Objectives

The Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) degree in Applied Information Management Systems (AIMS) is designed to prepare students for careers in the Information Systems and Business Analytics fields. Students will acquire foundational programming skills, learn to use various development tools, and acquire critical data management skills and competencies. They will understand how organizational processes interact with IS/IT and learn how to design systems and analytic tools to support these processes. They will develop critical skills necessary to continuously adapt to the ever-changing field of IT and business applications.

Learning Outcomes

The Applied Information Management Systems major prepares students to use modern information technology and analytics tools to meet the information needs of organizations and solve business problems at the operational, technical, and strategic levels.

Learning outcomes for AIMS majors are as follows:

1. Utilize competencies gained from hands-on experience in core information technologies that include programming languages, database management systems, web development tools, spreadsheets and other data analysis tools.
2. Identify, structure, and solve business problems by proposing an IS, IT and/or analytics solution
3. Plan, manage, develop, and describe how to implement information systems in business and organizational settings
4. Apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills when analyzing business problems
5. Effectively communicate complex technological and/or analytical concepts through oral, visual, and written communication

Major Requirements

Notes

All majors in AIMS must complete AIMS 2710  and BADM 1030  before they can start taking the upper division AIMS courses. The B.B.A. in AIMS is intended to provide students with broad technological, analytical, and business knowledge so that they are equipped to tackle a wide array of problems across many different kinds of jobs and organizational settings. Students with a B.B.A. in AIMS are required to complete five courses in the AIMS area including two required classes: AIMS 3710 Database Management Systems  and AIMS 4797 Capstone Project . Students must also fulfill a programming requirement by completing either AIMS 3730 Programming for Business Applications  or CMSI 185 Computer Programming . If students take AIMS 3730 , then they only need to take two additional AIMS electives. If they take CMSI 185 , then they need to take three additional AIMS electives.

Additional electives are to be chosen from the following:

• AIMS 3720 Systems Analysis and Design 3 semester hours
• AIMS 3730 Programming for Business Applications 3 semester hours
• AIMS 4715 Developing Business Apps Using SQL 3 semester hours
• AIMS 4730 Business Data Communications 3 semester hours
• AIMS 4740 Financial Modeling and Analytics 3 semester hours
• AIMS 4745 App Development 3 semester hours
• AIMS 4750 Web-based Development 3 semester hours
• AIMS 4755 Introduction to Big Data and Data Science 3 semester hours
• AIMS 4760 Business Analytics 3 semester hours
• AIMS 4770 Information Technology Security 3 semester hours
• AIMS 4798 Special Studies 1 TO 3 semester hours

Model 4-Year Plan–Bachelor of Business Administration–Applied Information Management Systems Major Curriculum

The following curriculum represents the order or sequence in which it is expected that students will take the various courses required for the B.B.A. (Applied Information Management Systems major) degree.