CCOM 4115: DATABASE DESIGN, three (3) credits, three (3) contact hours per week. Prerequisite: CCOM 4025. This course is an introduction to Database Management Systems (DBMS), with emphasis on relational database design and application development. Includes the study of Entity-Relationship Model and Relational Model. Explores Techniques for database design: E-R modeling, UML modeling, E-R to relational mappings, functional dependencies, and normalization. Contains discussions of Relational Algebra Structured Query Language (SQL), and Web applications. Finally, it presents an overview of DBMS implementation techniques. Students are provided hands-on training in database design, development, and implementation using a relational DBMS software.
- Teacher: JUAN A MELENDEZ-CAMACHO
- Teacher: Eliana Valenzuela-Andrade