Computers Unwrapped II
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Overview
Subject area
EDUC
Catalog Number
8006N
Course Title
Computers Unwrapped II
Department(s)
Description
This graduate education course is the Second in a two course sequence. The courses are designed to provide insight into how computers work. The courses are intended to fiII a gap in computer education. Students typically learn coding without understanding codes. Students are encouraged to think logically without gaining familiarity with logical relationships, nor how these are implemented in computers. Demystifying computers is both empowering and necessary to full digital literacy. The curriculum is divided into seven major topics: circuits, codes, information, computation, communication, storage, and control. Each topic is introduced through everyday experiences with such artifacts as emojis, calculators and supermarket bar codes, as well as control systems in the human body. These lead to hands-on activities, such as translating between binary and decimal. computing in binary, examining individual pixels displayed by cell phones, detecting and correcting errors in messages and deconstructing bar codes.
Academic Career
Graduate
Liberal Arts
No
Credits
Minimum Units
3
Maximum Units
3
Academic Progress Units
3
Repeat For Credit
No
Components
Name
Lecture
Hours
3