Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: utilize an industry-standard digital illustration software application (i.e. Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw) to create professional designs at an advanced level; master the technical use of the tools and menu options to create professional designs; demonstrate a thorough understanding of the computer software application's capabilities; demonstrate increased levels of comfort and speed in using the computer software application; and synthesize theory with technical and creative skills to provide multiple solutions to technical challenges. Emphasis is placed on fostering independence in the learning process so that students can continue to upgrade their skills independently long after they have completed this course.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: Draw from observation in a variety of black-white media using appropriate media and/or style of execution for the subject; compose a page that uses illustration with type and basic elements of pictorial symbolism as it is used in illustration; communicate visually by making creative, artistic decisions. 

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: execute professional designs through the following process: comprehend the design problem being presented based on the client’s requirements and needs, target market, consumer demographics, and practical constraints (e.g. deadlines, budget, production techniques); conduct research to gain a thorough understanding of the client, target audience and demographics, product, and competitors’ products; utilize the internet as a research tool; conduct simple surveys with target audience; develop personality sheets based on ideal target audience; brainstorm solutions to the problem based on research results; refine and advance solutions to professional designs based on instructor, peer, self, and target audience’s critique and input; produce professional designs in which composition, color, and typography are fully resolved and technical execution is flawless.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: recognize, choose, use and care for the basic tools of painting and paints, use the basic techniques of painting different subject matter using oil paints, with an emphasis on the essential aspects of composition, lighting and color choice.

Version 1 and 2: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: apply basic marketing strategies to product design; choose and use appropriate Adobe programs expertly; prepare files for print including: document setup, color selection, image format selection, scanning techniques, specifying files resolution, trapping procedures, adding print marks and bleeds to files, installing printers, saving postscript files, creating PDF files and proofing proofs; prepare documents for special finishes and binding; demonstrate the ability to request a price quote and order a print job; maintain viable backup system of files; provide constructive criticism to peer designs; synthesize theory with technical and creative skills to design a PDF portfolio for prospective employers.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: demonstrate an understanding of the role of the graphic designer; define and demonstrate an understanding of vocabulary, terms, and definitions pertaining to composition, color theory, and major art movements in history; identify and analyze the major art movements from prehistory to contemporary; identify and analyze traditional and digital color systems; analyze the historical, symbolic, and psychological use of color; apply the principles of concept, form, content, color, perspective, and design principles and elements to design; create textures out of letterforms used as shape through the application of  transformation principles; apply color principles to create complementary color palettes within design; synthesize theory with practical design skills to create basic designs, placing emphasis on visual hierarchy while combining images and multiple levels of text; critically analyze peers and personal designs; implement problem-solving skills to improve designs.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: discuss the consequences of diversity in the workforce; describe and analyze jobs; explain how the selection process takes place within organizations; describe the assessment process; define motivation; define the role of training and development in strategic planning; and explain the impact of organizational culture on the Human Resource Management process.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: recognize and trace the circular flows in economic environments; describe the history and nature of macroeconomics; understand and describe the means of determining economic outputs; track the role of government and fiscal policies on the economy; describe the banking system and monetary policy; explain the phenomena of unemployment; analyze the issues of inflation; and recognize the interrelation between economic and political considerations.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: define terms and concepts in regards to financial stability; income; budgeting; banking procedures; taxes; savings; investing; interest; insurance; and credit use; identify and evaluate attitudes and habits that lead to financial stability; outline a business or career plan, explaining and assessing organizational, financial, and educational considerations; develop a budget, applying and evaluating budgeting strategies, and devising solutions; outline and compare banking procedures and services ; understand personal risk management; describe and compare saving and investing alternatives; identify mortgage options and evaluate pros and cons; describe and analyze ethical compromises in regards to personal finance and propose solutions; describe and apply Jewish legal and moral perspectives on finance including charity and integrity;  reflect and describe on the personal impact of the material studied within this course.

