Academic Plan

Total Credit Hours Required to Finish the Degree ( 163 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.
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
010411001	HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION		2	-	2	-
020311001	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	-
030111101	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	-
030111122	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	-
030111233	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	-
030121221	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	-
040211511	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	-
040211712	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	-
040213431	TURKISH LANGUAGE		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.	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	-
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	-
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	-
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	-
040511470	MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY IN HEBREW	This course aims to equip students with basic knowledge and skills necessary for their successful transition into the clinical arena Students are expected to master common medical terminologies in hebrew used in the care of clients including appropriate medical prescribing skills for health care professionals. At the end of the course, students will be able to comprehend a medical record report in hebrew, communicate among medical professionals and have a high level overview of medical terms in hebrew.	2	-	2	-
040511480	LIFE SKILLS	This course is designed to introduce the individuals’ roles in life in terms of types, circulation and mutual influence. It aims to increase the students’ knowledge and skills which are necessary for everyday life. It further emphasizes life-long learning skills, decision-making, time and self-management, personal communication skills, mutual trust building, verbal and non-verbal skills, effective listening, problem solving, critical thinking, team and cooperative work, and the ability to utilize contemporary technology effectively.	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	-
050411001	ENERGY RESOURCES & USE	An- overview of global energy resources is given, leading to a historic review of human energy use and power generation. Society's energy demands and the pertinent energy follows are analyzed from the perspective of different sectors, including industry , households, agriculture, as well as the commercial and public sectors - in a Palestine . The importance of energy efficiency and conservation within the context of future energy supply is dealt with from a life - cycle and environmental perspective. Future energy systems and energy use scenarios are discussed, with a focus on promoting the use of renewable energy resources and technologies	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	-
060411101	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	-
060411201	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	-
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	-
100111003	INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONOMY SCIENCE		2	-	2	-
100311003	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	-
100411002	HISTORY OF SCIENCE	In this course, research will be conducted on the following: the history of science and technology and its impact on world civilizations, the definition of science and technology, the logic of scientific discoveries, the basic truth and rules in the growth of scientific knowledge, the deductive method in the face of the inductive method, scientific-technological laws, scientific theories towards a practical theoretical philosophy, and the role of Arabs in building scientific knowledge. This course includes a study of the nature of mathematics, the historical development of some fields in mathematics, and the role of Arabs in developing mathematics.	2	-	2	-
110111002	TECHNOLOGY IN OUR LIFE	The technology in our life course addresses the concepts and principles of technology, and the impact of using technology in the society. The course covers the main factors that contribute to the technology evolution, the concept of information systems and their components, and the functional levels of employees in institutions that use information systems. The course also deals with the concepts of the Internet, information security, multimedia, social networking, and their role in influencing society. The course will also explain the work of the search engines and how to use them. Provide the needed information and criteria for students to choose the appropriate computer or mobile and how to protect his data from malware and viruses.	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
100111010	GENERAL PHYSICS I	Topics include vectors, motion in one and two dimensions, Newton's laws of motion, work and energy, conservation of energy, dynamics of system of particles, center of mass, conservation of linear momentum, collisions, impulse, rotational kinematics, rotational dynamics, conservation of angular momentum, simple harmonic motion.	3	-	3	-
100111021	GENERAL PHYSICS II	Topics include charge and matter, electric field, Gauss's law, electric potential, capacitors and dielectrics, current and resistance, electromotive force and circuits, the magnetic field, Ampere's law, Faraday's law of induction, Maxwell's equations; magnetic properties of matter, A.C circuits.	3	-	3	100111010 GENERAL PHYSICS I Topics include vectors, motion in one and two dimensions, Newton's laws of motion, work and energy, conservation of energy, dynamics of system of particles, center of mass, conservation of linear momentum, collisions, impulse, rotational kinematics, rotational dynamics, conservation of angular momentum, simple harmonic motion.
100111051	GENERAL PHYSICS LAB I	This course covers experiments in mechanics including: measurements, vectors, motion in one and two dimensions, Newton's 2nd law, friction, projectiles, collisions, circular motion, the simple pendulum and stress in solids.		2	1	-
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.
100412021	ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS I	Matrices, eigenvalues eigenvectors, system of linear equations, Gaussian elimination, Cramer’s rule, inverse of a matrix, symmetric and orthogonal matrices, partial differentiation, multiple integrals, ordinary differential equations with constant coefficient, Laplace transforms, vector fields, line integrals, Green’s theorem, surface integrals and Stock’s theorem.	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.
