Bachelor of Information Technology and Management: Transfer Program
Transfer Admission Requirements
Admitted transfer students are expected to have satisfied the following Illinois Institute of Technology Core Curriculum requirements prior to admission. If not, the student must complete them while working on the ITM degree. The degree requires a minimum of 127 credit hours including transfer and coursework completed at Illinois Tech. A maximum of 68 applicable credit hours of transfer credit is permitted from a two-year college.
Basic Writing Proficiency Requirement
Students must take the Illinois Tech English Proficiency Examination before beginning classes at the university. Within their first year at the university, students who do not pass the Illinois Tech English Proficiency Examination must demonstrate basic writing proficiency by passing a composition course at Illinois Tech.
Computer Science
Two credit hours of computer programming; may be satisfied by taking ITM 311.
Humanities and Social Sciences
Nine credit hours. Humanities include literature, philosophy (except logic), and history. Social or behavioral sciences typically include anthropology, geography, political science, psychology, sociology, and economics. Studies must include a minimum of three credit hours in humanities and three credit hours in the social sciences.
Free or Technical Electives
28 credit hours of approved courses. Students should contact the Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs for additional information.
Mathematics
Five to six credit hours: one course in discrete mathematics, and one course in statistics.
Natural Science or Engineering
10-11 credit hours of natural science or engineering courses. Relevant science courses include physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, or engineering graphics. Two sequential courses must be from the same field and one must be from another field. In some cases, certain technology courses might be applied to this requirement. See Illinois Tech Core Curriculum section.
Program Requirements
Transfer students are expected to take 75 credit hours at Illinois Institute of Technology and transfer 52 credit hours to complete the bachelor’s degree for a total of 127 credit hours. This includes 19 information technology courses for a total of 57 credit hours in the major. An additional 18 credit hours outside the major must be taken at Illinois Institute of Technology in order to satisfy the remaining Core Curriculum requirements. These include four 300/400-level humanities and social or behavioral science electives and two IPRO courses. Two social or behavioral science electives must be from the same field and one must be from a different field; lower level social or behavioral science electives count towards this requirement. The computer science general education requirement may be satisfied by completion of ITM 311. Students who wish to complete their undergraduate studies in less than five semesters of full-time study at Illinois Institute of Technology are strongly urged to include at least nine credit hours of courses transferable as required or elective ITM courses among their free or technical electives.
All students must complete a minimum of 36 credit hours of courses with a significant written and oral communication component, identified with a (C) in the catalog; 12 credit hours of (C)-coded courses must be taken in the major.
ITM students are required to complete a minor and are strongly encouraged to consider minors which complement their primary program of study; these include (but are not limited to) business, industrial technology, professional and technical communications, circuits and systems, computer architecture, and ROTC. Courses taken to fulfill a minor requirement may not also be used as electives in the major. The minor requirement may be waived for students entering as transfer students or who change their major to information technology and management after completion of 30 credit hours of studies at the university.
A maximum of nine credit hours of ITM graduate courses taken as an undergraduate may be applied to the Master of Information Technology and Management degree, and any graduate courses taken to fulfill undergraduate degree requirements may not also be applied to a graduate degree unless the student is enrolled in a co-terminal or accelerated master’s degree program.
Required Courses
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Courses Transferred | (49) | |
| or taken at Illinois Tech | 49 | |
Mathematics Requirements: Discrete Mathematics and Statistics | 6 | |
Natural Science and Engineering Requirements: | ||
| 10 | ||
Lower-Level Humanities and Social Sciences Requirements: | ||
| 9 | ||
Free or Technical Electives: 24 credit hours of approved courses. | 24 | |
| Humanities Electives | (6) | |
| 300/400-level courses | 6 | |
| Social Science Electives | (6) | |
| 300/400 level courses | 6 | |
| PSYC 301 is recommended | ||
| Interprofessional Projects | (6) | |
| See Illinois Tech Core Curriculum, section E | 6 | |
| ITM Requirements | (42) | |
| ITM 301 | Introduction to Contemporary Operating Systems and Hardware I | 3 |
| ITM 303 | Introduction to Contemporary Operating Systems and Hardware II | 3 |
| ITM 311 | Introduction to Software Development | 3 |
| ITM 313 | Introduction to Open Source Application Development | 3 |
| or ITM 312 | Introduction to Systems Software Programming | |
| ITMD 321 | Data Modeling and Applications | 3 |
| ITMD 361 | Fundamentals of Web Development | 3 |
| ITMD 362 | Human-Computer Interaction and Web Design | 3 |
| ITMD 411 | Intermediate Software Development | 3 |
| ITMM 471 | Project Management for Information Technology and Management | 3 |
| ITMO 340 | Introduction to Data Networks and the Internet | 3 |
| ITMO 356 | Introduction to Open Source Operating Systems | 3 |
| ITMS 448 | Cyber Security Technologies | 3 |