Version 1 and 2: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: discuss various theories and frameworks for investigating issues and apply the theories to a range of issues in the workplace. The course is open to students across disciplines and provides integration of ideas across multiple business disciplines. 

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: identify and discuss the basic complexities in the asset, liability accounts; the capital structure of the business entity (debts versus equity) and its implications, the pervasiveness of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and the changes that have occurred in the expectation of report users and the reaction of the accounting community; conduct a basic financial analysis of statements; prepare a cash flow statement; and recognize fundamental cost accounting issues.

: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: build advanced web pages using   Html, CSS, Javascript and Php and implement basic CRUD functionality.

Version 1 and 2: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: write programs in C++ using basic and advanced features of the features of the language. Specifically: demonstrate the ability to perform  arithmetic and character operations on variables; demonstrate the ability to write a program that creates classes and objects; demonstrate the ability to use control structures in writing a program; demonstrate the ability to use a simple repetition statement in writing a program; be able to use different data types and perform conversions between the different types; demonstrate the ability to use nested loops in writing a program; demonstrate the ability to use a counter controlled loop in writing a program; be able to differentiate between the different logical operators and show their use in compound selector statements; demonstrate the ability to declare and use one-dimensional arrays; demonstrate the ability to declare and use two-dimensional arrays; demonstrate the ability to declare and use methods in a program; demonstrate the ability to declare and use classes and objects in a program; demonstrate the ability to declare and manipulate strings.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: use mathematical expressions to describe functions of simple combinational and sequential circuits; describe the physical limitations of electronic circuits; explain the pros and cons of using different formats to represent numerical data; convert numerical data from one format to another; discuss effects of fixed-length number representations on accuracy and precision; describe internal representation of characters, strings, records, and arrays; explain the basic organization and major functional units of the von Neumann machine; comprehend how an instruction is executed in a von Neumann machine; summarize how instructions are represented at machine levels and in context of a symbolic assembler; identify different instruction formats, such as addresses per instruction and variable length versus fixed length formats; write simple assembly language program segments; demonstrate how fundamental high-level programming constructs are implemented at the machine-language level; comprehend basic concepts of interrupts and I/O operations; explain how interrupts are used to implement I/O control and data transfers; identify various types of buses; describe data access from various drives, such as magnetic disks, optical disks, magnetic tape, and RAID drives; compare alternative implementations of datapaths; discuss control points and the generation of control signals using hardwired or microprogrammed implementations; explain basic instruction level parallelism using pipelining and describe hazards that may occur; implement parallel processing beyond the classical von Neumann model; describe alternative architectures such as SISD (Single Instruction, Single Data), SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data), MISD (Multiple Instruction, Single Data), and MIMD (Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data), and VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word.)

