Implementing the IT fundamentals knowledge area
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Abstract
The recently promulgated IT model curriculum contains IT fundamentals as one of its knowledge areas. It is intended to give students a broad understanding of (1) the IT profession and the skills that students must develop to become successful IT professionals and (2) the academic discipline of IT and its relationship to other disciplines. As currently defined, the IT fundamentals knowledge area requires 33 lecture hours to complete.The model curriculum recommends that the material relevant to the IT fundamentals knowledge area be offered early in the curriculum, for example in an introduction to IT course; however, many institutions will have to include additional material in an introductory IT course. For example, the Introduction of IT course at Georgia Southern University is used to introduce students to the available second disciplines (an important part of the Georgia Southern IT curriculum aimed at providing students with in-depth knowledge of an IT application domain), some productivity tools, and SQL.For many programs there may be too much material in an introductory IT course. This paper describes how Georgia Southern University resolved this dilemma.
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