Bachelor of General Studies in Information Networking
Information Networking and Telecommunications courses are multi-disciplinary, reflecting the skills and needs of today's work environments.
- You'll need to meet the Bachelor of General Studies requirements and take a minimum of 21 hours of approved Information Networking and Telecommunications courses.
- If you complete Internetworking I & II and Network Architecture and Data Communications I & II, you'll earn a certificate in Internetworking.
Program Summary
Bachelor of General Studies
General Education Coursework: 40 Credit Hours
Area of Concentration: 21 Credit Hours
Free Electives: 59 Credit Hours
TOTAL HOURS REQUIRED FOR DEGREE: 120 Credit Hours
APPLICABLE INFORMATICS COURSES (21 Credit Hours)
Choose seven courses in consultation with your BGS advisor.
- INF 140 Introduction to Electronic Media (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 300 Foundations of Information Networking (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 250 Introduction to Web Development (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 291 Internetworking I (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 292 Internetworking II (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 322 Topics in INT/History of Radio (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 322 Topics in INT/Internetworking for Military I (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 322 Topics in INT/Internetworking for Military II (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 322 Topics in INT/Internetworking for Military III (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 322 Topics in INT/Internetworking for Military IV (3 Credit Hours)
- POLS 402 Public Policy, Ethics and Law in Information Networking (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 430 Leadership in Information Networking (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 472 Readings in INT (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 678 Seminar in INT/IT Project Management (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 678 Seminar in INT/Unix Administration (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 678 Seminar in INT/Linux for Networking (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 678 Seminar in INT/Advanced Linux for Networking (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 490 Capstone Seminar in INT (3 Credit Hours; take after 12 credits of INF are completed)
- INF 650 Interactive Systems Design (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 654 Introduction to Web-Enabled Databases: Oracle (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 655 Web-Enabled Database Administration: Oracle (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 658 Law of Cyberspace (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 660 Global Telecommunications Policy (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 662 Modern Telephony (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 651 Advanced Web Development (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 652 Intensive Web Development (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 680 Network Architecture and Data Communications I (3 Credit Hours)
- INF 681 Network Architecture and Data Communications II (3 Credit Hours)
Introduction to Web Development is recommend as it is a pre-requisite for Intensive and Advanced Web Development and Intro to Web-Enabled Databases. It is also a pre/co-requisite for Interactive Systems Design.