100412350	NUMERICAL METHODS	Computer arithmetic, root-finding numerical methods, fixed-point iteration, polynomial interpolation, numerical differentiation, numerical integration, matrix factorization, iterative methods for systems of linear equations, Euler's method for first-order initial value problems.	3	-	3	100412021 ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS I Matrices, eigenvalues eigenvectors, system of linear equations, Gaussian elimination, Cramer’s rule, inverse of a matrix, symmetric and orthogonal matrices, partial differentiation, multiple integrals, ordinary differential equations with constant coefficient, Laplace transforms, vector fields, line integrals, Green’s theorem, surface integrals and Stock’s theorem.
100413020	ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS II	Complex numbers and complex functions, Cauchy-Riemann equations, analytic functions, contour integrals, Taylor’s series and Laurent series, residues, and residue integration of real integrals, Fourier series and transform, special functions: gamma, beta, error functions and Bessel functions. Series of functions, convergence, uniform convergence, limit theorems.	3	-	3	100412021 ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS I Matrices, eigenvalues eigenvectors, system of linear equations, Gaussian elimination, Cramer’s rule, inverse of a matrix, symmetric and orthogonal matrices, partial differentiation, multiple integrals, ordinary differential equations with constant coefficient, Laplace transforms, vector fields, line integrals, Green’s theorem, surface integrals and Stock’s theorem.
230315141	ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGEMENT	Introduction to project management. Motivation for studying engineering project management. What is a project, the triple constraint, scope, time, and cost goals. Project management context and processes. Project integration management. Project quality management and human resources management. Students should submit final projects in applying all the project management concepts in their final project.	3	-	3	-
230711050	ENGINEERING WORKSHOP I	This workshop intends to give the students basic knowledge and hands-on training in the wood and metal works. Students will perform by their own hands all the practices mentioned below.		3	1	-
230711110	ENGINEERING DRAWING	Orthographic and isometric drawing and sketching using classical hand drawing and computer drafting packages. This includes an introduction to the CAD packages and applications relevant to the electrical engineering.		4	2	-
230711200	STATICS	Introduction, basic definitions of force system, components, resultants, couples, equilibrium, structures (trusses, frames, machines), distributed load (center of area and center of gravity, areas and compound volumes), shear force and bending moment in beams, moment of inertia.	3	-	3	-
230712050	ENGINEERING WORKSHOP II	Through this workshop students will get basic knowledge and hands-on training in two main fields: pc upgrading		3	1	230711050 ENGINEERING WORKSHOP I This workshop intends to give the students basic knowledge and hands-on training in the wood and metal works. Students will perform by their own hands all the practices mentioned below.
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
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.
110712120	ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS I	DC circuit Analysis, Electrical components: resistors, capacitors and inductors. Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s voltage and current laws. DC circuit analysis: Nodal voltage, mesh current, ??Y, Y??, Thevenin’s and Norton’s equivalents. Resistive circuits and the equivalent resistance. Parallel and Series RL, RC, and RLC circuits, maximum power transfer, Sinusoidal steady-state analysis.	3	-	3	100111021 GENERAL PHYSICS II Topics include charge and matter, electric field, Gauss's law, electric potential, capacitors and dielectrics, current and resistance, electromotive force and circuits, the magnetic field, Ampere's law, Faraday's law of induction, Maxwell's equations; magnetic properties of matter, A.C circuits. 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.
110712210	ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS II	Power calculations and maximum power transfer, balanced three-phase circuits, analysis of the Y?? circuits, power calculation in balanced three phase circuits, mutual inductance, energy calculation, ideal transformer, series and parallel resonances, Laplace Transform, 2 port network analysis and design, computer-aided circuit analysis using PSPICE.	3	-	3	110712120 ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS I DC circuit Analysis, Electrical components: resistors, capacitors and inductors. Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s voltage and current laws. DC circuit analysis: Nodal voltage, mesh current, ??Y, Y??, Thevenin’s and Norton’s equivalents. Resistive circuits and the equivalent resistance. Parallel and Series RL, RC, and RLC circuits, maximum power transfer, Sinusoidal steady-state analysis.
110712220	ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS LAB	Current and voltage measurements, Ohm's law, KVL and KCL, voltage and current dividers, series and		3	1	110712210 ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS II Power calculations and maximum power transfer, balanced three-phase circuits, analysis of the Y?? circuits, power calculation in balanced three phase circuits, mutual inductance, energy calculation, ideal transformer, series and parallel resonances, Laplace Transform, 2 port network analysis and design, computer-aided circuit analysis using PSPICE.
110712240	SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS	Classification of signals and systems. Continuous systems: convolution and impulse response, Fourier series and transform, transfer function, power spectral density and autocorrelation. Discrete time systems: convolution and impulse response, discrete time Fourier transform.	3	-	3	100412021 ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS I Matrices, eigenvalues eigenvectors, system of linear equations, Gaussian elimination, Cramer’s rule, inverse of a matrix, symmetric and orthogonal matrices, partial differentiation, multiple integrals, ordinary differential equations with constant coefficient, Laplace transforms, vector fields, line integrals, Green’s theorem, surface integrals and Stock’s theorem. 110712120 ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS I DC circuit Analysis, Electrical components: resistors, capacitors and inductors. Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s voltage and current laws. DC circuit analysis: Nodal voltage, mesh current, ??Y, Y??, Thevenin’s and Norton’s equivalents. Resistive circuits and the equivalent resistance. Parallel and Series RL, RC, and RLC circuits, maximum power transfer, Sinusoidal steady-state analysis.
