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Jan 17, 2025
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Official Catalog Winter 2025
Networking Technology, AAS
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B&SC Code: NETW
CIP Code: 11.1002
New York Hegis Code: 5199
Available online in all states
Program: NETW
The associate degree in Networking Technology offers students a foundation of classwork and hands-on experiences with network systems commonly found in the industry. Students will analyze the technologies comprising network infrastructures to allow for the successful transfer and use of mission-critical information. Students will learn how to install, configure, secure, administer, design, and troubleshoot computer networks. This program will prepare students to take the CompTIA A+ certification exam, the CompTIA Security+ certification exam, and the CompTIA Network+ certification exam.
Graduates of this degree plan will achieve the following program and institutional outcomes:
- Effectively communicate with end users, managers, and peers of a technical and non-technical nature.
- Understand the process of installing, configuring, and troubleshooting hardware and software components in an organization.
- Identify basic routing technologies and network topologies.
- Use information technology to apply logical, legal, and ethical principles in performing industry-related tasks or projects in a global systems environment.
- Identify vulnerabilities, threats, and risk mitigation strategies when securing information systems.
- Design and administer networks through installing, configuring, and troubleshooting network hardware and software components.
- Utilize appropriate current technology and resources to locate and evaluate information needed to accomplish a goal and then communicate findings in visual, written, and/or oral formats.
- Transfer knowledge, skills, and behaviors acquired through formal and informal learning and life experiences to new situations.
- Employ strategies for reflection on learning and practice in order to adjust learning processes for continual improvement.
- Follow established methods of inquiry and mathematical reasoning to form conclusions and make decisions.
- Participate in social, academic, and professional communities for individual growth and to function as a citizen of a multicultural world.
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Total: 39 Semester Credit Hour(s)
Liberal Arts Requirements
Total: 21 Semester Credit Hour(s)
Total Credit Hours Required for Graduation: 60
* Dedicated online learners take an alternate course. Campus-based learners may take an alternate course with prior permission.
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