2023-2024 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
Badge in Database Fundamentals
The School of Computing's database fundamentals badge (not a degree or certificate) is designed to prepare students to accomplish the following:
- Describe database management systems.
- Choose appropriate data types for a given problem (include dates and times).
- Create schemas.
- Create tables.
- Apply integrity constraints to data.
- Convert a schema between different normalization forms.
- Write queries to manipulate and read data.
- Write "join" operations to combine tables together.
Admission
Completion of a bachelor's degree and evidence of basic object-oriented programming skill are required for admission.
Program Location
Classes are offered fully online, in a hybrid format, or in-person in the late afternoon or evening in downtown Grand Rapids.
Requirements
The badge comprises one course (three credits).
Students must take: