Computer Science

Students of the Advanced Digital Media Productions class will be given an opportunity to take the skills they have acquired in the Digital Media class, and put it into practice by producing a variety of media productions in real world situations. Students will select projects that support challenging video productions such as content for the morning news, film festivals, local competitions, and the local public broadcast station. 

Advanced Digital Media Productions satisfies one credit of the applied art, computer, STEM, or general elective requirement for graduation.

This course provides an introduction to video production and technology while learning to work with various forms of digital media in the editing process.  Students will explore camera filming techniques and work with motion graphics to produce professional quality projects.  Coursework will include, but not limited to, the creation of field productions such as public service announcements, commercials, documentaries, talk shows and news programs.

Digital Media Productions satisfies one half credit of the applied art, computer, STEM, or general elective requirement for graduation.

This course provides an introduction to programming using Python and Python with Turtle languages.  Students will learn basic components and structures of a computer program with emphasis on conditional statements, loops, and simple functions.  This course can be used to prepare for further courses in programming, as an introduction to computers, or as an exploratory course for those interested in programming.

Introduction to Programming satisfies one half credit of the applied art, computer, STEM, or general elective requirement for graduation.

The Multimedia course is encouraged for all students who would like to increase their knowledge and understanding of computer skills.  The course integrates technology to enhance the effectiveness of communication while teaching the fundamentals of computer data manipulation including organization techniques, search techniques, writing formulas, formatting, design, and composing visual representations.  Multimedia also incorporates techniques to communicate in a clear and concise manner both personally and professionally when building projects.

The course also integrates other components that include research skills, resume writing, and emerging application software.  Through continuing understanding of media including video and sound, students will learn how to enhance their skills and effectively use a variety of computer technology in a project-based classroom model.

Multimedia Communications satisfies one half credit of the applied art, computer, STEM, or general elective requirement for graduation.

Introduction to computing logic, algorithmic thinking, computing processes, a programming language and computing environment. Knowledge obtained in this course enables use of the computer as an instrument to solve computing problems. Representative problems from science, mathematics, and engineering will be solved.

UConn ECE Computer Science satisfies one credit of the applied art, computer, STEM, or general elective requirement for graduation.

This course develops a fundamental understanding of the design and production of web sites.  Students will discuss what design elements go into web page development and learn how to create their own static and dynamic web pages.  Topics include, but are not limited to, formatting techniques, hyperlinks, 

graphical user interface components, tables, forms and database management.  Lessons involving the use of Adobe application products are also included to enhance design elements.

Web Design and Development satisfies one half credit of the applied art, computer, STEM, or general elective requirement for graduation.