Business Management Courses
When you earn your bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems (CIS) with a specialization in Business Management, your curriculum may include these career-enhancing business management courses:
- Financial Accounting - Focusing on the ways financial statements reflect business operations and emphasizing use of financial statements in the decision-making process, this business management course encompasses all business forms and various sectors such as merchandising, manufacturing, and services.
- Introduction to Business and Technology - Students in this business management course examine the roles of major functional areas of business and interrelationships among them. Topics include organizational theories and techniques, and economic, cultural, political, and technological factors affecting business organizations.
- Logic and Design - This business management course introduces basics of programming logic, as well as algorithm design and development, including constants, variables, expressions, arrays, files, and control structures for sequential, iterative, and decision processing. Students learn to design and document program specifications using tools such as flowcharts, structure charts, and pseudocode.
- Structured Analysis and Design - Exploring the systems analysis and design process using information systems methodologies and techniques to analyze business activities and solve problems, students in this business management course learn to identify, define, and document business problems and then develop information system models to solve them.
Business Management Course Requirements
To earn a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems (CIS) at DeVry with a specialization in Business Management, you'll be required to complete 8 full-time semesters or 125 credit hours:
- 106 credit hours (about 34 courses) in your core curriculum
- 19 credit hours (about 5 courses) specific to the business management specialization
Although a few courses are worth 1 or 2 credit hours, most are equal to 3 or 4 credit hours. Here's the course load you will carry, depending on whether you attend DeVry as a full- or part-time student:
- Full-time student schedule = 15 credit hours (4 to 5 courses) per semester
- Part-time student schedule = 1 to 14 credit hours (1 to 4 courses) per semester
At DeVry, you choose the pace that best fits your life and your schedule.
To learn more about computer information systems and business management courses, as well as requirements for completing your bachelor's degree program, contact a DeVry representative or see the academic calendar.
