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General CIS Track

Required Courses                              12 credits

Elective Courses                                 12 credits

Database Management Systems II

Quantitative Methods for Accounting*

Quantitative Decision Making for Business I*

*Students may not receive credit for both OPR 3450 and OPR 3300.

Data Analytics Track (effective Spring 2016)

Required Courses (12 credits)

Elective Courses (12 credits)
Choose four (4) courses of 3 credits each from the following. At least one of which should be a CIS course and one should be a STA course or an OPR course.

Quantitative Decision Making for Business I

* If you have used one of these programming courses as a required course, you may use the other as an elective.

Information Risk Management and Cybersecurity Track (effective Spring 2016)

Required Courses (15 credits)

Elective Courses (9 credits)
Choose three courses from the following list:

This minor is designed to prepare students majoring in other areas of business to be competent end users and decision makers in a computer information systems environment. The focus is on using microcomputers and higher-level applications software to implement useful applications in a wide range of business areas.

Required Courses  

Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Data Analytics (9 credits) effective Spring 20162017

This minor would provide an opportunity for students majoring in various areas of business to develop basic understanding of information security and assurance issues that organizations face today and the potential solutions available.

Data Analytics (9 credits)

This minor would provide an opportunity for students majoring in various areas of business to develop basic data literacy and to integrate techniques and solutions from the areas data literacy and to integrate techniques and solutions from the areas of technology, statistics, and quantitative modeling in developing business intelligence to facilitate organizational decision-making

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Quantitative Methods and Modeling (9 credits)

The minor in quantitative methods and modeling is designed to prepare students majoring in other areas of business with a background of quantitative skills that facilitate the decisionmaking process. In addition to one required course, two elective courses are selected with the approval of the area advisor to complement the students major and provide the student with an appropriate background.

Other quantitative courses may be selected subject to approval of the area advisor.

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The minor in statistics consists of the courses listed below.

Elective Courses                                 6 credits

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Liberal Arts Interdisciplinary Minor in Information Technology and Social Responsibility

The internet age has fostered an environment of widespread interconnectedness. This hyperconnectivity, and the new media that proliferate along with it, come with their own specific problems. The purpose of this concentration is to study the effects of these new technologies on the individual, the workplace, and society at large. In this program of study students will examine the increasing importance of individual and organizational social responsibility in today’s interconnected and computer-mediated environment, as well as the specific issues that stand at the intersection of social responsibility and information technology.

Elective Courses                                 6 credits

Computer Ethics*  (

Information and Society  (

Computer Ethics*  

*For the purposes of this program, this course counts as an Arts and Sciences course.

Students in the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences or in the School of Public Affairs who wish to take business courses may do so by declaring a minor in statistics and quantitative modeling or in technology, business, and the Internet. Before declaring the minor, they must complete either BUS 1001 (1 credit) or have previously completed BUS 1000 (3 credits). To be awarded the minor, students must have a GPA of 2.0 or more in the courses included in the minor. Eligibility to declare such a minor is restricted to students who have an overall GPA of 2.0 or more at time they declare the minor. Courses that apply to the minor may not be used for any other requirement. This minor does not fulfill the requirement to complete a liberal arts minor.

Students must choose three courses (9 credits) from the following:

Problem-solving Techniques Using Microcomputers

1 hour; 1 credit

Spreadsheet Techniques for Problem Solving

1 hour; 1 credit

Spreadsheet Formulas and Functions

1 hour; 1 credit

Introduction to Information Systems and Technologies

3 hours; 3 credits

Object-Oriented Programming I

3 hours; 3 credits

Computer Ethics

3 hours; 3 credits

Spreadsheet Applications in Business

3 hours; 3 credits

Database Management Systems I

3 hours; 3 credits

E-Business Technologies

3 hours; 3 credits

Networks and Telecommunications I

3 hours; 3 credits

3 hours; 3 credits

Principles of Web Design

3 hours; 3 credits

Green IT

3 hours; 3 credits

Social Media Technologies in Organizations

3 hours; 3 credits

Principles of New Media

3 hours; 3 credits

Special Topics in Computer Information Systems

1 hours; 1 credits

Special Topics in Computer Information Systems

2 hours; 2 credits

Special Topics in Computer Information Systems

3 hours; 3 credits

Special Topics in Computer Information Systems

1.5 hours; 1.5 credits

Object-Oriented Programming II

3 hours; 3 credits

Object-Oriented Programming II with Java

3 hours; 3 credits

Internet Applications Development

3 hours; 3 credits

Web Applications Development

3 hours; 3 credits

Information Technology Audit

3 hours; 3 credits

Microcomputer Applications in Business II

3 hours; 3 credits

Data Warehousing for Analytics

3 hours; 3 credits

Networks and Telecommunications II

3 hours; 3 credits

Expert (Knowledge-Based) Systems and Related Technologies

3 hours; 3 credits

Financial Information Technologies

3 hours; 3 credits

Operating Systems Concepts

3 hours; 3 credits

Special Topics in Computer Information Systems

3 hours; 3 credits

Systems Analysis and Design

3 hours; 3 credits

Information Technology and Social Responsibility

3 hours; 3 credits

Independent Study and Research in Computer Information Systems

3 hours; 3 credits

Information Technology Development and Project Management

3 hours; 3 credits

Computer Information Systems Internship

3 hours; 3 credits

Hon Info Systems

3 hours; 3 credits

Hon Sprdsht App Bus

3 hours; 3 credits

Hon Network & Com

3 hours; 3 credits

Hon CIS I

3 hours; 3 credits per semester

Hon CIS II

3 hours; 3 credits per semester