Computer Science - Freshmen

Course # DMNS 1001

Credits 6

Pre-requisites and/or Co-requisites: Precalculus

Course Description

Calculus 1 is a foundational course at UCA; it plays a significant role in the understanding of science, engineering, economics, and computer science, among other disciplines. This introductory calculus course covers limits, differentiation, and integration of functions of single variable with applications. This course is prerequisite to Calculus II for Computer Science.

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

• • Calculate limits of single-variable functions to identify the behavior of the function at that point
  • Determine the continuity and differentiability of a function to identify singular points and smoothness of the function
  • Calculate derivatives of single-variable functions to determine the properties of the graph of the function
  • Use derivative of a function to solve basic optimization problems
  • Calculate indefinite integrals of single-variable functions to compute the definite integral and to solve differential equations
  • Calculate definite integrals of single-variable functions to find the area under the curve, volume, and surface area of solid objects

Course Assessments and Grading

Course # DMNS 1051

Credits 6

Pre-requisites and/or Co-requisites: None

Course Description

The Physics I course has been developed to meet the scope and sequence of UCA physics courses and gives a foundation for a career in computer science. The course provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of physics and understand how these concepts apply to their lives and to the world around them. The course covers basic principles of mechanics including kinematics, statics, equilibrium and dynamics of particles, work & energy, rotational motion, momentum and oscillations.

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Apply kinematic equations to non-accelerating frames.
• Solve motion problems using Newtonian principles.
• Identify the different forms of energy (Work, Kinetic energy, Potential energy, etc.).
• Use the conservation of energy law to solve conservation of energy problems.
• Relate a gravitational force field to the potential of a point mass distribution.
• Solve numerical problems in translational, rotational and oscillatory motions.
• Describe and model the oscillations of damped and undamped systems.
• Solve linear momentum problems with the conservation of energy principle.

Course Assessments and Grading

Course # HUSS 1141

Credits 4

Prerequisites and/or Corequisites: None                                

Course description

The course aims to provide students with the ability to communicate in Kyrgyz language on the Beginner level and to develop students’ sociocultural competence through studies of Kyrgyz culture. Students learn to conduct conversations in the Kyrgyz community. Students practice and apply language skills such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing in a variety of tasks and activities appropriate for the Beginner level.

Course Learning Outcomes 

Upon the completion of the course students will be able to:

• understand short, simple questions and statements, provided they are delivered slowly and clearly and accompanied by visuals or manual gestures to support understanding and repeated if necessary.
• recognize every day, familiar words/signs, provided they are delivered clearly and slowly in a clearly defined, familiar everyday context.
• recognise numbers, prices, dates and days of the week, provided they are delivered slowly and clearly in a defined, familiar everyday context.
• understand very short, simple texts a single phrase at a time, picking up familiar names, words and basic phrases and rereading as required.
• produce simple, mainly isolated phrases about people and places.
• give information about matters of personal relevance (e.g. likes and dislikes, family, pets) using simple words/signs and basic expressions.
• produce simple isolated phrases and sentences.
• interact in a simple way but communication is totally dependent on repetition at a slower rate, rephrasing and repair.
• ask and answer simple questions, initiate and respond to simple statements in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics.
• ask for or pass on personal details.
• use basic information about Kyrgyz culture, nation, and speech etiquette to achieve mutual understanding with representatives of Kyrgyz culture

Course assessment and Grading

Course # HUSS 1142

Credits 4

Prerequisites and/or Corequisites: None                             

Course description

In this course students will acquire Kyrgyz language on elementary level and familiarize themselves with an overview over Kyrgyz culture. Upon this course students will be able to conduct basic conversations in the Kyrgyz community. Students practice and apply language skills such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing in a variety of tasks and activities appropriate for the Elementary level. Relevant information about Kyrgyz culture will be shared.

