Information Technology, BS (Boston)

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English

All of:
- ENG 1105 — College Writing 1
- ENG 1106 — Lab for ENG 1105
All of:
- ENG 1107 — College Writing 2
- ENG 1108 — Lab for ENG 1107
All of:
- ENG 3105 — Writing for the Professions: Science and Engineering
- ENG 3106 — Lab for ENG 3105

Management

MGT 1100 — Introduction to Business
From the catalog
Choose one of the following:
One of:
- CMN 1100 — Organizational Communication
- MGT 2310 — Organizational Behavior

Mathematics

MTH 1100 — College Algebra
From the catalog
Complete one of the following:
One of:
- CS 5002 — Discrete Structures
- MTH 2400 — Technology and Applications of Discrete Mathematics

Philosophy

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- ITC 3620 — Legal and Ethical Issues in Cybersecurity
- PHL 2100 — Business Ethics
- PHL 2140 — Ethical Issues in Science and Engineering

Major Required Courses

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- ALY 2550 — Generative AI
- ALY 3510 — AI Foundations: An Interdisciplinary Approach
ITC 1200 — Operating Systems Concepts
ITC 2050 — Designing the User Experience
ITC 2100 — Introduction to Programming (Java)
ITC 2200 — Networking Foundations
ITC 2300 — Database Management Systems
ITC 2400 — Web and Mobile Development
From the catalog
Complete one of the following:
One of:
- ITC 2000 — Principles of Systems Analysis and Design
- ITC 2430 — E-Commerce Systems

Professionalism

ITC 3500 — IT Project Management
ITC 4600 — Information Security Management

Capstone

ITC 4850 — Information Technology Project

Concentrations

Analytics

From the catalog
Complete seven courses from the following that have not been taken to fulfill major requirements:
Complete two additional ITC or ALY courses that have not been taken to fulfill major or concentration requirements.

Choose 21 semester hours from:
- ALY 2010 — Probability Theory and Introductory Statistics
- ALY 2100 — Introduction to Programming for Data Analytics
- ALY 3015 — Intermediate Statistics for Data Analytics
- ALY 3040 — Data Mining
- ALY 3070 — Communication and Visualization for Data Analytics
- ALY 4000 — Analytics Using R
- One of:
  - ITC 3300 — Structured Query Language (SQL)
  - ITC 3310 — Exploring NoSQL Databases

Applications Development

From the catalog
Complete two additional ITC or ALY courses that have not been taken to fulfill major requirements.

ITC 4690 — Software Engineering and Security
From the catalog
Complete six courses from the following that have not been taken to fulfill major requirements:
Choose 18 semester hours from:
- ALY 2010 — Probability Theory and Introductory Statistics
- ALY 2100 — Introduction to Programming for Data Analytics
- CET 2200 — Data Structures and Algorithms
- GET 2100 — Computer Engineering Programming and Analysis
- ITC 2430 — E-Commerce Systems
- ITC 3100 — Advanced Applications Development (Android)
- ITC 3150 — Database Websites
- ITC 3300 — Structured Query Language (SQL)
- ITC 3310 — Exploring NoSQL Databases
- ITC 3320 — Data Warehousing Technologies
- ITC 3400 — Web Design and Multimedia
- ITC 4640 — Foundations of Cloud Computing
- ITC 4690 — Software Engineering and Security
- ITC 4973 — Topics in Emerging Information Technologies
- PJM 3000 — Leading Agile Projects

Computer Science

From the catalog
Complete two CS or CY courses from required MSCS breadth areas.

All of:
- CS 5004 — Object-Oriented Design
- CS 5005 — Recitation for CS 5004
All of:
- CS 5008 — Data Structures, Algorithms, and Their Applications within Computer Systems
- CS 5009 — Recitation for CS 5008
CS 5800 — Algorithms
From the catalog
Complete three courses from the following that have not been taken to fulfill major requirements:
Choose 9 semester hours from:
- CET 2200 — Data Structures and Algorithms
- ITC 3100 — Advanced Applications Development (Android)
- ITC 3150 — Database Websites
- ITC 3300 — Structured Query Language (SQL)
- ITC 3310 — Exploring NoSQL Databases
- ITC 4640 — Foundations of Cloud Computing
- ITC 4690 — Software Engineering and Security
One of:
- CS 5400 — Principles of Programming Language
- CS 5500 — Foundations of Software Engineering
- CS 5520 — Mobile Application Development
- CS 5600 — Computer Systems
- CS 5610 — Web Development
- CS 5700 — Fundamentals of Computer Networking
- CS 6410 — Compilers
- CS 6510 — Advanced Software Development
- CS 6650 — Building Scalable Distributed Systems
One of:
- CS 6760 — Privacy, Security, and Usability
- CS 7805 — Complexity Theory
- CS 7810 — Foundations of Cryptography
- CY 5770 — Software Vulnerabilities and Security
- CY 6740 — Network Security
One of:
- CS 5100 — Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
- CS 5150 — Game Artificial Intelligence
- CS 5200 — Database Management Systems
- CS 6120 — Natural Language Processing
- CS 6140 — Machine Learning
- CS 6200 — Information Retrieval
- CS 6220 — Data Mining Techniques
- CS 6240 — Large-Scale Parallel Data Processing
- CS 7140 — Advanced Machine Learning

Systems Administration and Cybersecurity

From the catalog
Complete two additional ITC or ALY courses that have not been taken to fulfill major requirements.

ITC 4690 — Software Engineering and Security
From the catalog
Complete six courses from the following that have not been taken to fulfill major requirements:
Choose 18 semester hours from:
- ITC 3220 — Mobile and Wireless Networking
- ITC 3250 — UNIX Systems Administration
- ITC 3620 — Legal and Ethical Issues in Cybersecurity
- ITC 4200 — Network Security
- ITC 4640 — Foundations of Cloud Computing
- ITC 4660 — Encryption Concepts
- ITC 4670 — Software Vulnerabilities
- ITC 4680 — Forensics in Information Technology
- ITC 4690 — Software Engineering and Security
- ITC 4973 — Topics in Emerging Information Technologies

GPA requirements

Minimum 2.000 GPA required

Substitutions

Stated by the catalog on this program's requirements:

Graduate courses that may be used toward the Master of Science in Computer Science when part of the PlusOne program.

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