Program Structure 8 courses = 32 credit hours,
practical training = 10 credit hours
Master's thesis = 18 credit hours
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The Master of Web Science program is suitable for all informatics professionals to pursue their higher education. As a result of following this program, the university grants a postgraduate master’s degree in web science, whose holder of this degree possesses a systematic understanding and critical awareness of current knowledge and technologies applied in the field of web science. The student will be able to deal with complex issues systematically and creatively.
Program Vision:
Providing specialized study resources within an interactive environment that helps to lead in the relevant academic discipline.
Program Mission
Providing the community with highly qualified and specialized cadres.
Master’s objectives:
- The Master of Web Sciences provides the opportunities available to its associates in the local, regional and international labor markets.
- It deals with a wide variety of topics, which provides a good background of knowledge and experience that allows for academic development.
- Supplying the local, regional and international labor market with specialized cadres to meet the needs of work in this important field.
- Developing sciences and mental and practical abilities that are important for students to enter the field of computing in the business sectors or postgraduate studies and scientific research.
- Effective practice as a web science specialist by leading, designing and developing various projects in the web field.
- Communicate effectively with colleagues, as members or leaders of multidisciplinary teams.
- Encouraging undergraduate students to continue postgraduate studies, in order to provide the community with specialized and highly qualified cadres.
- Encouraging students to conduct scientific research according to scientific research methodology.
The First Stage
- The student studies eight courses, distributed as follows:
√ Six compulsory courses.
√Two elective courses from among the courses offered by the faculty for master’s students.- The study is conducted through research seminars in each course, and the research seminar relies on multiple references and is in accordance with the scientific research methodology and standards.
- The study of each of the eight courses takes four credit hours for a minimum of four weeks, and it may be more than that according to the capabilities of each student, after which the student’s competency and knowledge test is held in the course he finished, then he starts in another course in the same way, and so on.
- Courses studied in the first year, the student has the right to extend the study for a period not exceeding a second year.
- If a specialization track is chosen within the general program, elective courses will have to be studied from the courses designated for the chosen specialization.
The Second Stage
● The student is assigned a virtual course that the faculty chooses from among the courses that the student studied at the bachelor’s level. This is a practical training for the student, with ten credit hours. The student must divide this course into twelve to fourteen abbreviated lectures. The student presents each lecture in the form of a written summary of its topic in Word format, accompanied by a video recording of it in the student’s voice using the Power Point program. Its duration is not less than ten minutes and not more than twenty. Accurate.
The Thrid Stage
Requirements for registering a thesis topic for a master’s degree in Applied Sciences.
- The student must pass the prescribed academic courses with at least 70%.
- The student obtains a TOEFL certificate with a score of at least 450, or its equivalent, or obtains a corresponding certificate in the French language, with the exception of those who obtained a first university degree in one of the two languages, or in one of the two languages.
- The student submits a request to the university administration to register a master’s thesis with a suggested topic in one of the sub-specialized tracks.
- If the initial approval of the subject title is achieved, the Faculty Council shall specify a supervisor to guide the student and follow him up in preparing the plan.
- The research plan includes the importance of the subject and a critical presentation of the previous studies in it, and a specification of the research problem, then defining the methodology of the study and its main hypotheses or the questions that you want to answer, and the division of the study and its sources.
- The student presents his proposed plan in a scientific seminar. The plan discusses a topic and methodology.
- The student amends his plan based on the notes of the professors in the seminar if he is asked to amend it.
- The plan is presented after the seminar to the Faculty Council to take its decision regarding the registration of the subject.
- In the event of approval, the decision of the Faculty Council is presented to the University Council to approve the registration, and the date of registration is calculated from the date of approval by the University Council.
Jury discussion and degree awarding
- The minimum period for preparing a master’s thesis is nine months, starting from the date of approval of the University Council to register the subject, and the maximum is two years, which can be extended for a third exceptional year upon the recommendation of the supervisor and the approval of the Faculty Council, provided that the total period of the student’s enrollment in the degree does not exceed four years.
- The supervisor submits a semi-annual report that includes what has been accomplished, and what is required in the remaining period.
- After the student completes the thesis and the supervisor reviews it, the supervisor submits to the university administration a report stating that it is valid for discussion, including an evaluation of the student’s performance during the thesis preparation period of 140 degrees, along with submitting a full copy of the thesis signed by him, and a letter with the names of the jury proposed by the professors of the specialty, for presentation to the Council the faculty.
- It is required that before the student’s discussion, at least fifteen days have passed from the date of approval of the jury committee from the faculty.
- The jury committee formed to discuss the thesis is six months, which may be renewed for a similar period based on a report from the supervisor and the approval of the Faculty Council.
- The period of validity of the committee formed to discuss the thesis is six months. It may be renewed for a similar period based on a report from the supervisor and the approval of the Faculty Council.
