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You will need a suitable computer. The University's
Computer Recommendations are appropriate for this course for Windows and OS X. If you use the Linux
operating system this course, the recommendations for Windows computers will also be suitable for Linux.
Please see the Online Learning page for more information
regarding expected student student access to the internet, and corresponding software.
Please see the Mercer's Distance Learning page for more information
regarding expected student student access to the internet, and corresponding software.
Course Description
A course in software architectural design. All students will begin with
a common core of software architectures and criteria for selecting
them. Impact of software architectural choices on: availability,
modifiability, performance, security, testability, and usability.
Students will then explore architectures selected from among the
many available.
This Online Learning course begins on May 23, 2016 at 12:00 am Eastern time. All assignments
are due by the end (11:59:59 pm) of the specified calendar day in the Eastern time zone. This course ends at
11:59:59 pm on June 23, 2016, in the Eastern time zone.
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Prerequisite(s)
SSE 550 Object-Oriented Design I
This prerequisite provides one graduate-level 3 semester hour course in C++ or Java or C#.
Please see the Online Learning page for more information
regarding expected student abilities and aptitudes.
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Grading
Item
|
Percent of Term Grade
|
Direct Activity Report 1 |
3
|
Direct Activity Report 2 |
3
|
Direct Activity Report 3 |
4
|
Project 1 |
20
|
Project 2 |
20
|
Project 3 |
25
|
Project 4 |
25
|
Credit will be given only for original work.
The Mercer University Student Handbook, including its provisions for
academic honesty (including plagiarism), applies to all Mercer
students.
Project reports are to be submitted complete, not as
incremental partial submissions.
All course work time is categorized as either Direct or
Non-Direct (but not both). More information about the Direct and
Non-Direct categories is contained in the Direct and Non-Direct and Report Logs. Please read these pages very
carefully.
Instruction Time
Federal and regional accreditation requirements stipulate that
a 3-credit hour course must include 150 minutes of direct instruction
time per week. For this course, that direct instruction time
includes"
- Collaborative discussions with other students regarding the
content of readings assigned for the course.
- Collaborative discussions with other students regarding the
content that goes beyond readings assigned for the course, but is
not part of work on the projects assigned on the syllabus.
- Collaborative development of generic technology that may be
useful for your project(s), but is not, in its generic form, part of
your project.
In addition to the 150 minutes of direct instruction time each
week, students are expected to spend a minimum of 300 additional
minutes per week completing reading and writing assignments:
- Doing the assigned reading.
- Working on the projects assigned on the syllabus.
More information about the Direct and Non-Direct categories is
contained in the Direct and
Non-Direct and Report Logs web
pages. Please
read these pages very carefully.
Use the Report Logs to help you to manage your time and keep on
schedule. You should schedule your work evenly throughout the term.
If you fall behind schedule for your Direct Activities, and you
"catch up" by your last Direct Activity Report, your previous Direct
Activity Report grades can be raised to reflect your success in
meeting this requirement, provided that your previous Direct Activity
Reports were submitted in a timely manner (no more than seven days after
the assigned due date). Direct Activity Reports
not submitted in a timely manner will receive a grade of 0 (zero)
unless the professor has approved an extension in advance. The final
Direct Activity report must be received by the assigned schedule date
to be considered.
The Non-Direct Activity reports do not receive a separate
grade, but are used to help in evaluating your project reports.
More information about project grading is contained
in the General Project Rubric .
If you have a question about any of this, please ask.
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Additional Information
- Asynchronous Learning Nets (ALNs)
-
- Self Study: You study the texts and any other course study
material on your own(team).
- Collaborative Projects: After your self-study, you
collaborate (via the Internet [email]) with your partner(s) to
produce a team product. Your collaborative work is substantial,
asynchronous, and rapid.
- This course is an online learning course. Please read this
Online Learning web page
regarding online learning in this course and this program.
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What Do I Do?
- Subscribe to the course email listserv. Your professor can tell you how to do
this.
- Study the assigned material.
- Use the Report Logs to help you to manage your time and keep on
schedule. You should schedule your work evenly throughout the term.
- Write and read email messages about ideas, problems and
solutions to do with the assigned study material.
- Do the assigned work, deliver the assigned deliverables.
- Write and read email messages (to/from the listserv) about
ideas, problems, projects, and solutions to do with the assigned
homework.
- Review the deliverables produced by other people.
Changes to this Syllabus:
There will be changes to this syllabus, so check back
frequently, and don't forget to hit "Reload" or "Refresh".
Schedule of Assignments and Events (tentative)
Start Date
|
End Date
|
Activity/Event
|
May 23, 2016 |
June 24, 2016 |
Course in Progress |
May 23, 2016 |
May 31, 2016 |
Work on Project 1 |
|
May 31, 2016 |
Project 1 due. |
|
June 1, 2016 |
Direct Activity Report 1 due. |
|
June 8, 2016 |
Project 2 due. |
|
June 13, 2016 |
Direct Activity Report 2 due. |
|
June 13, 2016 |
Project 3 due. |
|
June 24, 2016 |
Direct Activity Report 3 due. |
|
June 24, 2016 |
Project 4 due. |
|
June 24, 2016 |
Course ends. Firm date. |
Notes: The course begins at midnight (12:00 am) on the first day of class (see schedule above), and ends
at 11:59:59 pm on the last day of class. Assignments are due at any time during the day specified on the schedule,
that is, before 11:59:59 pm on that day. All times are Macon, Georgia (Eastern time zone) times.
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