Once admitted, students majoring in information technology and informatics are required to take four required courses and seven elective courses in the department. The required courses are: 04:547:200 Social Informatics (3), 04:547:201 Introduction to Computer Concepts (3), 04:547:202 Object-Oriented Programming (3), and 04:547:210 Management of Technological Organizations (3). Students should plan to complete these courses early in their major program. The seven elective courses are chosen from the ITI course listings. These courses include theories and applications of social informatics, information systems, the web, digital archives, multimedia tools, and the use and operation of other electronic resources within institutions and society as a whole. In each course, content and technology are integrated to enable the development of both knowledge and workplace competencies. The required and elective courses are not available for students who have not been admitted into the major. Students are permitted to take 04:547:450 ITI Internship (3) and 04:547:460 Independent Study (3) once they have substantially completed a range of elective courses. These complement their studies and potential career choices. As each college in the university sets its own limits regarding the number of experiential credits a student may apply toward graduation, students must check with their undergraduate college to determine how many independent study and/or internship credits their college will accept.
