What is Information Technology?
In today's society, information and information technology are ubiquitous and influence all forms of human activity. Learning to use IT effectively is important to everyone, no matter what you do and the FSU IT program has courses that can help you improve your IT skills. The School of Library & Information Studies’s program can help you learn to:
- use IT and information effectively to benefit yourself and others
- communicate and work with people to help people and organizations succeed
IT Programs & Courses
The FSU major in Information Technology is designed for students who want to build a career as an IT professional, but you don’t have to be an expert to learn to use IT. You can increase your IT knowledge and skills in many ways. For example:
- Completing a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology is a good starting point for a number of careers or graduate study.
- Adding a minor in Information Technology to your program of studies will help you be more effective in pursuing your current career choice.
- Taking an introductory course in Information Technology, Information Science, Database Concepts, or Health Informatics can provide you with a basic understanding of technology, as well as the social and policy issues surrounding computers, the World Wide Web, data storage and sharing, or heath information.
- Participating in the FSU Chapter of the Association of Information Technology Professionals will help you expand your network of friends, visit a variety of businesses that use IT to do their work, and get briefed on emerging technologies.
- Course Listing for Undergraduate Students
- Undergraduate IT Program of Study Map
To find out more about these programs contact the School of Library & Information Studies's advisors.
Educational Facilities
The FSU IT program stresses hands-on learning and gives students the opportunity to solve real-life problems through service learning courses, internships, directed individual study courses and the IT practicum/project courses. Throughout their program of studies students have access to:
- The College’s help desk to provide students IT assistance and with access to high performance workstations and software,
- The iSpace instructional computer cluster which allows students to develop, test and deploy web sites, large software applications, databases and their personal virtual computer from anywhere on the internet,
- The Media Lab which provides audio & video recording, editing and translation systems and equipment, a blue screen and teleprompter for producing high quality videos,
- Additional software titles not available to all FSU students,
- Opportunities to attend research discussions that focus on new technology trends.
Interactive Resumes
Students within the program are expected to create online interactive resumes documenting their skills and experiences and demonstrating their capabilities in ways that help pave the way for their career. Interactive Resumes provide students with the opportunity to expand beyond the traditional resume to include links to web sites designed, completed assignments, completed papers, and other student work created while in the program. Employers have been very receptive to receiving information beyond the "one page resume" that provides them with tangible finished products to review.
To learn more contact the School of Library & Information Studies' advisors.
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