What is a special topics course?

Special topics courses are designed to offer new, state-of-the-art topics prior to making the course a regularly offered course in our curriculum. Some special topics courses can be used as elective courses, but be sure and check with your advisor to get these approved as an elective for a degree or certificate. The course codes for the IMS Department Special Topics courses are MIS-199 for a 1 credit special short topics course, and MIS-200 for a 3 credit special topics course. Various topics will be offered each semester. Pay attention to the topic and the section numbers when registering.

Look for MIS-, OSA- and IMS- course prefixes to locate other classes related to applications (MS Office, Graphics, etc.), software, programming, web design and development, operating systems, keyboarding, e-commerce, databases, internet courses, computer basics, etc.

Special Topics in Technology for Spring 2010 Semester:
 

MIS-200-200—Introduction to PHP, 3 credit hours

Have you been wanting to learn about PHP? Here is your chance! PHP is a commonly used scripting language. PHP scripting language is used to create dynamic web sites by taking PHP code as its input and creating web pages as output. Cool! Traditionally it is primarily used as server-side scripting. However, PHP can be embedded into HTML. Find out what it’s all about! Build your web development skills and your resume. No pre-requisite. Although the MIS-200-200 PHP class does not have a pre-requisite, MIS-105 (Programming Principles) or some programming experience is strongly suggested as a co-requisite. Correction: The printed version of the Spring Mail has an error stating that MIS-200-200 will cover game programming. Game programming will NOT be covered in this class. MIS-200-200 will be PHP scripting. We apologize for any confusion or inconvenience this printing error may cause.