A Duke Visits the White House - Part 2
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2012 CISAT Faculty Award Recipients Announced More >
JMU Student Recieves VOTA Scholarship Sarah DiDomenico is the The Virginia Occupational Therapy Association (VOTA) Graduate Student Scholarship Award winner for 2011. More >
O. Ashton Trice Scholarship Founded This memorial scholarship is open to all School Psychology students and is awarded to the student with the highest GPA and exceptional academic performance, honoring the intent of the donor. More >
JMU-RMH Collaborative Fall 2011 Research Rounds Announced All meetings in RMH Lower Level Conference Rooms 2 and 3. More >
Telecommunications
The interdisciplinary minor in telecommunications is designed to augment the student's major program with a package of courses that will prepare the graduate to obtain a position as a telecommunication/network professional and fill a societal need in one of the fastest growing areas of technology
The program is developed as a minor principally for three major programs: computer science, integrated science and technology (for students not in the telecommunications concentration), and computer information systems. However, the program is open to any undergraduate with an interest in telecommunications and some computer background.
The telecommunications minor will instill knowledge of the following:
- Telecommunication terminologies, standards, policies and procedures.
- Basics of data transmission, digital signal processes, and signaling hierarchies.
- Architectures, communications protocols, and components of LANs, WANs, and internetworks.
- The TCP/IP and ATM protocol suites.
- Switching, routing, and traffic management in inter-networked environments.
- Voice, video, and data transmission over IP and ATM.
- Application development for the Internet.
- Distributed object systems programming and management
