Associate in Science Degree

(63 Credit Hours)

Program Director

Stephanie Cook
941-752-5281 Bradenton
941-408-1471 Venice
cooks@scf.edu

Program Goal

This program offers a sequence of courses that provides rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers such as entry level programmers, programmer specialists, computer programmers, senior programmers, chief business programmers, programmer analysts and information systems programmers.

The content prepares individuals to analyze business situations and to design, develop and write computer programs; store, locate, and retrieve specific documents, data and information; analyze problems using logic/analysis tools; code into computer language; and test, monitor, debug, document and maintain computer programs.

Program Entrance Requirements

To be admitted to the Computer Programming and Analysis Program, a student must have:

1. Achieved a level of mathematics proficiency which qualifies the student for entry into +
   MAC 1105
     or higher, as demonstrated by the standard placement criteria currently in use at State College of Florida, Manatee Sarasota (SCF);
2. Achieved a level of English and reading proficiency which qualifies the student for entry into
   ENC 1101
     or higher, as demonstrated by the standard placement criteria currently in use at SCF; and
3. Successfully completed Computer Information Systems (
   CGS 1000
     ) with a grade of “C” or better.