Certificate in Gateway to Digital Technology BCERTU.GWT

Required Courses

This certificate provides a jump start for South Dakota high school students with a career interest in digital technology, including disciplines like computer science, information systems, networking, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, web development, health informatics, and data analytics.  Courses taken in the certificate will be stackable into academic degrees in those related fields.

This is a collaboration with other SD BOR schools.

*courses not offered by BHSU. 

• Choose one programming course from the Following:

  *CSC 115 - Test-Driven Software Development
  *CSC 155/L - Introduction to Computer Science
  *CSC 170/L - Programming for Engineers and Scientists 
  *INFO 101 - Introduction to Informatics 

• CSC 150 - Computer Science I 3 semester hours

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• Choose one digital tecnolgoy course from the following:

  *CSC 101 - Digtital Humanitites
  *CSC 134 - Introduction to Cyber
  *CSC 147 - Survey of Artifical Intelligence
  *CSC 163 - Hardware, Virtualization, and Data Communication

   

  Choose one math course from the following:

• MATH 114 - College Algebra 3 semester hours
• MATH 115 - Precalculus 5 semester hours
• MATH 120 - Trigonometry 3 semester hours
• MATH 121 - Survey of Calculus 4 semester hours
• MATH 123 - Calculus I 4 semester hours
• MATH 125 - Calculus II 4 semester hours
• MATH 225 - Calculus III 4 semester hours
• MATH 281 - Introduction to Statistics 3 semester hours

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  Choose one social science or arts & humanitites course from the following:

  *INFO/PHIL 102 - Data Ethics
  *SOC 285 - Society and Technology

• PHIL 200 - Introduction to Logic 3 semester hours
• PHIL 220 - Introduction to Ethics 3 semester hours

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  *courses offered through other SD BOR schools