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Undergraduate Degree Requirements - 2008

The requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Information Technology degree for those students entering the program in the Fall 2008 semester and beyond are shown below.

Only Free Electives and H&SS Electives may be taken with the Pass/No Credit option.









IT Core Requirements: (36 or 40 credits)
  1. ITEC-1100 Introduction to Information Technology 4 credits
2. ITEC-5100 Introduction to UML 1 credit
One of the following two sequences:*
2.
  • ECSE-2610 Computer Components & Operations
  • ENGR-2350 Embedded Control
  • ECSE-2660 Computer Arch, Networking and OS
3.
  • CSCI-2500 Computer Organization
  • CSCI-2300 Data Structures and Algorithms
8 or 12 credits
5. ITEC-2110 Web Systems Development 4 credits
6. IT Technology Elective (one of):
    CSCI-4380 Database Systems
   MGMT-4170 Data Resource Management
4 credits
7. ITEC-4310 Managing IT Resources 4 credits
  8. ITEC-2961 Creativity and IT 4 credits
9. ENGR-2600 Modelling and Analysis of Uncertainty 4 credits
10. ITEC-4100 IT Capstone Experience 4 credits

Math/Science Requirements: (24 credits)
1. MATH-1010 Calculus I 4 credits
  2. Math elective 4 credits
3. CSCI-1100 Computer Science I 4 credits
4. CSCI-1200 Computer Science II 4 credits
  5. Physical Science Elective (PHYS-XXXX) 4 credits
  6. Life Science Elective (BIOL-XXXX) 4 credits

Humanities and Social Sciences Requirements: (24 credits)
1. ITEC-1220 IT and Society 4 credits
2. ITEC-2210 Intro to Human Computer Interaction 4 credits
  3. Humanities elective 4 credits
  4. Social Science elective 4 credits
  5. H&SS elective 4 credits
  6. H&SS elective 4 credits

Free Elective Requirements: (8-12 credits)
  1. Free Elective 4 credits
  2. Free Elective 4 credits
  3. Free Elective 4 credits

Student-Selected Concentration: (32 credits)
  1. Concentration course 4 credits
  2. Concentration course 4 credits
  3. Concentration course 4 credits
  4. Concentration course 4 credits
  5. Concentration course 4 credits
  6. Concentration course 4 credits
  7. Concentration elective 4 credits
  8. Concentration Capstone/Course 4 credits

The student selects a concentration from a list of available concentrations. Each concentration prescribes the courses that it requires. Alternatively, a student may choose his or her own courses with faculty advisement to fulfill concentration requirements and explore a special interest.


Students must satisfy an 8-credit communication requirement. See your advisor for details.

*Select either the three-course ECSE sequence or the two-course CSCI sequence. If the ECSE sequence is chosen, ENGR-2350 will replace one free elective slot. If the CSCI Sequence is chosen, then your math elective in Semester II must be MATH-2800 Introduction to Discrete Structures.

**MGMT-2100 Statistical Methods or PSYC-2310 Experimental Methods and Statistics may be taken in place of this course.

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