2023-2024 Undergraduate Course Catalog

May 08, 2024

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2023-2024 Undergraduate Course Catalog

Information Management and Technology, BS

Contact:

Bruce Kingma, Professor of Entrepreneurship

Program Director

(315) 443-2911

iundergrad@syr.edu

Website:

https://ischool.syr.edu/academics/information-management-and-technology-bachelors-degree/

Introduction:

The School of Information Studies offers a bachelor of science degree (B.S.) in Information Management and Technology. This degree program provides a broad introduction to information management, services, and technologies, coupled with a firm foundation steeped in coursework from the liberal arts and sciences. Students learn the most effective ways to find information, assess people’s technology needs, and design and manage systems that meet those needs.

Coursework in Information Management and Technology teaches students how to locate and acquire information resources; select, manage, and use information technology; and help organizations use information resources to work more efficiently and effectively. The overarching emphasis is on the usefulness of these information systems to people.

Student Learning Outcomes

In addition to the comprehensive iSchool Bachelor of Science learning outcomes students are expected to achieve in the course of earning their Bachelor’s degree, students in the Information, Management and Technology major at the iSchool are also expected to achieve the following learning outcomes:

Manage people towards common goals using data, processes, information, and technologies.
Identify business concepts including accounting, economics, finance, management, and marketing.

iSchool Bachelor of Science Degree Requirements- Information Management and Technology

The B.S. degree in Information Management and Technology requires 120 credits, distributed as indicated below.

Information Management and Technology Curriculum: 30-31 credits

Information Management and Technology Primary Core: 15-16 credits

Students who transfer into the iSchool as an IUT or add an iSchool major after their first year of study, are not required to take IST101.

Information Technology: 6 credits

Select two courses from the list below.

Information Management: 9 credits

Select three courses from the list below.

Concentrations and Electives: 15 credits

Students must complete five additional iSchool courses to fulfill their IM&T elective requirement. Students are required to complete one iSchool concentration which typically consists of three courses. The remaining two courses may be any IST 100-599 level courses or IDS courses.

Completing a concentration allows students to select course work that matches their professional interests and planned career paths. Students may petition the Undergraduate Program Director to approve three courses to be considered a concentration in an area of interest that is not shown in the official list of concentrations. These three courses must provide depth in an area of study.

Courses cannot be used to satisfy both a core requirement, a concentration, and an IST elective.

Students select from one of the following concentrations below. Please note each concentration has one or more required course.

Data Analytics Concentration

Required
IST 359 - Introduction to Database Management Systems
IST 387 - Introduction to Applied Data Science
Concentration Electives: select one course from the list below.
IST 407 - Data Mining
IST 414 - Data Driven Inquiry
IST 418 - Big Data Analytics
IST 421 - Information Visualization
IST 462 - Scripting for Data Analysis

Digital Retail Strategies Concentration

Students who pursue the 18-credit Digital Retail Strategies concentration will be required to take three RMT courses and one additional IST elective, as RMT classes do not count towards the 15 credit IST elective requirement.

Required
IST 195 - Information Technologies
RMT 301 - Retailing Fundamentals
RMT 407 - Retail Buying and Planning
RMT 457 - Electronic Retailing and Marketing
Concentration Electives: select two courses from the list below.
IST 263 - Introduction to Front-End Web Development
IST 322 - Digital Strategy & Analytics for the Web
IST 486 - Social Media in the Organization
IST 523 - Graphic Design for the Web

Information Security Management Concentration

Required
IST 323 - Introduction to Information Security
Concentration Electives: select two courses from the list below.
IST 336 - Leading Issues in Information Security
IST 342 - Information Security Policy
IST 402 - Digital Forensics
IST 425 - Enterprise Risk Management
IST 431 - Security in a Networked Environment
IST 476 - Applied Information Security

Innovation, Design, and Startups Concentration

All three IDS courses below are required.

University Wide Requirements

The iSchool participates in students’ knowledge and skill development through the Shared Competencies, Syracuse University’s institutional learning goals that highlight the knowledge and skills students can expect to gain through their major courses, liberal arts requirements and co-curricular activities.

All incoming and external transfer students are required to take FYS101, a 1-credit course.

FYS 101 - First Year Seminar

IDEA

All incoming and transfer students are required to take a 3-credit IDEA course that can be selected from the approved IDEA Course Requirement list .

IST courses appearing on the approved IDEA course requirement list may be taken to fulfill both the IDEA requirement and/or a core or concentration requirement.

Skills Electives: 15-17 credits

Programming Skills

Students are required to complete the computer programming course listed below. Petitions will not be accepted to substitute IST256.

IST 256 - Application Programming for Information Systems

Communication Skills: 9 credits

Students are required to take 12 credits in communications skills, including IST 344, as well as one course from each of the three categories below:

Quantitative Skills: 6-8 credits

Students are required to attain minimum competence in mathematics by completing the quantitative skills requirement of the Liberal Art Core curriculum of the College of Arts and Sciences.

All IM&T majors are required to attain minimum competence in mathematics. Students may satisfy this requirement by completing the quantitative skills requirement of the Liberal Arts Core curriculum of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Arts & Sciences Divisional Requirements: 12 courses, minimum 36 credits

Students are required to take three courses in each of the three divisions of the Arts and Sciences-Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Humanities. In addition, three courses in any of the divisions must be completed to fulfill this requirement.

Students are required to complete a minimum of 60 credits of coursework in the College of Arts & Sciences. Courses from Communication Skills, Quantitative Skills and A&S Divisional Requirements will all count towards the A&S minimum credit requirement. Additional A&S courses will be required to reach the 60 credit minimum requirement.

General Electives: 21-24 credits

Students need 120 credits to graduate from Syracuse University. If after meeting all program and University requirements, the student is still lacking to meet the 120 credits needed for graduation, students can take any undergraduate Syracuse University course to reach the graduation credits total. Students can concentrate on a minor, a dual degree, a combined degree, an internship experience, or study abroad to reach the minimum of 120 credits required for graduation.

International Experience

Students will be required to complete one international experience to graduate with their iSchool undergraduate degree. iSchool Immersion courses that require domestic travel do not fulfull this requirement. Students can fulfill their international requirement in one of the following ways:

- Semester abroad
- University exchange
- Short term abroad program
- International Internship
- Coursework (6 credits from approved list)
- Approved international component - by petition