FIT 100 Fluency with Information Technology

Syllabus — Course Description

Official Course Description

Fluency in Information Technology (5 credits)

Introduces skills, concepts, and capabilities necessary to effectively use information technology. Includes logical reasoning, managing complexity, operation of computers and networks, and contemporary applications such as effective Web searching and database manipulation, ethical aspects, and social impacts of information technology.

Brief Instructor Course Description

The first unit covers computer networks, the Internet, the World Wide Web, searching the Web, truth on the Web, and creating a Web site. The second unit covers programming using JavaScript and adds interaction with users to Web pages. The third unit covers data storage, transfer, and the associated topics of privacy and security.

This course follows two distinct tracks. Concepts are covered in lecture and skills are practiced in labs. Each project brings together all that you have learned. The three projects are creative and fun. The following are examples of projects from previous course offerings:

• Building a Misinformation Web Site—with HTML and CSS
• Coding a Mad Lib story—with JavaScript
• Building a Boat Club database—MS Access