAB)	This course provides students with hands-on experience to create databases. Students will apply theories and principles learned during the theoritical part of the course. Students will also apply CRUD operations on the created databases.		2	1	240112003 PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS II This course demonstrates advance topics in C++ including: Pointers, Object Oriented Programming, String Manipulation, Templates, Exception Handling, and File Processing.
240113171	INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING	This course provides an intensive, implementation-oriented introduction to the software development techniques used to create medium-scale interactive applications, focusing on the use of large object-oriented libraries to create well-designed graphical user interfaces. Topics include event-driven programming, computer graphics, human-computer interaction (HCI), graphical user interfaces, software development techniques, methods and tools of analysis.	3	-	3	240112031 DATA STRUCTURES The objective of this course is to study the basic skills and knowledge to become a software engineer and to pursue advance study of computer science. This course will focus on data structures that help students to store large data in an effecient way. Topics inculdes stacks, Ques, link structures, trees, serching, sorting, and graphs.
240113221	INFORMATION SECURITY	Information security is of vital importance to businesses and administrators and managers must be aware of various security issues in this regard. This course discusses the fundamental concepts of information security, network security practices and system security issues. Topics covered include symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, public-key infrastructure and management, authentication systems, IP security, web security, access control, techniques for identifying vulnerable target systems and types of malicious code, for mitigating security risks, and for recognizing attack patterns.	3	-	3	240223041 COMPUTER NETWORKS I This course provides an overview of telecommunications and computer networking concepts, network design, and management concepts. In addition this course introduces networking topologies, layers (OSI & TCP/IP models), hardware (equipment) and software (Network Operating Systems), protocols, and TCP/IP related topics. Also, this course introduces basic technical and non-technical networking knowledge, which helps students to work in the computer-networking field.
240113291	MOBILE PROGRAMMING	Developing software for handled devices such as mobile phones, PDA’s etc. It is discussed platform development environment, mobile user interface, mobile application testing, mobile emulator, application stores, mobile web applications, HTML 5, Eclipse, mobile local database management, JQuery Mobile.	3	-	3	240112003 PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS II This course demonstrates advance topics in C++ including: Pointers, Object Oriented Programming, String Manipulation, Templates, Exception Handling, and File Processing.
240113311	INTRODUCTION TO OPERATING SYSTEMS	This course introduces the fundamentals of operating systems design and implementation. Topics include an overview of the components of an operating system, mutual exclusion and synchronization, implementation of processes, scheduling algorithms, memory management, and file systems.	3	-	3	240112031 DATA STRUCTURES The objective of this course is to study the basic skills and knowledge to become a software engineer and to pursue advance study of computer science. This course will focus on data structures that help students to store large data in an effecient way. Topics inculdes stacks, Ques, link structures, trees, serching, sorting, and graphs. 240112111 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER ORGANIZATION This course introduces the concept of computers and Information Systems by presenting the process of computation as a hierarchy of virtual machines, beginning with the hardware and moving upward through various levels of increasingly sophisticated software. This course outlines the facilities provided by each virtual machine, along with the mechanisms and software tools that lead to the realization of the hierarchy. Topics include the fundamental elements of digital logic; register level description of computer execution and the functional organization of a computer; the elements of machine and assembly language; the role and function of operating system (networking and distributed systems); network information, and intellectual property issues.
240113620	SOFTWARE TESTING AND VALIDATION	This course will cover various topics in software testing and quality assurance. Topics will include: various types of software testing, establishing testing specifications, and testing tools Provide students with the ability to test and validate software using the software engineering methodology. Create software reliability specification, Evaluate software reliability and quality.	3	-	3	240113171 INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING This course provides an intensive, implementation-oriented introduction to the software development techniques used to create medium-scale interactive applications, focusing on the use of large object-oriented libraries to create well-designed graphical user interfaces. Topics include event-driven programming, computer graphics, human-computer interaction (HCI), graphical user interfaces, software development techniques, methods and tools of analysis.
240113990	INTERNSHIP	During the internship, the student joins an association, or a company that is directly related to his/her filed of study. The academic staff from the department will continuously follow up the training by making regular field visits to training locations.	9	-	3	-
240114081	THEORY OF COMPUTATION	Topics include theory of finite state machine and automata; regular expressions; Turing machines; grammars; parsing; language hierarchy; machine design and construction; computability; un-solvability; halting problem; computational complexity; and recursive functions. The course also discusses issues in equivalence of various computational models, minimization, and characterizations	3	-	3	240113020 ALGORITHMS AND PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES "This course will introduce you to fundamental algorithm design and analysis techniques. In addition to learning a number of important classical algorithms, student will also gain experience of designing new and extending existing algorithms that includes analyzing various algorithms' computational efficiency and applying them to a variety of interesting real-world computational problems. The course covers the mathematical foundations, sorting and order statistics, data structures and advanced data structures. Graph algorithm, and some selected topics (such as algorithms for parallel computers and matrix operation, etc.).
