This course develops students’ critical thinking and helps them compose academic essays on a wide variety of topics. In addition to improving writing skills, this course develops the abilities of students to express their ideas clearly and confidently during class discussions and presentations while expanding their lexical, analytical, and collaborative skills.

This course introduces requirements gathering, elicitation, specifications, and prioritization for secure software development. Topics include requirement specification process and cost, building requirements, software lifecycles, goals and models for elicitation, artifact-driven elicitation, storyboarding and scenarios, reusing existing knowledge, interviewing and learning from the sources, goal creation, use/misuse cases, group sessions for elicitation, analysis, and negotiation, finding conflicts and risks, risk analysis, assessment and prioritization, treating and controlling risk, and incorporating risk management into the overall process of requirement elicitation.

This course provides a first-level exploration of object-oriented programming with an emphasis on procedural abstraction. Topics include disciplined programming styles, data types, control, repetition, and selection constructs, functions, arrays, and files. The mechanics of running, testing, and debugging a program will also be covered.

Discrete Mathematics is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with arrangements of discrete objects.  Students will develop skills in applying fundamental mathematical principles, including logical reasoning, sets, relations and functions, propositional logic, and difference equations. The relevance of Discrete Mathematics to selected scientific and computing fields will also be explored.

BIOL 202 combines chemical and biological principles to investigate the functions of cells, organs, and human systems. The course provides knowledge of the molecular and physiological foundations of human health and disease.

Building on the skills acquired in Preparatory English and Academic English I, this course is designed to expand students’ understanding of key linguistic areas, with emphasis on reading comprehension and analysis, synthesis, critiquing, argumentation, and research techniques associated with academic work.

This course provides the general foundations of ethics and their relation to cybersecurity, its governance, risks and management, compliance, and laws. Topics include domains of risk assessment and treatment, structure and content of a cybersecurity-related strategy, plans, and planning, key components and methodologies of cybersecurity policies and policy development, and the role of performance measures.

This course provides a second-level exploration of object-oriented programming. Topics include data structures used to solve programming problems, and the algorithms for manipulating such structures.

This course introduces fundamental topics and applications of statistical methods that are critical in information systems. Topics include Exploratory Data Analysis, Introduction to R, Probability, Random Variables, Probability Distributions, and Statistical Modelling of Inferences.

This course introduces students to economic systems, forms of business ownership, and considerations for running a business. Topic include aspects of business, management and leadership functions, organizational considerations, decision-making processes, accounting, money and banking, and securities markets. The course will also discuss business challenges in the legal and regulatory environment, business ethics, social responsibility, and international business.

CHUM 201 explores historical and cultural perspectives to investigate existential topics, including the basis of ethics and morality, and the origins of socio-political systems. CHUM 201 is interdisciplinary at its core, promotes critical thinking skills through the analysis of primary historical and current texts, and nurtures the ability of students to establish relationships between different information and to formulate new ideas.

This course introduces the languages, tools, and techniques of modern full-stack development of rich internet applications. Topics include advanced markup languages, client- and server-side technologies, scripting, web services, web servers, and multi-layered applications using relational database systems.

This course provides an integrated approach to computer networks and cybersecurity. The network component of this course provides a full overview of computer networking. Topics include fundamentals of modern networking technologies and protocols, overview of cloud storage and services, and network troubleshooting. The security component of this course provides a wide variety of IT security concepts, threats and attacks, tools, and best practices in security architecture. Topics include the basics of encryption algorithms, authentication, authorization, and accounting in information security, and firewalls to Wifi encryption options.

This course introduces the basic concepts, fundamental structures, and general techniques to design, develop, and maintain data resources using widely available software within a structured development method. Topics include data modelling and relational data models, normal forms, and the Structured Query Language.

BIOL 220 investigates the most current healthcare issues, including epidemics and pandemics, obesity, and other healthcare and public health problems in the MENA region and the world.

This course introduces the essentials of operating systems design and management, and the basic security issues involved in the design and implementation of such systems. Topics include operating system roles, functions and services, hardware components, virtualization, and the installation, configuration, and administration of a secure operating system.

The course introduces students to systems analysis and design as a problem-solving activity within the framework of a selected methodology. Topics include contemporary industry practices, advanced system requirements and documentations, design and implementation activities options, and professional skills required for application development. Students will also learn how to use cloud services to build secure, scalable, and cloud-native applications.

