Information technology prepare students to meet the computer technology needs of business, government, healthcare, schools, and other kinds of organizations.[Information Technology emphasis is on the technology itself more than the information it conveys.]
CSU's Information Technology Track:
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The following information and graph is referenced from acm.org Computing Curricula 2005
The shaded portion in Figure 2.6 represents the Information Technology discipline. Its shaded area extends down most of the right edge as it focuses on the application, deployment, and configuration needs of organizations and people over a wide spectrum. Across this range (from organizational information systems, to application technologies and down to systems infrastructure), their role has some overlap with IS, but IT people have a special focus on satisfying human needs that arise from computing technology. In addition, the IT shaded area goes leftwards from application towards theory and innovation, especially in the area of application technologies. This is because IT people often develop the web-enabled digital technologies that organizations use for a broad mix of informational purposes, and this implies an appropriate conceptual foundation in relevant principles and theory.
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