Course Outline: Introduction to Database Systems: Evolution of file processing systems, role of databases in organizations, core components of a database environment; Data Modeling: the Entity- Relationship Diagram and its symbols and constructs; The Relational Model and Normalization: relational model, normalization, transformation of an entity-relationship data diagram into a relational model; SQL - A Standard Navigation Language for Relational Databases; Overview of Object-Oriented Databases: object-oriented data model, implementation of object persistence using relational databases.