The standard concentration offers the most flexibility and is ideal for those who want to select a diverse mix of Advanced Phase electives, based upon their interests and/or their current employer's needs. For example, a student who works in an IT position with a heavily internationalized firm and interacts regularly with networking employees may want to choose electives from among a combination of networking and global IT courses. This concentration is also suitable for those wanting to customize a program for a career as an IT consultant, IT trainer, technical author, or IT sales consultant, for example. Note that this concentration is not recommended for those without professional IT experience. Students without such experience would be better served by selecting one of the other concentrations, each of which targets a specific IS position in the workforce.
Learn more about admission to this program.
Online Learning Options
This concentration is available online. CDM online degrees are delivered mostly through
COL-enabled courses, although other delivery technologies are also used. If a course is COL-enabled, any student registered in the course has access to the course playback. Students are strongly encouraged to utilize the COL resource wherever available. To complete this degree a student may take any combination of online and on campus courses. For more information on online learning at CDM visit the
Online Learning page.
CourseRequirements
Prerequisite Phase
The goal of the prerequisite phase is to give students the background necessary for starting the graduate program. These prerequisite phase requirements can be fulfilled in one of three ways:
- The student takes the course and earns a grade of B- or higher
- The student takes a Graduate Assessment Exam (GAE) to test out of the course
- The faculty advisor waives the course because of equivalent academic background or work experience.
All students are blocked from enrolling in Graduate Phase courses prior to completing their prerequisites. Students must submit an online Change of Status request (through myCDM) when the Prerequisite Phase is completed to inform the Student Services offices that the block can be removed.
Foundation Phase
| IS 421 |
| IS 422 |
| CSC 451 |
| ECT 424 |
| IS 430 |
Advanced Phase
CDM Open Electives
Students must complete
4 CDM elective courses in the 420-699 range from any combination of IS concentration courses and other School of Computing offerings. ANI and DC courses do not qualify. Credit for courses taken outside of the school will only be given if approved by a faculty advisor. At least
1 of the Open electives must be 500-level or above.
Capstone