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of the course students will be able to:

• understand enough to be able to meet needs of a concrete type, provided people articulate clearly and slowly.
• understand phrases and expressions related to areas of most immediate priority (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment), provided people articulate clearly and slowly
• understand short, simple texts on familiar matters of a concrete type which consist of high frequency every day or job-related language.
• understand short, simple texts containing the highest frequency vocabulary, including a proportion of shared international vocabulary items.
• give a simple description or presentation of people, living or working conditions, daily routines. likes/ dislikes, etc. as a short series of simple phrases and sentences linked into a list.
• Can produce a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors like “and”, “but” and “because”.
• interact with reasonable ease in structured situations and short conversations, provided the other person helps if necessary.
• manage simple, routine exchanges without undue effort; can ask and answer questions and exchange ideas and information on familiar topics in predictable everyday situations.
• communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters to do with work and free time.
• handle very short social exchanges but is rarely able to understand enough to keep conversation going of their own accord
• compose short, simple formulaic notes relating to matters in areas of immediate need.
• use information about Kyrgyz culture, nation, speech etiquette to achieve mutual understanding with Kyrgyz culture bearers

Course assessment and Grading 

Course # 1143

Credits 4

Prerequisites and/or Corequisites: None

Course description:

The course aims at developing and refining students’ language skills to take part in relatively complex conversations and exchanges that evidence their expanded and refined listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Students practice and apply language skills in a variety of tasks and activities appropriate for the Upper Intermediate Level. The course offers relevant information about making business in Kyrgyzstan; Kyrgyz values, culture and traditions; Kyrgyz literature and proverbs and famous sayings of Kyrgyz thinkers, writers and poets.

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of the course students will be able to:

• understand straightforward factual information about common every day or job-related topics, identifying both general messages and specific details, provided people articulate clearly in a generally familiar variety.
• understand the main points made in clear standard language or a familiar variety on familiar matters regularly encountered at work, school, leisure, etc., including short narratives.
• read with a large degree of independence, adapting style and speed of reading to different texts and purposes, and using appropriate reference sources selectively. Has a broad active reading vocabulary but may experience some difficulty with low-frequency idioms.
• give clear, systematically developed descriptions and presentations, with appropriate highlighting of significant points, and relevant supporting detail.
• give clear, detailed descriptions and presentations on a wide range of subjects related to their field of interest, expanding and supporting ideas with subsidiary points and relevant examples.
• produce clear, detailed texts on a variety of subjects related to their field of interest, synthesizing and evaluating information and arguments from a number of sources.
• use the language fluently, accurately and effectively on a wide range of general, academic, vocational or leisure topics, marking clearly the relationships between ideas.
• communicate spontaneously with good grammatical control without much sign of having to restrict what they want to say, adopting a level of formality appropriate to the circumstances.
• interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction, and sustained relationships with users of the target language, quite possible without imposing strain on either party.
• highlight the personal significance of events and experiences, and account for and sustain views clearly by providing relevant explanations and arguments.
• express news and views effectively in writing and relate to those of others.
• use information about Kyrgyz culture, nation, speech etiquette to achieve mutual understanding with representatives of Kyrgyz culture.

Course assessment and Grading 

Course # HUSS 1045

Credits 4

Prerequisites and/or Corequisites: None

Course description:

The course is designed for international students studying Russian with the aim of acquiring basic skills in written and spoken communication within a limited range of everyday, socio-cultural, and academic situations.

During Russian language classes, students learn proper writing and develop all types of speech activities: writing, reading, and speaking. The main objective of the course is to create conditions that encourage students’ interest in the subject and facilitate the effective acquisition of course content.

Starting with the study of the alphabet and correct pronunciation of letters, students learn basic conversational skills, social behavior, and simple ethical and aesthetic norms of communication in Russian. Through examples of dialogues and polylogues, they practice retelling texts based on the lexical and grammatical material covered in class. Special attention is given to the practical use of Russian in all types of speech activities and spheres of communication, with a particular focus on everyday and academic contexts.

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of the course students will be able to:

• • be able to read Russian correctly and fluently;

  • listen to and adequately understand others’ speech;

  • speak freely and accurately within the topics studied;

  • be able to express opinions and reason correctly.

Course assessment and Grading 

Course # HUSS 1046

Credits 4

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites: None

Course Description 

The course is designed for international students who have successfully completed the beginner level. An important prerequisite for the course is that students have a solid foundation and have thoroughly acquired and practised the material covered, including both grammar and vocabulary.

