CS 355 Essentials of Networking (3H:0L:3C)
Prerequisites: CS 324 or Permission of the Department 
This course includes the fundamentals of network standards, concepts, topologies and terminologies including LANs, WANs, Internet Protocol (IP) addressing, subnet masking and network design, and various protocols. This course teaches concepts from the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Networking Reference Model, developed by the International Standards Organization (ISO) to describe the function and structure of network communications protocols.