Computer Information Systems Major
The Computer Information Systems (CIS) major has as its focus the processing of data for business or government use. File processing and database management are central to this activity, which typically includes replication of clerical function, generation of management reports, and provision of decision support information. Graduates of this program typically are recruited as business application programmers, web designers, database developers or administrators, technical writers, network administrators or support staff, or as end-user computing support personnel.
The CIS program of study is based on the latest ACM curricular recommendations for Information Systems. The CIS program of study has undergone curricular revision recently, and is kept up-to-date through not only its required courses, but also the choice of electives available within it.
Requirements for the Computer Information Systems Major
The Computer Information Systems program of study requires 66-70 credits in the major, to include 36-40 credits of direct CAIS study, 21 credits in business background courses, and 9 credits in supporting liberal arts coursework. Up to 10 credits of the major also fulfill 3 common core requirements of the college. The requirements are as follow:
CAIS Coursework:
CAIS 0125 Introduction to Computer Information Systems (3cr)
Algorithmic Language Elective (3cr or 4cr), one of the two following courses:
CAIS 0117 Intro to Computer Prog. (BASIC) (3cr)
CAIS 0120* Computer Science/Program Design I (4cr)
CAIS 0205 Introduction to COBOL (3cr)
CAIS 0210 Database Application Development Techniques (3cr)
CAIS 0308 Advanced COBOL/File Processing (3cr)
CAIS 0310 Database Management (3cr)
CAIS 0346 Systems Analysis and Design (3cr)
CAIS 0353 Applied Development Project (3cr)
Tier 2 Elective (3cr or 4cr) **
Tier 2 ** or Tier 3 Elective (3cr or 4cr) ***
Tier 3 Elective (3cr or 4cr) ***
Tier 3 Elective (3cr) ***
Business Background Coursework:
ACCT 0104 Prin. of Accounting I (3cr)
ACCT 0105 Prin. of Accounting II (3cr)
MGMT 0221 Business Management (3cr)
MGMT 0250 Quantitative Approaches to Business Decisions (3cr)
MGMT 0308 Organizational Development and Behavior (3cr)
Business Electives (6cr) (two of the following three courses):
FINC 0207 Financial Management (3cr)
MGMT 0220 Production/Operations Management (3cr)
MRKT 0231 Marketing Management (3cr)
Designated Core and/or Liberal Arts Coursework:
ECON 0101 Principles of Macroeconomics (3cr)
MATH 0108 Elementary Statistics (3cr)
ENGL 0392 Business and Technical Writing (3cr)
** The Tier 2 Elective(s) may be satisfied by any course(s) from the following:
CAIS 0120 Computer Science/Program Design I (4cr)
CAIS 0211 RPG Programming (3cr)
CAIS 0212 Visual Programming Concepts (3cr)
CAIS 0216 Web-based Application Development (3cr)
CAIS 0220 Computer Science/Program Design II (4cr)
CAIS 0224 Advanced Microcomputer Applications (3cr)
CAIS 0236 Computer Organization & Architecture (4cr)
*** The Tier 3 Electives may be satisfied by any courses from the following:
CAIS 0230 Data Structures/Algorithm Analysis (4cr)
CAIS 0290 Computer Security (3cr)
CAIS 0307 Organization of Programming Languages (3cr)
CAIS 0312 End-User Computing: An Overview (3cr)
CAIS 0315 Multimedia Presentation Technology (3cr)
CAIS 0316 Web Programming (3cr)
CAIS 0337 Networking and Client/Server Computing (3cr)
CAIS 0341 Computer Graphics (3cr)
CAIS 0347 Intro. to Networking (3cr)
CAIS 0350 Artificial Intelligence (3cr)