These are a list of classes I have taken during my school years in Penn State. Each class will show the number of credits each class was, the teacher I had, and my recap of the class. Hope this helps out some future Penn State students who need to know about a class. Each class will show the number of credits each class was, the teacher I had, and my recap of the class.

Spring 2011

• ART 101 – Introduction to Web Design (3)
  • Teacher: Jerrold Maddox
  • Description: A beginning level course in Web Design, with emphasis on designing with standards to assure accessibility and effective communication.
• IST 440w – Information Sciences and Technology Integration and Problem Solving (3 – Major)
  • Teacher: Gerry Santoro
  • Description: Problem-based approach to technology integration by focusing on real-life problems faced by an organization.
• MUSIC 008 – Rudiments of Music (3)
  • Description: Introduction to the elements of music: notation, scales, meter, rhythm, intervals; basic chord structure.
• PHOTO 100 – Introduction to Photography (3)
  • Description: An introduction to the aesthetics, history, and science of photography including practical and critical approaches to the art of photography.

Fall 2010

• ENG 202C – Effective Writing: Technical Writing (3 – Major)
  • Teacher: Albert Holtzinger
  • Description: Writing for students in scientific and technical disciplines.
• HPA 057 – Consumer Choices in Health Care (3 – GHA)
  • Description: Introduction to consumers’ role in health-care decisions, including health benefits, physician and hospital choice, and end-of-life choices.
• IST 451 – Network Security (3 – Minor)
  • Teacher: Peng Liu
  • Description: Fundamental issues and concepts of network security, network security technologies and protocols, and emerging technologies in network security.
• SRA 221 – Overview of Information Security (3 – Minor)
  • Teacher: Stan Aungst
  • Description: Provides an understanding of the overview of information security including security architecture, access control, and internet secure applications.
• SRA 231 – Decision Theory and Analysis (3 – Elective)
  • Teacher: Colonel Jake Graham
  • Description: Provides an overview of decision theoretical and analytical concepts and tools in the security risk analysis field.

Spring 2010

• ART 002 – Interactive Learning and Web-Design (3 – GA)
  • Teacher: Jerold Maddox
  • Description: Introduce students to research on-line, preparing verbal, visual and other elements for presentation of outcomes and posting them to the Internet.

• HIST 010 – World History I (3)
  • Teacher: Rob Schwaller
  • Description: Human origins; early civilizations; major political and intellectual developments on all continents; cultural interrelationships to 1500.

• IST 412 – The Engineering of Complex Software Systems (3 – Major)
  • Teacher: John Daughtry
  • Description: Introduction to the engineering of complex software systems including software system specification, design and implementation, integration and test, and evolution.

• IST 413 – Usability Engineering (3 – Major)
  • Teacher: Craig Ganoe
  • Description: This course addresses activities in the system development process that ensure usability. It considers the emerging concept of usability, requirements gathering and analysis, activity design, information design, interaction design, documentation design, user testing and usability evaluation.

• IST 452 – Legal and Regulatory Environment of Privacy and Security (3)
  • Teacher: Donald Shemanski
  • Description: Exploration of legal, regulatory, public policy, and ethical issues related to security and privacy for information technology professionals in public institutions, private enterprise, and IT services.

Fall 2009

• EGEE 102 – Energy Conservation for Environmental Protection (3 – GN)
  • Teacher: Sarma Pisupati
  • Description: Exposure to energy efficiency in day-to-day life to save money and energy, and thereby protect the environment.

• IST 301 – Information and Organizations (3 – Major)
  • Teacher: Rosalie Ocker
  • Description: Overview of organizational structures and functions. Includes information processing and analytic perspectives of organizations.

• IST 311 – Object-Oriented Design and Software Applications (3 – Major)
  • Teacher: Fred Fonseca
  • Description: Introduction to object-oriented applications including applications in an Object Oriented Design (OOD) language or OOD languages.

• IST 331 – Organization and Design of Information Systems: User and System Principles (3)
  • Teacher: Frank Ritter
  • Description: Interdisciplinary survey of topics related to the use and usability of information systems.

• MATSE 081 – Materials in Today’s World (3 – GN; IL)
  • Teacher: Paul Howell
  • Description: A survey of the properties, manufacture, and uses of polymers, ceramics and metals in today’s world with emphasis on modern developments and new materials.

