Re: Chubb Institute for Training

From: Alan <alan_at_erols.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:00:46 -0500
Message-ID: <bnrqlm$13hg5f$1@ID-114862.news.uni-berlin.de>

Bucks County Community College (Pennsylvania).

For a major university, Drexel University has three schools in which to study some form of CS:

• College of Arts and Science (CAS) - The most difficult of the schools. Comes from an engineering perspective. Good if you want to write compilers and other geeky things, or just want to be a heads-down programmer. Many freshmen enroll there, and discover it is not what they expected, so they transfer to the...
• College of Information Science and Technology (CIST) - This is where most anyone posting on this newsgroup would select. Teaches how to convert business requiremnets into information systems. Concentrates on the analysis and design phases. Turns out the equiavalent of what used to be called Systems Analysts, and also DBAs if you build your concentartion that way. Anyone attending this program will not post, "How do I convert my ERD to a relational schema?" They will also have at least 5 quarters of full-time co-op experience.
• College of Business (COB) - Standarad business approach to I.T. Teaches the business users how to interact with the I.T. people who were trained in CIST.

I reccommend CIST in most cases.

"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1067540924.452389_at_yasure...
> Alan wrote:
>
> >I do not believe that your generalization is justified. Unless you have
> >examined the programs at "almost all" community colleges, you cannot
claim
> >that, "Almost all of the community
> > college programs are OCP classes. They teach just enough to get someone
an
> >OCP certificate and little more." The community college in my area, for
> >example has a very good two-year program.
> >
> >
> But I have. Well not me personally. We have a department that does
> exactly that. I have a
> research paper on the subject that is almost three inches thick.
>
> The fact that you have found an exception to a generality is hardly a
> shock. All generalities
> have exceptions. I put in my statement caveats in that regard.
>
> I would however be interested in the name of that school and the city
> for my files. And others
> in your area would find it valuable if you published the information too.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Daniel Morgan
> http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp
> http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp
> damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
> (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)
>
Received on Thu Oct 30 2003 - 14:00:46 CST