Enhance tech efficiency and scalability with a cloud computing degree

This course prepares students to be successful lifelong learners both academically and in their chosen careers. Franklin courses require a high level of self-directed learning and focus on the skills required in the workplace and the classroom that are easily transferrable between the two environments. The course includes strategies for time management, goal setting, reading comprehension, and advancing communication skills, including the use of electronic tools to participate in virtual environments.

This course prepares students to be successful lifelong learners both academically and in their chosen careers. Franklin courses require a high level of self-directed learning and focus on the skills required in the workplace and the classroom that are easily transferable between the two environments. The course includes strategies for advancing communication skills, including the use of electronic tools to participate in virtual environments. The assignments and activities in the course are created to closely simulate teamwork found in the workplace.

By using applied critical and creative thinking, students in this course will develop a set of communication skills that will enhance their personal and professional relationships and endeavors. This course will focus on skill development in key areas such as self, perception, listening, verbal messages, conversations, relationships, conflict management, persuasion, and presentation skills.

This basic public-speaking course intends to improve the student's ability to think critically and to communicate orally. Theory and practice are provided in various speaking situations. Each student is required to speak before an audience, but class work also involves reading, gathering and organizing information, writing, and listening.

This is an intermediate course focusing on the composition of research papers. Students in this course prepare to be active participants in professional discourse communities by examining and practicing the writing conventions associated with their own fields of study and work. By calling attention to the conventions of disciplinary writing, the course also prepares students for upper-division college writing and the special conventions of advanced academic discourse. Course activities include three extended research papers, semi-formal writing addressing interdisciplinary communication, and readings fostering critical engagement with disciplinary conversations.

Many organizations today utilize computers and information systems to store, organize, analyze, and summarize data to solve problems. As a result, computing is a tool that can benefit students in many different fields. At the heart of solving problems with computers is the study of structured thinking using algorithms. This course is designed for students with no prior programming experience and teaches the building blocks of algorithms, including variables, expressions, selection and repetition structures, functions and parameters, and array processing.

This course serves as an introduction to the function, design, administration, and implementation of computer networks. Topics include network infrastructure, architecture, protocols, applications, and the OSI networking model. Note, this course has proctored exam(s).

This course, Database Management Systems, covers the fundamental concepts necessary for the design, use, implementation, and administration of database systems. The course will stress the fundamentals of database modeling and design, the languages and facilities provided by database management systems, and some techniques for implementing and administering database systems.

This course introduces programming to individuals with little or no programming background. The goal of this course is to introduce the fundamentals of structured programming, problem solving, algorithm design, and software lifecycle. Topics will include testing, data types, operations, repetition and selection control structures, functions and procedures, arrays, and top down stepwise refinement. Students will design, code, test, debug, and document programs in a relevant programming language.

This course introduces the Linux operating system with a focus on the foundational Linux concepts and core tasks of the system administrator. Students will examine numerous commands and tools to maintain and operate Linux systems. This course utilizes hands-on lab exercises to provide students with professional experience.

This course explores the concepts of cloud computing, including financial impacts and business value, financial requirements, deployment, risks, and security. Hands-on exercises help students to gain experience with cloud computing environments, identifying technical and security requirements for given deployment scenarios, implementing the proposed cloud deployment scenario, and troubleshooting technical issues of existing cloud computing scenarios.

This course introduces students to computer systems and components: central processing unit, memory system, storage, network devices, and computer peripherals. It also helps students to have hands-on experience on installing, managing, and troubleshooting operating systems of personal computers. This course also introduces emerging hardware and software systems such as mobile phones, Windows and macOS systems, virtualization, and best practices for computer maintenance.

This course provides the student with an introduction to Windows Server administration and is structured to assist a network manager or planner in planning, configuring, installing, running, and repairing networks that include a Windows Server 2008. As such, it provides an introduction to server installation, Active Directory, printer management, domains, network clients, security, disaster recovery, fault/error management, and scripting of common tasks. This course also uses cloud technologies and requires internet access.

