Course Requirements

Component	Credits	# of Courses
General Education	42	14
Core and Capstone IT Courses	33	11
Track Courses	18	4-6
Professional Electives	9	3
General Electives	18	6
Total	120*	38-40

*IT majors must fulfill a total of 120 credits in order to graduate

General Education

Verbal Reasoning:

ENGL 101
ENGL 102

Quantitative Reasoning:

MATH 134 (or higher)

Writing Proficiency

BC 290 (requires CMWA placement)

Seminars

First Year Seminar (not required if transfer >30 credits)
Intermediate Seminar

Distribution - 7 courses in the following areas:

2 Arts(AR) or Humanities(HU)
2 Natural Science(NS) or Math/Technology(MT) ***higher than calculus***
2 Social or Behavioral Sciences(SB)
1 World Culture (WC) or 1 World Language(WL)

Diversity Requirement

One course (international or U.S.)

International Management Requirement

One course

Economics

ECON 101
ECON 102

General Electives

Take courses as needed to reach 120 credits

Program Requirements

IT Core: 9 courses

IT 110
IT 240
IT 111
IT 246
IT 116
IT 230
IT 117
IT 244
IT 285

Track: choose one of the following tracks:

Information Architecture

IT 360, IT 428L, IT 460, IT 461

Business Intelligence

IT 370, IT 471, IT 472
2 electives from IT 360, IT 428L, IT 456, IT 460, IT 461L, MSIS 422, MSIS 426, MSIS 427

Computer Forensics

SOCIOL 104, SOCIOL 364, IT 220, IT 221, IT 420, IT 421

System Administration

IT 341, IT 441, IT 442, IT 443

IT Capstone: 2 courses

IT 425: Project Management
IT 485 Capstone

Professional Electives

Choose 3 courses from a given list

Transfer Students

Students who transfer into this program from another school may have some of these requirements met by previously completed coursework. When you attend New Student Orientation, an advisor will review your transfer credit evaluations and degree audit to see which requirements still remain to be completed at UMass Boston.

If you are transferring in from Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC), please refer to the BHCC Transfer Guide for IT