Undergraduate Catalog 2022-2023 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
Undergraduate Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Computer Information Systems and Security, BBA


Return to {$returnto_text} Return to: Majors, Minors and Certificates Listed Alphabetically

This major does not require a minor.

Total number of hours in this degree:
120 semester hours

Total number of hours required in major:
80 semester hours

Total number of advanced hours required in major:
51 semester hours

Accelerated BBA-CISS to MS-Cybersecurity

Undergraduate students may earn credit toward the Master of Science in Cybersecurity degree while completing a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree in Computer Information Systems and Security (CISS) through the CISS Accelerated Bachelor’s to Master’s (ABM) degree program. Students accepted into the CISS ABM program will be eligible to take two courses (six credit hours) from the list of MS-Cybersecurity courses below concurrently with their undergraduate courses. These two courses will count toward both the MS-Cybersecurity degree and the advanced CISS-related course requirement in the undergraduate CISS degree. The graduate courses also allow undergraduate students to build specific career-oriented focus areas that expand on advanced undergraduate course work.

Students in the CISS Accelerated Bachelor-to-Master (ABM) degree program must adhere to the following program restrictions, admission requirements, and deadlines:

Restrictions

  1. Maximum number of master’s level courses that can be taken: 2
  2. Courses that must be taken prior to taking any graduate courses:

    ENGL 1313  Composition I

    ENGL 1314  Composition II

    MATH 1304  College Algebra

    CISS 1310   Introduction to Information and Computer Technology

    CISS 1341    Introduction to Computer Hardware

    CISS 1342    Operating Systems

    CISS 2350    Networking Technology

    CISS 2410    Computer Programming I

    CISS 2411    Computer Programming II

    CISS 3330    Database Analysis and Design

    CISS 3357    Cloud Computing

Graduate courses that may be taken by ABM students*:

CISS 8302*   Database Management Systems
CISS 8304*   Networking and Cloud Computing
CISS 8305*   Hardware and Software Platforms
CISS 8306*   Basic Scripting and Programming (Substitutes for CISS 4321 )
CISS 8321    Cybersecurity Principles (substitutes for CISS 3360 )
CISS 8322    Cybersecurity Planning and Management (substitutes for CISS 3362 , prerequisite is CISS 8321 or CISS 3360  with C- or better)

*Note: CISS 8302, CISS 8304, CISS 8305, and CISS 8306 do not count toward the undergraduate Cyber Security Certificate.
  1. Students may take no more than 3 credit hours of graduate courses per semester.
  2. Students must be concurrently enrolled in at least 6 credit hours of undergraduate courses.
  3. Students must receive a B- or better in graduate courses in order for the class to count toward a master’s degree. (Courses with a grade lower than B- will need to be repeated in the master’s program.)
  4. Students must receive a grade of C- or better for graduate courses to count toward the undergraduate major.

Admission Requirements

  1. Current OLLU student
  2. Overall GPA: 3.0 at time of application, prior to enrolling in first graduate course, and in semesters in which enrolled in graduate courses while an undergraduate student
  3. GPA in major: 3.0 at time of application, prior to enrolling in first graduate course, and in semesters in which enrolled in graduate courses while an undergraduate student
  4. At time of application, completed 75 or more credit hours that apply to a BBA in CISS undergraduate degree with grades of C- or higher in all major requirements
  5. Prior to enrolling in first graduate course, completed 90 or more credit hours that apply to the CISS undergraduate degree with grades of C- or higher in all major requirements completed
  6. Two faculty endorsements, submitted by:
    1. Student’s faculty advisor
    2. Another full-time faculty member in the ABM discipline

Deadlines

  • To begin taking graduate courses in summer or fall semesters: February 1
  • To begin taking graduate courses in the spring semester: September 1

General Education courses required:


Suggested Sequence of Courses:


Required for BBA in Computer Information Systems and Security

Fall - Year One


MATHEMATICS 3 hrs


General Education Requirements  

Total: 15 hrs


Spring - Year One


NATURAL SCIENCE 4 hrs


General Education Requirements  

Total: 16 hrs


ORAL COMMUNICATION 3 hrs


General Education Requirements  

SOCIAL SCIENCE 3 hrs


General Education Requirements  

Total: 16 hrs


LITERATURE 3 hrs


General Education Requirements  

Total: 16 hrs


Total: 15 hrs


Total: 15 hrs


Total: 15 hrs


Spring - Year Four


FOREIGN LANGUAGE/MULTICULTURAL 3-4 hrs


General Education Requirements  

PHILOSOPHY 3 hrs


General Education Requirements  

Total: 12-16 hrs


Note(s):


The following components are required in all degrees:

General education, major, and validation of completion of:

  • overall semester hours - 120
  • institutional semester hours - 45
  • overall advanced hours - 36
  • institutional advanced hours - 24

Required General Education courses:

ECON 2301  MATH 1304  

Foreign language requirement, if any:
None

Acceptable minor fields:
None required (see “Minors for School of Business and Leadership  Students” in the introduction to the SBL section)

Return to {$returnto_text} Return to: Majors, Minors and Certificates Listed Alphabetically