Information Architecture Track

Career Paths

The IT major is designed to offer a top notch program that addresses the Commonwealth’s IT workforce needs through a collaboration between CM and CSM. This degree provides a pathway from the bachelor’s degree to IT position in the public and private sectors, profit, and nonprofit. Exercises assigned throughout the BSIT are designed to be the kind that a student might encounter in his or her work: collaboration, competence, and outcomes assessment are the hallmark characteristics of the program.

Information Architecture (IA) is the discipline of designing and implementing information systems that support and enable business strategies and operations. The information architecture track addresses topics covering concepts such as usability (including accessibility, experience design, interaction design, and user interface design), information design (including information find ability and content management), component-based design (including web services, services oriented architecture, process oriented architecture, and cloud computing), and enterprise systems. As organizations are relying on increasingly more complex information systems to compete and survive, they are in dire need of IT professionals who understand how to design, deploy, and manage an efficient IT architecture to support their information systems.

Advising Notes

• College of Management students should see general advising from the University Advising Center until they have earned 60 credits and selected a track. Students seeking advising regarding track courses should see a faculty mentor for their chosen track (names available in the college advising offices respectively). Advising for degree exceptions and policy overrides should go through the advising office for the college in which the student is enrolled (CM students should go to M-5-610), as appropriate.
• Students should plan to take the track courses over the course of two years (four semesters) to ensure a wide selection of required and elective courses in the concentration. Some track courses may be offered once a year and are subject to sequencing due to prerequisites, making this time allowance necessary.
• The prerequisites for these courses are strictly enforced; students should plan their schedule early and carefully.