Major in Information Technology Management

Information and the technology that puts it within reach are strategically significant resources in today’s organization. When they are properly managed they can provide the organization with a distinct competitive advantage.

Recognizing both the value of these resources and the knowledge, skills, and understanding needed by the entry-level manager in this field, our program in information technology management (ITM) is designed to prepare graduates to meet this need.

Accordingly, the principal objective of the IT Management program is two-fold:

to develop the skill set necessary to analyze, design, and evaluate an organization's information technology systems, and
to familiarize students with the leadership skills necessary to leverage the full potential of information technology and services in support of the organization’s mission.

To this end, courses in the program present technical, economic, and behavioral dimensions of technology-based information systems whose purpose is to support a firm's information and decision infrastructure.

Throughout the program there is a great emphasis placed on "hands on" project-related work using a variety of application development tools.

A significant difference the ITM program offers compared to most majors is that it is interdisciplinary in nature. It has been carefully crafted from existing courses in two departments, the Department of Business & Economics and the Department of Math and Computer Science. The curriculum for this program is the result of the work of a broadly based team of faculty in both departments and a consulting group of six professionals in the field.

The result is a program consisting of the seven-course business core, eleven courses in IT, and three prescribed liberal arts courses in the college’s I/S core.

The student’s total curriculum will consist of:

	Integrative studies	36 hours
	Co-requisites	6 hours
	Major studies	65 hours
	Electives	16 hours
	Total hours	123 hours

Prerequisite:
All courses have Spreadsheet Competency as a prerequisite.

Co-requisites:

	2 credits - Intro to Economics (ECON 201)
	2 credits - Micro or Macroecomics (ECON 210 or 211)
	2 credits – Business Communication (COMM 301)

Information Technology Management Major (BS)
Required courses for the major but without major credit
ECON 210	Microeconomics	2 credits
COMM 301	Business Communication	2
Sub-total		4
Business core
ACCT 212	Managerial Accounting	3
BADM 212	Principles of Management	4
BADM 213/214	Business Law I or Business Law II	4
BADM 218	Marketing Principles	4
BADM 309	Statistics	4
BADM 417	Business Strategy and Policy (Combined with Senior Seminar)	4
Information Technology
BADM 220	Advanced Computer Applications	4
CSCI 211	Programming I	4
CSCI 218	Programming II	4
CSCI 226	Computer Architecture	4
BADM 240	eCommerce	2
CSCI 236	Data Structures and Algorithms	4
BADM 317	Management Information Systems	4
CSCI 340	Data Bases	4
CSCI 420	Networking	4
BADM 421	Internship in Business	2