Overview

Mission

The Information Technology and Systems (ITS) program will educate students to analyze, design, integrate, and manage information systems using information technology.

Program Educational Objectives

The intent of the Information Technology and Systems program is to produce graduates who are able to achieve the following objectives:

• Gain fundamental knowledge regarding technical concepts and practices in information technology (IT) and information systems (IS).
• Gain a broad background across fundamental areas of information technology along with a depth of understanding in a particular area of interest within the domain of information systems.
• Demonstrate independent critical thinking and problem solving skills, with an ability to analyze the impact of technology on individuals, organizations and society including ethical, legal and public policy issues.
• Collaborate in teams to accomplish a common goal by integrating personal initiative and group cooperation;
• Gain skills to communicate efficiently with technical and nontechnical people in the information technology field and effectively with clients, users, coworkers, and managers using written and oral communication as well as gain skills and strategies for facilitating group projects and activities in collaboration with peers.
• Identify and evaluate current and emerging technologies and assess their applicability to address the users’ needs and recognize the need for continued learning throughout their career.
• Determine how information is inferred from data, and how decisions are made rationally on the basis of that information and ensure that data integrity and privacy is maintained as the organization processes information and acts on it.
• Prepare for graduate studies in information security, information systems, telecommunications, and other related information technology areas.

Program Educational Outcomes

Students graduating from our information focused programs will be able to choose many different roles; becoming IT and IS consultants, project planners, project managers, interface designers, information systems researchers, web developers, and systems analysts. To emphasize, consider some of the general tasks that an information technology and systems specialist is likely to perform depending on where she works:

• Provide technical and decision support for decision making and analysis as an information analysis consultant.
• Figure out how users interact with computers and the world wide web for effective human-computer interaction design.
• Ensure the reliability, accuracy, and accessibility of data sources.
• Develop and administer data standards, policies, and procedures.
• Provide consulting help to deploy and manage large information acquisition frameworks.
• Train staff to use their databases.
• Develop complex web and service oriented architecture deployment scenarios.
• Identify needs for policies on data privacy and security.
• Develop information assurance scenarios and solutions.

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