Acs Graduate Student

IT GRADUATE STUDENT Spring 2013 COURSE REQUEST FORM (Print clearly, please.) Name: ______UID (e.g., 8xx-xx-xxxx): ______

E-Mail:______

SEQUENCE DECLARATION. Please circle the sequence you are pursing. Undecided

Enterprise Computing Systems Geographic Information Systems Information Assurance & Security

Internet Application Development Systems Development Telecommunications Management

OPTION DECLARATION. Please circle the option you are pursing.

Course Option Project Option Thesis Option Undecided

1. Check the IT bulletin boards or your email for Spring 2013 course offerings. 2. Meet with the IT Graduate Advisor to discuss your course choices. 3. Complete the top of this form CLEARLY. 4. Rank your course choices by placing numbers (1 would be your highest preference) next to your course selections in the ‘Order of Preference’ column. Please also include an alternate choice (labeled “ALT”) in case one of your choices is not available. 5. List all sections you could take under the Sections column (with preferred section listed first).

You will be given overrides for a maximum of 9 hours for spring, and you will be notified of these overrides by e-mail by October 10th. Unused overrides will be deleted Thursday, November 1st. IT courses offered Spring 2013 for IT Graduate Students: Order of Preference Section(s) Spring 2013 Graduate Courses (1, 2, 3, 4…) IT 330.05—Introduction to Enterprise Computing Systems IT 341.05—Object-Oriented System Development IT 350.05—Fundamentals of Information Assurance and Security IT 351.05—Advanced Information Assurance and Applied Cryptography IT 353.05—Web Development Technologies IT 354.05—Advanced Web Application Development IT 368.16—Managing IT Services (Topics Course for Systems Development Sequence) IT 377.05—Practical Telecommunications Networking IT 381.05—Network Design and Analysis (Can use for TCM Sequence) IT 432—Systems Analysis and Design IT 450—Policy and Administration in Information Assurance and Security IT 463—Information Technology Project Management IT 468—Software Quality Assurance and Testing IT 477—Converged Network Architectures IT 478—Advanced Database Management IT 495—Information Technology Capstone (May or August 2013 graduates only) ENG 349—Technical Writing II (please provide one additional choice if requesting this) Over  Order of Preference Section(s) Spring 2013 Foundation Courses (1, 2, 3, 4…) IT 177—Problem Solving for Information Technology IT 178—Computer Application Programming IT 254—Hardware and Software Concepts IT 261—Systems Development I IT 275—Java as a Second Language IT 375.05—Data Communications IT 378.05—Database Processing

Order of Spring 2013 Additional Elective Options Preference Section(s) For students who wish to take additional graduate-level coursework. (1, 2, 3, 4…) These courses will not count directly toward the MS in Information Systems degree. IT 328.05—Introduction to the Theory of Computation IT 367.05—Designing the User Interface IT 372.05—External Data Structures (Prerequisite: IT 272 or COBOL) IT 383.05—Principles of Operating Systems IT 384.14—Game Development IT 388.05—Introduction to Parallel Processing

Total number of hours I wish to take for Spring 2013 (EXCLUDING IT 494 or IT 499 hours): _____

Return this form to: IT Advising office, OU 302 OR Melanie Johnston’s mailbox in the IT main office, OU 202 OR By email, [email protected] (include name, UID, course #’s, and sections)

Requests should be in by: Thursday, October 4th for registration preference

IT 499 (Thesis) / IT 494 (Project) Registration policy:  Permission for first semester’s hours requires completion of the Preliminary Master’s Thesis or Project form with the signature of your committee chair submitted to the Graduate Advisor by November 1st for spring registration and April 1st for summer and fall registration.  Permission for second semester’s hours requires completion of the Final Master’s Thesis or Project form with the signature of your entire committee submitted to the Graduate Advisor by November 1st for spring registration and April 1st for summer and fall registration.  You may access these forms at T:\Graduate Program\ or http://it.illinoisstate.edu/graduate/advising/forms.shtml.

300 Level Courses: In general, graduate students must register for the .05 section of any 300 level course (as in 353.05) in order to receive credit toward the IT M.S. degree. However, for topics courses register for the course as listed.

ENG/TEC 349: ENG 349 is currently the only course you may use to fulfill your technical writing requirement (it is no longer being offered as TEC 349). Please note that students planning to graduate in May or August 2013 will be given priority. If you aren’t graduating soon, be sure to give an alternate choice in case you do not receive an override for this course.

E-Mail Your Course Request – [email protected] Include your name, UID, and the course numbers & sections you are requesting.