The course content is rich and varied, helping students develop their intellectual skills and overall ability to engage in learning and critical thinking. This is achieved through activities such as “Let’s Debate,” “Convince Your Friend,” and discussions of various statements and viewpoints. Through texts accompanied by pre-reading and post-reading activities, vocabulary and grammar exercises, and participation in discussions, students will develop practical proficiency in Russian across all language skills and areas of communication while expanding their vocabulary.

Each week, students are expected to complete a specified amount of work both during classes and independently. A creative approach to completing text-based tasks, thorough acquisition of the required vocabulary for each topic, and active engagement with exercises in both written and oral forms are encouraged in every class. Written assignments must be submitted by the specified deadlines.

Course Learning Outcomes 

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to: 

• Read Russian accurately and fluently;
• Listen to and appropriately understand spoken Russian;
• Speak fluently and accurately within the topics covered in the course;
• Express opinions, evaluate ideas, and provide well-reasoned arguments;
• Demonstrate intermediate-level written communication skills in Russian.

Course Assessments and Grading

Course # HUSS 1047

Credits 4

Prerequisites and/or Corequisites: None

Course description:

The course is intended for international students who have an advanced level of proficiency in Russian.

The main goal of the course is to develop speaking and writing skills in Russian at a professional level and across various spheres of communication, including formal, business, and academic contexts (both written and oral). Students will also learn to analyze journalistic and literary texts and acquire basic skills for creating such texts.

The course consists of 52 hours of instruction. Classes are held three 2 a week, with two consecutive academic hours per session.

The lessons are organized in an interactive format. For independent study, students are provided with texts on various topics, styles, and genres.

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of the course students will be able to:

• • • improve grammatical and linguistic competence (systematizing and consolidating language material for use in written or oral texts within academic, professional, and scientific communication contexts);

    • enhance discursive competence;

    • develop social competence (the ability to understand the main social and behavioral characteristics of interlocutors);

    • build sociolinguistic competence (the ability to use various speech strategies and tactics employed in academic, professional, and scientific communication).

Course assessment and Grading 

Course # COMP 1071

Credits 6

Prerequisites and/or Corequisites: None

Course Description

This course introduces programming and problem-solving using Python, and it welcomes you wherever you're starting from no prior programming experience is required, and if you've never written a line of code before, you're exactly who this course is built for. It emphasizes the principles of software development, style, and testing, and gives you a solid first introduction to both procedural and object-oriented programming. Along the way, the course covers how Python runs your code, functions, iteration, recursion, lists, strings, basic algorithms, exceptions, and object-oriented programming, with a guided lab every week to put each idea into practice at the keyboard. Python is a genuinely good place to start it's the same language behind everyday tools you already rely on data dashboards, automation scripts, web backends, and most of today's AI applications and it reads closer to plain English than almost any other programming language.

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will:

• Explain the role programming plays in solving problems across different fields.
• Apply core procedural building blocks assignments, conditionals, loops, function calls, and lists in Python.
• Design Python programs that follow the principles of top-down design.
• Use recursion in Python programs.
• Explain the basic concepts of object-oriented programming: classes, subclasses, inheritance, and overriding.
• Describe the basics of computation through programming.

Course Assessments and Grading

Course # HUSS 1124E

Credits 4

TBA

Physical training

Course # HUSS 1081

Credits 0

Prerequisites and/or Corequisites: None

Course description

The purpose of the Physical Education course is to promote students’ health and well-being, support the balanced development of their physical and psychological abilities, and foster sustained motivation to maintain a healthy and active lifestyle.

Physical exercises and sports activities contribute to the development of physical capabilities, improvement of fitness levels, enhancement of mental well-being, and the development of discipline and personal qualities.

The course has both practical and theoretical components and is designed to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to maintain health and physical activity and to participate safely and effectively in physical exercises and sports activities.

Course learning outcomes

Upon completion of the course students will be able to:

• perform a range of physical activities
• understand health and safety requirements for a range of physical activities
• Describe the role and progress of sport in Central Asia
• choose an appropriate physical activities program for their age and gender
• identify tiredness and its symptoms to control the body during athletic exercises
• describe the technique of running for a long and a short distance and jumping
• accomplish running for a short and a long distance and jumping according to all necessary norms
• Describe the rules of a range of sports games
• participate in a range of sports games according to their rules and techniques

Course Assessments and Grading

* The course will be graded with PASS/FAIL.