230213121	COMPUTER ORGANIZATION	Basic computer components and functions. Von Neumann Architecture and instruction cycle and format and relation between hardware and software. Introduction to interrupts for hardware point of view. Introduction to 8086 assembly programming. Interfaces and signals of different components. Introduction interconnection structure (buses) and timing diagram. Cache memory structure, mapping functions and replacement algorithms. DRAM and SRAM internal design. Introduction to I/O modules: memory mapped versus isolated I/O space. Types of programmed I/O: polling, interrupt driven, DMA. Examples of I/O module, DMA, and Interrupt controller	3	-	3	230811210 DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN Introduction to digital systems, Number Systems and its arithmetic operations, complement, binary codes, Boolean Algebra, Binary logic gates, Simplification of a Boolean function, Karnaugh maps, Combinatorial and sequential circuit analysis and design. Registers and counters.
230213151	ALGORITHMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN	Complexity analysis and notations, Sorting algorithms, searching algorithms and their complexity. Recursion versus iterative algorithms, Graph algorithms, Advanced techniques, introduction to optimization algorithms.	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.
230213210	DATA & COMPUTER NETWORKS	Data Transmission, Guided and Wireless Transmission, Signal Encoding Techniques, Digital Data Communication Techniques, Data Link Control, Multiplexing, Basic principles and practice of computer networking, emphasizing data and computer communication, Protocol architecture, and the lower layers of the OSI and TCP/IP protocol architectures.	3	-	3	230213121 COMPUTER ORGANIZATION Basic computer components and functions. Von Neumann Architecture and instruction cycle and format and relation between hardware and software. Introduction to interrupts for hardware point of view. Introduction to 8086 assembly programming. Interfaces and signals of different components. Introduction interconnection structure (buses) and timing diagram. Cache memory structure, mapping functions and replacement algorithms. DRAM and SRAM internal design. Introduction to I/O modules: memory mapped versus isolated I/O space. Types of programmed I/O: polling, interrupt driven, DMA. Examples of I/O module, DMA, and Interrupt controller
230213221	ADVANCED DIGITAL SYSTEMS DESIGN	Introduction to Hardware Description programming Language, Memories: RAM, EPROM, and EEPROM designing digital circuits using programmable logic: PLDs and FPGA. Design methodologies for large and complex digital systems. Basics of different semiconductor families: TTL, ECL, MOS, and CMOS. Using tools and simulators in the design process.	3	-	3	230811210 DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN Introduction to digital systems, Number Systems and its arithmetic operations, complement, binary codes, Boolean Algebra, Binary logic gates, Simplification of a Boolean function, Karnaugh maps, Combinatorial and sequential circuit analysis and design. Registers and counters. 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.
230214221	COMPUTER NETWORK LAB	Basic installation of local area network and debugging connections. Experiments on using fundamental network applications and services such as file transfer and route tracing. Experiments on some of the basic function of network administration and security on different platforms including UNIX and Windows		3	1	230213210 DATA & COMPUTER NETWORKS Data Transmission, Guided and Wireless Transmission, Signal Encoding Techniques, Digital Data Communication Techniques, Data Link Control, Multiplexing, Basic principles and practice of computer networking, emphasizing data and computer communication, Protocol architecture, and the lower layers of the OSI and TCP/IP protocol architectures.
230214521	ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE	A study of what is required to produce intelligent, human-like behaviour in a computer system, That’s including Fundamental issues in intelligent systems and its applications, Intelligent Agents, Search and Optimization Algorithms. Knowledge representation and reasoning, expert systems, Learning (unsupervised vs. supervised learning, classification. clustering. prediction, neural network and fuzzy logic). The Prolog programming language and Matlab tools will also be introduced.	3	-	3	230213151 ALGORITHMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN Complexity analysis and notations, Sorting algorithms, searching algorithms and their complexity. Recursion versus iterative algorithms, Graph algorithms, Advanced techniques, introduction to optimization algorithms.
230215131	ASSEMBLY PROGRAMMING LAB	Basic processor architecture, and registers, and instruction formats. Basic instructions, instruction types, and assembler directives. Using assembly as embedded code. Basic assembly program structure and segments and using assembler and linker, addressing modes, interrupts, and I/O instructions. Using debug program		3	1	230813240 MICROPROCESSOR SYSTEMS & APPLICATIONS Microprocessor architecture: registers, flags, internal structure. Microprocessor interfacing: signals and buses, interfacing memory, interfacing I/O devices. Designing an application system using a microprocessor. Programming microprocessor: instruction set and assembly language. Real and protected modes and interrupts
230215211	DATABASE LAB	This course allows the students to have hands-on experience with one of the Database management systems like Oracle. The student practices the installation and configuration of a database management system, the necessary SQL commands to create/manipulate a relational database and its components, and development of a GUI database application		3	1	230813230 INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE SYSTEMS Information models and systems; data modeling, relational database model, structured query language; relational database design; entity-relationship (ER) diagrams, ER to relational mapping, physical database design, transaction processing concepts, and functional dependencies and normalization for relational databases.