240114331	COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE	This course introduces the hardware structure of computer systems and subsystems. Topics include: processor architecture, parallelism and pipelining, cache and main memory organization, I/O controllers and I/O processors, and interconnection structures.	3	-	3	240112111 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER ORGANIZATION This course introduces the concept of computers and Information Systems by presenting the process of computation as a hierarchy of virtual machines, beginning with the hardware and moving upward through various levels of increasingly sophisticated software. This course outlines the facilities provided by each virtual machine, along with the mechanisms and software tools that lead to the realization of the hierarchy. Topics include the fundamental elements of digital logic; register level description of computer execution and the functional organization of a computer; the elements of machine and assembly language; the role and function of operating system (networking and distributed systems); network information, and intellectual property issues.
240114341	UNIX LAB	It is applied the concepts of operating systems under the UNIX environment.		2	1	240113311 INTRODUCTION TO OPERATING SYSTEMS This course introduces the fundamentals of operating systems design and implementation. Topics include an overview of the components of an operating system, mutual exclusion and synchronization, implementation of processes, scheduling algorithms, memory management, and file systems.
240114350	ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE	This course introduces the basics of artificial intelligence and information management. Topics include fundamental issues in intelligent systems; history of artificial intelligence; search and constraint satisfaction; problem spaces; brute-force search; best-first search; knowledge representation and reasoning; review of prepositional and predicate logic; Machine learning and neural networks; definition and examples of machine learning; and information models and systems.	3	-	3	240113020 ALGORITHMS AND PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES "This course will introduce you to fundamental algorithm design and analysis techniques. In addition to learning a number of important classical algorithms, student will also gain experience of designing new and extending existing algorithms that includes analyzing various algorithms' computational efficiency and applying them to a variety of interesting real-world computational problems. The course covers the mathematical foundations, sorting and order statistics, data structures and advanced data structures. Graph algorithm, and some selected topics (such as algorithms for parallel computers and matrix operation, etc.).
240114471	INFORMATION TECHNONLOGY PROJECT MANAGEMENT	This course develops project management knowledge, skills, tools and techniques needed to initiate, plan, execute, control, and close projects. It combines theories and practice by active participation, student presentations of project management concepts. Projects related to information technology will be used to aid in understanding the knowledge and practice of project management. The course emphasizes technical and communications skills needed to manage project changes. Case studies and group projects will be utilized for the integration of project management knowledge and practice with that of information technology.	3	-	3	240112003 PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS II This course demonstrates advance topics in C++ including: Pointers, Object Oriented Programming, String Manipulation, Templates, Exception Handling, and File Processing.
240114974	SENIOR PROJECT I	Participating students select project topic according to their subject of interest and the availability of facilities and advisors. Students carry out necessary preliminary work and submit a progress report. Ethical responsibilities of a computing professional are covered by lectures and seminars and emphasized through the student's team work.	1	-	1	-
240114982	COMPUTER SCIENCE SENIOR PROJECT II	Participating students carry on the plan of work they developed in 11041497 Senior Project I	3	-	3	240114974 SENIOR PROJECT I Participating students select project topic according to their subject of interest and the availability of facilities and advisors. Students carry out necessary preliminary work and submit a progress report. Ethical responsibilities of a computing professional are covered by lectures and seminars and emphasized through the student's team work.
240212010	PRINCIPLES OF OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING	"Object Oriented Programming principles with implementing the latest software engineering methods. The student will understand the effect of using OOP in the software development life cycle. Learn the basic fundamentals of OOP using Java, Understand Class Reusability, Understand hiding complexity, Building own package of classes, Developing systems with GUI, Learn Exception & Error handling concepts, Learn Even Handling concepts. The practice software is used in the independent Lab."	3	-	3	240112003 PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS II This course demonstrates advance topics in C++ including: Pointers, Object Oriented Programming, String Manipulation, Templates, Exception Handling, and File Processing.
240212100	FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS	This course is a fundamental theoretical course on computer graphics software, hardware and mathematics. The course covers what computer graphics is. The main objective of the course is to educate students about and the sources of computer graphics and the relation between the computer graphics hardware, software and applications. It familiarize students with some graphics systems and important computer graphics terminologies. It covers the architecture of the OpenGL. In Three-Dimensional Graphics, it covers Geometry, Transformations, Homogeneous Coordinates and Viewing.	3	-	3	100412040 MATHEMATICS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Vectors in 2-space and 3-space, dot Product, cross Product, vector and scalar functions and their fields, calculus of vector function, systems of linear equations, matrices, determinants, rank, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, first order differential equations, second and higher order linear differential equation. 240111011 PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS (C++) This course introduces the fundamental concepts of procedural programming. Topics include data types, control structures, functions, arrays, pointers, files, and the mechanics of running, testing, and debugging. The practice software is used in the independent Lab.
