Information Technology Management (ITM)

This course focuses on developing communication skills for IT professionals. Deliver effective presentations, conduct crucial conversations with stakeholders. Develop verbal and nonverbal communication skills emphasizing cultural sensitivity, diversity, and ethics. Conduct relevant research and critically evaluate information to make informed evidence-based decisions.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-ITM degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

This course focuses on the differences between and application of management and leadership theories in an IT environment. Utilizing an array of assessment activities, students will identify and understand one's own personal assets and liabilities to become an effective leader and agent of change in a complex adaptive system.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-ITM degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Frame financial decisions within general and project accounting principles. Topics include: pro forma financial statements, time value of money, cash flows and equivalence, depreciation, net present value, rate of return, and ratio analysis. Prepare budgets that prioritize projects within constraints, address uncertainty and intangibles, and integrate with project scheduling.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-ITM degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Examines key data science concepts, methods, and processes. Addresses issues for developing, managing and supporting data-driven decision-making in the organization. Provides knowledge and tools for incorporating data science into IT project workflows. Topics include, but are not limited to, data analytics, data warehousing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-ITM degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Leverage cloud services to streamline computing resources, deploy enterprise applications, improve user access and system reliability, and utilize advanced computing capabilities. Foundation concepts include: virtualization, multi-tenant architecture, and software defined networking. Examines the full range of services available to organizations along with deployment strategies, evaluation criteria, economic justification, and manageability.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-ITM degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Explores technical, administrative, 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.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-ITM degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Examines project management concepts as applies to IT projects; covers traditional PMBOK techniques such as project identification, selection, procurement, and cost/schedule preparation and monitoring. Introduces agile IT project management concepts including Scrum and Extreme Programming. Requires students to apply these concepts to group projects.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-ITM degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

This course focuses on the importance, role and techniques of the business analysis function in the modern IT organization. The course is organized around the six knowledge areas and associated techniques of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) specified by the International Institute of Business Analysis.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-ITM degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Explores best practices and techniques for ensuring the smooth functioning of the IT infrastructure and operational environments to support development and deployment of applications and services within the organization. Coverage includes network infrastructure; servers and devices; computer operations; service management; facilities; help desk services, DevOps, and process automation.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-ITM degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

This course examines best practices in IT governance to achieve regulatory compliance, optimize use of available resources, ensure trustworthiness of enterprise information, and support business strategies and objectives. Topics include: strategic alignment, IT service and control frameworks, portfolio management, IT risk management, and ethical issues in IT governance.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-ITM degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

This seminar course researches, identifies and evaluates significant new trends, technologies and events influencing the global environment of information technology and systems. The course will evaluate future and disruptive technologies, strategies for successful implementation of innovative technologies, critical thinking, and ethics pertaining to its use.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-ITM degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Students select their capstone project, create a plan, define deliverables, secure approval and complete setup of their development environment. Students review concepts necessary for completion of the capstone including Agile project management, systems analysis and communicating with technical and non-technical audiences. Additional topics may be included.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-ITM degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

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.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-ITM degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.