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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Information Sciences Major, BS in Information Sciences - Applied Data Analytics and User Experience Concentration

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This online-only concentration is designed for students interested in careers in computer, information and communications technology. Information sciences concerns the ethics and impact of data, information, and technology on individuals, organizations, and society. Students will gain knowledge and skills in information management, user experience research and user-centered design, database development and implementation, and data visualization. It is specifically designed for transfer students. Students who have an Associate of Arts (A.A.), Associate of Fine Arts (A.F.T), Associate of Science (A.S.), or Associate of Science in Teaching degree (A.S.T). from a Tennessee accredited community college may complete the Applied Data Analytics and User Experience Concentration as an Information Sciences distance education student.

Campus

Distance Education

uTrack Requirements

Universal Tracking (uTrack) is an academic monitoring system designed to help students stay on track for timely graduation. In order to remain on track, students must complete the minimum requirements for each tracking semester, known as milestones. Milestones include successful completion of specified courses and/or attainment of a minimum GPA. uTrack requirements only affect full-time, degree-seeking students.

Term 1

Community college courses for A.A., A.F.A., A.S., or A.S.T. degree

Term 2

Community college courses for A.A., A.F.A., A.S., or A.S.T. degree

Term 3

Community college courses for A.A., A.F.A., A.S., or A.S.T. degree

Term 4

Community college courses for A.A., A.F.A., A.S., or A.S.T. degree

Term 4 Milestone Notes

Conferral of A.A., A.F.A., A.S., or A.S.T. degree with a minimum of 60 credit hours

Term 5

Credit Hours 15

Term 5 Milestone Notes

Term 6

  • 1 INSC Elective 3 Credit Hours
  • 2 Unrestricted Elective 3 Credit Hours

Credit Hours 15

Term 6 Milestone Notes

  • No milestones

Term 7

  • 1 INSC Elective 3 Credit Hours
  • 2 Unrestricted Elective 3 Credit Hours

Credit Hours 15

Term 7 Milestone Notes

  • GPA 2.0

Term 8

  • 1 INSC Elective 3 Credit Hours
  • 2 Unrestricted Elective 3 Credit Hours

Credit Hours 15

Term 8 Milestone Notes

  • No milestones

Total Credit Hours 120

Footnotes

  1. INSC courses not already required for the major. Students may elect to take DATA 301 as an INSC elective.
  2. Any courses not already required for the major.

* Meets Volunteer Core  Requirement.

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