240213010	ADVANCED OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING	This course provides concrete knowledge in modern object-oriented programming with integration of advanced java topics like input streams, output streams, java database connectivity (JDBC), Multi-threading, networking, other technologies like java beans, EJB, collections. Students learn how to manipulate binary and text files, interacting with database systems like mysql, oracle, sqlserver, db2, access, etc. Also, they learn how client-server communicate using TCP, UDP, URL protocols. Students should be able to integrate multi-threading technology with streams, JDBC, Networking and any other technology.	3	-	3	240212010 PRINCIPLES OF OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING "Object Oriented Programming principles with implementing the latest software engineering methods. The student will understand the effect of using OOP in the software development life cycle. Learn the basic fundamentals of OOP using Java, Understand Class Reusability, Understand hiding complexity, Building own package of classes, Developing systems with GUI, Learn Exception & Error handling concepts, Learn Even Handling concepts. The practice software is used in the independent Lab."
240213081	WEB DEVELOPMENT I	"The aim of this course is to provide concrete knowledge in popular web technologies and programming. Students develop interactive, secure and powerful projects for the web. The course begins with an overview of the foundations of the internet and the web, security, DNS, HTTP, client-server communications, the effect of using dynamic web applications in the software development life cycle, web development basic concepts. Design and implementation of web page using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript CGI: Common Gateway Interface (CGI) focus on PHP and MYSQL. The software's is used in Lab. "	3	-	3	240113121 INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE This course acquaints students with the technicalities of the most prominent database systems. Students learn about essential terminologies and are introduced to real-world, hands-on techniques and examples. Students learn about the different database models with emphasis on relational database model. These are the systems that are most commonly used by companies and organizations today. Essentials of the model are deciphered and components of the model are further scrutinized, including entity-relationships, functional dependencies and normalization, and database languages. finally, an introduction to SQL language is provided.
240213231	VISUAL PROGRAMMING (BASIC)	The purpose of this course is to study and practice the aspects of Visual Programming: including the IDE development environment, and Graphical User Interface (GUI) based programming. The course is a requirement for Computer Science students and applies the OOP concepts. It focuses on creating GUI based applications for desktops, web, and mobile using packages and tools such as Visual Studio, C#, ASP.net. Students will be able to create projects and develop console applications, windows applications, and database and web applications.	3	-	3	240112003 PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS II This course demonstrates advance topics in C++ including: Pointers, Object Oriented Programming, String Manipulation, Templates, Exception Handling, and File Processing.
240213480	SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND TECHNICAL WRITING	Speech Communication and Technical Writing aims to develop students’ fluency and communicative competence in workplace English. The goal is to prepare students to communicate in English with international employers, business partners, and clients. To this aim, students will learn how to communicate effectively and politely in a variety of oral and written professional contexts. Oral contexts may include speaking on the telephone, holding meetings, participating in job interviews, and delivering presentations. Written tasks may include writing emails, reports, CVs, and cover letters. More time is dedicated to writing skills than speaking skills in order to help students develop the ability to produce well-organized and professional compositions.	3	-	3	010610035 ADVANCED ENGLISH This is an integrated skills course in which students work on reading, Writing, listening' and speaking. In reading, student learn to distinguish between fact and opinion,determine the author's purpose or point of view, justify answers to comprehension questions,make inferences, read academic texts, recognize grammatical relation ship in atext. In Writing, student learn to write complex sentences and comma splices. In Grammar, the review parts of speech, articles, and phrases and clauses. 010610036 ADVANCED ENGLISH LAB This course aims at developing students listening and speaking skills. This is to be accomplished through helping them enrich their lexical input so that they can understand English language in its spoken forms as a focus and in its written form too. As a result, they will be able to communicate successfully. The course provides students with a series of listening, speaking, reading, pronunciation and vocabulary exercises that meet Bloom’s learning objectives. Furthermore, it aims at developing their critical thinking skills.
240221010	INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY	This course introduces abroad spectrum of topics related to information technology to fresh students. The course covers basic concepts related to how computers work and how they perform different kinds of data processing using different types of data storage. Topics such as numbering systems, computer software, hardware (inputs, outputs, and peripherals), programming, and algorithms will be described. The course will also explain computer networks, and how the internet is used.	2	-	2	-
240223041	COMPUTER NETWORKS I	This course provides an overview of telecommunications and computer networking concepts, network design, and management concepts. In addition this course introduces networking topologies, layers (OSI & TCP/IP models), hardware (equipment) and software (Network Operating Systems), protocols, and TCP/IP related topics. Also, this course introduces basic technical and non-technical networking knowledge, which helps students to work in the computer-networking field.	3	-	3	110411100 DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN "Binary systems includes number base conversion and octal, hexadecimal, Boolean Algebra and logic gates, Boolean functions, digital logic gates, The map method, 4- 5-variables map, combinational circuit, analysis and design, binary adder-subtractor, MSI circuits including Encoder, Decoder, and Multiplexer, Synchronous sequential circuit, Latches and flip flops, clocked sequential circuit, Design procedures, programmable logic array, types of memories, LSI integrated circuits including counters and registers, etc."

