Naveen Jindal School of Management
Information Technology and Systems (BS)
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology and Systems
Degree Requirements (120 semester credit hours)1
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Faculty
Professors: Ashiq Ali, Indranil R. Bardhan, Alain Bensoussan, Gary Bolton, Metín Çakanyildirim, Huseyin Cavusoglu, Daniel A. Cohen, William M. Cready, Milind Dawande, Theodore E. Day, Gregory G. Dess, Umit G. Gurun, Ernan E. Haruvy, Varghese S. Jacob, Sanjay Jain, Ganesh Janakiraman, Elena Katok, Dmitri Kuksov, Nanda Kumar, Seung-Hyun Lee, Stanley Liebowitz, Zhiang (John) Lin, Sumit K. Majumdar, Syam Menon, Vijay S. Mookerjee, B. P. S. Murthi, Vikram Nanda, Özalp Özer, Mike W. Peng, Hasan Pirkul, Ashutosh Prasad, Suresh Radhakrishnan, Srinivasan Raghunathan, Ram C. Rao, Brian Ratchford, Michael J. Rebello, Sumit Sarkar, Suresh P. Sethi, Kathryn E. Stecke, Riki Takeuchi, Wing Kwong (Eric) Tsang, John J. Wiorkowski, Harold Zhang, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng
Professor Emeritus: Dale Osborne
Clinical Professors: John Barden, Britt Berrett, Abhijit Biswas, Ranavir Bose, Pamela Foster Brady, Shawn Carraher, Larry Chasteen, Paul Convery, David Cordell, Kutsal Dogan, Howard Dover, Forney Fleming III, John Gamino, Randall S. Guttery, Charles Hazzard, William Hefley, Robert Hicks, Gerald (Jerry) Hoag, Marilyn Kaplan, Ching-Chung Kuo, Sonia Leach, Peter Lewin, Jeffrey Manzi, John F. McCracken, Dennis McCuistion, Diane S. McNulty, Joseph Picken, Divakar Rajamani, Daniel Rajaratnam, David Ritchey, Rajiv Shah, Mark Thouin, Keith Thurgood, Jeff Weekley, Habte Woldu, Fang Wu, Laurie L. Ziegler
Associate Professors: Nina Baranchuk, Norris Bruce, Jianqing Chen, Zhonglan Dai, Rebecca Files, Xianjun Geng, J. Richard Harrison, Dorothée Honhon, Kyle Hyndman, Surya N. Janakiraman, Robert L. Kieschnick Jr., Atanu Lahiri, Jun Li, Ningzhong Li, Lívia Markóczy, Amit Mehra, Toyah Miller, Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan, Naim Bugra Ozel, H. Dennis Park, Valery Polkovnichenko, Cuili Qian, Orlando C. Richard, Young U. Ryu, Gil Sadka, Jane Salk, Harpreet Singh, David J. Springate, Upender Subramanian, Kelsey D. Wei, Han (Victor) Xia, Jun Xia, Ying Xie, Yexiao Xu, Alejandro Zentner, Jieying Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Feng Zhao, Yibin Zhou
Clinical Associate Professors: Steven Guengerich, Lale Guler, David Parks, Carolyn Reichert, Avanti P. Sethi, Kelly Slaughter, Jeanne Sluder, James Szot, McClain Watson
Assistant Professors: Mehmet Ayvaci, Qi (George) Chen, Khai Chiong, Emily Choi, Bernhard Ganglmair, Nathan Goldman, Ying Huang, Sora Jun, Sheen Levine, Meng Li, Xiaolin Li, Maria Loumioti, Jean-Marie Meier, Radha Mookerjee, Anyan Qi, Alejandro Rivera Mesias, Alessio Saretto, Simon Siegenthaler, Serdar Simsek, Shaojie Tang, Christian Von-Drathen, Shouqiang Wang, Malcolm Wardlaw, Junfeng Wu, Steven Xiao, Shengqi Ye, Nir Yehuda, Zhe (James) Zhang, Xiaofei Zhao
Clinical Assistant Professors: Shawn Alborz, Athena Alimirzaei, Christina (Krysta) Betanzos, Moran Blueshtein, Judd Bradbury, Jerome Gafford, Ayfer Gurun, Maria Hasenhuttl, Julie Haworth, Jeffery (Jeff) Hicks, Revansiddha Khanapure, Kristen Lawson, Kathryn Lookadoo, Liping Ma, Sarah Moore, Ravi Narayan, Dawn Owens, Parneet Pahwa, Jason Parker, Drew Peabody, Nassim Sohaee
Senior Lecturers: Semiramis Amirpour, Frank Anderson, Vivek Arora, Tiffany A. Bortz, Richard Bowen, Monica E. Brussolo, Juliann Chapman, George DeCourcy, Eugene (Gene) Deluke, Alexander Edsel, Amal El-Ashmawi, Carol Flannery, Mary Beth Goodrich, Thomas (Tom) Henderson, Jennifer G. Johnson, Jackie Kimzey, Chris Linsteadt, Joseph Mauriello, Victoria D. McCrady, Edward Meda, Robert (Stephen) Molina, Prithi Narasimhan, Mohammad Naseri Taheri, Madison Pedigo, Matt Polze, James Richards, Debra Richardson, Anindita Roy Bardhan, Kashif Saeed, Margaret Smallwood, Steven Solcher, Luell (Lou) Thompson, Amy L. Troutman, Robert Wright, Kathy Zolton, Hubert Zydorek
I. Core Curriculum Requirements: 42 semester credit hours2
Communication: 6 semester credit hours
COMM 1311 Survey of Oral and Technology-based Communication
Mathematics: 3 semester credit hours
MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I3, 4, 5
Life and Physical Sciences: 6 semester credit hours
Select any 6 semester credit hours from Life and Physical Sciences core courses (see advisor and degree requirements)
Language, Philosophy and Culture: 3 semester credit hours
Select any 3 semester credit hours from Language, Philosophy and Culture core courses (see advisor)
Creative Arts: 3 semester credit hours
Select any 3 semester credit hours from Creative Arts core courses (see advisor)
American History: 6 semester credit hours
Select any 6 semester credit hours from American History core courses (see advisor)
Government / Political Science: 6 semester credit hours
GOVT 2305 American National Government
GOVT 2306 State and Local Government
Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3 semester credit hours
Choose one of the following:
BA 1320 Business in a Global World3, 4
ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics3, 4
ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics3, 4
Component Area Option: 6 semester credit hours
MATH 1326 Applied Calculus II3, 4, 5
And one of the following:
BA 1320 Business in a Global World3, 4
ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics3, 4
ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics3, 4
II. Major Requirements: 77 semester credit hours
Major Preparatory Courses: 21 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum
ACCT 2301 Introductory Financial Accounting3
ACCT 2302 Introductory Management Accounting3
BLAW 2301 Business and Public Law3
BA 1310 Principles of Business Decision Making
or ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics3, 4
BA 1320 Business in a Global World3, 4
or ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics3, 4
MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I3, 4, 5
MATH 1326 Applied Calculus II3, 4, 5
OPRE 3333 Quantitative Business Analysis3
or MATH 2333 Matrices, Vectors, and Their Application3, 6
STAT 3360 Probability and Statistics for Management and Economics
or OPRE 3360 Managerial Methods in Decision Making Under Uncertainty
ITSS 3311 Introduction to Programming
ITSS 3312 Object-Oriented Programming
Major Core Courses: 26 semester credit hours
BA 1100 Business Basics and ITSS 3100 Professional Development7
or ITSS 3200 Introduction to Business and Professional Development7
BCOM 3310 Business Communication
BCOM 4350 Advanced Business Communication
FIN 3320 Business Finance
ITSS 3300 Information Technology for Business
OPRE 3310 Operations Management
OBHR 3310 Organizational Behavior
or OBHR 3330 Introduction to Human Resource Management
MKT 3300 Principles of Marketing
IMS 3310 International Business
Major Related Courses: 18 semester credit hours
ITSS 4300 Database Fundamentals
ITSS 4330 Systems Analysis and Design
ITSS 4360 Network and Information Security
ITSS 4351 Foundations of Business Intelligence
ITSS 4370 Information Technology Infrastructure Management
ITSS 4390 Information Systems Capstone
Guided Electives: 12 semester credit hours
A practicum experience is required; the student has the option of zero to 3 semester credit hours, depending on the particular internship, and preference for additional electives.
ITSS 4V90 ITSS Internship
ITSS 4090 Information Technology and Systems Internship
A community engagement experience is required; the student has the option of zero or 3 semester credit hours, depending on the particular experience, and preference for additional electives.
ENTP 4340 Social Sector Engagement and Community Outreach
BA 4095 Social Sector Engagement and Community Outreach Practicum
Choose from the following to fulfill remaining Guided Elective semester credit hours:
Students may choose one of the following tracks:
A. Business Intelligence and Analytics Track
ITSS 4353 Business Analytics
ITSS 4352 Introduction to Web Analytics
ITSS 4354 Advanced Big Data Analytics
ITSS 4355 Data Visualization
B. Enterprise Systems Track
ITSS 4340 Enterprise Resource Planning
ITSS 4353 Business Analytics
ITSS 4343 Integrated SCM Information Systems
ACCT 4342 or ITSS 4342 Analysis and Design of Accounting Systems
C. General Track
Any ITSS upper level course, excluding ITSS 4301 Database Systems8, that is not part of the BS INTS major preparatory or major related courses may be used to satisfy the 12 hours of guided elective credit. This includes ITSS 4V95 Seminar Series in Information Systems.
III. Elective Requirements: 1 semester credit hours
Free Electives: 1 semester credit hours
Both lower- and upper-division courses may count as electives but students must complete at least 51 semester credit hours of upper-division courses to qualify for graduation.
1. Incoming freshmen must enroll and complete requirements of UNIV 1010 and the corresponding school-related freshman seminar course. Students, including transfer students, who complete their core curriculum at UT Dallas must take UNIV 2020.
2. Curriculum Requirements can be fulfilled by other approved courses from institutions of higher education. The courses listed are recommended as the most efficient way to satisfy both Core Curriculum and Major Requirements at UT Dallas.
3. Indicates a prerequisite class to be completed before enrolling for upper-division classes.
4. A required Major course that also fulfills a Core Curriculum requirement. Semester credit hours are counted in Core Curriculum.
5. Students may elect to substitute MATH 2413 and MATH 2414 or MATH 2417 and MATH 2419.
6. Students may substitute MATH 2418 or CS 2305.
7. JSOM freshmen are required to take BA 1100 and ITSS 3100. Transfer students and students new to JSOM are required to take ITSS 3200.
8. ACCT 4301 or ITSS 4301 may not be used to satisfy BS INTS degree requirements.