Students complete the projects approved in the Capstone Preparation course. This course includes the management, development and delivery of an information technology project to a client or employer, including regular communication of status to both technical and non-technical audiences. ITM 755 Syllabus
Explores technical, administrative, ethical and physical aspects of IT security. Investigates various threats within IT and fraud. Applies information classification to the design of information, network and physical security. Evaluates the business processes of risk, business continuity, audit, and the risk within software development. ITM 725 Syllabus
Addresses issues for developing, managing and supporting data-driven decision-making in the organization. Topics include data analytics, data warehousing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, as well as the ethical collection, use and application of data. ITM 715 Syllabus
Computer programming is an essential part of data science. When working with large data sets, it’s especially important to be able to write effective, efficient code to help you organize and understand the data. In this course, we’ll introduce you to one of the most widely-used programming languages for data science: Python. You’ll gain experience working
This course will prepare you to master technical, informational, and persuasive communication to meet organizational goals. Technical communication topics include a study of the nature, structure, and interpretation of data. Informational communication topics include data visualization and design of data for understanding and action. Persuasive communication topics include the study of written, verbal, and nonverbal
Explore data mining methods and procedures for diagnostic and predictive analytics. Topics include association rules, clustering algorithms, tools for classification, and ensemble methods. Computer implementation and applications will be emphasized. DS 740 Syllabus
This course provides an introduction to data science and highlights its importance in business decision making. It provides an overview of commonly used data science tools along with spreadsheets, relational databases, statistics, and programming assignments to lay the foundation for data science applications. DS 700 Course Syllabus
This course will introduce you to the concepts and techniques to work with and reason about subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, and nonvolatile collections of data in support of management’s decision-making process. DS 715 Syllabus
This course explores how the built environment came to be, and how it intersects with human needs such as water, air, food, waste, transportation, healthcare, and education. You will evaluate community design and what a sustainable community looks like, and study related technologies while evaluating alternatives and discussing unintended consequences. This course will include case