| ITMT 330 | Introduction to Information Systems and the IT Profession | 3 |
| ITMT 430 | System Integration | 3 |
| ITM Electives | (18) | |
| Select 18 credit hours from ITM, ITMD, ITMM, ITMO, ITMS, ITMT, and TECH | 18 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 127 | |
Bachelor of Information Technology and Management: Transfer Curriculum
| Year 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Semester 1 | Credit Hours | Semester 2 | Credit Hours |
| ITM 301 | 3 | ITM 303 | 3 |
| ITM 311 | 3 | ITM 313 or 312 | 3 |
| ITMD 361 | 3 | ITMD 362 | 3 |
| ITMO 356 | 3 | ITMM 471 | 3 |
| Humanities Elective (300+) | 3 | ITMO 340 | 3 |
| 15 | 15 | ||
| Year 2 | |||
| Semester 1 | Credit Hours | Semester 2 | Credit Hours |
| ITMD 321 | 3 | ITMT 430 | 3 |
| ITMD 411 | 3 | ITM Elective | 3 |
| ITMT 330 | 3 | ITM Elective | 3 |
| ITMS 448 | 3 | ITM Elective | 3 |
| ITM Elective | 3 | IPRO Elective I | 3 |
| Social Sciences Elective (300+) | 3 | ||
| 18 | 15 | ||
| Year 3 | |||
| Semester 1 | Credit Hours | ||
| Social Sciences Elective (300+) | 3 | ||
| Humanities Elective (300+) | 3 | ||
| IPRO Elective II | 3 | ||
| ITM Elective | 3 | ||
| ITM Elective | 3 | ||
| 15 | |||
| Total Credit Hours: 78 | |||
Information Technology Curriculum Specializations
The ITM electives may be chosen from one or more of the following course specializations. ITM required courses may not be counted toward completion of elective requirements for specializations. With the permission of the adviser, other undergraduate or graduate courses in the same area may be substituted for courses in a specialization.
Data Management
Focuses on the design, development, and administration of traditional and Internet-based data management.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ITMD 422 | Advanced Database Management | 3 |
| ITMS 428 | Database Security | 3 |
| Select two courses from the following: | 6 | |
| Cloud Computing Technologies | 3 | |
or any ITMD elective(s) | ||
| Total Credit Hours | 12 | |
IT Entrepreneurship and Management
Focuses on the managerial and entrepreneurial skills needed to launch a new enterprise.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ITMM 470 | Fundamentals of Management for Technology Professionals | 3 |
| ITMM 481 | Information Technology Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| ITMM 482 | Business Innovation | 3 |
| Select one course from ITMM or the following: | 3 | |
any BUS electives at the 200-level or above | 3 | |
or any INTM electives selected with adviser's approval | 3 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 12 | |
Networking and Communications
Focuses on network applications and management.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ITMO 441 | Network Administration and Operations | 3 |
| ITMO 446 | Telecommunications Over Data Networks | 3 |
| Select one course from the following: | 3 | |
| Enterprise Server Administration | 3 | |
| Open Source Server Administration | 3 | |
| Select one course from ITMO, ITMT, or the following: | 3 | |
| Web Application Foundations | 3 | |
| Vulnerability Analysis and Control | 3 | |
| Cyber Security Management | 3 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 12 | |
Software Development
Focuses on programming and the development of sophisticated applications.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ITMD 415 | Advanced Software Development | 3 |
| ITMD 441 | Web Application Foundations | 3 |
| Select two courses from the following: | 6 | |
| Advanced Structured and Systems Programming | 3 | |
| Open Source Programming | 3 | |
| Topics in Software Development | 3 | |
| Enterprise Intelligent Device Applications | 3 | |
| Mass-Market Intelligent Device Applications | 3 | |
| Open-Source Intelligent Device Applications | 3 | |
or any ITMD elective | 3 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 12 | |
System Administration
Focuses on the administration and the management of servers.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ITMO 441 | Network Administration and Operations | 3 |
| Select two courses from the following: | 6 | |
| Enterprise Server Administration | 3 | |
| Enterprise End-User System Administration | 3 | |
| Open Source Server Administration | 3 | |
| Select one course from the following: | 3 | |
| Shell Scripting for System Administration | 3 | |
| Cloud Computing Technologies | 3 | |
| Operating System Virtualization | 3 | |
| Operating System Security | 3 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 12 | |
Systems Security
Focuses on application, data, and network security and the management of information technology security.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ITMS 478 | Cyber Security Management | 3 |
| Select one course from the following: | 3 | |
| Enterprise Server Administration | 3 | |
| Network Administration and Operations | 3 | |
| Enterprise End-User System Administration | 3 | |
| Open Source Server Administration | 3 | |
| Select two ITMS electives | 6 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 12 | |
Web Design and Application Development
Focuses on the design and development of fully-interactive websites and applications for Internet deployment.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ITMO 441 | Network Administration and Operations | 3 |
| ITMD 441 | Web Application Foundations | 3 |
| Select two courses from the following; | 6 | |
| Full-Stack Web Development | 3 | |
| Front-End Web Development | 3 | |
| Back-End Development | 3 | |
| Web Microservices and APIs | 3 | |
| Web Systems Integration | 3 | |
| Topics in Web Development | 1-3 | |
| Enterprise Intelligent Device Applications | 3 | |
| Mass-Market Intelligent Device Applications | 3 | |
| Open-Source Intelligent Device Applications | 3 | |
| Service-Oriented Architecture | 3 | |
| Cloud Computing Technologies | 3 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 12 | |
