Majors, Minors, and Certificate

Business Analytics focuses on the use of data to guide evidence-based decision-making. This field has emerged during a time when massively large data sets are being collected throughout society.  Analytics combines numerous traditional disciplines including information systems and statistics. This major provides a framework for thinking about the collection and use of "big data" and develops skills for handling structured and unstructured data and for developing models to predict behavior in data-rich business environments.

Business Analytics Major Prerequisites and Courses (PDF)

The Information and Cybersecurity Management Major provides managerial perspective and technical skills to create, control, protect, and leverage information and data resources of an organization.  The major contains two concentrations. One is an Information Systems concentration focusing on the systems, processes, and technologies organizations use to manage the information assets of the organizations.  The Cybersecurity Management concentration is a managerial focus on cybersecurity and risk management that organizations seek in all of their business units.  Both concentrations are a solid foundation of technical understanding delivered from a managerial perspective to enable students to contribute quickly to problem-solving in Information Systems and Cybersecurity Management in organizational settings.

Analytics and the ability to effectively leverage large amounts of information are simply becoming pervasive across many disciplines. It is truly interdisciplinary in nature. The analytical techniques and abilities are the common base to which the various disciplines provide context-specific data, problems, opportunities, and approaches. To meet this need the inter-divisional Analytics co-major provides students with the skills to deal with big data and will complement the pursuit of a major in any division. The core of the co-major provides some necessary common ground and the tracks will provide the contexts. The business analytics track provides an applied business-oriented context.

Analytics Co-Major Prerequisites and Courses (PDF)

This track takes a more traditional Information Systems focus on foundational theory and practice in content areas such as business process management, database, data communications, security, systems analysis, and project management. The track also addresses contemporary topics including cloud computing, mobile commerce, enterprise systems, business intelligence, data mining, and big data management. It emphasizes the application of technology and information management skills to solving business problems.

This track focuses on Cybersecurity from a managerial perspective.  It includes foundational knowledge and practice in content areas such as Cyber-attack methods, incident response, protection and detection, cyber risk management, security policies, regulation and compliance, networking, as well as key security technologies such as blockchain and encryption. It overviews relevant technology and emphasizes the application of technology and information management skills to solving security-focused business problems.

The minor provides students with an applied/managerial perspective on the Cybersecurity issues faced by organizations, an understanding of how organizations address those issues both culturally and administratively, as well as insight and experience with some of the leading as well as emerging technologies applied in the Cybersecurity realm. 

Cybersecurity Management Minor (PDF)

The minor in Information Systems is designed to give students, who major in other disciplines, a strong background in computer technology and information systems. IS graduates are actively recruited for positions in a number of industries including consulting, manufacturing, and banking. 

Information Systems Minor (PDF)

Business Analytics is the latest battleground for corporations seeking to gain a competitive advantage or simply to survive in a fiercely competitive business environment. It can be roughly divided into two disciplines: descriptive and predictive analytics. Descriptive analytics allow managers to react quickly to rapidly changing circumstances as the need arises. The predictive analyst helps firms to anticipate customer needs, create opportunities, and beat their competition. 

Business Analytics Minor (PDF)