休斯敦大學

The Department of Information and Logistics Technology (ILT) provides educational opportunities designed to prepare students for careers in business, industry, and government; the programs are closely linked to workforce quality and productivity for the region, the state, and the nation through its programs in Computer Information Systems, Digital Media, and Organizational Leadership and Supervision. Graduates are leaders who bring high levels of technology expertise to the workplace and are prepared to guide technological change within the organization.

Departmental Learning Objectives

To achieve its educational mission, graduates from the ILT department’s programs will have acquired the six capabilities listed below.

Graduates will know how to:

• Acquire the basic and in-depth knowledge and skills required in their professions.
• Apply and refine their technological knowledge and skills in leadership, critical thinking, problem solving, decision-making, teamwork processes, and project management to solve novel, ambiguous, and routine problems.
• Integrate their knowledge of technological, social, organizational, and value systems to improve the creation and application of technological solutions.
• Contribute to the improvement of their professions and society through the discovery, application, integration, and assessment of technological capability.
• Anticipate and fulfill their need for new knowledge and capabilities as their disciplines progress.
• Employ effective oral, written, graphic, and interpersonal modes of communication for expressing technical concepts to diverse audience.

The Accelerated B.S./M.S. degree program is open to qualified undergraduate Technology majors in Computer Information Systems with a specialization in Information Security wishing to continue their education at the graduate level immediately upon completion of the B.S. degree.

• Students that are accepted in the accelerated program take up to six graduate credit hours that are applied to both the bachelors’ degree in CIS and master’s degree in Information Systems Security or Technology Project Management.
• Students may pursue either the thesis or non-thesis master’s degree options.
• The B.S. degree will be conferred upon completion of the undergraduate curriculum requirements with appropriate graduate courses substituted for undergraduate courses.
• The graduate degree shall be awarded based on existing requirements for the graduate degree in the semester the student applies and is admitted to the graduate program.