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Extending an information systems curriculum to address information technology

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Gregory W. Hislop,

Randy M. Kaplan,

Lee J. LeitnerAuthors Info & Claims

SIGITE '05: Proceedings of the 6th conference on Information technology education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1095714.1095776

Published: 20 October 2005 Publication History

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This paper discusses the design of a BSIT degree program. In this particular case, the institution already has an ABET accredited BS in Information Systems with many courses relevant to a BSIT program. The program design seeks to benefit from this situation by (a) building on the existing set of courses, and (b) having a common first year for both degrees. At the same time, the design seeks to (a) make the programs easy to distinguish from each other, and (b) position the BSIT for ABET accreditation as an IT degree. This paper discusses the approach taken to meet these somewhat conflicting objectives.

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ABET. "Criteria for Accrediting Computing Programs." Baltimore, MD. 2002. Available at http://www.abet.org

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SIGITE. "Computing Curriculum - Information Technology" Draft available at: http://sigite.acm.org/activities/curriculum/

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Zilora SBogaard DLeone JArmitage WFriedman RBaker K(2013)The changing face of information technologyProceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education10.1145/2512276.2512288(29-34)Online publication date: 2-Oct-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2512276.2512288
Jackson HHansen LTang LWillemain JEllis HGantz DBaker KGarrison D(2009)Changes to an IT program in response to the IT 2008 curriculum guidelinesProceedings of the 10th ACM conference on SIG-information technology education10.1145/1631728.1631780(192-198)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1631728.1631780
Mezick EKoenig M(2009)Education for information scienceAnnual Review of Information Science and Technology10.1002/aris.2008.144042012042:1(593-624)Online publication date: 5-Nov-2009
https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420120

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Extending an information systems curriculum to address information technology
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DOI:10.1145/1095714

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Zilora SBogaard DLeone JArmitage WFriedman RBaker K(2013)The changing face of information technologyProceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education10.1145/2512276.2512288(29-34)Online publication date: 2-Oct-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2512276.2512288
Jackson HHansen LTang LWillemain JEllis HGantz DBaker KGarrison D(2009)Changes to an IT program in response to the IT 2008 curriculum guidelinesProceedings of the 10th ACM conference on SIG-information technology education10.1145/1631728.1631780(192-198)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1631728.1631780
Mezick EKoenig M(2009)Education for information scienceAnnual Review of Information Science and Technology10.1002/aris.2008.144042012042:1(593-624)Online publication date: 5-Nov-2009
https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420120

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