Get a top-notch business education with the opportunity to specialize in Southern New Hampshire University’s business studies program.
This degree is ideal for adult learners and traditional undergraduates who wish to transfer college credits, switch to business from another discipline or supplement a technical degree or background with a bachelor’s degree in business.
The program includes concentrations in a number of disciplines, enabling students to further tailor their studies. Students may choose more than one concentration, giving them even more of an edge in the job market.
Information Technology Concentration
Information technology graduates are employed in nearly every type of industry and business, in functional areas and in general management. They are systems analysts and programmers, telecommunications specialists, database designers, information technology managers and more.
This course provides the hardware software technology background for information technology personnel Hardware topics include CPU architecture memory registers addressing modes busses instruction sets and a variety of input output devices Software topics include operating system modules process management memory and file system management Also included are basic network components and multi user operating systems Offered every year
Prerequisites:
CIS-100
IT-330: Database Design and Management
This course covers the design and implementation of information systems within a database management system environment Students will demonstrate their mastery of the design process acquired in earlier courses by designing and constructing a physical system using database software to implement logical design Topics include data models and modeling tools and techniques approaches to structural and object design models for databases relational hierarchical networked and object oriented designs CASE tools data dictionaries repositories and warehouses Windows GUI coding and or implementation code and application generation client server planning testing and installation system conversion end user training and integration and post implementation review Offered every year
IT-340: Network and Telecommunication Management
This course provides an in depth knowledge of data communications and networking theory concepts and requirements relative to telecommunications and networking technologies structures hardware and software Emphasis is on the concepts of communications theory and practices terminology and the analysis and design of networking applications Management of telecommunications networks cost benefit analysis and evaluation of connectivity options are covered Students can design build and maintain a local area network LAN Offered as needed
Prerequisites:
CIS-201
OL-215: Principles of Management
This course is designed to examine the fundamentals and principles of management in order to develop an understanding of management in any formal organization Special attention is paid to planning and decision making International management is also covered Offered every semester Writing Intensive Course
Prerequisites:
ENG-10,E
IT ELE - Students may select three (3) Information Technology programming courses (Recommended by Advisor)
Allied Courses
MAT-230: Discrete Mathematics
Discrete mathematics is the study of mathematical structures that are fundamentally discrete rather than continuous That is in contrast to the real numbers that vary continuously the objects of study in discrete mathematics take on distinct separated values Topics include operations on sets logic truth tables counting relations and digraphs functions trees and graph theory A significant goal of this course is to improve students critical thinking and problem solving skills
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