Why should you choose a Bachelors of Arts in Information Technology at DePaul University?

An Information Technology degree will complement your Linkoping or ECE business degree providing you with the cutting edge skill set world class employers are looking for. Internet technology provides the underlying pathways for distributing information and facilitating commerce. Skills in the use of technology supported information systems will differentiate workers in the generation ahead and serve as a catalyst for advancement.

All facets of marketing are actively moving toward incorporation of information technologies. Lets explore this using a traditional marketing model:

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  Product. Product design, in a great many fields, takes place today using CAD (computer-aided design) software following web-supported marketing research. Production design employs CASE (computer-aided systems engineering) software, workflow software, and SCM (supply channel management) software.
  
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  Pricing. CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software and techniques are making it possible to market products to individual customers. Retail chains have been experimenting with personalized pricing (both discounts and markups) to shape consumer purchasing behaviors. Famous case studies of IT use to model pricing include Pricline.Com’s implementation of a name-your-price online purchasing model, and eBay’s use of IT to support Peer to Peer online auctioning.
  
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  Promotion. Advertising is moving to the web, and mobile devices as IT enables focused narrow-casting rather than more expensive broadcasting of ads. Experiments have begun on Second Life toward virtual advertising. Grocery store loyalty discount cards enable focused individual marketing.
  
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  Placement. New distribution channels are emerging. Computer-based SCM and radio frequency identification (RFID) tags enable more effective warehousing and distribution of product.
  

It is already – today – impossible to be an effective marketer without deep knowledge of the acronyms used above. Your marketing training has not presented you with the skill set to interact with the technologists who will design and support these technology-based marketing tools. The IT degree at DePaul will.

The classes we will place you in at DePaul are designed for beginning technologists. There is no specific IT knowledge anticipated in the non-prerequisite courses you will take. While we make more sophisticated computer programming courses available to you, they are purely optional – not courses we expect you to take unless you have a particular interest in that technology.

You will bring a combination of skills to the job market that may be unique.

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  You will hold a Bachelors Degree in Business with a concentration in either International Marketing or International Finance awarded from one of the top business schools in Sweden.¹
  
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  You will hold a technology degree from a leading College of Information Technology in the Midwest United States.
  
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  You will have demonstrated your ability to apply your technology skills to your particular business concentration.
  
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  You will have demonstrated multi-lingual capabilities by completing two college degrees in different primary languages.
  
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  You will have demonstrated knowledge and experience functioning in different national cultures.
  
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  You will have developed friends and business contacts in three nations.
  
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  You will have demonstrated intellectual competency and personal perseverance by completing an undergraduate thesis.
  
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  You will have demonstrated appreciation and concern for those less fortunate by completing a community-based business/technology project.
  

Chicago is a world class city known for its architecture, its museums, its great restaurants, its ethnic neighborhoods, its street festivals, its vibrant and varied music scene, its bicycle trails, and its park laden lake shore line.

Your degree program is housed at the School of Computer Science, Information Systems and Telecommunications (CTI), but the college’s name is a bit of an anachronism. Today CTI is the largest school of Information Technology and Digital Media in the United States. We have over 4000 students studying among 15 undergraduate and X graduate degrees.

Every student will have an individual schedule sculpted based on his/her previous coursework and specific International Marketing / International Finance interests. You will have completed your business coursework at Linkoping; your DePaul coursework will focus on two areas for your American degree.

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   Liberal Studies (Gen Ed) coursework that rounds out an American college degree;
   
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   Information Technology coursework that provides a major area focus.
   

A typical academic year for an International Marketing student might look like the following…

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  Multiculturalism Seminar
  

Fall Quarter

HCI 210 Introduction to Human Computer Interaction

TDC 361 Basic Communication Systems   

MGT 228

IT 215 Analysis and Design Techniques  

SOC 394 Sociology and Society Capstone

GPH (liberal studies sci lab course)

New Flash course

CSC 378 Software Projects for Community Clients Capstone (this is a continuation of the SOC 394 course)

CSC 228 Impact of Computing Technology on our Lives
A typical² academic year for an International Finance student might look like the following…
Orientation Week

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  Multiculturalism Seminar
  

Fall Quarter

HCI 210 Introduction to Human Computer Interaction

IT 263 Applied Networks and Security

MGT 228

IT 215 Analysis and Design Techniques  

SOC 394 Sociology and Society Capstone

PHY (Electronics lib studies course)

CNS 320 Computer Forensics and Incident Response

CSC 378 Software Projects for Community Clients Capstone (this is a continuation of the SOC 394 course)

CSC 228 Impact of Computing Technology on our Lives

IT 378 Host and Information Security

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