230713110	ELECTRONICS I	Semiconductor material and p-n junction, semiconductors, doped semiconductor, forward and reversed bias p-n junction, V-I characteristics, diode DC signal model, diode applications: rectification, regulation, clipper, clamper, voltage multipliers, bipolar junction transistor: biasing and stability, dc and ac load lines, H-parameters, H- model, power amplifiers, and PSPICE applications.	3	-	3	110712120 ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS I DC circuit Analysis, Electrical components: resistors, capacitors and inductors. Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s voltage and current laws. DC circuit analysis: Nodal voltage, mesh current, ??Y, Y??, Thevenin’s and Norton’s equivalents. Resistive circuits and the equivalent resistance. Parallel and Series RL, RC, and RLC circuits, maximum power transfer, Sinusoidal steady-state analysis.
230713120	PROBABILITY AND RANDOM VARIABLES	Meaning of probability, probability space, conditional probability, combined experiments, Bernoulli trials Bernoulli’s theorem. The concept of random variable (RV), distribution and density functions, specific RVs (Uniform, Normal, Rayleigh, Chi, etc…), conditional distributions, asymptotic approximation for binomial RV. Functions of RVs, distribution, mean and variance, correlation and covariance, and introduction to stochastic random processes, WSS and Ergodic RP, correlation properties and PSDs.	3	-	3	110712240 SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS Classification of signals and systems. Continuous systems: convolution and impulse response, Fourier series and transform, transfer function, power spectral density and autocorrelation. Discrete time systems: convolution and impulse response, discrete time Fourier transform.
230713210	ELECTRONICS LAB	Diode characteristics, small and large signal diode circuits, rectification, filters and regulations, clippers,		3	1	110712220 ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS LAB Current and voltage measurements, Ohm's law, KVL and KCL, voltage and current dividers, series and 230713250 ELECTRONICS II Field effect transistor: JFET, MOSFETS, design of CB, CE and CC amplifiers, design of FET amplifiers, CS,
230713250	ELECTRONICS II	Field effect transistor: JFET, MOSFETS, design of CB, CE and CC amplifiers, design of FET amplifiers, CS,	3	-	3	110712210 ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS II Power calculations and maximum power transfer, balanced three-phase circuits, analysis of the Y?? circuits, power calculation in balanced three phase circuits, mutual inductance, energy calculation, ideal transformer, series and parallel resonances, Laplace Transform, 2 port network analysis and design, computer-aided circuit analysis using PSPICE. 230713110 ELECTRONICS I Semiconductor material and p-n junction, semiconductors, doped semiconductor, forward and reversed bias p-n junction, V-I characteristics, diode DC signal model, diode applications: rectification, regulation, clipper, clamper, voltage multipliers, bipolar junction transistor: biasing and stability, dc and ac load lines, H-parameters, H- model, power amplifiers, and PSPICE applications.
230811210	DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN	Introduction to digital systems, Number Systems and its arithmetic operations, complement, binary codes, Boolean Algebra, Binary logic gates, Simplification of a Boolean function, Karnaugh maps, Combinatorial and sequential circuit analysis and design. Registers and counters.	3	-	3	-
230812110	DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN LAB	Digital gates, simplification of Boolean functions, decoders, code converters, multiplexes, design, address and subtractors, arithmetic logic unit, design problem, sequential circuit design, counters, clock controller, 4- bit binary counter sequential detector, shift registers, "Add and Shift" binary multiplier, lamp PING-PONG game, small project.		3	1	230811210 DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN Introduction to digital systems, Number Systems and its arithmetic operations, complement, binary codes, Boolean Algebra, Binary logic gates, Simplification of a Boolean function, Karnaugh maps, Combinatorial and sequential circuit analysis and design. Registers and counters.
230812300	TECHNICAL WRITING	Technical Writing aims to develop students’ 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 written professional contexts. Written tasks may include writing emails, memos, CVs, cover letters, reports, and proposals.	1	-	1	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.
230813230	INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE SYSTEMS	Information models and systems; data modeling, relational database model, structured query language; relational database design; entity-relationship (ER) diagrams, ER to relational mapping, physical database design, transaction processing concepts, and functional dependencies and normalization for relational databases.	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.
230813240	MICROPROCESSOR SYSTEMS & APPLICATIONS	Microprocessor architecture: registers, flags, internal structure. Microprocessor interfacing: signals and buses, interfacing memory, interfacing I/O devices. Designing an application system using a microprocessor. Programming microprocessor: instruction set and assembly language. Real and protected modes and interrupts	3	-	3	230213121 COMPUTER ORGANIZATION Basic computer components and functions. Von Neumann Architecture and instruction cycle and format and relation between hardware and software. Introduction to interrupts for hardware point of view. Introduction to 8086 assembly programming. Interfaces and signals of different components. Introduction interconnection structure (buses) and timing diagram. Cache memory structure, mapping functions and replacement algorithms. DRAM and SRAM internal design. Introduction to I/O modules: memory mapped versus isolated I/O space. Types of programmed I/O: polling, interrupt driven, DMA. Examples of I/O module, DMA, and Interrupt controller
230814130	OPERATING SYSTEMS	The role of an Operating System in computer operations, the evolution of operating systems, memory management and virtual memory, interrupt processing, process management, job scheduling, process synchronization, threads, multiprogramming and multiprocessor systems, Input/output management and spooling, and introduction to distributed and networked operating systems.	3	-	3	230213121 COMPUTER ORGANIZATION Basic computer components and functions. Von Neumann Architecture and instruction cycle and format and relation between hardware and software. Introduction to interrupts for hardware point of view. Introduction to 8086 assembly programming. Interfaces and signals of different components. Introduction interconnection structure (buses) and timing diagram. Cache memory structure, mapping functions and replacement algorithms. DRAM and SRAM internal design. Introduction to I/O modules: memory mapped versus isolated I/O space. Types of programmed I/O: polling, interrupt driven, DMA. Examples of I/O module, DMA, and Interrupt controller 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.
