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Management Information Systems Major, B.S.

It is recommended that students majoring in Management Information Systems complete MATH 1170 or a higher-level MATH course from Liberal Education Category 4. It is also recommended that ECON 2000 and ECON 2100 be completed from Liberal Education Category 5.

Note: Transfer students planning to major in Management Information Systems must take a minimum of 21 semester credits of courses from the Bemidji State University Management Information Systems major.

Note: Asterisked (*) courses have prerequisites not included in this major or require consent of instructor.

I. Required Management Information Systems Courses.

BUAD 2280 Computer Business Applications (3 credits)
BUAD 2381 Structured Application Development (3 credits)
BUAD 3281 Decision Support Systems (3 credits)
BUAD 3283 E-Commerce Web Development (3 credits)
*BUAD 3381 Management Information Systems (3 credits)
BUAD 3382 Advanced Application System Development (3 credits)
BUAD 3383 Data Communications (3 credits)
BUAD 3384 Systems Analysis and Design (3 credits)
BUAD 3385 User Analysis and Interface Design (with C#.NET) (3 credits)
BUAD 4283 Systems Integration and Web Services (3 credits)
BUAD 4385 Data Modeling and Design (3 credits)
BUAD 4386 Applied Software Development Project (3 credits)

Subtotal 36 Credits

II. Required Business Environment Courses.

ACCT 1101 Principles of Accounting I (3 credits)
ACCT 1102 Principles of Accounting II (3 credits)
*BUAD 2231 Business Statistics I (3 credits)
BUAD 3520 Business Ethics (3 credits)
Any 4 additional upper-level BUAD courses with advisor approval (12 credits)

Subtotal 24 Credits

Total Semester Credits Required For Major 60 Credits

A Total of 128 Semester Credits is Required for a Bachelor's Degree

The following is a list of required management information systems courses arranged by year. This schedule is intended to help students plan their courses in an orderly fashion; however, these are only suggestions

Freshman

MATH 1170 College Algebra
College English Writing courses
Science courses
Liberal Education courses

Sophomore

ACCT 1101 Principles of Accounting I
ACCT 1102 Principles of Accounting II
BUAD 2231 Business Statistics I
BUAD 2280 Computer Business Applications
BUAD 2381 Structured Application Development
Liberal Education courses

Junior

BUAD 3281 Decision Support Systems
BUAD 3283 E-Commerce Web Development
BUAD 3381 Management Information Systems
BUAD 3382 Advanced Application System Development
BUAD 3383 Data Communications
BUAD 3384 Systems Analysis and Design
Business environment electives
Liberal Education courses

Senior

BUAD 3385 User Analysis and Interface Design (with C#.NET)
BUAD 3520 Business Ethics
BUAD 4283 Systems Integration and Web Services
BUAD 4385 Data Modeling and Design
BUAD 4386 Applied Software Development Project
Business environment electives
Liberal Education courses