As a new student looking into the Information Systems program at SFSU, I was surprised to find technical IS courses offered under the the computer science department (CSC) and not Information Systems department.
Namely there was one particular course that stood out and that's CSC 651: System Administration.
This is the following course description:
Namely there was one particular course that stood out and that's CSC 651: System Administration.
This is the following course description:
User administration. Operating system installation, tuning, and control. Network administration. Security management. Performance tuning and management. Extra fee required.(reference: http://www.sfsu.edu/~bulletin/courses/35184.htm)
Obviously, this type of course would be within IT and should not require extensive math, and computer programming education.
The chain of prerequisites for this course are 7 courses: CSC 210, CSC 212, CSC 213, CSC 313, MATH 226, MATH 227, and MATH 324. Alternatively, students can take this type of course at any number of community colleges in California without the prerequisites or excessive costs involved to take this at SFSU.
The chain of prerequisites for this course are 7 courses: CSC 210, CSC 212, CSC 213, CSC 313, MATH 226, MATH 227, and MATH 324. Alternatively, students can take this type of course at any number of community colleges in California without the prerequisites or excessive costs involved to take this at SFSU.
This is because the CS faculty is faced with 2 choices: continue in the dead-end job teaching 20 year old technology to non English speakers who would graduate and go back to work for their parents’ ethic food restaurants anyway or hit the job market and become dead-meat jobless road-kill incapable of getting even an entry level computer related job. So since both choices suck donkey ass and in the presence of chronic ED they have chosen to create a challenging course of arbitrary obstacles until one arrives at the nirvana subject matter of system administration – a job that any high-school dropout can get and master in 30 days.
ReplyDeleteOf course there is an alternative but they don’t have the time for it; their clock had expired: learn real world computer science and get with the program. Hello? Anybody there?