230814160	MICROPROCESSOR LAB	Experiments on microprocessor programming using microprocessor hardware kit. Introduction to practices of microprocessor interfacing and system building		3	1	230813240 MICROPROCESSOR SYSTEMS & APPLICATIONS Microprocessor architecture: registers, flags, internal structure. Microprocessor interfacing: signals and buses, interfacing memory, interfacing I/O devices. Designing an application system using a microprocessor. Programming microprocessor: instruction set and assembly language. Real and protected modes and interrupts
230814230	SOFTWARE ENGINEERING	This course provides a comprehensive discussion of software engineering techniques and their application to practical software projects. Topics include: software development techniques, software process models, project management and planning, software requirement specifications and analysis models, software design methods, software verification and validation techniques, software cost estimation, and software maintenance	3	-	3	230813230 INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE SYSTEMS Information models and systems; data modeling, relational database model, structured query language; relational database design; entity-relationship (ER) diagrams, ER to relational mapping, physical database design, transaction processing concepts, and functional dependencies and normalization for relational databases.
230814990	INTERNSHIP	It is of three month duration (summer semester) during which the student joins an association or a company that is directly related to his filed of study. The academic staff from the department will continuously follow up the training by making regular field visits to training locations	18	-	6	-
230815110	SENIOR PROJECT I	Introduction to the final graduation project. During this course students complete the analysis phase and part of the design phase of their final project. At the end of the course, students must submit a report of their work which will be continued in Senior Project II course	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. 230812300 TECHNICAL WRITING Technical Writing aims to develop students’ 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 written professional contexts. Written tasks may include writing emails, memos, CVs, cover letters, reports, and proposals.
230815120	EMBEDDED SYSTEMS	The purpose of this course is to examine a variety of issues regarding the real-time application of embedded microprocessor systems and /or problems or real-time computer applications in process control or similar areas. That includes digital processing, the physics of sensors and transducers, signal representation, system design and software development. Applications from the following list will be studied: automotive control, biomedical instrumentation, communication systems, speech processing, data compression, and audio processing.	3	-	3	230813240 MICROPROCESSOR SYSTEMS & APPLICATIONS Microprocessor architecture: registers, flags, internal structure. Microprocessor interfacing: signals and buses, interfacing memory, interfacing I/O devices. Designing an application system using a microprocessor. Programming microprocessor: instruction set and assembly language. Real and protected modes and interrupts 230814130 OPERATING SYSTEMS The role of an Operating System in computer operations, the evolution of operating systems, memory management and virtual memory, interrupt processing, process management, job scheduling, process synchronization, threads, multiprogramming and multiprocessor systems, Input/output management and spooling, and introduction to distributed and networked operating systems.
230815140	EMBEDDED SYSTEMS LAB	Through this lab experiments on embedded systems using specialized hardware equipment will be performed. Experiments will cover the practical part of the above Embedded Systems course		3	1	230815120 EMBEDDED SYSTEMS The purpose of this course is to examine a variety of issues regarding the real-time application of embedded microprocessor systems and /or problems or real-time computer applications in process control or similar areas. That includes digital processing, the physics of sensors and transducers, signal representation, system design and software development. Applications from the following list will be studied: automotive control, biomedical instrumentation, communication systems, speech processing, data compression, and audio processing.
230815150	LINUX LAB	This course will present the basic concepts of LINUX and UNIX operating systems. Topics that will be examined include Vi editor, Linux Command, directories, Disks and File systems, Users and Groups, File Permissions, Processes, file compression, basic network use, manage files, create and modify files, and Shell scrip.		3	1	230814130 OPERATING SYSTEMS The role of an Operating System in computer operations, the evolution of operating systems, memory management and virtual memory, interrupt processing, process management, job scheduling, process synchronization, threads, multiprogramming and multiprocessor systems, Input/output management and spooling, and introduction to distributed and networked operating systems.
230815220	SENIOR PROJECT II	Final graduation project. Students should either design and implement a system related to the computer system engineering field or do research on a particular subject under supervision of a faculty members.	3	-	3	230815110 SENIOR PROJECT I Introduction to the final graduation project. During this course students complete the analysis phase and part of the design phase of their final project. At the end of the course, students must submit a report of their work which will be continued in Senior Project II course
230815640	WEB PROGRAMMING	Web publishing and Web-based applications development, accessing server databases using one of the web development languages like PHP, ASP, JSP …etc. Web-site design concepts and tools including HTML, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets, and VBScript are also introduced.	3	-	3	230813230 INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE SYSTEMS Information models and systems; data modeling, relational database model, structured query language; relational database design; entity-relationship (ER) diagrams, ER to relational mapping, physical database design, transaction processing concepts, and functional dependencies and normalization for relational databases. 240212011 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."
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.
240212011	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.

