Cornell Engineering : Major: Information Science, Systems and Technology

Major: Information Science, Systems and Technology

Offered by: Department of Computer Science
(Information Science Option)
303 Upson Hall, 255-9837, www.infosci.cornell.edu/ugrad
Offered by: School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
(Management Science Option)
202 Rhodes Hall, 255-5088, www.infosci.cornell.edu/ugrad
Note: All courses used towards the ISST Major must be taken for a letter grade.
The Major requires ENGRD 270 as an Engineering Distribution course. CS 211 is REQUIRED by the Major and it is RECOMMENDED that it be taken as an engineering distribution course.
The major has seven (7) additional required courses in three areas:

Probability, Statistics, Optimization (2 courses);
Information Systems (3 courses);
Economic, Organizational, and Social Context (2courses)

Students then complete the major by specializing in either the Management Science option or the Information Science option (7 advanced courses); and by taking 2 Major-approved courses (The set of Major-approved elective courses is the same for both specialization options, and contains all the courses listed in the six areas below. In addition, students may choose to take INFO 490, Independent Reading and Research, as one of their Major-approved elective courses.)

Engineering Distributions

ENGRD 211	Computers and Programming (recommended as a distribution course)
ENGRD 270	Basic Engineering Probability and Statistics (required)

Required Major Courses

ORIE 320	Optimization I
ORIE 360	Engineering Probability and Statistics II
INFO 230	Intermediate Design and Programming for the Web
ORIE 311	Information Systems and Analysis
INFO 330	Applied Database Systems
ECON 301 or 313	Microeconomics
ILROB 170 or ILROB 175 or	Intro to Micro Organizational Behavior and Analysis Behaviors, Values, & Performance
INFO 245	Psychology of Social Computing

Information Science Option
Three courses from Information Systems (Area II below)
One course from Mathematical Modeling in IT (Area III below)
Three electives, all from one of Human-Centered Systems (Area V) or Social Systems (Area VI)

Management Science Option
Four courses from Mathematical Models in Management Science (Area I) Three electives, one from each of

Information Systems (Area II)
Mathematical Modeling in IT (Area III)
Information Technology Management Solutions (Area IV)

Area I. Mathematical Models in Management Science

ORIE 350	Financial and Managerial Accounting
ORIE 361	Introductory Engineering Stochastic Processes I
ORIE 480	Information Technology
ORIE 580	Simulation Modeling and Analysis

Area II. Information Systems

COM S 419 INFO 430	Computer Networks Information Retrieval
INFO 431	Web Information Systems
INFO 432	Introduction of Databases Systems
COM S 465	Computer Graphics I
COM S 472	Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
COM S 474	Introduction to Natural Language Processing
COM S 501	Software Engineering
INFO 530	Architecture of Large-scale Information Systems
COM S 578	Empirical Methods in Machine Learning and Date Mining

Area III. Mathematical Modeling in IT

ORIE 431	Discrete Models
ORIE 464	Extreme Value Analysis with Applications to Finance and Data Communications
ORIE 474	Statistical Data Mining I
ORIE 483	Applications of Operations Research and Game Theory to IT
COM S 478	Machine Learning
ECE 562	Fundamental Information Theory
ORIE 574	Statistical Data Mining II

Area IV. IT Management Solutions

ORIE 481	Delivering OR Solutions with Information Technology
ORIE 518	Supply Chain Management

Area V. Human-Centered Systems

*PSYCH/COGST 342	Human Perceptions: Apps. To Computer Graphics, Art, Visual Display
INFO 345	Human-Computer Interaction Design
PSYCH 347	Psychology of Visual Communications
*PSYCH 380	Social Cognition
PSYCH 413	Information Processing: Conscious and Unconscious
*PSYCH/COGST 416	Modeling Perception and Cognition
INFO 440 COMM 445	Advanced Human-Centered Systems Seminar in Computer Mediated Communication
INFO 450	Language and Technology
DEA 470	Applied Ergonomic Methods

*Students who take PSYCH 342 or 416 may also count their prerequisite, PSYCH 205 or 214, toward the Human-Centered Systems requirement. Students who take PSYCH 380 may also count PSYCH 280 toward the Human-Centered Systems requirement. At most one of these 200-level prerequisites can be counted.

