Information Management and Technology
Minor

Add expertise in information, business and technology to your current major.

Information and technology play an important role in how companies operate. Explore how gathering, organizing, and analyzing information can fuel business success. Plus, gain the skills to design effective information systems and manage technology solutions efficiently. Open to students from any school at Syracuse University.

  • Discover how collecting, organizing, and understanding information can drive business success.
  • Learn to design information systems and manage technology solutions.
  • Gain skills that will make you a valuable asset to any organization.
  • Understand the information, data and technologies in use in today’s organizations.
  • Enhance your current field of study with a deeper understanding of information and technology.
Quick Info

6 Courses / 18 Total Credit Hours

Courses & Curriculum

The minor in Information Management & Technology combines a primary core, with the ability to choose the classes in each track, and electives to give you a strong Information Technology foundation with a focus of your choosing.

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Core Courses – 9 Credits

IST 195 | 3 CREDITS
State-of-the-art technologies in the field. Computer architectures, telecommunication networks, software design and application. Issues in information management and technology use.

Information Technology: (Choose one course)

IST 233 | 3 CREDITS
Overview of technology, standards, implementation and management of digital computer networks. Wired and wireless local and wide area networks, Internet protocols, telecommunications, and network security. Includes weekly labs.

IST 356 | 3 CREDITS
Approaches for building pipelines in data analytics using the Python programming language; data cleaning, extraction, wrangling, API’s, web scraping. Building data products. Programming experience required.

IST 263 | 3 CREDITS
Learn to create a website from scratch with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.  Topics like responding to different screen sizes, accessibility and layout will be covered.  We also examine the project management side of the web with wireframes, site maps, copy documents, and more.

IST 323 | 3 CREDITS
Basic concepts and technologies of information security, including security properties, vulnerabilities, cryptography, security policies, access control, authentication, firewalls, wireless security, internet security protocols, real life cases, hands on labs, and other related topics.

IST 359 | 3 CREDITS
Learn relational database basics, including design and development. This course covers SQL for creating tables, querying data, managing metadata, and touches on advanced SQL. It also focuses on database design using ER diagrams and data normalization to optimize relational databases.

IST 387 | 3 CREDITS
Introduction to using data science across many different situations. Covers concepts such as data management, transformation, analysis, and machine learning, using R. No programming experience required. Hands-on projects and real-world problem-solving help identify when data science is useful, with emphasis on ethically applying data science.

Information Management: (Choose one course)

IST 305 | 3 CREDITS
Explore the intersection of IT infrastructures and culture in global organizations including issues of globalization, distributed collaboration, global enterprise systems, data, business analytics and knowledge management.

IST 335 | 3 CREDITS
Explore how teams and individuals create and utilize technology and data within modern organizations. Examine how organizational leaders navigate challenges and enact strategic change. Learn how managers design work environments to ensure worker effectiveness and wellbeing.

IST 341 | 3 CREDITS
Learn core principles of human-computer interaction (HCI) design, focusing on design methods to create technology that meets real-world user needs and values. Through a hands-on team project, they gain practical experience in applying HCI design to create meaningful technology solutions.

IST 345 | 3 CREDITS
Project management as a professional discipline in information and communication technology. Introduction to roles, activities, methods, and tools. Critical review and application of principles. Microsoft Project (Industry standard) will be the tool used in class. Additional work required of graduate students.

IST 352 | 3 CREDITS
Introduces information flow as basis of organizational work and role of information systems in managing work. Concept of systems decomposition to facilitate analysis. Skills required to decompose, model, and analyze information systems.

IST 419 | 3 CREDITS
Navigate the economics of our digital world, from network effects to platform dynamics. Explore how technology reshapes markets, pricing strategies, and consumer behavior while analyzing real-world cases from today’s leading digital businesses.

IST 429 | 3 CREDITS
Explore the rapidly evolving landscape of work. Examine how emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, and extended reality are impacting industries, jobs, and the very nature of work itself. Topics include a history of work, labor organizing, work augmentation, work-life balance, and future worker skills and capabilities.

Electives – 9 credits

Select three other courses from the iSchool, preferably from one or more of the information management and technology concentrations.  A minimum of 12 credits of coursework MUST be at the 300+ level.