- Each member of the jury writes a detailed scientific report on the validity of the thesis for discussion, and evaluates the thesis out of 100 degrees, and the average of the three degrees is taken.
- The student may not be discussed unless he obtains at least 70% of the supervisor’s evaluation of his performance and the jury members’ evaluation of the thesis in the individual reports.
- Submit a post-dissertation group report signed by all members of the jury evaluating the thesis discussion out of 100.
- The thesis is approved after common discussion by the jury with one of the grades shown in the following table:
Definition Point Grade Excellent 4.00 A+ Excellent 3.75 A Very Good 3.50 B+ Very Good 3.00 B Good 2.50 C+ Average 2.00 C Pass on probation 1.50 D+ Pass on probation 1.00 D Fail 0.00 F
- The following grades are not taken into account for the semester or cumulative GPA.
Thesis or project in progress : DP Incomplete : I In progress : IP Registration has been suspended : L The grade has not been decided : NGR Did not take the final exam. : NP Transferred course. : T Withdraw from the course. : W The course covers two semesters, the degree is given at the end of the spring or summer semester. : YR There are no credit hours. : NC One credit hour taken as a private student. The credit hours and the degree do not count towards the degree : ND Re-submitted course, only the last grade is used in calculating the GPA. : R Credit taken as a special student. Credit hours and grade counted towards a degree. : S Credits
Before the 2016-2017 fall semester 1 credit point is equivalent to 1 semester lecture hour. In the 2016 – 2017 fall semester the University introduced the ECTS – European Credit Transfer System.Academic Calendar
International Suleiman University calendar is based on the semester system. Each semester has a duration of 15 weeks including the week of the final exam. The summer semester is 10 weeks long, including the final exam.
Core Courses for General Track
Scientific Research Methodology
Course code: MAS101
Course name: Scientific Research Methodology
Credit hours: 4.00
Scientific research methodology
The course includes an introduction to scientific research (definition of scientific research, its purposes, objectives, importance, and characteristics), characteristics of the researcher, methods of obtaining knowledge. Classifications of scientific research methods, the reasons for differences in the classifications of scientific research methods, the descriptive (historical) approach, the experimental approach, the case study approach – the chapters of scientific research, the steps of scientific research and how to formulate them (title, introduction, problem, hypotheses, questions, objectives, importance, Study limits, terminology, study procedures, data collection tools, questionnaire, observation, interview, samples (types, selection), statistical methods used in research, documentation of sources and references (various methods), recommendations and proposals in scientific research.
Web Software
Course code: MAMT101
Course name: Web Software
Credit hours: 4.00
This course aims to provide the student with the necessary knowledge and skills that enable him to build effective web applications. The course is based mainly on the ASP.NET platform. It focuses on dealing with database access technologies. The course mainly covers the following topics: (1) Web Forms (2) Server Controls (3) ASP.NET Applications (4) State Management (5) ADO.NET Fundamentals (6) Data Components and the DataSet (7) Data Binding ( 8) Caching and Asynchronous Pages (9) LINQ (10) Building ASP.NET Websites (11) Security (12) ASP.NET AJAX(13) MVC
Web Security
Course code: MAMT102
Course Name: Web Security
Credit hours: 4.00
This course aims to identify security gaps and threats faced by data transmitted via the Internet, explain ways to protect stored and transmitted data, focus on breaches in websites and web pages, and use security tools to detect security problems and confront them in their legal context and develop the necessary protection systems: Covers The course mainly covers the following topics: 1) Identifying Internet ethics and related laws 2) Identifying the most important security problems that Internet networks and services are exposed to 3) Identifying security gaps in operating systems and computer networks 4) An in-depth analytical study of the methods and types of intrusions that are exposed to web services. 5) Analysis of security vulnerabilities in web applications and how to detect and analyze them. 6) Studying methods of designing secure web applications and achieving security requirements in terms of design and testing. 7) Managing protections and methods of verifying the level of security in services on the Internet
Web Exploration
Course code: MAMT103
Course name: Web Exploration
Credit hours: 4.00
The course is divided into two main parts: The first section reviews information retrieval applications on the Web. Adding web link analysis algorithms (PageRank, HITS). The second section of the course presents mechanisms for representing and processing knowledge in the semantic web (RDF, OWL, SPARQL (HITS).
