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A
BIT student must satisfy the
course requirements in
columns A – G.
However, because of
the department's emphasis
on multidisciplinary bodies
of knowledge, a student may
optionally pursue a
non-business minor providing
this request is sanctioned
and approved by the advisor
and department chairperson.
A Bachelor of Arts (BA)
degree candidate must also
fulfill the course
requirements of columns A
– G plus any additional
language requirements of the
department of Foreign
Languages. Similar to the BS student, a BA student may also elect to
pursue a non-business minor
providing he/she receives
the appropriate departmental
approvals.
Students
who graduate from BIT's
programs possess a wide
range of pre-professional
and integrated academic
skills and experiences that
prepare them to successfully
enter and negotiate the
competitive postgraduate job
market of increasing change,
complexity and ambiguity.
The department also
encourages its students to
pursue advanced degrees (MA,
MBA, MS, and PhD.) and
professional certifications,
such as the Certified Public
Accountant (CPA), Certified
Financial Analyst (CFA),
Certified Financial Planner
(CFA), Certified Internal
Auditor (CIA), Certified
Management Accountant (CMA)
and others.
BIT subscribes to
Wharton’s Dean Patrick
Harker's viewpoint,
“Business is the most
powerful force for positive
change in the world
today.”
The department of
Business and Information
Technology is committed to
providing the very best
business and
interdisciplinary
undergraduate education that
is available in academia to
stimulate and facilitate
changes in the global
marketplace and expand the
boundaries of knowledge.
Vision/Mission
Business
and Information Technology
is a career-oriented
department that educates its
students for the professions
as executives and economic
entrepreneurs. Its programs are oriented toward theory and practice by
integrating
multidisciplinary,
transdisciplinary and
discipline-specific
knowledge in the major
business fields in response
to public and private sector
organizational needs.
The department
aspires to be at the
forefront of the
knowledge-based industry
through its implementation
of an Information Technology
major/minor and infusion of
enterprise resource
management technologies in
its curriculum.
The
global diffusion of
knowledge with the Internet
as one of the main drivers
of disruption, outsourcing,
offshoring, insourcing and
multinational competition
are overturning established
public and private sector
business practices thereby
challenging business
departments to become more
pedagogically innovative and
creative.
BIT intends to
periodically supplement its
current professoriate with
new faculty hires that
possess diverse skills and
interests and cutting-edge
competencies to advance the
department's academic
agenda.
Since
the professions demand
students who are
intrapreneurs, can influence
business practices and
improve productivity
efficiencies and
effectiveness, the
department will align with
organizations to create and
incubate entrepreneurial
business ventures,
consulting practices, and
business laboratories. This exposure will provide students with valuable
experiential learning,
expand their knowledge on a
variety of business
disciplines, and build
critical problem solving,
decision-making, project
management, marketing and
leadership skills.
BIT’s students will
gain a competitive edge and
be fully prepared to face
any challenges they are
likely to experience in the
globally diversified job
market.
In
his discussion about
innovative companies, Samuel
J. Palmisano, IBM CEO,
asserts, “The way you will
thrive in this environment
is by
innovating—innovating in
technologies, innovating in
strategies, innovating in
business models.” Transforming
the traditional business
curriculum is strategically
insightful and innovating.
The execution of its
vision and mission will
reposition BIT to attract
private and public sector
employers who are looking
for graduates with a global
outlook from a university with
a technology-enriched
culture of academic rigor,
adaptability, creativity,
entrepreneurship, team-work
and innovation.
These
attributes are a testimony
to the post-modernist
vitality of the department
of Business and Information
Technology.
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