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Telecomunications Management Requirements
Catalog Year 2007 - 2008

ITK Department Requirements (20-23 hours)

(All students must complete the ITK Core and Professional Practice component.)

  • Telecommunications Core (16 hours):

    • ITK 160 Foundations of Information Technology (3)
    • ITK 177 Structured Problem-Solving Using the Computer (4)
    • ITK 277 Programming for Telecommunications (3)
    • ITK 254 Hardware and Software Concepts (3)
    • ITK 261 Systems Development I (3)
  • Professional Practice (4 hours):

    • ITK 191 Introduction to ITK Professional Practice (1)
    • ITK 398 Professional Practice (6) or see catalog for additional options

Telecommunications Management Program Requirements (34 hours)

  • Telecommunications Technology (21 hours):

    • ITK 373 Wide Area Network Infrastructures (3)
    • ITK 375 Data Communications (3)
    • ITK 377 Practical Telecommunications Networking (3)
    • ITK 379 Telecommunications Network Operations and Management (3)
    • TEC 383 Telecommunications Technology (3)
    • Two of:
      • ITK 351 Data Communications Security (3)
      • ITK 353 Web Development Technologies (3)
      • ITK 374 Topics in Telecommunications (3)
      • ITK 378 Database Processing (3)
      • ITK 380 Wireless Communication Systems (3)
      • ITK 382 Distributed Systems (3)
  • Economic, Legal, Public Policy (13 hours):

    • ECO 105 Principles of Economics (4)
    • ECO 235 Telecommunications Economics and Public Policy (3)
    • One of:
      • FIL 311 Government Regulation of Business (3)
      • FIL 312 International Business Law (3)
      • POL 318 Administrative Law (3)
    • One of:
      • MQM 221 Organizational Behavior and Administration (3)
      • PSY 230 Business and Industrial Psychology (3)

Supporting Requirements (29 hours):

  • Mathematics and Statistics (11 hours):

    • One of the following two courses:
      • MAT 120 Finite Math for Business/Social Science (4)
      • MAT 145 Calculus I (4)
    • One of the following two courses:
      • MAT 146 Calculus II (4)
      • MAT 160 Elementary Discrete Mathemetics (4)
    • One of the following courses:
      • MQM 100 Statistical Reasoning (3)
      • ECO/GEO/POS/PSY 138 Social Science Reasoning Using Statistics (3)
  • Communication and Organization (15 hours):

    • ACC 131 Elementry Accounting I (3)
    • FIL 185 Legal, Ethical, and Social Environment of Business (3)
    • MQM 220 Business Organization and Management (3)
    • COM 223 Small Group Processes (3)
    • One of the following three courses:
      • COM 202 Persuasive Public speaking (3)
      • COM 227 Organizational and Professional Speaking (3)
      • ENG 249 Technical Writing I (3)
  • Ethics (3 hours):

    • PHI 234 Business Ethics (3)