Spring 2009

• INART 115 – The Popular Arts in America: Popular Music (3 – GA)
  • Description: An examination of the roots, development, and significance of popular music in our culture.

• IST 240 – Introduction to Computer Languages (3)
  • Teacher: Tracy Mullen
  • Description: Introduction to the specification and application of languages and language paradigms that interact with computers.

• IST 402 – Emerging Issues and Technology – eMarketing (3)
  • Teacher: Jim Jansen
  • Description: Google Online Marketing Challenge aka GOMCHA

• SRA 211 – Threat of Terrorism and Crime (3)
  • Teacher: Donald Shemanski
  • Description: Provides overview of nature, scope, and seriousness of threats to security as a result of terrorism and crime.

• STAT 200 – Elementary Statistics (4)
  • Teacher: Andrew Wiesner
  • Description: Descriptive statistics, frequency distributions, probability, binomial and normal distributions, statistical inference, linear regression, and correlation.

Fall 2008

• EGEE 101 – Energy and the Environment (3)
  • Teacher: Dr. K. N. Kumar
  • Description: Energy utilization and technological development, energy resources, conversionand consequences on the local and global environment, and future energy alternatives.

• HIST 011 – World History II (3)
  • Teacher: Christine Reese
  • Description: Social, economic, and political evolution of societies and cultures from 1500 to the present.

• IST 220 – Networking and Telecommunications (3)
  • Teacher: Xiaolong Zhang
  • Description: Introduction to digital network topologies; transmission media, signalmodulation, digital packet switching and routing, systems integration,communications management, and security.

• IST 230 – Language, Logic, and Discrete Mathematics (3)
  • Teacher: Kristinka Ivanova
  • Description: Introduction to formal languages, mathematical logic, and discretemathematics, with applications to information sciences and technology.

• SRA 211 – Introduction to Security and Risk Analysis (3)
  • Teacher: Gerry Santoro
  • Description: This introductory course spans areas of security, risk, and analysiscovering contexts in government agencies and business organizations.

Spring 2008

• ASTRO 001 – Astronomical Universe (3)
  • Teacher: Jane Charlton
  • Description: The development of modern understanding of the astronomical universe from planets and stars to galaxies and cosmology.

• ECON 002 – Introductory Microeconomic Analysis and Policy (3)
  • Teacher: Dirk Mateer
  • Description: Methods of economic analysis and their use; price determination; theory of the firm; distribution.

• IST 210 – Organization of Data (4)
  • Teacher: Xiaolong Zhang
  • Description: Introduction to concept of databases including the storage, manipulation, evaluation, and display of data and related issues.

• RL ST 001 – Introduction to World Religions (3)
  • Teacher: Curtis Smith
  • Description: An historical and comparative survey of the principal beliefs and practices of the world’s major religions.

• SPAN 003 – Intermediate Spanish (4)
  • Teacher: Antonia Delgado Prieto
  • Description: Audio-lingual review of structure; writing; reading.

Fall 2007

• CMPSC 101 – Introduction to C++ Programming (3)
  • Teacher: Yogi
  • Description: Properties of algorithms, languages, and notations for describing algorithms, applications of a procedure-oriented language to problem solving.

• ENG 015 – Rhetoric and Composition (3)
  • Teacher: Karen Walcott
  • Description: Instruction and practice in writing expository prose that shows sensitivity to audience and purpose.

• MATH 110 – Techniques of Calculus I (4)
  • Teacher: David Little
  • Description: Functions, graphs, derivatives, integrals, techniques of differentiation and integration, exponentials, improper integrals, applications.

• SPAN 002 – Elementary Spanish II (4)
  • Description: Audio-lingual approach to basic Spanish continued; writing.

Summer 2007

• CAS 100B – Effective Speech (3 – GN)
  • Teacher: Ben Henderson
  • Description: Principles of communication, implemented through group problem solving, with some attention to formal speaking and message evaluation.

• IST 110 – Information, People, and Technology (3 – Freshman Seminar)
  • Teacher: Gerry Santoro
  • Description: The use, analysis and design of information systems and technologies to organize, coordinate, and inform human enterprises.