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: define and apply database concepts such as: database design, relational database design, database architecture, entity-relationships, data normalization, data modeling, ensuring data independence, query design, relationships, SQL, client/server, transaction processing, data types, indexing, ODBC, data access languages, security. The student will be able to design, build and implement a fully functional relational database using either Microsoft Access and/or SQL Server implementing the concepts covered.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: describe the basic structure of an operating system and its components; describe and implement fundamental operating systems abstractions such as processes, threads, files, and semaphores; define the principles of concurrency and synchronization and interprocess communication; implement basic resource management techniques (scheduling, memory management) and principles. These also include issues of performance and fairness objectives, and avoiding deadlocks. Perform practical exercises using different basic linux networking commands.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will able to: analyze data found on digital storage media that might provide evidence of wrong-doing; select and apply computer forensics tools used in data analysis, such as searching, absolute disk sector viewing and editing, recovery of files, password cracking, etc.; investigate an infected system and determine that all necessary data was collected to understand the attack method; identify and analyze the stages an ethical hacker requires to take in order to compromise a target system.; analyze basic malwares – basic static and dynamic analysis; and analyze network traffic, identify common attacks like MITM, ARP Poisoning and Spoofing.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: identify the characteristics and concerns of a helping relationship;  recognize the difference between crisis and long term intervention and respond appropriately; identify the ways in which situational conditions within a client’s social and family network impact on individual functioning and treatment outcomes;  draw an eco-map to represent this social situation; draw a geno map to represent the family situation;  develop a beginning intervention plan to address these issues;  plan and predict their own effect on the intervention process.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: discuss the emotional and social needs of children, apply this information to their lesson planning and execution; gain skills for effective classroom management.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: demonstrate awareness of technology available for educating children with diverse needs in an inclusive classroom; teach key principles of science; teach numbers sense in the areas of key math abilities;   evaluate and design a technology tool or program used for children with special needs.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: describe and apply the fundamentals of the learning process; discuss and apply the structure of Bloom’s taxonomy in lesson design, discuss and apply modern theories of education including Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligence, Tomlinson and Differentiated Instruction, plan and implement all aspects of instruction in the elementary school classroom.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: plan units of teaching in the areas of social sciences, math or the arts in the curriculum  to enhance different learning styles including learning disabilities; apply reading theories to build reading readiness and reading skills; consider the effects of physical and emotional environment on children and teacher behavior; evaluate progress appropriately and effectively;  communicate with government agencies, families and staff effectively; apply strategies that support children’s divergent thinking and problem solving skills and adapt strategies to the diverse needs of children.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: write within the standard conventions of American or British English; write clear, effective essays designed to address critical positions and problems; demonstrate skills in the fundamental stages of writing: prewriting, writing and rewriting clear, effective essays designed to address critical positions and problems; write research essay, developing theme and using research sources; describe the ways in which narratives (fiction and non-fiction), expository writings and arguments attempt to persuade an audience through appeals to reason and emotion; identify the ways in which narratives, expository pieces and arguments (including literary analyses) are shaped by an author’s social, historical, moral, psychological, and philosophical assumptions; draw sound inferences from data; learn difference between inductive and deductive reasoning; take notes effectively; locate and evaluate outside sources for use in developing their own analysis; effectively use such writing strategies as analysis, synthesis, interpretation, and definition; develop an ability to refine positions or seek new ones when they recognize weaknesses in their own arguments.

Upon successful completion, students will be able to: demonstrate proficiency in listening, reading, comprehension and writing necessary for elementary basic communication in a foreign language. Specifically, students will recognize the alphabet, demonstrate an ability to understand the main ideas and information on a variety of familiar topics. Students read and understand simple texts of familiar topics, including standard vocabulary and basic syntax; communicate basic ideas and needs orally by using patterned responses and in writing,  by writing simple sentences and linking them into a paragraph.  Grammar is expressed in present and one other time frame in comprehensible language. Students will be able to spell phonetically.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: articulate insight into the various theological, philosophical & legal implications of a variety of exegetical and midrashic insights and demonstrate advanced skills in independent Biblical research.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: articulate the foundations of Chabad Chassidic philosophy and support the discussion with appropriate textual sources; recognize, define and apply the terminology of Chabad philosophy; compare and contrast Chabad Chassidic writings with other Jewish philosophical works.