Students must pass ( 12 ) 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
110814500	SELECTED TOPICS IN COMPUTER SYSTEMS ENGINEERING	Study of a particular subject related to Computers. The choice of the subject depends on both students and instructors needs.	3	-	3	-
110814530	VLSI ANALYSIS AND DESIGN	Introduction to CMOS and MOSFETs, their characteristics and use in analog and digital circuit design, static and dynamic circuits. CMOS VLSI design methodology (emphasis on full-custom design, circuit and system levels). Extensive use of Mentor Graphics CAD tools for IC design, simulation and IC verification. Specific techniques for designing high-speed, low-power, and easily testable circuits. Introduction to fault modeling, fault testing, fault locating, and testability.	3	-	3	230213221 ADVANCED DIGITAL SYSTEMS DESIGN Introduction to Hardware Description programming Language, Memories: RAM, EPROM, and EEPROM designing digital circuits using programmable logic: PLDs and FPGA. Design methodologies for large and complex digital systems. Basics of different semiconductor families: TTL, ECL, MOS, and CMOS. Using tools and simulators in the design process.
110814550	COMPUTER GRAPHICS	Graphic systems, Fundamental techniques in graphics, Hierarchy of graphics software, graphical algorithms, Generation of 2D and 3D geometric shapes, 2D and 3D transformation, Hidden surfaces and hidden lines techniques, Color principles, Shading and shadowing techniques, and animation	3	-	3	100412021 ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS I Matrices, eigenvalues eigenvectors, system of linear equations, Gaussian elimination, Cramer’s rule, inverse of a matrix, symmetric and orthogonal matrices, partial differentiation, multiple integrals, ordinary differential equations with constant coefficient, Laplace transforms, vector fields, line integrals, Green’s theorem, surface integrals and Stock’s theorem. 240112003 PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS II This course demonstrates advance topics in C++ including: Pointers, Object Oriented Programming, String Manipulation, Templates, Exception Handling, and File Processing.
110814700	PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING	Parallel computer architectures: Multiprocessor vector computers and pipelined vector processors. Examples from each architecture. Parallel processing algorithms. Distributed processing with applications.	3	-	3	230213151 ALGORITHMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN Complexity analysis and notations, Sorting algorithms, searching algorithms and their complexity. Recursion versus iterative algorithms, Graph algorithms, Advanced techniques, introduction to optimization algorithms. 230814130 OPERATING SYSTEMS The role of an Operating System in computer operations, the evolution of operating systems, memory management and virtual memory, interrupt processing, process management, job scheduling, process synchronization, threads, multiprogramming and multiprocessor systems, Input/output management and spooling, and introduction to distributed and networked operating systems.
110815580	MODELING & SIMULATION	This course covers two aspects: theoretical mathematical modeling and practical simulation of natural phenomena. Theoretical part will introduce mathematical modeling to describe natural phenomena. Different modeling types will be discussed using examples including: discrete and continuous models, deterministic and stochastic models, Linear and nonlinear models. The practical part of the course will include using some numerical computing environment such as Matlab to find numerical solution for some models. In addition, students will be trained to use some visual simulation environment to build graphical interactive models of some physical or mechanical phenomenon. Later students will have to program their own simulation tool to imitate some existing technology. Some of the applications that can be covered in this course include: animation, traffic, networks, and robotics	3	-	3	100412350 NUMERICAL METHODS Computer arithmetic, root-finding numerical methods, fixed-point iteration, polynomial interpolation, numerical differentiation, numerical integration, matrix factorization, iterative methods for systems of linear equations, Euler's method for first-order initial value problems. 240112003 PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS II This course demonstrates advance topics in C++ including: Pointers, Object Oriented Programming, String Manipulation, Templates, Exception Handling, and File Processing.
110815600	SELECTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE	Introduces a selected programming language (such as C#, VB.NET) to students who have already been exposed to at least one programming language.	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.
110815630	COMPUTER AND NETWORK SECURITY	Concepts and techniques for access to computer systems and network resources. Identification and authentication. Protection of information against intentional and unintentional attacks and threats. Cryptography and encryption of data. Encryption algorithms and their information theory foundations. Computer hardware and software for data encryption.	3	-	3	230213210 DATA & COMPUTER NETWORKS Data Transmission, Guided and Wireless Transmission, Signal Encoding Techniques, Digital Data Communication Techniques, Data Link Control, Multiplexing, Basic principles and practice of computer networking, emphasizing data and computer communication, Protocol architecture, and the lower layers of the OSI and TCP/IP protocol architectures.
110815660	MOBILE COMPUTING	The course provides an in depth understanding of the fundamental problems in the area of mobile computing and studies the existing and proposed solutions for these problems from both research and development perspective. Topics include: wireless communication, location management and mobility tracking, location-aware information services, and mobile agents	3	-	3	230213210 DATA & COMPUTER NETWORKS Data Transmission, Guided and Wireless Transmission, Signal Encoding Techniques, Digital Data Communication Techniques, Data Link Control, Multiplexing, Basic principles and practice of computer networking, emphasizing data and computer communication, Protocol architecture, and the lower layers of the OSI and TCP/IP protocol architectures.
110815670	COMPUTER VISION & IMAGE PROCESSING	This course will provide an introduction to basic techniques of digital image analysis and computer vision. It contains representation of digital images and its properties, image processing operators, Fourier transform and filtering in frequency domain, image features and descriptors, morphological image processing, image segmentation, basics of image compression, image matching, image tracking, classification and categorization of digital images, approaches to image analysis of what is shown in the image.	3	-	3	110712240 SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS Classification of signals and systems. Continuous systems: convolution and impulse response, Fourier series and transform, transfer function, power spectral density and autocorrelation. Discrete time systems: convolution and impulse response, discrete time Fourier transform. 240112003 PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS II This course demonstrates advance topics in C++ including: Pointers, Object Oriented Programming, String Manipulation, Templates, Exception Handling, and File Processing.
110815710	BUSINESS FOR ENGINEERING	This course is designed specifically for students of Engineering who usually graduate with the design and implementation of a capstone project. The course discusses the Fundamentals of Management, economics, Demand and Supply theory. It also offers the transition from a project to a small business with all its aspects according to the “business plan canvas” which includes marketing, customer segmentations, sales, customer relations, cash flow, unit pricing and business organization.	3	-	3	230814230 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING This course provides a comprehensive discussion of software engineering techniques and their application to practical software projects. Topics include: software development techniques, software process models, project management and planning, software requirement specifications and analysis models, software design methods, software verification and validation techniques, software cost estimation, and software maintenance