Students must pass ( 9 ) credit hours from any of the following courses

Course Number	Course Name	Weekly Hours		Cr. Hrs.	Prerequisite
Course Number	Course Name	Theoretical	Practical	Cr. Hrs.	Prerequisite
240113100	INTRODUCTION TO NEURAL NETWORK AND DEEP LEARNING	In this course students are introduced to the basic concepts and architecture of deep neural networks, besides the algorithms that are developed to extract high-level feature representations of data. In addition to theoretical foundations of neural networks, including backpropagation and stochastic gradient descent, students get hands-on experience building deep neural network models with Python. Topics covered in the course include; neural networks basics such as cost function, gradient descent, vectorization, and so on. The course will also describe shallow neural networks as well as deep neural networks.	3	-	3	240212010 PRINCIPLES OF OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING "Object Oriented Programming principles with implementing the latest software engineering methods. The student will understand the effect of using OOP in the software development life cycle. Learn the basic fundamentals of OOP using Java, Understand Class Reusability, Understand hiding complexity, Building own package of classes, Developing systems with GUI, Learn Exception & Error handling concepts, Learn Even Handling concepts. The practice software is used in the independent Lab."
240113321	ADVANCED OPERATING SYSTEMS	This Course Introduces the main concepts of advanced operating systems (parallel processing systems, distributed systems, real time systems, network operating systems, and open source operating systems); Hardware and software features that support these systems.	3	-	3	240113311 INTRODUCTION TO OPERATING SYSTEMS This course introduces the fundamentals of operating systems design and implementation. Topics include an overview of the components of an operating system, mutual exclusion and synchronization, implementation of processes, scheduling algorithms, memory management, and file systems.
240114020	MACHINE LEARNING	Machine Learning is the study of how to build computer systems that learn from experience. It is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence and intersects with statistics, cognitive science, information theory, and probability theory, among others. The course will explain how to build systems that learn and adapt using examples from real-world applications. The course will be self-contained (i.e., I will not assume any previous knowledge); a review session on probability and information theory will precede those chapters in need of background knowledge. Main topics supervised vs. unsupervised learning, linear discriminants, neural networks, decision trees, support vector machines, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, etc.	3	-	3	240113020 ALGORITHMS AND PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES "This course will introduce you to fundamental algorithm design and analysis techniques. In addition to learning a number of important classical algorithms, student will also gain experience of designing new and extending existing algorithms that includes analyzing various algorithms' computational efficiency and applying them to a variety of interesting real-world computational problems. The course covers the mathematical foundations, sorting and order statistics, data structures and advanced data structures. Graph algorithm, and some selected topics (such as algorithms for parallel computers and matrix operation, etc.). 240212010 PRINCIPLES OF OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING "Object Oriented Programming principles with implementing the latest software engineering methods. The student will understand the effect of using OOP in the software development life cycle. Learn the basic fundamentals of OOP using Java, Understand Class Reusability, Understand hiding complexity, Building own package of classes, Developing systems with GUI, Learn Exception & Error handling concepts, Learn Even Handling concepts. The practice software is used in the independent Lab."
240114130	DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS	Introduces concurrency in the context of distributed systems. The course covers both the abstract principles of concurrent programming and their concrete realization in distributed, network-based systems. Topics include the basic theory of concurrency, hardware and software features to support concurrency, concurrent and distributed algorithms, and middleware.	3	-	3	240113311 INTRODUCTION TO OPERATING SYSTEMS This course introduces the fundamentals of operating systems design and implementation. Topics include an overview of the components of an operating system, mutual exclusion and synchronization, implementation of processes, scheduling algorithms, memory management, and file systems.
240114321	ENTREPRISE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP	This interactive course gives students an introduction to the basic concepts, techniques and approaches used to develop, implement and succeed in entrepreneurial projects. Students will work in multidisciplinary teams to design and apply projects to real-world problems. The problems will be identified and selected from a wide range of interest areas, including, health, education, agriculture, technology and industrial and community services. Projects must be aligned with students’ knowledge and skills acquired during their previous university study. The course is composed of modules that provide students with the required skills for capstone projects design and implementation, such as problem identification, project management, leadership, teamwork and professional skills, product and patent research, systems analysis and design methodologies, prototyping and proof of concept methods.	3	-	3	-
240114411	SPECIAL TOPICS 1 IN COMPUTER SCIENCE	This course covers currant issues in the computer field.	3	-	3	-
