2000 ACM GUIDELINES FOR ASSOCIATE-DEGREE PROGRAMS TO
SUPPORT COMPUTING IN
A NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT
This report provides guidance to two-year colleges for preparing
graduates to perform competently in careers that support computing in a networked
environment. To this end, the Committee has identified content areas and their associated
topics and has detailed performance objectives for those topics. While it has not listed
courses and semester-by-semester plans of study, the report does provide guidance to
implement associate-degree programs to meet the needs of local communities. These
guidelines consist of the following four parts:
- Part I, Program Considerations, discusses general issues including the relevance
and beneficiaries of implementations of the guidelines, qualifications expected of
graduates, representative job titles, necessary resources for implementations,
articulation, industry certification, keeping a program current, and auxiliary skills such
as those provided by general education and other discipline-specific courses.
- Part II, Program Topics and Objectives, identifies the scope of the guidelines
and provides an extensive collection of content areas, topics, and performance objectives.
Each objective contains a specific verb (e.g., identify, evaluate, and analyze) that
identifies the expected depth of coverage.
- Part III, Sample Specialty Programs, groups the performance objectives to
encompass the technical skills and knowledge required for associate-degree programs in
each of three areas: User Support Services, Networking Services, and Internet/Web
Services. General education requirements are recognized as an important part of these
degree programs.
- Part IV, Supporting Information, contains a listing of the Task Force members,
advisors and reviewers, acknowledgements, and references.
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