MS-CIS China Program
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Program
In today's workplace, employers have a great demand and offer excellent job possibilities for people who understand and manage the flow of information in the digital medium. UHV's Master's program in Computer Information Systems combines these skills and applies them to a business setting to increase your employment opportunities.
For more information about the MS-CIS program, focus areas, thesis option and answers to frequently asked questions, please click here.
Courses
Core Courses (18 semester hours)
ISC 6336 Database Systems Development
ISC 6340 Software and System Architecture
ISC 6342 Software Engineering/Project Management
ISC 6350 Systems Analysis and Design
ISC 6339 Network Design and Management
ISC 6325 Policy, Strategy, and Ethical Issues in Information Systems
Specialization (15 semester hours; 9 semester hours under the thesis option)
These courses are selected from the following list:
ISC 6329 Data Warehousing and Data Mining
ISC 6337 Web Mining and Information Retrieval
ISC 6343 Intelligent Agents and Applications
ISC 6347 System Administration
ISC 6351 Decision Support Systems
ISC 6353 Information Systems Security
ISC 6357 Web Engineering
ISC 6359 Advanced Computer Communication
ISC 6300 Special Topics in Computer Science/ Information Systems
ISC 6344 Advanced IT Project Management
Integration Course (3 semester hours)
ISC 6390 Integrating the Enterprise, IS Function and IS Technologies
Thesis (optional)
Please visit the course descriptions page for MS-CIS courses information