IT in Financial Services Industry Track

Coordinator: Joseph Morabito

This program is an interdisciplinary combination of twelve courses, usually taken over a two year period, on weeknights. It is designed to provide participants with the requisite management, business, technical, and strategic skills needed to help their organization prepare and enhance their e-strategy and plans. This program is available on Saturday mornings and at corporate locations.

Although computer programming is not included in the curriculum, students must demonstrate that they have done programming. This requirement can be met by the students work experience or previous course work. Courses in C++ (CS 570) or Java (CS 765) can be taken to meet this requirement.

Business/Information Technology Foundation
In addition to the twelve required courses, one or all of the following non-credit foundation courses may be required to begin the program:

• MIS 501 Information Management
• MIS 502 Introduction to Accounting, Microeconomics, Statistics and Finance

Business Core

• MGT 609 Introduction to Project Management
• MGT 623 Financial Management
  
• MGT 680 Organizational Behavior and Theory

Information Systems Core

• MIS 710 Process Innovation and Management
• MIS 730 Integrating IS Technologies
• MIS 750 Management of IT Organizations
• MIS 760 IT Strategy
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  Select one of the following:
• MIS 620 Analysis and Development of Information Systems
• MIS 630 Data and Knowledge Management
• MIS 640 Managing Information Networks

Financial Services Industry Career Track

• MIS 681 Financial Services Industry Trends and Issues
• MIS 682 Capital Markets
• MIS 683 Financial Services Industry Back Office
• MIS 684 Financial Services Industry Marketing and Sales