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College of Business
West Texas A&M University

2009-2010 Catalog Requirements

Computer Information Systems Concentration

Department of Information and Decision Management

CORE CURRICULUM COURSES (40-44 HOURS)

  HRS

Communication (10)

 

ENGL 1301 (ENG 101); 1302* (ENG 102) or 2311* (ENG 270)

6

Communication (11)

 

SCOM 1315 (101) or 1321** (201)

3

Mathematics (20)

 

MATH 1324* (115) Math for Business and Economics I

3

Natural Sciences (30)

 

Take two courses from:
PSES 1301 (216), 1307 (112); ANSC 1319 (121); BIOL 1406(101) or 1408,
1407* (102) or 1409*, 1411 (122), 1413 (121); CHEM 1405 (121), 1411* (101),
 1412* (102); GEOL 1401 (GESC 111) or 1403 (GEOL 101), 1402 (GESC 112),
1404 (GEOL 102); PHYS 1401* (101), 1402* (102), 1411, 1412,  2425* (210),
2426* (211)

6-8

Humanities (40-41)

 

ENGL 2321*, 2326*, 2331*, 2341*, 2343*; HIST 2311 (110),
2372 (210); MCOM 1307 (MC 107); PHIL 1301 (101), 2374 (204);
SPAN 2312*/*** (207), or
SPAN 2315*/*** (207)   Choose 1

3

Visual and Performing Arts (50)

 

HUMA 1315 (FA 101); ARTS 1303 (ART 151), ARTS 1304 (ART 152);
DANC 2303; MUSI 1306 (MUS 101) or 1208 and 1209; or THRE 1310 (105)
Choose 1

3

Social and Behavioral Sciences (60)

 

HIST 1301 (201), 1302 (202), 2301   Choose 2

6

Social and Behavioral Sciences (70)

 

POSC 2305 (101) or POSC 2370; 2306 (102)

6

Social and Behavioral Sciences (80)

 

ECON 2301 (ECO 201) Principles of Macroeconomics

3

Institutionally Designated Option (90)

 

ANSC 2370 (NEW); IDM 1105, 1301 (CIS 1301), 1315 (CIS 1315), 2345;
IDS1071; PHIL 2303 (203)   Choose 1

1-3

BBA CORE REQUIREMENTS (39 HOURS)

  HRS

ACCT 2301 (ACC 231) Principles of Accounting I

3

ACCT 2302* (ACC 232) Principles of Accounting II

3

IDM 2310**** (CIS 2310) Communications & Collaboration

3

BUSI 3312* (GBUS 312) Business Law

3

IDM 2342* (QBA 250, QBA 2342) Statistics for Business and Economics

3

ECON 2302 (ECO 202) Principles of Microeconomics

3

ADVANCED ECONOMICS ELECTIVE

3

FIN 3320* (320) (FINANCE) Business Finance

3

MATH 1325* (116) Math for Business & Economics II

3

MGT 3330 (MGT 330) Principles of Management

3

MGT 4315* (415) Strategic Management and Policy

3

MKT 3340 (MKT 340) Principles of Marketing

3

IDM 3330 (CIS 3330) Management Information Systems

3

CIS REQUIREMENTS (30 HOURS)

  HRS

IDM 1315 (204, CIS 1315) Programming Fundamentals

3

IDM 2315* (CIS 2315) Programming Business Applications

3

IDM 2390* (CIS 260, 2390) Systems Analysis and Design

3

IDM 3312* (CIS 3312) Advanced Business Programming

3

IDM 3350* (CIS 450, 3350) Database Systems Design

3

IDM 4360* (CIS 360, 4360) Object-Oriented Analysis & Design

3

IDM 4390* (CIS 4390) Software Systems Development

3

CIS ADVANCE ELECTIVES

 

IDM 3372 (CIS 3372) Web Application Development
IDM 3382* (CIS 382, 3382) Enterprise Web-Based Applications Development
IDM 3385* (CIS 385, 3385) Networking and Data Communications
IDM 3390* (CIS 3390) Project Management
IDM 4310* (CIS 410, 4310) Decision Support/Artificial Intelligence Systems
IDM 4331* (QBA 4331) Production and Operations Mgt.
IDM 4350* (CIS 4350) Data Warehousing and Data Mining
IDM 4372* (CIS 314, 4372) Information Visualization and User Interface Design
IDM 4382* (CIS 482, 4382) Software Development in a Database Environment
IDM 4392* (CIS 498, 4392) Applied Problems in Computer and Information Systems
IDM 4398* (CIS 497, 4098) Internship in CIS

9

ELECTIVES

7-10

TOTAL HOURS REQUIRED TO COMPLETE DEGREE

120

* Indicates prerequisites—see catalog for more information.
**Recommended.
*** Or an equivalent course (second year, second semester) in French or German.
**** College of Business writing component.

NOTE: At least 39 hours of advanced work (3000- or 4000-level courses) for which
tuition is paid must be earned at WTAMU, and 30 of the 39 hours must be the final
hours counted toward a degree. A maximum of six semester hours in religion and six
semester hours in physical education (PHED) courses can count toward a
baccalaureate degree.


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