We are committed to graduating a business analyst who can diagnose and solve business problems with a base of technical skills. We have grown from 70 students in fall 1995 to 105 in spring 1997. Some course numbers and titles are confusing because we are in process of revising the curriculum.
Courses are team-project oriented using real organizations as clients.
Students must wrestle with the realities of information flows in various applications. Collaborative work improves teamwork skills and necessitates the use of electronic collaborative tools. Student consulting teams work through the same problem setting over both the Systems Analysis and Systems Design and Implementation classes. Clients attend presentations to review the teams' recommendations and provide feedback to the students. They produce feasibility studies, web pages, data base implementation, networking installations, Year 2000 conversions, etc.