240114500	SPECIAL TOPIC IN IT	This course introduce the student to new technologies and developments in the computer information technology field.	3	-	3	-
240114550	COMPILER DESIGN	This course introduces the theories, principles, and basic concepts of compiler design and implementation. Topics covered include Lexical, syntax and semantic analyses, context-free languages and pushdown automata, various types of parsers, symbol table design, run-time memory allocation, intermediate and object code generation and code optimization.	3	-	3	240114081 THEORY OF COMPUTATION Topics include theory of finite state machine and automata; regular expressions; Turing machines; grammars; parsing; language hierarchy; machine design and construction; computability; un-solvability; halting problem; computational complexity; and recursive functions. The course also discusses issues in equivalence of various computational models, minimization, and characterizations
240114610	DATA MINING AND INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND DATA WAREHOUSING	In this course we explore how this interdisciplinary field brings together techniques from databases, statistics, machine learning, and information retrieval. We will discuss the main data mining methods currently used, including data warehousing and data cleaning, clustering, classification, association rules mining, query flocks, text indexing and searching algorithms, how search engines rank pages, and recent techniques for web mining.	3	-	3	240113121 INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE This course acquaints students with the technicalities of the most prominent database systems. Students learn about essential terminologies and are introduced to real-world, hands-on techniques and examples. Students learn about the different database models with emphasis on relational database model. These are the systems that are most commonly used by companies and organizations today. Essentials of the model are deciphered and components of the model are further scrutinized, including entity-relationships, functional dependencies and normalization, and database languages. finally, an introduction to SQL language is provided.
240114780	PARALLEL PROGRAMMING	This course includes parallel architectures and network topologies, parallel algorithms, parallel metrics, parallel languages, granularity, parallel programming design and debugging, . Students will become familiar with various types of parallel architectures and programming environments, shared memory model, threads model, distributed memory, message passing model, partitioning, synchronization, data dependencies and performance analysis and tuning.	3	-	3	240113020 ALGORITHMS AND PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES "This course will introduce you to fundamental algorithm design and analysis techniques. In addition to learning a number of important classical algorithms, student will also gain experience of designing new and extending existing algorithms that includes analyzing various algorithms' computational efficiency and applying them to a variety of interesting real-world computational problems. The course covers the mathematical foundations, sorting and order statistics, data structures and advanced data structures. Graph algorithm, and some selected topics (such as algorithms for parallel computers and matrix operation, etc.).
240214120	WEB DEVELOPMENT II	This course provides a comprehensive overview of website development. Students explore the general vocabulary, tools, and standards used in web development and learn how the various facets including php, Ajax, jquery, clients, servers, and databases function (MYSQL) together in web environment. The course provides a solid web development foundation, focusing on content and client-side, and server-side technologies.	3	-	3	240213081 WEB DEVELOPMENT I "The aim of this course is to provide concrete knowledge in popular web technologies and programming. Students develop interactive, secure and powerful projects for the web. The course begins with an overview of the foundations of the internet and the web, security, DNS, HTTP, client-server communications, the effect of using dynamic web applications in the software development life cycle, web development basic concepts. Design and implementation of web page using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript CGI: Common Gateway Interface (CGI) focus on PHP and MYSQL. The software's is used in Lab. "
240223202	BUSINESS AND ENTERPRISE BASICS	Fundamentals of Management, Fundamentals of economics, Demand and Supply theory, Managerial Economics, The Role of IT in Business, IS classifications, Business Functions of IT/IS, Organizational Forms and Types, Stock Markets, Enterprise resource planning, Knowledge Management, Managing IT in a small business environment, The role of Entrepreneur, CIO and CKO, IT as a Business Model.	3	-	3	-
240314800	CLOUD COMPUTING	This course in Cloud computing is intended to teach both the systems concepts essential to understand how and why Cloud computing works, as well as their manifestation through Cloud platforms and technologies from service providers such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Students will study in details the relation that we have between cloud computing and distributed systems concepts like virtualization, task and data parallelism, distributed coordination and synchronization, and performance analysis. Furthermore, the students as project will try to do a privet cloud and install a virtual machine and XenServer.	3	-	3	240113311 INTRODUCTION TO OPERATING SYSTEMS This course introduces the fundamentals of operating systems design and implementation. Topics include an overview of the components of an operating system, mutual exclusion and synchronization, implementation of processes, scheduling algorithms, memory management, and file systems.

