Republic of the Philippines

Western Visayas College

of Science and Technology
La Paz, Iloilo City
Trunkline: (033)320-7190 Telefax: (033)329-4274
Website: www.wvcst.edu.ph FB Fanpage: WVCSTInfocus

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
(Subjects from First Year to Second Year)
FIRST YEAR FIRST SEMESTER
COURSE NAME:
CS 1
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
COMPUTER AND SOCIETY
Credit Units:
3 units
No. of Hours
3 hrs (lec)
Pre-Requisite:
None
Description:
The course will provide the students with adequate understanding of computer ethics,
computer crimes, professional ethics and responsibilities, and the latest development and their effect on
the human society.
COURSE NAME:
ICT 1
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
COMPUTER LITERACY 1
Credit Units:
3 units (2 lec and 1 lab)
No. of Hours
5 hrs ( 2 lec and 3 lab)
Pre-Requisite:
None
Description:
The course will provide students adequate understanding and skills in the use of
computers. The course will cover the basic computer operations, use of application software, word
processing, spreadsheet, presentation packages and the Internet.
COURSE NAME:
Eng 1
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
STUDY AND THINKING SKILLS
Credit Units:
3 units
No. of Hours:
3 hrs (lec)
Pre-requisite:
None
Description:
The course includes topic on the use of the library and its facilities, vocabulary enhancement,
different reading techniques, development of study and reading comprehension skills, paragraph
organization and development in preparation to the next English courses.
COURSE NAME:
Hum 1
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
PRINCIPLES OF LOGIC
Credit Units:
3 units
No. of Hours:
3 hrs (lec)
Pre-requisite:
None
Description:
This course deals with the science and art of correct thinking or reasoning, specifically, the laws
and principles of correct thinking for the secure attainment of the truth and the rules on formal and
material validity or reasoning and the identification of certain fallacies
COURSE NAME:
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
Credit Units:
No. of Hours:
Pre-requisite:

Math 3
COLLEGE ALGEBRA
3 units
3 hrs (lec)
Math 1(Business Math) for BIT, BSIT, BFAT, BSELX,
BSELT, BSAT

Description:
This course is designed to suit the needs of freshmen college students in dealing with problems
in their respective fields of specialization. It includes the study of sets, the real number system,
polynomials, special products and factoring, rational expressions, relations and functions, rational
exponents and radicals, linear equations and quadratic equations.

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Western Visayas College

of Science and Technology
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COURSE NAME:
Soc Sci 1
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
Credit Units:
3 units
No. of Hours:
3 hrs (lec)
Pre-requisite:
None
Description:
This course aims to provide the students with the general understanding of the factors involved in
human behavior. It deals with the principles of growth and development and the physiological basis
affecting the development of personality. It emphasizes the psychological concepts to the world of work.
COURSE NAME:
PE 1
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
EDUCATIONAL GYMNASTICS
Credit Units:
2 units
No. of Hours:
2 hrs (lec)
Pre-requisite:
None
Description:
The course deals with the study of educational gymnastics, which includes physical fitness,
conditioning exercises, slimnastics and aerobics. Through educational gymnastics principles of good
posture, correct body mechanics and self- testing activities are discussed and practiced as well as the
analysis and practice of fundamental body movements and calisthenics. The different systems of the
body are also discussed. It will also give the students the opportunity to design a personal fitness
program like aerobic exercises. The Great Filipino Workout is integrated with the administration of
Philippine Physical Fitness Test for the evaluation of the Physical Fitness status of the students at the
beginning of the semester.
COURSE NAME:
NSTP 1
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
National Service Training Program (ROTC, LTS, AND CWTS)
Credit Units:
3 units
Pre-requisite:
None
Description:
The course aims at enhancing civic consciousness and defense preparedness among the youth
by developing the ethics of service and patriotism while undergoing training in any of its three (3) program
components (ROTC, LTS AND CWTS) . Its various components are specifically designed to enhance the
youths active contribution to the general welfare.

FIRST YEAR SECOND SEMESTER

COURSE NAME:
CS 2
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
FUNDAMENTALS OF PROGRAMMING
Credit Units:
3 units
No. of Hours:
3 hrs(lec)
Pre-Requisite:
ICT 1
Description:
This course deals with the fundamental techniques of a programming as a foundation for more
advances study of computer science. Student will learn how to formulate data and procedural
abstractions, and apply basic problem solving strategies and techniques to problems from different
domains. Considerable attention is devoted to developing effective software engineering practice,
emphasizing such principles as design, decomposition, encapsulation, procedural abstraction, testing and
software reuse. Topics include standard programming constructs and problem-solving techniques that
emphasize algorithmic strategies over syntactic detail.
COURSE NAME:
ICT 33
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
FOUNDATION OF COMPUTER SCIENCE with ASSEMBLY
LANGUAGE
Credit Units:
4 units (3 lec and 1 lab)
No. of Hours:
6 hrs (3 lec and 3 lab)
Pre-Requisite:
ICT 1
Description:
This course will discuss the structure and function as well as the principles behind the
organization and architechture of modern day computers. It will also include topics in occupational health