The Internet has changed dramatically; so have the activities that are dependent on it in some shape or form. Understanding the need for security, it's influence on people, businesses and society, as well as business drivers is critical. The course also covers malicious attacks, threats and vulnerabilities common to the world of security, as well as access controls, and methods to assess and respond to risks. Hands-on labs accompany the various concepts that are taught.

This course provides a conceptual survey of general systems theory followed by a conceptual and technological survey of the structure of distributed information systems architectures, operating systems, network operating systems, peripheral technology and user interfaces. Interoperability between these architectural components will be explored and current technology and trends in each architectural element will be reviewed. This course will de-emphasize, although not ignore, mainframe architectures in favor of information architectures more applicable to client/server computing. The various interacting categories of client/server computing as well as the benefits and implications of such a system will be fully explored.

This course provides an introduction to the concepts of information technology project management and techniques for initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and controlling of resources to accomplish specific project goals. Both technical and behavioral aspects of project management are discussed. While the focus is on information technology projects, the principles follow the nine project management knowledge areas obtained in the Project Management Institute's?PMBOK?Guide, Third Edition?and, thus, are applicable to the management of any project. Topics will include integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communications, risk, and procurement management. Project management software utilization is emphasized.

This course introduces the basics of cloud-based solutions and services using Microsoft Azure. The course introduces the students to core solutions and management tools on Azure, general security and network security features, identity, governance, privacy, and compliance features, and Azure cost management and Service Level Agreements. It also helps students to assess the responsibilities for this role including implementing, managing, and monitoring identity, governance, storage, computing, and virtual networks in a cloud environment, and provision, size, monitoring, and adjusting resources.

This course introduces students to the basic understanding of the AWS Cloud platform and the economics and essentials of the AWS Cloud. Also, it introduces students to basic models for cloud deployment, operations, and security. This course addresses basic business aspects of AWS cloud computing including billing, licensing, and pricing models. The course matches the ?AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner? certification from Amazon Web Services.

This course introduces the students to the knowledge and skills required to design, plan, and scale AWS implementations. The course provides introductory experience designing available, cost-effective, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS. This course provides students with implementation guidance based on best practices for an organization throughout the lifecycle of a project. The course focuses on various AWS topics including cost-effective storage solutions, secure access to AWS resources, high-performing databases, and network solutions for a workload.

This course is designed to equip students with the skills needed to automate the provisioning, deployment, configuration, and management of cloud-based IT infrastructure by focusing on practical skills and hands-on experience using popular tools such as cloud-init, Terraform, Ansible, and Git. In addition, students will build continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to manage, build, and deploy applications within that managed infrastructure.

This course introduces the students to the skills and expertise in deployment, management, and operations on the AWS platform and provides them with the experience of provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS. It also helps students to identify and gather requirements to define a solution to be built and operated on AWS. This course validates the students? ability to provide AWS operations and deployment guidance and recommend best practices throughout the lifecycle of a project.

This course introduces containers and orchestration on Docker and Kubernetes systems. It introduces students to Docker basics (docker run, docker-compose), storage and volumes, image creation, management, and registries, networking and security, scaling stateless containers for dynamic workloads, and Docker swarm. It also introduces Kubernetes systems, installation, management, and features. This course provides students with hands-on experience with candidate containers and orchestration tools and systems.

The cloud computing capstone course encourages teamwork in small groups on a substantial project. The intent of this course is to provide a capstone experience that integrates the material contained in required courses of the cloud computing major. It also provides an opportunity for students to recognize and evaluate the interrelationship of their general education courses with the courses taken for their major. The capstone will include a discussion about professional and ethical issues related to cloud computing. Students will also culminate their experiences with an overview of the evolution of computer systems and a look at the near-term future.

This course helps students to gain expertise in securing data and workloads in the AWS Cloud. It introduces the AWS cloud security concepts including AWS workloads, permissions, identities, data protection, management, logging, SEIM, and responding to incidents. This course helps students to have hands-on experience with AWS security solutions.