Computer Information Systems
This is where computer technology becomes real-world solutions. If you see computers as tools -- not just strings of code or sets of software applications -- Marietta's Computer Information Systems (CIS) program is the perfect major for you. Here you'll learn the latest methods to design, implement, and test complex information systems. Then you'll make those systems meet the demands of a variety of business situations. While you're at it, you'll also take courses in accounting and management to give you a comprehensive understanding of the business world.
Through our System Development Project course, the senior capstone experience, you'll develop of a fully functioning information system for a real client. This is your opportunity to bring together everything you?ve learned in computer science, accounting, management, and communications courses.
Facilities
On campus, you'll have access to state-of-the-art tools for web-based instructional support, artificial intelligence, graphics, networking, prototyping and simulation, programming languages, mathematical and statistical analysis, CASE (Computer Assisted Software Engineering), database management systems, and decision support systems.
Required Courses
As a CIS major, you'll take courses in:
- Microcomputer Applications
- Computer Programming I and II
- Business Application Programming
- Computer Architecture and Programming
- Introduction to File Processing
- Systems Analysis and Design
- Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis
- Computer Networking and Data Communications
- Database Management Systems Design
- Senior Capstone Course: Systems Development Project
- Additional courses are required in Management and Accounting
In addition to a solid foundation in computer programming (using both business-oriented and computer science tools), systems analysis, basic computer architecture, and data structures, you'll be able to take more advanced courses like Expert Systems and Networking.
Requirements for a Minor
Computer Science 105, 115, 116, 120, 240, 305, 371, and one additional Computer Science course numbered 300 or above.
Requirements for the Microcomputer Systems Specialist Certificate
Computer Science 105, 115, 150 (all three sections), 250, 260, 270; Management Information Systems 220; plus one three-hour elective chosen with the approval of the department. All course work for the certificate requires an average grade of C. This certificate is intended primarily for students in the Continuing Education Program, but some courses are available to regular day students on a space-available basis.
Places a Degree Can Take You
Internships
While at Marietta, you can get valuable hands-on experience by working as a system manager, operator, consultant, or programmer on both academic and administrative computer systems. Marietta College's Institute of Education and Training for Business regularly employs students to assist in computer seminars or as part of a consulting team. Off campus, our students design, develop, and maintain information systems for area employers.
Clubs & Organizations
Marietta sponsors a chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), which is open to any student interested in computers and their applications. ACM hosts national and international student research and programming competitions, and provides you with a network of nearly 75,000 information technology professionals.
Successful Alumni
Marietta graduates have had great success finding careers in a variety of industries. Along with working for consulting firms or starting their own companies, our graduates are working with Fortune 500 companies and corporations like:
- IBM
- DEC
- NCR
- UniSys
- Borg-Warner
- DuPont
- Chemical Abstracts
- General Motors
- Connex
- EDS
- GTE Data Systems