Information Systems Major
Department of Operations & Decision TechnologiesInformation Systems Major Requirements (24 credits)
Required Grades and GPA
Major GPA of 2.0 or higher – GPA includes all courses counting toward the Information Systems major.
Other Policies
The Information Systems major may not be declared in conjunction with the Digital Technology Management co-major.
Required courses (15 credit hours):
- Choose 1:
- BUS-S 302: Digital Business Technologies (3 credits) P: BUS-K 201/204 with grade of C or higher OR
- BUS-S 355: TOPIC: Digital Solutions with AI (3 credits) P: Sophomore standing or higher.
- BUS-S 305: Technology Infrastructure (3 credits) P: BUS-K 303/304 with grade of C or higher
- BUS-S 307: Data Management (3 credits) P: BUS-K 201/204 with grade of C or higher
- BUS-S 308: Business Application Development (3 credits) P: BUS-K 303/304 with grade of C or higher
- BUS-S 310: Analysis and Design of Digital Solutions (3 credits) P: BUS-S 302 with grade of C or higher
- Students who took S355: Digital Solutions with AI instead of S302 must submit a Course Permission Form to request enrollment permission for BUS-S 310.
Elective courses (9 credit hours required):
- BUS-K 315: Business Process Management (3 credits) P: BUS-K 303/304 with grade of C or higher
- BUS-K 353: Business Analytics and Modeling (3 credits) P: BUS-K 303/304 with grade of C or higher
- BUS-K 360: VB for Applications & Application Integration (3 credits) P: BUS-K 201/204 with grade of C or higher
- BUS-P 429: Operations Processes (3 credits) P: BUS-K 303/304 with grade of C or higher
- BUS-P 481: Supply Chain Planning and Analytics (3 credits) P: BUS-K 303/304 with grade of C or higher
- BUS-S 302: Digital Business Technologies (3 credits) P: BUS-K 201/204 with grade of C or higher
- Cannot count as an elective if used as a requirement, as listed above
- BUS-S 326: Web and Social Media Analytics (3 credits) P: BUS-K 303/304 with grade of C or higher
- BUS-S 355: TOPIC: Digital Solutions with AI (3 credits) P: Sophomore standing or higher
- Cannot count as an elective if used as a requirement, as listed above
- BUS-S 364: Business Data Programming (3 credits) P: BUS-K 201/204 with grade of C or higher
- BUS-S 390: Information Systems Topics Abroad (1 - 5 credits) P: varies by study abroad program
- Students can count one course and/or up to 3 credits (whichever is in the student's best interest) of BUS-S 390 toward the Information Systems major
- BUS-S 400: Integration of Systems and the Business (3 credits) P: BUS-K 303/304 with grade of C or higher; not available to Accounting majors
- BUS-A 337 can substitute for BUS-S 400 for Accounting majors.
- BUS-S/F 432: Applied Data Programming & Financial Data Analytics (3 credits) P: BUS-F 303 & BUS-F 305 with grades of C- or higher
- Students enroll in BUS-BE 432
- Previous course number: BUS-F 455: TOPIC: Financial Data Analytics
- BUS-S 433: Information Systems Security (3 credits) P: BUS-K 303/304 with grade of C or higher
Students also have the option to take one 300- or 400-level non-Kelley advanced programming elective. A list of pre-approved courses is below. Students must request program authorization to substitute a non-Kelley advanced programming elective for the major if it's not on the pre-approved list. Please email any new elective requests with the syllabus attached to ksbpetn@indiana.edu to be reviewed by the department.
- CSCI-A 304: Introductory C++ Programming
- CSCI-A 306: Object-Oriented Programming in C++
- CSCI-B 403: Introduction to Algorithm Design and Analysis
- CSCI-B 455: Principles of Machine Learning
- CSCI-C 311: Programming Languages
- CSCI-C 322: Object-Oriented Software Methods
- CSCI-C 343: Data Structures
- INFO-I 422: Data Visualization