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IS492 Cooperative Education (Co-op)
Credits: 10 Prerequisites: Department consent
The Co-op is a career related professional program available to all Computer Science students. It
is designed to help students build on skills already learned in the classroom and acquire new ones
as well. Co-op education is available to CCIS students who have accumulated the requisite number
or more credits. The Co-op counts for 10 credit hours (CRs) for practical onsite experience over
a 7-month period, i.e. spanning one semester and a summer.

IS499 Senior Project
Credits: 3(3,0,0) Prerequisites: Completion of 88 credit hours + Department Consent
Building on IS Senior Project 1, in this course students will collaborate as a team to apply the
knowledge and skills acquired throughout their degree program. The course aims to allow the
students to be familiar with Principles and practices for developing inclusive and accessible
computing solutions that address the needs of diverse user communities. Additionally, they will
engage in research and the development of new skills while designing, developing, and delivering
an information system solution. As they navigate the inherent ambiguity and complexity
associated with creating an information system solution, students will receive support from the
university environment and their academic supervisor. Upon completing the course, each group
is expected to submit a final report documenting the process undertaken during project
development and the key findings of the project. Furthermore, the project solution must be
presented upon the conclusion of this course.

ISC101 Islamic Ethics (Language of Instruction: Arabic)
Credits: 2 (2,0,0) Prerequisites: None
This course examines the concept of ethics and its importance to human life. It also touches upon
related areas, such as, the origins of morals and ethics, types of human behavior and their motives,
human ethics and their purposes. Various categories and classifications of ethical behavior, the
degrees of ethics, the types and manifestations of vice are defined; and how the Holy Quran and
the Sunnah honor, purge and exalt the human soul are discussed. Examples of ethical behavior
such as truthfulness, honesty, faithfulness, modesty, benevolence and good conduct are extolled.

ISC103 Islamic Economic System (Language of Instruction: Arabic)
Credits: 2 (2,0,0) Prerequisites: None
The course aims at expounding the Islamic economic system and how to implement it in daily
affairs. It touches upon Islamic economic system in relationship to Islamic Law in handling of
modern economic problems, as well as its views on property, ownership, inheritance, and
economic welfare. The course compares Islamic solutions to modern economic problems to those
of other secular economic systems. Issues such as production, distribution, consumption,
contracts, finance are also treated from an Islamic point of view.

ISC105 Studies of the Holy Quran (Language of Instruction: Arabic)
Credits: 2 (2,0,0) Prerequisites: None
This course introduces the Quranic sciences and what kinds should be studied so as to expose
students to the correct concept of the Holy Quran in order to apply it correctly as the accepted
science which is in conformity with reason, and those rejected ones that are not. The most
important requisites of the knowledge of the Quranic sciences is the awareness of its
interpretation, the perception of its miraculous aspects, knowing its flawless, ambiguity,
abrogation, abrogated, absolute, restricted, and other aspects of its eloquence. Without studying
the above subjects the study of the Holy Quran will be inadequate and the student will be deprived
of a lot of knowledge.

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