This course introduces network principles, layered models, ethernet, internet protocol stack, network routing and congestion control, network security, network packet analysis, and network traffic analysis techniques. Popular diagnostic tools are used to monitor protocols in action and to understand how network protocols work. Network programming, error detection and correction, security, and performance evaluation will also be explored.

The course teaches students the basic elements of the Arabic language including grammar, syntax, morphology, and vocabulary with a focus on oral and communication skills. Emphasis is also placed on the analytical study of a wide variety of Arabic literary texts, with students exposed to major Arabic literary authors.

This course provides a clinically-oriented introduction to health Informatics and digital health, and clinical research, population health, and healthcare system planning. Topics include current trends and future directions in digital health, specifically from the perspectives of information science and technology, health and biomedical sciences, management sciences, and behavioral and social sciences.

This course introduces the various types of components and data sources in large, scalable, secure, and distributed enterprise applications . Topics include large‐scale enterprise environments, virtualized or cloud‐based systems and services, network storage, distributed authentication, configuration and change management, and other contemporary topics.

This course provides students with the skills required to successfully manage an IT project while preparing for CompTIA Project+ certification. Topics include steps of IT project management processes, critical strategies for on-time and within-budget projects, proven methods of project initiation, team members' selection criteria, management approval, communication, realistic timetables, costs tracking, and project closing.

The course helps students in acquiring the range of skills necessary for impactful business interactions with small and large audiences, as well as one-on-one interactions, by tackling areas such as presentation skills, physical presence and body language, voice training, and team building. In parallel, the course will explore argumentation techniques that can be used to optimally convey content to any type of audience in a structured and impactful way, improving persuasion skills and optimally making use of rhetorical techniques.

This course covers the Human Computer Interface (HCI) discipline and the design of usable interfaces for computer applications. It examines how user requirements are gathered and how the principles of design are incorporated to successfully develop interfaces that meet those requirements. Students will also analyze and evaluate interfaces for usability applying techniques derived from the principles. Topics include needs-finding, rapid prototyping, heuristic evaluation, direct manipulation and representations, visual design and information design, designing experiments, connecting people through technology, challenges and opportunities of online collaboration, crowdsourcing, input, search and navigation, and gestural interfaces.

This course provides the scientific foundations of digital health and examines the major methods and tools used in the improvement of healthcare informatics. Topics include integration and analyses of structured and unstructured health data, modelling and simulation of the dynamics of health conditions and health services, managing the exponential growth in health and biomedical knowledge, and undertaking digital health research and innovation projects.

In this course, students work in teams to complete a significant project in Information Technology under the mentorship of a faculty member. In the first phase of this course, a detailed project proposal is formulated and includes identification of a problem, background research, social, ethical and economic considerations, intellectual property and patents, and proposal writing, including methods of analysis and theoretical modeling. In the second phase of this course, the project is implemented, documented, and presented to a panel.

This course introduces students to the design and programming of databanks as a collection of local and/or cloud-based heterogeneous databases. Topics include assembling and analyzing data from multiple operational systems, such as nutrition and health services data, establishing data history, analyzing trends, generating reports and forecasts, and supporting general ad hoc queries.

CHUM 202 is a natural extension of CHUM 201. CHUM 202 explores historical and cultural perspectives to investigate existential topics, including the nature of the mind, the origins of belief, and the purpose of human existence. CHUM 202 is interdisciplinary at its core, promotes critical thinking skills through the analysis of primary historical and current texts, and nurtures the ability of students to establish relationships between different information and to formulate new ideas.

This course investigates the generation, collection, storage, communication, integration, and analysis of health data, and how this data is converted into knowledge for clinical, research, and administrative purposes. Topics include data sources in health, information modelling in health, information processing in health, information analysis and visualization in health, and management in health informatics.

This course examines how Internet of Things (IOT) technology is used in healthcare to facilitate the deployment of telemedicine. Requirements for the delivery of telemedicine services and basic knowledge of the telemedicine standards will be explored. The course will also serve as a public awareness tool to promote and advocate the use of advanced communication technologies to expand healthcare outreach and overcome geographic barriers to deliver patient care and services.

This course provides an opportunity for a professional learning experience in applied information systems and technologies, allowing students to apply the knowledge, skills, and practices of professional attitudes and behavior in real-world experience, solve real-world problems, make the learning experiential, facilitate project-based learning, and integrate scholarship with practice.