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Management Information Systems


Bachelor of Science

Information Systems & Technology Department Website

Management Information Systems Technology is a member of the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP), a leading specialized acceditation association for business education.

The major is designed to provide students with the knowledge, abilities and attitudes needed to function effectively as business and organizational programmers and analysts. Further, it provides students with the educational background for lifelong professional, cultural, educational and personal development. The MIS major will receive in-depth education and training in at least three different career-related areas:

  • In systems development methodologies, which provide the fundamental problem-solving approaches used in the profession
  • In technical computer skills, which provide the tools for implementing those problem solutions
  • In business theory, which provides an understanding of the context within which the systems are implemented.

    • This program is part of our Management and Information Systems Technology (MIST) program in the Business Division.

    To complete the Management Information Systems major successfully, the following course work is required.

  • 48 Business Core Requirements credits
  • 12 Skills Component credits
  • 27 MIS major credits
  • 3 MIS major elective credits
  • 34 credits of Core Requirements

    • A minimum of 120 credits are required for degree, the last 30 of which must be completed at La Roche College.

    Business Core Requirements: 48 credits

    ACCT2003 Accounting I
    ACCT2004 Accounting II
    ACCT2013 Managerial Accounting
    ADMG1005 Macroeconomics
    ADMG1006 Microeconomics
    ADMG1018 Fundamentals of Management
    ADMG2009 Business Law I
    ADMG2018 Organizational Behavior
    ADMG2025 Human Resources Administration
    ADMG4020 Operations Management
    ADMG4055 Seminar-Business Policy
    FINC3032 Financial Management
    FINC3036 Financial Institutions
    INMT3039 International Business Management
    ISTC1005 Practical Computer Applications
    MRKT2021 Marketing Management
     

    MIS Major Electives: 3 credits

    ACCT2025 Accounting with Computers
    ACCT4002 Auditing
    ISTC2030 Networking
    ISTC3030 Linux
    ISTC3034 Computer Programming in Java
    ISTC3046 Advanced Data Base Management Concepts
    ISTC4051 Information Systems Technology Internship I
     

    MIS Major Requirements: 27 credits

    ISTC1021 Problem Solving
    ISTC1025 Computer Hardware
    ISTC2008 Introduction to Cyberspace
    ISTC2021 Management Of Information Systems
    ISTC2045 Data Base Management Systems
    ISTC2050 Distributed Data Processing
    ISTC3020 Computer Programming: COBOL
    ISTC4042 Systems Analysis and Design
    ISTC4055 Senior Seminar in IST
     

    Skills Component: 9 credits (select MATH1030 or MATH1070)

    ADMG3024 Professional Presentations
    MATH1030 Calculus for Business, Economics, and Managerial Sciences
    MATH1040 Probability and Statistics
    MATH1070 Finite Mathematics for Business