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Courses - September 2025

Level 1

Course details

College Reading & Writing Skills
COMM1085

Description: This course introduces students to the reading, writing, and critical thinking skills needed for academic and workplace success. Students will analyse a variety of texts and apply the steps of planning, writing, and revising to produce writing that meets the expectations of selected audiences and purposes. The course prepares students for college-level writing tasks, research, and documentation by asking them to produce clear, informed, and purposeful documents relevant to both academic and professional contexts.
  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
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Conestoga 101
CON0101

Description: This self-directed course focuses on introducing new students to the supports, services, and opportunities available at Conestoga College. By the end of this course, students will understand the academic expectations of the Conestoga learning environment, as well as the supports available to ensure their academic success. Students will also be able to identify on-campus services that support their health and wellness, and explore ways to get actively involved in the Conestoga community through co-curricular learning opportunities.
  • Hours: 1
  • Credits: 0
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Technology Infrastructure: Networking
INFO1380

Description: This course will provide the student with the knowledge to conduct meaningful dialogue with the network specialists who design, install and maintain the network within their organization. The student will be introduced to broad networking concepts including protocols, topologies, transmission media and security, using hands-on examples of networking issues.
  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
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Mathematics for Information Technology I
MATH1910

Description:

The purpose of the course is to provide students with a sound mathematical foundation for logical reasoning and problem solving. The course stresses computer and business applications using equations, logic, sets, vectors, and data structures. The course includes applications such as cost-volume-profit analysis. The course is designed for IT students to help them translate everyday real world scenarios into mathematical concepts they can solve with computer systems and applications.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
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Programming: Web Foundations
PROG1246

Description:

In this course, students develop the skills needed to build static web sites. This includes facility with coding HTML, XHTML, and CSS, as well as the insertion of graphics and video into web sites.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
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Programming Concepts I
PROG1926

Description:

Developing software applications depends on a strong foundation in programming concepts and logic. In order to develop programs that solve business problems, the student will use the programming concepts of data types, looping, decision making, modifying strings and arrays. Particular attention will be paid to problem solving techniques using flowcharting to design the logic of the program. The student will be introduced to techniques of desk checking, testing and debugging.

  • Hours: 84
  • Credits: 6
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Database - Foundations
PROG2112

Description:

This course introduces the fundamentals of designing database relationships across entities, building schemas, and introductory SQL queries for data retrieval and modification.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
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Level 2

Course details

Understanding Workplace Behaviours
CDEV1520

Description: Information technology professionals require a strong knowledge of workplace best practices and interpersonal relations. This course explores the skills needed for career building, team building, decision making, communication, workplace culture and organizational change. Students will learn corporate etiquette and understand the workplace experience. The course will encourage students to make connections with industry professionals.
  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
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Graphic Design for Mobile Apps and Games
INFO1681

Description:

Professional graphic design is critical for mobile and web development in the modern age. Students will learn design concepts and principles for mobile and web applications using industry-leading software. This course provides students with the real-world application of practical graphic design for mobile devices, the web and games with user interfaces for a human-centred approach to user experience.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
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Mobile Application Development I
PROG1146

Description:

The ecosystem of mobile applications continues to evolve rapidly and building skills to design and develop applications on multiple platforms allows a mobile developer to solve computing problems using the best available mobile technologies. This course exposes the student to the frameworks and architectures used in Mobile Application Development targeting the Android operating system. By analyzing evolving technologies, the student will demonstrate the ability to build platform-specific mobile solutions for business and technical environments. Emphasis will be placed on performance, network reliability, deployment, testing, troubleshooting and debugging of mobile solutions.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
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Programming Dynamic Websites
PROG1936

Description:

Many software applications have web functionalities and require data collection. This course introduces the student to web-based applications development using browser based development tools. The students will program both client and server-side scripting inside of HTML forms.

