Database Management Courses
When you earn your bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems (CIS) with a specialization in Database Management, your curriculum may include these career-enhancing database administration and management courses:
- Advanced Database - In addition to data mining and warehousing, this database administration course introduces database implications of efficient and effective transaction processing, including error handling, data validation, security, stored procedures and triggers, record locking, commit and rollback. Oracle and DB2 are the primary relational database management systems (RDBMS) used.
- Database Administration - This course introduces a variety of database administration topics, including capacity planning, database management system (DBMS) architecture, performance tuning, backup, recovery and disaster planning, archiving, reorganization, and defragmentation.
- Advanced Topics in Database - Students in this database administration course explore database topics such as dynamic structured query language (SQL), complex queries, data warehousing, reporting capability creation, performance tuning, and data security practices and technologies.
Database Management Course Requirements
To earn a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems (CIS) at DeVry with a specialization in Database 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 Database 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 database management courses, like database administration as well as requirements for completing your bachelor's degree program, contact a DeVry representative or see the academic calendar.
