Information Management and Technology
Minor

Add expertise in information, business and technology to your current major.

Information and technology play an important role in how companies operate. Explore how gathering, organizing, and analyzing information can fuel business success. Plus, gain the skills to design effective information systems and manage technology solutions efficiently. Open to students from any school at Syracuse University.

  • Discover how collecting, organizing, and understanding information can drive business success.
  • Learn to design information systems and manage technology solutions.
  • Gain skills that will make you a valuable asset to any organization.
  • Understand the information, data and technologies in use in today’s organizations.
  • Enhance your current field of study with a deeper understanding of information and technology.
Quick Info

6 Courses / 18 Total Credit Hours

Courses & Curriculum

The minor in Information Management & Technology combines a primary core, with the ability to choose the classes in each track, and electives to give you a strong Information Technology foundation with a focus of your choosing.

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Core Courses – 9 Credits

IST 195 | 3 CREDITS
State-of-the-art technologies in the field. Computer architectures, telecommunication networks, software design and application. Issues in information management and technology use.

Information Technology: (Choose one course)

IST 233 | 3 CREDITS
Overview of technology, standards, implementation and management of digital computer networks. Wired and wireless local and wide area networks, Internet protocols, telecommunications, and network security. Includes weekly labs.

IST 256 | 3 CREDITS
Computational literacy and learning to code are critical skills of the 21st century. Students are introduced to Python programming language with emphasis on practical applications relevant to everyday lives and common within the information field.

IST 263 | 3 CREDITS
Principles for construction and publication of multimedia documents for the Web. Incorporate a user-based approach to planning, design, implementation and management with an entrepreneurial perspective and with a focus on client/enterprise.

IST 323 | 3 CREDITS
Basic concepts and technologies of information security, including security properties, vulnerabilities, cryptography, security policies, access control, authentication, firewalls, wireless security, internet security protocols, real life cases, hands on labs, and other related topics.

IST 359 | 3 CREDITS
Data structure, file organization, and principles and concepts of data bases for information retrieval systems. Data analysis, design, models, management, evaluation, and implementation.

IST 387 | 3 CREDITS
Introduces students to fundamentals about data and the standards, technologies, and methods for organizing, managing, curating, preserving, and using data. Discusses broader issues relating to data management, quality control and publication of data.

Information Management: (Choose one course)

IST 305 | 3 CREDITS
Exploration of IT infrastructure and culture in global organizations including issues of globalization, distributed collaboration, virtual organizations, culture, global enterprise systems, data, business analytics and knowledge management.

IST 335 | 3 CREDITS
Organizational behavior; groups and teams; leadership and management; human resources; organizational development; change management. Interactions between people and technology in work organizations; impacts of information technology on organizational effectiveness.

IST 341 | 3 CREDITS
Students will learn concepts, methods and tools for designing ethical and equitable human-center Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for individuals, groups, organizations, and society more broadly.

IST 345 | 3 CREDITS
Project management as a professional discipline in information and communication technology. Introduction to roles, activities, methods, and tools. Critical review and application of principles. Additional work required of graduate students.

IST 352 | 3 CREDITS
Introduces information flow as basis of organizational work and role of information systems in managing work. Concept of systems decomposition to facilitate analysis. Skills required to decompose, model, and analyze information systems.

IST 419 | 3 CREDITS
Application of economic principles to information industries, online marketplaces, and information management. Discussion of how advances in digital technology transform society. Topics include revenue, cost, industrial organization, market power, public goods, and optimal decision-making.  Additional work for graduate students.

IST 429 | 3 CREDITS
Understand contemporary changes to work and working.  Examine concepts such as work, labor, markets, organizations and institutions, technologies, policies, labor histories, families and communities, geographies and other topics (e.g. work/life balance).  This is a survey course designed to provide you with a way of understanding and analyzing what it means to work and to be a worker.

Electives – 9 credits

Select three other courses from the iSchool, preferably from one or more of the information management and technology concentrations.  A minimum of 12 credits of coursework MUST be at the 300+ level.