Id love an internship, however, they are extremly tough to get. (my gpa is temperatly in the dumps, im retaking a *9* credit class) Also, if I get an internship there goes my ability to get the MCSA cert before I graduate.
Yah, I agree with you guys, I'd love it if my school offered a pure networking degree....however....im not sure if there are any fairly large (my school is 25,000) schools that offer bachlors in essentially pure networking. There may be some...or maybe more than I thought. I was formally a computer science major...but honestly, I despise programming. So I have taken C, C++. I know with this major I will end up with some experience in databases and a much larger concept how to use IT to solve business problems than I'd get at a tech school. See, the one really positive thing about this program is that you wont get at a tech school is really how to use IT to solve business problems. Yah, with a pure IT degree you learn how to implement what management tells you to implement. You can physically set it up, but what this degree offers me is a better chance of being that manager that tells the IT guy what we need done. Or..at least....I'd like to believe that. And don't get me wrong, we do get technical in our classes, but I'm not quite sure yet at what level we get technical at, and how much. It wont be till my next year of classes that I'm hardcore into the core classes.
Hell, they do offer a certificate of MIS. It looks like a bunch of graduate program classes 600+ But its not a graduate program...i believe its good for those who get the degree but wish to go a little further. But again, they focus on the strategic, business manager approach. Which is good or bad depending on how you look at it.
OMIS 651, Business Systems Analysis and Design (3)
OMIS 652, Business Applications of Database Management Systems (3)
OMIS 660 Business Telecommunications (3)
OR OMIS 661, Business Decision Technologies (3)
OMIS 690, Information Technology Project Management (3)
OR OMIS 697, Strategic Information Systems (3)
ONE of the following:
OMIS 621, Computer Simulation in Business (3)
OMIS 649, Business Computing Environments (3)
OMIS 675, Technologies and Applications of Electronic Business (3)
OMIS 679, Business Geographics (3)
OMIS 694, Advanced Topics in Information Systems (3)