110815750	ROBOTICS AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS	The course aims at giving the students an understanding of design principles for robots and software agents. The course material would cover the fundamentals of intelligent robotic systems with a special focus on the computational aspects, components, and tools. Topics include robot movement and interaction with their environment, hardware enabling mobility, and sensors. In addition, sensor data interpretation, sensor fusion and recent advances in the field of sensor networks will be discussed. Topics will also include path planning for mobile robots, configuration spaces for manipulators and other applications of robotics in the real world.	3	-	3	230214521 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE A study of what is required to produce intelligent, human-like behaviour in a computer system, That’s including Fundamental issues in intelligent systems and its applications, Intelligent Agents, Search and Optimization Algorithms. Knowledge representation and reasoning, expert systems, Learning (unsupervised vs. supervised learning, classification. clustering. prediction, neural network and fuzzy logic). The Prolog programming language and Matlab tools will also be introduced.
230215201	COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE	Computer instruction types, bus structures and data control. Hard-wired control and microprogramming. Implementation of memory systems: virtual and cache memory organization and management. Input/output control and how it is achieved, interrupts and interrupt handling	3	-	3	230213121 COMPUTER ORGANIZATION Basic computer components and functions. Von Neumann Architecture and instruction cycle and format and relation between hardware and software. Introduction to interrupts for hardware point of view. Introduction to 8086 assembly programming. Interfaces and signals of different components. Introduction interconnection structure (buses) and timing diagram. Cache memory structure, mapping functions and replacement algorithms. DRAM and SRAM internal design. Introduction to I/O modules: memory mapped versus isolated I/O space. Types of programmed I/O: polling, interrupt driven, DMA. Examples of I/O module, DMA, and Interrupt controller 230813240 MICROPROCESSOR SYSTEMS & APPLICATIONS Microprocessor architecture: registers, flags, internal structure. Microprocessor interfacing: signals and buses, interfacing memory, interfacing I/O devices. Designing an application system using a microprocessor. Programming microprocessor: instruction set and assembly language. Real and protected modes and interrupts
230215700	DATA ANALYSIS	This course examines the application of data analytics and data modeling. The course develops student knowledge in big data analytics and enhances programming, mathematical skills and data mining tools. These students will learn how to analyses Big data sets and recognize patterns that will enhance any organization's decision-making process. Topic includes: Capture, categorize, simplify, normalize and prepare big data to be processed; analyses big data sets; Visually represent analysis’s conclusions; Use the most common analytics algorithms, to make sense of large amounts of data, which are applicable to most related problems. The course gives an overview of the Big Data phenomenon, focusing then on extracting value from the Big Data using classification, regression and predictive analytics techniques.	3	-	3	230213151 ALGORITHMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN Complexity analysis and notations, Sorting algorithms, searching algorithms and their complexity. Recursion versus iterative algorithms, Graph algorithms, Advanced techniques, introduction to optimization algorithms.
230215730	MACHINE LEARNING	The course aims at giving the students an understanding of Machine Learning, the course material would cover the fundamentals of machine learning concepts, methodologies, real-world applications. The course focus on key modules such as Algorithms, Statistics & Probability, Supervised & Unsupervised learning, function approximation, Classification, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Linear & Logistic Regression, Artificial Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, Bayesian Learning, k-Nearest-neighbor algorithm, Clustering and natural language processing.	3	-	3	230214521 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE A study of what is required to produce intelligent, human-like behaviour in a computer system, That’s including Fundamental issues in intelligent systems and its applications, Intelligent Agents, Search and Optimization Algorithms. Knowledge representation and reasoning, expert systems, Learning (unsupervised vs. supervised learning, classification. clustering. prediction, neural network and fuzzy logic). The Prolog programming language and Matlab tools will also be introduced.
230314160	CONTROL SYSTEMS	Introduction, representation of control systems, emphases on controlled electrical systems, differential equations and transfer function models of linear time invariant systems, first and second order linear systems, stability, the Routh test, tracking prosperities for unity feedback and non-unity feedback, concept of robustness. Frequency response and Bode plots, compensation of control systems, control of unstable systems, and introduction to digital control engineering.	3	-	3	110712210 ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS II Power calculations and maximum power transfer, balanced three-phase circuits, analysis of the Y?? circuits, power calculation in balanced three phase circuits, mutual inductance, energy calculation, ideal transformer, series and parallel resonances, Laplace Transform, 2 port network analysis and design, computer-aided circuit analysis using PSPICE. 110712240 SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS Classification of signals and systems. Continuous systems: convolution and impulse response, Fourier series and transform, transfer function, power spectral density and autocorrelation. Discrete time systems: convolution and impulse response, discrete time Fourier transform.
230714220	DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING	Sampling, aliasing, the sampling theorem. Effects of quantization and finite-word-length arithmetic. Discrete-time signals and systems. Z-Transform. Frequency analysis of discrete-time signals and systems. Discrete Fourier transform (DFT), Fast Fourier transform (FFT). Design of digital filters: FIR and IIR recursive and non recursive. Design of analog filters, introduction to image processing. Computer aided design and analysis using MATLAB software.	3	-	3	110712240 SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS Classification of signals and systems. Continuous systems: convolution and impulse response, Fourier series and transform, transfer function, power spectral density and autocorrelation. Discrete time systems: convolution and impulse response, discrete time Fourier transform.
230815610	DATABASE PROGRAMMING	This course covers the development of advanced database applications using one of the commercial database systems. Main topics include database programming (stored procedures, database triggers…., etc) and building three-tier database applications with an advanced graphical user interface	3	-	3	230813230 INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE SYSTEMS Information models and systems; data modeling, relational database model, structured query language; relational database design; entity-relationship (ER) diagrams, ER to relational mapping, physical database design, transaction processing concepts, and functional dependencies and normalization for relational databases.
230815620	NETWORKS PROGRAMMING	Network programming interfaces, TCP/IP, client server model and software design, concurrent processing in client-server software, socket API, client software design, server software design, TCP and UDP, RPC and distributed program generation, NFS, e-mail representation and transfer, file transfer and remote file access, streaming audio and video Transport	3	-	3	230213210 DATA & COMPUTER NETWORKS Data Transmission, Guided and Wireless Transmission, Signal Encoding Techniques, Digital Data Communication Techniques, Data Link Control, Multiplexing, Basic principles and practice of computer networking, emphasizing data and computer communication, Protocol architecture, and the lower layers of the OSI and TCP/IP protocol architectures.
230815690	VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION OF SOFTWARE	Design specification and software requirements. Verification and validation of software specifications: completeness, consistency, feasibility, and testability. The design of software components and the study of faults resulting from interfacing, computation, and/or data specifications. Knowledge-based approaches to verification and validation. Test generation systems and tools (VERILOG).	3	-	3	230814230 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING This course provides a comprehensive discussion of software engineering techniques and their application to practical software projects. Topics include: software development techniques, software process models, project management and planning, software requirement specifications and analysis models, software design methods, software verification and validation techniques, software cost estimation, and software maintenance
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.

