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Even so with the pieces borrowed from others: dressing an IS program in IT clothing

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Randy W. Connolly,

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SIGITE '11: Proceedings of the 2011 conference on Information technology education

Pages 139 - 144

https://doi.org/10.1145/2047594.2047634

Published: 20 October 2011 Publication History

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This paper describes the background, the decision-making processes, and the curricular philosophy of a new four-year degree in the Computer Science & Information Systems department at Mount Royal University. The program created could be described as a hybrid between the Information Systems 2002 Model Curriculum and the Information Technology 2008 Curriculum Guidelines (IT2008). The approach described here may be of interest to other departments with existing IS programs that would like to take advantage of the strengths of the IT approach without abandoning some of the unique strengths of the IS curricula. The paper also argues that instead of trying to erect clear disciplinary boundaries around IT, we should instead think of IT as the computing discipline whose focus is the practical integration of the other computing disciplines.

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Uzoka FConnolly RSchroeder MKhemka NMiller JArmitage WFriedman RBaker K(2013)Computing is not a rock bandProceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education10.1145/2512276.2512291(115-120)Online publication date: 2-Oct-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2512276.2512291

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Even so with the pieces borrowed from others: dressing an IS program in IT clothing
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Information systems education

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SIGITE '11: Proceedings of the 2011 conference on Information technology education

October 2011

340 pages

ISBN:9781450310178

DOI:10.1145/2047594

General Chairs:
Bryan Goda
United States Military Academy
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Edward Sobiesk
United States Military Academy
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Randy Connolly
Mount Royal University, Canada

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Uzoka FConnolly RSchroeder MKhemka NMiller JArmitage WFriedman RBaker K(2013)Computing is not a rock bandProceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education10.1145/2512276.2512291(115-120)Online publication date: 2-Oct-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2512276.2512291

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