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This is the University of Pittsburgh

This was one of the schools I looked at for Information System Major and where I got the idea of different concentrations within the IS (way back in my first outline not even on the wiki)

The have a good foundation of courses and they make a connection between the computer discpline and the cognate. They also limit this to three areas Information Systems, User Centered Design, and Network Security.

The posted however does not show that and really does not show how the three areas are divided, here is what they have listed

Core Courses:

Introduction to Information Science
Intro to Object-Oriented Programming: JAVA I
Telecommunications
Database Management Systems
Human Factors
Information Systems Analysis & Design

Concentrations:

   Information Systems enables students to use object-oriented design tools to design, build,
   implement, and test web-based information systems. 
   Courses:JAVA II, Object Oriented Design, GIS,Enterprise Systems, Architecture and OS, Web 
   Services

   User Centered Design provides the visual and human-computer interaction skills needed to design 
   and build prototypes of information systems interfaces, as well as to perform usability testing 
   of these systems. 
   Courses:User Centered Design, Visualization, Web Programming, Graphics

   Networks and Security offers skills needed to design, build and test LANS, WANS, Wireless, 
   Internet and Web-based networks.
   Courses: Networks II, Computer Security, Wireless,  Mobile Applications.

Capstone Experience

  You can:
  Assist with graduate-level research
  Self-design a project
  Intern with a regional industry:

--Polack 10:54, 26 September 2006 (EDT)