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Western Visayas College

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and safety, IT hardware, use of tools, computer operations, microprocessor control programming style,
microprocessor programming and assembly language programming.
COURSE NAME:
Eng 2
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINE
Credit Units:
3 units
No. of Hours:
3 hrs (lec)
Pre-requisite:
Eng 1
Description:
The course deals on the forms, styles and functions of the paragraph, the different types of
technical literature, the techniques in writing a technical report and business correspondence to include
the different types of business letters.
COURSE NAME:
Fil 1
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
KOMUNIKASYON SA AKADEMIKONG FILIPINO
Credit Units:
3 units
No. of Hours:
3 hrs (lec)
Pre-requisite
None
Description:
Isa itong metalinggwistik na pag-aaral na nakatuon sa estruktura, gamit, katangian at
kahalagahan ng wikang Filipino sa akademikong larangan. Ginamit dito ang multidisiplinaryo at paraang
interaktibo upang matukoy at matalakay ang mga pangunahing kaalaman sa wika. Malilinang din ang
mga kasanayan sa paggamit ng wikang Filipino tungo sa lalong mataas na komunikasyon at sa kritikal na
pagdidiskurso.
COURSE NAME:
Math 7
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
PLANE AND SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY
Credit Units:
3 units
No. of Hours:
3 hrs. (lec)
Pre-requisite:
Math 3 (College Algebra) for BSIF, BSCS, BSIS
Description:
This course includes fundamentals of trigonometric functions, graphs of trigonometric functions,
angles and their measurement, solution of triangles, inverse trigonometric functions, trigonometric
identities exponential and logarithmic functions, complex numbers, and an introduction to spherical
trigonometry.
COURSE NAME:
PE 2
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
INDIVIDUAL and/or DUAL SPORTS
Credit Unit:
2 units
No. of Hours:
2 hrs
Pre-requisite:
None
Description:
This course deals with the study of the individual and dual sports. It will provide the students with
the fundamental skills of at least one individual sport (Duckpin Bowling, basic swimming, and athletics)
and/or dual sports (Badminton, table tennis, and lawn tennis) which includes its background, theory,
demonstration and practice. Emphasis is on appreciation and development of sports skills.
COURSE NAME:
NSTP 2
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
National Service Training Program (ROTC, LTS AND CWTS)
Credit Units:
3 units
Pre-requisite:
NSTP 1
Description:
This course deals with practical applications of the three components learned in NSTP 1.

SECOND YEAR FIRST SEMESTER

COURSE NAME:
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
Credit Units:
No. of Hours:
Pre-Requisite:

CS 3
PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING
3 units
3 hrs (lec)
Math 3

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Description:
This course deals with the fundamentals of accounting, understanding of various
accounting terms, analysis of basic accounting transactions, posting of transactions in a journal, sorting
transactions into a ledger and preparation of worksheets.
COURSE NAME:
CS 12
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS
Credit Units:
3 units ( 2 lec and 1 lab)
No. of Hours:
5 hrs (2 lec and 3 lab)
Pre-Requisite:
ICT 1
Description:
In this course, students will be introduced to multimedia authoring techniques. Topics will include
animating objects on screen, and incorporating sound, video, text, and images into a coherent multimedia
project.
COURSE NAME:
ICT 4
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY 1
Credit Units:
3 units (2 lec and 1 lab)
No. of Hours:
5 hrs (2 lec and 3 lab)
Pre-Requisite:
CS 2
Description:
This course will provide the students with the knowledge and skills on object-oriented
programming. It will include the structured programming concepts, tools, discipline, and construction of
Object Oriented Program (OOP).
COURSE NAME:
ICT 31
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
COMPUTER ELECTRONICS AND DIGITAL CIRCUITS
Credit Units:
4 units (3 lec and 1 lab)
No. of Hours:
6 hrs (3 lec and 3 lab)
Pre-Requisite:
ICT 33
Description:
This course covers the Development of Electronics, Application of Electronic Components,
Careers in Technology Reading Coded values of the Different Electronic Components. It also includes
design and analysis of digital circuits covering both combinational (synchronous and asynchronous) logic
circuit with emphasis on solving digital problems using hardwires structures of the complexity of medium
and large scale integration.
COURSE NAME:
Eng 3
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
SPEECH COMMUNICATION
Credit Units:
3 units
No. of Hours:
3 hrs (lab)
Pre-requisite:
None
Description:
The course deals with the development of communication skills such as listening and speaking in various
communication situations.
COURSE NAME:
Fil 2
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
PAGBASA AT PAGSULAT TUNGO SA PANANALIKSIK
Credit Units:
3 units
No. of Hours:
3 hrs (lec)
Pre-requisite:
Fil 1
Description:
Ang kursong ito ay nakatuon sa pagpapalawak ng kaalaman at lalo pang pagpapataas ng antas
ng kasanayan sa kritikal na pagbasa at lohikal na pagsulat tungo sa pagsasagawa ng pananaliksik .
COURSE NAME:
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
Credit Units:
No. of Hours:
Pre-requisite:
Description:

Phys 3
MECHANICS and HEAT
3 units (2 lec and 1 lab)
5 hrs
(2 lec and 3 lab)
Math 4 & Math 8

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Western Visayas College

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This is the first in the two series of sequential courses in basic Physics for BS Math, BSIF,
BSCS, and BSIS students. It purports to instill in the students the basic concepts, principles and laws in
mechanics and heat. This course covers the topics on: vectors, kinematics, dynamics and Newtons
laws, gravitation, energy, momentum, torque and rotational motion, hydrostatics and hydrodynamics
conservation laws in mechanics and heat concepts.
COURSE NAME:
PE 3
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
RHYTHMIC ACTIVITIES
Credit Units:
2 units
No. of Hours:
2 hrs
Pre-requisite:
None
Description:
This course deals with the rhythmic analysis and physical activities with rhythmic patterns. It
offers a background on the fundamentals of Ballroom, Folk and Modern Dancing for social recreation. It
includes the historical background and development of dances, the basic step patterns, and analysis of
movement.

SECOND YEAR SECOND SEMESTER

COURSE NAME:
ICT 6
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
FOUNDATION OF COMPUTER SCIENCE 2
Credit Units:
3 units (2 lec and 1 lab)
No. of Hours:
5 hrs ( 2 lec and 3 lab)
Pre-Requisite:
ICT 4
Co-requisite:
ICT 7
Description:
This course will deal with data abstraction and algorithmic use of complex data structures (files,
lists, queues, stacks, trees, etc; dynamic variables and their implementation in memory; and development
of recursive algorithms and their implementation.
COURSE NAME:
ICT 7
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY 2
Credit Units:
3 units (2 lec and 1 lab)
No. of Hours:
5 hrs ( 2 lec and 3 lab)
Pre-requisite:
ICT 4
Co-requisite:
ICT 6
Description:
This course defines the competency required to undertake programming tasks using an objectoriented programming language. Competency includes tool usage, documentation, debugging and testing
techniques in support of the programming activities.
COURSE NAME:
ICT 17
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS
Credit Units:
3 units ( 2 lec and 1 lab)
No. of Hours/Week
5 hrs ( 2 lec and 3 lab)
Pre-requisite:
ICT 13, ICT 14
Description:
This course covers a thorough understanding of computer networks. Learning will anchor on the
OSI 7 Layers and TCP/IP 4 Layers. Students will appreciate how data flows through a network aided by
different protocols and devices working under each respective layer. The lecture will be aided with vivid
illustrations and software simulation program named Packet Tracer. This course will be streamlined with
the CISCO Academy learning structure. Every lecture has an equivalent laboratory exercise, it may be
actual or simulated using Packet Tracer. Students will be encouraged to analyze simple complex
networks involving routed networks and VLAN (segmented) networks. The course will also cover basic
security on switches and routers. Eventually building strong foundation for computer networking and
preparing students for higher learning on the said field.

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Western Visayas College

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COURSE NAME:
Hum 10
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
Credit Units:
3 units
No. of Hours:
3 hrs (lec)
Pre-requisite:
None
Description:
This course deals with the origin and development of science and technology and social
needs that give birth to inventions and make adaptations to natural and planned changes.
COURSE NAME:
Phys 4
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
WAVES, ELECTRICITY, ELECTROMAGNETISM AND OPTICS
Credit Units:
3 units (2 lec and 1 lab)
No. of Hours:
5 hrs (2 lec and 3 lab)
Pre-requisite:
Physics 3
Description:
This course intends to present and discuss the concepts principles, laws and theories on
mechanical waves and applications; light and optics and its applications to communications and
information technology; electricity and magnetism and applications.
COURSE NAME:
PE 4
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
TEAM SPORTS
Credit Units:
2 units
No. of Hours:
2 hours
Pre-requisite:
None
Description:
This course deals with the fundamentals of team sports like volleyball, basketball, etc. It covers
history, development, terminologies, facilities, equipment, laws of the game, fundamental skills, and
strategies.
FREE ELECTIVE (3 UNITS REQUIRED)
COURSE NAME:
CS 14
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
COMPUTER ANIMATION 1
Credit Units:
3 units ( 2 lec and 1 lab)
No. of Hours:
5hrs (2 lec and 3 lab)
Pre-requisite:
2nd yr. standing passed the animation assessment
Description:
This course covers the knowledge, skills and attitude required to interpret the animation
specifications to produce and refine key drawings, in-between drawings, and 3D animation for animation
productions.
COURSE NAME:
CS 15
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
Credit Units:
3 units ( 2 lec and 1 lab)
No. of Hours:
5 hrs (2 lec and 3 lab)
Pre-requisite:
ICT 116
Description:
The course deals with the forms of distributed system, loosely and tightly coupled; networks and
protocols; distributed file systems; and file and directory services, concurrency control, and replicated
files.