University of Massachusetts Boston (UMB)
Department of Computer Science (CSM) and Management Science Information Systems (CM)
Plan for a BS Degree in Information Technology (IT)

Bill Campbell, Robert Cohen (CS), Oscar Gutierrez and Jean-Pierre Kuilboer (CM) are developing a BS in IT. Our hope is to have it replace the current BA in Computer Science. This page seeks to track that development.  

Draft Proposals

NB:  The following items are all drafts. Nothing has been decided; the drafts are only working documents to help us think through the program – there's nothing being promised here.  We just want to operate openly.

 

·        Draft Proposal (April, 2006) in Microsoft Word Format

·        Draft Proposal (April 2006) in PDF Format

 

·         Where we are (11/2005)

·        Guiding Principles

·        Objectives and Assessments

·        The Core Flowchart

·        Core Course Descriptions

·        The Tracks

·        Track Course Descriptions

 

Draft Course Proposals

·        SysAdmin-as-SpecialTopics

·        forms

Misc. Lists

·        Perl Program Exercises.doc

·        Tools to cover

Accreditation Criteria

ABET accreditation criteria appear to be in flux right now.  Bill's summaries of two versions appear below.  They differ principally in the number of credits of IT courses required (40 vs. 45), and the nature of the faculty.  Asking for 45 credits isn't onerous since there isn't the need for many math courses.  At least half of the teaching should be done by full-time faculty committed to the program.

·        ABET Criteria for IT (SIGITE)

·        ABET Criteria for IT (09-25-2002)

Here's the SIGITE site: ACM SIGITE - Accreditation Activities

Useful Sites

·        ACM SIGITE

·        BATEC | Welcome To BATEC

·        SIGCSE: Home

·        Massachusetts Board of Higher Education: Policy and Planning Section

·        sage website

·        CPAN

·        OGC ITIL

·        ACM SIGITE - Curriculum Activities

·        The Perl Directory - perl.org

·        Perl for Systems Administration

·        Python Programming Language

·        Jython Home Page

·        Unix System Administration

·        Welcome to the MSDN Library (WMI)

·        The Alice Project

·        Microsoft Academic Days at Tech Ed

Government Web Pages of Interest

·        Tomorrow's Jobs (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Other BS Degrees in Information Technology

mail to: william.campbell@umb.edu or rfc@cs.umb.edu