I was googling around for information on “control-break” loops to document some of my code, and I came across the Autumn, 2008 syllabus for CSCI 465, “Enterprise Application Envionments”.

The description from their undergraduate catalog reads:

465. ENTERPRISE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTS (4). File organization, job control language, file access methods and utilities. Security. High throughput data-intensive applications. Extensive laboratory work. PRQ: CSCI 360 or consent of department.

That sounds like an interesting class, actually, and very relevant.

Read the syllabus, though, and you’ll learn that it’s really a COBOL and mainframe assembly language class.

Sure, there are places still using COBOL and IBM 370s, but let’s be reasonable. That’s not the norm anymore, and NIU continues to do a disservice to their students by offering such tripe.