COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCE 113
with software maintenance, process, metrics and quality related to the development, improvement and deployment of high-quality software and systems. The course includes significant project work where students apply a rigorous process to deploy a refactored software product with improved features and quality. Prerequisite: CIS 277 3 credits, Fall CIS 318: Software Architecture The course focuses on the issues, techniques, strategies, representations and patterns used to implement a software component or a large-scale system. Specifically, it emphasizes the defining architectures that conform to functional requirements and that work within defined constraints including resource, performance, reliability, and security. Prerequisites: CIS 277 and CIS 287 3 credits, Spring CIS 320: Analysis & Design of Algorithms Focusing on the study of the design, analysis, and complexity of algorithms, fundamental techniques, searching, sorting and order statistics, and basic graph algorithms are reviewed. The course introduces the ideas of time and space complexity. Emphasis is on providing the student with a firm background to be used for further study of algorithms using more advanced techniques. Prerequisites: CIS 220 and MATH 222 3 credits, Fall CIS 325: Formal Languages & Automata The course presents the abstract models of computers (finite automata, pushdown automata, and Turing machines) and the language classes they recognize or generate (regular, contextfree, and recursively enumerable). Topics include Turing machines, recursive functions, Church’s thesis, undecidability, and the halting problem. Applications of these models to compiler design, algorithms, and complexity theory are also presented. Prerequisites: CIS 220 and MATH 222 3 credits, Fall CIS 326: Formal Methods in Software Development Focusing on the issues and techniques needed to apply formal specification methods to the development of software, the course uses mathematical and logical formalism to develop a precise statement of what software is to do. Prerequisites: CIS 182, CIS 183 and MATH 223 3 credits, Fall CIS 330: Operating Systems An introduction to the study of operating systems. Topics covered include: process manipulation and synchronization, processor management, storage management, security, I/O and file systems, and basic distributed system concepts. Prerequisites: CIS 220 and CIS 219 3 credits, Fall CIS 335: Systems Analysis and Design An introduction to the role and responsibilities of a systems analyst. Students examine systems by analysis, modeling, and design at the enterprise, process, logical, data, and technology levels. Optionally included topics are feasibility analysis, technology evaluation, project management, object-oriented analysis. Prerequisites: CIS 180, CIS 181, and CIS 195 or CIS 287 3 credits, Fall CIS 337: IS Architecture and Deployment A project and team-based course emphasizing the practical issues in the design and implementation of information systems. The rational integration of technology options across an enterprise given organizational needs and constraints is emphasized. Prerequisites: CIS 195 or CIS 287 3 credits, Spring CIS 340: Multi-Tiered Systems A project and team-based course emphasizing the practical issues in implementing distributed and multi-tiered systems at the organizational, function, and user-support levels.