  • Hours: 84
  • Credits: 6
  • Pre-Requisites: PROG1245 OR PROG1246
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Programming Concepts II
PROG1966

Description:
  • Hours: 84
  • Credits: 6
  • Pre-Requisites: PROG1925 OR PROG1926
  • CoRequisites:
Electives: General Education
Student must pass 1 Course(s), selected in the Student Portal from available course options

Level 3

Course details

User Experience
INFO1730

Description:

Because of the proliferation of different types of devices, the growing range of digital user interface technologies, and the increasingly competitive nature of the software industry, high-tech companies have come to understand the increasing importance of the User Experience and to value skilled professionals in this area. Thus, students are introduced to the best current practices in interactive design and will solve design problems that draw on different types of devices and navigation controls applied to business and commercial applications. Students will consider competition, target markets, business models and technical challenges to gather requirements, storyboard and document the design.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
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Hybrid Mobile Application
PROG1156

Description:

Mobile applications are much more complex than more traditional deployment models. Development of such applications face more significant performance challenges and considerably higher risk for data loss and security failures. This course prepares the students to build mobile applications that run on popular mobile devices using web technologies and current industry practices and tools. The students will learn client-side smart device development, including offline data access, testing, debugging, security, exception handling and deployment, using contemporary frameworks and libraries.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
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Mobile Application Development II
PROG2450

Description:

In this Mobile Application Development course, the student will continue to enhance mobile design and development skills to create business and technical solutions for Apple mobile devices. Through the analysis of evolving technologies and current development tools, native applications will be developed for the iOS operating system using common Apple development standards. Emphasis will be placed on performance, network reliability, deployment, testing, troubleshooting and debugging of mobile solutions.

  • Hours: 84
  • Credits: 6
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Mobile Game Programming
PROG2460

Description:

This course introduces Unity and steps students through creating a playable 3D environment that can be interacted with and explored. This course focuses on many of Unity's major systems and just enough coding to apply gameplay logic to tie things together. Each student will leave the course with a unique first-person, third-person, or VR game; and a foundation of skills they can develop to make their next game.

  • Hours: 84
  • Credits: 6
  • Pre-Requisites:
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Electives: General Education
Student must pass 1 Course(s), selected in the Student Portal from available course options

Level 4

Course details

Application Security and SQA
PROG2470

Description:

In this course, students will learn various approaches to testing and improving applications security and quality in client-server and mobile environments. Students will also learn the processes and procedures to safeguard mobile and web applications from different cyber threats and learn techniques, practices and tools that programmers employ to achieve a higher quality of mobile and web products.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
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Mobile Solutions Capstone Project
PROG2480

Description:

This course is the culmination of the program. Successful completion of this course will require the application of skills learned throughout the program. Small groups of students are to work as a team to design and document a complete mobile solution (back-end database coupled with a mobile application, etc.). The design must be supported by documented market research, a marketing plan and a business plan.

  • Hours: 84
  • Credits: 6
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Mobile Wearables
PROG2490

Description:

This course helps students take their existing Android and iOS development experience and apply it to developing applications using wearable technologies. Students will create Android and iOS apps for smartwatches and other wearables. Wearables enable users to stay connected, accomplish tasks, express themselves and reach users wherever and whenever they need an app. This course will also give students the knowledge necessary for designing a great user experience for wearables.

  • Hours: 56
  • Credits: 4
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Open-Source Full Stack Development
PROG2500

Description:

Students will learn to develop web/API-based projects using open-source technologies. This mode of delivery permits individuals and organizations to scale, modify and enhance a product's design. Students will strengthen their skills to become productive with Full-stack development. They will use a hands-on approach to build APIs and various tools, frameworks, libraries and packages. Creating these modern APIs also requires the students to develop skills with persistent scalable database storage systems.

  • Hours: 56
  • Credits: 4
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Cloud/Deployment
SYST2030

Description:

Cloud computing is used almost exclusively in today's web and mobile solutions, requiring a solid foundation in the core concepts of cloud computing technology. Hypervisors, hardware virtualization and common core components of cloud computing infrastructure form the focus of study. Students will develop the skills to install, configure and secure a virtual environment, including computing, storage, and networking resources. Students will also be able to evaluate workload requirements to design a basic cloud infrastructure for use with mobile and web applications.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
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Program outcomes

  1. Build, test, and deploy secure mobile and web solutions using appropriate network technologies
  2. Create effective user interfaces that leverage evolving mobile device capabilities.
  3. Design and develop cross-platform applications built with rich-media and HTML-based technologies.
  4. Design and develop device-specific, native applications to meet client needs.
  5. Identify client requirements and implement mobile and web solutions to meet them.
  6. Promote mobile technology solutions using business communication and marketing skills.
  7. Research and apply various software development kits (SDKs), frameworks and toolkits that can be used to create efficiencies when developing a mobile or web solution.
  8. Integrate database and server-side technologies to provide complete mobile and web development solutions.
  9. Design and develop websites that deploy to different devices and platforms.
  10. Collaborate with team members during project development to facilitate communication and achievement of project deliverables