Advisory Plan

First Year

Fall Semester

Course Number	Course Name	Cr. Hrs.
010610014	BEGINNING ENGLISH	0
110411000	COMPUTER SKILLS	2
100111010	GENERAL PHYSICS I	3
100111051	GENERAL PHYSICS LAB I	1
100411010	CALCULUS I	3
240111011	PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS (C++)	3
240111021	PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS I (LAB)	1
	Total	13

First Year

Spring Semester

Course Number	Course Name	Cr. Hrs.
010610025	INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH	2
010610026	INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH LAB	1
100111021	GENERAL PHYSICS II	3
100411020	CALCULUS II	3
230711110	ENGINEERING DRAWING	2
230811210	DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN	3
240112003	PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS II	3
	Total	17

Second Year

Fall Semester

Course Number	Course Name	Cr. Hrs.
010610035	ADVANCED ENGLISH	2
010610036	ADVANCED ENGLISH LAB	1
100412021	ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS I	3
230711050	ENGINEERING WORKSHOP I	1
100413750	DISCRETE MATHEMATICS	3
110712120	ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS I	3
230812110	DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN LAB	1
240212011	PRINCIPLES OF OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING	3
	Total	17

Second Year

Spring Semester

Course Number	Course Name	Cr. Hrs.
100413020	ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS II	3
230712050	ENGINEERING WORKSHOP II	1
110712210	ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS II	3
110712240	SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS	3
230213121	COMPUTER ORGANIZATION	3
240112031	DATA STRUCTURES	3
	Total	16

Third Year

Fall Semester

Course Number	Course Name	Cr. Hrs.
040511011	PALESTINIAN STUDIES	2
110712220	ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS LAB	1
230213151	ALGORITHMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN	3
230213221	ADVANCED DIGITAL SYSTEMS DESIGN	3
230215211	DATABASE LAB	1
230713110	ELECTRONICS I	3
230813230	INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE SYSTEMS	3
	Total	16

Third Year

Spring Semester

Course Number	Course Name	Cr. Hrs.
040111001	ARABIC LANGUAGE	2
100412350	NUMERICAL METHODS	3
230213211	DATA & COMPUTER NETWORKS	3
230713250	ELECTRONICS II	3
230813240	MICROPROCESSOR SYSTEMS & APPLICATIONS	3
230814130	OPERATING SYSTEMS	3
	Total	17

Fourth Year

Fall Semester

Course Number	Course Name	Cr. Hrs.
-	Univ. Elec.	2
230215131	ASSEMBLY PROGRAMMING LAB	1
230713120	PROBABILITY AND RANDOM VARIABLES	3
230713210	ELECTRONICS LAB	1
230812300	TECHNICAL WRITING	1
230814230	SOFTWARE ENGINEERING	3
230815640	WEB PROGRAMMING	3
-	Spec. Elec.	3
	Total	17

Fourth Year

Spring Semester

Course Number	Course Name	Cr. Hrs.
040521301	FUNDAMENTALS OF RESEARCH METHODS	2
-	Univ. Elec.	2
230214221	COMPUTER NETWORK LAB	1
230214521	ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE	3
230814160	MICROPROCESSOR LAB	1
230815120	EMBEDDED SYSTEMS	3
-	Spec. Elec.	3
	Total	15

Fourth Year

Summer Semester

Course Number	Course Name	Cr. Hrs.
230814990	INTERNSHIP	6
	Total	6

Fifth Year

Fall Semester

Course Number	Course Name	Cr. Hrs.
230315141	ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGEMENT	3
230711200	STATICS	3
230815110	SENIOR PROJECT I	2
230815140	EMBEDDED SYSTEMS LAB	1
230815150	LINUX LAB	1
-	Spec. Elec.	3
-	Free Elective	3
	Total	16

Fifth Year

Spring Semester

Course Number	Course Name	Cr. Hrs.
-	Univ. Elec.	2
-	Univ. Elec.	2
230815220	SENIOR PROJECT II	3
-	Spec. Elec.	3
-	Free Elective	3
	Total	13

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