The Computing and Mathematics department offers several Certificates in addition to a final ORU diploma. Students need to complete and pass (with a grade of C or higher) specific courses in able to qualify for each certificate. A list of the CM certificates and their requirements can be found below.
In past years, at Hooding students received any certificates that they qualified for from the CM department. The Registrar changed the policy this year. Students no longer have to wait for graduation. You can petition as soon as you decide to pursue a certificate. Our department will no longer be issuing the petitions at all.
Steps for receiving a certificate are as follows:
- Go to petitions.oru.edu and choose “Petition to Add a Certificate.” At that point the student is petitioning to pursue the certificate; they are not saying that they have necessarily completed the certificate coursework yet.
- After the student has completed all of the required coursework, they go to the Commencement homepage and click on the “Apply to Graduate” button (even if they’re not graduating yet). Follow the directions on the document. At step #6, the student will see the certificates and degrees they are pursuing. The student selects the certificate that they earned.
- If the student is applying to receive multiple certificates, they will need to follow all application steps for each certificate.
- The Registrar will then verify that the student has completed the required coursework for the certificate. After it’s verified, an outside company called Parchment will print and mail the certificate to the student's address on file.
CERTIFICATES
1 FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE CERTIFICATE (CFC)
CSC 111 - Introduction to Computing 3 credits
CSC 206 - Intermediate Programming 3 credits
Certificate Total 6 credits
1FUNDAMENTALS OF DATA STRUCTURES AND DATABASE DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE (CDD)
CIT 306 - Database Development 3 credits
CSC 255 - Data Structures 4 credits
Certificate Total 7 credits
1INTERNET AND MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE (CIM)
CIT 352 - Mobile Application Development 3 credits
CSC 341 - Internet Programming 3 credits
Certificate Total 6 credits
1DATA SCIENCE CERTIFICATE (CDS)
CSC 201 - Introduction to Data Science 3 credits
Choice of one of the following:
CSC 461 - Data Mining and Machine Learning 3 credits
CSC 463 - Artificial Intelligence 3 credits
Certificate Total 6 credits
1The Fundamentals of Computer Science Certificate must be completed prior to any of the other certificate programs.
MICROCREDENTIALS
COMPUTER SCIENCE MICROCREDENTIAL (MCS)
Fundamentals of Computer Science Certificate 6 credits
Fundamentals of Data Structures and Database Development Certificate 7 credits
Internet and Mobile Application Development Certificate 6 credits
Data Science Certificate 6 credits
CIT 402 - Enterprise Development 3 credits
Microcredential Total 28 credits
GAME DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT MICROCREDENTIAL (GAM)
CIT 254 - Introduction to Game Design and Development 3 credits
CIT 323 - Foundations of 2D Game Prototyping 3 credits
CIT 324 - Advanced 2D Game Demo Production 3 credits
CIT 423 - Advanced 3D Game Prototyping 3 credits
CIT 424 - Advanced 3D Game Demo Production 3 credits