Information Systems Technologies

Master of Science

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Program Competencies

The graduate student who successfully completes the Information Systems Technologies program will be expected to:

  1. Oral Communication
    • Speak with confidence, clarity, and conciseness.
    • Research, prepare, and deliver professional presentations.
    Written Communication
    • Write clearly, concisely and appropriately using correct English grammar, punctuation, usage, mechanics, sentence structure, and vocabulary.
    • Utilize appropriate APA format for scholarly writings.
  2. Disciplined Inquiry
    • Utilize quantitative, qualitative and scientific reasoning to solve problems.
    • Exercise critical thinking strategies, including reasoning, problem solving, analysis and evaluation.
    • Define a problem or issue and develop questions and methods to address the problem or issue and/or to create new knowledge.
  3. Information Literacy
    • Access and use information effectively, efficiently, and appropriately.
    • Evaluate the quality of sources and content.
    • Use technology to effectively locate and communicate information.
  4. Ethics
    • Demonstrate knowledge and application of prescribed ethical code(s) and/or behaviors promoted by the profession.

    Additional MS-IST Program Competencies

  5. Integration Component
    • Identify systemic interrelationships.
    • Apply a Systems Thinking Approach to identify benefits, disadvantages, and synergies of an Information System.
  6. Business Application
    • Synthesize creative solutions recognizing the interdependence of various components in an organizational system.
    • Demonstrate the ability to apply various models concerning planning, organizing, controlling, and actuating an informational environment within a modern organization.

This information applies to students who enter this degree program during the 2008-2009 Academic Year. If you entered this degree program before the Fall 2008 semester, please refer to the academic catalog for the year you began your degree program.