Course Opportunities

The School of Continuing and Professional Studies is committed to providing unique and enriching educational experiences. Our diverse range of applied programs and courses are designed to help you achieve the success you envision for yourself. Whether you're looking to advance your career or fulfill personal goals, our flexible formats and applied courses are tailored to meet your needs.

Please note: while some courses have pre-requisites, we understand that not all students may have completed these requirements, and we are dedicated to working with you to ensure your success.

Fall 2024

Fall 8W2 (October 19th - December 14th, 2024)

CPST 342 - Introduction to Web Application Development

Study concepts and tools for multi-tier web application development, business logic, data access layers, and database integration. Learn JavaScript, jQuery, and web frameworks for web page development and database interfacing. Pre-requisites: COMP 170

Fall 8W2 (October 19th - December 14th, 2024)

CPST 349 - Project Management

Learn project management principles and techniques for business and public management. This course will cover the life-cycle of a project including planning, scheduling, team-building, and control methods. Prerequisite: CPST 250

Fall 8W2 (October 19th - December 14th, 2024)

CPST 380 - Leadership, Culture and Ethics

Explore organizational ethics, values, strategy, culture, leadership, and coaching. Analyze leadership concepts, decision-making, and ethical models using real-life scenarios and self-assessment. Prerequisite: CPST 250

Fall 8W2 (October 19th - December 14th, 2024)

COMP 251 - Intro to Database Systems

Explore data organization, storage, analysis, and manipulation. Topics include relational databases, SQL, XML basics, and web data interfaces. Pre-requisites: COMP 125 or COMP 150 or COMP 170 or COMP 180 or COMP/MATH 215

Fall 8W2 (October 19th - December 14th, 2024)

STAT 103 - Fundamental Statistics

Introduction to statistical reasoning and techniques in descriptive and inferential statistics for economics, education, genetics, medicine, physics, political science, and psychology.

Spring 2025

Spring 8W2 (March 8th - May 3rd, 2025)

COMM 200 - Digital Communication and Society

Explore the ways technology affects personal, cultural and mass communication through examining the historical, societal and ethical implications of newer and interactive forms of media. Students use audio, video and digital tools to research and produce essays, projects and presentations that analyze the impact of technology on communication

Spring 8W1 (January 13th - March 7th, 2025)

COMM 277 - Organizational Communication

Introduction to theory and practice of organizational communication, with an emphasis on organization contexts, culture, and systems, and the role of communication in building relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Students will be able to analyze organizational communication, and understand the impact of technology, globalization, community and diversity on organizational systems

Spring 8W1 (January 13th - March 7th, 2025)

CPST 248 - User Experience Design Fundamentals

Introduction to UX research and techniques of how to effectively evaluate and compare designs objectively. Students will be able to read and draw actionable conclusions from UX studies as well as understand the UX Design process, including the use of personas, task models, and user journey mapping.

Spring 8W2 (March 8th - May 3rd, 2025)

CPST 249 - User Experience Design Tools and Techniques

The course focuses on user and task analysis (goal setting and problem framing), field research (interviews, personas, planning, etc.), usability testing, the UX process (from wireframes through user journey mapping). These topics are explored through Design assignments that utilize the complete UX Design process. Students will be able to: apply the UX Prototyping process and UX Design Tools; apply the UX Design process, including the use of personas, task models, and user journey mapping.

Spring 8W2 (March 8th - May 3rd, 2025)

CPST 310 - Accounting Principles and Applications

Introduction to financial and managerial accounting concepts. Understand financial statements, accrual accounting, variance analysis, and financial planning.

Spring 8W1 (January 13th - March 7th, 2025)

CPST 325 - Data Processing, Analysis, and Visualization

This course studies the concepts, methods, and tools required to infer meaningful information and generate useful visualizations from large data sets. Visualize and analyze structured data using appropriate statistical data mining and visualization tools. Analyze distributed computing frameworks for processing large data sets.

Spring 8W2 (March 8th - May 3rd, 2025)

CPST 343 - Software Development for Mobile Devices

This course introduces software development for the Android environment, using the App Inventor framework. The course also introduces the basics of user-interface design and mobile architecture. Development work may be done on either an Android device or on an Android emulator running on a Windows/Mac/Linux laptop.

Spring 8W1 (January 13th - March 7th, 2025)

CPST 365 - Strategic Equity and Inclusion

As part of creating an environment that is inclusive and equitable, organizations must think strategically. It is not enough to understand bias or disparities and pledge to create initiatives, programs and do trainings on topics that are current or top-of-mind. Developing a strategy for sustainable change has the potential to create organizational cultures that thrive because of its inclusive and equitable nature.

Spring 8W1 (January 13th - March 7th, 2025)

CPST 371 - Organizational Finance

Learn the inter-relations of money and markets, investment, and financial management. Pre-requisites: CPST 243 or ECON 201, CPST 245 or ECON 202, STAT 103 or ISOM 241, CPST 310 or ACCT 201

Spring 8W1 (January 13th - March 7th, 2025)

CPST 381 - Cybersecurity Governance

Students in this course will learn how to manage Cybersecurity processes while meeting the needs of the Enterprise. Students will learn how to establish a Governance program, Cybersecurity management frameworks, how to develop and implement a Cybersecurity strategy. Students will be able to: Explain the strategic importance of effective, interdisciplinary, and multifunctional enterprise information security governance and information security management program and its execution.

Spring 8W2 (March 8th - May 3rd, 2025)

CPST 383 - Cloud Security Strategy and Architecture

This course leverages cloud computing security guidelines set forth by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA), and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) to develop a Strategic perspective for the Cybersecurity practitioner. Skills developed include knowing best practices and standards; the ability to design and implement a cloud security architecture; and carefully working with 3rd party cloud infrastructure providers and other stakeholders.

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Please note: while some courses have pre-requisites, we understand that not all students may have completed these requirements, and we are dedicated to working with you to ensure your success.