Information Technology (B.A.)

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

Flowchart (Effective January 2020)
Flowchart (If declared major before December 2019)
Flowchart (If you declared the major before August 2010)
Plan of study

Degree Requirements

Information Technology BA degree as a second major is intended to augment a student’s primary degree.

Prerequisites

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

• COP2250 Programming in Java
• MAD1100 Math Concepts for IT or COT3100 Discrete Structures or MAD2104 Discrete Math

Core Courses

All students must complete all of the following courses:

Elective courses

All students must complete two elective courses from the following list:

All students must complete two additional elective courses. 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, with the approval of an IT adviser. 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.