The Successful Development and Implementation of a Graduate Certificate in an Undergraduate Program.

This paper presents details on how to create a graduate certificate in an undergraduate department. The Information Systems & Technologies (IST) Department at Weber State University (WSU) created such a certificate in cooperation with the Master's of Business Administration Program in the Goddard Sc...

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Publicado en:Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. Vol. 85; pp. 107 - 126
Autores principales: Harris, G. Edward, Harris, Matthew, Swedin, Eric, Yu, Zhuolin
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: HWW Temp 2008
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Sumario:This paper presents details on how to create a graduate certificate in an undergraduate department. The Information Systems & Technologies (IST) Department at Weber State University (WSU) created such a certificate in cooperation with the Master's of Business Administration Program in the Goddard School of Business and Economics. This could be a stepping-stone for creating a Master's of Information Systems in the future, or simply a way for an undergraduate program such as IST at WSU to have a presence in a graduate program. The graduate certificate can specialize in areas such as networking, security, information assurance, routing, etc. This research can provide a possible template that may be used for an information systems department to create and implement a graduate certificate program. An application process, prerequisites, list of possible required and elective courses, course structure, syllabi, labs, case studies, examinations, assignments, textbooks, and teaching suggestions are available upon request. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.