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: recognize and apply the terminology of Mussar concepts; successfully apply these concepts to character development, recognizing points of decision, making life choices, avoiding pitfalls in character development and recovering from failure.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to analyze the depth of the major religious, ethical, halachic and historical elements of selected topics in the Book of Genesis.  Students will demonstrate improving skill levels in parsing biblical texts and their exegeses.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: articulate Rabbinic views on selected contemporary halachic issues of particular relevance to Jewish women; decode primary sources; discern the basis of halachic decisions; integrate and apply real-life applications of halachic sources; use their knowledge to study new halachic topics taught in the course; understand new issues that arise in the future that relate to course topics and demonstrate the ability to apply halachic decisions to new situations.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to analyze and apply the intellectual philosophical and ethical motifs and principles of the unique status of the Jewish Home, as it serves as the foundation of the existence of the Jewish People, prepare original source material from Tanach (Bible) and its commentaries, Midrashic sources, Philosophical (Hashkafic) and Ethical (Mussar) texts that describe the Jewish home.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: analyze primary sources that delve into the role of the Jewish nation as a whole and of Jewish women in particular; isolate facets of those concepts and examine their interplay to gain a new perspective on the philosophical underpinnings of Judaism and feminism, and Judaism and human nature; crystallize the central theme of classic Jewish philosophical texts that relate to the role of women in Biblical and later Jewish texts.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: discuss and analyze the distinctive elements of midrashic literature and the principles on which they are based; compare various midrashic types and historical approaches to the interpretation of aggadah and midrash, and demonstrate advanced skills in midrashic analysis.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: discuss the criteria for determining forbidden and permissible foods, and correct procedures for maintaining standards of kashrut, according to halachic sources; apply halachic paradigms to new situations/ issues that could arise in the future.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: identify, describe, interpret and analyze the Laws of Interpersonal Relationships; extrapolate from the relevant principles to their applications in a wide variety of situations, typical and atypical, practical and theological. In delving into source material from across the spectrum of Jewish history, the student will demonstrate  skill in analyzing Biblical, Rabbinical, medieval and modern primary sources and will trace the development of the Jewish legal code as the sages of one era build on the work of sages of previous times.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: identify and analyze major categories of melachah; distinguish the principles behind each one and apply them to novel situations; define and categorize the laws and subtopics of muktza (items which are set aside from use on Shabbat); discuss the definitions and ramifications of private and public domain in Jewish law with regard to Shabbat; analyze the principles behind specific prohibitions and their rabbinic boundaries and apply them; recognize and enumerate the intricacies of the laws of lighting Shabbat candles, Kiddush (sanctifying the Shabbat) and Havdalah (blessing concluding the Shabbat); the student will utilize literary resources to evaluate diverse opinions as they pertain to hilchos Shabbos and use them to appraise what actions are permitted on Shabbos.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: identify and articulate the major religious and moral ideas to be found in Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, and Lamentations and identify the symbolism employed in these books.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: translate complicated and esoteric Hebrew and Aramaic sections of the Book of Daniel; identify and discuss major religious and historical themes found in the Book of Daniel and pertinent Rabbinic and classical Jewish literature; analyze and compare similar themes in Classical and Biblical texts.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: articulate and evaluate multiple viewpoints on the major religious, philosophical and moral questions raised in the Book of Ecclesiastes as expounded upon in the commentaries on the Book and in major works of Jewish thought; recognize moral dilemmas inherent in daily existence and apply the wisdom of Solomon to recognize, weigh and resolve those moral challenges; demonstrate skills of independent textual analysis.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: articulate analyses of major religious, ethical, halachic, philosophical and historical elements of the Book of Exodus, through referring to Biblical, Midrashic, Rabbinic and later sources; demonstrate proficiency in textual analysis of primary materials written throughout the multi-millennial span of Jewish history.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: discuss the major religious and historical elements of the Book of Genesis; outline major topics in the Book of Genesis; reconcile and synthesize the commentary of Rashi and additional classical and modern commentaries with the construct of the text; combine skills in second language comprehension of Biblical Hebrew with the exegetical principles of comprehension for successful textual analysis.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: identify and discuss the major religious, historical and geographical elements of the Book of Joshua; compare the texts and commentaries, and relate Midrashic sources that elucidate the Book of Joshua.