Advisory Plan

First Year

Fall Semester

Course Number	Course Name	Cr. Hrs.
010610014	BEGINNING ENGLISH	0
040111001	ARABIC LANGUAGE	2
110411000	COMPUTER SKILLS	2
-	Univ. Elec.	2
-	Univ. Elec.	2
100411010	CALCULUS I	3
110111030	INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAB	1
240221010	INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY	2
	Total	14

First Year

Spring Semester

Course Number	Course Name	Cr. Hrs.
010610025	INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH	2
010610026	INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH LAB	1
100411020	CALCULUS II	3
100413750	DISCRETE MATHEMATICS	3
240111011	PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS (C++)	3
240111021	PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS I (LAB)	1
110411100	DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN	3
	Total	16

Second Year

Fall Semester

Course Number	Course Name	Cr. Hrs.
010610035	ADVANCED ENGLISH	2
010610036	ADVANCED ENGLISH LAB	1
040521301	FUNDAMENTALS OF RESEARCH METHODS	2
100412040	MATHEMATICS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY	3
110412120	PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS II LAB	1
240112003	PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS II	3
240112111	INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER ORGANIZATION	3
-	Free Elective	3
	Total	18

Second Year

Spring Semester

Course Number	Course Name	Cr. Hrs.
040511011	PALESTINIAN STUDIES	2
-	Univ. Elec.	2
110113220	COMPUTER NETWORKS LAB	1
110412130	DATA STRUCTURE LAB	1
240112031	DATA STRUCTURES	3
240113121	INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE	3
240113132	INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE (LAB)	1
240213480	SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND TECHNICAL WRITING	3
	Total	16

Third Year

Fall Semester

Course Number	Course Name	Cr. Hrs.
240113020	ALGORITHMS AND PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES	3
240113311	INTRODUCTION TO OPERATING SYSTEMS	3
240212010	PRINCIPLES OF OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING	3
240213081	WEB DEVELOPMENT I	3
-	Free Elective	3
	Total	15

Third Year

Spring Semester

Course Number	Course Name	Cr. Hrs.
-	Univ. Elec.	2
240113171	INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING	3
240113291	MOBILE PROGRAMMING	3
240114471	INFORMATION TECHNONLOGY PROJECT MANAGEMENT	3
240213010	ADVANCED OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING	3
-	Free Elective	3
	Total	17

Third Year

Summer Semester

Course Number	Course Name	Cr. Hrs.
000011110	COMMUNITY SERVICE	0
240113990	INTERNSHIP	3
	Total	3

Fourth Year

Fall Semester

Course Number	Course Name	Cr. Hrs.
240113620	SOFTWARE TESTING AND VALIDATION	3
240114331	COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE	3
240114341	UNIX LAB	1
240114974	SENIOR PROJECT I	1
240212100	FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS	3
240213231	VISUAL PROGRAMMING (BASIC)	3
-	Spec. Elec.	3
	Total	17

Fourth Year

Spring Semester

Course Number	Course Name	Cr. Hrs.
240113221	INFORMATION SECURITY	3
240114081	THEORY OF COMPUTATION	3
240114350	ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE	3
240114982	COMPUTER SCIENCE SENIOR PROJECT II	3
-	Spec. Elec.	3
-	Spec. Elec.	3
	Total	18

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