2011 - 2012 Student Calendar - Helena College of Technology

Course DescriptionsHSTA215 Post-WW II AmericaCredits: 3 Offered Fall SemesterPrerequisites: noneA comprehensive overview of United States history from 1945to the beginning of the Reagan Era in 1980, this course includesreading, lecture/discussions, and audio-visual materials thataddress key issues that faced the United States in the wakeof World War II. Topics include the Cold War and nuclearweapons, Nixon, the civil rights movement, the Korean andVietnam wars, popular culture, the Baby Boom, television, andthe space program.HSTA255 Montana HistoryCredits: 3 Offered Spring SemesterPrerequisites: noneThis course offers a comprehensive study of the social,economic, cultural, and political development of Montana,with an emphasis on critical reading, interpretation, research,and written analysis.ITS150 CCNA 1: ExplorationCredits: 4Prerequisite: CAPP131 or equivalentA fundamentals class, based on the CISCO Network Academycurriculum. It is the first in a four-course series. This class covers:Network terminology, the OSI Network model, standards fornetwork topologies and network wiring, IP addressing, subnetmasks, network administration, and network planning. Anintroduction to the concept of network routers and their rolein networking will be discussed. These basic principles arereinforced with hands-on lab work.ITS152 CCNA 2: ExplorationCredits: 3Prerequisite: ITS150Router Technology - this course is the second of four coursesin the curriculum designed by CISCO for learning networkadministration. This course requires a level of experienceworking with Cisco router commands and will build on thosecommands learned in ITS150. The course will cover routingtheory and router configuration. Routing protocols RIP V1 &2, OSPF, EIGRP and communication protocols will be exploredwith hands-on lab models to reinforce the lecture concepts.Both live and simulation work allow students the freedom tolearn by doing.ITS212 Network Operating System - Server AdminCredits: 4 Offered Spring SemesterPrerequisite: ITS280Students will install and use their own Windows 2008 Serversto explore server-based operating systems administrationtechniques. Emphasis will be on security, Active Directorystructure, user administration, performance, resource sharing,and network access.ITS218 Network SecurityCredits: 3 Offered Spring SemesterCo-requisites: ITS212Prerequisites: ITS280 and ITS224This seminar class focuses on network design as it relates tonetwork security. Network architecture, security, networkadministration, documentation, and other networking topicspertinent to today’s network administrator are included inthis course.ITS224 Introduction to LinuxCredits: 3 Offered Fall SemesterPrerequisites: CSCI100 and ITS280Students are introduced to accessing a multi-user system. Theylearn to manage files and directories in a shared environment.Topics include simple user administration, scripts, and networkaccess.ITS250 CCNA 3: ExplorationCredits: 3Prerequisite: ITS152LAN switching and wireless technologies are the focus ofthe third course in the CISCO curriculum leading to CCNAcertification. The course explores the role of switches in themodern networking environment, the CISCO IOS commandlineinterface used in switch configuration, VLANs, spanningtreeprotocol, VLAN trunking protocols, and security. Wirelesstechnologies are introduced as well as the placement of routerswithin a switched network. Students will build on and applyinformation from ITS150 and ITS152. Material is presented withboth lecture and hands-on activities, using live and simulationwork. Distance learning technologies allow students thefreedom to learn by doing in the lab and from home via internetconnection with simple software. Our extensive equipmentinventory and the current configuration allow the student topractice network device configuration and troubleshootingmuch as they would in a “real world” environment.ITS252 CCNA 4: ExplorationCredits: 3Prerequisite: ITS250Accessing the WAN is the fourth course in the CISCO seriesleading to the CISCO Certified Networking Associate (CCNA)exam. The curriculum focuses on network design with advancednetwork management projects. Topics covered include WideArea Networking (WAN) setup and design, Point to PointProtocol (PPP), ISDN, Frame Relay and Voice over IP (VOIP).This course builds upon the previous three classes and expandsknowledge of IP addressing, wildcard masks and security.In addition to the CISCO online curriculum, the courseexplores DHCP, Network Address Translation (NAT) and PortAddress Translation (PAT) concepts with advanced hands-onactivities and network configurations. Once again distancelearning technologies are used to enable the students to accessthe equipment from home or other UM-Helena classroomcomputers. IP phones, POE switches and router interfaces arecombined to enlarge the student knowledge base for both CCNAcertification testing and workplace application.108 2011 - 2012 Academic Catalog UM-Helena College of Technology