Brandeis University Rabb School of Continuing Studies
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
http://www.brandeis.edu/rabbgrad/

Negotiating and Conflict Resolution

When there is a conflict of interest between two or more parties, negotiation can play an important role in resolving the conflict. Characteristics common to all negotiation situations include two or more individuals, groups, or organizations. The parties prefer to search for agreement rather than fight openly, have one side capitulate, permanently break off contact, or take their dispute to a ......
 

Using concepts and methodologies from cultural anthropology and project management, this course will provide students with a framework for identifying, describing and comparing cultural knowledge that is relevant to project management. Students will learn how to anticipate and recognize cultural misunderstanding, and how to take specific steps toward dealing with cross-cultural dynamics. Concep......
 

Drawing upon the field of human development, and utilizing academic studies, case studies and actual student examples, this course examines the human side of managing professionals and addresses the knowledge and skills required to be an effective leader. The course examines leadership in dynamic environments through the study of effective communication, interpersonal skills, relationship and t......
 

This course provides technical professionals with oral presentation and writing skills necessary for success in their fields. Extensive practice in persuasive and informative communication, in a variety of business and professional contexts, prepares every participant for success as a more skilled and confident communicator. Emphasis is placed upon improving both individual and group proficienc......
 

Security has achieved unprecedented consequence in the information technology (IT) industry and has become a critical part of every IT application. This heightened importance compels every IT application to adopt proactive or reactive measures that ensures security against disclosure of confidential information, destruction of data, misappropriation of resources, and compromise of accountabilit......
 

Testing plays a significant role in software development projects--in most cases accounting for between 25 and 50% of the overall project budget. This course offers practical tools and procedures for improving the software testing processes in organizations. Topics in the course include evaluation and improvement techniques for the following areas: (1)Test Strategy, (2)Test Project Estimat......
 

This course covers a broad range of topics related to software quality assurance (SQA). The course will explore combined application of a variety of SQA components, including: SQA activities typically performed by external participants; extension of SQA activities to project schedules and budget control; SQA implementation issues, SQA risk management considerations; and costs associated with SQ......
 

This course is designed to give students, who have a basic familiarity with programming and modern computing systems, a deeper understanding of such topics as requirements engineering, architectural design, dependable systems development and process improvement. The course is presented in a combination of "lectures", discussion forums, and chat sessions to build and refine skills nece......
 

This course, the first in the program, will provide students with techniques for anticipating and responding to the challenges of managing virtual and globally distributed teams. Specifically, the course will focus on strategies for recognizing, anticipating, and responding to: 1) cultural and individual diversity in order to strengthen communication and team-building; 2) relevant local, state ......
 

This is a programming course that will teach you how to develop Windows applications using the C# (pronounced "C sharp") programming language. You will learn the new Microsoft .NET environment for developing and running software applications, featuring ease of development of web-based services, rich standard run-time services available to components written in a variety of programming......
 

This course is an in-depth study of the TCP/IP Internet Protocol Suite. It compares the suite to the OSI reference model and describes the workings of a number of applications such as FTP, Telnet, TFTP, DNS, and DHCP, HTTP and IP Security (IPSec), and Voice over IP (VOIP). The material covers in-depth IP addressing and subnet masking, TCP operation, session-initiation, sequencing, acknow......
 

This course will provide an overview of network security principals and practices. Through a combination of lecture and hands-on activities, students will gain an understanding of firewalls, intrusion detection systems, host-based security principles and security tools such as network scanners. This course presents an overview of network security with an emphasis on support for network and Web......
 

This course explores the issues of distributed databases, data warehousing, and data mining. In addition, the course will introduce students to specialized database systems that show signs of future growth....
 

This course provides students with a thorough introduction to data modeling; relational, object-oriented and object-relational database design concepts and issues. The design emphasis will be explored through a combination of team and individual projects as well as exposure too hands-on database implementations. The collection, storage and retrieval of information is a major part of almost e......
 

The course provides an extensive examination of client and server side technologies used in developing web applications. On the client side, we learn how to create attractive and well-functioning web pages using XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript. The server side web development focuses on web development with servlets JavaServerPages (JSP), Struts, JavaServerFaces (JSF). Web ap......
 

This course focuses on the transport of multi-media information among distributed computer systems. We examine how modern communication protocols satisfy the differing requirements of the services that generate and use multi-media information. We use the Internet and private corporate networks as examples. ...
 

This course surveys the open standards that are making data representations and documents increasingly interchangeable, searchable, dynamic, and customizable. Students will learn how to design application-specific markup grammars using XML rules; how to validate the XML files with DTDs and XML Schemas; how to transform them using XSLT/Xpath/FO; and how to parse XML documents with DOM and SAX pr......
 

This is a hands-on lab course covering the following topics: Linux installation Managing Network Connections, Modems, and Printers Day to day tasks Managing Disk Space Backup and Recovery Email and Web services Security issues with Linux System Performance Monitoring Disaster Preparedness Special topics based on student interest Course Objectives Upon completing the course, you ......
 

This is an introduction to several UNIX tools and techniques: common commands, shells and shell programming, regular expressions, sed, awk, cron, make and a skimming of Perl. Comparisons to Windows will be used to illustrate similarities and differences and to illuminate the UNIX system. This is a lecture course, supported by live demonstrations. The course includes weekly homework assignments,......
 

This course covers Perl’s invocation, basic syntax, regular expression parser, lists, hashes, filehandles, built-in functions, and control-flow mechanisms. Students will be introduced to Perl’s references and modules, which support complex data structures. Applications will include writing CGI scripts, and using Perl to access an SQL database. This is a lecture course covering the......
 

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