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PHY 123 General Physics II is a 2- credit unit course for students studying towards acquiring a Bachelor of Science in any field. The course is divided into 4 modules and 11 study units. It will first introduce the elastic property. Next is hydrostatic which is treated in detail. This is followed by an extensive discussion of the thermodynamics and statistical mechanics (the zeroth law and the first law). Thereafter, elementary kinetic theory.

PHY 126 General Physics III is a 3- credit unit course for students studying towards acquiring a Bachelor of Science in any field. The course is divided into 4 modules and 12 study units. It will first introduce electric charge, electric force and electric field. Next is Gauss law and its applications which is treated in detail. This is followed by a discussion of electric potential. Thereafter, capacitance and dielectrics will be discussed.

CPT 121: Introduction to programming is a 2-credit unit course for students studying towards acquiring a Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology and other related disciplines. The course is divided into 7 modules and 17 study units. It will first take a brief review of the concepts of programming languages and fundamental programming constructions. This course will then go ahead to deal with the next courses: object oriented programming (part 1, 2). The course went further to deal with the concept of syntax and semantics of a higher-level language (C++). The course concluded by discussing some concepts like encapsulation, fundamental data structures, software development methodology, recursion.

CSS216:Cryptography is a 3 credit unit course for students studying towards acquiring a Bachelor of Technology in Cyber Security Science and other related disciplines. The course is divided into 3 modules and 15 study units.  The course started with the introduction to Cryptography which is viewed as a process of information hiding and verification. This process includes the protocols (standards), algorithms and strategies to securely and consistently prevent or delay unauthorized access to sensitive information and enable the verifiability of every component in a communication.

MAT212 Linear Algebra I is a one-semester 3-credit unit 200 level course designed to teach the university mathematics student the basics of the subject of linear algebra.

CPT 214 Computer Architecture is a 3- credit unit course for students studying towards acquiring a Bachelor of Science in any field. The course is divided into 5 modules and 16 study units. It will first introduce to digital logics. Then, memory system. Thereafter, interfacing and communication is discussed. This is followed by an extensive discussion on the introduction of networks, raid architectures, Data Path and control. And finally, instruction pipelining, riscs and multiprocessors.

CPT 221 Object Oriented Programming II is a 3- credit unit course for students studying towards acquiring a Bachelor of Science in any field and particularly, Information Technology. The course is divided into 4 modules and 20 study units. It will first introduce the fundamental of java programming language, which include language general syntax, variables and datatypes, strings and reserved words. Next, is classes, interface, enumeration and objects. This include constructor as a special method, overload and override a method and control access to members. Thereafter, java operators and control statements are discussed. The operators include arithmetic, relational and logical; while both decision and looping statements or constructs would be discussed as well. Finally, the students would be introduced to some java exceptional handling such as java throwable’s inheritance hierarchy, catch exception with try/catch/finally blocks, using throws and throw keyword.

CPT224 Introduction to Web Design is a 2- credit unit course for students studying towards acquiring a bachelor of science in computer science and other related disciplines. The course is divided into 3 module and 7 study units. It will first take a general introduction of the internet and web design, discussing web environment and authoring tool. This course will then go ahead to deal with the different languages used in web page design like HTML, cascading style sheets, server side include, JavaScript. The course went further to explain DHTML, XML, XHTML, WAP and WML. The course also explains the concept of graphics GIF, JPEG, PNG formats, designing graphics with palette, animated GIFs, multimedia and interactivity.

CPT222: Data Structures is a 3 Credit unit course for students studying towards acquiring a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and other related disciplines. The course is divided into 4 modules and 15 study units. It first takes a brief review of object-oriented design and fundamental data structures. This course will then go ahead to deal with the stacks and queues data structures, hash tables, trees and search trees. The course went further to deal with graphs and sorting. This course also deals with fundamental issues in language design.

MAT 225: Introduction to Numerical Analysis is a 3- credit unit course for students studying towards acquiring a Bachelor of Technology in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering and other related science disciplines. The course is divided into modules and 16 study units. It first introduces the students to Solution of Algebraic and Transcendental Equations. Next, Finite Differences. Thereafter, Interpolation is discussed. This is followed by Numerical Differentiation and Numerical Integration.

CSS311: Cybercrimes and Countermeasures is a 3 credit unit course for students studying towards acquiring a Bachelor of Technology in Cyber Security Science and other related disciplines. The course is divided into 4 modules and 15 study units.  The course started with the introduction of software engineering issues and associated terms to software engineering. The course then proceeds and deals with the processes that have to be followed in order to develop robust software. The course went further to deal with the concepts of system engineering and engineering processes that are important to the development of software. Other modules of the course discussed software requirements, requirements engineering process and system design; that is the strategic design to follow to have sophisticated software. The course concluded by examining software verification, validation, testing, debugging and decommissioning. These are the final processes to execute to ensure error-free and standard software.

CPT316 – System Analysis and Design is a three [3] credit unit course of twelve units. It deals with analysis, design, development, implementation and maintenance of computer-based information systems. The earlier courses in this programme would have made you familiar with basic computer hardware and software concepts as well as with some of the programming languages. The programming experience acquired is complemented in this course with systems experience. This would enable you to cope with the number of components in a systems development approach and enmesh you correctly to result in a successful project. The three modules in this course is a run through of the basic stages of a system devt life cycle (SDLC), the stakeholders in system development and the role of each stakeholder. The aim of this course is to equip you with the basic skills of studying and understanding a system as well as lay the foundation of the basic knowledge and tools you need to become a proficient system analyst. By the end of the course, you should be able to confidently study, analyse and design a workable system.

CPT 311 aims to introduce students to the Java programming language. Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to create Java programs that leverage the object-oriented features of the Java language, such as encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism; use data types, arrays and other data collections; implement error-handling techniques using exception handling, create and event-driven GUI using Swing components.

CPT313 Operating systems is a 3 Credit Unit course for students studying towards acquiring a Bachelor of Science in computer science and other related disciplines. The course is divided into 4 modules and 11 study units. It will first take a brief review of the concepts, history, basic principles and functions of Operating Systems (OS). Next, design issues, basic principles, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), device organizations, interrupts and user/system state transitions are treated in detail. Also, the student is introduced to concurrency and interrupt handling in a concurrent environment, mutual exclusion problem, deadlock detection and prevention, and solution strategies. Finally, other issues of synchronization, multiprocessor issues, scheduling, memory management, device management, fundamental concepts of file systems; security and protection in operating systems are also treated.

CPT 416 Software Design, Technique and Management is a 2 credit unit course for students studying towards acquiring a bachelor of science in computer science and other related disciplines. The course is divided into 7 module and 15 study units.  Software is a kind of system or we can say the package which is used in many organizations. It is a general term for the various kinds of programs used to operate computers and related devices. It can be thought of as the variable part of a computer and hardware the invariable part Software is often divided into two categories: System Software and application software. There are various types of application software such as scientific applications, mathematical applications, engineering applications, business applications. 
Software Development is a process to maintain software. At first glance to a developer - this is the coding process. This is when you sit down the front of computer and start to write codes that later processed on compiled and run. Become the actual software that is used by the end user. It is the process of developing software through successive techniques in a continuous way. This process includes not only the actual writing of code but also the preparation of requirements and objectives, the design of what is to be coded, and confirmation that what is developed has met objectives.