Certificate in Information Technology and Data Analytics
The Certificate in IT Management is a four course option for professionals who need to gain or upgrade their IT skills to meet current market demands focusing on the managerial aspects of information technology.
This program is suitable for students who would like to become IT Managers, IT Project Managers, IT Consultants, IT Strategists, Chief Information Officers (CIO), or Chief Technology Officers (CTO) among others.
You will be prepared to create IT strategies that support the business, innovate with IT, and manage projects, as well as develop and maintain the IT architecture and infrastructure of an organization.
| Take the 2 required courses: | ||
| IT 508 | Information Technology Management | 3 |
| IT 512 | Project Management | 3 |
| Take 2 elective courses from the following: | ||
| IT 509 | Data Management | 3 |
| IT 510 | Software Planning and Development | 3 |
| IT 511 | Data Communications and Networking | 3 |
| IT 513 | Information Security | 3 |
| IT 514 | Distributed Systems | 3 |
| IT 520 | IT Strategy and Business Value | 3 |
| IT 521 | Healthcare Information Technologies | 3 |
| IT 522 | Enterprise Systems | 3 |
| IT 523 | IT Architecture and Infrastructure | 3 |
| IT 524 | Emergent Technologies and Issues | 3 |
| IT 582 | Special Topic (IT Management) | 3 |
The Certificate in Data Analytics is a 4-course option for professionals who need to upgrade their IT skills to meet current market demands.
Data analytics is the systematic analysis and interpretation of data using various computational and statistical tools in order to support decision-making based on the scientific method.
This program will prepare you to create, develop and implement data models as well as work with big data sets using a real-world data cluster managed in-house to derive insights and make recommendations.
| Take this required course | ||
| IT 509 | Data Management | 3 |
| Take 3 courses from the following: | ||
| IT 530 | Principles of Data Analytics | 3 |
| IT 531 | Data Mining | 3 |
| IT 532 | Data Warehouse/Bus Intelligence | 3 |
| IT 533 | Big Data Technologies | 3 |
| IT 582 | Special Topic (Data Analytics) | 3 |