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Bachelor of Arts in Information Technology

The School of Computing and Information Sciences offers a Bachelor of Arts degree Information Technology as a second major. This program is open to those students who are enrolled in and will be completing another Bachelor degree program or those who already have a Bachelor degree from an accredited institution. At this time Computer Science and Computer Engineering are not accepted as the primary major at this time.


Degree Requirements

Information Technology BA degree as a second major requires completion of prerequisite courses and 30 credit hours (10 courses) of required and elective courses as outlined below. All courses must be completed with a grade of C or better.

Prerequisites

All students must have completed the following courses (or equivalent) prior to starting their Information Technology program.


Core IT Courses

All students must complete all of the following courses:


IT Electives

All students must complete two elective courses (6 credits) from the following list:


Cognate Electives

All students must complete two additional elective courses (6 credits) . Students who are completing their first major concurrent with their IT degree must choose their cognate elective courses from a list of designated courses from the department of their primary major. Students who have received their first BA degree prior to enrolling in the IT program must instead choose an additional two courses from the list of IT elective courses.


IT Elective Course Offerings

  Fall Spring Summer
System Administration COP 3348
COP 4343
COP 3348
COP 4343
COP 3348
COP 4343
Applied Network Administration CNT 4513 CIS 4930 -
Databases COP 4722 COP 4723 -
Application Development COP 4005
COP 4813
COP 4005
CEN 4023
COP 4005