Coursework
Some of the courses that I have taken are Enterprise IT Architecture, Data-Centric App Development, and Digital Design and Innovation. I’ve learned a lot from each and they have prepared me for my future career interests:
Enterprise IT Architecture: In this class we explored the ways IT organizations are set up and operate in different companies. We got some hands on activities with tech challenges, in which we got to learn and use technologies like VMware and Microsoft Server. And we also had to write flash research papers, where we created one page executive summaries of problems we were trying to solve. This class helped prepare me for my career because it gave me an idea of what the future IT organizations I will work in may look like. It also prepared me to think quickly and write concisely to get my point across, be that to an executive or anyone.
Data-Centric App Development: This class was all about coding. We learned HTML, CSS, and PHP, and used these languages to create websites that are linked to a database and can interact dynamically. I am very interested in the development side of IT, so this class allowed me to practice that interest and learn a great deal into how website work on the front and back end.
Digital Design and Innovation: This course split students up into groups, and each group worked on a semester long project. We learned all the basics of working on projects as Business Analysts, creating scope, use cases, status reports, and requirements documents. In the end we had create some solution to present to the client. We used Justinmind to create a prototype of the solution. Most IT outside of school is usually projects, so getting that experience as a BA and working on all those documents and the prototype really prepared us for future work on projects.