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: probe into and analyze the major religious, ethical, halachic, philosophical and historical elements of the Book of Leviticus, use a wealth of Biblical, Midrashic, Rabbinic and later sources to support their analyses, and will be proficient in textual analysis of primary materials written throughout the multi-millennial span of Jewish history.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: identify and articulate the major religious and historical topics in the Book of Numbers; extrapolate meaning through textual analysis and readings of the commentaries of Rashi, additional ancient, classic and modern works.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: identify various types of psalms, including psalms of repentance, prayer, lament, wisdom and praise; interpret and analyze selected sections of the Book of Psalms and relevant rabbinic literature; identify and describe key themes in both the Psalms and in pertinent Rabbinic literature; exhibit advanced skills in textual comprehension when searching for and understanding excerpts from the Bible, the Talmud, and early commentators.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: describe, in-depth, the major religious and historical elements of the Book of Samuel I from the perspective of relevant commentaries and Midrashic and Talmudic sources; independently prepare various texts using classic commentaries.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: translate, interpret and compare Biblical, Rabbinical and classic Jewish literature pertaining to the Books Kings I & II; identify and describe major themes found in those Books.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:  discuss major topics in the Biblical books of Genesis, Exodus and Leviticus and the ethical, moral and theological motifs implicit in the narratives, according to Talmudic and Midrashic sources, as well as the commentaries of Rashi and other classic exegetes.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: dissect the subtleties and underlying principles of selected topics by analyzing classical Halachic sources -- the Shulchan Aruch and the Mishna Berurah -- with an emphasis on deriving practical conclusions and understanding halachic methodology; demonstrate skill in deciphering and analyzing the text of the Shulchan Aruch and the Mishna Berurah.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to recognize and compare similar events described in Prophets and then summarized in Diverei Hayamim (Chronicles I and II) and analyze why events were described from different perspectives. As a result of a significant number of assignments throughout the semester, students will be able to compare and analyze classical Jewish texts and primary sources written through the span of Jewish history.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: identify and articulate an understanding of the various moral, practical and religious/philosophical implications derived from study of the lives of the figures studied and analysis of biblical texts and commentaries.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: define and apply integration including definite integrals and its connection to area; calculate limits; calculate integration of logs, exponential functions, trigonometric functions and integrate by parts, integrate using partial fractions; solve problems involving area, volume, rectilinear motion and growth and decay; numerical methods for calculating integrals; solve differential equations by separating variables.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: read, interpret and write presentations using logical mathematical symbols; write proofs of truth value of propositions, using inference rules and axioms of logic; use set theory to explain mathematical logic involving collections of objects as units; discuss the concept of algorithms as processes to solve problems;  solve a recurrence relation; tell whether a function is injective or subjective; define functions explicitly and recursively; calculate probabilities using counting rules, combinations and permutations; write proofs relating number of vertices and number of edges in a tree; write proofs related to connectedness of graphs; and find shortest path in a graph;show isomorphism.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: understand vectors and vector spaces; solve systems of linear equations; perform matrix arithmetic; solve equations involving matrices; define and use determinants, minors, cofactors, classical ad joints, eigenvalues, and eigenvectors of matrices, canonical form of matrices, and invariant subspaces; show that a set of vectors is linearly independent and/r spanning a vector space; define and find the dimension; define and find the rank and nullity of a matrix; find the row space, column space and null space of a matrix; use inner and cross products and the scalar triple product.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to : lyze the ethical, moral and theological teachings represented in the Avot tract and the various interpretations reflected in the commentaries and works of Jewish thought, read, translate and compare primary Judaic sources related to the Tractate. 

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: discuss the deeper meaning of the mitzvot and illustrate the role of mitzvot in a system of human development, according to traditional sources in Jewish thought and philosophy.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to : identify, describe, interpret and analyze the Biblical and Rabbinic sources regarding the traits that lie at the heart of interpersonal  relationships, demonstrate skills in analyzing works of Jewish philosophy as well as Biblical, Rabbinical, medieval and modern sources which elucidate these themes.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: describe traditional Jewish outlook on major religious, ethical, and philosophical themes and issues; analyze pertinent source materials and compare them with parallel outlooks from a range of non-traditional or non-Jewish sources.