Mobile Web
Course code: MAMT104
Course name: Mobile Web
Credit hours: 4.00
This course aims to present a number of techniques and tools used to build mobile web applications. These applications differ from traditional web applications in that they are designed for browsing using mobile devices with limited capabilities, such as small screen size and limited processing and storage capabilities. Therefore, different technologies must be used to achieve it. Students learn about mobile web technologies: (1) WAP 1.0: WML, WMLScript (2) WAP 2.0: XHTML-MP (3) J2ME: Web-enabled mobile application (4) HTML5 (5) ASP. NET MVC4 mobile profile (6) Other mobile web technologies (flash lite, …)
Web Engineering
Course code: MAMT106
Course name: Web Engineering
Credit hours: 4.00
This course aims to provide the student with the necessary knowledge and skills related to web engineering concepts and principles and the life cycle of web applications and their characteristics. Through this course, the student will be able to apply one of the Web engineering methodologies to develop web applications with the ability to distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of different methodologies. It also learns about the latest research and trends in the field of web engineering. The course mainly covers the following topics: (1) Web Engineering Concepts and Principles (2) Development Process (3) Requirements (4) Analytical Modeling (5) Web Application Design (6) Building and Deployment
Elective Courses for General Track
Distributed Web Application Programming
Course code: MAMT151
Course name: Distributed Web Application Programming
Credit hours: 4.00
The main objective of this course is to identify security gaps and threats faced by data transmitted via the Internet and its applications, and to explain ways to protect stored and transmitted data and access to the Internet. necessary protection. The course mainly covers the following topics: 1. Identifying the ethics of using the Internet and the laws related to it. 2. Identifying the most important security problems that networks and Internet services are exposed to. 3. Identifying security gaps in operating systems and computer networks. 4. An in-depth analytical study of the methods and types of breaches that web services are exposed to. 5. Analysis of security vulnerabilities in web applications and how to detect and analyze them 6. Case studies of security breaches of Internet applications and their analysis 7. Protection management, and methods for verifying the level of security in services on the Internet
Data Mining
Course code: MAMT152
Course name: Data Mining
Credit hours: 4.00
This course aims to provide the student with the necessary knowledge and skills that enable him to analyze large volumes of data and extract knowledge from them, and thus make decisions based on this knowledge. The course mainly covers the following topics: (1) Collecting data from different sources into a data warehouse. (2) Learn about the design and construction of data warehouses. (3) Learn about different data mining techniques: classification, regression, clustering, association rules. (4) Obtaining new knowledge in the form of models. (5) Evaluation of the acquired knowledge. (6) Identifying open research topics in this field.
Advanced Concepts in Data Storage and Exchange
Course code: MAMT153
Course: Advanced Concepts in Data Storage and Exchange
Credit hours: 4.00
The course aims to introduce the technologies of storing and exchanging data through introducing the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and related technologies used in the development and use of the World Wide Web systems. The course has two orientations: theoretical and practical, which aim to clarify the principles of exchange and storage technologies, develop thinking about the advantages offered by XML technologies, in addition to developing skills in programming in XML and using XML tools. At the end of this course, the student will have been able to: 1- Recognize the importance of sign languages in structuring and exchanging data. 2- Acquaintance with basic technologies and concepts related to storing and exchanging data. 3- Recognizing XML as an effective and advanced tool for storing and exchanging data. 4- Knowing the Native XML Database as alternatives to the classic databases. 5- Identify the security mechanisms used when exchanging information in XML format. 6- Acquaintance with XML Web Services technologies. 7- Proficiency in dealing with XML files and original databases and integrating them into information systems.
Multimedia and Hyper
Course code: MAMT154
Course name: Multimedia and Hyper
Credit hours: 4.00
This course explains the basic concepts and principles in multimedia science: text, images, audio and video media, colors, basic concepts in compression, and its various algorithms for text, images, audio and video. At the end of this course, the student will be able to: (1) Recognize multimedia: texts, graphics, images, audio, and video. (2) Multimedia representation. (3) multimedia systems. (4) Recognizing the basic concepts in colors. (5) Understanding basic concepts in the video (6) Understanding basic concepts in animation (7) Understanding basic concepts in compression algorithms
Information Retrieval
Course code: MAMT155
Course Name: Information Retrieval
Credit hours: 4.00
The course covers basic and advanced technologies in textual information retrieval systems: (1) text indexing (2) different information retrieval algorithms (3) evaluation of information retrieval systems (4) search engines (5) text clustering. The course also presents the basics of content-based image retrieval.
Financial Management and Quality Costs
Course code: MAMT156
Course Name: Financial Management and Quality Costs
Credit hours: 4.00
This course aims to enable the student to understand the basic concepts in accounting and its records, and to be able to develop standard indicators for estimating quality costs and their application, in addition to identifying the basic indicators of financial analysis and investment analysis. It also focuses on estimating and managing different types of quality costs from prevention, auditing and inspection, To the costs of internal and external failure, as part of an integrated strategy to control costs at the level of the organization as a whole.
Faculty of Applied Sciences
Degree: Master's DegreeProgram code: MA102ASStudy method: Distance LearningCredit hour: 144How long it takes: Full time: 3 years Part time: 6 years Limit time: 13 years