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SOCIAL SCIENCE
● ELT3 State and apply Gauss’s Law to determine the characteristics of electric field, flux, or charge for a system of charges or symmetrically charged distributions. ● ELT4 Demonstrate understanding of the behavior of excess charge on conductors and insulators and the resulting electric fields and electric potential. ● ELT5 Describe quantitatively and qualitatively the storage of electrostatic potential energy in capacitors and the quantities that affect it including capacitance, potential difference, charge, area, and separation. ● ELT6 Qualitatively explain Kirchoff’s Rules and use them along with Ohm’s law to calculate key characteristics of both series and parallel circuits. ● ELT7 Use conservation of energy and charge to calculate key characteristics of time-dependent circuits that contain resistors and capacitors (RC Circuits). ● ELT8 Use calculus to calculate the magnetic force on a current-carrying wire in a magnetic field. ● ELT9 Calculate the strength and direction of the magnetic field produced by current-carrying wires. ● ELT10 Use calculus and symmetry to apply Biot-Savart Law and Ampere’s Law and calculate the direction and magnitude of the magnetic field due to moving charges. ● ELT11 Applies Lenz ’s Law and Faraday ’s Law along with calculus and symmetry to calculate both magnitude and direction of induced currents and EMF. ● ELT12 Calculate net forces and torques on conductive loops in changing magnetic fields and the resultant changes in motion. ● ELT13 Use conservation of energy and charge along with calculus to calculate key characteristics of time-dependent circuits containing inductors and resistors.
Social Science 101: Engineering History (230101)
Brief Description
This course tracks the evolution of technology and engineering through a chronological survey of significant events and issues beginning with ancient civilizations to the present information age. Students will investigate each engineering field based on the formation of a professional society. Students will research, design models, and complete team projects based on engineering accomplishments that recognize pivotal changes to human conditions of historical significance.
Essential Learning Targets:
● ELT1: Define engineering and describe the main engineering disciplines: Mechanical, Chemical, Biomedical, Electrical, and Aerospace. ● ELT2: Examine an engineering accomplishment for each era (Ancient, Middle, and Modern) with respect to each engineering discipline. ● ELT3: Identify challenges that humans have faced, and will face, from a growing population, urbanization, and industrialization with the corresponding design solutions from engineers. ● ELT4: Assess the significance of key designs in engineering throughout history as they pertain to the comforts, safety, and/or survival of humankind and their civilizations. ● ELT5: Analyze cause and effect relationships with reference to engineering directives. ● ELT6: Distinguish between primary and secondary resources for historical data with regards to credibility.
● ELT7: Demonstrate historical reasoning skills to include analysis, critique, and evaluation from various perspectives and viewpoints. ● ELT8: Construct historical arguments using resources that both support and contradict. ● ELT9: Analyze the complex and complicated nature of historical records by distinguishing historical facts and historical interpretations. ● ELT10: Identify key engineers and their contributions to each engineering discipline. ● ELT11: Incorporate positive and negative technological influences through recorded time that have influenced the overall health of planet Earth. ● ELT12: Project ideas for future technological advances of the coming half-century that will have a net positive impact on society.
Brief Description
This course will introduce students to cryptology, cryptography, and cryptanalysis which is respectively the study of code, the practice of writing code, and deciphering code through chronological history with primary focus from the American Revolution, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, and the Cold War to present cyber warfare. The course will track how codes were used and evolved from the ancient to the modern era. Students will also read excerpts from The Codebreakers by Daniel Kahn and work on projects based on the artifacts from the National Cryptologic Museum.
Essential Learning Targets:
● ELT1: Define and understand the differences between cryptology, cryptography, and cryptanalysis; ● ELT2: Identify types of codes and ciphers to explain how they were used; ● ELT3: Describe the encryption/decryption process; ● ELT4: Explain the role of cryptology during the American Revolution ● ELT5: Explain the role of cryptology during the American Civil War ● ELT6: Explain the role of cryptology during World War I and World War II ● ELT7: Explain the role of cryptology during the Cold War and other post WWII conflicts ● ELT8: Describe the impact of cryptology in modern technology; ● ELT9: Explain the stages of the Data Encryption Standard (DES); ● ELT10: Develop and present an individual project-based research assignment from the National Cryptologic Museum Exhibits and Artifacts
Social Science 301: Cyber Economics and Government (230103)
Brief Description
This course comprises three sections that include government/civics, economics, and personal finance. Basic principles of economics will include cybersecurity applications extending to cyber conditions that impact economics driven decision making. Students will understand how economics governs policy and risk mitigation. Students will explore the origins and framework of the American government and politics at national, state, and local levels to include references to individual civil rights and duties. This course will include a unit on personal finance to prepare students for the future through saving and investing, spending and credit, and instituting a budget to achieve financial goals.
Essential Learning Targets:
CyberEconomics
● ELT1: Compare and contrast macro and microeconomics; supply and demand; risk and impact; cost and benefit. ● ELT2: Demonstrate understanding of general economics as related to cybersecurity. ● ELT3: Survey and explain cyber government policies, market elasticities, and economic breakeven ● ELT4: Outline the history of currency, including cryptocurrencies.
Government / Civics
● ELT5: Analyze the origins, establishment, and major features of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. ● ELT6: Compare and contrast the three branches of government in regards to constitutional provisions for a system of checks and balances. ● ELT7: Compare specific functions, organizations, and purposes of local and state governments. ● ELT8: Describe the process of local, state, and national elections including the history of suffrage and the role of political parties, special interest groups, campaign contributions, and the media. ● ELT9: Identify the role of citizens in American democracy, including the meaning, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, due process, and rights guaranteed by the US Constitution.
Personal Finance
● ELT10: Describe the origins and history of currency, cryptocurrency, platforms of exchange, credit, and insurance including their applications to personal finance and investments. ● ELT11: Outline financial goals in reference to income, personal preferences, debt, credit, saving, investing, taxes, and estate planning. ● ELT12: Outline the processes for seeking financial aid, short-term loans, and long-term loans as strategies for long term personal, educational, and financial gain. ● ELT11: Outline financial goals in reference to income, personal preferences, debt, credit, saving, investing, taxes, and estate planning. ● ELT12: Outline the processes for seeking financial aid, short-term loans, and long-term loans as strategies for long term personal, educational, and financial gain.
Brief Description
This course will introduce students to the concepts and scenarios surrounding the topic of social engineering. Students will explore and analyze the impact of social engineering on societies as well as on matters of security with an emphasis on the human element of the security issues. Students will become familiar with social norms and social roles that are common to many cultures as well as those that are specific only to certain cultures. Students will be introduced to popular types of social engineering attacks and learn how and why they are successful. The development and evolution of media, including social media, will be discussed and students will learn how to recognize common social engineering techniques in media and advertising. Students will explore various historical situations where social engineering has influenced societies and they will learn how to identify the techniques and tactics they employ and to make connections between these social situations.