Area VI. Social Systems

SOC 304	Social Networks and Social Processes
*AEM 322	Technology, Information, and Business Strategy
INFO 349	Media Technologies
INFO 355	Computers: From 17C. to the Dot. Com Boom
INFO 356	Computing Cultures
*ECON 368	Game Theory
INFO 387	The Automatic Lifestyle: Consumer Culture and Technology
Law 410	Limits on and Protection of Creative Expressions-Copyright Law
STS 411	Knowledge, Technology, and Property
ECON 419	Economic Decisions Under Uncertainty
COMM 428	Communication Law
INFO 435	Seminar on Applications of Information Science
*ORIE 435	Introduction to Game Theory
STS 438	Minds, Machines, and Intelligence
INFO 447	Social and Economic Data
ECON 476/477	Decision Theory I and II
COMM 494	Special Topics in Communication: Copyright in the Digital Age
INFO 515	Culture, Law, and Politics of the Internet
*H ADM 574	Strategic Information Systems

*Only one of ORIE 435 and ECON 368 can be taken for ISST credit. Only one of AEM 322 and H ADM 574 can be taken for ISST credit.

Information Science, Systems, and Technology Checklist

	Min. Credit Hours	√ When Done
MATH 191	4	
MATH 192	4	
MATH 294	4	
MATH 293 or 304 or COM S 280	3 or 4	
CHEM 211 (207 or 215)	4	
PHYS 112 (or 116)	4	
PHYS 213 (or 217)	4	
PHYS 214 (or 218 or CHEM 208 OR 216)	4	
COM S 100	4	
Intro. to Engr.: (ENGRI 1XX)	3	
Engr. Dist. 1: ENGRD 270	3	
Engr. Dist. 2: COM 211*	3	
First-Year Writing Seminar 1**	3	
First-Year Writing Seminar 2**	3	
†Liberal Studies Distribution—6 courses (18-credit minimum)
Lib. Studies 1		
Lib. Studies 2		
Lib. Studies 3		
Lib. Studies 4		
Lib. Studies 5		
Lib. Studies 6		
Advisor Approved Elective (2 courses; 6-credit minimum)		
Advisor Approved Elective
Physical Education (2 semesters) and swim test

Required Major Courses (52-credit minimum)#

	Min. Credit Hours	√ When Done
ORIE 320	3	
ORIE 360	1	
INFO 230	3	
ORIE 311	4	
INFO 330	3	
ECON 301 or ECON 313	3	
INFO 245 or ILROB 170 or ILROB 175	3	
Information Science/Management Option (9 course, 27-credit min)
Specialization Elective	3/4	
Specialization Elective	3/4	
Specialization Elective	3/4	
Specialization Elective	3/4	
Specialization Elective	3/4	
Specialization Elective	3/4	
Specialization Elective	3/4	
Major-Approved Elective	3/4	
Major-Approved Elective	3/4	
Total Required Credits	127 min.

** In addition to the first-year writing seminars, a technical writing course must be taken as an engineering distribution. liberal studies, approved elective, or Major course.

*CS 211 is REQUIRED by the Major and it is RECOMMENDED that this course be counted as an engineering distribution course.

†The six courses must be chosen from at least three of the following six groups: (1) Cultural Analysis (CA), (2) Historical Analysis (HA), (3) Literature and the Arts (LA), (4) Knowledge, Cognition, and Moral Reasoning (KCM), (5) Social and Behavioral Analysis (SBA), (6) Foreign Languages (not literature courses). At least two of the six courses must be at 200-level or higher.

##Nine credits of Major-complementary courses are required to be outside of the INFO rubic. These include one of ECON 301 or 313; one of INFO 245, ILROB 170, or ILROB 175; and one additional course that is not an INFO course and is listed in the ISST degree requirements webpage (www.infosci.cornell.edu/ugrad/ISSTRequirements.htm).

Note: This engineering checklist is formatted to conform to the general specifications of the College of Engineering. We strongly recommend that you visit 303 Upson Hall for an official ISST major checklist. This information can also be obtained by visiting the Information Science web site (www.infosci.cornell.edu/ugrad/).

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