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Bluegrass Community and Technical College (A.A.S. Degree)
in Lexington, Kentucky
Computer and Information Technologies Department
http://bluegrass.kctcs.edu/en/CSIS.aspx
Contact: Prof. Melanie Williamson (melanie.williamson@kctcs.edu)
Curricular Overview
In the United States, the associate degree is recognized by baccalaureate degree-granting
institutions as a critical indicator of academic proficiency at a level deemed appropriate to enter
upper-division college programs. Bluegrass Community and Technical College (BCTC) located
in Lexington, Kentucky is a comprehensive community college offering both career and transfer
associate-degree programs. The enrollment at BCTC is approximately 6,000 full-time students
and 7,200 part-time students.
The department of Computer and Information Technologies (CIT) at BCTC offers an Associate
in Applied Science (A.A.S.) computing degree with a concentration in computer science. After
earning this associate degree, students have the option of either entering the workforce directly
or transferring to a baccalaureate computer science program at one of Kentucky’s four-year
colleges. The CIT department also offers different A.A.S. degree programs with a variety of
concentrations, such as computer science, applications, Internet technologies and network
technologies. The department has eleven full-time faculty members with varying expertise in
software development and engineering, database management, information assurance, and
networking.
Computer Science Major
The A.A.S. degree with a concentration in computer science combines fundamental studies in
computer hardware, networks, database design, and security with concentrated studies in
computer programming, computational complexity, data structures, software engineering, and
proof techniques. The computing courses taken by a typical major in this A.A.S. degree program
are:
1. CS 115 Introduction to Computer Programming 3 credits
2. CS 215 Introduction to Program Design, Abstraction and Problem Solving 4 credits
3. CS 216 Introduction to Software Engineering 3 credits
4. CS 275 Discrete Mathematics 4 credits
5. CIT 105 Introduction to Computers 3 credits
6. CIT 111 Computer Hardware and Software 4 credits
7. CIT 150 Internet Technologies 3 credits
8. CIT 160 Introduction to Networking Concepts 4 credits
9. CIT 170 Database Design Fundamentals 3 credits
10. CIT 180 Security Fundamentals 3 credits
Students will also take other computing courses, such as systems analysis and design, not
included in this mapping. Course descriptions included in the mapping are located in the
Appendix A of this curricular exemplar.
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